First Women Foundation - MN Women's Retreats

Margie was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Moving to Minnesota in 1996 she fulfilled her dreams of realizing a retreat for women after facilitating a group of women of varied cultures for a few years. The need was apparent for women to gather for a longer period to do some healing work, networking, learning and play. Also taking the time to celebrate and experience the power of gathering in circle fashion.

The word foundation was chosen not to mean a corporation, but because women are the base, the rock on which so many things rest. The late Jack Brightnose, a former featured speaker always said, "You women are the ones holding up the earth!" First Women Foundation is a weekend event created for women, combining celebration, healing and renewal for all that attend, participants and presenters alike.

Personal Experience...by Betty Sayers
"Do ceremonies and ancestral healing arts serve any purpose in contemporary life? Are ceremonies meaningful in the age of instant communication?" The questions intrigue me. Gathering with women of Spirit, women who are quick to laugh and to speak from their hearts of their family, relationships, friendships, work, sorrows, and healing captures me.
Past gatherings offered opportunities to participate in traditional Sweat Lodge Ceremonies; hear speakers on topics concerning traditional healing; life as a gift and forgiveness; make herbal remedies; canoe; eat whole grained and natural foods; listen to original songwriters; dance with dance teachers; make our own loud music. Purchase wonderful arts and crafts. Every activity is optional...lounge in the Huge Spa Pool, glass roofed to view the stars. Canoe, walk miles of private trails...
Margie invites us to join her at Maplelag away from work, children and obligations and celebrate who we are together...as women. Come join us to dream your own creation.

Interested in selling your wares?
Offer massage therapy or other therapies or readings?
Call Margie, 218-532-5058, need to be a registered participant.
All vendors and healers stay on site.