Summer Solstice Retreat: Reconnect to the Light
The Summer Solstice is a time of new beginnings, abundance, and connection to the sun’s energy. It's seen as a period of growth, transformation, and manifestation, marking the peak of the sun's power and the beginning of the longer days of summer. It is a celebration of the natural world and a time to harness the energy of the season. Embrace this time in sacred ceremony surrounded by nature and like-minded souls to begin or continue your journey toward inner harmony and growth.
Opening Ceremony: (10-11:00am)
Meet your fellow retreat goers and healing facilitators for the day. Jenny will provide an overview of the day’s activities, set intentions, while creating a sacred space for all to learn, explore, and heal on the soul level. Participate in an energetic attunement. Bring an open mind and allow yourself to journey within, through the planned immersive experiences. Sound cleansing and sacred smoke will be used in the ceremony.
Heart Opening Cacao Ceremony
Jenny will guide you through a heart-opening cacao ceremony to heal on the soul level. Cacao is a sacred medicine used in Mayan and other ancient traditions connecting the heart and spirit. Accept an invitation to connect deeply with your heart, set powerful intentions, and receive wisdom from the Earth. Cacao opens the heart, clears mental blockages, and creates space for healing, insight, and emotional release. One can expect to feel more centered, grounded, aligned, and connected to your higher self.
Jenny is a certified Cacao Ceremony Facilitator trained in Sedona, Arizona.
Light Codes & Frequency Activation: (11-12:00pm)
The world is shifting and light workers are needed to help and teach others how to utilize their healing. Learn about light codes and how to activate your intuition, energy, and healing abilities. You will learn concepts and hands on techniques in this workshop to connect into your highest self. Learn how to use frequency, light, and the energy in nature to gain wisdom and healing.
Lunch (12-1:00pm) Provided onsite
Enjoy a gourmet lunch at the Alchemy Speakeasy. Get to know the group, walk the forest paths, or relax indoors.
Inner Light Mosaic Workshop: (1-3:00pm)
Create a representation of your inner light through mosaic art. Mosaics are healing because they transform broken, fragmented materials into new, cohesive, and beautiful works of art, offering a powerful metaphor for repairing oneself after trauma or hardship. This creative process fosters mindfulness, reduces stress, and provides a calming, meditative outlet to process emotions, grief, and life challenges.
Create both a group garden mosaic and individual mosaic to keep. Creating a group mosaic builds community and builds a lasting path through Serenity Forest. Participate in a land healing ceremony upon completion.
Break: (3:00-3:30pm)
Finish your mosaic, take some time to snack, get a drink, or pull oracle cards to practice your intuition as we transition into a new space.
Floating Sound Bath: (3:30-4:30pm ) Marilyn Metz | Founder of Star Sounds Baths and Star Sound Healer
Guests will have the opportunity to experience a floating sound bath. (You can chose to be on the water on a mattress, or in the heated pool in a water hammock, or next to it on land) It is a transformative experience that connects body, mind, and spirit in a unique setting. Whether you want to relieve stress, pain, improve sleep, or clear energy sound bath’s are perfect. The flotation in water induces a state of weightlessness that relieves pressure on joints and muscles, while the sound vibrations penetrate deeply into your body, releasing tension and energetic blockages. This innovative treatment combines the ancient practice of sound bathing with the weightlessness of water, creating a unique environment that promotes a deep connection with oneself and a level of relaxation that's hard to achieve in everyday life.
Break (4:30-4:45pm)
Walk the trials, get a snack/drink, or pull oracle cards to practice your intuition as we transition into a new space.
Shamanic Journey : (4:45-5:45pm)
Join us at the gazebo in nature for a shamanic journey to learn more about our inner light and purpose. Connect with the land and it’s spirit. Journeying is a practice of deep inner travel using visualization to meet spirit guides, ancestors, or power animals. Participate in an active, visualization-based meditation designed to enter altered states of consciousness (trance) to interact with the spiritual world. Shamanic journeying explores inner dimensions for healing, divination, and wisdom, using rhythmic drumming or rattling to facilitate this shift. Gain access to hidden knowledge, clear energetic blocks, and connect with something beyond the everyday.
Closing Ceremony : (5:45-6:30pm)
Guests will return to the present after a day of learning and exploring their inner selves. Jenny will lead a closing ceremony to release old patterns, beliefs, or energy that no longer serve us. As we reflect on the day, guests are encouraged to share what they experienced throughout the day. We will close our sacred space, integrate the lessons of the day, and identify ways we can continue to stand in our light and utilize the solstice energy. Guests will be able to transfer this knowledge into their daily practices.
Limited to a small, intimate group for deep healing.
Early Bird Special: $177 (Save $22! Valid through June 1st)
Standard Ticket: $199 (After June 1st)
"Bring a Friend" Duo: $333.00 ($166.50 per person—Our best value!)
Summer Solstice Package: $249.00 Includes the retreat, New Serenity Forest Sacred Tools Kit, 45 min Oracle Card Intuitive Reading, and after hours retreat activities.
(All materials, gift bag, lunch, and drinks are included in the ticket) *Guests will receive a small journal for reflecting/recording their experiences throughout the day, along with optional journal prompts.
After Hours
Want to stay longer? Extend the magic! We do have evening or overnight options to deepen community, take more time to integrate practices, and have more fun. (Let Jenny know, and I’ll send you the information)
After-Hour Activities: Community activities, Pool and hot tub access, bonfire, gallery demonstration, blue lotus tea, and more!
Meet the Facilitator
Jenny Wagner LCPC, Intuitive Healer, Animal Communicator (Serenity Forest Elgin)
Jenny is a licensed clinical professional counselor, animal communicator, evidential medium, and the owner of Serenity Forest and Alchemy Speakeasy. Jenny works with Spirit to help others align with their soul's true purpose and find their path through individual sessions, group events, workshops, and retreats. Jenny is a trained intuitive healer who uses energy healing, usui reiki, Daoist stone medicine, nature therapy, sensory regulation, art, and frequency to help clients heal on the soul level. Jenny has shared her evidential mediumship at both sacred and historical sites around the world and has been a speaker at several Paracons on animal communication. Jenny created Serenity Forest to connect with a community of like-minded people, to provide a safe place for sacred healing to occur in a beautiful setting.
Marilyn Metz, Sound Healer (Star Sound Baths)
Marilyn believes that meaningful transformation begins from within. Through intentional and relaxing Sound Bath Meditation experiences, Star Sound Baths creates supportive spaces where inner work ripples outward -- bringing people closer together, relieving stress, and reigniting that spark for life. Marilyn founded Star Sound Baths in 2023 and has provided soothing meditation experiences for over 3,000+ souls in the Chicagoland area. She is a 200 Hour Certified Yoga Teacher, 200 Hour Certified Sound Healer, and lifelong musician with a B.A. in Music. Her group meditation classes are infused with live instruments, guided meditations, and more! Her commitment is to guide you towards lasting change that starts inside and shows up everywhere. Learn more at www.StarSoundBaths.com or follow us on INSTAGRAM @StarSoundBaths
