Between Protocols: A journey to Reclaim Wholeness

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A Healing Weekend Rooted in Nature, Nourishment & Connection

June 5-7, 2026
SugarCreek Retreat Center | Near Shades State Park, Indiana

Step away from the cycle of appointments, treatment plans, and protocols — and into a weekend that invites you to rediscover wellness as a lived experience.

This immersive retreat is designed for anyone navigating chronic illness, burnout, or simply longing to reconnect with themselves. Through mindful movement, time in nature, wild food medicine, and the warmth of community, you’ll reconnect to the rhythms of your own inner wisdom and remember what it feels like to be truly nourished — body, mind, and spirit.

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What to Expect

This weekend is rooted in the belief that true healing happens in relationship — with the land, with food, with each other, and with ourselves. Through shared meals, experiential workshops, and moments of quiet connection, you’ll:

  • Learn practical tools for daily well-being and sustainable self-care

  • Participate in hands-on cooking and wild food recipes guided by expert facilitators

  • Explore gentle yoga and mindful movement practices suitable for all bodies

  • Reconnect with nature through foraging, forest bathing, and plant walks

  • Release old stories and invite renewal in Cherokee-inspired, stone medicine, and cacao ceremonies

  • Share in community circles, storytelling, and reflection under the stars

  • Leave with a deepened sense of nourishment, belonging, and possibility

Enjoy full access to the Kuusi Nordic Spa at Sugar Creek, featuring a Sauna, Massage Chair Room, Cold Plunge, Hot Tub, Relax Pool/Swim Spa, Cold Room, and Float Pod.

Whether you’re seeking to reframe your experience of illness, rekindle inspiration, or simply rest and reconnect — you’re welcome here.

Weekend Highlights

  • Opening Cacao Ceremony + Stone Medicine Circle

  • Wild Food Walks & Herbal Wisdom

  • Hands-On Cooking Workshops using local, seasonal, and wild foods

  • Accessible Yoga & Breathwork for all bodies

  • Creative Reflection Spaces (journaling, art, movement)

  • Evening Gatherings & Fire Circles

  • Native American healing ceremony

  • One-on-One Healing Sessions available by appointment

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Backyard with two hot tubs, a sitting area with Adirondack chairs, a fire pit, and a forest backdrop.
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Tentative Retreat Flow

Our weekend unfolds in three chapters — arriving, immersing, and integrating — each one designed to guide you back to balance through movement, nature, nourishment, and connection.

Friday Evening
Arrival & Remember

  • Check-in + settle into your space

  • Explore the land, meet your facilitators

  • Shared welcome dinner prepared with local, seasonal foods

  • Digestive walk & sunset gathering

  • Opening cacao ceremony + intention setting

Saturday
Immerse & Reclaim

  • Optional morning movement or meditation

  • Foraging + wild plant education with hands-on experiences

  • Cooking and nutrition workshops integrating wild + cultivated foods

  • Space for 1:1 healing sessions or creative rest spaces

  • Nourishing collaborative meal creation

  • Evening workshop on inner healing and renewal

  • Fire circle with storytelling, songs, or silent reflection

Sunday Morning to Afternoon
Integrate & Return

  • Morning movement or nature connection practice

  • Optional educational breakout sessions or 1:1 healing sessions

  • Co-created closing meal + community circle

  • Closing ceremony + safe departures with intention

meet Your guides

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  • Karen Burr holds over 20 years of experience in the holistic health field. Her educational background includes studies in Integrative Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, Evolutionary Herbalism with a specialization in acute viral, fungal, and bacterial skin conditions, medical botany with advanced training in hormonal aging skin, and clinical formulations for both internal supports and topical herbal supports. Additionally, Karen holds experience in folk medicine and wild food education with advanced training in herbal remedies to support autoimmune disorders, and environmental toxins. 

  • Jonathan Isbill—aka Jonathan ZaZa—is a registered dietitian who brings a creative, heart-forward approach to food, healing, and holistic living. With a master’s degree in Nutrition & Dietetics from Ball State University and a focus on integrative lifestyle medicine, he helps people cut through the noise of health trends and reconnect with food as a source of nourishment, joy, and vitality.

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  • Page is a master of helping people live with more clarity, calm, and intention. As a self-regulation coach and longtime special education teacher, she supports individuals of all ages in understanding and managing their nervous systems through mindfulness, yoga, and trauma-informed practices.

    With over 25 years in education and a lifelong dedication to personal growth, Page has a gift for blending the practical with the soulful. Her work invites people to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and create supportive rhythms that reduce stress and foster lasting well-being.

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  • Tim Miller is a degreed electrical and computer engineer with nearly 40 years of experience, but his lifelong interest in the medical field eventually led him to explore beyond conventional medicine. After witnessing the limitations of traditional healthcare through personal and family struggles with chronic illness, he pursued training in alternative healing. Tim completed a 3-year certification in Healing Touch energy therapy, along with studies in aromatherapy and holistic health, and founded Third Day Health and Wellness, LLC in 2016 to share what he learned with others.

    Today, Tim offers energy therapies, health and life coaching, spiritual counseling, and aromatherapy services. A former youth pastor and theology professor, he brings a compassionate, faith-rooted approach while honoring people of all spiritual backgrounds. Third Day Health focuses on whole-person wellness—integrating body, soul, spirit, and the energy that connects them. His son Daniel now works alongside him, apprenticing in energy healing and offering certified coaching as part of the practice.

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  • Lorin Purifoy is a healing arts practitioner, ceremonialist, and medicine maker with over 17 years of experience in bodywork and vibrational healing. Her intuitive, nature-rooted approach weaves together Cranial Sacral Therapy, Chinese Stone Medicine, flower and gem essences, and ceremonial practices that support deep rest, regulation, and spiritual reconnection. Lorin’s work is rooted in service, transparency, and the sacred relationship between body, spirit, and Earth.

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Retreat Pricing & Lodging Options

Private Queen Suite (Queen Bed/Shared for 2 People - Private Restroom)

$1400/per couple - 2 suites available

Private Queen Room (Queen Bed/Shared for 2 People)

$1300/per couple - 1 room available
Loft Queen Bed (Shared Bed in Spa Loft - Spiral Stairs to Access)

$1100/per couple - 1 available
Shared Bunk Room (Single Bed/Bunk Beds)  $650/person
Outdoor Onsite Camping (Tent Only No RV’s)  $450/person

*All guest rooms, unless indicated, share a common restroom and shower.

All accommodations include:

  • 2-night stay at SugarCreek Retreat Center

  • All meals (wild and whole food-based)

  • Full weekend of retreat programming

  • Access to optional 1:1 healing sessions

  • Full access to the Kuusi Nordic Spa all weekend (optional float pod add on)

Note: Tent campers must bring their own gear. Restroom and shower access provided.

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Who is this retreat for?

  • Wooden pavilion on a grassy field with outdoor white tables and chairs, surrounded by lush green trees and plants under a blue sky with some clouds.

    People

    living with chronic illness or burnout from treatment plans and protocols

  • Cozy rustic living room with a stone fireplace, wood beam mantel, burning fire, flat-screen TV, wooden furniture, and a door leading outside to a snowy deck.

    Anyone

    looking for a weekend to reset, refresh, and rejuvenate their spirit

  • Wood-paneled sauna room with benches, a window showing an outdoor view, and a heater with rocks.

    Individuals

    seeking community, nature connection, and sustainable well-being

  • A woman practicing yoga in a seated meditation pose on a yoga mat inside a wooden pavilion with open sides, overlooking lush green trees and grass.

    Those curious

    about wild food, embodied living, and holistic healing

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Meals & Food Philosophy

Every meal at the retreat is a shared experience in nourishment, connection, and learning. Our menus are inclusive, vibrant, and rooted in seasonal abundance.

We will:

  • Integrate wild foods and herbs gathered from the land

  • Accommodate food sensitivities and preferences with care and creativity

  • Invite guests to participate in the preparation process (optional and guided)

Please note: meals will be prepared in a shared kitchen space. While we take great care in handling ingredients, we cannot guarantee the absence of cross-contamination for individuals with severe food allergies.

Each meal is more than nourishment — it’s a practice in gratitude, a return to simplicity, and a celebration of what the land provides.

Movement & Accessibility

Movement throughout the weekend is designed to be inclusive, gentle, and supportive — inviting you to reconnect with your body in ways that feel safe and nourishing.

We will:

  • Explore forest bathing, light hiking, yoga, and breathwork sessions suitable for all levels

  • Offer options to practice from a chair or the floor, honoring each person’s rhythm and needs

  • Center on guided breath, visualization, and nervous system grounding as subtle yet powerful tools for restoration

No prior experience is needed — simply bring an open mind and a willingness to listen to your body.

Ready to Join Us?

Your healing journey is uniquely yours — but you don’t have to walk it alone. This retreat is a doorway to deeper vitality, connection, and clarity. Step through it.

Reclaim your rhythm. Reawaken your nourishment. Rediscover your joy. Your body is wise. Your story matters. Your healing is welcome here.


Spaces are limited to preserve the intimacy of the experience.

Reserve your spot today and experience wellness in a whole new way.

Refund & Cancellation Policy: Reservations are non-refundable and non-transferrable.

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Queen Suite – Queen Bed (shared/couples) Private Restroom Queen Suite – Queen Bed (shared/couples) Private Restroom
Queen Suite – Queen Bed (shared/couples) Private Restroom
$1,400.00

Bring your spouse or dear friend and share a bed, only 2 of these available. (1 in the lodge and 1 in the farmhouse). Includes the programming for the weekend, plus all meals. Bedding is provided.

Queen Room – Queen Bed (shared/couples)
Queen Room – Queen Bed (shared/couples)
$1,300.00

Bring your spouse or dear friend and share a bed, only 1 of these available (in the lodge). Includes the programming for the weekend, plus all meals. Bedding is provided.

Indoor Room – Spa Loft (shared bed) Indoor Room – Spa Loft (shared bed)
Indoor Room – Spa Loft (shared bed)
$1,100.00

Bring your spouse or dear friend and share a bed. Includes the programming for the weekend, plus all meals. Bedding is provided.

Onsite Tent Camping Onsite Tent Camping
Onsite Tent Camping
$450.00

Includes the programming for the weekend, plus all meals. You have to bring your own tent, bedding, etc. Access to restrooms and showers.

Single Bed Shared Room (up to 4 people per room)
Single Bed Shared Room (up to 4 people per room)
$650.00

1 Room in the Lodge and 1 Room in the Farmhouse. Shared restroom in both locations. Meals and programming included