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INITIATE PACKAGE
Foundational Coursework · Core Kits · Communal Immersion
The Initiate Package is the most accessible entry point into the retreat, created for licensed estheticians who want full participation in the core educational experience within a communal, learning-centered environment.
This package includes access to all core retreat classes, standard class kits, and shared group experiences designed to support connection, foundational skill-building, and collective immersion throughout the week.
*Flexible payment options available at checkout (Klarna & AfterPay)
Immersive Coursework · Integrated Kits · Restorative Experience
The Practitioner Package is designed for licensed estheticians who want full immersion in the retreat experience with added comfort, integration, and professional refinement—without the intensity or exclusivity of advanced-level coursework.
This package includes access to all core retreat classes, enhanced practitioner kits, and a balance of structured education with restorative group experiences that support learning, embodiment, and connection.
*Flexible payment options available at checkout (Klarna & AfterPay)
*Flexible payment options available at checkout (Klarna & AfterPay)
ALCHEMIST PACKAGE (VIP)
Advanced Coursework · Expanded Kits · Exclusive Access
The Alchemist Package is the most comprehensive option of the retreat, created for estheticians seeking advanced education, expanded professional tools, and exclusive access to higher-level coursework.
This package includes all core retreat classes, plus exclusive access to Advanced Classes held Sunday–Wednesday, reserved only for Alchemist attendees. Catered lunch is provided each day Advanced Classes are held to support uninterrupted, full-day immersion.
*Flexible payment options available at checkout (Klarna & AfterPay)
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with
forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.
Wendell Berry
MEET YOUR Host
April Root
Licensed Esthetician & Retreat Host
Founder, Wildwood Skin Labs
I was raised where the fog clings to the ridgeline and medicine grows wild without labels.
Where hymns were handed down like recipes, and healing was more instinct than instruction.
My work as an esthetician is rooted in that same Appalachian knowing—slow, sacred, and sovereign. I don’t believe in separating the skin from the soul, or the body from the land. What I teach comes from lived wisdom, herbal lineage, and a reverence for creation that can't be learned in a classroom.
I created Wildwood to help estheticians remember what they already carry: ancestral touch, gut-deep discernment, and the holy work of tending to others.
If you’re drawn to the backwoods path—the one lined with moss, gospel, and grit—you’ll find me there.