The Mindful Unplug Setting and Guides

The Setting

The Feathered Pipe Ranch

The primary teacher at The Mindful Unplug is the place where it happens — the land of the Feathered Pipe Ranch. National forestland surrounds the 110-acre Feathered Pipe Ranch just outside of Helena, Montana. As home to one of the oldest, non-guru based healing retreat centers in North America for 50 years, the Ranch supports the qualities of nurturing solitude, reflection, and rejuvenation that are only found in the natural world. The Mindful Unplug’s human program guides bow to Mother Nature and lean on her as the wisest teacher. We will spend much of our time outdoors to soak up the soul medicine of this sacred place as we move, meditate, stroll, inquire, and reclaim our relationship with land and sky.

More about the Feathered Pipe Ranch: featheredpipe.com

The Guides

Anne Jablonski and Matthew Marsolek/Drum Brothers

The guides for The Mindful Unplug are deeply rooted in the essence of the Feathered Pipe Ranch, where they have long honored the land and its many secret treasures:

Anne Jablonski

"Yoga doesn’t begin when you imitate a shape, but with sensing from the inside with breath, body, and intuition moving as one."

For over two decades, Anne Jablonski has danced with the rhythms of the Feathered Pipe Ranch, where she serves as President of the Feathered Pipe Foundation. To Anne, this sacred ground is more than a retreat center—it’s a refuge where the natural world invites us to remember what matters, to breathe deeper, and to awaken from the hum of modern life. With this spirit, she co-created The Mindful Unplug retreat: a space for embodied presence, soulful community, and reconnection through movement, rhythm, and nature. Anne’s teaching is rooted in the intuitive principles of Freedom Yoga, as taught by her mentor Erich Schiffmann and enriched by her certification in Movingness—a somatic-centric approach to refining movement patterns, releasing fascia, and embodying natural states of flow. Movingness is an affiliated member organization of ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. Her classes emphasize inner listening, curiosity, and self-trust over performance or perfection. A rat-race survivor in joyful recovery, Anne is a registered E-RYT 500-hour Yoga Alliance teacher and longtime instructor at Sun & Moon Yoga Studio in Northern Virginia. Whether teaching on the mat or in the forest, she gently nudges students toward their own quiet knowing—the heart of yoga itself. Learn more about Anne: https://www.yogasetfree.com  More about Anne.

Matthew Marsolek/Drum Brothers

“If you have a heartbeat, you have a rhythm. If you can breathe, you can sing.”

A lifelong member of the Feathered Pipe community, Matthew Marsolek grew up with the Ranch woven into the fabric of his being. A gifted vocalist, composer, and guitarist, he draws from a rich background in West African and North Indian music, Western classical and jazz traditions, and decades of global study and performance. As artistic director of the internationally acclaimed Drum Brothers ensemble, Matthew creates music and group experiences that bridge cultures and invite transformation. His teaching blends rhythm, voice-work, movement, and mindfulness into powerful invitations for connection—whether he's working with retreat groups, hospice caregivers, bereaved youth, or corporate leaders. Equally at home in a forest song circle or a concert hall, Matthew’s work is rooted in the belief that rhythm and sound are ancient gifts for healing and belonging. His presence at Mindful Unplug brings not just musical mastery, but a profound ability to create safe, spirited space where people can explore their voices, their aliveness, and their shared humanity. Matthew has also been a featured speaker at TEDX UMontana. More about Matthew.