Immersive Self-Care Afternoon in Georgetown, MA
Root to Bloom: Sacred Soul Experience
Saturday August 15th 2026
Georgetown, MA
12:30-6:30 PM
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Come Home to Oneself. An invitation to remember who you are - at the depth of your own being. Come give your self space to be nurtured, be fed, to play and be inspired through all your senses. Spend the day with us as we gather in light-filled indoor spaces of art and beauty. Rest in the healing nature of gardens in full bloom, glistening ponds and under the pines. You choose the sessions and activities that unleash your joy, peace, creativity and inner wisdom. Experience the opportunity to honor your own self-paced journey with private pay one-on-one healings and wise community and sacred connection. This retreat is limited to 20 participants. A safe container to be you. |
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🌿 Why Root to Bloom Exists
At Root to Bloom, we believe that when we slow down, reconnect with ourselves, one another, and the natural world, we remember who we are. From that place, healing becomes more than personal—it becomes a gift we bring to our families, our communities, and the world around us.
Root to Bloom is about creating one extraordinary summer day where you feel genuinely cared for, inspired, creatively awakened, and deeply restored. Through music, nature, healing, laughter, meaningful conversation, hands-on creativity, tapping into your own intuitive guidance in heartfelt community, something beautiful begins to unfold.
The healing isn't the destination. It happens naturally while you're immersed in experiences that nourish your body, inspire your spirit, and help you remember the joyful, authentic self that has been there all along.
🌿 During the Immersion you will be invited to:
• Slow down and reconnect with yourself.
• Restore your body, mind, and spirit.
• Experience moments of joy, creativity, laughter, and wonder.
• Release stress and reconnect with your natural sense of peace.
• Enjoy music, movement, sound bathing, nature, creative expression, and meaningful conversation.
• Receive support from experienced facilitators, practitioners and healers in a warm, welcoming community.
• Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more deeply connected to yourself.
At Root to Bloom, we believe that when we slow down, reconnect with ourselves, one another, and the natural world, we remember who we are. From that place, healing becomes more than personal—it becomes a gift we bring to our families, our communities, and the world around us.
Root to Bloom is about creating one extraordinary summer day where you feel genuinely cared for, inspired, creatively awakened, and deeply restored. Through music, nature, healing, laughter, meaningful conversation, hands-on creativity, tapping into your own intuitive guidance in heartfelt community, something beautiful begins to unfold.
The healing isn't the destination. It happens naturally while you're immersed in experiences that nourish your body, inspire your spirit, and help you remember the joyful, authentic self that has been there all along.
🌿 During the Immersion you will be invited to:
• Slow down and reconnect with yourself.
• Restore your body, mind, and spirit.
• Experience moments of joy, creativity, laughter, and wonder.
• Release stress and reconnect with your natural sense of peace.
• Enjoy music, movement, sound bathing, nature, creative expression, and meaningful conversation.
• Receive support from experienced facilitators, practitioners and healers in a warm, welcoming community.
• Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more deeply connected to yourself.
🌿 Your Day Includes:
Group healing and restoration!
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Testimonials from past participants:
“Extraordinary gathering of extraordinary women! So reassuring, nurturing and reaffirming, the retreat exceeded my expectations.”
“Thank you for the opportunity to experience love, peace, freedom and friendship!”
“Loved being together! from the practices, the private sessions- the day was perfect!”
“I wish every woman could have this experience. An amazing retreat!”
“Beautiful safe space to share and connect with like-hearted souls!”
“This retreat speaks to the woman’s soul. An opportunity for gratitude, love and appreciation of self and others. Beautiful connections, transformational”!
“Extraordinary gathering of extraordinary women! So reassuring, nurturing and reaffirming, the retreat exceeded my expectations.”
“Thank you for the opportunity to experience love, peace, freedom and friendship!”
“Loved being together! from the practices, the private sessions- the day was perfect!”
“I wish every woman could have this experience. An amazing retreat!”
“Beautiful safe space to share and connect with like-hearted souls!”
“This retreat speaks to the woman’s soul. An opportunity for gratitude, love and appreciation of self and others. Beautiful connections, transformational”!
🌿 Community 🌿
Treat yourself --
Indulge in one of our optional services for a little extra self-care.
Private pay massages and individualized healing treatments are available throughout the day.
Massage & Sound Therapyw/ Marilyn Miner, LMT
Private Channeled Guidance & Healing
w/Lesley Ann Smith
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Spinal Flow healing with Reikiw/ Holly Henshaw
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Private and group biofield Tuningw/ Irene Lombardi
Aromatherapy & Your Plant Allies for a Personalized Blend
w/Linda Sanchez
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Meet Your Guides
You'll be supported throughout the day by a team of compassionate practitioners, artists, musicians, teachers, healers and facilitators who share a common purpose—to create a safe, inspiring space where healing, creativity, and authentic connection naturally unfold.
Private treatments offered early! Beginning at 11 AM (Arrive early) to 5 PM.
Lesley Ann Smith
has been creating transformational experiences for over 30 years to help people remember who they truly are. An intuitive advisor, transformational guide, speaker, and nationally recognized performing artist, she brings together deep intuitive insight, compassionate guidance and healing to create experiences that inspire lasting transformation. Her work is rooted in the belief: when we reconnect with our authentic nature, we naturally live with greater joy, purpose, and compassion.
Lesley will lead the opening and closing experiences and a choice-based session to help participants release limiting beliefs, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and leave feeling lighter, freer, and more fully themselves.
has been creating transformational experiences for over 30 years to help people remember who they truly are. An intuitive advisor, transformational guide, speaker, and nationally recognized performing artist, she brings together deep intuitive insight, compassionate guidance and healing to create experiences that inspire lasting transformation. Her work is rooted in the belief: when we reconnect with our authentic nature, we naturally live with greater joy, purpose, and compassion.
Lesley will lead the opening and closing experiences and a choice-based session to help participants release limiting beliefs, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and leave feeling lighter, freer, and more fully themselves.
Elizabeth Rose, LICSW, MS, MFA,
is our host and a licensed psychotherapist, writer, and founder of Blooming Rose Therapy in Georgetown, MA. With over 20 years of experience, she supports adults and couples and leads poetry therapy groups that merge emotional healing, community, and poetic expression. An accomplished poet and essayist, her work has appeared in NewVerseNews.com, Verdad, Bar Bar, The Boston Globe, New Mexico Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Valiant Scribe, and more."
Elizabeth offers a Poetry and Writing Gratitude Circle for unexpected magic and transformation. The circle read poems full of awe and wonder, reflect on the poems, and write to a simple prompt. No writing experience necessary.
is our host and a licensed psychotherapist, writer, and founder of Blooming Rose Therapy in Georgetown, MA. With over 20 years of experience, she supports adults and couples and leads poetry therapy groups that merge emotional healing, community, and poetic expression. An accomplished poet and essayist, her work has appeared in NewVerseNews.com, Verdad, Bar Bar, The Boston Globe, New Mexico Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Valiant Scribe, and more."
Elizabeth offers a Poetry and Writing Gratitude Circle for unexpected magic and transformation. The circle read poems full of awe and wonder, reflect on the poems, and write to a simple prompt. No writing experience necessary.
- Heidi Spinella
Making spirit dolls with Heidi is a joyful way to honor our soul’s innate creativity. In this choice-based session, we slip our written intentions within our dolls, we plant the seeds of our personal transformation. Each doll is a marvel of personal reflection and a stunning reminder of our limitless potential. All materials are supplied.
Holly Henshaw
of Awaken Your Essence is a Spinal Flow Practitioner, Reiki Master, Sound Healer and Life Design Coach with over 30 years in healthcare. Blending holistic tools that honor body, energy, and spirit, she gently guides others back to their innate healing and wholeness. Holly’s warm, intuitive approach helps people reconnect with their true nature, vitality, and inner light. She shares healing tools that have been activated in the Pyramids of Giza.
Holly will provide private pay healing sessions and lead the group Sound Healing for our closing session. Her private Spinal Flow sessions provide extraordinary body and soul alignment, freedom of movement while gently facilitating well being and renewed health.
of Awaken Your Essence is a Spinal Flow Practitioner, Reiki Master, Sound Healer and Life Design Coach with over 30 years in healthcare. Blending holistic tools that honor body, energy, and spirit, she gently guides others back to their innate healing and wholeness. Holly’s warm, intuitive approach helps people reconnect with their true nature, vitality, and inner light. She shares healing tools that have been activated in the Pyramids of Giza.
Holly will provide private pay healing sessions and lead the group Sound Healing for our closing session. Her private Spinal Flow sessions provide extraordinary body and soul alignment, freedom of movement while gently facilitating well being and renewed health.
Marilyn Miner LMT
provides bodywork that blends Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Craniosacral, Deep Tissue, Thai Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Reiki, and Sound Therapy into a nurturing, massage-forward approach. Using tuning forks, singing bowls, and pendulums, she supports a client-led unfolding rooted in the body’s wisdom. Marilyn believes you are your body’s greatest ally, and her work honors the sacred connection between the physical and non-physical.
Marilyn will be offering private pay massage and sound healing sessions for participants.
provides bodywork that blends Hawaiian Lomi Lomi, Craniosacral, Deep Tissue, Thai Massage, Lymphatic Drainage, Reiki, and Sound Therapy into a nurturing, massage-forward approach. Using tuning forks, singing bowls, and pendulums, she supports a client-led unfolding rooted in the body’s wisdom. Marilyn believes you are your body’s greatest ally, and her work honors the sacred connection between the physical and non-physical.
Marilyn will be offering private pay massage and sound healing sessions for participants.
Linda Sanchez, MA, CA,
is a Certified Holistic Aromatherapist, a writer, teacher, and community organizer. Linda has been skillfully and joyfully crafting aromatic and efficacious blends from her home studio, Wildflower Haven, in Haverhill, MA, for more than ten years.
Indulge in an aromatic and herbal sensory experience. Fresh from the garden herbal iced tea, relax in uplifting aromas and discover and connect with your plant allies. Linda will craft a nurturing custom aromatherapy blend just for you and finish with a gentle hand massage.
is a Certified Holistic Aromatherapist, a writer, teacher, and community organizer. Linda has been skillfully and joyfully crafting aromatic and efficacious blends from her home studio, Wildflower Haven, in Haverhill, MA, for more than ten years.
Indulge in an aromatic and herbal sensory experience. Fresh from the garden herbal iced tea, relax in uplifting aromas and discover and connect with your plant allies. Linda will craft a nurturing custom aromatherapy blend just for you and finish with a gentle hand massage.
Irene Lombardo
Irene has been practicing energy work for 8 years in the areas of Land Clearing, Reiki and Biofield Tuning.
For this Roots to Bloom Retreat Irene will focus on opening your central channel using the tuning forks , to bring harmony to your energy body. Biofield Tuning is a sound therapy done with tuning forks. The sound from the forks harmonize with any disturbance in your energy field and helps to bring you back to homeostasis. This sound therapy can be beneficial for achieving relaxation and processing emotion.
Irene will offer private pay Biofield Tuning sessions for individuals, and for a split group healing during the 4:30 PM session with up to 3 participants.
Irene has been practicing energy work for 8 years in the areas of Land Clearing, Reiki and Biofield Tuning.
For this Roots to Bloom Retreat Irene will focus on opening your central channel using the tuning forks , to bring harmony to your energy body. Biofield Tuning is a sound therapy done with tuning forks. The sound from the forks harmonize with any disturbance in your energy field and helps to bring you back to homeostasis. This sound therapy can be beneficial for achieving relaxation and processing emotion.
Irene will offer private pay Biofield Tuning sessions for individuals, and for a split group healing during the 4:30 PM session with up to 3 participants.
FAQs
How soon do I need to register and what is the Cost?
Only 18 spots available—first come, first served! Choose from 2 support levels and then click below your preferred registration button to reserve your place. Two working reduced seed tickets available. Email [email protected]
How do I sign up for the private pay massages and healing sessions?
You’ll receive private pay services descriptions after emailing us your interests, which helps us plan staffing. Session sign-ups happen at check-in, first-come, first-served with the exception of the 11:30 AM sessions. Sign-up will be offered in advance and you will be able to pay the Practioner directly at that time.
On the day, some of your private pay healing sessions may overlap with your choice-based sessions. Rest assured that all practitioners and participants will be in attendance at the Opening Group and Closing Group events. Please Trust—you’ll be in the right place at the right time.
On the day, some of your private pay healing sessions may overlap with your choice-based sessions. Rest assured that all practitioners and participants will be in attendance at the Opening Group and Closing Group events. Please Trust—you’ll be in the right place at the right time.
What does it mean to be attending an "Immersive Experience"?
It means that this retreat is highly personalized in its 3 to 1 ratio of practitioners to participants. You are surrounded by highly skilled, masters of their craft and high vibrational leaders ready to serve you.
How can I be sure this is right for me?
There are multiple choices for a quiet solo experience or full out having it all! You choose your pace and experience. You will enjoy beautiful art-filled indoor spaces and extensive garden's and lovely gathering spots on the ponds, under the pines or flowers in full bloom.
In these times, rising together in community matters—and we’ll offer ways to stay connected and supported beyond the retreat.
In these times, rising together in community matters—and we’ll offer ways to stay connected and supported beyond the retreat.
What can I look forward to if I enroll?
We are committed to you having an extraordinary experience in a safe, comfortable and beautiful environment with masterful practitioners that are heart-centered and loving. We only wish we could offer this to more people! We hope you will be able to join us!
On line community zoom experience on Wed. August 12 to prepare for the event. 6:30-7:30 PM to answer any questions.
f you still have any questions that you need answered to decide if this is right for you, please reach out! [email protected]
On line community zoom experience on Wed. August 12 to prepare for the event. 6:30-7:30 PM to answer any questions.
f you still have any questions that you need answered to decide if this is right for you, please reach out! [email protected]
I am in! How do I secure my spot?
Purchase your ticket from the options below.
There are 18 tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis. Looking forward to meeting you! Once registered you will receive updates and exciting information about our gathering! Please consider inviting a friend or family member to join you for a meaningful and joyful afternoon.
Ticket includes entire retreat experience, materials and healthy refreshments. Total pampering and being held in love, kindness and joy!
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For those in need of financial ease and those who wouldn't be able to attend without support. If interested, please email [email protected]!
A Personal Invitation
Thank you for considering spending this day with us. Root to Bloom is more than an event.
It's a pause. A remembering. A homecoming.
We would be honored to walk beside you as you reconnect with your inner spark of peace, wisdom and joy.
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We are so excited to join together for an amazing inner and outer journey. Welcome to our extraordinary world! |
