Saturday, May 31st 2025
9 AM–8 PM
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Meridian Orchards | Willamette Valley, Oregon
Hosted by Annie Adamson, Chinese Dr. Naomi Miller & Mary Claire (land steward of Meridian Orchards)
There are moments in a woman’s life when she knows it’s time to return to herself.
This is one of them.
You’re invited to gather in a way most women rarely get to anymore.
To step onto working land.
To meet the season through your senses.
To spend a full day in your body — grounded, unhurried, and completely present.
This is a retreat rooted in simplicity, where movement, nourishment, and connection are offered as devotion.
The kind that softens your edges, slows your breath, and brings you back to something real.
You don’t need to prepare anything. You don’t need to know anyone.
Just come as you are and let the land, the food, the craft, the circle, and the fire remind you what it feels like to belong.
What the Day Looks Like:
Morning Movement
We will begin at 9:30 AM with a Primal Vinyasa practice led by Annie, held outdoors beneath the organic hazelnut trees.
Primal Vinyasa is elemental, breath-led, and inquiry-based, offering a grounding return to your body’s natural rhythm.
It’s an invitation to move from instinct. To listen in. To follow your breath into the places that have been waiting for your attention.
With music, reflection, and the energy of the land around you, we awaken the life-force that lives beneath habit — the primal self that remembers how to move with meaning.
You leave the mat steadier, clearer, and more fully alive in your body.

Nourishing Brunch
After practice, we’ll picnic together for a slow, nourishing brunch.
This meal reflects the land and the season we’re in—vibrant, intentional, and curated with care.
Picture fresh greens tossed in herbal vinaigrette, orchard peaches and pears, fermented vegetables, pasture-raised boiled eggs, wild rice, and warm sourdough made from local flour.
There’s raw honey, fresh nut butters, and herbal teas brewed from plants growing nearby, plus roasted Meridian Orchard hazelnuts gathered from the very grove we’ll sit beneath.
Everything on the table is sourced from nearby farms, foragers, and makers we know and trust.
Every bite is a tribute to the land, to the season, and to the hardworking hands that nourish us.
This is the kind of food that reminds your body it’s safe to slow down.
Plant Medicine Walk
As the day unfolds, we’ll walk the land with intention.
We’ll move slowly through orchard edge and meadow, taking time to identify, smell, taste, and work with the plants that define this season. Yarrow with its cooling, protective nature. Dandelion, offering its bitter strength and deep-rooted resilience. Wild rose, teaching softness and boundaries in equal measure.
We’ll get to know these plants the way herbalists always have — through direct experience. By noticing how they grow, how they speak through scent and flavor, and how their actions support the body.
When we harvest, we’ll do so with respect and reverence, understanding that every leaf and flower carries living medicine and a story older than us.
This is a practice in relationship, reciprocity, and remembering that the plants are our allies.
Bring a journal and a harvesting bag.


Seasonal Fermentation, Bitters & Botanical Craft
In the spirit of seasonal nourishment, we’ll gather for a hands-on workshop led by Naomi Miller, where you’ll engage directly with traditional practices of fermentation, herbal bitters, and botanical skincare.
Together, we will:
➔ Taste and craft refreshing botanical water kefirs, using seasonal herbs and fruits like elderflower, lemon balm, strawberry, hibiscus, cucumber, and mint — learning how to create living, probiotic-rich drinks that support digestion and vitality.
➔ Learn the art of simple fermentation, transforming spring’s abundance into probiotic foods like fermented salsas, preserved lemons, and crisp vegetables — working with microbial life to preserve flavor, enhance gut health, and extend the season’s nourishment.
➔ Explore the actions of spring digestive bitters, focusing on wild plants such as yarrow, dandelion, and Oregon grape — understanding how these flavors guide digestion, clear heat, and bring balance as we transition into summer’s energy.
➔ Craft a botanical lip balm designed to protect and nourish — blending seasonal wisdom with everyday self-care, offering your skin exactly what it needs during the brighter, warmer months.
You’ll leave with your own handcrafted goods, practical skills, and a deeper connection to the cycles of nourishment, preservation, and care that sustain true wellness — in every season.
Afternoon Circle
As the day deepens, we’ll gather in circle with a warm cup of organic sencha or herbal tea, and open a conversation about the lives we’re creating, the rhythms we’re reclaiming, and the values we choose to stand on.
Mary Claire carries the legacy of generations who have stewarded the land we will be gathering on — not just as a farmer, but as a woman living in relationship with place, season after season. She’ll share what it means to tend land with care, to work alongside nature’s rhythms, and to belong to something deeper than ownership.
Her stories of regenerative farming, sustainability, and resilience remind us that you don’t need to own land to be connected to it. Whether through the food you choose, the farmers you support, or simply how you appreciate what grows around you — we all have a role in remembering how to live in reciprocity with the earth.
We’ll sit together, sharing what feels steady, what’s stretching us, and what we’re ready to shift.
This is where honest conversation unfolds — about how we nourish ourselves, how we care for what’s around us, and how we align daily life with what truly matters.
Clarity rises when women gather, speak truthfully, and remember that tending — whether land, self, or community — is a practice we all carry.


Seasonal Dinner
As the day winds down, dinner will be served — a meal reflecting the best of what’s local, wild, and handcrafted.
We’ll gather under the canopy of trees to share a table filled with warmth and intention.
There will be stew made with local beef, roasted vegetables, fresh greens, and handmade sourdough from regional flour.
A vibrant seasonal salad topped with Meridian Orchard hazelnuts, alongside cheeses from nearby farms.
And cups of herbal tea, brewed from wild plants growing just steps away.
Everything on the table tells a story of farmers, foragers, and artisans working in rhythm with the land.
It’s thoughtfully sourced, simply prepared, and offered as part of the slower pace we’ve created together.
This is more than nourishment.
It’s a return to ritual — to food that grounds you, company that fills you, and the quiet magic of sharing a meal beneath the trees.
The kind of evening your body remembers long after the last bite.
Fire Circle & Song
As the light fades, we’ll gather at the sacred fire — a place to lay things down and make space for what’s next.
We’ll write it, speak it, and offer it to the flames.
Old patterns. Unspoken truths. The weight we’ve carried that no longer belongs to us.
The fire takes it without question, without hesitation.
We sit together in the glow, connected and awake.
When the letting go is done, we’ll name what we’re stepping into — what we’re ready to claim, call forward, and embody.
There’s power in being witnessed, in letting the fire and the land hold both your release and your becoming.
You’ll leave carrying something ancient and alive — a memory etched into more than thought.
It will be in your breath, your bones, and the way you move back into your life.
This closing ritual is a rekindling of the most vital parts of you.
And long after the fire burns out, that spark can stay lit up in your soul.

Event Details
Saturday, May 31st
9 AM – 8 PM
Optional van camping under the hazelnut trees
Checkout by 9 AM
Meridian Orchards | Willamette Valley, Oregon
Retreat Price - $225
Reserve Your Spot Now$175 Early Bird Price*
Available Now!
*Offer valid through May 25th, or until sold out—whichever is sooner. Price goes up after that.
Your Registration Includes:
→ Primal Vinyasa practice
→ Two nourishing, seasonal meals
→ Herbal medicine-making with wild plants
→ Women’s circle & meaningful conversation
→ Fire ritual, song, and integration
→ Full-day access to the land + optional overnight stay
One day can change your life.
When you spend it connected to the land, moving with purpose, creating with your hands, and sitting in the company of women who value what’s real — everything shifts.
This is your invitation to step out of routine and into rhythm.
To remember what it feels like to be fully present, deeply nourished, and part of something that doesn’t need to be explained to be felt.
Your place is waiting.
Reserve your spot today.
We can’t wait to welcome you,
Annie, Naomi & Mary Claire
Primal Vinyasa | Meridian Farms
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