This is your invitation to go beyond the canvas and into full expression— surrounded by bold women who are just as lit up as you are.

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Girls Who Play with Fire
is more than a retreat—
it’s a catalyst.

Imagine waking up in your cozy bed on a gorgeous, crisp Vermont Fall morning where you enjoy a delicious farm-to-table breakfast and have the most inspiring conversation, before heading to a beautiful studio where you’ll work side-by-side with renowned artists and other creative, inspiring women. By the end of the day, you feel so lit up and inspired, you can’t wait to see what’ll happen next!

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This retreat isn’t just about art.

It’s about stepping into a high-vibration space where creativity, boldness, and personal power rise together. Led by six women who embody their own flame, this experience is designed to ignite yours.

Whether you’re an artist ready to step onto the map, you've got a creative idea you'd like to expand on, you're an entrepreneur excited to share your work on a larger scale, or you just want to feel that deep connection with other creative women and have some fun seeing what you’ll make - this retreat offers both fuel and structure.


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Why gift yourself this retreat?

You’ll experience an approach using the mediums of glass, clay, paint, sound, movement and food to help you explore your creative edges and access more of your authentic self so that you can expand into new experiences.

We use multiple mediums to give you a deeper awareness of how your unique life-force energy connects with THE greater life-force energy, rippling into your entire life and your relationship with everything.

Your creation process through these mediums is a metaphor for life, giving you a deeper self- awareness, igniting your creativity, and sharpening your professional vision. 

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You’ll spend your days:


Creating alongside renowned artists Randi Solin (glass), Natalie Blake (ceramics), seasoned coaches and marketing professionals as well as other multi-passionate creative women


Receiving hands-on guidance to bring your artistic or professional vision into the world


Moving beyond self-limiting beliefs and stepping into bold, visible expression


Connecting with women who are fired up, purpose-driven, and ready to move


Feeling supported and inspired by a group dynamic that lifts everyone higher

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You’ll trade caution for curiosity, build your creative practice, clarify your professional path, and approach your work more confidently.

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  • This program emphasizes embodied discovery over technique alone. Participants rotate through hot glass, clay work, and somatic painting that links breath and movement to mark-making. Studio sessions are paired with coaching and creative business mentorship, allowing material insights to translate into concrete next steps for entrepreneurial or professional growth. We welcome all women, whether artists, entrepreneurs, or professionals.

  • Carefully designed to support uninterrupted creativity, this retreat is limited to eight attendees and eight hosts to ensure individualized attention and meaningful connections through movement integration, creativity-focused culinary experiences, coaching, and a few other thoughtfully arranged surprises to inspire creativity and exploration.

  • Blending soulful exploration with practical planning and a balance between making, reflection, movement, connection with community, restorative time for integration, you’ll open up to a sense of deeper self-trust, feel encouraged to take bolder creative risks, and clarify your professional path.

In the Studio

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Join our info session to explore how this immersive retreat helps you reconnect

Join Natalie Blake and Randi Solin for a 30-minute conversation about what they’re creating—and why.

Not just what you’ll do… but what actually happens in their spaces.

Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 at 12pm EST

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Hosted by World-Class Artists

Randi Solin &
Natalie Blake

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Co-creators of Fire Arts Vermont, and business partners for over 30 years, Randi and Natalie bring decades of combined experience in teaching, studio practice, public commissions, and the art of the heart-led business.

Randi’s blown-glass work is represented in public and private collections, while Natalie’s ceramics and design practice integrates functional work, large-scale commissions, music, and space design.


Through Fire Arts Vermont, a gallery, open studio, and education center, they’ve created a space where concentrated mentorship fosters creativity, community, and personal growth.

The Experience

  • Interior of a dining area with wooden furniture, a large decorative umbrella hanging from the ceiling, and a view of a bookshelf and kitchen in the background. The space has artistic decor and rugs on a wooden floor.
  • A skillet of cooked chicken breasts in a creamy spinach sauce, garnished with chopped spinach, on a light marble surface, with a bowl of lemon wedges nearby.
  • Interior of a living room with blue walls, featuring a circular stained glass window above a large art piece, flanked by stained glass windows. The room has hardwood floors, a Persian rug, red cushions, speakers, a wood stove, and a low wooden table with audio equipment.
  • Woman smiling and leaning over a worktable with a large, textured, multi-colored ceramic or sculptural piece.
  • Plate of healthy breakfast with avocado, poached egg, bacon, toast, and fresh greens.
  • Two women working in a glassblowing studio, one shaping molten glass on a long rod while the other observes. Glass pieces and colorful glass rods are scattered on the metal table in front of them.
  • A group of eleven women standing together in an art gallery or museum, smiling for the camera. The background features various artworks and decorative objects on the walls, with a warm-toned tiled floor.
  • Close-up of a woman carving a wooden sculpture on a workbench.
  • Overhead view of a person standing on a wooden porch with gray socks, surrounded by autumn leaves, with a pumpkin, a colorful blanket, a cup of coffee, and an open book.
  • Silhouette of a person playing guitar in front of a large campfire at night with trees above.
  • A person’s hand pressing clay on a pottery wheel with clay and work surface visible.
  • A group of people gathered in a living room sitting around a coffee table, engaging in conversation. The room has paintings on the walls, a large patterned rug, and various decorations including a large leaf plant and a lamp.
  • Close-up of orange and red autumn leaves on a tree branch with a blurred background of water and trees.
  • Front view of a red wooden church with an open door, two small windows, a tall steeple, surrounded by autumn foliage under a blue sky.
  • A wooden bowl of Asian cuisine with vegetables, a fried egg, and beef, placed on a placemat on a dining table, accompanied by a bottle of water, red napkins, and silverware.
  • Six women sitting cross-legged on a large patterned carpet in a circle, in a room with musical instruments, a desk, and a lion plush toy on an orange armchair.
  • Living room with yellow walls, wooden floors, a red sofa, and a wooden kitchen island. There are multiple windows letting in natural light, various pieces of artwork on the walls, and an arched doorway framing the view.
  • A woman preparing a salad in a rustic kitchen with wooden cabinets and large windows, surrounded by bowls of chopped vegetables and nuts on a wooden table.
  • Four people holding colorful smoothies in front of various salads, sushi, and vegetable platter on a wooden table.
  • A bedroom with a bed covered in gray sheets, a beige pillow, a green wall with a small door, a wooden crib, and a TV on a stand.
  • Person dipping bread into a bowl of soup or stew.
  • Decorative wooden sunburst mirror hanging on a wall above a wooden table with a vase of dried flowers, two candlesticks, and various small objects, flanked by windows with wooden trim.
  • A cozy bedroom featuring a bunk bed with a wood frame, a window with white curtains, a bed with pillows and a plaid blanket, and some wall art above the bed.
  • A colorful salad with shredded carrots, cucumbers, leafy greens, microgreens, served with a small container of creamy dressing sprinkled with herbs.
  • A steaming cup of coffee on a wooden table, with an open book in the foreground, and a vase of daisies and a teapot in the background near a window overlooking a blurred outdoor scene.
  • The entrance of an art gallery with a rustic sign and decorative pottery outside, surrounded by colorful plants and flowers.
  • Autumn trees with colorful fall foliage reflected in a lake under a clear blue sky.

This retreat is about awakening the part of you that already knows what’s next - and helping you take the leap boldly, with fire under your feet and community at your back.

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Is this retreat for me?

This is for you if you:

  • If you're ready to ignite your creative spirit and step beyond the familiar.

  • Explore new ways of self-expression through glass, clay, paint, sound, movement, and food.

  • Expand your awareness and connect with the flow of life by engaging in each unique medium.

  • Use each creative experience as a mirror, reflecting and enhancing your self-awareness.

  • Awaken new layers of insight, creativity, and connection that will resonate long after you return home.

This is not for you if you:

  • Prefer a strict schedule or aren’t flexible with plans

  • Have no desire to explore new creative possibilities or challenge yourself

  • Don’t enjoy sharing common space with others

  • Aren’t open to new experiences

Come create with us for only $3500

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What’s Included

Your stay

3 nights of lodging in our artistically curated spaces: a beautifully remodeled church and grange hall Airbnb, located just 7 minutes drive from the studios.

Delicious Organic Foods

Delicious farm-to-table and organic meals, non-alcoholic drinks, creative food experiences where you’ll learn more about your creativity through group dynamics. Some alcohol will be provided.

Art Immersion

All art materials for glass, clay and paint experiences. Studio time in glass and clay studios with Natalie + Randi. Somatic painting experience with Pam.

Surprises Especially for You

You’ll have time to connect with the artists and other inspiring women to ask questions and reflect. Creativity, mentorship + coaching will help you move through limited beliefs! Body movement to integrate, and some other surprise experiences to open up your creative flow, will deepen your self-connection, and help you feel more alive.

What’s Not Included

Travel

Air travel, ground transportation, travel insurance


Laundry

Join us in beautiful vermont during the fall

Join our info session to explore how this immersive retreat helps you reconnect

Join Natalie Blake and Randi Solin for a 30-minute conversation about what they’re creating—and why.

Not just what you’ll do… but what actually happens in their spaces.

Wednesday May 27th, 2026 at 12pm EST

Meet the Artists

  • A woman standing in front of a large circular metal artwork with colorful leaf-like designs.

    Natalie Blake

    Natalie has worked with clay for three decades, creating her own line of functional, then decorative vessels. She’s been awarded several large public grants and hundreds of commissions in prestigious hospitals and institutions around the world with her large format tile and small sculptural wall work.

    She is also a musician, playing string, wind, percussion instruments and is an improvisational vocalist with two bands.

    Natalie is also a community leader, creative collaborator, space designer, host, serious manifester and magic catalyst.

  • A woman smiling in an art gallery standing next to colorful glass sculptures displayed on a black piano. There is a large painting of a landscape with tall grass on the wall in the background.

    Randi Solin

    Randi has been committed to the art of blowing glass for over 30 years, dazzling collectors and colleagues with her technique, skill and inventive coloration style. She uses glass like a contemporary abstract expressionist painter, creating unique blown glass sculptures and vessels that delight the senses.

    A graduate of Alfred University, her art has been acquired by the permanent collections of The White House, nine US Embassies, the Met Museum of Art in New York City, numerous public institutions, as well as royalty and celebrities world wide.

    Randi is a community leader, hospice volunteer, conflict resolution specialist, early childhood educator, and she loves yoga, biking and kayaking.

What past participants experienced

  • “The experience was like walking through a fire with a new version of yourself on the other side”

    - Megan

  • “It’s a transformational opportunity that totally changed how I felt in mind and body. You can feel the loving energy, everything was taken care of and I left feeling Inspired in so many ways!” - Debby Stein

    - Debby Stein

  • "Being with this group of women lit me up in ways I still don't have words for"

    - Retreat Attendee

  • "There's something powerful about being around Randi and Natalie, their wisdom about the art world, business, and leadership opens you up to what's possible for you. For me, it was life-changing, I even went on to open my own studio"

    - Pamela Schneider

Along with Natalie + Randi

Nicole, Pam, Marie + Diane
will be there to inspire and guide you,
creating a playful, warm,
positive, nurturing environment
for you to explore your creativity
and access something new!

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What would having more creative inspiration do for you?

Why you don’t want to miss this:

Because You Want More Than a Hobby—You Want a Creative Breakthrough. This is more than a workshop; it’s a creative ignition, designed to push boundaries and foster bold expression.

  1. Two Iconic Creators Are Mentoring You Directly. Few retreats offer the chance to learn directly from artists whose work graces the White House, embassies, the Met, and public art installations worldwide Fire Arts Vermont+1.

  2. This Experience Is Both Soulful and Strategic. You’ll tap into your inner creative fire while also receiving coaching that turns that energy into clear vision and practical expansion.

  3. The Environment Is Designed for Magic to Happen. Thoughtful lodging, nurturing instructors, community energy, and intentional creative space—this setting primes you for deep transformation.

  4. The Group Is Small and Powerfully Aligned. With just 6 participants and 6 facilitators this retreat promises meaningful connection, intimacy, and focused support.

  5. Because You’re Ready to Embrace What’s Next. If you’re already sensing there’s a bigger creative path ahead, this retreat is your launchpad—“awakening the part of you that already knows what’s next”

Five reasons why you need to come:

  1. Ignite Your Bold, Creative Expression
    This retreat is intentionally designed as a high‑vibration space—where boldness, creativity, and personal power rise in harmony

  2. Transform Limiting Beliefs into Visible Expression
    With expert coaching and creative immersion, you’ll move beyond self-limiting beliefs and step into more bold, visible, intended expression

  3. Nurturing, Purpose‑Driven Community of Women
    You’ll create alongside fellow women who are “lit up,” purpose-driven, and in pursuit of creative growth—anchored in mutual support and inspiration

  4. Immersive Art Experiences Across Media
    From glassblowing and ceramics to somatic painting, all materials and immersive studio time are included—plus creative food experiences and coaching

  5. A Transformational Journey That Stays with You
    Past participants describe the retreat as a “transformational opportunity” that sparks change in mind, body, and spirit—with “new versions of yourself on the other side”

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Sign up now for just $3500 which includes everything but your transportation to the retreat

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Join our info session to explore how this immersive retreat helps you reconnect

Join Natalie Blake and Randi Solin for a 30-minute conversation about what they’re creating—and why.

Not just what you’ll do… but what actually happens in their spaces.

Wednesday May 27th, 2026 at 12pm EST