Wellness Journey at Meraki Escape

Stillness, sound, and spaciousness for the mind and nervous system.

Sound Bath

Begin with a therapeutic sound bath, where the resonant vibrations of crystal singing bowls and chimes release tension and quiet the mind. This sonic meditation prepares you for Yoga Nidra ("yogic sleep"), a guided practice that systematically relaxes the body while maintaining conscious awareness. Together, these modalities create profound restoration - reducing stress hormones, improving sleep quality, and renewing mental clarity in a single transformative session.  60 minutes |  $135 (1-2 people)

Guided Meditation (Yoga Nidra)

Immerse yourself in the soothing sounds of nature while experiencing a guided Yoga Nidra meditation—a practice of deep relaxation and mindful awareness. This session helps calm the mind, release stress, and restore emotional balance, promoting overall well-being and inner peace.   60 minutes | $75 (1-2 people)

Reiki Energy Healing

Reiki is a calming, restorative energy experience that clears emotional tension, settles the nervous system, and supports inner harmony. Through gentle hands-on or hands-above techniques, your practitioner guides the flow of energy to help you feel grounded, centered, and deeply renewed. 

Led with intuitive presence and compassionate awareness, each session offers a safe, nurturing space to soften and reconnect. Whether you’re seeking emotional release, energetic grounding, or a renewed sense of alignment, Reiki gently supports your body’s natural ability to relax and restore, helping you leave with greater balance and inner spaciousness.  60 minutes | $135 pp

Intutive Card Reading

A gentle, reflective session designed to quiet mental noise and bring clarity to the heart, Intuitive Card Reading uses tarot and oracle symbolism as mirrors for insight, emotional ease, and inner balance. Guided with intuitive presence, this calming experience helps you soften into clarity, reconnect with your deeper knowing, and mve forward with renewed confidence. Beautifully supportive on its own, it also pairs effortlessly with Reiki for a deeply restorative, clarity-enhancing journey.  60-minute session (or two 30-minute sessions) |  $75 per 60 minutes

Playful, intuitive, and meditative experiences that invite expression and creativity.

Soul Collage 

Unlock self-discovery through SoulCollage®—a guided creative process, developed by therapist Seena Frost, where you craft intuitive collage cards that blend art, spirituality, and introspection to reveal inner wisdom and clarity. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn key SoulCollage® principles, create your own symbolic cards with guidance from a certified facilitator, and receive all materials you need (including extra blanks to continue your practice). Accessible to everyone—no artistic experience required—SoulCollage® offers a unique pathway for personal insight, self-reflection, and uncovering your deeper potential.  1.5 hour session | $100 (1-2 participants)

Watercolor in the Woods

Immerse yourselves in a softly guided watercolor experience held in our serene courtyard beneath the whispering trees, where nature becomes both muse and companion. This private session invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and let color and light flow gently across the page. Beginners will learn the foundations of watercolor—fluid washes, subtle highlights, and the dance of water and pigment—while experienced painters receive thoughtful, personalized guidance to deepen their artistry. All materials are provided, and the class may also be held in-cabin for an intimate, cozy creative retreat. 2 hours | $150 pp

Wholesome Canvas — Guided Acrylic Painting

Settle into a calming, guided acrylic painting experience where soft instruction meets intuitive creativity. You’ll be led step-by-step through a beautiful design, then encouraged to personalize it with your own artistic expression. It’s a relaxing, heart-opening session—perfect with a favorite drink in hand—and a lovely way to slow down, unwind, and create a meaningful keepsake to take home. All materials provided.  2 hours | $150 pp

Dream Catcher Workshop

Discover the quiet magic of creating your own dream catcher in this guided, step-by-step workshop inspired by traditional practices and ancestral wisdom. Using a blend of natural materials such as vine and modern elements like metal hoops, you’ll learn how to weave intention, protection, and personal symbolism into a meaningful keepsake. All materials are provided, and guests may also choose to forage natural elements from the forest to make their dream catcher even more unique.

Rooted in Native American tradition, the dream catcher is a sacred symbol of protection, clarity, and connection. This workshop honors those origins, offering a mindful space to slow down, weave with purpose, and connect with the stories and wisdom carried through generations. The experience is gentle, grounding, and deeply heartfelt—a beautiful way to create something meaningful with your hands and carry a piece of your journey home. 90 minutes | $135 pp or $150 for two people

Copper Sun Catcher Creation

Create your own luminous sun catcher in this calming, hands-on workshop inspired by nature, light, and intentional craftsmanship. Using 14–16 gauge copper wire, you’ll learn to shape and gently hammer your design—whether a circle, a flowing organic form, or a symbolic motif—before adorning it with crystal and glass beads that catch and scatter the light.

There is no rush and no pressure. You’ll be guided step-by-step, choosing shapes, textures, and colors by instinct as your piece slowly comes alive in your hands. The process feels grounding and meditative, inviting you to tune into the present moment while crafting something meaningful and beautiful. When finished, your sun catcher becomes a shimmering keepsake—holding warmth, light, and the quiet intention you wove into it.

All materials are included, and each sun catcher typically ranges from 12–18 inches, making it a stunning reminder of your time at Meraki Escape.    60 minutes | $85 each

Spirit Weaving — Intuitive Vine Weaving

Discover a quiet, meditative form of creativity through Spirit Weaving, a gentle hands-on experience using natural materials like grapevine circles or V-shaped branches gathered from the forest. With no pattern to follow and no finished design to aim for, you simply begin—choosing colors, textures, and movements by instinct. This intuitive process becomes a form of mindfulness, inviting you to slow down, tune into your inner rhythm, and let your hands guide what your heart is feeling.

As you weave, the mind softens and the present moment comes into focus. Each piece becomes a reflection of your inner landscape—organic, imperfect, meaningful. The result is a one-of-a-kind keepsake carrying the quiet energy of the forest and the intention woven into every strand. A beautiful way to ground, express, and reconnect with yourself or with each other.

All materials provided; natural elements may also be foraged from the property for a deeply personal touch. 60 minutes | $125 each 

Heart-centered experiences designed to strengthen connection, intimacy, and shared purpose.

Mapping Your Path: A Creative Couples Workshop

Reconnect with yourself and your partner and clarify your sense of purpose. Emily Owens, MA, LCMHCA, NCC will guide you through a life-affirming practice that originated in Zimbabwe and is now used across continents to help people reflect on their lives. Emily assists couples to see themselves clearly and compassionately, and find inspiration to walk their life path more intentionally. This exercise can be held indoors or outdoors, and integrates art therapy principles for folks of any level of artistic abilities. 90 minutes | $400 per couple

Vision Class – Illuminate Your Future

Step into a spacious, heart-centered coaching experience designed to help couples gain clarity, direction, and a renewed sense of shared purpose. Guided by a master coach, this private session weaves visualization, reflective inquiry, and intuitive dialogue to help you uncover what you truly want—individually and together. It’s a powerful way to align your inner world with the life you’re longing to create.

Using a whole-person coaching approach, the session explores your strengths, gifts, fears, and hopes with compassion and curiosity. Instead of pushing for change, it honors every part of you—especially the ones that feel uncertain or protective—so that your vision becomes not just inspiring, but deeply sustainable. Couples leave with a clearer sense of direction, a roadmap of meaningful next steps, and a shared language for moving forward with intention and unity.

Whether you’re stepping into a new chapter of life, exploring a transition, or seeking deeper alignment as partners, this experience offers grounding, clarity, and a renewed commitment to the future you’re creating together. 2-3 hours | $550 per couple

Two Hearts — A Guided Experience for Couples

Two Hearts Journey opens a quiet doorway into deeper love — a space where the outside world softens and the two of you can meet each other again with presence, tenderness, and new clarity. It’s not instruction; it’s initiation — a shift from doing to being, from simply being together to truly connecting.

Crafted especially for Meraki Escape, this private two-hour experience is a guided, heart-centered exploration designed to deepen connection, strengthen emotional intimacy, and create a shared sense of openness and clarity. Partners move through the journey together, supporting and witnessing one another in a way that feels tender, grounding, and profoundly unifying. (Individuals are welcome as well, and the session gently adapts to support personal clarity and inner renewal.)

More than a class or a technique, Two Hearts Journey is a spacious, intuitive unfolding — a gentle exploration that helps you reconnect with yourselves and with each other. Guests leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more aligned, carrying simple tools for anchoring peace, nurturing connection, and moving through life with greater intention long after their time at Meraki.  2 Hours | $450 (1-2 people) 

Nature as teacher, guide, and companion.

Forage to Plate Dining Experience 

Engaging Educational Experience with Edible Herbs of Appalachia! Join us for a hike around Meraki Escape that culminates in a unique “Wild” dining experience by the Forestsong waterfall. This educational adventure will cover foraging tips, Leave No Trace principles, and a hands-on cooking class. We will wrap up our experience with a “Wild” meal for a unique dining experience.  This experience is offered by Food For Adventures.  2.5 Hour experience; 1.5 hour education/ 1 hour dining  |  $250/Person plus food costs

Guided Mushroom Hike (On-Property)

Step into the quiet magic of the forest and discover the fascinating world of wild mushrooms. During this private guided walk, you'll learn how to identify edible species, understand their preferred habitats, and experience the forest through a more attentive, nature-connected lens. Your guide shares practical, certified expertise in safe mushroom identification, sustainable harvesting, and regional varieties found throughout Western North Carolina.

This hands-on experience invites you to slow your pace, awaken your curiosity, and deepen your connection to the natural world. Along the way, you’ll receive helpful guidance on responsible foraging practices, as well as tips for storing, preparing, and cooking the mushrooms you gather. Perfect for beginners and nature lovers alike, it’s a grounding, enriching way to explore the forest together.  2 hours | $150 (1-2 people)

Edible/Medicinal Herb Walk & Class

Join us for another engaging and practical experience with the herbs of Appalachia. This hands-on hiking adventure will take place on Meraki Escape's property, where we will discuss, taste, and explore the benefits that herbs can provide in both culinary and medicinal contexts. Additionally, this class will cover other significant herbs (not found on the property) that play an important role in the history, culture, and development of our Appalachian Mountains. This hike includes a homemade herbal tea and “wild” snacks. The experience may also be held offsite at another location.  This experience is offered by Food For Adventures.  2 hours | $150/Person 

Waterfall & Coffee Hike to Schoolhouse Falls with Nero Coffee Hikes

Escape into the heart of Panthertown Valley on a private guided hike to the stunning Schoolhouse Falls. Nero Coffee Hikes guides unique hiking experiences throughout western north carolina, but this exclusive coffee hike is only available for Meraki Escapes guests. 

This hike is great for all levels of hikers with minimal elevation gain along the 2.6-mile roundtrip hike. Nero Coffee Hikes includes private round-trip transportation from Meraki Escape, a scenic trek through lush forests, and a peaceful coffee break at the falls. 

Sip a freshly brewed cup of premium coffee as you soak in the beauty of the cascading water and serene surroundings, and enjoy a picnic lunch with a view on the way back to your cabin. Perfect for nature lovers and adventure seekers looking for a unique and relaxing way to explore Western North Carolina.  4.5 hours (including lunch) | $375 per couple