What has been buried is not always dead. 

Sometimes it is simply waiting for language. 

This Scorpio season, we invite you to descend beneath the polished stories and familiar identities to meet the parts of yourself that have been silenced, rejected, or left unfinished. 

Across 14 beautiful acres in Northern Colorado, you will be given the spaciousness to reflect, release, rearrange and resurrect the stagnant parts of yourself. 

YOUR SHADOW HAS SOMETHING TO SAY 

The shadow is not only where we hide our pain, 

anger, shame, and fear. 

It is also where we bury our power. 

Our creativity. 

Our desire. 

Our truth. 

Our unexpressed voice. 

Writing gives these parts of us somewhere to go. It transforms emotion into language, memory into meaning, and the unspeakable into art. 

This is not a traditional writing workshop. It is an invitation to meet yourself on the page without judgment, perfection, or performance. 

You do not need to consider yourself a writer. 

You only need to be willing to tell yourself the truth. 

THE SHADOW & THE SWAN 

Swans will move across the water throughout this retreat, offering a living symbol of transformation, emotional depth, and radical self-acceptance. 

The swan represents integration, the beauty that emerges when we stop rejecting the parts of ourselves we once believed were unworthy. The swan in its highest vibration represents grace and unwavering devotion. 

You will have spaciousness to sit beside the water, under the weeping willow trees and write, allowing the land and its inhabitants to become part of your creative experience. 

JAMES McCRAE 

James is an author, poet, creativity coach, and certified meditation instructor who helps writers and creators unlock their iconic voice. 

The author of three books, including The Art of You, James blends creativity, mindfulness, and artistic practice. 

Through Words Are Vibrations, he has built a global community around poetry, humor, imagination, and the belief that everyone is an artist. 

James will help you move beyond overthinking, access your authentic creative voice, and transform what lives within you into words. 

JENNIFER CONN 

Jennifer is an intuitive channel, energetic mentor, writer, and creator of transformational experiences rooted in emotional intelligence, spiritual depth, and radical self-responsibility. 

Jennifer guides people beneath the performance of healing and into an honest relationship with their humanity, where even the most uncomfortable emotions can become portals to truth, power, creativity, and self-trust. 

She will help you access the emotional and energetic landscape beneath your words while holding the beauty, intimacy, and sacred details of the retreat experience. 

WHERE THEIR WORK MEETS 

James understands how to liberate the creative voice. Jennifer understands how to access the emotional truth beneath it. 

Together, they will guide you into the place where creativity and shadow meet, where buried emotion becomes language, self-acceptance becomes expression, and the parts of you once hidden in darkness are invited back into your art. 

This is more than learning how to write. 

It is learning how to stop abandoning yourself, and let the page be your stage!

BEAUTY IS MEDICINAL AND WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF THE EXPERIENCE

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Jennifer’s retreats have become known for an extraordinary level of care, beauty, and detail. 

She believes beauty is medicinal and luxury is grounding, especially when entering deeply transformational spaces. 

The crystal glassware matters. 

The flowers matter. 

The candlelight, the music, the texture of the linens, and the way the table makes you feel all matter. 

Beauty tells the body it is safe to soften. Luxury creates spaciousness. It allows the nervous system to settle, the senses to open, and deep inner work to feel sacred. 

November in Colorado offers its own exquisite atmosphere: crisp air, changing light, quiet water, autumn leaves, warm fires, and the feeling of the natural world drawing inward. 

This retreat has been designed in conversation with that season. Every meal, ritual, writing space, and gathering will be intentionally curated. You will be beautifully fed, thoughtfully guided, and given room to hear what can only be heard when life becomes quiet.

THE ONE-DAY IMMERSION 

Saturday, November 14 | $444

(price will increase to $555 October 1st)

Arrival at 10:00 AM

A complete day of shadow exploration, creative expression, and radical self-acceptance. 

Your experience includes: 

 • Intentional opening ceremony

 • Education and conversation with Jennifer and James  

 • Guided writing experiences 

 • A beautifully prepared lunch 

 • Spaciousness to wander, reflect, and write 

 • Opportunities to share and be witnessed 

 • A closing ceremony 

You will leave with a deeper relationship to your own voice and writing born from the places you may never have permitted yourself to enter before. 

THE VIP TWO-DAY EXPERIENCE 

November 14–15 | $1,111 • Limited to 10 Guests 

(price will increase to $1333 October 1st)

The full experience includes Saturday’s immersion.

AND an intimate evening on the property, and a second day devoted to going deeper, allowing the words to settle, and integrating what has emerged. 

SATURDAY EVENING 

 • Curated happy hour

 • Elegant plated dinner

 • Fire pit open-mic beneath the Colorado star lit sky.

The open mic is an invitation to share what moved through you that day; a poem, a story, a song, a truth. 

No need for perfection. Only presence. 

SUNDAY 

 • Morning sound bowls on the outdoor amphitheater

 • Self Led nature walk and writing experience

• Continued education with Jennifer and James 

• Guided and independent writing 

 • Thoughtfully prepared lunch 

 • Sharing and witnessing & further creative exploration  

 • Integration 

 • Celebratory plated dinner 

 • Fire-pit closing ceremony 

The second day gives you what profound work often requires: time. 

Time for the first discovery to give way to the truer one. Time for the land to enter your language. 

Time for insight to become integration. 

Time to celebrate what has returned.