Change doesn’t take time;
it takes presence.
After the December holidays, it’s time to restore, guided by winter’s natural rhythms. In the Northern latitudes, it’s time to align with the potent energy of dormancy. Yet, how do we integrate this in a fast-paced, modern world?
This January, you're invited to deepen self-awareness while nurturing what matters most.
30 Days to Wintering Well
Includes a VIP women’s wellness retreat from January 16-19, 2025 at the beautiful Zig Bone Farm Retreat.
Winter is often disliked or merely tolerated, with many overlooking its boundless beauty and the opportunity the season offers for deep listening and stillness.
When you embody the the gifts of winter, you restore your agency and purpose.
Through the art and science of Chinese medicine, this experience is about cultivating wisdom, courage, and power. In 30 days, you'll activate your potency within you and emerge as a stronger, more powerful force in your life - and for others
Join holistic leadership and organizational wellness coach Mary Morrison, MBA, MAc., founder and CEO of How We Heal in leading you on a 30 day journey on how to winter well.
The 30 Days to Wintering Well experience offers deeply nourishing rest and reflection privately and collectively at a women’s wellness retreat.
Through restful activities (which doesn’t include taking extra naps or time off, although you are encouraged to do so if possible!) through an assortment of private and group restorative practices, this 30 day program allows you to reset, rejuvenate, and replenish your energy by merging the power and teachings of Chinese medicine and the Wisdom Within Method, 12 Skills for Leading and Living Well. These practices create a space for true rest, enabling you to emerge from the 30 days with renewed vitality, and ready to, and for, Spring!
Features and Benefits
A significant portion of the 30 days experience is calming the nervous system. Starting with 2 private sessions with Mary before and 2 private sessions after the mid-month women’s winter wellness retreat in the mountains of western Maryland, only 1.5 hours from Washington DC.
After registering, you’ll choose from a list of holistic wellness services to prepare you for the retreat weekend and beyond.
The 3 night wellness weekend is designed to create space and time for a range of activities including sensory nature walks, meditation, yoga, qigong - all practices for intuition building and opening your sense perception.
You’ll reduce stress and open your awareness of the present moment.
his helps build calm and resilience, which you will practice integrating into your everyday life.
The entire month emphasizes transforming stress symptoms into wise guides.
Through curious conversations, utilizing the Wisdom Within Method, 12 Skills for Leading and Living Well, you'll shift your relationship with stress, responding with clarity and calm instead of reactivity.
This improves and restores your energy levels and empowers you in both leadership roles and your personal well-being.
An essential part of the 30 Days of Wintering Well is profound connection with self and others.
At the retreat, you'll be part of a powerful community of women, sharing in fireside conversations, evening poetry and nourishing meals prepared with local and seasonal filled with meaningful conversations. All set within the virtues and medicine of winter.
These shared experiences will foster support and deep, lasting connections with others on a similar journey, providing a rich sense of community and belonging.
This experience is also about seasonal alignment. You’ll enjoy delicious food tied to the winter season, a medicinal Chinese tea ceremony with Michael Perfetto, LAc., plus qigong, and yoga classes with Amy Rizzotto, CNC, E-RYT500, that align with the quiet, introspective energy of winter.
This seasonal nourishment supports your body in syncing with the natural flow of the season.
Throughout the retreat, you'll engage in personal reflection and growth.
Thought-provoking, practical and useful conversations for curiosity on your stress symptoms as wise guides will encourage you to reflect on your life with more depth, offering insights that inspire meaningful personal and professional transformation.
Additionally, the 30 days will deepen your intuition and clarity.
Through intuition-building exercises such as sensory nature walks which build your sense perception, you'll strengthen your inner knowing, allowing for clearer decision-making and greater self-trust in both your personal and professional life.
To honor the power of this gathering, you'll receive 2 wellness sessions with Mary before the wellness retreat to aid you in releasing any burdens and prepare you to be fully present.
This retreat is not only designed for your well-being, but for the collective energy of the community.
By tending to yourself beforehand, you contribute to the power and presence we’ll create together.
And, following the retreat, you’ll receive 2 more private wellness sessions to integrate the wisdom gained into your everyday life.
This ongoing care ensures that the retreat’s benefits extend far beyond the gathering itself.
The Outcome?
Imagine knowing yourself on a deeper level and how that will influence your life, not just during the retreat but throughout January and into the rest of the year.
You'll carry the calm, clarity, and deep understanding of your potency into the months ahead, showing up in your work, relationships, and self-care with more presence, power, and peace.
You’ll come away with deep presence but also the skills to implement immediately throughout your day and into your life.
This is the medicine the world needs—and you are the medicine.
Schedule a call for all the monthlong details to see if this is a fit.
What makes this experience different?
Much more than a weekend getaway. You’ll begin the restorative journey the moment you sign up, with personalized VIP sessions before and after the retreat. They’re designed to prepare your body and mind for deep rest.
Private wellness sessions prepare you for what’s happening right now in your life, and well before you arrive onto the beautiful land of the original stewards, the Kittoctons tribe, that the eco-retreat sits. By the time you arrive at the VIP retreat—you'll feel more nourished, grounded, and present, ready to thoroughly enjoy andvengage in the highly curated experience.
A community of like-minded women. Together, we’ll gather in a cozy, art and light-filled eco-retreat space, with the warmth of a fireplace and gourmet food thoughtfully crafted to align with Chinese medicine’s winter energetics. You’ll be part of an intimate group of 10 women who, like you, are committed to creating a positive, human-centered impact in their work and lives.
Winter as a time of practicing wisdom. In this sacred space, we’ll explore the energetics of winter—how this season is less about doing and more about being.
You’ll reconnect with your inner potency and potential, understanding how to sink into this time of rest for the blossoming that will come in spring.
An experience of true care: Every detail of this month-long experience has been curated to nurture you.
From sensory nature hikes, reflective conversations, and quiet rest, to the grounding practices of morning and evening Zhineng qigong and a tea ritual and meditation, this is a time to step away from the noise and into a deep connection with yourself, nature, and community.
You’ll leave not only rested, but clear, rejuvenated, and with practical tools to carry this deep peace forward into your daily life.
And, the restoration doesn’t stop there!
Following the retreat, you’ll continue to nurture the connections you've made, and you’ll have two follow-up private session with Mary in one of the pre-selected services.
Overview: What’s included in your 30 Days of Wintering Well?
A total of 4 private wellness sessions in January.
We'll review your wellness options at our December onboarding call -> For example: The Wisdom Within Method Coaching, or energetic therapies such as Releasing Heart Stones, Hun Yuan Therapy, Zhineng Qigong + Chinese Acupuncture
> Choose 2 wellness sessions before the retreat.
> Choose 2 wellness sessions following the retreat.
Note: To honor the power of this gathering, the pre wellness sessions start your journey to support you to release any burdens and prepare to enjoy and be present with the group.
By tending to yourself beforehand, you also contribute to and amplify the power and presence of being together.
Plus…
3 night Wellness Retreat in one of the most breathtaking valleys in the lower mid-Atlantic and Maryland's Catoctin Mountains designed for deeper nourishment, intuition building, opening your sense perception and building community.
Includes cozy and light-filled accommodations.
Welcome reception on arrival day that includes hearty, delicious food and drink.
Includes delicious full meals made and prepared with local, seasonal and organic ingredients with medicinal benefits. 3 full breakfasts, 2 dinners (final evening is plated), 2 lunches and snacks.
Daily curious conversations about the wisdom of stress symptoms around an indoor (or outdoor) fire, utilizing the Wisdom Within Method, 12 Skills for Leading and Living Well.
Sensory guided nature walks on this 100 acre farm/retreat.
Two (2) yoga classes.
Two (2) Zhineng meditation & qigong classes.
Medicinal benefits engaging a winter Chinese tea Ceremony.
Outdoor or indoor fire ceremony (weather dependent).
Plenty of space for rest & reflection fireside, in your room or at cozy nooks or on comfy sofas.
Support of a community of 10 kind and powerful women.
BONUS: Four additional 30 minute ‘pocket’ coaching with Mary between your private sessions ($1520 value).
And, there’s more!
Extra extra bonus: Attend any online Zhineng qigong classes on Wednesdays at 12p or Saturdays at 8a EST starting now through January 2025 ($388 value).
Every detail of this month-long experience has been thoughtfully curated to nurture you within the unique wisdom of Winter in Chinese medicine, both individually and as part of a supportive community.
This very intentional experience is about much so more than just taking a break—it’s about shifting how you live and lead, creating a life that feels truly aligned with who you are and what you value.
We’re in different times now.
The old ways of navigating uncertainty aren’t working.
All true healing is mutual.
And this program includes community and practices that deepens our inextricable connection to the natural world.
If this speaks to you, let’s talk. I’d love to have you join us on this journey of deep winter wisdom and restoration.
Change doesn’t take time;
it takes presence.
30 Days Package Pricing
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*Option 1: $3,800
Total Value of 30 Days of WW support + 3 night retreat: $9,357
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You Save: $5,357!All retreat amenities, VIP 1:1 services & bonuses above plus your accommodations:
Very large, semi-private shared room with beautiful, updated and modern shared baths (there are a total of 5.5 bathrooms for 9 people). Rooms are meant to be shared by 2 people.
Privacy screens provided.
*First come, first served. Listings will be updated as rooms are sold.
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*Option 2: $3,900
Total Value of 30 Days of WW support + 3 night retreat: $9,477
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You Save: $5,577!All retreat amenities, VIP 1:1 services & bonuses above plus your accommodations::
Cozy private queen or king rooms with beautiful, updated and modern shared baths (there are a total of 5.5 bathrooms for 9 people).
*First come, first served on retreat accommodations. Listings will be updated as rooms are sold.
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*Option 3: $3,950
Total Value of 30 Days of WW support + 3 night retreat: $9,807
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You Save: $5,857!All retreat amenities, VIP 1:1 services & bonuses above plus your accommodations::
A private, spacious room with a queen bed & beautiful, updated en suite in the original historic log cabin part of lodge.
*First come, first served. Listings will be updated as rooms are sold.
Testimonials
“This is the first time in a long time that I felt alive and turned on about a goal and path. Something that really could contribute in ways I can only just begin to imagine.”
— DB
“I knew after leaving an organization after more than 10 years, there were certain energies I did not wish to bring to my new place of work. I reached out to Mary about how I can show up as my best self in growing a new organization as its new leader. As well as leaving my former organization feeling best and letting go.I learned that some of my symptoms were showing up when I wasn't speaking up. This was empowering and eye-opening. The practices have improved communication for my life in all aspects - home, business and personal relations. I wholeheartedly recommend Mary and HWH to others for a communications tune-up and introspection into our body wisdom and how to listen to ourselves in more depth.”
— MA
“Thank you for this past week of Qi Gong and amazing support. This has been one of the best and most healing practices I’ve ever done, and I’m very grateful for your healing presence with me this past month + week.”
— SC
“My Heart Stone Experience guided by Mary Morrison was truly evolutionary and cleared some blocks of the past, keeping me from experiencing a new level of intimacy freedom in my partnership. This freedom has helped move me forward in all other areas of my life…. work, family, friendships. I can lead myself first and foremost and this enables me to lead others from a place of strength and integrity. I am grateful for Mary’s exquisite ability to hold an impeccable space of safety with empathy, compassion and deep wisdom. Clearly Mary has embodied and embraced the practices she utilizes, offering a wealth of personal experience to aid us in learning to lead ourselves first with heart-centered success...”
— PV
“Since the treatment last week, it was so much easier to fall asleep! And, I'm also sleeping deeper and longer. A week of finally sleeping well, I'm feeling rejuvenated!”
— MS
“Qi therapy has been a wonderful way to experience all the benefits of Mary's healing expertise no matter where I am. I started doing this kind of work with Mary during a period where I was traveling a lot, and wasn't able to make it into the office, and have carried on with it ever since because it just works. I love the flexibility, she’s fast and effective. Highly recommended!”