2025 Women’s Wellness Retreat

June 19-22, 2025

Nurture your soul with Horses, nature, and the wisdom of women

We cordially invite women of all ages, cultural backgrounds and riding abilities to join us from June 19-22, 2025 for the 4th annual Copper Cayuse Women's Wellness Retreat.

Nestled within the breathtaking, traditional unceded territory of the N’Quatqua and Líl̓’wat First Nations, this four-day retreat is designed bring together women of all ages, abilities and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas on the thoughts and practices that serve us and those that hold us back.

The vision for the Women’s Retreat of 2025 is to provide safe spaces for women to exchange ideas, knowledge and wisdom that may identify avenues to move forward in the currently divisive social and political landscape. This is a true intergenerational retreat designed to celebrate, recognize and value the varied voices of all participants.

This gathering will start at the ranch on Thursday with a morning of horsemanship instruction and practice. After a leisurely ride in the afternoon, we will move to our back country base camp located deep within the traditional, unceded territory of the N’Quatqua and Lil’wat First Nations.

In many ways our emergence from the social upheaval of the plague years and the current development of troubling political trends is proving to be far from our dreams of a healthy, happy and equitable society.

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June 19-22, 2025 (4 Days, 3 Nights) Meeting at 9:30 am on June 19 at the CCO ranch.
Professional guides, well-trained mountain horses, tack, 3-night tented accommodation, wellness workshops, and all meals beginning with lunch at the ranch. A sleeping bag, cot, mat, tent, towel, washcloth, riding helmet ( if wanted) and riding cape are all supplied.
Pemberton Valley, Birkenhead & Tenas areas
$2,415* plus tax/pp

Meet Your Hosts

Janice Kennett

Jan has over 18 years of experience in the horse-riding business and 30 years of combined experience as a business owner. She owned and operated a ladies clothing and antiques shop in downtown Pemberton for 12 years and was a founder and contributing member of the Pemberton Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Pemberton.
She continues to be a valued mover and shaker of community life in Pemberton. She is the past president of the local branch of the Lions Club, and continues to be actively involved with their fund-raising initiatives. She sits on the Pemberton Valley Utility and Services Committee and works as a volunteer with the Better at Home social services initiative of the United Way in downtown Pemberton.

Evelyn Coggins

A retired registered herbal therapist (RHT), Evelyn earned a Master of Health Science degree from the University of New England and a post graduate certificate in Nutrition Science from Stanford.
Owner and operator of Herbs for Health, she was in private clinical practice in the Sea to Sky corridor for 25 years and lectured at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine until her retirement in 2023 .
A member of the local Active Hope climate squad, Evelyn is committed to building community spaces of healing, cooperation, and reverence. She is currently preoccupied with questions of how best to promote the well-being of all life and advance life supporting changes in current intellectual, economic, political, and technological models.

Last Years Equine Facilitators

While our 2025 facilitators are still being confirmed, we would love to introduce you to last year’s retreat team. In 2024 we explored the theme of reciprocity between horses and women by considering two topics: the energetics between them (Lindsay Craig) and how the movements of the horse affect human physiology and well-being.

Pippa Hodge

Coach and co-founder of the Valley Therapeutic Equestrian Association , Pippa Hodge is an internationally respected pediatric physiotherapist. She is currently employed by Fraser Valley Chilliwack Child Development Center, Port Douglas First Nations, N’Quatqua First Nations, Lil’wat First Nations and the Valley Therapeutic Equestrian Association in Langley.
Pippa is one of approximately a dozen healthcare professionals in Canada who use the movements of horses in a medical capacity. This healing modality is known as hippotherapy and she will be facilitating workshops to demonstrate how the increased motor and sensory input of the 110 steps a horse takes per minute and its multidimensional movements that mimic the movements of the human pelvis, can be used to rehabilitate the rider.

Lindsay Craig

Bringing humans and horses together has been Linday’s passion for over a decade now. In 2014 she earned a certification in Equine Assisted Learning and a college diploma in Counselling, then blended the two to teach people how to integrate their experiences with horses into personal growth.
Lindsay has spent her life around horses and is trained extensively in intuitive horsemanship and the human mind. She uses her rare combination of skills to help you find the truth of where your actual power resides, instead of the inauthenticity of extra steps you are using to try to make things work.
Her goal with all human/horse partnerships is to find a mutual, balanced, validated and clear line of communication.

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Last year’s retreat was a transformative experience, offering four nights and three days of connection, growth, and inspiration.

Guests enjoyed horse hippotherapy (Pippa Hodge), personal growth workshops (Lindsay Craig and Jeanine Pesce), journaling sessions (Lisa Richardson), sound bowls (Julie Burrows), and nature connection experiences (Monica S.B.) , along with a Ucwalmícwts language revitalization session (Lisa Sambo) and live music by Chicks with Picks. It was an unforgettable opportunity to recharge and reconnect in the heart of nature.

Past participants have laughingly described this gathering as “a summer horse camp for adults” and it really is all that. We encourage you to relax, have fun, and enjoy the company of women, horses, camp canines, forest dwellers and the spirits of the ancestors.