Meet me at Sunset: Nature and Cacao

MEET ME AT SUNSET

A Sunset Walk + Cacao Experience

Arrival time: 5:45pm - 6:00pm

event time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Cindy by Nature × Sage Cacao

Cindy and Chynna, two longtime nature lovers, invite you to spend an evening moving through the landscape, watching the light change, and sharing a cup of cacao at sunset.

The Beckoning Path is a unique landscape designed to encourage a relationship with nature, movement, and presence. Created as a retreat for Tai Chi and meditation, the property brings together woodland paths, water, open spaces, and architecture that invites you to experience the landscape from different perspectives.

For Meet Me at Sunset, we’ll explore the property on foot as the light begins to change. We’ll take a gentle sunset walk through the landscape, noticing the season, the trees, the water, and the changing sky as we make our way toward twilight. We’ll then gather indoors with a cup of ceremonial cacao and take some time to settle, reflect, and share in the atmosphere of the evening.

This evening is meant to be shared. Bring someone you love for a date night, come with a friend you’ve been meaning to spend more time with, or make it a date with yourself. It’s an opportunity to step out of the usual routine and give your attention to the person you’re with, the place you’re in, and the evening unfolding around you.

Come for the sunset and connect with the medicine of cacao. Leave feeling a little more connected to yourself , nature and others

What To Bring: 

Water bottle. Outdoor and weather appropriate footwear. Warm layer for our time outside. 

Directions & Parking: If it is your 1st time at the retreat center , please read the direction tips!

Beckoning Path

15 Middle Patent Road

Armonk, NY 10504

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Important Direction Tips:

If this is your first time to Beckoning Path please allow extra time to ensure getting here prior to the start time of class. Some participants have trouble finding the location.

Be sure to navigate to Armonk or North Castle and NOT Bedford.

If you are coming from Route 22/Bedford Road, the entrance to the shared private driveway will be on your right and you will be veering onto it.

If you are coming from Bedford-Banksville Road, the entrance will be on your left and an extremely sharp left turn.Please use caution!

This is what you will see at the bottom of the driveway!

As you drive past them, keep winding your way on the main driveway. First, you will pass 1 driveway on your right, then you will pass 2 driveways on your left. Continue until you see a gravel parking area on your left and a pond through the trees on your right. After parking in the gravel lot, walk the rest of the way up the driveway to the house (shown below). There are also small brown arrows pointing the way up the driveway. 

Rain or Shine!

If the weather changes, our time and activities will shift with it, while still creating opportunities to connect with nature and experience the space in a different way.

Space will be open to 15 people :)

About Your Guides: Cindy Olsen and Chynna Dee Andrada

Cindy Olsen is a lifelong lover of the natural world and, in 2018, became the founder of Cindy By Nature, LLC. 

As a certified forest therapy and mindful outdoor guide, she has been helping others experience the profound physical, mental, and emotional benefits of connecting with nature in a deeper and more reciprocal way. Cindy leads award-winning mindful outdoor experiences and retreats. She also leads meditation and mindful communication classes at Pause To Be Present Meditation. Cindy blends her certifications with the Kripalu School of Mindful Outdoor Leadership, the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, and Mindful Schools to create meaningful experiences that inspire presence and connection.

Chynna Dee Andrada is a registered nurse, 800+ hour RYT yoga teacher, sound healing practitioner, and founder of Sage Cacao. She has practiced and taught multiple body practices for over a decade, with studies spanning Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin, Neurogenic Yoga, Ayurveda, Reiki, and Mayan and Peruvian traditions.

Her work is rooted in exploring our relationship with the body, nature, plants, and one another. Through Sage, she brings together ceremonial cacao, movement, sound, and time outdoors to create experiences that invite people to step out of their usual routines and become more present to where they are. Chynna is especially interested in the ways plants and natural environments can become part of our everyday practices of connection and reflection.