Alisal Ranch Women's Retreat
WILDWONDER™
Wine Tasting, Guest Chef Dinners, Horseback Riding, Yoga & so much more.
2024 Schedule
Wildwonder Retreat Itinerary
Day 1 – Sunday
4:00 pm
Check-in
6:00 pm
Hatband Happy Hour – Join Ashley Hollister of T.W. Hollister and Co., pick out your Lovely Bird hat, and make a custom hat band.
7:00 pm
Welcome Dinner by Alisal Ranch
Day 2 – Monday
7:00-11:00 am
Breakfast at Leisure
9:00 am
Yoga at Alisal Lake with Jasmine Hanson
11:00 am
Lunch Demo with Jeanne Kelley
Free time: Horseback Ride, Ranch Activities, Spa
4:00 pm
Manifesting with Firestone Sisters
Winetasting with Clementine Carter Wines
7:00 pm
Dinner with Chef Heena
Day 3 – Tuesday
7:00 -9:00 am
Breakfast at Leisure
9:00 -11:00 am
Sound Bath followed by Morning tea session with Leaves & Flowers
11:00 am
Lunch at Leisure
6:00 pm
Early Dinner
Rodeo, Line Dancing, and Marketplace
Western Attire encouraged
Day 4 – Wednesday
7:00 – 10:00 am
Breakfast Horseback Ride or Haywagon to Adobe
12:00pm
Check-out and departure
A Unique Experience to Share With...
Trisha Cole
Trisha Cole loves to bring people together. For the last 20 years or so, she has worked with hospitality clients (think food, hotels, travel destinations) to help them garner media coverage, develop partnerships, and create unique guest experiences. Before that, she was in the editorial department at Bon Appétit magazine. Trisha has recently written a book that’s a bit of a memoir, and more than anything a guidebook to good living entitled Life at the Dumpling. Trisha lives with her husband and two daughters in a dumpling of a house on a hill in East Los Angeles.
Women of the West
Jeanne Kelley is an award-winning author of six cookbooks. A food writer, culinary educator and food stylist, she was a contributing editor at Bon Appetit magazine for twenty years. Jeanne is an edible garden expert who specializes in seasonal and sustainable cooking. Her articles have appeared frequently in the Los Angeles Times food section, Fine Cooking and Cooking Light magazines.
Leaves and Flowers is a tea company based in San Francisco, California. Our company celebrates the ancient, intrinsic relationship between humans and plants. Our inspiration comes from the plants themselves – the mythology of their medicine, potent leaves, delicate flowers, and the intoxicating aroma and flavor they release when infused. We keep our ingredients as whole and intact as possible. As they infuse they in essence, re-bloom. Our botanicals and teas are ethically sourced and sustainably harvested, with reverence to the land and farmer.
Leaves and Flowers was founded in 2014 by friends, Anna Morton and Emily Erb, in Berkeley, California.
We are Santa Barbara based sisters who have our own business, Firestone Sisters, Inc. Harnessing Mary’s Master’s degree in Psychology and Lucy’s life coaching skills, we have been producing retreats in luxury settings for over ten years encouraging women to seize their most ecstatic lives by nurturing their minds, bodies, and spirits. Seeing women walk away reinvigorated and connected to their own authentic radiance inspired us to create our own intentional fragrance line.
I approach my work with a lifetime of exquisite flavors, travels and experiences. A journalist by training and now a winemaker by passion, I am regularly inspired to never quit searching for that moment – the instant where it all makes sense. The two professions also continue to challenge me whether through words or wine, to craft timeless stories that are better when shared with others. I have discovered that winemaking and writing are very similar pursuits – the story is in the grapes, the harvest, the people, and the season. Each year is a fresh renewal. My goal today is to create vibrant, balanced and pleasurable wines using the basic ingredients of premium Santa Barbara County fruit, dedication and hard work delivered with impeccable hospitality.
Upon completion of her first yoga teacher training in Santa Ynez, Jasmine embarked on a spiritual journey to India to study the more traditional modes of yoga and yoga training.
Jasmine weaves foundational breathwork throughout her classes, applying ancient wisdom to our contemporary western world in a useful and tangible way. Her goal is to encourage and support growth of the physical and spiritual self; citing the interconnectedness to each other, the world, and the universe.
Jasmine aims to give her students a safe place to befriend their body and reclaim their mind, offering a space to return to again and again by bringing awareness to breath and body.
Heena Patel is the chef and co-owner of Besharam, a regional Gujarati restaurant in San Francisco’s Dogpatch district. Roughly translated to mean “shameless,” Besharam features Heena’s bold interpretation of the flavors and dishes that were prevalent throughout her childhood in India, playfully reimagined within a California context. Since the restaurant’s opening, Heena has received local and national attention for her fearless style including recognition as a James Beard Foundation Awards Best Chef California semifinalist in 2022, and accolades from Eater San Francisco as the Restaurant of the Year in 2019. Most recently, Heena was named the 2024 San Francisco finalist for the first annual Gold Chef Prize Awards, celebrating leading Asian Pacific chefs. At Besharam, Heena offers an experience that is unmistakably hers, while paying homage to her heritage and every chapter that has informed the journey to this moment.
Grounded in my love for wild rugged California coastal botanicals having spent my childhood in Malibu and a shared commitment with my husband to his family’s over century history agriculture in CA, I embraced the challenge of creating a winery focused on products that highlight the native botanicals of the Gaviota Coast- and so was born T.W. Hollister & Co. aperitifs. Guided by our philosophy of using natural and native ingredients, we craft products that echo our values of environmental stewardship.
Our products are distinctly American-made, leveraging superior ingredients grown on our legacy lands to offer not just a drink, but an experience steeped in authenticity and quality.
At our heart- through T.W. Hollister & Co., we are not just preserving a legacy but building a future where each bottle curates a beautiful story worth sharing — a celebration of the past and a toast to the bright future.
When Jaime Haskell became a mother her entire routine change. While she once had time to intentionally select what she would wear, now each morning required a grab ‘n’ go outfit and little time for anything else. Before long, Jaime noticed a gap in the women’s fashion industry as she struggled to find hat’s that would elevate her classic wardrobe of tees and jeans. As a solution , she founded Lovely Bird in 2012. By designing hats that complement the modern woman’s lifestyle and hand finishing accents inspired by her travels, Jaime showers each Lovely Bird hat with the attention and love you deserve, whoever you are, wherever you wear it.
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