Weekend Getaways
Weekend getaways have been a welcoming time for women to gather, renew and refresh in a beautiful nourishing setting.
In 2009 Cascadia Retreats set aside a weekend each month dedicated to women’s well-being, a time to be alone or with other women at the house in Robert’s Creek.
Cascadia House
We said: You deserve to come and enjoy the comfortable home away from home, delicious wholesome food and congenial environment that is Cascadia House. Come alone or bring your friends; choose solitude or the company of other women. Recharge your body and spirit.
We offered:
- 2 nights accommodation in comfortable shared rooms
- local gourmet meals from Friday night to Sunday noon prepared fresh by our chef
- Each weekend also offered additional optional activities at no extra charge.
Optional activities such as body work, tarot and divination sessions were offered at each getaway weekend. These sessions or mini-workshops were booked upon registration or during the weekend. Practitioners varied with each weekend.
Find out more about Cascadia House
See what women have said about the November Getaway Weekend
Tracey Knihnitski
Tracey Knihnitski, MEd, PID, CCDP is a local and international educator. With an extensive background in facilitation, curriculum development, marketing, and client services, Tracey offers a unique approach to managing change. Tracey applies a person centered approach that focuses on mattering. As a support and resource she coaches clients to empower, direct and motivate themselves. By actively listening, and encouraging clients to share their experiences, Tracey easily creates rapport for dialogue and candid discussions. Tracey’s mission in life is to provide entertainment and fun throughout the learning process. She knows that laughter really is the best medicine even when it feels like there’s nothing to laugh about. Tracey’s energy and enthusiasm is contagious and her zest for living life to the fullest creates interaction and communication for meaningful relationships.
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.
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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