FLY FISHING FOR THE SOUL
2024 RETREATS
• Black Canyon Float, CO
• Eagle Rock Lodge, OR
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Graced By WATERS
Fish for Wellness was inspired by the book, Graced by Waters, written by FfW founder John Dietsch. The book and FfW retreats explore our connection to the outdoors through the prism of fly fishing and investigate its transformative and healing power to inspire wellness.
Our Mission
Our Retreats
Our Retreats
We live in stressful times and wrestle with difficult questions about ourselves, others, and our communities. Fish for Wellness offers unconventional fly fishing trips and thematic retreats, with a different guest leader each outing, to help promote connection with ourselves and others while enjoying some of the world's most beautiful r
We live in stressful times and wrestle with difficult questions about ourselves, others, and our communities. Fish for Wellness offers unconventional fly fishing trips and thematic retreats, with a different guest leader each outing, to help promote connection with ourselves and others while enjoying some of the world's most beautiful rivers and productive fisheries! For decades, therapeutic fly fishing retreats have been highly successful in giving people with challenges like PTSD, cancer, at-risk youth or addiction a means of dealing with stress. FFW borrows from these highly effective formats and offers a purposeful fly fishing experience as a means to reduce stress and foster peace of mind both on and off the river.... The difference is that our programs are for anyone willing to pick up a fly rod, a pen and a conversation that perhaps they were unwilling to have before stepping into the river (no one ever steps into a river twice)! Inspired by the book written by our founder, John Dietsch, called GRACED BY WATERS: Personal Essays on Fly Fishing and the Transformative Power of Nature, our trips and retreats are based on the philosophy that fly fishing on a river in pristine environments provides a unique capacity to be in the moment, giving us new insights for healing and self-improvement that will stick with us long after the journey. FISH FOR WELLNESS programs offer transformative outdoor experiences and mindfulness practices that improve lives, families and businesses on and off the river. Don't just fish... Fish for Wellness!
Our Retreats
Our Retreats
Our Retreats
Our programs and trips are designed for any group or individual interested in developing mindful practices based on single-minded focus to help promote deep personal insight and wellbeing. We combine fly fishing, meditation, journaling, reflection and group sharing to investigate how our fly fishing experiences can provide us with the ve
Our programs and trips are designed for any group or individual interested in developing mindful practices based on single-minded focus to help promote deep personal insight and wellbeing. We combine fly fishing, meditation, journaling, reflection and group sharing to investigate how our fly fishing experiences can provide us with the very lessons we need most: every river has something to tell us about ourselves.: Rhythmic fly casting promotes calm, the white noise of the river relieves stress, and staying laser-focused on the fly fosters awareness. In addition to offering planned retreats for the general public and specific groups, we also work with individuals, businesses and organizations to build customized fly fishing programs (e.g. for conferences and events) to target specific needs.
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Our TeaM
Our Retreats
Our TeaM
Our experienced team of facilitators, guides, creatives and mindfulness-teachers help our participants tap into the power of the river and channel that renewed energy into everyday living. With the help of professional guides, counselors and creatives we use the art and science of fly fishing, as a tool to boil down life's most complex p
Our experienced team of facilitators, guides, creatives and mindfulness-teachers help our participants tap into the power of the river and channel that renewed energy into everyday living. With the help of professional guides, counselors and creatives we use the art and science of fly fishing, as a tool to boil down life's most complex problems into the simplest of truths. Whether a rank beginner or world renowned expert, before, during and at the end of each fishing day we briefly reflect on the simple ups and downs that take place on the water and use those experiences as insights for what is going on in our lives; the river never lies, When we learn to listen, its whispers often help us to foster the confluence of mind, body and soul. And that is how we fish for wellness
Our trips and programs are inspired by the book, Graced by Waters (www.gracedbywaters.com), by John Dietsch
