Solo Exploration

August 9-12, 2026

Lifting the Light: An Aerial Yoga + Energy Healing Experience

Workshop Schedule

• Aug 9, 6-8:30 pm
• Aug 10, 7:30 - 8:30 am & 2-3 pm
• Aug 11, 7:30 - 8:30 am & 2-3 pm
• Aug 12, 7:30 - 8:30 am

This is a Wild Rice Retreat–hosted workshop, part of our thoughtfully curated programming. We proudly partner with skilled retreat leaders to bring guided experiences to our resort—designed to inspire, nourish, and support personal growth in alignment with our mission.

This unique aerial yoga and energy healing experience blends strength, restoration, play, and deep relaxation using aerial slings/hammocks as supportive tools for movement and exploration.

Together we will move through a flowing aerial yoga practice inspired by traditional mat-based asanas — incorporating stretching, strengthening, balance work, and inversions in a supportive and accessible way. Between dynamic sequences, students will be guided into gentle movement, restorative shapes, and opportunities to explore what feels nourishing and freeing within their own bodies.

The experience deepens with daily Somatic Float sessions. A deeply restful cocoon practice inside the hammock featuring guided meditation, nervous system regulation, stillness, and energy healing designed to help you soften, reset, and reconnect.

This class is open to all levels and invites you to build strength, release tension, awaken creativity, and experience the joy of movement in a safe and supportive environment.

Attire: fitted yoga pants and shorts with sleeves. Think: covering the skin for the places the skill will be wrapped around the body. This is most comfortable.

Please avoid wearing clothing with zippers and dangling jewelry, especially rings.

BIO: Adge Lindsey is an energy healer, movement guide, and retreat facilitator with years of experience creating transformative spaces for healing, embodiment, and connection. Blending aerial yoga, breathwork, intuitive energy practices, and somatic movement, she offers classes that are both grounding and uplifting — where play, depth, and nervous system restoration meet.

She lives and works internationally offering retreats, trainings, mentorship, and wellness experiences designed to reconnect people to their bodies, creativity, and inner wisdom. Known for her warm presence and dynamic teaching style, Adge creates an environment that feels professional, welcoming, and deeply alive — encouraging students of all levels to explore self-expression in a supportive space.

SOCIAL:
Web: https://www.adgeofwellness.com/
IG: @adge_of_wellness
FB: https://www.facebook.com/adgemarz

REGISTRATION: For all guests on-site, the cost is $500 per workshop. For our community members, this class is open to the public with a $500 drop in fee. For community members not staying on property, payment for workshop must be made in advance by calling Wild Rice Retreat at 715-779-0178. Please sign up using the button below or visit us at the front desk in the Retreat Center. Contact Jenna Erickson, Assistant Retreat Director, with any questions at jerickson@wildriceretreat.com.

TERMS + CONDITIONS: Your workshop cost will be added on to your lodging reservation and paid for at checkout. If you need to cancel attendance at your workshop, please call the property directly or notify the Assistant Retreat Director, Jenna Erickson at jerickson@wildriceretreat.com

REGISTER HERE

July 10 & 17, 2027 | 12-3 pm

Artist In Residence - Dietlind Vander Schaaf

This is a Wild Rice Retreat–hosted workshop, part of our thoughtfully curated programming. We proudly partner with skilled retreat leaders to bring guided experiences to our resort—designed to inspire, nourish, and support personal growth in alignment with our mission.

Painter Dietlind Vander Schaaf will be serving as artist-in-residence on either end of her July 2027 retreat.

She will be giving an evening lecture and slideshow on encaustic painting that touches on contemporary artists working in the field, as well as highlights the versatility of the medium. During the day she will offer a 3 hour mini workshop that covers application, color mixing, and basic techniques including leaf stencils and working with mixed media.

Attendees will create a small painting to take with them.

Bio:
Dietlind Vander Schaaf has exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Fuller Craft Museum, and On Center Gallery, among others, and been featured in Maine Home + Design, Decor Maine, UPPERCASE, and Downeast magazines.

Vander Schaaf is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints, an Ampersand Ambassador, and the former president of New England Wax. She has taught workshops throughout the country, including Haystack, Arrowmont, Castle Hill, Snow Farm, Penland, Maine College of Art, R&F, and internationally at Zijdelings in The Netherlands, Essence of Mulranny in Ireland, and Kunstfreiraum in Switzerland. The recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission and International Encaustic Artists, as well as a Tending Space Artist Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation, she is represented by Portland Art Gallery and Artemis Gallery. Vander Schaaf is a 500 hr Kripalu yoga instructor with specialty training in meditation, advanced asana, Ayurveda, vinyasa, and pranayama.

Social:
@dietlindvanderschaaf 

Registration:
For all guests on-site, the cost is $75 for the workshop. For our community members, this class is open to the public with a $75 drop in fee. Please sign up using the button below or visit us at the front desk in the Retreat Center. Contact Jenna Erickson, Assistant Retreat Director, with any questions at jerickson@wildriceretreat.com.

Terms + Conditions:
Your workshop cost will be added on to your lodging reservation and paid for at checkout. If you need to cancel attendance at your workshop, please call the property directly or notify the Assistant Retreat Director, Jenna Erickson at jerickson@wildriceretreat.com.

REGISTER HERE