October 15-19, 2026          Starting at $1,235

elemental

Immersion

forest bathing wellness retreat

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Terapia Forestale

OCT 15-19 at Tara Nature in Umbria, Italy

Energy Elements invites you to five days of deeply grounding, elemental connection.
A multi-modal retreat guided by the elements to tune into nature and reconnect with our quiet knowing.

SET & Setting

Tara Nature cultivates sacred space to reconnect with our natural selves. We don’t just attend retreat, we inhabit it. Re-building a world of sustainable kindness and clarity by shifting our inner dialogue. Tara Nature is just two hours from Rome (FCO). Retreat will be hosted in English.

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Your Hostesses

Sandy Fortin (mum) creatrix of Energy Elements, ANFT Forest Therapy Guide and Reiki Master. She guides immersive Shinrin Yoku experiences rooted in presence and energetic awareness. Based in Winter Harbor, Maine.

Tina Fortin (big sis) LMT, 200hr Yoga of Rose Healing, offering integrative therapeutic bodywork, psychosomatic sessions and energy-work.

Jenn Fortin (lil sis) M.Ed., educator, guide, musician, and founder of Pretty Moving. Offering nature based emotional resilience coaching, intuitive guiding, and musical serenades by the fire. She currently calls Crested Butte, Colorado home.

Together, they hold space that is intuitively guided, grounded, playful, and deeply restorative.

    • Shared Room $760 USD
      Shared room in the guesthouse with three twin beds and shared bathroom.

      Rooms include Moon, Water, Earth and Spirit.

    • Private Room $1020 USD
      Private double room in the guesthouse with shared bathroom.
      Rooms include Sun, Air and Fire.

    • Retreat Experience $475

    *Includes taxes, shared accommodation, daily group activities, cleaning fee, use of retreat facilities & wifi, & 3 daily chef-prepared meals.

    *Not included are transport to and from Tara Nature and personal / travel insurance.

    Optional additional sessions

    Reiki, massage, and nature-based emotional coaching. Optional group excursions include farm to table cooking and artistic immersion.

  • Each day is mindfully crafted to drop in and flow! Activities include:

    • Morning guided medication & journaling

    • Ayurvedic prepared meals

    • Forest bathing - guided Shinrin Yoku meditative walks

    • Elemental / Yin Yoga

    • Breathwork

    • Nature based emotional resilience coaching

    • Ecstatic dance

    • Fire and tea ceremonies

    • Acoustic live music

    There will be time for rest, wandering, conversation and integration. We encourage full participation in group programming to experience their deepest potential.

    Structured and reflective immersion in nature will support nervous system regulation, emotional clarity, and processing of emotional trials and triggers.

  • 7:30am Yin Yoga & Guided Meditation

    8:30am Breakfast

    9:00am Forrest Bathing

    11:30am Journaling and Integration

    12:30pm Lunch and Siesta

    2:00pm Nature-based Immersion

    3:30pm Free Time (or private sessions)

    6:30pm Dinner

    8:00pm Fireside Music

  • We have mindfully curated a deeply supportive, contemplative space to witness beliefs, process blocks and old stories, and nurture yourselves into new ways of being.

    Step into your intuitive power by slowing down, getting curious, and reconnecting with your intuitive wisdom.

    Multi-modal practices will create space to:

    • Release what no longer serves

    • Reconnect with your body and innate wisdom

    • Gain clarity of patterns, beliefs, and stories that may be keeping you stuck

    • Create space and techniques for emotions to move, rather than suppressing

    • Reawaken child-like sense of play, pleasure, and curiosity

    • Strengthen your connection to intuition and inner knowing

    • Explore new ways of relating to yourself, others, and the world

    • Rest deeply and quiet down enough to honor what needs to arise

    • Return home with practical tools and renewed perspective to carry into everyday life

    This is an invitation to soften, listen, release, and remember what is already within you. To call on the elements as teachers and allow yourself to be fully present.

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Dense green forested mountain landscape with fog and clouds surrounding the trees.
Scenic landscape showing lush green rolling hills and mountains under a partly cloudy sky, with a few small houses and a winding road in the foreground.

SAVE YOUR SPOT!

All are welcome! Slots are offered on a first-come, first-serve basis to preserve intimacy and depth.

To register, please fill out this brief intake form.

We so look forward to gathering at Tara Nature and savoring la bella vita together!

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