Suntree Retreat 2024

https://theapsocietyorg.wordpress.com/news-and-events/suntree-retreat-2024/

 

Episode from 2022 Suntree: https://thewonderpodcast.podbean.com/e/live-from-suntree-retreat/

 

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Mark: Welcome back to The Wonder, Science Based Paganism. I'm your host, Mark,

Yucca: And I'm Yucca.

Mark: and today we have a really exciting group of people to talk about a really exciting upcoming event, which is the Sun Tree Retreat, which is the second of these retreats that we've held in person for atheopagans from all over the world who can come.

Held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it's going to be over Labor Day weekend this summer. So, I'd like to introduce our two panelists here, who were at the last one Rana and Michael.

Michael: Hello.

Yucca: Rana, we

Mark: I can't hear you at all.

Rana: Oh, thank you for having us.

Yucca: Welcome. And I think both of you've been on the podcast before, right? So, welcome back.

Michael: Oh, thanks. Can

Yucca: Yeah.

Michael: put that

Yucca: So let's, let's start with the, some of the details because that's coming up really soon, right? That's

Mark: It is,

Yucca: two months, which is not very long.

Mark: nope, not very long, especially if you have to get plane tickets and that kind of thing, so, Really encourage folks that want to go to get registered and get organized around it, because it's going to be a really good time. So, details. The event is August 30th, which is a Friday starting in the afternoon through noon ish or one o'clock or so 2nd.

Registration includes nine meals. As a part of your, your registration fee you also need to register for lodging, which is very affordable and you can find all the information about it by going to the Athe O Pagan Society website, which is the ap society.org, THE ap society.org,

Yucca: And the lodging has several diff oh,

Michael: notes as well for this

Yucca: absolutely, yeah, we'll put that in the show notes so that people can just go ahead and click on it. I was gonna say the lodging has several different options including tent camping, and yurt and

Mark: guest house, you're.

Yucca: I think it's dry camping, but you could, if you have an RV and you're in the area, you can do an RV too, is that correct?

Mark: Yes, there are no hookups, but but there is parking for RVs. We had a couple of people, at least one couple came last time, actually in a school bus,

Yucca: was really cool.

Mark: was converted. It was really cool.

Yucca: Yeah,

Mark: So, Michael and Rana we wanted to talk some about why this event was so cool last time and what we're looking forward to going into this next one at the end of this summer.

So why don't we start with kind of golden moments. Michael, you want to go ahead?

Michael: I wanted to just say beforehand, you mentioned the meals, and one of the high points of it was the options available. Like, every dietary requirement was accommodated, I think.

Mark: Yeah,

Michael: The catering team there are fantastic, and I think people shouldn't feel concerned about food at all because the options were great the food was really high quality I think everybody felt really good about the food, so that was an important, that was a real high point so just wanted to make sure we got that mentioned.

And,

Mark: Yeah, great. Thank you. And, and eating together was really a high point for me. Just sitting down for meals, you know, they had these round tables that I think seated eight or ten or something like that, and different combinations of people would sit together for different meals. And so we got to kn