Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.
August 15th – SOLD OUT
August 18th – NOW OPEN
Your Safe Harbor Retreat being offered by popular demand on
Friday, August 15th and Monday, August 18th
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Essex Island Marina, Essex, CT
Get ready to embark on a one-of-a-kind journey to a summer mini-retreat – on a private island – designed to help you release what weighs you down.
Call in the powerful woman you’re meant to be.
Breathe in river breezes, connect with soul-nourishing sisterhood, and enjoy a radiant day of sacred pause from the noise of everyday life. Give yourself the chance to float away . . . discover emotional freedom, awaken your inner feminine strength, and ride calmly on a new current into your next chapter.
Leave our Diamond Sisters Circle feeling renewed . . . anchored, vibrant, and ready for whatever comes next.
Sign-up HERE for Monday, August 18th registration & participation.*
For less than a spa day, gift yourself a full body-mind-soul reset with practices you’ll take home for lasting calm and confidence.
Space is limited.
If life’s waters have felt turbulent and your voice unheard, and you’re ready to stop paddling upstream
and start moving forward with more ease and trust, this is your day to:
Cast Off Regrets. Forgive. Feel Anchored.
with Erika Dworkin, BCHN
Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.
Mary Engelbreit
In this restorative, real-talk session, you’ll gently release resentment, guilt, and self-blame – those invisible stressors that hijack your health, hormones, sleep, and joy. Through guided journaling, symbolic ritual, and soothing wellness tools, you’ll leave feeling lighter, emotionally grounded, and anchored in your mind-body-soul healing.
The past is gone and can’t be changed.
It’s time to forgive and let go.
From Silent to Seen: Clearing Your Voice Into Power
with Jacqueline M. Kane Master Energy Healer & Lower Back Pain Specialist
Ready to stop shrinking and start speaking up? This energizing session will clear the blocks in your throat chakra so your words—and your truth—can finally flow freely. You’ll release inherited energetic patterns, claim your right to be seen and heard, and walk away with renewed clarity and confidence.
“This is where silence ends and your power begins.”
WATER CURE: An Ancient Holistic Healing Practice
with Melissa Wooldridge Breton, APRN
You are invited to immerse yourself in Water Cure—a sacred feminine gathering along the banks of the Connecticut River – a ritual experience. Across ancient civilizations, women have turned to water as a source if intuition, spiritual hydration, and divine connection. Aligning with the rhythmic cycle of moon and tide we will explore Water Cure—honoring the natural element, its living spirit, and powerful archetype of fluidity, depth, rising, re-birth, and shape-shifting change. Tap into Water Cure as a life force, medicine, purification, renewal and symbolic anchoring of your heart-mind-body-soul.
“Nature alone cures… What nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon {her}.”
— Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing (1859)
Same amazing Your Safe Harbor Essex Island retreat experience 2 different date offerings!*
10am – 4:30pm
Retreat Starts Promptly: 10:45am
Check-In: 10-1030am
Retreat Starts Promptly at 10:45am
1st Session: 11am-12pm
Lunch 12:15-1:15pm
2nd Session: 1:30-2:30pm
3rd Session: 2:45-3:45
Resetting Our New Direction: 4-430:
For no additional charge, as Erika’s guest, you are welcome to enjoy
the marina premises, pool, and fire pits into the evening.**
Please text her at 202-270-5612 to reserve your after-hours spot.
Guiding your journey to peace, power, and vibrant health.
Jacqueline Kane, Master Energy Healer & Low Back Pain Specialist, is on a mission to show people how they can get healthy, stay healthy and take control of their health for good. Jacqueline specializes in identifying, solving and removing physical and emotional pain that keeps you from living a full, vital life.
Jacqueline works with busy moms, professionals and individuals who are experiencing low back pain, chronic physical and/or emotional ailments, especially those with a general feeling that “something isn’t right,” chasing the elusive cure. Her proven Healthy, Wealthy System gets you out of physical and emotional pain once and for all so that you heal and finally get the relief you’ve been chasing.
She holds a multitude of certifications and awards including Radiologic Technologist, Licensed Massage Therapist, Past Life Regression Specialist, a Certified Bowenwork® Practitioner, a Tapping into Wealth Certified Coach, and an Evolutionary Meditation Facilitator.
When she’s not serving her clients, Jacqueline is either vacationing at the beach, vibing with music, spending time with her grandson, or beating her husband at golf.
I’m a mom living with intense pain 4-5 days a week wondering just how long I could make it. I missed out on activities with my daughters causing guilt that I wasn’t as good a mother as I wanted to be. Now I’m walking better, doing more activities, feeling less guilt spending time with friends because I’m doing more when I’m with my daughters. I’m taking better care of my self and now my whole family is happy because ‘mom is happy’.
-Kerry K.
Erika Dworkin is national Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition®, and an award-winning Dietary Supplements Specialist, Intuitive Wellness Guide, and best-selling author. She has a lifetime in both the natural and traditional Western medicine arenas and owned a highly trusted nutrition center that operated in Connecticut for 65 years.
She is passionate about helping others, especially those in midlife, find their power within to enhance their vitality and increase their longevity. Over the past 15 years, she did this for thousands by addressing both the symptoms and underlying causes of diverse health issues, including stress, fatigue, anxiety, depression, weight management, insomnia, hormonal imbalances, brain aging, inflammation, bone/muscle/joint challenges, digestive issues, and cardiovascular concerns. Her comprehensive, personalized, evidence-based regimens allow your body to heal itself through diet modification, dietary supplements, and other lifestyle changes and time-honored tools.
When you work with Erika, she listens intently, researches thoroughly, and seeks with an open mind until she discovers innovative answers that deliver results.
Erika . . . helped to come up with a plan of diet [and] nutritional supplements that worked for all of my issues. If you need guidance with any health issues, living healthfully, and with prevention, Erika is the person to go to. She will take her time, listen to you . . . and will come up with a detailed plan on how to achieve it.
– Eva M.
“I hope you saw the eclipse of the moon”
Florence Nightingale, 1826
As a Holistic Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Holistic Nurse, and Integrative Nurse Coach, and Owner/Founder of ECLIPSE Holistic Living, Melissa Wooldridge Breton considers herself a 21st-century Nightingale dedicated to living her soul’s purpose and calling of being a Nurse.
With a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of the human spirit and a deep knowledge of holistic alternative and complementary healing modalities Melissa masterfully blends the art and science of Integrative Nursing into a co-creative, intentional, human caring experience and relationship with you! In covenant with you a reciprocal healing-growth environment leads to guided journey of exploration, discovery, remembering, a expansion, and embodying whole-becoming with meaning and purpose.
Melissa welcomes individuals, groups as well as local artists, providers, practitioners, performers, luminaries and light seekers to collaborate with.
Melissa’s authentic presence, compassion, and willingness to meet you wherever you are in the totality of your life honors your unique experiences and your personal story.
Melissa’s Mission: Inspiring you to let go of that which no longer serves you and embrace the magic and mystery of the not yet known, opening your heart-mind-body-soul to the abundant energy and opportunity the Universe has to offer.
Melissa welcomes you to ECLIPSE Holistic Living! You belong here!
Melissa Wooldridge Breton’s Eclipse Holistic Living studio. I am so proud and humbled by the work she is doing to help individuals to improve their lives
through yoga, reiki, sound bowl healing, and so much more. The highlight was watching the impact the sound bowls had on Bruce and feeling the calming
impact they had on me in a few minutes. I can only imagine the impact whole sessions would have on our mental, physical, and spiritual health.
~Happy Client
Attending the Mother’s Day Mini-Escape at Eclipse Holistic Living in Glastonbury was truly a gift to myself. Three amazing women-owned businesses . . . came together to create a deeply relaxing and transformative 5-hour holistic experience, and I was blown away by the care and thought put into every moment. . . . I left feeling lighter, more peaceful, and inspired. . . . It’s something I’ll never forget, and I hope to attend again.
Rejuvenated in a safe place. Restored my well-being while learning new strategies. Stretching, moving, smiling - I forget these easy ideas. Importance of drinking water. Heard lifestyle tips I can implement now. Teacup - a beautiful way to treat myself. Loved creating a healing gift. Letting go of guilt. Such a relief!
38 miles/41m from Hartford, CT
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111 miles/2h 35m from New York, NY
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127 miles/2h 9m from Boston, MA
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The latitude and longitude coordinates (GPS waypoint) of Essex Island Marina
are 41.353432 (North), -72.3853626 (West)
The Griswold Inn
36 Main St, Essex, CT 06426
(860) 767-1776 – Historic Inn
Located a short walk from Essex Island Marina.
Copper Beech Inn
46 Main St, Ivoryton, CT 06442 (860) 767-0330 – Luxury Bed & Breakfast
Water’s Edge Resort & Spa
1525 Boston Post Rd, Westbrook, CT 06498
(860) 399-5901 – Waterfront resort
Quality Inn Old Saybrook – Westbrook
100 Essex Rd, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 (860) 395-1414
Liberty Inn Old Saybrook
55 Springbrook Rd, Old Saybrook, CT 06475 (860) 388-1777H
*All payments are final. No refunds.
**After hours are only permitted on 08/15 and NOT on 08/18. Although we won’t have an after hours cookout/firepit on the 18th, all are welcome to stay and enjoy the grounds and pool…you can bring your own picnic if you’d like.
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