2026 Winter Wellness Weekend

🌿❄️2026 Winter Wellness Weekend❄️🌿

📅February 6-8,2026  | 📍ONSC Main Campus

🌟 Revive, Reconnect, Rejuvenate! 🌟

Treat yourself to ONSC's Winter Wellness Weekend, a transformative retreat focused on relaxation and restoration. 🧘‍♀️✨ Enjoy sessions in yoga 🧘, meditation ✨ , forest bathing 🌲, Rosen movement 💃, mindfulness 🌟, and more—all surrounded by the breathtaking beauty of our secluded campus near Huntsville and Eureka Springs.

Take a step toward wellness and immerse yourself in nature this winter! 🌿💚

More information about classes offered and tentative schedule below!

Important Information

• To attend the workshop, purchase a Workshop Ticket (below) - includes all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch.

• To add lodging, choose a room in a lodge, glampsite, or campsite. When you purchase a room with multiple beds, you are welcome to add other workshop guests to your room at no extra cost.

• ONSC trails are rocky and steep, and there is a 3-minute walk from the parking lot to the Ewing Event Center. If you need accessible parking or any other accommodations, please let us know.

• This event is intended for adults, however we will make exceptions for mature and interested teenagers. Please email breana.patterson@onsc.us for more information.

Tickets & Lodging

🎟️Ticket Options🎟️

🔬 Full Workshop Ticket (Fri–Sun) — $100

Includes:

✅ All activities, presentations, and hikes

✅ All meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch

✨Optional donation to ONSC

Despite rising costs in nearly every area, ONSC remains committed to providing affordable, high-quality programs that connect people with nature. We are not raising our prices at this time. If you find value in our work and would like to support our mission, we gratefully welcome tax-deductible donations to help sustain our efforts.

🛏️ Lodging Options🛏️

Choose from comfortable lodge rooms, our cozy glampsite, or primitive campsites.

💡 Sharing with friends or family? When you book a room with multiple beds, you can add other workshop guests at no extra charge.

🏡 Lodge Rooms — $60 per night

• 1 Twin Bed

• 2 Twin Beds

• 2 Twin Bunkbeds (sleeps 4)

• 3 Twin Bunkbeds (sleeps 6)

⛺ Glampsite — $40 per night

• A rustic yet comfortable outdoor experience

• No shower access. Restrooms available.

🌲 Primitive Campsite (Platform) — $15 per night

• For the true nature lovers!

• No shower access. Restrooms available.

Tentative Workshop schedule 

Workshop schedule and order of classes is still being finalized*

Friday, February 6, 2025

4:00–5:00 PM — Arrival, Check-In, Lodge Move-In & Settle In

5:00–5:30 PM — Meet & Mingle in Ewing Library

5:30–6:30 PM — Dinner in Ewing Dining Hall

6:30–7:30 PM — Nature Journaling with ONSC Staff

7:30–8:30 PM — Food and Wellness Class with Alex Foster

Saturday, February 7, 2025

8:00–9:15 AM — Breakfast in Ewing Dining Hall

9:15–10:15 AM — Winter Breathwork & Meditation with Azalea Toliver

10:30–11:45 AM — Rosen Movement with Sally Wimberly

12:00–12:45 PM — Lunch in Ewing Dining Hall

1:00–3:00 PM — Forest Bathing with Emmie Brenzel

3:00–3:30 PM — Snack & ONSC Store Time, followed by break

3:30–4:15 PM — Break Time

4:15–5:15 PM — Mindfulness & Nature with ONSC Staff

5:30–6:30 PM — Dinner in Ewing Dining Hall

6:45–7:45 PM — Slow Yoga Flow with Azalea Toliver

7:45–8:45 PM — Campfire & Astronomy Viewing with ONSC Staff

Sunday, February 8, 2025

8:00–9:15 AM — Breakfast in Ewing Dining Hall

9:30–10:30 AM — Rosen Movement with Julie Brandt

10:45–11:45 AM — Flow Together Movement Class with Alex Foster

11:45 AM — Group Photo

12:00–12:45 PM — Lunch in Ewing Dining Hall

12:45–1:30 PM — ONSC Store Open

1:30 PM — Departure

Class Descriptions

Slow Yoga Flow 

This will be a slow flow yoga class, linking the breath with your movement and keeping our thoughts in the now.  Accessible to all.

Winter Breathwork and Meditation

A nurturing practice to wake up the body through guided meditation, with finding our center through our lungs as the main intention.

Rosen Movement

Marion Rosen, a physical therapist, in the 1950’s was often asked by clients “what can I do at home so I don’t have to keep coming back to see you” and “how can I keep my joints flexible and avoid injuries”? Based on physical therapy, Marion gave them specific movements to do at home and at one point started inviting clients to her home to move to music. Classes began and now Rosen Movement classes take place all around the world. Music makes us want to move, movements are gentle and results profound - moving all joints, increasing flexibility, while moving to great music. It’s a “ work in” not a “workout”.

Forest Bathing

“Forest Bathing” or Shinrin-Yoku, is a Japanese practice which uses immersion in nature to enhance health and wellness. The terms Forest Bathing and Forest Therapy are used interchangeably most of the time.  The practice is a slow wander in nature with gentle guided invitations to enable participants to connect with the natural world, awaken their senses, and activate their imaginations. There will be opportunities for silence, observation, listening, and optional group sharing. It's a way to “remember”. Remember that we are all nature, and we are all interconnected–the human world and the more than human world. This outdoor adventure concludes with a forest tea gathering to celebrate our time together and with the land. Participants are encouraged to dress for the winter weather with layers of clothing recommended, keeping in mind that temperatures will feel cooler when seated or moving slowly.

Mindfulness and Nature

Mindfulness is the act of paying attention in the present moment, on purpose, and without passing judgment.  There are plentiful research studies showing the wide array of benefits to our health and overall wellness from both mindfulness activities and being in nature.  These Mindfulness and Nature activities strive to combine the two, to provide experiences that help us to be especially mindful of the elements of nature within and around us.

Flow Together Movement Class

A beginner friendly, all-levels class that will begin with a short discussion about sequencing and postures followed by a rhythmic vinyasa flow practice and ending with yoga nidra, a guided meditation in the resting stillness pose, savasana. 

About the Instructors

Learn more about our guest instructor here

About Ozark Natural Science Center 

ONSC offers a unique, immersion-based approach to learning about nature and the natural sciences. Students visit us for authentic science learning experiences that are correlated with national and state science learning standards and provide in-depth education in biology, ecology, geology, social studies, and nature art – all while students have fun hiking and experiencing nature. Camp activities include  hikes, team-building, games, art, and small-group activities.

Ticket Refund Policy

• Refunds up to 1 week before the event: Tickets are refundable minus any applicable fees (processing, administrative, etc.) until 7 days before the event.

• Refunds within 1 week of the event: For refund requests made less than 7 days prior to the event, a 50% refund will be given.

• No refunds within 24 hours of the event: Refund requests made within 24 hours of the event are not permitted, except in exceptional circumstances and only with approval from ONSC administration.

*Please note that all refund requests must be submitted in writing to jill.bowman@onsc.us. Refunds will be processed within 7-10 business days.

Questions? Please email ONSC's Program Manager, Breana Patterson at breana.patterson@onsc.us