OUR WINTER incubator is ideaL FOR PEOPLE WHO:
Have a strong desire to live in nature and co-create with the land in new ways in sacred reciprocity
Are able to live simply and can handle the discomforts of winter living (i.e., colder, darker days with occasional snow)
Are invested in their own growth and want to practice living / creating in community (to form a new kind of probiotic culture!)
Have spent some time at Hestia and feel a connection to the land (strongly preferred)
** We are growing a Community Wellness Fund to offer partial scholarships to our BIPOC, low-income community members.**
WINTER INCUBATION FLOW
STEP 1: DECIDE HOW LONG YOU’LL STAY
Our incubation window starts the month of November and closes March 17-23 at our spring equinox sabbatical week.
STEP 2: ARRIVE & GROUND WITH THE LAND
When you arrive, we will greet you with an opening fire ceremony and guided chakra walk to invite the spirits of the land to support your intentions during your winter incubation time and to receive permission for co-creating with the land.
You will learn different modalities around sacred land stewardship and choose a particular role for giving back and tending to the land and space during your incubation time.
STEP 3: REST, DREAM, VISION, CONNECT & CREATE
Once you get settled, you’ll have lots of uninterrupted time to create on the land.
We host optional monthly new moon and full moon gatherings to receive community / peer support.
STEP 4: BEFORE YOU DEPART…
We will support you to codify and express your creation out in the world.
We will close your time here with a fire ceremony offering gratitude to the land.
You will be offered a featured spot at our retreat center to share your creations (in-person and/or online) in the form of a product and/or program to Hestia Retreat Center guests and our community-at-large.
INVESTMENT & EXCHANGE
Your $2,200 - $2,500 per month investment includes:
Laundry facilities and all utilities in your space
Hot tub and cold plunge
Private access to a flowing creek, powerful energy spots and walking trails on our 10-acre retreat sanctuary
Private office space in Mount Shasta with high speed internet for your online work
30-foot gathering & movement space for personal use, community use, and space for your guests & offerings
Opportunity to work on land stewardship projects to build your capacity to live off grid
Peer mentorship and community support
** The fees for the incubator program will directly cover the operating expenses for our retreat sanctuary. We do not currently have outside investors supporting our sustainability. We are committed to supporting chosen applicants to fundraise if financial support is needed through our Community Wellness Fund. Please indicate this in your application.**
ACCOMODATIONS
Creekside Eco-cabin with private bathroom
Investment: $2,500/ month
Magical 22-Foot Traditional Mongolian Yurt
Investment: $2,500 per month
Enchanting Yurts in the Forest:
Four 20-Foot Yurts
Investment: $2,200 per month
Meet our Visionaries
2022
SONIYAH SINGH
relationship coach
shifting how we approach love
“I believe with Love all things are possible. I am deeply passionate and know it’s my Divine Destiny to bring to the world the Heartwork I’ve done with clients for over a decade. I am so ready for the Magic Land of Hestia in Shasta to awaken the gifts in me to do my work on a bigger scale. I know that immersing myself in this sacred container will help me build the confidence to take the knowings and the Love Research to a global scale”
POM (MICHAEL PRESTON)
sacred artist & activist
shifting how we exchange resources & currency
“The main way in which I can affect the world, do my job, and help my people, the land, the spirits, the salmon, the laws of creation — is through dancing,” he said. “That’s my main purpose in life. That’s how I can affect the most.”
DR. SOFIA COSTA
master healer & doctorate of physical therapy
shifting how we heal ourselves and our lineage
"I was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, into a family line of healers, shamans, and medicine men and women. And it was my parents, now retired medical physicians, who influenced me to empower people to heal from the inside-out and live their best life. So, it's in my DNA. And I allow myself to be guided by my ancestors and God/Source/Universe so that I can unlock my power within and share the wisdom and medicine of my life's journey."
BLAKE ROMNEY
steward of conscious children
shifting how we cultivate consciousness from the start
Blake has an array of gifts along with being the founder of Conscious Kiddos! She is a certified birth doula, helping, empowering and supporting mama’s and their babies coming earth-side. She is also a Reiki practitioner, using an ancient healing modality that helps move stuck energy within mamas and children to bring them back in balance.
STEPHEN JACKSON
actor, writer & an all around creative shifting how we heal trauma through comedy
"It's so important to my emotional maturation to be able to laugh at myself, to be able to take the things I hold so dearly and that seem so precious and mock them from time to time. I gain perspective that way and come into a looser, more forgiving relationship with myself and my environment."
JASON MCLAUGHLIN
artist & wellness coach
shifting how we listen
"I see all things around me as conscious and alive. The trees, clouds, rocks... each has their own spirit, their own medicine, and their own story. These allies are willing to share their medicine and guidance with us if we are humble enough to ask for their support and become still enough to listen. That is what I want to do here, to become still enough to listen and to share this medicine with the world through my work."
Meet our Visionaries
2021
MALIK AMIR HILL
musician & inventor
“I spent a tremendous time in nature which was absolutely fantastic. It was a tremendous benefit to the development of my project… My greatest creations were the pieces I composed. The best insight I got was on how to live sustainably… Keeping in connection with my mentor after the project has also been extremely beneficial.”
ANDREW DUNN
social entrepreneur
“After years of practicing an external and internal “growth-at-all-costs” mentality, it was profoundly grounding to step into a space of stillness and permission to simply be. Less doing, more listening. Less networking, more enchantment. A blank canvas to follow what was most alive, receive the lessons of the previous chapter, and nourish sacred visions for what's to come.”
MIKAYLA MITCHELL
finance consultant & way-shower
“There is no going back to the way things were. When I learned to see myself as a participant with the land, I become intimately aware of all the smaller daily decisions I make and their impact. It brings once distant concepts front and center. Also, Belinda and Peter were beautiful mirrors for reflecting back my experiences and teaching me how to be discerning and ask the right questions about how I want to live.”
NIJLAN ROSALIA BASTET
Priest/Priestess, Medicine Person Temple Kat’wando
“To a degree, the manifestation of a vision seems secondary to the 'spiritual awakening' that is available on the land… Grateful for the abundant time to be present in my body, open and aware to the creative potentiality that wants to flow through me. Grateful to come to know my gifts and to foster devotion to serving life through my way in the world.”