Honor the wisdom of your becoming.
This signature Women’s Weekend Retreat reunion is an invitation to slow down and listen—to your body, your breath, and the deeper intelligence shaped by time and lived experience. Together, we gather to honor the cycles we have moved through, the season we stand in now, and the steady unfolding still ahead.
This weekend offers spaciousness for connection, reflection, and ease. Through movement, shared meals, meaningful conversation, time in nature, and moments of simple delight, we celebrate the woman you are and the woman you are becoming: embodied, wise, rooted, and beautifully full of self.
Step away from the pace of daily life and into the grounding rhythm of the mountains for a weekend of self-discovery and renewal. You’ll laugh, soften, relax into being. We’ll embody ways of being that feel sustainable and true—carrying them gently back into your life at home.
Perched above the clouds in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Elohee Retreat Center offers a breathtaking setting to rest, reconnect, and remember yourself. This movement-based, soul-nourishing gathering was created by Shari Fox and Mandy Roberts—longtime friends and women leaders devoted to honoring the depth, clarity, and wholeness that naturally emerge when women give themselves time, space, and trust.
– Nayyirah Waheed
Hearthfire: Women’s Weekend Retreat
with Mandy Roberts and Shari Fox
November 13-15, 2026
Private Mountain Cottage
{private single room w/ king bed & private bath}
– $1289
Shared Mountain Cottage
{shared room w/ 2 twin beds & private bath}
– $1087
Private Mountain Cottage w/ Shared Bath
{private single room w/ twin bed & shared bath}
– $1087
INCLUDED IN PRICE:
Price includes all classes & programming, your selected room, and all meals. *Elohee adds tax upon selection of room type prior to completing registration. Your full price will be displayed prior to checkout.
LOCATION:
Elohee Retreat Center,
North Georgia Mountains
ADDRESS:
251 Elohee Drive
Sautee Nacoochee, GA 30571
CONTACT:
questions@formyoga.com
REGISTRATION INFO:
Registrations are booked through Elohee directly by following the link below. Elohee handles all payments directly through their site. You may choose a payment schedule that works for your budget when you book early. Pricing is listed per person. Please carefully review their cancellation policy prior to registering.
Nightly accommodations, all nutritious and delicious meals beginning with dinner on Friday ending with lunch on Sunday, all planned programming with your co-leaders, welcome gifts, use of all yoga props, tea house, and woodland waterfall trails.
Not included: Spa and gift shop purchases. Spa services are available for direct booking and payment with Elohee.
Check in begins Friday from 1pm – 2pm. Our program concludes Sunday after lunch. We recommend exploring the quaint town and local waterfalls with your soul sisters after our closing circle.
Claim your seat in the circle!
This reunion and gathering has been a long time coming, shaped slowly and with care. Space is limited, and our past retreats have filled with ease.
If your body already knows, trust that yes. We’ll meet you in the mountains.
MANDY ROBERTS
Retreat Co-Leader
Her classes are experiences rather than instruction. Warm, rhythmic, sometimes sweaty, always tender. Breath leads. Music carries. Story slips in where words help sensation land. Mandy teaches in a way that invites people back into themselves—into strength that feels grounded, into play that feels sacred, into the quiet relief of being met exactly where they are.
Yoga found Mandy long before she knew what it would ask of her. In the years that followed, life began to unravel in ways she never could have planned for. Her marriage of 16 years ended. The life she had organized herself around dissolved. As a stay-at-home mother standing inside grief, uncertainty, and profound identity shift, Mandy leaned into her mat to feel what was true. Breath by breath, yoga became a place where heartbreak, unraveling, and becoming could coexist.
Not long after, she was unexpectedly handed stewardship of a struggling yoga studio—what would become the bustling community of FORM yoga. What felt surreal at the time revealed itself as cosmic alignment. Teaching, holding space, building community—this was the work her body and heart already knew how to do.
Through the years that followed—raising children, shaping a business, dating in midlife (gasp!), navigating the collective strain of the pandemic and a very changed world—yoga remained her anchor. During COVID, Mandy chose care over urgency, community over profit, and trust over fear, tending a space where people could stay connected when so much felt fractured. That choice reshaped her from the inside out and continues to form the culture she leads.
Mandy teaches with vulnerability and deep presence, letting her own lived experience remain visible. She shares openly—her mistakes, her grief, her growth, her joy—believing that truth spoken with care creates permission for others to lean in. Her teaching does not perform wisdom; it lives inside the questions.
Her path of study spans decades and disciplines, weaving together yoga, breathwork, nature reverence, animism, ancestral lineage healing, intuitive development, and embodied inquiry. These influences live quietly within her teaching as textures that inform how she listens, sequences, speaks, and pauses.
SHARI FOX
Retreat Co-Leader
Shari Fox is a retreat host, women’s group leader and mother, devoted to one guiding question: what opens up when we leave urgency behind and come back to our own deeper rhythm?
Her work is a response to the pace so many women have been asked to live in—hurry, performance, constant availability and the quiet erosion of inner listening. She is devoted to creating the antidote to that in spaces where time slows down enough for women to really hear themselves.
Women come in when they are ready for a pause—not as escape, but as return. Shari’s gatherings are warm, embodied, and gently invitational. They are rooted in presence, creativity, reflection and connection. Spaces where nothing needs to be performed. Shoulders soften, breath widens and a kind truth emerges. Nothing is asked of you except that you arrive as you are. There is space for silence. For laughter. For the long exhale you didn’t realize you were holding.
After years of leading retreats, Shari fairly reluctantly followed an inner calling and stepped into sabbatical. That season became a deep listening space for her body and life, where rest, presence and generational healing moved through in unexpected ways. Postpartum complications (hello, adrenal fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, depression and insomnia) and long-held patterns of stress gradually began to soften until something beautiful emerged: a life that truly feels hers.
With over 20 years of experience in yoga, somatic care, meditation, holistic psychology and embodiment-based inquiry, Shari is an E-RYT, Yoga Teacher Trainer, Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, and Certified Enneagram Teacher. Her first company, Soul Nourish, was a beloved home for women’s retreats, adventures and embodied learning with Mandy.
Today, she’s having fun in her “she shed” Field of Wildflowers, an evolving personal project that began as a simple experiment in doing things differently. It’s an artistic, living inquiry into what happens when a woman begins to prioritize her inner life as much as her outer one. She adores slow yoga, hiking, process art, closet makeovers and gluten-free baguettes. She has way too many art supplies and cool rocks.
Shari sees each retreat as part of something larger we are all participating in—a reweaving of how we live, how we listen, and how we belong.
Find warmth, community and renewal around the hearthfire. Save your spot today!
Heck no. Absolutely not! We wouldn’t dream of it.
In the west, when people think of Yoga they often focus on the poses. This is just one aspect of the practice. If you never touch your toes or always lose your balance, that’s all good. Yoga isn’t about perfection. In fact, sometimes when we are “good” at performing the poses we totally miss the magic of Yoga.
Our approach to Yoga is steeped in mindfulness, presence, and support. At FORM yoga we believe Yoga is for everybody and every body. We believe there is no perfect pose, only the perfect pose for you in each moment. We believe the “no pain, no gain” approach is absolute BS. We believe a few deep breaths can make everything better. We believe vulnerability is a superpower. We believe all adults should get more chances to play. We believe in encouragement. We believe in taking risks. We believe in the power of community. We believe in being seen and seeing each other. We believe in laughing when we fall and supporting our friends when they fall. We believe in the beauty of trying again (and perhaps even finding the levity in the experience!).
If our approach intrigues you then perhaps you have found your perfect retreat!
We hear this again and again: “This was so much more than a yoga retreat.”
While yoga is a beloved part of our weekend together, it’s only one piece of a much larger, soul-nourishing journey. Our retreats are intentionally crafted as immersive experiences of personal growth, embodiment, and inner transformation. Each element—movement, mindfulness, ritual, creativity, storytelling, rest, and community—is thoughtfully woven to support your return to wholeness.
We move through a developmental arc that invites you to release old stories, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and remember who you are beneath the busyness of life. Expect laughter, maybe a few tears, inspiration & insight, connection, play, deep rest, and realignment with your heart’s truth. It’s truly magical and one reason our programs sell quickly.
This isn’t about perfect poses.
It’s about coming home to yourself.
No matter if you have explored mediation, self development, and yoga or whether you are a complete beginner to any or all of these practices, you are welcome here. If your soul feels called to join us we believe you are ready!
Absolutely.
We love sharing the embodiment of yoga! No matter if your friends are seasoned yogis or brand new to Downdog, they will be supported.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to get away!
Included in your price is your cozy cabin accommodations for Friday and Saturday night, all delicious meals and drinks from dinner Friday until lunch on Sunday. All planned retreat programming & classes, a sweet little welcome gift, access to the 24-hour tea house, mountain-top pond, porch and pond lounge areas, and access to hiking and woodland waterfall trails. Please note that taxes will be added by Elohee during your registration upon your room selection.
Expect space to relax, healthy and delicious food, abundant nature, body-positive and accessible movement.
You’ll experience concepts to ponder, tender moments to cherish, deep belly laughter, playful practices, deep breaths and a-heck-of-a lot-of sweetness.
You’ll be surrounded by immense stars, gorgeous vistas, fresh mountain air, and other women seeking the same kind of experiences as you. And chances are you’ll leave with an extra sense of aliveness, feeling refreshed, inspired and ready to return home with handfuls of new soul friends!
Yes! We love making retreats more accessible with a payment plan option.
When you book early you’ll have the option to pay in full or pay a deposit. For those who choose to pay a deposit Elohee will allow you to make payments leading up to the retreat. All payments are due 2 weeks prior to the retreat date.
Sure! If you are interested in sharing a room and have not found a roommate please email us at mandy@formyoga.com with your name and phone number. When we hear of other interested parties looking for a roommate we will let you know!
All registrations are subject to Elohee’s cancellation policy, as below.
When booking you may place a deposit or pay your balance in full. A minimum 40% deposit is due upon selecting your room. Each registration includes a non-refundable $100 processing fee.
If you wish to make payments you may log in to your account at Elohee to make payments as you choose.
Full payment is due at least 2 weeks prior to the start of the retreat. If your payment is not made in full 2 weeks prior, Elohee will charge your card on file for the remaining amount owed.
Cancellations will incur a $100 fee up to 6 weeks prior to the start of the retreat. If you cancel between 6 weeks and 2 weeks prior to the retreat, Elohee will retain the entire 40% deposit.
Elohee does not provide refunds or transfers if you cancel after 2 weeks prior to your retreat date. This policy extends to all reasons for cancellation, including COVID-19. If you are concerned about the financial risk, we recommend you purchase cancellation/trip insurance.
Elohee is a lovely retreat center located around 90 minutes north of Atlanta in the gorgeous north Georgia mountains.
If you are flying in from out of state, welcome! You’ll fly directly in to Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. Due to the unpredictable nature of air travel, we highly suggest arriving a day early and staying in Atlanta prior to driving to the retreat center on Friday.
You can find directions to Elohee here.
Absolutely. We understand, we have food sensitivities too!
You’ll have the option to include any dietary needs on your reservation with Elohee. If you have severe restrictions that are life threatening please make sure you email us as well so we can follow up with Elohee. Your safety is most important.
If you are concerned you can supplement your meals with snacks from home. There is a fridge and microwave that you can use if needed.
As a retreat sanctuary, Elohee does not offer wifi connection to guests.
While we encourage you to be as tech free as possible to fully soak in all the weekend has to offer, we understand you might need to check in at home. We ask that you respectfully limit your tech breaks to your own room in between sessions.
If you are sharing a room please go to a space where those choosing to go tech free will not be disrupted. You will need to bring your own hotspot if you wish to connect to the internet in between sessions.
Oh yes, and we highly recommend it!
Elohee employs some wonderful bodyworkers to help you deeply relax into your body. A few weeks prior to our start you’ll receive an email from Elohee with information about how to secure spa appointments. The staff at Elohee will be able to schedule your massage around our retreat programming. Spa treatments are very popular on retreat, we highly encourage you to request a spot early to ensure availability.
Now on to the fun part!
Pack snacks for the open road as well as a refillable water bottle. Bring a notebook or journal and pen for all your new discoveries.
Clothes that are breathable, comfortable, and easy to move in for yoga and our discovery sessions. Cozy layers are a great option for your comfort and the cool mountain air!
Pack your hiking or closed toe shoes for trails, a bag or satchel to carry your things to our sessions and on any hikes,
Elohee provides soap, shampoo, conditioner, towels and linens. Each cottage has a hairdryer to use if you wish.
The yoga room is stocked with mats, blankets, blocks, bolsters, straps and everything else you may need to practice comfortably. Feel free to bring your own yoga mat or use one of Elohee’s for ease of travel.
YES! So exciting! Plan to arrive to Elohee between 1pm–2pm.
This arrival window is important to give you time to settle in, unpack, and gently land before we begin our programming. There is much to explore on the property and we know you’ll enjoy every moment!
As you arrive at Elohee, you’ll be met by a staff member who will direct you to park in the designated area at the base of the mountain property. From there, Elohee staff will kindly transport you and your belongings up the mountain and guide you to your accommodations.
We love to be in the flow with life {and leave a little excitement for you to discover upon arrival}, you’ll receive a schedule of our weekend programming upon arrival.
We encourage you to treat your travel journey as part of the retreat experience—drive with intention, arrive with presence, and allow spaciousness to transition into retreat mode. Ahhhhh.
If you anticipate being late, please text Elohee directly at 770-316-9195 so they can be on standby to facilitate your arrival.
For the best experience, we highly encourage you to attend the entire retreat.
We understand that life is full and sometimes plans need to be flexible. While you are welcome to make the weekend work in the way you need, we lovingly encourage you to attend the full retreat if at all possible. The program is intentionally crafted with a gentle developmental arc—each experience builds upon the last to support deeper connection, presence, and transformation.
Taking this time for yourself is a sacred act of devotion. By giving yourself the full experience, you open for something truly meaningful to unfold.
Welcome, we are so glad you are doing something good for yourself!
We believe that the process of transformation begins the moment you click the button to book. Like creating a vision board, acting on our desires begins a magical process of alchemy. Sometimes this comes in the form of signs you are on the right path, sometimes this comes in the guise of obstacles in your way. Either way life is conspiring to support you and we are here for it!
Go ahead and select your room and start dreaming of the magic that awaits you!
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