The Peace Offering Retreats

Heal Yourself, Heal the Earth.

Meet Your Retreat Facilitators

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Laura Patterson

Founder— Regenerative Farming & Cooking Instructor

Laura is a healer, farmer, chef, yoga instructor, and runs a healing arts studio in Truckee, CA. She runs two separate organic and biodynamic orchards and vegetable, herb, and plant medicine gardens. She teaches classes about cooking and using food as medicine. She teaches the importance of using fresh and thoughtfully grown produce, and supporting farms that use regenerative agriculture. On her two farms she hosts retreats, cooks all the food for the retreats, and teaches farming and cooking classes. She teaches to grow food and cook in a way that is healing for the earth and healing for our bodies. All her produce is intentionally grown to be medicine. She is a part of the process through the whole life cycle, living in harmony with the earth and cooking with love.

Laura believes in eating the rainbow, being thoughtful, and giving thanks, knowing that everything comes from the earth. She believes the key component to health is growing, harvesting, cooking and eating in gratitude, so the food we eat can be healing and fill us with love.

“Allow the food you eat to be healing and fill you with love.”

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Jonathan Rickert

Program Director — Yoga, Breathwork, & Meditation Facilitator

Jonathan has been practicing and teaching Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork in many forms for over 20 years beginning with a degree focus on Yogic Arts from the University of Rochester under the tutelage of Dr. Douglas Brooks and Dr. Paul Muller-Ortega in 1999.

In the following years, he was trained in Neuromeditation, Open Focus, Ayurveda and Mindfulness. He incorporates Neurofeedback, Biofeedback and EPI (electro-photonic imaging) with private clients to personalize lifestyle, meditation and yogic practices.

He is currently teaching and consulting on Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork and Biofield Health through Yoga Alliance certified Teacher Trainings.

“Tap into the power of your body & breath to cultivate greater harmony in your life.”

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