By Women For Women 2025:
Embodying Self Compassion
March 7-9, 2025
with Robin Richards, Theresa Falvey-Hunt, Wendy Mitch & Sara Perry and massage therapy with Heather Simmons available
Celebrate the power of bringing women together in a circle of connection and compassion at the annual By Women For Women Retreat. The Christine Center holds a rich history of hosting this cherished gathering, each year weaving together the wisdom of diverse women facilitators to guide participants on a journey toward alignment with their authentic selves, inner strength, and shared purpose. Through a blend of nurturing practices, creative expression, and meaningful connection, this retreat offers a sacred space for renewal, empowerment, and the celebration of women’s collective power.
Together, we’ll create a community of like-minded women, gathering in group sessions to share and grow, while also offering the freedom to choose activities that best support your unique journey.
Let yourself be held and drawn into the tender energy of connection and compassion at the annual By Women For Women Retreat, a space where the shared wisdom and luminous presence of women comes to life. Rooted in the Christine Center’s cherished tradition of creating sacred, supportive circles, this retreat invites every woman to feel seen, heard, and profoundly held.
Through this year’s theme, Embodying Self-Compassion, you are invited to soften into an exploration of practices that honor, care and nourish your whole self – body, mind, and spirit. In the embrace of this nurturing and transformative environment, you’ll find space to pause, deepen, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom that resides within.
Pause, soften, and awaken to the quiet wisdom within—a luminous journey into self-compassion and connection awaits.
This retreat offers the space to listen deeply, nurture your spirit, and return to your life with a renewed sense of balance, clarity, and purpose.
Guided by a diverse group of skilled facilitators, this retreat offers a harmonious blend of experiences, including:
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- Yoga and mindful movement to align body and breath
- Meditation and breathwork for grounding and renewal
- Reflective journaling and creative expression to explore your inner landscape
- Artistic expression to ignite creativity and joy
- Enneagram insights to deepen self-awareness and compassion
- Workshops and dharma talks centered on self-compassion and empowerment
- Book a massage with Heather Simmons here
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Whether through quiet moments of reflection, deep conversations, or active participation, this weekend is an invitation to honor yourself fully. It’s a time to relax, renew, and realign with your sense of self and what is needed to support you in embodying self compassion as a true expression of care – not only for yourself, but for the lives you touch and the world you create. This retreat offers the space to listen deeply, nurture your spirit, and return to your life with a renewed sense of balance, clarity, and purpose.
To deepen your experience, book yourself a massage with Heather Simmons, our resident bodyworker for the By Women for Women retreat weekend.
Schedule
Friday
5:00 Optional Meditation
5:30 Dinner
6:30 Opening Circle & Session 1 – Mindful Nourishment as an Act of Self Compassion
Saturday
7:30 Optional Meditation 8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Gentle Morning Yoga 9:45 Session 2 – Exploring Your Enneagram
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Open Time for Self
3:00 Session 3 – ‘Dropping In’ to Self Compassion with Writing
5:00 Optional Sound Bath Meditation
5:30 Dinner
6:30 Session 4 – Supporting Self Compassion Through The Four Agreements & Yoga Nidra
Sunday
7:30 Optional Meditation 8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Gentle Morning Yoga 9:45 Session 5 – Creating Your Self Compassion Compass & Closing Circle
12:30 Lunch 1:30 Departure
Your Guides for the Journey
Robin Richards, MA, EdS, RMT
Christine Center Facilitator
Robin Richards is a master teacher, multi-certified wellness coach, and Karuna Reiki Master Teacher dedicated to holistic healing, lifelong wellness, and intentional living. Emerging from personal challenges of tragedy and health setbacks, Robin’s journey toward well-being transformed her professional path, integrating energy work, mindfulness, and community building.
With a Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction and an Educational Specialist degree in K-12 Leadership, Robin spent years as a teacher, consultant, and school board member before founding Robin’s WellNest LLC, where she helps overwhelmed women ditch diets and wellness confusion by teaching inner fitness, intuitive eating, and energy healing so they can confidently create personalized, holistic wellness plans and embrace ease in their lives. She is certified in nutrition coaching, yoga, mindful eating, meditation, mindfulness, EFT, NLP, and most recently, mat Pilates, weaving these practices into her work supporting others.
Robin lives in the Twin Cities Metro with her husband, and their young daughter, whose joyful spirit inspires Robin’s commitment to conscious living. As a facilitator and Marketing Coordinator at the Christine Center, Robin brings her passion for connection, transformation, and service to life, guiding others in their journeys toward growth and self-discovery.
Theresa Falvey-Hunt
Owner of State of Grace LLC
Theresa is a wayfinder, a leader and a beacon of opportunity and possibility. As the owner of Illuminate Your Life Coaching|Yoga|Retreats, she is a Life Coach, Certified RESET Breathwork Facilitator, 550-Hour Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master, who loves creating impactful, sacred Women’s Retreats. Theresa creates safe, sacred spaces for healing, growth, and the unfolding of miracles, illuminating your most authentic life & self.
Her work is deeply rooted in helping women rediscover their resilience and align with their most authentic selves. Whether through yoga, coaching, breathwork or retreats, Theresa’s presence invites profound transformation, being able to be with the seriousness of what is while being able to welcome in joy and laughter. She believes her life is guided by Divine nudges—whispers from God that continue to steer her on a purposeful path and healing journey. These nudges led her from Colorado, where she built her career and business, back to her hometown of Manitowoc, WI.
After the passing of her father, Theresa understood after many years of being called back to Wisconsin that her return was to support her family during a very challenging time. The has led her into guiding others through life’s transitions, including grief and loss, into healing and growth. Theresa is also a devoted wife, mother, and cat mom to Neil Diamond. She finds solace and inspiration in nature, kayaking, hiking, and embracing life’s Divine guidance.
You can find her:
Facebook: State of Grace Well-Being
Instagram: stateofgracetheresa
Website: www.stateofgracellc.com
Wendy Mitch
Owner of Shifting Perspectives Coaching and Consulting
Wendy Mitch, owner of Shifting Perspectives: Coaching and Consulting has been challenging, training, and developing others for more than 35 years. This will be her third time presenting in the By Women For Women retreat.
She is a certified Integral Life Coach through New Ventures West, a Certified Teacher in the Enneagram Spectrum Method, has her master’s degree in Servant Leadership from Viterbo University, is a licensed facilitator for the Arbinger Institute, and completed the Wisdom Way Whole Life Coaching Program in January of 2024. Wendy has facilitated hundreds of workshops, seminars, and retreats in the areas of Outward Mindset, Servant Leadership, Self-Deception/Self Betrayal, Emotional Intelligence, Enneagram, Medicine Wheel, Spiral Dynamics, Spiritual Development, and Creating an Authentic Life.
Wendy has been a lifelong student of the Spiritual Journey and is thrilled to put her learnings and expertise into the By Women for Women retreat again.
Sara Perry
Writer
Sara Perry is an accomplished devotional writer and lover of nature, artistic expression, and the connections that bind us. She is constantly on the lookout for where the sacred and ordinary intersect. You might catch her staring at a sunset, traveling with her dog, painting a landscape, making music, or enjoying time with friends.
Sara writes the weekly newsletter, Dropping In, which focuses on helping busy women build and strengthen inner connection through thoughtful reflections, mindful questions, and simple practices.
Heather Simmons
Massage Therapist
Heather is a Madison-based massage therapist with over 20 years of experience and is a friend of the Christine Center who periodically provides massage for Center guests. She is excited to be offering massage for the 3rd year in a row for the Christine Center women’s retreat “By Women, For Women”. Her work combines a variety of modalities and she was recently certified in Reiki II in the Usui/Holy Fire tradition. She will have gentle therapy dog Brandi on site. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, nature worshipping, Brandi (doggie) outings, music and connecting with animals and humans.
See link below to book your appointment, or you may call, text or email Heather at: (608)-698-6608 Featheras10@gmail.com