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Rooted Love
A Couples Retreat for Sacred Connection

Ready to Rekindle, Reconnect, and Rediscover Each Other?

Rooted Love is more than a workshop. It is a thoughtfully curated 3-day couples retreat designed to help you deepen connection, strengthen communication, and cultivate greater intimacy in a supportive and restorative setting.

Held on a private 33-acre farm in the Columbia River Gorge, this intimate retreat is intentionally limited to just 6 couples, creating space for meaningful engagement, personalized support, and a more immersive experience.

Through a blend of 16+ hours of Gottman-based relationship education and sacred sexuality practices, experiential exercises, embodiment practices, and guided opportunities for connection, you'll gain practical tools to strengthen friendship, navigate conflict with greater ease, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional and physical intimacy.

Using The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work as our foundation, this retreat is not about fixing what's broken. It's about creating intentional space to nurture your relationship, reconnect with one another, and invest in what matters most.

You'll leave with practical tools, renewed connection, and a shared experience designed to support your relationship long after the retreat ends.

This retreat will include proven tools to help couples:

🌳 Improve friendship, fondness, and admiration

🌳 Enhance romance and intimacy

🌳 Manage conflict constructively

🌳 Gain skills to address perpetual and solvable problems

🌳 Create shared meaning

🌳 Maintain gains throughout a lifetime

After strengthening the foundation of your relationship, we will shift into an immersive intro into sacred sexuality practices led by Cass Estes, Intimacy and Relationship Coach.

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Awaken deeper connection and intimacy through embodied practice.

🪻 Slow down and feel more: Explore sensual touch and intentional massage to ignite connection and awaken the body.

🪻 Breathe into presence: Experience tantric breathwork and eye gazing as pathways to intimacy, trust, and energetic attunement.

🪻 Come home to your erotic truth: Drop into a guided meditation to connect with your authentic sexual self that is beyond roles, expectations, or performance.

🪻 Activate your energy centers: Learn how to sense and amplify life force through chakra awareness and subtle energy play.

🪻 Turn on your senses: Play with sound, scent, taste, and touch in a series of practices that cultivate embodiment and connection.

Registration now open!

3-Day Retreat | Hood River, Oregon

October 23-25, 2026

Investment: $1750 - $2528 per couple

Come home to each other with compassion, presence, and love.

     

    After you fill out the registration form, you will receive an email with information and payment links. Your spot is reserved only after you pay the deposit.

    Your Investment

    Beginning at $1,750 per couple

    Rooted Love is an intimate 3-day couples retreat designed to create space for deeper connection, meaningful conversations, and intentional growth as a couple. This immersive experience blends evidence-based relationship education, embodiment practices, and opportunities for couples to slow down, reconnect, and nurture their partnership.

    Lodging options range from $1,750–$2,578 per couple, allowing you to choose the accommodation that best supports your retreat experience and preferences.

    A $250 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your space. Full payment is due 3 weeks prior to the retreat start date.

    With only 6 couples welcomed into each retreat, space is intentionally limited to preserve the intimate and personalized nature of this experience. Lodging options are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

    Special Registration Rates:
    ✨ Early Love Discount: 15% off for the first 3 couples who register by September 11, 2026
    ✨ Community Discount: 20% off for couples who live locally
    ✨ Group Discount: 30% off for couples who register together with another couple

    Registration closes on October 2, 2026 to allow ample time to thoughtfully prepare materials and create a meaningful retreat experience for each couple.

    Lodging Options

    Make your retreat experience your own by personally curating your lodging space. I have partnered with several local Airbnb hosts to offer a variety of private accommodations that are 10min-20min away from the care farm. Pricing below includes the full retreat experience plus lodging for two guests.

    Northern Daylights Apartment | White Salmon

    $2,528 per couple
    Queen bed • Bright private apartment • Close to downtown with abundant natural light

    The Shed at Strawberry Mountain | White Salmon

    $2,519 per couple
    Queen bed • Charming standalone guest cottage • Just one mile from downtown White Salmon

    Cozy Boho Nook | White Salmon

    $2,466 per couple
    Queen bed • Private setting on a quiet dead-end road • Ideal for couples seeking extra privacy

    White Salmon Guest Suite | White Salmon

    $2,410 per couple
    Queen bed • Entire lower level of a private home • Comfortable and convenient White Salmon location

    Sunset Farm Studio | Hood River

    $2,356 per couple
    Queen bed • Private entrance and balcony • Farm setting just west of downtown Hood River

    White Salmon Private Studio | White Salmon

    $2,278 per couple
    Queen bed • Cozy private studio • Separate entrance with minimal shared space

    Orchard Retreat | Mosier

    $2,198 per couple
    King bed • Nestled among cherry and pear orchards • Peaceful setting at the end of a gravel road

    Retreat Only (No Lodging)

    $1,750 per couple
    Includes the full Rooted Love Couples Retreat experience, workshop materials, breakfast pastries, charcuterie cups, lunches, refreshments, and post-retreat integration support.

    Lodging options are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Only 6 couples will be welcomed into this intimate retreat experience. 🌿

     Retreat Dates

    Friday–Sunday, October 23rd–25th, 2026
    9:00AM – 3:30PM each day

    Your Retreat Experience Includes

    Rooted Love has been thoughtfully designed to create a spacious, immersive experience where couples can step away from daily responsibilities and intentionally invest in their relationship.

    This includes:

    🌿 An intimate retreat experience limited to only 6 couples
    A small-group setting designed to provide privacy, connection, meaningful conversations, and personalized specialized support throughout the weekend.

    🌿 12 hours of relationship education and guided practice
    Led by Jacqueline Jackson, LMFT, Clinical Sexologist, Certified Sex Coach, and Gottman Leader, integrating evidence-based Gottman principles with mindfulness, relational tools, and experiential exercises.

    🌿 An introduction to sacred sexuality and embodiment practices

    A 4.5-hour experience (90 min each day) led by Cass Estes exploring connection, presence, embodiment, and cultivating deeper intimacy within your partnership.

    🌿 A private and restorative retreat setting
    Time and space to slow down, reflect, practice new relationship skills, and reconnect with your partner on a 33-acre private care farm that you both will have access to all weekend in the beauty of the Columbia River Gorge.

    🌿 Thoughtfully prepared nourishment throughout the weekend
    Personalized breakfast pastries, specifically curated charcuterie cups, fresh and locally sourced lunches, and refreshments, and provided each day, with dietary preferences thoughtfully considered.

    🌿 Personalized relationship resources to continue your journey together

    • Two beautifully designed Couples Guides that will be used throughout the retreat to support your reflection and practice
    • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work book by Dr. John Gottman
    • Gottman Love Maps card deck
    • Open-Ended Questions card deck
    • Sacred sexuality and embodiment resources for continued exploration after the retreat

    🌿 Experiential practices to deepen connection
    Guided relationship-building activities designed to strengthen communication, emotional intimacy, playfulness, and understanding of one another.

    🌿 Continued support after the retreat
    An optional 60-minute couples integration check-in via Zoom approximately 1 month after the retreat to reflect, reconnect, and continue integrating what you’ve learned.

    Registration

    Space is intentionally limited to 6 couples to create an intimate and supported experience. Register early to reserve your spot and allow time for all materials to be thoughtfully prepared.

    Click above to register and begin your journey toward deeper connection and sacred partnership.

    Location

    Join us at Triskele Rivers, a serene 33-acre private sanctuary that you and your person will have all to yourselves for 3 days. Take in the incredible view of Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams, take time to walk the land, observe the animals in their natural rhythm, and settle into the quiet presence this sacred space offers.

    Meet Your Workshop Facilitators

    Jacqueline Jackson, LMFT, Clinical Sexologist and Certified Sex Coach

    Jacqueline is a Forest dweller, Water Lover, Moon and Star Seeker, Compassion Weaver, Aspiring Homesteader, Animal Whisperer, Dog Mama, Ritual Maker, Kayak Rider, Tiger Spirit, Light in the Shadows.

    Jacqueline is a clinical sexologist who blends science, somatics, and spirituality (and sometimes a little swearing) to help people heal in a real, embodied, and grounded way. She draws from modalities like EMDR, somatic therapy, and mindfulness self-compassion with influences from Zen Buddhism, earth-based spirituality, and sacred sexuality.


    Cass Estes, Intimacy and Relationship Coach

    Cass is a Moon Child. Outdoor Lover. Fierce Mother. Space Holder. Shadow Seeker. Spiritual Explorer. River Runner. Intuitive Dreamer. Creative Force.

    Her work as a coach combines modern neurobiology, shamanic healing, and holistic embodiment practices; blended with the ancient wisdom of Tantra, Taoism & sacred sensuality. The work is based in an understanding that all of us are sensual beings with a tremendous capacity for love and connection. Her method recognizes and supports that human beings thrive by regularly experiencing states of ecstasy, surrender, conscious connection, and wild freedom. Join us as Cass leads us through sacred sexuality practices. To learn more about Cass's offerings, please visit her website at CassEstes.com.

    Is this retreat for us?

    The Gottman Seven Principles Program is designed with all committed couples in mind, supporting:

    🪷 People of all ages, backgrounds, Faiths, sexual orientations, and relationship arrangements

    🪷 Pre-engaged couples (those thinking about marriage)

    🪷 Engaged or premarital couples (those actively planning a wedding/marriage)

    🪷 Every phase of relationships, from newlyweds to senior couples

    🪷 Those who want to strengthen and deepen their marriage or relationship

    🪷 Those who are considering couples counseling but aren't "ready", yet

     

    *This retreat is not appropriate for couples who are experiencing severe relationship distress, emotional abuse, domestic violence, active addictions (alcohol, drug, sexual, gambling, etc.), serious mental health problems in one or both partners, or those with an aversion to touch.

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