Whispering Winds Retreat

04/07/2026

The copper healing pyramid in the Moon Garden.

03/27/2026

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03/25/2026

Whispering Winds Retreat is networking with local Holistic Healers within a 50 mile radius of Spring Valley, MN. These are reputable practitioners who we are happy to bring to our guests.

Pathwalker Quantum Healing LLC

Phone/WhatsApp: +1 612-360-2341

Email: [email protected]

Website: HTTPS://www.PathwalkerQuantumHealing.com

Offerings:

Holistic & Intergrative Energy Practitioner
- Reiki
- Quantum Shifting
- DNA Encoding & Activation Practitioner
- Zero-Point Activations Practitioner
- Shamanic Healing Practitioner

Certified Hypnotherapist
- Regression
- Guided Meditation

NLP Life Coach

Eye Movement Integration Practitioner

Spirituality Coach

Author - Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/author/pathwalker34

I offer Individual and Group Program Sessions

Steven McCann, founder of Pathwalker Quantum Healing, LLC, offers integrative spiritual healing for people who have already done therapy, self-development, or spiritual work but still feel a quiet sense that something deeper remains unresolved. His work blends energy healing, hypnosis, Reiki, intuitive guidance, and shamanic perspectives to help people reconnect with the parts of themselves that were pushed aside through stress, trauma, or life transitions. Rather than focusing on fixing or analyzing endlessly, his approach centers on helping the nervous system and inner awareness realign so healing becomes embodied rather than intellectual.

Through grounded spiritual guidance and carefully facilitated inner work, Steven creates a space where participants can explore the deeper layers of their personal journey—reconnecting with intuition, restoring inner coherence, and rediscovering their authentic sense of direction. His work is especially supportive for thoughtful seekers, helpers, and leaders who feel called to move beyond surface-level healing and return to a deeper relationship with themselves, Spirit, and the natural rhythm of life.

03/01/2026

TOP 3 2026 Retreat Center in Fillmore County

Whispering Winds Retreat is a gl/camping micro eco retreat in Spring Valley, MN. Located just 3 blocks from downtown Spring Valley, it features just 3 eclectic, artsy, rustic camping pods located around a large outdoor kitchen. The property features a private dog park, stocked trout stream, horses, ducks, chickens and bunnies roam the 3 acre sanctuary. Booking through Airbnb and Hipcamp, the average stay is under $100 a night, 420 friendly, adults only please. The Alice in Wonderland theme, with fairy gardens, and extensive flower gardens all sit on a Permaculture landscape that includes a Food Forest.

Beverly Sandlin considers herself the Steward of this unique and beautiful property. She has been a Superhost with Airbnb for 10 years and has over 600 5 star reviews. Last year's shift to a Retreat has been prompted by guests who view this property as having “Good vibes and a nature healing atmosphere”. Beverly says the top three words used in reviews are “Magical, Whimsical, and Healing”. Intimate Bespoke Retreats are encouraged. A 3 Sisters retreat is already booked in May. Ideal for friends, family, and small learning or business get-togethers.

For more information, please contact Beverly by texting 507-438-1315 – she does not carry a cell phone for peace of mind. Also known as the Fossil Lady, as seen on Minnesota Bound, hosting private fossil hunts where you are guaranteed to find fossils older than the dinosaurs. Her email is [email protected] Website: Whisperingwindsretreat.com and Facebook: Whispering Winds Retreat, Spring Valley, MN.

02/26/2026

WWR is a Top 3 Retreat in Fillmore County!

Over 600 5 Star Reviews on Airbnb!

If you have been here, PLEASE leave a 5 star review on Google! :-D

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01/25/2026

I am happy to announce that Dragonfly Wisdom Healing will be partnering with Whispering Winds Retreat for the 2026 April through October season! Jenni brings with her some wonderful healing energy and intuitive thinking! She will be handling the retreat portion of WWR and the solo retreaters. Ask her about Bespoke Retreats! Please go to Jenni's website for more information! :-D

Other Partnerships potentially available at WWR:

RETAIL OUTLET in the front of the barn. If you are creating anything that works with wellness, holistic living, or sustainable living/homesteading and have dreamed of a little storefront, this could be your opportunity! Potential to live and work on the property. Required to be open at least on Saturdays during the season. People here to make sales on other days or by appt.

GARDENING... Whispering Winds is three acres of gardens! Permaculture landscape, Food Forest, flower gardens galore, buffer gardens along the creek, meadows, glens, trails, that all need to be weeded. Medicinal and wild edibles gardens need to be replanted. Food gardens are yearly. Lots of container gardens. And herb gardens with ma*****na starts. Beverly is a Master Gardener who can teach you a wealth of knowledge! Potential to live and work on the property!

The Rabbit Village needs a fresh look! Bunnies, chickens, ducks and the occasional goat! LOL :-D A homesteader's dream with building materials already onsite!

We always need help, especially spring and fall, here at WWR. It could be weeding, helping build or remodel some project, or maybe you would like to add to the Fairy Village? We trade time at the Retreat for help at the Retreat! Chat with Beverly about opportunities here.

Artist-in-Residence Opportunities! I would love to incorporate some sculptural art, that won't wash away in the next flood :-), into the gardens. You may have a piece already we can trade or come and create! Lots of materials to reuse. Our motto is Reuse, Recycle, Reduce! Interactive art for creative play? Chat with Beverly about possibilities!

Create your own position! Beverly is the one to talk about this opportunity! :-D

And of course, we do small intimate custom and solo retreats! The setting is perfect for friends getting together, "just the girls" retreats, and couple's reconnecting in nature. Solo retreats are ideal for anyone struggling with an issue or working through old trauma wounds. Jenni can help you with all of these! :-D

12/28/2025

INVITATION!!! OPPORTUNITIES!!! HELP!!!

Actively seeking partnerships!

I will be 71 come spring. Ten years as an Airbnb with over 600 Five Star Reviews! A map of the retreat portion of the property is attached. Whispering Winds cannot open for the 2026 season without YOUR HELP!

Can we create together a COMMUNITY of individuals who desire a life more connected to the land, to each other and to uplift one another to live their Best Life?

Whispering Winds is a private retreat set in 3 acres of gardens, pasture, and wildflower meadows, bordered by a stocked trout stream and surrounded on 3 sides by woods. It is only 3 blocks from downtown Spring Valley which is a community of 2,500 located 22 miles south of Rochester, MN, home to Mayo Clinic and world class medicine. This is a micro-retreat which pays all the bills for the year in 6 months, averaging 15 hours a week of work (both cleaning up after guests and handling the Airbnb acct.), if the money is handled properly. :-) The focus is learning to live our best life. The retreat offers a Nature Healing experience and access to avenues of Holistic Healing. I also have a small store in the barn and I give Fossil, Gem, and Crystal Hunts by appointment.

Opportunities available include, but are not limited to,

- a storefront in the barn,
- teaching classes - What would you love to share? Your passion for making jewelry, creating healing tinctures, gardening with native plants, the joy of raising chickens, milking a goat, or herb gardening and wild foraging?
- taking over a portion of the Airbnb?
- mowing the lawn, weeding, planting and propagating plants?
- gardening with native plants, herbs, medicinals, and edibles?
- leading hiking, kayaking, trout fishing or wild foraging activities?
- teaching yoga, meditation, ecstatic dance or?
- photography opportunities galore!
- create your own retreat with friends!
- what about a creative enlightenment retreat for artists?
- OR how would you like to have fun and create a fairy or gnome village? Perhaps you would love to adopt the Gratitude Trail or the Letting Go Trail and create a special place to share with others?
- OR you are part of a community that would love to create their own space, or revamp one of the camping pods, to look like... For cosplay or... purposes???
- OR???? What would you do if you were the steward of this property?

TRADE time at Whispering Winds for help, or???

The upstairs of my home is also available to rent. It would be a co-living experience - you have your private spaces, I have mine and then we have shared space which is the living room, kitchen, and guest bath. Completely furnished, ready to move in. Above list could be leisure activities that could offset the rent during the season.

Beverly Sandlin
507-438-1315 please text for an appt. to chat about opportunities at Whisperingwindsretreat.com

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from Whispering Winds!

12/20/2025

Opinions? What would you do???

I just spent a wonderfully stress free afternoon creating the Whismsical World at Whispering Winds Retreat! LOL :-D The idea was to create something between Winnie the Pooh 100 Acre Wood and Game of Thrones.

Stroll down the Garden Path and enter onto the Fairy Walk, which is bordered by flowers, and lights at night, (which are pretty cool actually, and for me it is a winter wonderland as they are mostly solar. :-), it opens into a meadow!

Look ahead to furnished, relaxing spaces. Look right into the Dog Park and see Spring Valley Creek. Look left to the shared Outdoor Kitchen.

Whispering Winds boasts ONLY THREE gl/camping pods in the whole Retreat! Absolutely perfect for a get together with friends, family, or to make new friends!

But to try and describe all this in words! Well, you get it. How do I do it??? Feel free to DM me. :-)

12/16/2025

Whispering Winds Retreat in August.

The scent of the flowers on a warm breeze, bird song, and the fireflies!

12/16/2025

ACTIVELY SEEKING BUSINESS PARTNER(S)

Whisperingwindsretreat.com
Whispering Winds, Spring Valley, MN
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I am trying to think of the basics a person would want to know about when inquiring, to save time and effort. So please read before inquiring. :-) I should say that WWR is currently 420 friendly, hence, not child friendly. Kids love it here, but perhaps not a good environment for them. :-)

Three acres (potential to add more), 365 stocked trout stream on property (1 of 5 in the county), surrounded by woods on 3 sides, surveyed, no mortgage, 14 years ago I had the old part of the house gutted, open concept, added 1.5 bathrooms, 4 dormers, gas or electric stove, spray foam insulation, all new electrical wiring, hardwood floors, granite countertops, downstairs master bedroom en suite (separate entrance, pocket doors, this could also be an office for a holistic business incubator or???), one or two bedrooms upstairs with half bath and balcony. Main bath is handicap accessible, zero clearance shower, laundry, and a walk-in tub that has color therapy and it has an insulated oversized soaking tub. The attached garage has never been used as a garage! Insulated for additional living quarters. Main floor is ALL handicapped accessible with 36" doors and lever handles.

Barn with retail shop and a detached garage. Just too much to include here. Good vibes, 1 foot on center studs with an 18" thick foundation. Option of well water. Horses, chickens, goats, ducks... And Good Vibes! Something is going on here... it is Positive and Healing and Uplifting!

This is considered the BEST LOCATION IN SPRING VALLEY because the old RR bed breaks all the western winds, incredibly private for being in town, in a "everyone minds their own business" neighborhood, and it is on County 1 which is plowed. Spring Valley doesn't really get to plowing like most folks would like.

Whispering Winds is three blocks from the downtown, City Park and 8 mile RT bike/walking/running trail across the creek, entire town is within 1 square mile hence walkable/bikeable, clinic, drugstore, grocery store, Dollar General, convenient stores and restaurants, tournament level disc golf, swimming pool, lots of parks, lower cost of living, fast WiFi, largest town in Fillmore county (pop. 22,000) with a population of 2,500.

Twenty-two miles to the international airport, 25 miles to Mayo Clinic. Very little crime. Spring Valley has branded itself as Hometown, Minnesota and yes, it has that feel. Current mayor is pushing COMMUNITY! Tiny houses are being discussed, finally...

And Rochester is essentially the 2nd largest city in MN as most Minnesotans lump the Twin Cities as one. World Class medical and shopping galore! The Twin Cities are only about 150 miles away, if you want to go there. Shuttles from Rochester daily. :-)

Potential to own the property. Holistic Micro Retreat OR the business end of a tiny home ecovillage OR ???

I am turning 71 in the spring and cannot keep this property and the business up by myself. I would like to retire, but stay involved, and get to the book(s) I would like to write! I love gardening, but need help. I have a young black stallion, and an Andalusian rescue mare. So, I am going to naturally prefer horse folks. We can talk the same language. :-)

The micro retreat pays for all the essential bills (taxes, utilities, upkeep, insurance, Wifi, etc.) for the property. Even Rj said it only takes about 15 hours a week for the day-to-day operation, for 6 months out of the year. That includes cell and computer time, plus 1 hour a day of housekeeping.

The landscape takes a lot more time. Weeding, weeding, weeding, dividing and replanting, rejuvenating old flower beds and planting new ones, I am adding beds of annuals in the parking lot for a potential cutting garden.

The food gardens... Organic, were show gardens, raised beds and in ground, perennial Worden grapes, hops, asparagus. Food forest with Elderberries, Nanny berries, Goose berries, fiddlehead ferns, walnut trees, and all the ground medicinals as well! :-D

Bottom line, this is a one-of-a-kind property in a town that is trying to attract the tourism dollars. Twenty-five miles to world class Western medicine. No consolidated Holistic medical alternatives in the area.

My guests (Coming 10 years now with over 600 Five Star reviews) are women, solo and memory making with partners, between the ages of 25 and 45 - 95%. They are seeking connection! And this is an affordable getaway.

The business/opportunity doesn't have to be a commitment longer than a season, if you want. Have you wanted chickens, bunnies and ducks? They are here for you, or buy your own and raise them here. Predator proofing needs to be done. Gardening for natives, medicinals, food? I've got the gardens! Want to make your mark as an Airbnb host? Do you want a storefront? Some place to sell your holistic created medicines? How about sharing what you know with others???

Classes in:
Wild foraging medicinals?
Wild foraging edibles?
Homemade chicken noodle soup with dumplings?
How to grow pot - and never have to deal with another sleazy male dealer?
How to make magical cookies, brownies, gummies?
Homemade chicken noodle soup, make real noodles, like your grandmother did?
Gerry, the "Dome Guy", lives right across the park; want to learn about domes?
Two Communes within 40 miles. Interested in alternative living?
Tinctures?
Fossil Hunting? That is my thing. :-D
Solar Basics?
Wind Power Basics?

I am open to others running the gardens (I am a Master Gardener, so ask me. :-), the shop, help in general. Trade is a vacation spot OR??? And this could be say 5 families who are interested in homesteading and just need land. What would you want do here?

Maybe you would like to take charge of Fairy Glen and create Fairy Gardens that won't be taken out by the next flood (metal or stone) or how about floating Fairy Gardens above 4'. :-) Maybe you would like to decorate the trail with more sun catching crystals? Create a "Hillbilly Hot Tub"? Setup a solar array and teach the basics to people? How about wind energy with a car alternator? Or give an outdoor painting class? Make some wine from the grapes here and teach the how to? Raise a lot of tomatoes and have a canning class in the fall?

The map that I spent way too much time on with Chatgpt this afternoon... getting frustrated... is attached for some kind of visual. Need an actual artist to draw this, IMO.

Please contact me if you have any interest in doing something here. I will ask you to have a one page written outline of what you want to do and how you plan on doing it - a short business and marketing plan. :-) You must be able to pass a background check and NOT be homeless, a drama queen or chaos bringer. I am looking for a person or people who are steady, dependable, keep their word, and either want to try something new, build on my success here, OR??? I am pretty open minded. :-)