Engaging the Senses - A Creative Arts Retreat

Engaging the Senses – A Creative Arts Retreat

Creativity is available to all of us. We’ve found a place that gently opens channels, connecting us to ourselves and to the creativity that is uniquely our own.   Join Natalie Davis and Maura Ambrose, on a creative arts retreat, centered on sensory play, herbal crafting, sound healing, and time in nature.

Through hands-on making, forest bathing, sound, and shared daily rhythm, guests are invited into a slower, embodied relationship with creativity shaped by land and season. Days unfold through tactile experiences — using your hands, your attention, and the natural world as teachers.

As Casa Portal, we’ll gather in a private woodland farm  setting once devoted to decades of silent retreat — a place shaped by stillness, reflection, and attentive presence. Now lovingly stewarded by new caretakers who honor that history while welcoming diverse paths and perspectives, the land offers a rare kind of quiet: not empty, but alive and listening.

This retreat is for those seeking to reconnect with their creative instincts, deepen their relationship with nature, and explore creativity as a lived, sensory process rather than a finished product.

What to Expect

• Creative Play
• Herbal crafting 
• Forest bathing, solo and guided walks on wooded trails and open fields
• A sound bath in the barn loft
• Somatic and sensory practices to support grounding and creative flow
• Journaling, reflection, and facilitated group conversations
• Time with the farm’s Navajo Churro sheep
• Time to read, sketch, stitch, walk, or sit quietly across the property
• Chef-prepared meals using seasonal, local ingredients
• Evenings by the fire and access to the wood-fired sauna

All-Inclusive Rates Include: www.casaportalretreats.com

• Three meals per day (plus snacks & non-alcoholic beverages)
• All teacher-led programming fees and workshop materials
• Accommodations, parking, towels, and linens for the duration of the retreat
• Exclusive private access to Casa Portal, private trails, pond, farm activities, and all workshop areas.

You’ll leave with handmade pieces, shared experiences, and a renewed relationship to creativity shaped by land, rhythm, and attention.