WHAT WE'LL DO!:
Pop-up Song Circles and Jams. Learn new songs, make new friends, and have the time of your life making music, music, music with other women. Just us gals.
Pop-up Lessons with Lisa. Got a question? Need some help with a particular skill? Just ask!
Nightly Grand-Slam Jams: Big group play-along, with all-woman professional back-up band! Spacious Sanctuary with mind-blowing acoustics, overlooking rolling hills and mountains. Easy-to-play, super-fun songbook provided for all.
Gentle Restorative Movement for Musicians (chair-option). Led by Erica Zinter, this will be a gentle practice of Essentrics. combining yoga, dance, tai chi, mindful breathing, and gentle stretches that support strength and flexibility. Open up, expand, relax, and connect with your music-making muscles, breath, and energy channels.
Gateless Writing: Engage in dialogue with your tender, precious musical-self in a loving supportive space, through guided journal-writing exercises.
Sacred Ukulele Sunday Morning Circle: Discover the simple and perfect magic of a mystical 5-note sequence, rooted in Sacred Geometry, and found in melodic sacred music in every human culture across time. Create prayerful meditative music with ease and grace, and experience a profound connection with the timeless mystical spirit of music.
Song-Swaps: bring copies of a favorite song, and watch it spring to life in a group jam!
Open Mic: Share a song, or play a duet with a friend - for the most supportive appreciative audience you can imagine!
YOU-Time: Rest and relax deeply. Play music to your heart’s content, with all the time and space in the world. Wander the meadows, explore the forest. Kick off your shoes and let your hair down. Cozy up out on the screen porch to read, or write in your journal. Drift and dream in a spectacular country retreat on a sweet New England autumn weekend.
Interactive Workshop/Classes with Lisa: Lisa shares her signature transformative philosophy, process, and techniques of music-making - interconnecting self and music in a circular, paradigm-shifting approach, called Note2Self.
Ukulele Petting Zoo: Variety of Ukuleles for you to try out. Explore different sizes and styles. Fun!
Lovingly Home-Cooked Vegetarian Meals, made with local, organic, and homegrown ingredients. Plentiful healthy delicious options, including gluten-free, dairy-free, and vegan.
Spectacular Natural Surroundings at the height of New England's famous peak foliage-color season. Walk, meditate, explore, indulge.
WHEN?: Fri., Oct 17, 4:00 p.m., through Sun. Oct. 19, 2:00 p.m.
WHERE? Hallelujah Farm Spiritual Retreat Center, West Chesterfield, N.H. 10 Minutes from Brattleboro, VT, and Interstate 91 Exit 3.
Flying in? Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Hartford, CT is about 1 hour + 20 minutes easy drive to the Retreat, straight up I-91.
 
ACCOMODATIONS:
Double-Occupancy Rooms: Think Zen-Summer-Camp. Lovely simple country bedrooms with 2 single beds, a writing desk, and a sink in the room. Shared bathrooms.
Private Room Upgrade (very limited) Enjoy the luxury of privacy and space to yourself. This upgrade offers a restful solo retreat experience—perfect for those who crave quiet, reflection, and a room of one’s own. Limited availability.
Commuter Option: Come to all activities and meals, Friday-Sunday, yet stay overnight offsite. This could be at your home, or a hotel room or Airbnb in or around Brattleboro, VT, or Keene, NH. Some local participants may be able to offer up a guest room - email Lisa to inquire.
Saturday-Only: Come for 3 meals, a full day of activities, and a Grand Slam Jam after supper in the Sanctuary.
Grand-Slam Evening Jams Only: Friday and/or Saturday night, 7:30 - 9:00. This enrollment option is not yet open until we determine capacity - but just so ya know - it will be an option and I will let you know when it opens up for enrollment.
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Accessibility:
The Main Building, with the Sanctuary, Kitchen and Dining Room, Rest Rooms, Screen Porch, and many little 'tuck-away' rooms for practicing by yourself or with a friend - are handicap accessible.
The bedrooms all involve some stairs. If you need stair-free lodging, let's look into renting a local accessible hotel room and you opting for the Commuter Option. Email me and I'll help you.
ALL-IN ENROLLMENT for UkuleleYOU Women's Retreat
Oct. 17-19, 2025.
2 overnights, 6 meals.
Shared Room. $750.
($75 non-refundable deposit required)
Private Room Upgrade Total: $950
Enjoy the luxury of privacy and space to yourself. This upgrade offers a restful solo retreat experience—perfect for those who crave quiet, reflection, and a room of one’s own. Limited availability.
COMMUTER ENROLLMENT for UkuleleYOU Women's Retreat
Oct. 18-20, 2024.
All activities, plus 6 meals. $640.
($75 non-refundable deposit required)
SATURDAY- ONLY ENROLLMENT for UkuleleYOU Women's Retreat
Oct. 19, 2024, all day.
All activities, plus 3 meals.
$260.
($75 non-refundable deposit required)
Be sure to fill in your name and email address below, and press the 'Submit' button, so your registration comes through.
Please scroll down to read the Cancellation Policies,
and Liability Waiver.
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CANCELLATION POLICY:
The cancellation policy below is designed to protect retreat leaders, our hosts, caterers, other service-providers, and all retreat attendees.
Please note that there will be no refunds or discounts for arriving late, leaving early, travel delays or illness. If you cancel your participation in the Retreat for any reason, the cancellation policy below will apply, with no exceptions.
We wish we could compensate people for unforeseen circumstances, but we have already incurred expenses that once paid out, we cannot refund.
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All deposits are non-refundable.
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Balance due in full by September 12, 2025.
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50% Balance (not incl. deposit) will be refunded for cancellation 30 days before event (by Sept.17, 2025).
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Sorry we are not able to refund your payments if cancellation is less than 30 days before the event.
LIABILITY WAIVER: Assumption of Risk
I acknowledge that I have voluntarily enrolled to participate in this retreat. In consideration of Blue Sky Project, LLP, allowing me to participate in the 2025 UkuleleYOU Women's Retreat, I agree to this release of claims, waiver of liability and assumption of risks. On behalf of myself, my heirs, executors, successors, administrators and any other person who may have an interest at common law or by operation of statute, I hereby waive any and all claims I or such parties may have now or in the future. I release from liability Blue Sky Project, LLP, and any teachers, employees, guides, agents or representatives (“the releasees”) for any personal injury, death, property damage or loss or any nature suffered by me as a result of participation in any activity on the retreat. I release from liability Blue Sky Project, LLP, for any cause whatsoever including those arising out of, or in any way connected to or occasioned by the negligence of the releasees.
If the Retreat is Unexpectedly Cancelled:
While we have never cancelled a Retreat to date, if the Retreat must be unexpectedly cancelled by Blue Sky Project, LLP, for any reason, you may transfer your full retreat payment to another future Retreat, or you may request a refund of your payment to us, constituting a full settlement.
Blue Sky Project, LLP, is not responsible for your expenses incurred in preparation for any cancelled retreat, such as airline tickets, loss of work, and/or other costs associated with preparing for your trip.
What is Blue Sky Project?
Blue Sky Project is a limited liability partnership
founded by Lisa McCormick and Julian McBrowne.
Our mission is to produce joyful interactive participatory musical events.
The UkuleleYOU Women's Retreats,
the Ukulele Island Retreats, and the Ukulele River Boat Cruises
are produced by Blue Sky Project, LLP.
If you pay by credit card, Blue Sky Project will show up in your records
as the recipient of your payment.
If you choose to pay by check, please make the check out to Blue Sky Project, LLP.
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