MTHR

COLLECTIVE

Catskills, New York

November 5-8th, 2026

A lively Catskills getaway located on Shandelee Mountain, near the quaint town of Livingston Manor.

Located 2 hours north of New York City in the western Catskills, the Arnold House is a country retreat set on 80 acres of land with custom trails. Staying at The Arnold is an experience more akin to staying with old friends than a traditional hotel.

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THE ARNOLD HOUSE,

CATSKILLS

MTHR is on the move! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting two MTHR Collective retreats this year:

This page is dedicated to The Arnold House location, and below you’ll find information about the different accommodation types, pricing, travel logistics, speakers (announcements coming soon!), and a sample schedule.

In order to accommodate as many attendees as this property allows, single occupancy rooms will be extremely limited this year, so we encourage you to bring some mama friends or opt to be paired with another solo traveler. We are so excited to meet you, mama!

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the speakers:

Brooke Weinstein

Jeni Britton

LaTonya Yvette

Annalee Grace

Lauren Bongiorno

bios

  • NEURO-SENSORY BASED PARENTING EXPERT + PODCAST HOST

    @brookeweinst is a world-renowned expert in neuroscience-based sensory and emotional regulation. With a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy, she specializes in brain function, trauma, and sensory and emotional regulation, offering practical tools with transformative effects globally. She empowers individuals to craft fulfilling lives through telehealth, group programs, on-demand workshops, podcasts, YouTube vlogs, and a daily social media presence. Imagine Dr. B as a personal trainer for your brain, guiding mental health complexities with evidence-based strategies.
    A self-made woman, she established her first pediatric clinic in 2013, raising two premature babies of her own, and is now widowed. Transforming lives one human at a time, Dr. B is making significant strides in reshaping the landscape of mental health through sensory and emotional regulation. She has been featured in TODAY Parents, scaryMommy, Motherly, and Forbes, as well as a 2023 Brainz CREA Global Award recipient.

  • Entrepreneur • Bestselling Author • Founder of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams & Floura

    Jeni Britton is a pioneering entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, and one of the most original voices in American food and brand culture. She founded Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams in 2002 in an Ohio farmers’ market, transforming it into a national phenomenon with over 90 scoop shops and retail presence in thousands of grocery stores across the U.S. Known for its inventive flavors, ingredient integrity, and joyful design, Jeni’s helped define a new era of modern American food brands.

    A champion of sustainability and human-centered innovation, Jeni’s latest venture, Floura & Co., reinvents fresh produce trimmings—like watermelon rind and apple cores—into delicious, fiber-rich snacks that help close the fiber gap and combat chronic illness in America. As with Jeni’s, the mission is bigger than food: it’s about well-being, beauty, and reclaiming what nourishes us.

    Jeni is a 2017 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a U.S. Culinary Diplomat. Her leadership style blends artistry and pragmatism, intuition and data. She speaks powerfully on entrepreneurship, creativity, sustainability, brand-building, and the power of pleasure and beauty to transform lives and businesses.

    She lives in Columbus, Ohio, and spends as much time in the forest as possible.

  • CIVIL ENGINEER, CONTENT CREATOR, FOUNDER

    Annalee is a civil engineer, content creator, and founder of Along the Waves, a motherhood platform built to help moms feel less alone. After becoming a mom herself, she began sharing relatable, honest, and humorous glimpses into motherhood online, growing a community through her storytelling and emotional transparency. Through Along the Waves, Annalee is creating spaces that remind moms everywhere they’re riding the waves of motherhood together.

  • LaTonya Yvette is a Brooklyn-born writer, multimedia storyteller, and parent to a pre-teen and a teen. She is the author of three books, including Woman of Color, The Hair Book, and Stand In My Window, a book about home, safety, and inheritance. She is the steward of The Mae House, a creative residency in upstate New York. Her work lives at the intersection of care, space, and creative practice

  • Lauren Bongiorno is the Founder and CEO of Risely Health, a seven-figure health coaching company she built without outside funding.

    Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age seven, Lauren began her career coaching people with diabetes in 2015, years before health coaching became widely recognized within the diabetes space. What started with Lauren coaching clients herself has grown into a company that has supported thousands of people with type 1 diabetes and their families.

    Over the last decade, Lauren has built Risely across both the B2C and B2B sides of the business, earning the trust of a highly engaged consumer community while developing partnerships with some of the largest companies in healthcare. She has worked with brands including Dexcom, Insulet, Abbott, and Medtronic, and has been featured on the TODAY Show and other notable media outlets.

    At the center of Risely’s growth has been Lauren’s ability to build a personal brand alongside a company brand. Today, she reaches more than one million people each month through social media and hosts the Reclaim Your Rise podcast, while continuing to lead the strategy and growth of Risely.
    Lauren speaks about building authority in an emerging category, growing a founder-led company, building brands that earn trust from both consumers and corporations, and staying close to your own judgment as the number of voices around your business grows.

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sample schedule

*SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Thursday

Guest arrival/check-in:4:00 PM

Happy Hour: 4:30-5:30 PM

Dinner: 5:45-6:45 PM       

Sound Healing: 7:45-8:45 PM

Campfire Chat: 8:45 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Friday

Morning Wellness: 8:30-9:45 AM

Breakfast: 9:45-10:30 AM

Speaker Panel: 11:00-1:00 PM

Lunch: 1:00-2:00 PM

Break: 2:00-4:30 PM

Happy Hour: 4:30-5:30 PM

Dinner: 5:30-6:30 PM

Spa Night: 7:00-8:30 PM

Campfire Chat: 8:30-10 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Saturday

Morning Wellness: 8:30-9:45 AM

Breakfast: 9:45-10:45 AM

The Edit: A Moodboard Experience : 11:00-12:30 PM

Lunch: 12:30-1:30 PM 

Bead Appetit Craft Project: 1:30-2:30 PM

Break: 2:30-4:00 PM

Mahjong + Happy Hour: 4:00-6:00 PM 

Dinner: 6:15-7:15 PM

Moon Glow Astrology Workshop: 7:45-8:45 PM

Campfire Chat: 8:45-10:00 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Sunday

Grab & Go breakfast: 9:30-10:30 AM

Check-out + hugs goodbye: 11:00 AM

sound bath

This year, we’re thrilled to welcome back Dana from Methods & Rituals, who will be guiding us through a new and deeply restorative sound bath:

Cellular Renewal Sound Bath: 

A frequency-based ritual for skin regeneration and nervous system restoration. This immersive sound experience is designed with one intention: to support the body’s natural ability to repair and renew the skin at a cellular level.

Throughout the session, every element of the environment has been thoughtfully curated to support skin health. Crystal singing bowls tuned to 528 Hz — often referred to as the “DNA repair frequency”, will guide us into a deeply restorative state where the nervous system can shift from stress into repair. In this relaxed state, the body is better able to support circulation, lymphatic flow, and the regenerative processes that contribute to resilient, radiant skin.

This is more than a sound bath. It is a sensory ritual designed to nurture the body’s largest organ — the skin — from the inside out.

Morning Wellness

We are thrilled to have Chyla Walsh join us as our yoga instructor this year! @chylawalsh is a yoga teacher, mother, founder of @female_rebels and co-owner of @somaenergetics. A devoted yoga teacher since 2012, Chyla weaves together her love of community, somatic movement, sound, breath, meditation, tuning forks, and sacred chanting into practices that invite deeper embodiment, healing, and self-discovery.

Through her work with Soma Energetics and her years of facilitating women’s transformational spaces, Chyla is passionate about supporting others to reconnect with their authentic essence and remember the wholeness that already lives within them. As a devoted mother of four, she brings a deep understanding of the beauty, complexity, and sacredness of motherhood.

She is ecstatic to share Yin Yoga and Tuning Forks, Embody + Empower Vinyasa Yoga, as well as self-care with tuning forks and sacred chanting with us in the Catskills. Her classes are an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and create space for the body, heart, and spirit to come home.

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The Edit

Keep what feels like you. Cut what doesn’t. Make room for the rest.

Hosted by The Process Wellness Foundation and led by licensed therapist Emily Pelky, The Edit is an invitation to step outside the roles and expectations that so often define you, and reconnect with who you are and how you want to feel in this season of life. Rather than creating a traditional vision board focused on goals or manifestation, we’ll turn our attention inward: What feels like you? What have you outgrown? What deserves more room? And what’s pulling you forward?

Using guided reflection, curated imagery, and collage materials, you’ll create a personal mood board centered not on what you want to achieve, but on how you want your life to feel. You'll craft your mood boards between the pages of the Open Journal, designed by Wilde House Paper and provided by The Process Wellness Foundation. Emily will guide you as you follow the images, words, colors, textures, and ideas you’re drawn to, and allow them to tell you something about where you are and where you may be headed.

There’s no right way to approach The Edit. Keep it light and intuitive, or use the process to explore something deeper. Emily will also offer optional one-card tarot pulls throughout the workshop for anyone who wants another point of reflection.

Journals provided by Wilde House Paper

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MTHR CRAFTS

This year’s Catskills craft projects are equal parts cute + useful. We’ll be making custom beaded spoons to take home, plus personalized name charms for your BetterMe water bottles—our much cuter version of a name tag for the weekend.

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Rituals for Radiant Aging

Join Dana Waldie, founder of Methods & Rituals, holistic esthetician for an immersive skincare ritual experience designed to support women through the evolving changes of skin and wellness as we age.

Featuring OSMOSIS Beauty, this workshop focuses on the unique shifts that occur in the skin during perimenopause and beyond — including dryness, inflammation, sensitivity, hormonal breakouts, pigmentation, collagen loss, and changes in skin resilience. Even for women who may not yet be experiencing perimenopause, this class explores the powerful connection between aging, stress, hormones, and skin health, along with the key active ingredients that help support healthy, radiant skin long-term.

Guests will learn how ingredients like retinal, peptides, antioxidants, and barrier-supportive actives work to strengthen, protect, and renew the skin while being guided through a restorative facial ritual experience rooted in mindfulness and nervous system support.

Blending advanced holistic skincare with intentional self-care practices, this experience invites women to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and approach aging through the lens of nourishment, resilience, and ritual.

Moon Glow:

Astrology Workshop

We’re so excited to welcome professional astrologer Michaele Lehman of @skyandseaastrology to MTHR Catskills for Moon Glow

This immersive workshop is all about getting to know your personal astrological Moon sign—and what it can reveal about what you need for fulfillment, growth, happiness, and ultimately, freedom. Through interactive conversation, guided worksheets, and a closing ceremony, Michaele will take us beyond the astrology we usually hear about and into the part of our charts connected to our emotional world, intuition, and deepest needs.

Consider this your invitation to understand yourself just a little bit better.

what’s included:

  • 4 days, three nights of accommodations

  • All on-site meals + drinks + alcohol

  • All activities + workshops

  • off-site dinners+activities

  • Our highly coveted swag bag

  • Freebies offered throughout the weekend

what’s not included:

  • Airfare

  • Transportation to/from airport

cancellation policy:

Due to the logistics of our all-inclusive event, we are unable to offer refunds once you spot is secured. We can, however, transfer your spot to another individual if there is a wait list, or you can sell your spot with prior approval from the MTHR team. Visit our FAQ page to read more about cancellations.

travel info.

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CLOSEST AIRPORTS TO THE ARNOLD HOUSE:

  • Stewart International Airport (SWF) — 65 miles (driving estimated: 1 hr 20–30 min)

  • Sidney Municipal Airport (N23 / SXY) — 55-65 miles (driving estimated: 1 hr 13 min drive)

  • Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) — 119 miles (driving estimated: 2 hr 5–25 min)

  • John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) — 117 miles (driving estimated: 2 hr 14 min)

  • Albany International Airport (ALB) — 121 miles (driving estimated: 2 hr 15–25 min)

For shuttle service coordination or carpooling logistics, we recommend using our MTHR Attendees Facebook page to connect with other attendees. NO GLAMPER LEFT BEHIND!