Program Overview
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All weekend events are listed below.
For small group Path details, please go to the Paths page. When you register, you will choose ONE of the six Paths.
Click on the blue addresses to navigate to each location using Google maps.
Support: Our support person for the weekend is Michele Davidson, Psychiatric Nurse, PhD. She is available to briefly support you if this weekend is proving challenging to you in some way. Please call her at 757-992-9600 & identify yourself as with Women's Wellness Weekend and she will call you back promptly.
First Aid or Lost & Found: Go to 506 Tazewell Avenue for minor first aid or lost & found items.
Friday April 5 Events:
2:30-4:30 pm: Registration & Welcome Reception
Location: Oyster Farm - Cabana Room (upstairs at Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery)
IMPORTANT: Please endeavor to arrive at 2:30 to register. Arrive no later than 4:00 for Path leader introductions, overview of the weekend schedule & locations. At registration you will receive a welcome bag and name tag which is your ticket required for admission to all events & workshops. If you arrive between 4:30-5:45, proceed to the Oyster Farm Pearl Event Center to check-in. If you arrive after 6:00, please go to 506 Tazewell Avenue to check-in.
Mocktails provided by Crunchy Hydration. Light appetizers provided.
Opportunity to visit wellness vendors to receive free merchandise as well as sign up for optional wellness treatments (additional fees apply).
We will walk to the Sound Bath together at 4:30 in a silent walking meditation. Saging option at entry.
Welcome Reception sponsored by Crunchy Hydration.
4:45-5:45 pm: Sound Bath led by Sheila Sheppard
Location: Oyster Farm - Pearl Event Center (next to Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery on right)
Chairs provided. Bring yoga mat if desired.
Please enter the room silently.
Sound Bath sponsored by Oyster Farm.
5:45 pm+: Free time
Time for optional wellness treatments, dining, shopping & relaxing!
Saturday April 6 Events:
6:45-8 am: Sunrise Yoga led by Stefanie Jackson
Location: Cape Charles Public Beach (outside)
Between Monroe & Madison Avenues (on the beach)
Yoga included in admission / participation optional.
* Please bring yoga mats & wear warm clothes!
Until 9:45 am: Free time
Time for optional wellness treatments, dining, shopping & relaxing!
10 am-12:30 pm: PATHS — small group a.m. workshops
Go to the Path you pre-registered for; name tag colors correspond to Paths. Please arrive promptly by 10 a.m.
Path 1 - Breathwork with Christa Peachy
Location: Oyster Farm Cabana Room (upstairs at Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery)
Name tag color: RED
Path 2 - Self-Compassion Workshop with Wendy Hubbard
Location: Palace Theater, upstairs
Name tag color: ORANGE
Path 3 - SoulCollage® with Catherine Anderson
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church (use back entrance)
Name tag color: YELLOW
Path 4 - Yoga with Stefanie Jackson
Location: Asbury Collective
Name tag color: GREEN
Path 5 - Healing Sound & Music with Sheila Sheppard
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church (use back entrance)
Name tag color: BLUE
Path 6 - Forest Bathing with Terry Solano
Location: Kiptopeke State Park (meet & park at Big Water Visitor Center, on left before park entrance)
Name tag color: PURPLE
12:45-2 pm: Lunch & Keynote Health Talk with Dr. Michele Davidson
Location: Palace Theater
Box lunch from Edible Picasso and coffee from Grants Grinds provided.
Lunch sponsors: Edible Picasso, Chesapeake Properties & Grants Grinds.
2:30-5 pm: PATHS - small group p.m. workshops
Go to the Path you pre-registered for; name tag colors correspond to Paths. Please arrive promptly by 2:30 p.m.
Path 1 - SoulCollage® with Catherine Anderson
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church (use back entrance)
Name tag color: RED
Path 2 - Self-Compassion Workshop with Wendy Hubbard
Location: Palace Theater, upstairs
Name tag color: ORANGE
Path 3 - Healing Sound & Music with Sheila Sheppard
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church (use back entrance)
Name tag color: YELLOW
Path 4 - Breathwork with Christa Peachy
Location: Oyster Farm Cabana Room (upstairs at Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery)
Name tag color: GREEN
Path 5 - Yoga with Stefanie Jackson
Location: Asbury Collective
Name tag color: BLUE
Path 6 - Body Positivity Workshop with Betsy Seabolt
Location: Long & Foster Real Estate offices
Name tag color: PURPLE
5:30-6:30 pm: Drum Circle with Shelley Hunt of the Blue Healing
Location: Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery (outside restaurant on lawn)
Drum circle included in admission / participation optional.
* Please bring a “drum” of your choice (anything that makes a drumming sound, doesn’t have to be an actual drum). Wear warm clothes and a chair if you choose!
5:30 pm+: Free time
Time for optional wellness treatments, dining, shopping & relaxing!
Sunday April 7 Events:
until 9:45 am: Free time
Time for optional wellness treatments, dining, shopping & relaxing!
10 am-12:30 pm: The Path Forward & Labyrinth Walk
Location: Oyster Farm - Pearl Event Center (next to Oyster Farm Seafood Eatery on right)
Group integrative workshop and labyrinth walk. Sponsored by Oyster Farm.
12:30 pm+: Free time
Time for optional wellness treatments, dining, shopping & relaxing!
About Welcome Reception
Featuring one of our major sponsors — women-owned local business Crunchy Hydration — and their chakra-aligned drinks, along with mocktails and delicious cheese and charcuterie boards and a chance to meet new friends and mingle with practitioners, workshop leaders and wellness vendors.
About Sound Bath
We will start the weekend with a sound healing experience. Gently tune into your body, mind, and spirit and explore if an intention emerges. Let the sounds of violin, singing bowls, chimes, and other healing instruments help carry you into a safe space where you can let your worries rest, be still with yourself, and feel your emotions. Open up to releasing what no longer serves you and invite in peace and healing. Sheila Sheppard will play violin and singing bowls, and Doreen DeSerres-DuJardin of Nature's Spirit Aromatherapy will play singing bowls and a variety of healing instruments.
Sheila Sheppard has offered Reiki and GIM (Guided Imagery and Music) healing services to the Eastern Shore of Virginia community since 2016 through Paloma Wellness, first in Cape Charles and now in Onancock. She also offers live sound healings playing violin and singing bowls, and coordinates community wellness events and classes such as Mindful Happy Hours and Root and Flourish Healing workshops with GIM.
About Lunch and our Keynote Health Talk
Everyone will receive a delicious box lunch from a favorite Cape Charles eatery, Edible Picasso. Our speaker, Dr. Michele Davidson, is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife and forensic nurse who founded Chesapeake Bay Psychiatry specializing in Women's Health. Dr. Davidson attended Marymount University for her nursing education as a registered nurse, and later received a BSN from George Mason University. Dr. Davidson holds a MSN and certificate in nurse midwifery from Case Western Reserve University and a PhD in nursing administration and health policy, and a post-master's certificate as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, all from George Mason University. She will give a brief talk and be available for a Q and A on any health issues you would like to discuss.
About Labyrinth Walk
The labyrinth is an ancient pattern that can help you create an inner space of sanctuary, a place where you can slow down and intentionally focus on aligning body, mind and spirit, asking for guidance or learning to quiet your mind. Walking the spiral pattern of the labyrinth in a mindful way can allow us to become conscious of our breath and prepare us for meditation, and the walk itself can be a meditation. The labyrinth path meets you where you are in your life and asks nothing of you, it merely invites you to walk along its path one step at a time. By doing this, you might discover greater peace, a doorway into your intuitive wisdom, or clarity regarding an important question.