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Making Space Retreats

These retreats are hosted and facilitated by Suzanne and always include intuitive arts exploration, connection, and reflection. 

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The goal is not to create art, but to use creative acts to gain access to insight, clarity, and embodied knowledge that we all have within us.

Raise your hand if you are interested!

Ostersmith Retreats always include...

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Creative Exploration

Engage in hands-on workshops and activities that encourage creative expression, fostering a deeper connection with your artistic side.

Reflection

Experience guided sessions and practices focused on mindfulness, meditation, and self-care, promoting emotional balance, harmony and new ways of looking at life.

Nature

Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of Making Space with guided or solo nature walks, allowing for a deeper connection with the environment and inner introspection.

Visioning

Participate in experiences designed to help you clarify your vision, set intentions, and manifest your goals, fostering personal growth and empowerment.

Our Retreats allow you to MAKE SPACE for...

Reflection

Our retreat balances meaningful group reflection with quiet time on your own. In guided sessions, you’ll connect, share, and gain insight together, while personal time offers space to rest, reflect, and reconnect at your own pace.

Structured Play

Retreats includes creative and energizing experiences, from art activities that invite self-expression to morning movement that awakens the body. Guided and solo walks on the 18 ares offer a chance to connect with nature, breathe deeply, and feel grounded in the landscape.

Nourishment

Enjoy thoughtfully prepared meals by a dedicated chef, with each dish carefully curated to nourish and delight. Ingredients are chosen with intention, creating a dining experience that supports your well-being and complements the rhythm of the retreat.

Self Care

This is your time to experience the retreat in a way that feels right for you. While a variety of offerings are available, most elements are optional—giving you the freedom to participate fully, rest deeply, or simply follow your own rhythm.

A sense of Home

Rest in thoughtfully appointed private rooms designed for comfort and calm, with the option to share if you prefer a more communal experience. Each space offers a quiet retreat to unwind, recharge, and feel at home.

Distance

Nestled just 45 minutes north of Spokane, the retreat is surrounded by quiet, open land with no neighbors in sight. An ancient apple orchard adds a sense of history and calm, creating a peaceful setting to disconnect from the urgency of everyday life.

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Why Now?

Women who are navigating:

  • Shifting identities

  • Changing bodies

  • Evolving relationships

  • Empty nests

  • Retirement or reinvention

deserve a retreat to refocus, replenish, and reimagine.

 

We are skilled at caring for others.
We are accomplished at building systems.
We are less practiced at pausing long enough to recalibrate ourselves.

Making Space exists to offer that pause.

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Is this for you?

You may be wondering whether Making Space is the right kind of retreat for you.

                          Not every retreat is.

Making Space was created intentionally — and it will resonate deeply with some women and not at all with others.

                          Here is how to know.

This May Be For You If...

You are in a season of transition.

Not necessarily crisis.   But change.
Your career is shifting, concluding, or asking something new of you.
Your marriage or partnership is evolving.
Your body feels different than it did ten years ago.

Your children are in a new phase, are leaving, or have left home.

You sense something inside you reorganizing.

You may not have language for it yet.

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But you know you cannot keep moving at the same pace, in the same way.

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This May NOT Be For You If You Are Looking For:

• A high-energy, tightly packed schedule
• Performance-based arts instruction
• Competitive or critique-driven creative work
• A luxury resort experience
• Constant external stimulation
• Clinical therapy or religious instruction

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There is structure and thoughtful facilitation—but also genuine spaciousness.  Time to think, to create, and to listen more closely to yourself.

Ann Ciasullo, Spokane WA

"When did I feel most present and engaged?  When I was painting.  It took me completely outside of my head, which I NEVER do.  And being in a space where I was focusing only on my work was indulgent and freeing."

Beth Moore, Spokane WA

"Being in the presence of other, smart, accomplished, "seeking" women is so healing.  The shared experience of "becoming is invaluable".

Beth Moore, Spokane WA

"This space feels totally healing and non-judgmental.  Every time I come away from time, sitting and making/holding space with Suzanne, the "weightlessness" stays with me for weeks.  So Wonderful!"

What About Other Seasons of Life?

​While our signature retreats focus on midlife transition, the deeper intention of Making Space is to support meaningful recalibration in many forms.

Over time, we may host experiences designed for:

  • Mothers in earlier seasons

  • Women in caregiving professions

  • Service-based leaders

  • Interdisciplinary creatives

If you feel drawn to the ethos of this work — even if you are not in midlife — we invite you to join our community and stay connected as offerings evolve.

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