Workshops in Romania

Nature Therapy and (re)Workshops in 2025

Here you will find two of our seasonal offerings for workshops in Breb, Romania. Our Nature Therapy workshops are held once a month on set weekends, whereas our (re)Workshops are 3 hours at a time, on any day, in any season. Can’t wait to meet you under the trees!

Are you in need of a digital fast? Or a digital detox as it’s more commonly known?

A couple of days without your phone, without any distractions or notifications of the beeping kind?

How about spending several hours outside, reconnecting to the land and restoring your sense of wonder for the natural world?

Great! We have just the opportunity for you! But, you’re going to have to make it to Breb, Romania to join us.

What you’ll experience on our 2-day Nature Therapy/Digital Detox Workshop

On a Saturday, you’ll arrive promptly to our home on the hill by 9 am. We’ll invite you inside for a warming tea so we can get to know each other before heading outdoors, where we’ll stay for much of the day (weather permitting).

Outside, we’ll sit in silence by the creek, or under the trees, feeling our way into a world without technology.

You’ll be writing poetry, delving into journal prompts from our Earth Gratitude Journals, drawing what you see & listening to what you hear.

You’ll be able to play with clay in the creek & forage for or press flowers from the meadows surrounding our home.

You’ll have time to slow down and enjoy the feel of nature beneath your bare feet and your fingertips, explore textures of the Earth & of the water rushing by and much more.

By the end of the first day you’ll feel more relaxed about leaving your phone at home.

At the end of the second day, you’ll be planning your next digital fast, knowing full well that you can survive for days at a time without technology.

If you are seeking guidance on how to find yourself in nature, we are here for you!

Nature Therapy/Digital Detox Workshop Dates for 2025

May 24-25

June 28-29

July 26-27

August 23-24

September 27-28

Workshop Details & Prices

Each Nature Therapy Workshop lasts 2 days, typically Saturday and Sunday. We may be able to modify the dates based on your dates of travel, or the weather, but it does take two entire days to slow down and truly appreciate the gifts that nature has to offer.

From 9 am to 4 pm, we will explore the possibilities of living closer to nature with some, or all, of the activities listed above.

Lunch, snack and foraged teas are included. Please let us know of any food intolerances before you arrive.

To honor your quiet time in nature, we can host a workshop for an individual or a maximum of 4 adults. Children aged 6-14 pay half price.

Adult price: €300 per person for a 2-day workshop

Child-young teen: €150 per child/teen for a 2-day workshop

Payment can be arranged through PayPal, or exact cash upon arrival. Let’s keep the money in flow!

As soon as you know the dates you’d like to come, please send an email to info@forestcreekmeadows.com or send a message to Cheryl on Instagram, and let us know about your intentions and travel plans.

Other important information:

* We kindly ask you to bring no outside food, we’ll provide you with plenty to eat and drink (water, tea & raw milk – if you want it). If the weather cooperates we’ll have you cooking with fire, to rekindle your love for the flame.

* No cameras, phones or other devices are allowed, not even a smart watch. Please leave them at your accommodation. We’ll take pictures with your approval and send them to you after the workshop. Upon arrival you will receive a notebook for sketching, journaling and writing poetry in, that is yours to keep and take home with you.

* Sometimes the creek is flowing at a good speed and the water may be colder than you expect (though we are known to bathe in it even in winter), so if children are present, please be mindful around the flowing water and its rugged edges.

* The language of the workshops is English.

Location

Breb, Maramureș (Máramaros), Romania

Here’s some travel advice for getting to Breb, the village we call home, as well as a list of accommodations in Breb for you to call home while you are here in the village.

Once you are in Breb, we’ll give you more specific directions on how to walk to our wooden house. Please be prepared to spend most of the day outside. And be sure to bring a pair of sturdy walking shoes, as well as your bare feet. There are hills to climb, a creek to chill your paws in and grassy patches for grounding.

Any questions?

Email Cheryl and Roland at magyarcheryl@gmail.com and we’ll reply as soon as we get back online.

The following (re)workshops are not on set calendar dates, and only require 3 hours of your undivided attention, which can happen at any time - in any season!

2025 (re)Workshops

(re)connecting to the land

(re)awakening your senses

(re)wilding your spirit

(re)newing your sense of gratitude for living on Earth

Do you feel a distant longing to be outside? A distinctive pull to go where you are not?

Have you been feeling the uncomfortable presence of a forced online energy that is beyond your control?

If you nodded yes to any of these questions, you are not alone, though you may feel like it in the moment.

Although some may proclaim that the internet has brought us together, in many ways it has ripped us apart. It has torn up our roots and re-pixelated them into something of an avatar with the addition of a few sentences to describe where we are from, or where we hope to be going.

The online world is a fragmented reality which can only attempt to describe our lives as human beings. But it can never capture our true emotions or calculate our unmeasurable feelings.

What we need is more nature in our lives.

If and when you come to the realization that the online world is too narrow to fully express yourself, we invite you to visit our neck of the woods, in Breb, Romania, for a (re)workshop.

Our (re)workshops are custom-tailored just for you.

The (re) part is dedicated to whatever you want to work on, whatever you want to experience, whatever brings you joy.

We’ll be here to meet your needs halfway with an expertise that collectively expands more than 40 years of living a simpler life close to nature.

Depending on the time of year (usually May-October) your (re)workshop can include activities of grounding, walking barefoot, cold creek bathing, forest bathing, organic gardening, foraging and mindful meditation.

It can also include practical approaches to homesteading, such as canning and preserving, learning to cook over a wood fire, cutting and chopping wood by hand.

A (re)workshop can also be quiet time spent together underneath the trees down by the creek, listening to the sounds of nature (without any technology at all!).

In each 3-hour (re)workshop…

You’ll have the chance to ask as many questions as you like, or none at all, should you prefer to listen.

Simply sit and observe what is going on in nature, reflecting on a life lived at a slower pace – so you can once again begin to feel what is important in your life.

We’ll converse, we’ll sip herbal tea, we’ll dine on some baked snacks.

Most of all, we’ll be out in nature together (weather permitting) feeling what is in store for the day.

Consider it a digital-detox of sorts, one that can easily be extended beyond three hours.

Ask yourself:

Why do I feel the need to slow down: What in the modern world makes me feel so stressed? Why have I allowed myself to become so distanced from nature?

Be honest with yourself and let the answers really sink deep into your heart.

Once you are aware of how you feel, reach out and book a session with us (Cheryl, Csermely and Roland).

(re)Workshop details

While not too much in this world is certain at the moment, especially travel-wise, we can guarantee that we’ll be here for you, provided you contact us at least 5 days in advance if you are traveling from abroad.

If you are already here in Breb, approximately 24-hours notice would be nice!

Send an email to magyarcheryl@gmail.com with your inquiry (travel dates and workshop interests) and we’ll reply as soon as we are able. Or call (+40) 756319110.

Morning or afternoon workshops are available. For a single person, all the way up to a group of 10.

Cost: 200 RON per guest.

A 3-hour workshop includes tea, snack and conversation with the three of us.