The Ultimate Mind, Body, Spirit Experience ~
Fabulous Over 60 Women's Retreat
Seven Days ~ Six Nights
June 21st - 28th, 2025
Emily, Minnesota
For Women 60 and Beyond: Embracing Life’s New Chapter
If you’re a woman in your 60s or beyond, you may be facing a range of changes—shifting family roles, preparing for retirement, navigating menopause, or feeling as though your life is winding down. At AnnapurnaBlue, we believe that this is a time to celebrate: your wisdom, beauty, and experience are unparalleled, and these transitions can lead to the most fulfilling chapter of your life.
Our 'Fabulous Over 60 Women's Retreat' is designed to help you embrace this transition with joy and empowerment. Set in the heart of a serene forest by a pristine private lake, AnnapurnaBlue Resort is a sanctuary where you can find peace, rejuvenation, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Here, we offer a holistic approach to health with sessions on wellness, menopause, and body movement, alongside practices like meditation and sound healing. Imagine immersing yourself in the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku, or "bathing in nature," a method to quiet your mind, breathe deeply, and let nature restore your health and well-being.
Our retreat includes holistic medicine workshops crafted especially for women over 60, focusing on heart health, diabetes, menopause, and other common concerns. With the guidance of our knowledgeable staff, you’ll gain practical tools for living well and thriving naturally.
This retreat is a time to embrace the questions and shifts that come with this stage of life. Whether you're feeling uncertain about retirement, experiencing family changes, or questioning your energy and appearance, we’re here to support you. In this nurturing environment, you’ll rediscover the fabulous woman within and celebrate the wisdom you’ve gained through life.
During this retreat, you will:
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Build on your life experiences, reconnect with your inner self, and learn new tools for mind, body, and spirit.
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Engage in activities that boost physical health and vitality.
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Reflect on your future, find renewed purpose, and enter your next life chapter with clarity and joy.
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Nurture your spirit with practices of compassion, laughter, and purpose.
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AnnapurnaBlue’s expert team understands the deep connection between mind, body, and spirit. Here, you’ll discover ways to calm your mind, balance your life, and enhance your overall well-being. We’ll explore techniques to increase coping skills, alleviate stress, and foster inner peace.
Through this retreat, you’ll re-discover yourself. Every gray hair, every wrinkle, and every change in your body reflects the amazing journey that brought you here. This is your time to celebrate, embrace your wisdom, and confidently step into the life that awaits.
Let us help you reflect on what you want to achieve in this exciting chapter, and empower you to take that leap.
What's Included
Seven Days ~ Six Nights
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Welcome dinner -
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Daily healthy meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinners.
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Coffee, Tea, Fruit Juices and Water
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Multiple daily Guided Intuitive Body Movement Sessions
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Meditation sessions, All levels
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Breath Work
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Integrative Nutrition
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Group Wellness Sessions
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Holistic Wellness Sessions
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2 private session for the week
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Healthy Nutrition
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Living a healthy daily life.
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Private Time - enjoy your surroundings
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Purification practices: Breathwork Therapy,
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Sound Bathing with Tibetan Singing Bowls
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Nature Bathing - Soak up what nature has to offer you - It's healing! Japanese call this Shinrin-Yoku - Soaking up the energy of nature.
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Evening Gatherings
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Free time to contemplate or experience the lake
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2 Follow up sessions post retreat
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Wireless Internet
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Community
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Optional
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Massages
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Additional Private Sessions
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Not Included:
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Air Fees and transfers to AnnapurnaBlue Retreat Center
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During your pre-retreat consultation, we will customize your retreat, your goals, dietary needs, and answer any questions you may have.
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Always feel free to contact us with any questions you may have at info@annapurnablue.com or 952-405-0342
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CHECK IN AND CHECK OUT
Check in will be on June 21st before 5:00 p.m.
Check out will be on June 28th no later than 11:00 a.m.
If you need to arrive a day before or stay an additional day, please let us know.
Meals ~ Who Should Attend and Benefits
Check-In and Check-Out
Meals will be prepared to work with everyone's dietary needs. Fresh and organic with the flair and flavors mouth watering meals made with lovely vegetables, fruits, fish, meats, poultry, cheese.
Eating these beautiful meals with the view of the lake and forest. – It will be enjoyable!
We will also enjoy unlimited tea, coffee, juices, smoothies and snacks.
Accommodations: Space is limited. Early registration is strongly suggested.
Room Fees and Options: cozy and comfortable
Single Room: Inside Cabin
Shared Room: Inside cabin
Sleeping Huts: Comfortable beds.
Cozy glamping Yurts: Wonderful memory foam beds, carpeting, desk, electricity, fireplace, amazing sounds of the loons.
Who Will Benefit From This Retreat?
Woman 60 and over who are managing their new phase in life. Dealing with struggles with stressors in their life, have medical issues and would like to receive tools to help them to manage and reduce some medical issues or to manage with a serious illness.
Anyone dealing with negativities and obstacles in their life. This retreat will give everyone the tools to realize being in your 60's can be amazing and releasing. This amazing retreat space will give you the energy to think and plan how you want not only your daily life but for your years to come. This is a liberating and wonderful time in our lives.
Qigong is an ancient powerful healing practice used to help anyone regardless of age, ability or diagnosis. Combines controlled breathing, gentle movements and meditation to promote good mental, physical and spiritual health.
Feel the healing and calm during our sound and breath practices.
Guided meditations sessions for all levels of meditation.
Inspiration and Empowerment -
You will be inspired to truly look within, with an open mind, to see:
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What you are unhappy with, in all areas in your life.
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Evaluate the status of your mind, body and spirit.
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What you would like within your life.
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An amazing support system to help you achieve your goals.
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You will leave the retreat empowered to be the you, you would like to be. Finding Yourself!
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Tools to help you focus, creating balance and better health.
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Two post retreat support sessions.
Self Investment Fee
Space Is Limited
Retreat Fee Includes: Retreat, Housing, Meals, Workbook, Laughter, Fun, Learning and a lot of Ah Ha Moments
$2500.00 per person - Single Room.
$2000.00 per person Shared Room
$1750.00 Commuter: Retreat and Meals
$350.00 Zoom
Single person, couples and groups of friends are welcome to participate in this retreat.
Rooms are offered as registrations come in.
Register early to ensure the room of your choice.
Transportation To Minnesota and the
Retreat Center.
Driving: From Minneapolis area to the Retreat Center is approximately 2.5 - 3 hours with no stops or traffic.
Airport:
MSP International Airport 2.5-3 hours to Retreat Center
Duluth International Airport
2 hours to Retreat Center
Brainerd Lakes Regional Airport
One hour to Retreat Center
COVID PRE-CAUTIONS:
We practice Covid Safety precautions at our retreats. All rooms are cleaned and sterilized prior to your arrival.
AnnapurnaBlue Retreat Center
Our retreat center is located in Central Minnesota. Nestled in the forest on a private environmental lake.
We are visited by deer, swans and loons who greets us with their morning serenade. We have beautiful eagles soaring around us, wanting to know more of what is happening. If you are interested in fishing, grab some gear from the hut and have a wonderful time.
We have canoes, rowboats, kayaks, paddle boards and a sunfish sail boat you are welcome to take out on the lake. Or find a beautiful spot, sit and enjoy a book or ..... whatever it is you would like to do during your free time.
Either way, you will feel nature's beautiful nourishment to your mind, body and spirit.
Welcome Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m. on June 21, 2025.
During our welcome dinner this is what we call "setting intentions for the retreat". This is a perfect time to meet our staff, discuss your goals for this retreat and to confirm the plans created for you in our pre-retreat consultation.
Instructor
Co-Founder and Wellness Instructor for AnnapurnaBlue Health and Wellness.
Deborah has worked in the healing and transformative arts for over 30 years.
Deborah’s work focuses on stress management, pain management, and balancing family and work environment.
As a former nurse, trained psychotherapist, and certified health, family and executive coach, Deborah is trained in Western science of health and healing.
She has studied for the past 24 years studying healing and spiritual practices of Yungdrung Bon, the ancient Tibetan healing practice, with Latri Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche and other senior Tibetan masters.
Deborah combines both modern medicine and the ancient Tibetan healing practices to help her students make changes to improve all areas of their lives.
She is witty, fun and enjoys sharing her knowledge with her students to give them the tools to improve their daily lives.