Fundamental Elemental
A Nature-Based Retreat Experience
August 9–10, 2025
Hosted at The REED Center in collaboration with:
Integrative Wellness Management
A Retreat to Remember What You Already Know
This August, The REED Center is honored to host the Fundamental Elemental Retreat—a two-day, nature-rooted experience designed to help participants reconnect with the elemental forces that shape life and healing: earth, fire, water, air, and spirit.
Organized and facilitated by Integrative Wellness Management (IWM), this retreat offers a spacious, trauma-informed environment for movement, creativity, ritual, and rest. Workshops are designed with flexibility in mind, allowing each participant to choose their own rhythm across the weekend.
"This is more than a retreat—it’s a remembering."
About the Land
The REED Center exists to reconnect humans with the brilliance of nature. Our demonstration site, Morning View Food Forest, is a living classroom—an evolving, regenerative ecosystem designed to hold space for learning, healing, and reintegration.
We are proud to host this gathering on land that invites stillness, reflection, and reconnection.
Featured Talk: Water Wisdom with Ben Friton
(Time TBA)
As part of the weekend’s offerings, TRC founder and soil ecologist Ben Friton will share reflections on water as a connective force in ecosystems and communities. Drawing from years of land-based practice and ecological restoration work at The REED Center, Ben will explore how human land use disrupts the natural hydrologic cycle—and what we can do to restore it.
This session will weave together indigenous stewardship principles, ecological design, and simple, nature-based strategies that help heal water systems from the ground up.
Whether you work with land, care for community, or simply want to understand how water shapes life, this is an invitation to reconnect with water as a living system—sacred, intelligent, and essential to resilience.
Learn More & Register
This event is organized by Integrative Wellness Management. To see full retreat details, pricing tiers, and registration options, visit their official event page:
