The Art of Plants & Bathing
The Art of Plants & Bathing RetreatThursday, December 10th- Sunday 13th, 2026
Plymouth, Vermont
The Art of Plants & Bathing was created to offer an intentional pause in between the holiday season. We will root ourselves for 4 days and 3 nights in the green mountains of Vermont to explore the connection between botanical art, plant meditation, and bathing rituals.
We are inviting guests to slow down, re-member and re-connect with nature through both artistic expression and embodied practice in community.
There are no skills or previous experience required. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to show exactly where they are.
This is an inclusive retreat for women from all walks of life, including transgender women and nonbinary folks.
Capacity: 20 people
An intentional pause to fill up your cup in between the holidays
Botanical Painting
Bathing Ritual
Plant Meditations
The Experience
We will sit in meditation with non-psychoactive plant allies, creating space to slow down, listen, and deepen our relationship with them through stillness and presence. In doing so, we open ourselves to a deeper awareness and connection with the natural world.
The same plants will accompany us into our art sessions; not only as subjects to observe, but as sources of inspiration and creativity. We will explore their shapes, textures, patterns, and the remarkable creative intelligence found within the natural world.
We will immerse ourselves in a full session at a forest bathhouse, moving through bathing rituals that include sauna, hot tub, and cold plunge.
We will share nourishing food prepared with care by two incredible chefs, using local ingredients as another way of connecting with place.
And throughout the retreat, we will listen to our bodies and souls, allowing ourselves to rest, slow down, and simply be.
Blending creativity, contemplation, and ritual, The Art of Plants & Bathing is an invitation to experience nature not as something separate from ourselves, but as something we can create with, meditate beside, and immerse ourselves within.
creativity, contemplation, and ritual.
creativity, contemplation, and ritual.
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Plant Meditation/Movement
Breakfast
Art Session
Lunch
Free Time
Forest Bathhouse Session at Outsi
Dinner
Candelight Journaling and Wind-Down -
Lodging at Good Commons for 4 days, 3 nights
All daily meals (local & seasonal)
Guided plant meditations
Drawing and painting sessions
Forest Bathhouse Session at Outsi (Sauna, Hot Tub and Cold plunge)
Yoga Practice
All art supplies
Ample time for rest & reflection
Transportation from Train station to Good Commons (1 pick-up from Rutland, VT; time TBD)
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Transportation to and from retreat.
If you don’t have a car to get to Good Commons, you have to arrange your own transportation to Rutland, VT. We can pick you up from there.
Acomodations:
Good Commons
Nestled in Vermont’s Green Mountains, Good Commons offers an essential resource; space.
A gathering place for groups and small retreats, Good Commons provides visitors with vital space to empower, heal, and nourish both mind and body.
At 4,700-square feet, this lofty beauty sleeps 20 in 6 separate bedrooms and a sleep loft.
Sleeping Loft
A cathedral-ceiling loft that sleeps 9 people, each in their own bed (8 twins, 1 full). Our sleeping loft is the slumber party room, where you’ll get to process and share the retreat’s experiences together and be in proximity to one another as we used to in sleepovers when we were kids.
$1,025Shared Bedrooms
(for two)
We have 5 shared bedrooms, each with 2 beds. Bring a friend and share the room or make a new friend in the retreat! Most shared rooms have 1 twin and 1 full bed, we will do first-come, first-served at sign-up.
(Price is per person)
(2 rooms left)
$1,195Private Bedroom
One single occupancy private room with a full bed available. For the one needing some space to be alone during our retreat, or a couple who wants to share the same bed.
Shared bathroom facilities.
(Price is per person)
(Sold Out)
$1,425Vermont Commuter
If you live in the area and prefer to stay at home, you can join us as a commuter. This includes all the retreat and meals minus accommodations.
(3 spots left)
$650Meet Your Guides
Maribel Araujo
Maribel is originally from Venezuela and has called New York City home since 2001. In 2003, she opened Caracas Arepa Bar, a project that became a way of connecting people to Venezuelan culture through food and gathering.
A deep desire to meet the natural allies around her led Maribel to herbalism, where she has been studying under The Wise Women Tradition of Healing.
In 2025, she co-founded Outsi Forest Bathhouse in Vermont with Andrew, exploring a more intimate relationship with nature through bathing, nourishing food, and time outdoors. She is particularly interested in how plants, food, art, ritual, and time in nature can help us remember that we are not separate from nature, but part of the Earth Mother.
Caro Arévalo
Caro is a Peruvian visual artist based in Upstate, NY. Her artwork explores the biology, folk stories and energetics of plants and fungi. Caro’s creative process entails research in nature, photographing under microscopes, learning ancestral wisdom and developing paintings to portray the natural world.
Caro embraces the interconnectedness of all beings and the significance of indigenous knowledge in deepening our connection with nature and ourselves. She invites us to cultivate creative alignment and love for Earth.
Chef: Tesha Buss
Tesha Buss purchased Good Commons 20 years ago with a dream of creating a welcoming place where people could gather around good food. Raised by parents who owned and operated a restaurant for 38 years, Tesha learned early that food has the power to connect us to memories, emotions, and one another.
After learning from talented chefs throughout the Northeast, she developed a cooking style that combines familiar comfort with a touch of the unexpected. For the past 11 years, Tesha and her assistant, Marissa, have prepared every meal with care and hospitality.
Tesha believes the kitchen is the heart of the home and the harvest table a place to share stories, make connections, and enjoy good food. As she likes to say, “All the world’s problems are solved in a kitchen.”
Chef & Fire Tender: Andrew Field
Andrew Field is a New York City native who has been immersed in hospitality since the age of 16. In 2008, he opened Tacoway Beach in Rockaway Beach, NYC, helping shape the neighborhood’s vibrant food culture.
An intuitive and highly skilled cook, Andrew has a deep understanding of how to bring out the most delicious and nourishing qualities of each ingredient, guided as much by instinct and attentiveness as by technique.
In 2025, he co-founded Outsi Forest Bathhouse in Vermont with Maribel, designing and building a space where hospitality meets the natural world through respecting and tending to the elements.
Guest Yoga Instructor:
Roxy Caicedo
Roxy is a 500-hour certified yoga instructor. She cultivates a nurturing, intentional, and inclusive space where practitioners of all levels can explore breath awareness, build mental clarity, shed the excess, and celebrate their raw authenticity.
With over a decade of training and experience, Roxy offers an alignment-based practice focused on breath expansion. Her teaching style integrates flexibility, strength, presence, and ease —guiding students on a meaningful and lasting yoga journey.
Apply
A non-refundable $250 deposit is required to reserve your spot and room.
Monthly payment plans that suit your needs the best will be available after the deposit has been received
* Early Bird Discount: $50 off if you pay your deposit by Sept. 12th
* Serious applications only, please.
Applicants must be 21 years of age or older or otherwise, accompanied by an adult
*If paying with PayPal internationally, a surcharge of 8% will be added
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any other questions, please feel free to email us at:
info@carolina-arevalo.com
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Women of all walks of life welcome! This retreat is for the nature lovers, the seekers, the adventurous hearts, the artists, the ones seeking a deeper connection to self, nature and likeminded beings. For the ones thirsty for a slower life, the wild ones, for those needing a space to share joy, for the aching heart looking to do kintsugi with oneself and the world.
*Applicants must be 21 years of age or older or otherwise, accompanied by an adult -
No! As much as we would like everyone to be in all classes, you are welcome and encouraged to do what feels right for you, even if that includes skipping one or two activities to sleep longer, stay in your cozy room with your friends or take a nap. This space is for you and you are welcome to do what feels best.
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Bathing has long been a sacred practice; a place for community, connection, and transformation. Across many cultures, saunas, sweat lodges, and other forms of ritual bathing have been spaces where people gathered to surrender, grieve, heal, give birth, celebrate, and mark important transitions in life.
In this retreat, we will explore bathing as a ritual of connection with ourselves, with one another, and with the natural world. We will move through heat, water, cold, and rest; spending time in the sauna, immersing ourselves in the hot tub, and awakening the body through cold plunging. Each transition invites us to listen more deeply to our bodies and to surrender to the experience. Rather than simply moving between temperatures, we will approach bathing as a practice of awareness, allowing the elements to support us in releasing, renewing, and returning to ourselves.
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This is a guided meditation inviting you to develop a deeper relationship with a plant ally through direct experience. You may connect with the plant by drinking it, smelling it, holding a part of it, or simply sitting in its presence.
Through stillness and guided awareness, we create space to listen and become receptive to what the plant may offer. As the relationship deepens, you may begin to discover its gifts, qualities, and teachings, receive insights or messages, and experience the plant as a source of connection and healing.
This is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and enter into a relationship with the living world around us.
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Every level of experience is welcome and we will meet you there. We will go through basics for drawing and painting so beginners welcome too.
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We are offering two full scholarship in exchange of work/trade. These positions have already been filled.
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Yes. A non-refundable $250 deposit is required to reserve your spot and room. Monthly payment plans that suit your needs the best will be available after the deposit has been received. We will contact you after receiving the deposit in order to work out the details to attend your needs. Full balance is due by Nov. 15th.
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Unfortunately, not on this opportunity.
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Unfortunately, not on this opportunity.
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The International Burlington, Vermont Airport. From here, you can either rent a car to the retreat (around 2hr drive) or take the train to Ruthland, VT where we will be doing 1 pick up (time for pickup TBD)
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All payments made toward the Retreat are non-refundable. However, in the event that you are unable to attend, the Providers will retain $750 as a non-refundable portion of your payment, and any remaining balance may be eligible for transfer to a future retreat or another participant.
We strongly recommend purchasing travel insurance to protect your investment in case of unexpected emergencies