This is not what you expect
This is Different
You know the feeling. You leave the retreat transformed. You feel it in your body — the spaciousness, the clarity, the quiet certainty of who you are.
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And then life reassembles itself around you. The roles. The responsibilities. The relentless doing. And within weeks — sometimes days — the retreat becomes a beautiful memory rather than a lived reality.
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This is not that!
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An Evergreen Table Retreat is not designed to give you an experience you leave behind. It is designed to awaken something in you that you take home — and keep living.
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Every moment is curated not just to be beautiful, but to open a door. A door you can walk back through every single day when you return to your own life.
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The painting you created in a Tuscan studio becomes the art class you join at home. The meal you cooked at the market becomes the way you nourish yourself every Sunday. The sunset you watched over the rolling hills with a glass of wine becomes your permission — finally — to slow down.
You do not leave the retreat behind.
You bring it home with you.
Imagine This
Close your eyes for a moment
It is late afternoon in Tuscany. The sun is beginning its descent over the rolling hills — that particular golden light that makes everything feel like a painting. You have just returned from the morning market — your arms full of things you chose slowly, deliberately, for the pleasure of it. The kitchen is warm and fragrant. Six women move around each other with the easy grace of women who have stopped performing and started belonging. Someone is laughing. Someone is quietly painting in the corner. The wine is poured. The table is being set. And you realise — somewhere between the market and the kitchen and this particular light — that this is what you have been longing for. Not a holiday. Not a break. This. The pleasure of your own company. The joy of being known. The particular satisfaction of a life being lived on your own terms.
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This is what we are building at Evergreen Table.
The retreat journey
Your path to coming home to yourself
From the moment of initial inquiry to your arrival at the sanctuary, every step is curated to align your design with your ambition.
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The Table
Every morning begins at the market. Not a tour. An experience. Touching, tasting, choosing — learning to move through beauty slowly and with intention. Then returning to cook together. To share. To nourish each other the way women were designed to do — around a table, without rush, without agenda.
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the fashion
We explore what you wear as an act of self-knowing. Not shopping — discovering. Your Human Design reveals how you are designed to present yourself to the world, and here, in beautiful boutiques and local markets, you get to try on the woman you are becoming. Literally.
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the art
A resident artist joins us for the retreat. Not to teach you technique — to help you remember that you are a woman who creates. Whatever form that takes for you. Painting, drawing, writing, making. You leave not just with a piece you created — but with the knowledge of where your local gallery is, what classes you will join, how you will keep this part of yourself alive when you return home.
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the human design thread
Woven through every experience — not as a workshop, not as a lecture — is your blueprint. We sit together in the evenings, wine in hand, and we talk about what the day revealed. About your authority and how it showed up at the market. About your type and how it felt to move through the city. About the conditioning you have been carrying — and what it felt like, today, to put it down. Each woman leaves with a deeper, lived understanding of her design than any chart reading alone could give her.
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the culture
We move through the destination the way locals do. Slowly. Curiously. We visit galleries and markets, piazzas and hidden streets. We sit in old churches and beautiful restaurants. We let history remind us that a slower pace of life is not laziness — it is wisdom. And we bring that wisdom home.
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the friendships
Six women arrive as strangers. They leave as something rarer — women who have seen each other truly. Who have cooked together, created together, laughed and cried and watched the sunset together. These are not networking connections. These are the friendships you did not expect to make — and cannot imagine your life without.
THE INNER WORK
Understanding yourself is where living authentically begins
Within the retreat we create dedicated time — unhurried and intimate — to go deeper into your Human Design blueprint.
Not theory. Not overwhelm. Just the things that matter most for a woman standing at the threshold of her next chapter.
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Your Blueprint
What your Human Design chart is actually telling you — in plain language, with practical application. Your type, your authority, your profile. The operating manual you were never given.
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Nourish from the Inside Out
What does your design say about how you need to eat, rest, move and restore? For many women this single session changes everything about how they have been treating their bodies.
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Your Best Environment
Where does your design say you thrive? What environments drain you and which ones light you up? Understanding this one thing can transform your home, your workspace and your daily life completely.
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Meeting Your Inner Authority
How does your body make decisions? How do you know what is a yes and what is a no — not from your mind, but from something deeper and more reliable? This is the session that women say they carry with them for the rest of their lives.
This retreat is for you if...
is this calling you?
— You have done the inner work — and you are ready to start living it
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— You have always dreamed of Italy — and you have never quite given yourself permission
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— You are travelling somewhere beautiful for the first time alone — and you want to do it in the company of women who understand
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— You have spent decades feeding and nourishing everyone else — and you are ready to be nourished
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— You crave beauty, depth and experiences that go beyond the surface
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— You want to come home changed — not just rested
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— You are done waiting for life to feel like yours
You do not need to know anything about Human Design to come. You just need to be ready.
where are we going?
Italy first. The world is next
Our first retreats will be held in Italy, a country that has always understood the art of living well. Of slowness. Of pleasure taken seriously. Of beauty as a daily practice rather than a luxury.
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Tuscany, with its rolling hills and ancient kitchens and the particular quality of light in the late afternoon, feels like the natural home of everything Evergreen Table stands for.
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Future retreats will take us further, to other corners of Europe and beyond. Each destination chosen not for its convenience but for what it awakens.
The exact locations, dates and details are revealed to waitlist members first.
A note from Shanely
I have been to many different types of retreats. And I have come home from all of them feeling, for a moment, like a different woman. And then life came back. And the noise came back. And the woman I had become at the retreat slowly, quietly, disappeared back into the woman I had always been.
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I created these retreats because I wanted something different. Not an experience I would leave behind. An experience I would carry home, in my body, in my hands, in the friendships I made, in the piece of art on my wall, in the way I now cook on Sunday afternoons.
I wanted Italy. I wanted a table. I wanted six women who would see each other truly. I wanted to learn something, not about Human Design from a slide presentation, but about myself, through the particular experience of being somewhere beautiful and being completely, finally, free.
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​If you are reading this and something in you is saying yes, trust that.​
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That is your inner authority speaking.​
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There is a seat at this table with your name on it.​
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With so much love, Shanely xo
THE PROCESSÂ
Intimate by design.
Personal from the very first contact.
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Join the Waitlist
Add your name and email. No commitment required. You will be the first to know about dates, destinations and details — and you will be personally invited into the conversation as we shape what this experience will become.
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Personal Conversation
Shanely will reach out personally to every woman on the waitlist. This is not an automated sequence. It is a real conversation — to understand where you are, what you are longing for, and whether this retreat is right for you at this moment in your life.
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Your Blueprint Preparation
Once confirmed, your Human Design Blueprint Session takes place before the retreat begins. You arrive already knowing yourself — which means every experience lands deeper and more personally.
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You Arrive
Five days. Six women. One destination. And the beginning of a chapter you will not want to leave behind — because this time, you are taking it home with you.