Saturday, June 13

Summer Solstice Day Retreat

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WaterFire Yoga Retreats

Led by Ellery Revelli & Doreen DeFazio

What to Expect

A full-day lakeside retreat to slow down, reconnect and celebrate the fullness of the season.

Join us for an intimate Summer Solstice retreat on the lake in Spencer, Massachusetts. A thoughtfully curated 10-hour experience of movement, nourishment, ritual, creativity, rest, self-expression, and connection.

Begin the day with outdoor slow flow yoga beneath the trees, walking meditation and embodied ritual designed to reconnect you with your body and the energy of the season.

• Outdoor slow flow yoga
• Gentle movement + dancing
• Fire + cacao ceremony
• Embodied ritual + celebration

❋ MOVE

Slow down and soften through restorative practices with Reiki + sound healing, spacious free time, and moments of stillness woven throughout the day.

• Restorative yoga with Reiki
• Sound healing
• Time to swim, hike, rest, or simply be
• Lakeside nature immersion

❋ REST

Connect inward through guided journaling, reflection, community sharing, and practices intended to help you reconnect with yourself and what matters most.

• Journaling prompts
• Community sharing circle
• Spacious time for reflection
• Connection + conversation

❋ CONNECT

Enjoy thoughtfully prepared meals, golden hour portraits, and sensory experiences that celebrate beauty, creativity, and self-expression.

• Lunch + buffet dinner included
• Professional sunset portrait session
• 3–5 edited high-resolution images
• Access to curated dress collection

❋ NOURISH

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Lakeside cottage in Spencer, MA

Set on Brook’s Pond in Spencer, our home for this retreat is a quaint cottage that feels like a hidden summer escape. Surrounded by trees, sunlight, water and the quiet beauty of nature. Throughout the day, the space invites you to slow down, breathe deeply and settle into the rhythm of the season.

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Join us in celebrating the life-giving power of the Sun.

Connect with your Inner light

A time to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the rhythm of the season and what matters most

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Retreat Schedule

10:00 AM — Arrival + time to settle in
10:30 AM — Welcome circle
10:45 AM — Outdoor slow flow yoga with Ellery
12:00 PM — Lunch
12:45 PM — Journaling prompts with Melody
1:00 PM — Free time to swim, hike, explore, rest, and reflect
2:30 PM — Community sharing circle
4:00 PM — Restorative yoga with Reiki with Doreen + sound healing with Rachel
6:00 PM — Buffet dinner + time to change into dresses
7:00 PM — Cacao + fire ceremony with Rachel & Doreen
7:30 PM — Music, dancing, connection + golden hour portraits with Melody
8:30 PM — Sunset
9:00 PM — Farewell

Golden Hour Photography

As part of this retreat experience, each attendee will receive a mini portrait session with Melody Stevenson of Heart Work Retreats and Wild Woman Portraits — her work is rooted in the spirit of capturing women barefoot, wild, free, and deeply connected to the natural world.

These portraits are designed to reflect your inner radiance: powerful, playful, grounded, expressive, and fully alive under the light of the Solstice sun.

Each attendee will receive 3–5 high-resolution edited images following the retreat.

What to wear for photos

We encourage you to bring the dress you never get to wear, the one tucked in the back of your closet that called to you, even if you never knew where you would wear it.

Long, flowing dresses that move with the wind and catch the light beautifully are especially encouraged. Solid colors, soft prints, and gentle patterns tend to photograph best in nature without distracting from your face or the surrounding elements.

Melody will also bring a handpicked dress collection for attendees to browse, try on, and use for their session.

Fire + Cacao Ceremony

WHAT IS A CACAO CEREMONY?

Cacao has been used for centuries in ritual and community gatherings as a heart-opening plant medicine and sacred beverage.

Cacao contains natural compounds that can feel gently energizing and uplifting, while also supporting a sense of warmth, connection, and openness.

Rachel and Doreen will guide us in an evening cacao + fire ceremony, where we’ll gather around the fire with a warm cup of ceremonial cacao as an invitation to slow down and connect with ourselves, with one another and with the energy of the Summer Solstice.

This is a sacred space to set intentions and connect to what you want to release, honor or celebrate as the sun begins to set.

Facilitators

  • Doreen DeFazio

    Yoga Teacher + Retreat Facilitator

  • Ellery Revelli

    Yoga Teacher + Retreat Facilitator

  • Melody Stevenson

    Photographer + Creative Guide

  • Rachel Leigh Goldberg

    Sound Healing + Cacao Guide

Investment

$275

Includes a full-day retreat experience, yoga, journaling (journals included), sharing circle, restorative yoga, Reiki, sound healing, catered lunch, dinner, snacks + beverages, cacao ceremony, fire ceremony, professional portrait photography, access to a curated dress collection, and 3–5 high-resolution edited images.

Space is intentionally limited.

Give yourself a day to rest, reconnect and be deeply cared for.

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Interested, but not ready to register?

We’re here to answer your questions. Get in touch! Email dmdefazio@gmail.com or fill out a contact form

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We hope to see you there!

WaterFire Yoga Retreats

Retreat led by Ellery Revelli + Doreen DeFazio
Photography by Melody Stevenson
Hosted by Lisa Kirby Gibbs