MTHR

COLLECTIVE

Yokayo Ranch, Ukiah

October 15-18th, 2026

A private, historic, and elegant natural ranch setting in Mendocino County, California.

Sunlight shining through tall trees in a dense forest.

YOKAYO RANCH

UKIAH

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 Yokayo Ranch 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!

Property images by Gretchen Gause Photography

Event images by Tina Swain Photography

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A group of women practicing meditation inside a tipi-style tent, with colorful singing bowls and candle lights on a rug.
Six women sitting on a cushion on the floor with their hands on their faces, appearing to be engaged in a mindful activity, in a cozy room with wooden walls and decorative items.
Outdoor patio area with a wooden structure, bar counter with three black metal chairs, potted plants including succulents and greenery, string lights, and trees in the background.
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schedule

*SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Thursday

Guest arrival/check-in:4:00 PM

Happy Hour: 4:30-6:00 PM

Dinner: 6:00-7:15 PM       

Sound Healing: 7:45-8:45 PM

Campfire Chat: 8:45-10:00 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Friday

Morning Wellness: 8:30-9:30 AM

Breakfast: 9:30-10:30 AM

Speaker Panel: 11-1:00 PM

Lunch: 1:15-2:15 PM

Break: 2:15-3:15 PM

Tea Workshop With Good Eggs: 3:15-4:30 PM

Happy Hour: 5:00-6:00 PM

Dinner: 6:00-7:00 PM

The Care Conversation: 7:30-8:45 PM

Campfire Chat: 8:45 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Saturday

Morning Wellness: 8:30-9:30 AM

Breakfast: 9:30-10:30 AM

Break: 10:30-11:30 AM

MTHR Activations: 11:30-2:30 PM

Lunch: 12:30-1:45 PM

Break: 2:00-4:00 PM

Garden Happy Hour: 4:00-5:00 PM

Garden Dinner: 5:00-6:15 PM

Spa Night: 7:00-8:30 PM

Campfire Chat: 9:00 PM

Lights out: 10:00 PM

Sunday

Grab & Go breakfast: 9-10:00 AM
Event ends + hugs goodbye: 10:00 AM

Check-out: 12:00 pm

the speakers:

Ellen Bennett

Holly Blakey

Jessica Malaty Rivera

Lizzy Mathis

bios

  • FOUNDER, AUTHOR, HOST, PRODUCER

    Ellen Marie Bennett is the founder and Chief Brand Officer of @hedleyandbennett, a trailblazing kitchen essentials company. A multi-hyphenate, Ellen balances her roles as a business owner, chef, TV personality, home renovator, wife and mother of two. Half Mexican, half English, a passion for cooking led Ellen to Mexico City for culinary school at age 18. She returned to LA to cook professionally in some of the city’s best kitchens, including the two-Michelin-starred restaurant Providence, where she realized there was ample room for improvement in the standard kitchen workwear. Starting with only $300, Hedley & Bennett launched with a single apron, reimagining the kitchen staple with professional-grade quality that was also stylish. Now, the multimillion-dollar company has grown beyond its beloved apron collection to revamp even more kitchen essentials with pro-grade knives, kitchen linens, and more. In addition to being an acclaimed author from her memoir Dream First, Details Later, Ellen’s debut home-design show, Kitchen Glow Up, premiered in May 2024 and returns for its second season in 2025.
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  • Holly Blakey is the founder of @breathing.room.homeand a mom of three, known for helping women create homes that feel supportive, calm, and truly livable.
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    For over a decade, she has helped her clients transform their homes into supportive, functional refuges. Spaces designed not for perfection, but for peace, ease, and everyday life. While her work is rooted in the Bay Area, she has also served clients on the East Coast and in Los Angeles, bringing her signature blend of practical systems and eye for beauty to diverse households.
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    Holly’s expertise has led to collaborations with leading brands, including Crate & Barrel, The Container Store, Grove Collaborative, and The Home Depot. She also developed a successful product line with Sugar Paper Los Angeles, creating paper goods and organizational tools designed to make everyday life lighter and more manageable.
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    At the heart of Holly’s philosophy is the belief that organization is not about chasing Pinterest-perfect pantries or color-coded closets. It’s about reclaiming mental space, protecting what matters most, and building flexible systems that grow with you and your current and future housemates. Her work has been featured on HGTV, Good Morning America, Domino, Real Simple, Goop, and Better Homes & Gardens.
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    When she’s not working with clients or sharing her approach online, you’ll likely find Holly in her own cozy Bay Area home, balancing life with her husband, three kids, and their dog, Ozzy—living the same rhythms of home, chaos, and calm that inspire her work every day.

  • Jessica Malaty Rivera is an infectious disease epidemiologist and award winning science communicator. She has dedicated the last 20 years of her career to emerging infectious disease surveillance, public health policy, and vaccine advocacy. Her specialty is in translating complex public health science into impactful, judgement-free, and accessible information for wide audiences. In 2021, Jessica was named one of the "World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" by Fortune Magazine for her work on COVID-19 research and data communication and in 2022, Jessica was named of the Top 50 Leaders in Digital Health by Rock Health. In 2024, she was nominated for her first Peabody Award as the host of the COVID Tracking Project Podcast. Between her day jobs and being a full-time mother to three little kids, she also dedicates several hours a week to promoting science literacy and debunking misinformation on Instagram (@jessicamalatyrivera) and on Substack

  • Lizzy Mathis is a television host, executive producer, entrepreneur, and mother of three. She is the co-creator, co-host, and executive producer of Roku’s Honest Renovations and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Cool Mom Co., a lifestyle platform created for modern women navigating motherhood, ambition, relationships, and real life. Through her content and podcast, The Cool Mom Code, Lizzy brings warmth, humor, and refreshing honesty to conversations about raising a family while continuing to evolve as a woman.

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: KINRGY

We are thrilled to welcome KINRGY back as the official dance sponsor of MTHR, with our sessions led by the incredible Christine Engelfried.

Christine is a certified KINRGY Guide, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and breathwork facilitator with a background in dance and somatic healing. She’s passionate about helping women reconnect to their bodies, release stored stress, and cultivate joy through mindful movement.Founded by Julianne Hough, KINRGY is a transformative movement method that blends dance, breathwork, and imagination into one electrifying practice.

The signature KINRGY method is designed to awaken your energy, unlock self-expression, and create deeper mind-body connection through four elements: Earth (grounding), Fire (activating), Water (flowing), and Air (expansive). It’s not about perfect choreography, it’s about moving your body freely and stepping into your most vibrant self.

Steeped In Local Tea

A tea workshop led by Nandini Novarr from Good Eggs

Build your own tea, inspired by ingredients with a story. A calming, hands-on tea ritual that invites you to slow down, explore real ingredients, and build a cup around how you want to feel. Every ingredient tells a small story of flavor, seasonality, and the people and places behind our food. Good Eggs Grocery brings it to life with fresh citrus, herbs, ginger, local honey, and seasonal produce, because better food starts at the source.

Unwind With West & Wilder

A happy hour without the hangover. Join us for NA pours from West + Wilder, good snacks, and even better company. Grab a glass, find your people, and get a little Wilder.

The Care Conversation

On motherhood, health, and the messy middle

Motherhood changes everything. Our bodies, our nervous systems, our identities, our hormones, our capacity to hold it all. And yet mothers are so often expected to navigate these shifts without enough care, support, or honest conversation.

At our Ukiah retreat, we're bringing together three women (a functional medicine practitioner, a psychotherapist, and a pelvic health specialist) for an intimate, unscripted conversation about the things we're often never told about our bodies and minds through motherhood and beyond. So often we treat the mind, the body, and the emotional self like they're separate things, when really none of them can fully heal without the others.

This isn't a lecture. It's more of a living room conversation, organic and collaborative, shaped by whatever questions the room brings that day. Expect real talk on hormones and perimenopause, sleep, intimacy, anxiety, identity shifts, emotional labor, and the physical and emotional changes that are so easy to dismiss or explain away.

Come with your questions, your stories, or just your curiosity. There's no set agenda, just space to connect the dots between how you feel, what's happening in your body, and what real care can actually look like.

Tracey O’Shea, FNP-C, FMP-AC

Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner

Hormone Expert 

Sahar Martinez, Psy. D, LMFT, PMH-C 

Carlin Reaume, OTD, OTR/L, PMH-C, PCES, RYT

Occupational Therapist / Maternal Wellness Specialist

Journals provided by:

Forager Project is bringing a little extra goodness to MTHR this year as the sponsor of our yogurt bar and presenting sponsor of our Beadable Spoon Workshop. Attendees will design their own custom beaded spoon—plus a few other culinary utensils—to take home, because apparently even our silverware deserves a glow-up.

headshots by tina swain photography

Bloom, Harvest, Grow

A sensory wine, flower, and fruit experience

What if becoming a better wine taster had less to do with knowing the “right” words, and more to do with remembering what you already know?

Led by Alex Sarovich, founder of Own Rooted Hospitality, this immersive experience explores the connection between scent, taste, and memory. An Advanced Sommelier, VinePair’s 2023 Sommelier of the Year, and a 2026 Wine Enthusiast Rising Star, Alex brings fifteen years of hospitality experience to the MTHR table.

Together, we’ll move through three moments inspired by the seasons of motherhood: Bloom, Grow, and Harvest. Each begins with the fragrance of a flower and the taste of seasonal fruit before discovering those same notes echoed in a wine from a women-led producer—using memory and sensory association to help us experience what’s in the glass in an entirely new way.

Thoughtful non-alcoholic pairings will accompany each moment, inviting everyone to smell, taste, remember, and experience the journey together.

No tasting expertise required. Just your senses.

spa night

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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.

MTHR has partnered with Good Eggs to source the ingredients for our delicious, thoughtful meals, connecting our table with incredible local farms and producers.

Handcrafted, plant focused meals provided by Chef Amy.

what’s included:

  • 4 days, three nights of accommodations

  • All on-site meals + drinks + alcohol

  • All activities + workshops

  • Headshots

  • Our highly coveted swag bag

  • Freebies offered throughout the weekend

what’s not included:

  • Airfare

  • Transportation to/from airport

  • Any offsite meals/drinks/activities

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.

Elegant outdoor dining setup with white tablecloths, floral centerpieces, wine glasses, and string lights in a wooded area.

CLOSEST AIRPORTS TO YOKAYO RANCH:

  • Santa Rosa: 63 miles, 1 hour drive

  • Oakland: 131 miles, 2 hour drive

  • San Francisco: 138 miles, 2.5 hour drive

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