Stillwater Refuge

06/30/2025

This cozy little cabin sleeps 6 & is recently available for the 4th of July! DM for booking or see our website link for more information.

05/26/2025

04/27/2025

Thank you for these amazing photos capturing the hive split!!! Beekeeping is fast becoming a new farming & photography favorite around here. We split a hive and installed a new one today, bringing our hive numbers up to three. Fingers crossed for another great honey harvest. 🍯 🐝

04/11/2025

This is the “reset” you need that you don’t know you need!!! Maybe your body is urging you to slow down & you’re not sure where to start? Join me this May and I’ll help you build the tools you need ♥️

04/07/2025

Only one weekend this year! Gather with a private group of women to destress & breathe while gaining tools to move forward. You don’t have to live frozen & tense. Won’t you join us? Bring a friend, coworker, or give as a gift. Tickets are available through our website STORE.

03/25/2025

03/24/2025

Claim your ticket now for this annual event. Limited to 6 participants. Tickets available in the Store or through our website.

03/16/2025

“It was an International Affair”

We had the distinct honor to host our dear friends children’s
Japanese- Mongolian/American wedding.

Guest in attendance represented the following countries:
Japan, Mongolia, Belarus, Germany, New Zealand, Ethiopia, Lithuania, Nepal, Vietnam, India, Chile, & various states from the US.

Thanks to portable Starlink, we were able to live stream the event for friends & family who couldn’t make the long trip.

Many blessings to the bride & groom.

*Professional photographs will be posted once released.

03/13/2025

(Life & Work update from Amy (in pink))

While battling a health crisis in 2020, I realized that my “self-management tools” weren’t doing me any good. Diving into new practices such as breathing and mindfulness, I became aware that my toughest challenge was to sit quietly, gather my wandering thoughts, guide my body to feel safe and rested, and to listen for God to speak. I’d spent the last 45 years of my life running & doing to escape what I was feeling & thinking.

“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10

How could I possibly know God when I couldn’t even be still long enough to know myself?

I encountered Christ-Centered Restorative Yoga and knew I had found something I wanted to add to my growing skill set. The classes helped me deepen my practice of getting still and being in His presence with focused attention. I pursued and completed certification through Living Soul Institute, which offers a Christ-centered yoga program.

I am now Yoga Certified RYT 200.

Christ-centered yoga offers a holistic approach that connects the mind, body, and spirit with God. It is founded on three pillars: movement, breathing, and contemplation. Contemplation means directing our attention to God. This can be done using various prayers, scripture, or imaginative traditions/techniques such as poetry. Lectio Divina and the Examen are two of the most notable traditions. Embodying faith transforms the mind, body, and spirit.
Being certified in Yoga and building upon a teaching background has enabled me to combine my gifts and love for art and nature into one experience:

To artfully and gently guide guests into the presence of God so that they may have a personal encounter with Him while developing the tools and confidence to continue the practice.

I love that it is called a practice, not perfection. “Practice” is a transitive verb, meaning it takes the action of the thing mentioned. To practice means to apply it to my life, perform it often, and build a habit.

I want to be still, contemplate scripture, and spend time with God as my daily habit.

Won’t you join me?

03/06/2025

Continuing with Ranch improvements! Newly rocked in swing base. Just in time for a WEDDING next weekend🙌🏻.

02/07/2025

Hunting season ended with a phenomenal hunt for this husband & wife duo! Her monster buck scored 195 1/8”!!!! His toad was 148”. Thank you guides & cook for all the hard work and time that went in to make this dream a reality🙌🏻. Already looking forward to the fall season.

02/01/2025

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.—Thoreau to Parker Pillsbury, 10 April 1861