Journey to Wellness Mini-Retreat

Location: Clark Gardens
Date: Saturday, March 18, 2023 (Rain or shine; we will move indoors if necessary)
Time: 8 am- 1::00 pm (includes lunch). Following lunch participants are encouraged to spend time in the hammock village,relax at a pavilion, or take a nature walk.
Dress: Casual and comfy; enclosed shoes. If you have a yoga mat please bring it along with you.
Cost: $75/person; includes lunch, all supplies and admission to the garden. Space is limited. Make your reservation today!

Online ticket sales closed March 16th at 12:00 pm.
Call our office, 940-682-4856 x1, to inquire about open spots.

Spring! The spring season is a time for renewal and rebirth, inviting us to enter a new phase of rejuvenation. Through the power of nature, Clark Gardens encourages guests to relax the mind, soothe the soul and stir the spirit. Join us on Saturday, March 18, for a “Journey to Wellness.” Our talented instructors will lead us through a series of exercises, including breathing techniques, meditation, yoga, and journaling. After a catered lunch, attendees are free to enjoy the garden. Rest in our hammock village, find a relaxing spot to reflect or journal, take your shoes off and soak in the ground. Let Mother Nature give you a sense of renewal and leave you feeling refreshed and renewed.

Class Schedule: The goal of this mini retreat schedule is intentional in an effort to give participants an unhurried, relaxing, and nature infused experience.

• 8:00 - Participants arrive and get settled in. Coffee and tea served. Chapel
• 8:15 am - Bridgette leads a contemplative walk through the labyrinth
• 9:00 am - Break
• 9:10 am - Carla “The Three Principles of Resilence” (Chapel)
• 10:00 am - Break and move to a pavilion for yoga with Krista
• 11:00 am - Jane “The Unwinding Compass” (Chapel)
• 11:45 am - 12:30 pm - Journaling with Rose
• 12:30 pm Lunch
• After lunch participants are encouraged to experience the calming effects of Clark Gardens. Hang out (literally) at the Hammock Village; continue to journal; nature bathing.

See the Journey to Wellness Mini-Retreat Flyer

Meet your Instructors & Class Descriptions

Rose Jordan

Rose is an ambidextrous ambivert who loves the outdoors, all things creative, and telling the stories of Mineral Wells. In addition to being the Director of Tourism in Mineral Wells, she’s also a painter and a writer and Christian communicator for Beneath The Fig Tree.
She’s combined the practice of journal-keeping with creative expression to cultivate what she calls creative journaling and is excited to share it with you.

Creative Journaling for Mindfulness & Reflection

Journaling doesn’t have to be about just words. And it doesn’t have to be used just to record your thoughts at the end of the day.
Creative Journaling combines the art of journal-keeping with various methods of creativity to help you slow your mind and make space for mindfulness and reflection. Journaling gives a voice to your thoughts and ideas and adding creative elements allows you to process your thoughts from the left side of your brain where creative solutions, dreaming, and strategy comes from.

Participants will receive a journal and supplies.

Carla Hay-Perdue
DNP, APRN, FNP, ANP- BC NC-BC

Carla Hay-Perdue obtained her Adult and Family Nurse Practitioner training from the University of Texas in Arlington and operated the Palo Pinto Rural Health Clinic in Gordon Texas for 25 years. Her master’s thesis was utilizing the Relaxation Response to Decrease the incidence of Chronic Stable Angina. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Texas Tech University in 2016. Through this program she was introduced to lifestyle medicine and achieved her Integrative Nurse Coach Certification. She later received recognition as a Three Principal Practitioner and uses this paradigm to decrease stress. Carla, a native of Mineral Wells, works as a nurse coach, health and wellness educator, and Family Nurse Practitioner for Palo Pinto General Hospital.

The Three Principles of Resilience

The stress response is important in keeping us safe from danger. It is designed to be activated for up to 30 minutes every 2-3 days. We however, live in a culture of chronic stress where the stress response is activated all the time. Chronic stress reactions can take a toll on our psychology and our physiology. In this program Dr. Carla Hay Perdue will guide the participants in exploring the three principle paradigm that leads to resilience. We will also explore how this awareness can lead to a quieter mind and decreased the feelings of stress.

Bridgette Goldstein

Bridgette Goldstein, co-owner of The Unicorn's Garden, is a Spiritual Director, Intuitive Reader, Crystal Reiki Master, and Energy Healer. Bridgette is also the creator and owner of Arid Spirit.

Contemplative Walk

Labyrinths have been around for thousands of years. Often mistaken for mazes, designed to trap and confuse, a labyrinth's purpose is to calm and clarify. They achieve this by having only one path, one way in and one way out.

Bridgette will lead a guided contemplative walk through the newly built Clark Gardens labyrinth to clear your mind and recharge your soul.

Jane Baldwin

As a life coach and speaker, Jane Baldwin draws on over 20 years of experience teaching yoga, breathwork, meditation, and Ayurvedic cooking. As a wellness entrepreneur, Jane co-created the first art ranch and retreat center in Texas, in Mineral Wells. Previously she worked as a Maya archaeologist in Belize and Mexico
Jane is the founder of The Unwinding Compass, a research-based system for clearing mental clutter, relieving tension from the body, counteracting stress, and discovering what matters most to you. She works with clients in various fields, including healthcare workers, psychologists, military personnel, creatives, chronic over-thinkers, and patients in the healing stage of their wellness journey.

Class Description

Mental clutter builds up when we don’t have a simple way to remember how to access a clear mind. In this session, you will learn how thinking became so prominent and gained such popularity that it has become the driving force of all our actions. Then you’ll get to experience a way to clear mental clutter in an instant so that you can start to focus on what matters most to you.

Krista Sanders

Krista specializes in teaching people how to regulate and heal their nervous systems by combining ancient yogic movements and breaths with functional movement training that targets the physical and energetic bodies. Unlocking stuck energy in the body with breath and movement is where the healing begins increasing our capacity to handle the inevitable ups and downs of life as we learn to speak the language of the body again. Krista gently guides her students through the ups and downs that come with healing by providing tailored physical practices, prayers, meditations and spiritual guidance that comes from a place of love for the soul and wanting to be expressed through the body/bodies she's working with. Krista teaches group and 1:1 classes in Mineral Wells where she lives full time.

Class Description

Join Krista for an embodied yoga practice that focuses on cultivating the felt sense in the body by focusing on accessible functional movement. Dig in and tap into the innate intelligence present in the body through connecting breath and movement. We will end the practice with a 15 minute sound bath. This yoga practice is accessible to all body types and experience levels.”

Weather permitting this session will be at one of Clark Gardens water-side outdoor, covered pavilions.