Circle of Women
Cascadia Retreats and Getaways has been supported and developed through this founding circle of remarkable women. (Just click on any photo for more info.)
Photos and bios still to come: MARGUERITE BACHMANN, JACQUELINE WANG
Share our passions for the arts, creativity and healing.
Mariette Berinstein: Founder
Barbara Karmazyn
Carol Sill
Carol Stewart
Deanne Mineau
Elizabeth MacLeod
Isabella Mori
Kim Lear
Judy Shanley
Marielle Geoffroy
Baljit Siekham
Skai Fowler
Elke Babicki
Jennifer Nash
Mary Anne Pare
Teresa Bockhold
Leah Hokanson
Tracey Knihnitski
Rita Cloutier
Comfortable and Restful Bedrooms
Each bed features crisply ironed, white cotton linens and duvets.
Each bedroom sleeps 2 – 3, and features unique local photography above the beds.
White towels are also provided for each guest.
Leah Hokanson
Leah Hokanson is a pianist, vocalist, choral director, facilitator and speaker based in Gabriola Island.
“Music has been central to my professional life for almost three decades. As both a performer and teacher, I have made music in a wide range of contexts: from concert halls to classrooms; from formal ceremonies to campfire sing-a-longs.
Although I have been a performer for many years, music has always been a vehicle to explore creativity and the brain, a way to enter creative space with others, and a way to understand what it means to live fully in community.”
Find out more at her website, http://www.leahokanson.com
Mary Anne Pare
Mary Anne Pare
Mary Anne Pare is a child and family therapist and educator, working in private practice. Having now arrived at age 64, she is easing out of direct care and settling into the role of supervisor and consultant, with the goal of passing on the gifts she has received from 35 years of working with children and families. This also allows her to access more energy to follow her passions, which involve any kind of creativity: gardening, writing, singing, story-telling, painting, and any other expressive arts she can get her hands into.
Mary Anne’s most pleasurable creative pursuit is running workshops with her friend and colleague, Jenny Nash. Having painted, danced and sung together for many years, Jenny and Mary Anne developed a week-end story telling retreat for women, which is now entering its tenth year. As an eldest in a family of nine, Mary Anne missed out on alot of play in her childhood, but with Jenny and this circle of fwomen, she is having the funnest second childhood.
Jennifer Nash
Jennifer Nash
Jenny Nash works on contract for the non-profit Society of St. Leonard’s Youth & Family Services in Burnaby. She is the coordinator of a small team of family therapists. Jenny enjoys using art and play therapy both with children and families. She has been working in a creative way as a counsellor for over 30 years and is now semi-retired. For 10 years, she and her friend, Mary Anne Pare have been leading annual storytelling retreats for women. Both Jenny and Mary Anne co-lead professional workshops for play therapists.
Jenny recently moved to a condo on the Fraser River in New Westminster where she enjoys the luxury of living alone with her cat. Here, she writes and paints in her journal, invites many friends for visits, walks and sleep overs, enjoys sharing rituals such as Solstice, Christmas etc. and another hobby is Middle Eastern Dance.
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