Wellness Retreat
Friday
April 12, 2024
Body Room
12:00PM - 1:30PM • Registration
2:00PM - 3:30PM • Crystal Sound Journey
Presenter: Colin Hillstrom
Begin your Retreat experience with a healing sound journey that will reset your body, mind and brain complex. Release and rejoice, as you immerse yourself in a high vibrational acoustic energy field generated by some of the world's finest sound healing instruments. Relax and surrender and allow your chakras, endocrine system and brain to rebalance and realign. Leave the world behind, find your magic and allow yourself to experience true inner joy, peace and well-being.
4:00PM - 5:00PM • Release with Osteopathy
Presenter: Lindsey Williams
Osteopathy is a powerful practice that reveals how the tissues in your body can store your emotions. These emotional imprints can be locked within the fascial body and lead to a variety of symptoms and conditions including pain, hormonal imbalances and fatigue. During this event, you will be guided through various mind-body techniques including breathwork, meditation exercises and somatic movements to release these fascial tensions and support your healing journey.
5:30PM - 6:30PM • Connect to Calm with Qigong
Presenter: Munira Jiwa
Discover a powerful and ancient form of meditation exercises that will help you create an internal environment of peace and healing. Spring Forest Qigong is based on ancient wisdom that will empower you with simple tools and techniques to help you navigate daily stressors and embrace inner calmness. Learn how you can use the elements of breathing, visualization, moving meditation and sound to help transform energetic blockages and balance your energy. With balanced energy, you will experience optimal health and inner peace.
7:00PM - 8:30PM • Dance Yoga
Presenter: Kim Mayberry
Enjoy something new and embrace the music and authentic movement that flows through you. During this event, you will experience a mix of non-linear movement and static poses that will open your body and leave you feeling fabulous. This creative mix of yoga and dance is suitable for all bodies and all fitness levels.
Mind Room
12:00PM - 1:30PM • Registration
2:00PM - 3:30PM • Logic of The Stars
Presenter: Hilary Wood
Astrology is an ancient symbolic language and a healing art. It links us to innate cycles of nature, speaks to our spiritual journey and can help us understand our place in the world. Explore the history of astrology and how celestial bodies influence life on Earth. Learn about the current astrology and some simple tools to help you align with the logic of the stars. While astrology does not “predict” the future, it can help you unlock your potential for growth and transformation. Astrology is an integrated and holistic way of seeing that life is not happening to you - it is happening for you.
4:00PM - 5:00PM • Insulin and Hormones
Presenter: Dr. Kate Hadfield
Insulin is the latest trendy topic, with everyone from celebrities to influencers discussing insulin resistance and weight-loss prescription drugs. Trying to learn the fundamentals of insulin, weight and hormones on your own can be overwhelming and confusing. During this event, discover the truth about insulin and how it relates to your hormonal health. Discover how insulin affects sleep problems, stubborn weight loss, painful periods, hot flashes and high cholesterol. Learn about insulin resistance, how it impacts your hormonal health and what you can do about it.
5:30PM - 6:30PM • Feng Shui Wisdom
Presenter: Gillian White
Unlock the secrets of Feng Shui, an ancient practice dating back over three thousand years, designed to align the energies within your living spaces. Delve into a transformative event that unveils the significance of three key power spots, pivotal to harmonizing and amplifying energy flow in both your living space and life. Acquire techniques to draw positive energy (chi) into these areas, welcoming abundance, well-being, love and opportunities into your life's tapestry. Whether you're a Feng Shui enthusiast seeking to cultivate positive energies or you are simply navigating life's challenges, this event serves as your portal to comprehending and harnessing the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui. Recognize the profound impact your home has on your life; take charge of your space, and in doing so, take control of your destiny.
7:00PM – 8:30PM • Spirit Signs
Presenter: Stephanie Kamille
Many people are fascinated by the idea of connecting with a loved one in Spirit. Knowing that your loved one lives on, supporting you from the nonphysical world, is not only comforting but also heals our own fears around the experience of death. During this powerful event, explore the magic of mediumship in a real, approachable and understandable way. Learn about mediumship, delve into real mediumship stories and discover your ability to connect with your loved ones in Spirit.
Saturday
April 13, 2024
Body Room
8:30AM - 10:30AM • Yoga Nidra
Presenter: Kyle Henderson
Experience the transformative power of Yoga Nidra, a guided meditation practice also known as "yogic sleep." During this event, you will discover invaluable knowledge on brain states and how they are essential to enhancing your experience. Following the discussion, you will shift your focus inward, beyond the five senses, and learn to balance between the states of wakefulness and sleep. As you journey through different brain states and energy layers with awareness, you will explore the subconscious and become empowered to change your belief systems. You will also experience a sense of interconnected wholeness and become aware of your timeless Self, which is expansive and inclusive. This state will enable physical, emotional and mental healing, as you are restored and awakened to your deepest, all-knowing and all-welcoming self. Please bring a mat, blanket, pillow, optional eye mask and anything else you may need for your comfort.
11:00AM – 12:30PM • Let’s Roll
Presenter: Tamara Royal
Discover the process of rolling your muscles using therapy balls. Relief is possible with myofascial release, using simple techniques you can integrate and carry into your current routine. Your self-massage session will target deep into your high-tension areas and can increase your range of motion, ease muscle pain and support muscle recovery. Experience this unique healing modality, connect with your breath and ease into a gentle release. Therapy balls available to use.
12:30PM - 2:00PM • LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM - 4:00PM • Witches Magick Circle
Presenter: Gillian White
It is time to gather by the sacred fire and celebrate as our ancestors did many moons ago - for it is Spring. It is a time for profound inner change, bringing powerful shifts filled with hope and optimism. Feel the magick of gathering in a witch's circle; it is a space to melt away your limiting beliefs and feel connected, healed and empowered. Activate your magickal ways and ignite the magick in your life. You will weave spells around releasing what isn't serving you and call in new vibrations of fresh beginnings, abundance and creativity. Come and participate in a circle filled with magick, ritual and lots of cackling fun. Muggles are welcome too.
4:30PM - 5:30PM • Spirit Guide Meditation
Presenter: Kyle Henderson
Delve into a transformative journey and meet the spiritual guides that eagerly wait to assist you. Drawing from the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and attuned to the elemental energies of the season, this experience will guide you into the depths of your unconscious mind and beyond. Through this meditative exploration, you will forge a connection with your spirit guides, fostering self-awareness and unlocking insights to enrich your waking life.
6:00PM - 7:30PM • Witnessing Grief
Presenter: Shelley Duret
Many in today’s society lack the framework to support themselves, or others, during the experience of grief. As a result, this grief can become trapped and stagnant in your body and manifest itself physically in different ways. During this event, you will call in your own personal grief. You will be a witness to your grief, sit with it, move with it, experience it and ask what it would like you to know. Once united with your grief, you will be guided through movement, breath, somatic practices and stillness – offering your grief the opportunity to move through you. This event will provide you a safe place to show up, exactly as you are on your grief journey. Please bring a journal, blanket and pillow, as well as any other comfort items you may need for this experience.
Mind Room
8:30AM - 10:30AM • Muscle Testing and The Subconscious
Presenter: Jocelyn Pettitt
Muscle testing is a unique way of using your body as an intuitive tool. During this event, discover how to muscle test and listen to your body for answers. This form of communication with the subconscious mind will allow you to ask any question regarding your health or your subconscious beliefs. The answer you receive will be provided from the information that has been recorded since you were born. Discover how this technique is used to release emotional and energetic trauma energies stored in the body using the Emotion Code / Body Code modalities.
11:00AM - 12:30PM • How to Manifest Money
Presenter: Stephanie Kamille
Abundance is a concept that intrigues many. Most people don’t just want to get by – they want to thrive. While abundance means something different to each person, most will agree that calling in more abundance would benefit their lives. During this event, you will explore the monetary aspect of abundance and discover nine tips to attract more money into your life. Delve into the common limiting beliefs about money, including blocks making, keeping and finding money opportunities in your life. Expand how you view the world through your abundance lens.
12:30PM - 2:00PM • LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM - 4:00PM • Releasing Ancestral Trauma
Presenter: Laurie Trace
Your DNA holds instructions for your survival based on the experiences of your ancestors and their external and internal conditions. This can result in carrying the collective suffering of your ancestors without even knowing it. Epigenetic research supports the existence of a biological imprint on multiple generations, even when the threat has subsided. This event will support you in bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness, resulting in a pivotal step in your personal growth. You are invited into a corrective experience/guided meditation to connect with your lineage, integrate culturally specific healing resources and foster post-traumatic growth.
4:30PM - 5:30PM • Embracing Your Sensitivities
Presenter: Michelle Agopsowicz
Have you, or someone you love, ever been described as “too sensitive?” Discover why some people see the world differently than others and are easily overwhelmed, anxious or overstimulated. During this event, you will learn what a highly sensitive person is, what shapes a highly sensitive person and more importantly how to make these sensitivities work for you. Learn and explore characteristics, origins and coping strategies that can help you cope in a world that is not tailored to the way that your nervous system is wired. Fully embrace who you are, and your gifts in the world, through self discovery of your role as a highly sensitive person.
6:00PM - 7:30PM • Map Not Included
Presenter: Laurie Trace
Western culture is finally embracing a more holistic approach to wellness. The past few decades yielded an explosion of ‘alternative’ healing modalities, many of which were used by Indigenous and Eastern cultures for centuries. There is a growing buffet of psychedelics, energy treatments, pharmaceuticals, psychological interventions, self-healing gadgets/programs/workbooks and somatic practices. Discovering what is available, legitimate, safe and aligned with your unique needs can be overwhelming. This session offers some perspective on the blending of spiritual/energetic and scientific/medical healing modalities. During this event, you will gain practical advice on the risks, benefits, potentials and myths surrounding some of the most current trends in psycho-bio-social-spiritual integration. Ultimately, being an informed truth-seeker is the most powerful agent in your healing journey.
Sunday
April 14, 2024
Body Room
8:30AM - 10:30AM • Inner Resources For Resilience
Presenter: Laurie Trace
The human brain is highly adaptable and can learn new ways of feeling and reacting in response to stressful events. Even if you’ve survived traumatic circumstances. Even if you’ve never been nurtured, seen or supported the way you deserved to be. Even if you have no interest in talking about painful memories or engaging in talk therapy. During this powerful event, discover how to use your body and mind to create your own personalized team of inner resources. Please bring a yoga mat, meditation cushion or pillow, a journal and a desire to rewire your brain for joy, confidence, safety and unconditional love.
11:00AM - 12:30PM • Kundalini Detox
Presenter: Dr. Christine Perkins
During this traditional Kundalini Yoga class, you will experience a detoxification of your whole system: mind and body. You will begin with ancient breathing techniques proven to relax the mind and cleanse energy pathways in the body. The “Kriya” and movement will set you up to detox your precious lymphatic system, bowels and liver. You will conclude this event with Shavasana followed by a meditation to create a positive mind and invite prosperity into your life.
12:30PM - 2:00PM • LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM - 4:00PM • Crystal Sound Journey
Presenter: Colin Hillstrom
Integrate your Retreat experience with a healing sound journey that will balance your body, mind and brain complex. Release and rejoice, as you immerse yourself in a high vibrational acoustic energy field generated by some of the world's finest sound healing instruments. Relax and surrender and allow your chakras, endocrine system and brain to rebalance and realign. Leave the world behind, find your magic and allow yourself to experience true inner joy, peace and well-being.
4:30PM - 5:30PM • Barre and Pilates
Presenter: Kim Mayberry
Enjoy this effective, dance-inspired, full-body workout that combines Barre and Pilates to provide an isometric strengthening workout for your arms, core and legs. Your muscles will shake and your body will glow. Find body alignment that enables better posture, lengthen and strengthen your muscles and improve your stamina. This is a low-impact workout suitable for everyone.
Mind Room
8:30AM - 10:30AM • Alchemy of Trauma
Presenter: Michelle Agopsowicz
Trauma is a universal experience that shapes our lives in very tangible and often hidden ways. During this event, explore a paradigm shift in how you perceive trauma and the patterns of coping that it creates in your life. Learn how trauma affects every aspect of your being through your physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual health. The experience of trauma has a way of disconnecting us from ourselves and the larger human experience. Discover how the exploration of trauma and the meaning it holds can lead you on a path of healing, wholeness and self-compassion.
11:00AM - 12:30PM • Etheric Cord Cutting
Presenter: Dr. Alishia Alibhai
Etheric/energetic cords attach between you and the people in your life. Energy flows back-and-forth between these cords, contributing to deep connection when the relationship is flowing well. However, when there is discord between people, the energy flowing through the cords can negatively impact physical, emotional and mental well-being. During this event, you will learn about etheric cords, what they are and how they impact you. You will experience a guided visualization designed to help you cut negative cords to bring you peace, alignment and healing.
12:30PM - 2:00PM • LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM - 4:00PM • Exploring Past Lives
Presenter: Dr. Alishia Alibhai
Have you ever met someone and felt like you've known them forever? Have you had dreams that felt so real, yet it seemed like another time and place? Do you struggle with certain areas of your life and cannot understand why? During this event, you will deepen your knowledge about past lives and explore how the clues around you in your current life are powerful links to your past lifetimes. You will learn how past life knowledge can be used to overcome obstacles, bring healing and provide beautiful insights into your present life. As part of the event, you will have the opportunity to experience a mini past life group-guided visualization journey.
4:30PM - 5:30PM • Using Crystals with Intention
Presenter: Lisa Phillips
Discover how to take your crystal collection from decorative pieces to energetic tools. Learn to use crystals confidently and intentionally by discovering the science behind the healing energy of minerals and stones. Crystals can easily be incorporated into everyday life when you know how and why they work. During this event, you will be given practical examples of how to create your own crystal healing toolbox. Whether used to boost your intentions, balance the energy body, or help soothe an ailment, crystal frequency can support you.