The Montana Women’s Wellness and Adventure Retreats
Join us at The Cliff Ranch for an enriching, limited edition retreat experience designed to support YOU. The Montana Women’s Retreats are an opportunity to relax, rejuvenate, refuel, adventure, and nourish while curating your own retreat.
Adventure:
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Horseback riding
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Fly Fishing
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Mountain Biking
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Trail Running
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Hiking/Walking
Creativity & Education:
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Canvas & Water Color Painting
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Dance & Creative Movement
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Writing, Journaling & Poetry
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Women’s Healthcare & Hormone Conversation
Wellness:
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Daily Yoga & Meditation
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Massages*
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Energy & Reiki Healing*
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Facials*
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Cold Water Immersion & Hot Tub
Evening Offerings:
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Campfire Folk Music
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Wellness “Bathrobe Ball”
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Karaoke & Dance Party
*Requires Extra Fee
September 26 – 29, 2024
The Montana Wellness and Adventure Retreat
Join us at The Cliff Ranch for an enriching, limited edition retreat experience designed to support YOU.
The Montana Wellness and Adventure retreat is an opportunity to relax, rejuvenate, refuel, adventure, and nourish while curating your own retreat.
Each day every woman will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of scheduled activities and wellness offerings led by experienced facilitators. Whether you want to pack your days full of movement, adventure, creativity or just choose to use your time to rest and recharge, The Montana Women’s Retreats offer something for everyone in a pristine setting on the banks of the Blackfoot River. The Cliff Ranch is a luxury guest ranch on 3000 acres.
Cost: $2100 (covers food, lodging, and all playground activities) ** (Because of a generous donation, 50% of your fee will go to support a woman with breast cancer attending a 2025 Casting for Recovery retreat and has tax-deduction benefits)
October 3 – 6, 2024
The Montana Wellness, Adventure and Plant-Based Retreat
This retreat is the same as the Montana Wellness and Adventure Retreat except with an additional offering of a plant-based menu and daily cooking and informative sessions with renowned New York Times Best Selling author, Jane Esselstyn.
Join us at The Cliff Ranch for an enriching, limited edition retreat experience designed to support YOU.
The Montana Wellness, Adventure and Plant-Based retreat is an opportunity to relax, rejuvenate, refuel, adventure, and nourish while curating your own retreat.
Each day every woman will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of scheduled activities and wellness offerings led by experienced facilitators. Whether you want to pack your days full of movement, adventure, creativity or just choose to use your time to rest and recharge, The Montana Women’s Retreats offer something for everyone in a pristine setting on the banks of the Blackfoot River. The Cliff Ranch is a luxury guest ranch on 3000 acres.
Cost: $2450 (covers food, lodging, and all playground activities) ** (Because of a generous donation, 50% of your fee will support a woman with breast cancer attending a 2025 Casting for Recovery retreat and has tax-deduction benefits)
For questions or to register for a retreat, contact Robyn Gaddy at (406) 531-6969.
The Cliff Ranch is located in Ovando, MT, 50 miles east of Missoula.
The Missoula airport is the closest airport. Shuttles can be arranged from Missoula. If you fly into Bozeman, it is a 2.5 hour drive to Ovando.
Cliff Ranch Facilitator Network
(Based on facilitator availability)
Robyn Gaddy
Robyn has worked for 25 years leading groups in adventure education. In 2023, she joined Casting for Recovery. Her past experiences as an Outward Bound instructor and director, Girls on the Move Executive Director and Head of School for Sussex School helped Robyn create comfortable retreat spaces for participants to have their own personal adventures. In 2003, Robyn founded Mamameah, a retreat business with workshops focused on helping new mothers create a healthy balance in motherhood with with activities in self compassion, art and adventure. Robyn has a Master’s degree in Experimental Education and loves the opportunity to turn a retreat experience into a peaceful or lively adventure based on what a guest may need. She believes that the power of personal choice in retreat activities creates personal rejuvenation.
Jane Esselstyn
Author Jane of the Ann and Jane Esselstyn duo, Jane Esselstyn RN is a fresh and charismatic voice on the whole food, plant-based diet. She brings her perspective and passion as a woman, nurse, researcher, and mother to creating on-ramps to the plant-based way of life. Jane is an avid and inventive designer of plant-based recipes and the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller, Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious, and The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook with her next door neighbor, mom, and human firecracker -Ann Esselstyn. Jane and Ann present their work, research, and high energy demos around the world- and on her YouTube channel. Jane also created the recipe section of #1 NYTimes bestseller, Plant-Strong, and The Seven Day Rescue, by Rip Esselstyn. And she is co-author of The Engine 2 Cookbook.
Emily Linton
Emily Linton is the founder of Eat.Move.Excel. She is a health coach who helps busy professionals feel good in their bodies and avoid burnout. As a health couch, Emily meets you where you are. She views the health journey as one of “little bit better.” not perfection. Her coaching empowers you to build confidence and creates systems for living a healthy life. Together you figure out how to: fuel for an active lifestyle, achieve a consistent workout routine, get adequate rest for mind and body, use positive self-talk, and engage in healthy relationships. As an athlete herself, Emily had known for years that movement is only one piece of the health puzzle. This made her double down on supporting clients in a more holistic way. Emily graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, earned certificates from Precision Nutrition and ACE: Behavior Change Specialists, graduated from the College for Executive Coaching, and passed the National Boards for Health and Wellness Coaching. When Emily is not coaching you can find her out adventuring on the trails with her husband and two daughters.
Gillian Kessler
Gillian can be found dancing to loud music, teaching exuberant teens to appreciate language, writing in the early morning when everyone is asleep and exploring the wilds of Montana with her beautiful family. Gillian has degrees in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing and Theater and Dance from Santa Clara University. She’s been an educator in elementary, middle and high school grades since 1996 and has taught dance and yoga around Los Angeles and Missoula. Gillian earned an educator’s grant to study Afro-Brazilian dance and culture in Bahia, Brazil in 2000 which brought a whole new element to her creative work. In addition to leading movement, writing and dance workshops for children, teens and adults in California, Montana and Oregon, she currently teaches middle school English at the Missoula International School. Her poems was featured in the anthology, Poem Across the Big Sky Volume II. Her first collections of poems, Lemons and Cement, came out in 2017. Gillian was recently selected as one of the poets for the Montana Poetry Series, Ash in the Tree was published by FootHills Press in 2021.
Jen Raciot
Jen Racicot, MA, PCLC, NCC is a nationally certified counselor with both her undergraduate BFA in Art, Education and Masters in Clinical Mental Health from The University of Montana. Jen’s life experiences as a 5th-generation non-Indigenous Montanan has been infused in teaching, service and advocacy in Montana for over 20 years working with ages 3-70 counseling, coaching women’s mountain biking both regionally/internationally, and traveling as a speaker, leading workshops on mental wellness. As a therapist, Jen specializes in strength-based counseling along with special training in EMDR and IFS trauma processing, dream-work, mindfulness and art-processing (15 years teaching art k-8). For self-care, Jen loves to eat, live music, travel/live abroad, create art in her studio, and any form of adventure in the back-country of Montana.
Joey Banks
Joey Banks is a family Physician. She has worked over 20 years in women’s issues, reproductive care, and gender care. Her family has lived in Montana for 11 years. Joey offers participants in a lively and fun evening of conversation of dessert and wine/tea on information of women’s bodies and health.
Kali Lindler
Kali is a lifelong dance, off-key singer and devoted lover of music. She founded and ran Oula- a mind-body dance fitness company – for 11 years, during which she had the privilege of training over 1,000 people around the world to step into their bravery, trust themselves an their body, and connect with their communities by leading Oula classes. After selling Oula in 2021, she lives in Missoula with her husband and three young daughters and loves living room dance parties, experiencing live music and seeking out joy and laughter.
Rasa Oneill
For over twenty years Rasa has enjoyed sharing her love of yoga with others and has been known for her heartfelt, personable and diverse approach to teaching. Each class is a playful invitation to the adventure of Self-discover through creative move flow, restorative poses, vitality increasing breath practices and a yummy deep yogic relaxation. Getting in touch with what’s essential and seeing through what’s nonessential reveal our natural ease, peace and beauty of being. Originally from Lithuania, Rasa is a graduate of John Hopkins University Master’s program in international economics and relations and has multiple certifications from advanced Yoga Teacher programs in New York and India. Rasa is grateful to the priceless teachings of Zen, Advaita and Direct Path as they illuminate her life and shape her class offerings.
Michelle Savoia
Michelle has been practicing massage therapy and bodywork for over 20 years. While working from a heartfelt and intuitive place, she has an abundance of modalities to offer your body and mind. With a background in deeper treatment work and Traditional Thai massage she also blends in Reiki, CranioSacral therapy, and energy work for a comprehensive session. She has a love of holding space and supporting people exactly where they are. Not only do we hold physical pain in our body, we also hold all of the emotional experiences we’ve had throughout our lives. Michelle offers a holistic approach with a trauma-informed lens to her massage therapy practice. She loves living in Missoula with her husband and two adventurous teenagers.
Jen Lofgren
Jen has been fly fishing for 35 years and loves sharing her passion for angling and the outdoors with others. She has been a guide and an instructor, and currently works for a Bozeman-based nonprofit that provides 2.5 day fly fishing retreats for women with breast cancer. While she calls Colorado home, Montana holds a special place in her heart and the Blackfoot River is one of her favorite trout streams.
Elizabeth Fricke
Elizabeth Fricke has taught yoga and outdoor skills for over two decades. As a North Carolina native, Elizabeth found a home in Montana since 1999. She has worked extensively with The North Carolina Outward Bound School, the National Outdoor Leadership School and The University of Montana. Currently she directs the University of Montana’s Outdoor Program and has been in that position since 2004. She teaches courses annually for the American Mountain Guide Association, Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics and the Western Montana Avalanche Center. She is passionate about wild places and loves adventuring with women.
