A 2027 retreat · Asheville, North Carolina
An experience with Seraphina Solis & Craig Rose.
For men and women exploring what shaped them, what they choose now, and what they will create from that choice.
With Stacey, Joda, practitioners, elders and artists contributing to the gathering.
In development · Dates, pricing and booking details forthcoming.
From the docuseries into the field
Two Camp Mary gatherings brought people together through shared meals, forest walks, music, art and conversations that couldn’t have been scripted. That footage is becoming the Stay Curious docuseries.
For 2027, Craig is organizing the next chapter with Seraphina: The First Mirror / The Father Code. Small gatherings where her work, his creative practice and the experience of the land meet.
The docuseries opens a door. These gatherings are a way to walk through it.
The experience
Through our families. Through faith. Through love, approval, silence and expectation. We learned what made us worthy, what kept us safe and which parts of ourselves were welcome.
Some of those lessons gave us strength. Some became patterns we carried long after they stopped serving us.
The First Mirror is an invitation to look at what shaped you and choose what you carry forward.
Within that experience, The Father Code explores our relationship with authority, protection, approval, achievement and permission. It makes room for gratitude, grief and the questions we may never have asked.
Why we created this together
We come to this work through different lives and a shared question.
For Seraphina, that question runs through family patterns, addiction, sobriety and learning to trust herself. Her work brings writing, embodiment and creative practice into recognizing the beliefs beneath our choices.
For Craig, it runs through years of ministry, public identity, fatherhood and personal reinvention. His work involves listening closely, recognizing what someone is trying to express and helping them bring it into the world.
We are both still living these questions. We bring our experience, our practices and our willingness to have an honest conversation.
From reflection to creation
You don’t need to arrive with a project or a finished understanding of yourself. Through guided conversations, writing, embodiment and creative exploration, you’ll examine the stories you’ve carried and practice making choices that reflect who you are becoming.
The book opens the conversation. The workbook gives you room to make it personal. The experience brings that work into relationship and practice.
Digital Rose supports the creative process, helping you give an emerging idea a tangible form: writing, a song, a film concept, a personal practice or the beginning of a project. Where AI is useful, it becomes a tool for exploration. Your voice and judgment guide the work.
What shaped you?
What do you choose now?
What will you create from that choice?
Come explore with us.
Seraphina Solis & Craig Rose
Meet your hosts
Ancient Souls Collective
A certified breathwork and yoga leader, creator of Ancient Souls Collective, and author developing The Curse Breaker. Her work invites people to recognize inherited patterns, return to the body and act on what they know about the life they want to create.
Digital Rose · Creative host
Craig brings people, ideas, music, film and emerging technology into conversation. Here, he helps organize the gathering and gives people room to make something from what they discover through story, sound, creative tools and time in the woods.
Companion
Craig’s companion and part of the story. Sometimes the invitation to be present arrives on four paws.
The people around the circle
Bright Light Healing
Readings, intuitive reflection and space to listen.
Center for Conscious Biology
Conscious Biology and experiences centered on awareness and alignment.
With Sara
Part of the developing contributor circle. Practitioner details and availability will accompany each retreat announcement.
Frances
A contemporary fine artist working with reclaimed metal, rust and imperfection through a process she describes as alchemy. She brings the perspective of an artist who sees discarded materials as surfaces carrying history and possibility.
More voices on the land
Invited elders, musicians, artists and storytellers bring experience, creativity and perspective.
The contributor lineup and available sessions will be announced for each gathering.
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Stay nearby · Experience the land
The neighboring house and two-bedroom cottage provide the lodging setting for this next chapter. Guests can stay off-site, gather nearby and come onto Shope Creek Wilderness for scheduled experiences.
Room arrangements, lodging availability and what is included will be specified with each retreat. Time on the land is coordinated as part of the gathering.
Begin before you arrive
Seraphina’s book explores family patterns, sobriety, loss, embodiment and the decision to stop repeating the life you inherited. As she develops the book and the retreat work, follow her writing and begin with her free masterclass.
The curriculum
The First Mirror Book and The Father Code Workbook are the curriculum behind the gathering. Seraphina and Craig developed them together to guide the work people do on the land.
The First Mirror Book holds the story and the framework. The Father Code Workbook is the practice: prompts, reflections and exercises for recognizing inherited patterns and choosing what comes next.
Together they give the retreat its shape: reading and reflection before you arrive, and a shared language once we’re in the room.
The First Mirror / The Father Code · 2027
We’re developing this gathering for men and women now. Reach out to express interest in the experience or to explore contributing as an artist or practitioner.
Dates, pricing, lodging and the full program are forthcoming. Expressing interest starts a conversation; it does not reserve a place.
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