You asked… and we are beyond excited to offer an amazing retreat just for the ladies! The teachers are amazing with so much to offer. We are still in the planning stages, but wanted to get the dates to you asap, as well as share some special info as we will be doing this retreat a bit different than our other workshops and camps. We are only able to take 15 ladies, in order to encourage a more intimate experience. We know it will fill up quickly, so if you are interested, we ask you to join our waiting list. We will email the folks on the waiting list and give those folks first opportunity to register when our plans are complete and before it is announced to the general public.

Meet our amazing retreat leaders

Emiliegh

From an early age, Emileigh Zola has been drawn to communion with the natural world, an exploration of mystery, and earth based teachings.
Right out of high school, she embarked on a journey to India to explore spiritual depths and then moved to Western North Carolina to apprentice at an herbal medicine business. She has called these mountains her home now for nearly 20 years.
She considers herself to be a student of life: always seeking, always learning, always growing.
She has studied various earth based healing modalities over the years (including Wilderness Fusion, where she is in year 4 out of 7), home birthed her two children, now 11 and 15, taught earth crafts to children and adults, facilitated womens retreats and circles, and managed events and businesses. For over a decade she has been making handmade brooms and loves teaching others this craft, as she considers the broom to be both a practical and spiritual tool - and a perfect merging of the spiritual and mundane worlds.
What Emileigh loves most of all is bringing her grounded, loving, and practical approach to life into the realm of spirit. Her heart sings when she has opportunities to circle with other women and hold containers of transformation for them to come home to themselves.
Emileigh is a heart centered, humble guide who loves to be in service to women, the Earth, and the Great Mystery.

You can check out her offerings at www.handmadebrooms.com

Carleigh Fairchild (she/her) has a deep love for the Earth. She gardens, keeps bees, wild harvests, processes animals, tans hides, weaves baskets, and finds joy in time spent around the fire.

As the founder of Human Nature Connection LLC, Carleigh feels called to help others remember that we can live in a collaborative and respectful relationship with the Earth. She joined the survival show ALONE to share that message with a wider audience and to explore the depth of her own connection to the land. Over 86 days in the wilds of Patagonia, she relied on her skills, intuition, and connection with the Earth—emerging with a deeper understanding of what it means to truly belong to the natural world. 

Carleigh first learned survival and earth skills as a teenager through kids’ camps at the Tracker School, founded by Tom Brown Jr. Over the last 25 years, basket weaving has become one of the skills she’s most deeply developed. It is more than a craft—it’s a practice of connection, a quiet dialogue with the nervous system, and in a chaotic world, a path back to self and stillness.

Living and teaching in Western North Carolina, Carleigh offers both online and in-person classes, often working with families, friends, and community groups. She loves weaving not just materials, but relationships—believing that a basket is never just a basket, but a symbol of creating containers that connect us to ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

Carleigh is also a NIASZIIH bodywork healer and a teacher at WildernessFusion, with a practice based in Asheville, NC, where her work continues to weave together body, earth, and spirit.

You can learn more about her offerings at humannatureconnection.com.

Please complete the following to be placed on our waiting list. You will have the opportunity to register first once plans are complete.

Carleigh

Cost will be on a sliding scale for this retreat. The range will be $850 - $1500. Please pay what you can within this range. The median price helps cover the class costs. Choose the low end if you’re low income, or the maximum fee if your household earns over $120,000/year. Place yourself within this range based on your income. Includes all meals and camping accommodations or you may elect to stay closely in Boone, NC, however, pricing remains the same.