Sacred Seasons Event: Growing into Summer

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Connect Wellness in Vancouver, WA

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Join Nichole, Steph and Taylor for a moment of expansion to honor the Summer Solstice and get curious about the rhythms of nature.

Our Sacred Seasons Event: Growing Into Summer offers a gentle space to welcome the season of joy and abundance by reflecting on what is calling to be nurtured.

Summer invites you to let go of what you’re not meant to hold and make space for growth, warmth and happiness.

When you embrace moving with the seasons, you can build a deeper connection to the body’s natural rhythm and invite a sense of internal balance.

Together, in the grounding presence of community, we will tap into the gifts of summer through embodied movement, restorative practices, conscious breathwork, storytelling, and shared ritual.

Event Flow

Step away from the pace of daily life and into a cozy yurt at a peaceful outdoor spa, where you can welcome the new season with clarity, intention and spaciousness.

Arrive as you are — and discover what becomes possible when we make space to balance fruitful community expansion with deep introspection.

Sunday, June 21: Honoring the Rhythms of Summer (10 a.m. to 7 p.m.)

  • Opening Circle

  • Yin Yoga and Meditation with Taylor

  • Catered Lunch

  • Intention-Setting and The Story of You with Nichole

  • Rest as a Practice Embodied Movement with Nichole

  • Conscious Breathwork with Steph

  • Closing Circle

  • Two-hour Private Spa Rental

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Sliding Scale Pricing

We are in our first year of offering Sacred Seasons Events, and we share the core value of creating accessible offerings, including removing cost as a barrier to attend.

We recognize this space is meant for all, and we are actively exploring ways to make our events more accessible to the communities we belong to and seek to serve, including offering a sliding scale pricing model.

Sliding Scale Pricing honors different financial capacities, while also helping us balance the costs of hosting in-person events, including space, meals, facilitation and preparation time, materials and other overhead costs (taxes, insurance, service fees, etc.).

The true cost of this event is $266 per person. If you have financial stability, we ask you to pay this amount. Review the Sliding Scale Payment Guidelines here.

What’s Included

  • Our events blend somatics, embodied movement, breathwork, communal reflection, creative expression and shared ritual to honor the rhythms of shifting seasons.

    We’ll enjoy a two-hour private spa rental on Sunday to participate in thermal cycling and enjoy the saunas, soaking pool and cold plunges at Connect Wellness as a small group.

  • Catered lunch, abundant snacks, and refreshments will be offered, along with intentionally-curated content designed to support growing into summer.

    • Self-serve coffee, tea and abundant snacks provided throughout the entirety of the retreat

    • Catered lunch on Sunday

    • Retreat materials, art supplies, curated books and card decks for creation, exploration and reflection

  • Nichole, Steph and Taylor create a container of thoughtfully-held space rooted in embodiment and community care.

  • Our events prioritize creating a small, intimate group setting designed to foster connection, safety and ease.

  • Overnight lodging: Rent the Airbnb at Connect Wellness, which is a two-bedroom, one-bathroom suite that can accommodate up to four guests.

Your Facilitators

Nichole Lopez

Nichole Lopez (she/her) is a skilled facilitator, design thinker, and mediator helping people remember liberation in their body and mind.

With over 10 years of experience, she is called to craft and steward spaces where humans may gather, arrive fully in the present moment, and offer their wisdom into a shared well of collective insight. Through her facilitation, participants are invited into a gentle yet profound paradigm shift—held with care as they step into a widening ripple of possibility. Here, one learns to listen to the earth, to connect, to move and dance. This is how she helps people remember collective liberation. Her offerings are designed in ways her ancestors have always hoped she would remember. At the heart of her work is the sacred truth of our interconnectedness—humans in relationship with one another and the earth.

Nichole weaves embodiment, somatics, creativity, group reflection, play, and joy into every facet of her facilitation. She cultivates spaces where people can be brave, learn, grow, and connect with themselves and one another. Her approach is shaped by many teachers and lineages. Among them are the Grays Harbor Dispute Resolution Center, Mental Health First Aid, The Resilience Initiative, Training for Change, The Embodiment Institute, The Environmental Leadership Program, Be The Change, and The Management Center.

Nichole’s lineage is rooted in the Mixtec people of Oaxaca. She walks with a lifelong devotion of honoring the Indigenous wisdom passed on by her ancestors. She calls Vancouver, WA home. It is the lands of the Chinook, Cowlitz, and Klickitat—and all indigenous communities who are still here today. She is committed to honoring the wisdom and gifts of the original caretakers of the lands she now inhabits, tending to their teachings with humility, gratitude, and reverence.

Steph Snyder

Steph Snyder (she/her) is a yoga teacher and conscious breathwork facilitator devoted to helping people return home to themselves.

She knows firsthand the transformative power of embodied practices. Her own healing has been shaped by mindful movement, connection to breath, somatic experiences in nature, intentional self-reflection, and the nourishment of community.

This journey led Steph to shift her life’s work toward supporting others in cultivating their own inner homecoming. Her facilitation is rooted in the belief that the body holds an innate wisdom that can guide us back to ourselves. With more than 15 years of experience in community-led design and storytelling, Steph is dedicated to creating spaces where people feel seen, supported and safe to explore both their light and their shadow.

A lifelong-learner, Steph has completed two 200-hour yoga teacher trainings (in 2025 and 2021), as well as a 10-month, 250+ hour Conscious Breathwork facilitator training grounded in trauma-informed care. She is also a current massage therapy student, expected to be licensed in Washington by late 2026.

After spending much of her life in the Mountain West, Steph has called the Pacific Northwest home since 2021. She lives in present-day Vancouver, Washington, on the ancestral lands of the Chinook, Cowlitz, and Klickitat peoples, and she is committed to honoring the lineages that have created, preserved and shared the healing practices she now carries forward.

Taylor Pulsipher

Taylor Pulsipher (she/her) is a yin yoga teacher, meditation guide, and intuitive tarot reader devoted to helping people find peace through stillness and connection to their inner wisdom.

Having lived with depression and ADHD for over 20 years, Taylor knows the profound relief that comes when we finally slow down and tune into our innate wisdom. Having spent much of her life exploring practices that bring ease to an active mind, she discovered yin yoga in 2023 and for the first time, found a deep, lasting peace that extended far beyond the mat.

With over 16 years of personal yoga practice, a 200-hour YTT and 50-hour Yin training through Parallel 45, and more than a decade of meditation and intuitive tarot work, Taylor brings a rich, layered presence to her offerings. She creates spaces where people are invited to slow down, soften, and listen—to themselves, to their bodies, and to the quiet intelligence that lives beneath the noise of everyday life.

Taylor has called the Pacific Northwest home for the last 13 years and is rooted in the Vancouver, Washington community. She lives on the ancestral lands of the Chinook, Cowlitz, and Klickitat peoples, and holds gratitude for the lineages and teachers whose wisdom has shaped the healing practices she now carries forward.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Sliding Scale Pricing honors different financial capacities, while also helping us balance the costs of hosting in-person events, including space, meals, facilitation and preparation time, materials and other overhead costs (taxes, insurance, service fees, etc.). 

    The true cost of this event is $266 per person. If you have financial stability, we ask you to pay this amount.

    • True Cost = $266 

      Pay this rate if you have personal savings, own property, or have access to steady income that supports paying for other “wants.” 

      "If you have access to financial security, own property or have personal savings, you would not traditionally qualify for sliding scale services. If you are able to pay for ‘wants’ and spend little time worried about securing necessities in your life, you have economic privilege and power in our community. This price is for you." (Source: Alexis J. Cunningfolk, "The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice")

    • Middle Cost = $222

      Pay this rate if you have steady income, but are struggling to build savings or are living paycheck-to-paycheck. 

      “If you are struggling to conquer debt or build savings or move away from paycheck to paycheck living but have access to steady income and are not spending most of your time thinking about meeting basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, child care, etc., you belong here. If you, however, can ask others for financial support, such as family members, partners, or friends, please consider using those personal resources before you use the resources of the sliding scale and limit opportunities for others.” (Source: Alexis J. Cunningfolk, "The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice")

    • Solidarity Rate = TBD  

      Reach out to Steph and/or Nichole directly to explore alternative ways the gift economy can support your attendance or if a different rate or payment plan would make this event accessible to you. 

      "If you struggle to maintain access to needs such as health care, housing, food, child care, and are living paycheck to paycheck or are in significant debt, you probably belong here and you deserve a community that honors your price as equal an economic offering as the person who can pay the highest tier." (Source: Alexis J. Cunningfolk, "The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice")

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  • Parking is available, but limited, on site at Connect Wellness. We highly encourage you to carpool to the retreat.

  • Conscious Breathwork is a somatic healing practice that uses a rhythmic breathing pattern to support physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. It can promote regulating the nervous system, accessing altered states of consciousness, releasing trauma and enhancing emotional processing.

  • A body-centered approach to transformation rooted in internal perception. It recognizes that meaningful change requires aligning our body, emotions, thinking, and values. Somatics enables us to “embody” transformation in a sustainable way and fosters individual, community, and collective liberation.

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