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Heidi Zimmer & Dr. Becky PeckelsWintering Well: The Art of Rest & Renewal
January 28-31, 2027 Go back
Wrap yourself in the gift that winter offers in the calm and peaceful setting at Wild Rice Retreat. Join our Founder, Heidi Zimmer, and guest instructor Dr. Becky Peckels, on the shore of Lake Superior for three days of deep relaxation, nourishment, and connection. The winter season is a wonderful time to quiet the mind and body, uncover and rediscover your essence and to develop a deeper connection to self.
This retreat is open to all levels.
Check In: January 28, 2027 - 4 PM
Check Out: January 31, 2027 - 1 PM
Non Accommodations: $1,325
Treehaus Queen: $1,922
Ricepod Twin: $2,012
Ricepod Queen: $2,072
Nest: $2,162
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Class description
This is a Wild Rice Retreat–hosted retreat, 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.
The Art of Wintering Well—a retreat designed to help you slow down, listen inward, and realign with what truly matters. Through a blend of yoga, breathwork, guided meditation, and reflective journaling, you’ll be supported in reconnecting to your inner landscape and cultivating a deeper sense of clarity, purpose, and ease.
This experience goes beyond rest. It’s an invitation to recalibrate your energy, nourish your body, and rekindle your inner vitality. Together, we’ll explore how mindful practices, creative expression, and conscious rest can support resilience, balance your nervous system, and bring your daily life into closer alignment with your values.
Throughout the weekend, you’ll be held in a thoughtfully curated environment that encourages both restoration and connection—to yourself, to others, and to the natural world. Your stay includes daily nourishing meals, sauna rituals, a personalized nutrition consultation, creative practices, deep self-care and an evening fire ceremony to ground and integrate your experience. An optional outdoor adventure offers space to reconnect with nature, and massage therapy is available for those seeking additional support.
You’ll leave with a clear set of practices and a renewed sense of alignment—equipped to support your well-being long after the retreat ends.
Guests should bring a journal. Be sure to dress for indoor and outdoor adventure – a swimsuit (for the sauna), yoga clothes and loose clothing and winter clothing and boots are recommended.
biography
As the Founder of Wild Rice Retreat, Heidi Zimmer is committed to a holistic and integrative experience allowing each guest to ground themselves in nature, tap into their creative spirit and connect to their body and breath’s inner wisdom and strength. She creates intentional, safe spaces for people to show up and be met wherever they are. For some that means time to explore and create; for others it means to move, grieve, let go; and others to simply rest, celebrate, and find joy.
Heidi is also an accomplished real estate developer and leader in business. She weaves tools for resilience, overcoming obstacles, facing uncertainty as opportunity, personal and professional development and leadership coaching into her teachings. Heidi’s open-heart, authentic nature, and joy-fueled approach is accessible and approachable to all levels of yoga and life experience.
Certification
Heidi Zimmer is a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher through Devanadi School of Yoga in Minneapolis, MN. Her training is rooted in the studies of Tantra Yoga, Ayurvedic Medicine and yoga therapy. Heidi has practiced and studied yoga for over 25 years. She thoughtfully weaves spirituality, nature, poetry, and guidance into her classes in an artful, approachable way. She specializes in practices for grief, joy, courage and inner strength.
Dr. Becky Peckels is a Chiropractor, Cranial-Sacral Therapist and Functional Medicine Doctor. She is a co-owner of Lake Pointe Wellness and Lifestyle by Design. Dr. Becky has a Diplomate in Prenatal care and Pediatrics, along with extensive continuing education in Women's health through all stages of life and Gut health. She has been practicing in Minneapolis for over 20 years.
Dr. Becky's in office, hands on healing feels like her purpose on this Earth. She loves supporting innate health, balancing nervous systems through body work , but knows people can maximize their healing by what they do each day, when they are not in her treatment room. Over the years she has experienced the value of taking healing outside of her office walls. Dr. Becky understands the interconnectedness of our physical, mental-emotional-spiritual, and chemical health. She has a passion for helping patients learn more about all aspects of their individual health, which allows them to reach and maintain higher levels of health and age with vitality. She enjoys working one on one and in small groups to create support and education on tools for healthy living. Dr. Becky finds joy in collaborating with other healers, building relationships, creating supportive communities, and making healthy living attainable and fun!
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Supply List
Guests should bring a journal and writing implement. Be sure to dress for indoor and outdoor adventure – a swimsuit (for the sauna), yoga clothes and loose clothing and winter clothing and boots are recommended.
Recommended Reading for the Retreat
- Wintering by Katherine May
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
