October 15-18th, 2026
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.
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!
Girls Who Play with Fire
is more than a retreat—
it’s a catalyst.
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.
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.
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
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 emphasized 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.
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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.
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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
Hosted by World-Class Artists
Randi Solin &
Natalie Blake
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 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
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.
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 to help you move through limited beliefs! Body movement to integrate, and some other surprise experiences to open up your creative flow, deepen your self connection, and help you feel more alive.
What’s Not Included
Travel
Air travel, ground transportation, travel insurance
Laundry
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
Regularly $3900 -
Sign up NOW
and receive $500 off with CODE: EARLYBIRD500
Join us in beautiful vermont during the fall
Meet the Artists
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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.
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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.
Your Photographer, Kristen Vallejo
We believe every spark deserves to be seen and remembered.
That’s why we’ve invited the incredible Kristen Vallejo to document your creative fire at Girls Who Play with Fire. From raw, in-the-moment shots to radiant portraits of you fully in flow, Kristen’s work is soulful, playful, and deeply intentional.
You won’t just leave with powerful memories.
You’ll leave with proof, visual reminders of the woman you are when you’re fully lit up.
Kristen has a gift for helping even the most camera-shy women feel relaxed, seen, and stunning in front of the lens. And yes, she’s just as fun and down-to-earth as her photos suggest.
Photography is included in your retreat experience.
You’ll receive a curated gallery of professional images post-retreat.
A Creative Food Experience with Chef Jess of SuperFresh Cafe
With Chef Jess, food becomes more than a meal—it becomes a playground. In this guided experience, you’ll be invited to experiment, play, and explore your own relationship with food in ways that spark joy and curiosity.
Together in a group setting, the act of preparing and sharing food becomes a mirror for deeper self-awareness—how you create, how you connect, how you allow yourself to play. The process is less about perfect recipes and more about discovering what emerges when you bring presence and creativity to the table.
Through textures, flavors, and the communal energy of making something with your hands, you’ll tap into a sense of freedom, joy, and connection that nourishes far beyond the plate.
What past participants experienced
Along with Natalie + Randi, Kristen and Jess
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Group Is Small and Powerfully Aligned. With just 6 participants and 6 facilitators this retreat promises meaningful connection, intimacy, and focused support.
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:
Ignite Your Bold, Creative Expression
This retreat is intentionally designed as a high‑vibration space—where boldness, creativity, and personal power rise in harmonyTransform 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 expressionNurturing, 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 inspirationImmersive Art Experiences Across Media
From glassblowing and ceramics to somatic painting, all materials and immersive studio time are included—plus creative food experiences and coachingA 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”
Regularly $3900 - Sign up NOW
and receive $500 off with CODE: EARLYBIRD500