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Wellness Retreat in Canada

Engage your childlike wonder and your dreamer within. Coming home to your heart, remember how to live by the guidance of your inner wisdom, to nourish and grow the passions that fulfill you!

Meet the instructors

Martha & Trae
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Highlights

  • Each retreat program has a different guiding theme
  • Each experience is co-created by participants through "Way of the Circle"
  • Stay in a comfortable forest cabin accommodation
  • All program materials, mentoring, and administration are included
  • All meals from arrival day dinner to departure day lunch will be served
  • 3 nights accommodation

Skill level

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced

4 days with instruction
Group size: Maximum of 20 participants
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Accommodation

Check-in Time:
14:00
Check-out Time:
12:00

Facilities

  • Sauna
  • Dining area
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Fireplace
  • Garden
  • Kitchen
  • Labyrinth
  • Lobby
  • Lounge
  • Meditation garden
  • Restaurant
  • Special menu request
  • Terrace
  • Yoga deck
  • Yoga shala
  • Yoga studio
  • Conference room
  • Free bicycle
  • Free parking
  • Library
  • Meeting room
  • Tour assistance

Accommodations at the Edge are simple yet comfortable, a place to rest your head at night after a day of adventure, dreamtime, creativity, community, nature, and wonder.

They provide a range of options to meet the needs of guests participating in a scheduled program or group stay at the Algonquin Park home. You will be provided three nights of accommodation at Algonquin Park, Canada.

Canopy cabins

Sleep in the fresh forest air and rise with the birds as the morning sun lights up your cabin naturally. These wood and canvas structures are clean, dry, and nestled on a hillside surrounded by the lush greenery of the forest at the edge of Algonquin Park.

The double beds in the Canopy cabins boast comfortable feather duvets and colorful linen sheets on bunk beds. Some call it glamping or glamorous camping. The best outhouse in Canada just steps away features a tiled floor and composting toilet. Flush toilets and showers are located in Points North, just one-minute walk away.

  • Glamping-style accommodations bring you closer to nature
  • Comfortable feather duvets and colorful linen sheets
  • Bathrooms and showers located close by

Habitat cabins

Surrounded by the maple and balsam fir forest, these cabins were designed for year-round comfort. These well-insulated buildings are heated and available for year-round accommodation.

Osprey and Tamarack feature 2 single beds plus a loft with a double bed, topped with feather duvets and colorful linens. Washrooms and showers for these cabins are a short walk to the green-roofed building, Points North.

These cabins accommodate two to four guests.

  • Winterized, cozy wooden cabins
  • Feather duvets and colorful linens
  • Each cabin features a double bed and two single beds
  • Washrooms and showers are just a short walk away

Studio cabins

Year-round eco-accommodations in Algonquin Park, the Studio cabins feature spacious rooms with many eco-friendly features. Rooms feature a small en-suite bathroom with composting toilet and running water. Tranquility, Balance, Harmony, and Dreamtime are the premium accommodation options.

Each equipped with a double bed and single bed, these cabins are ideal for couples and/or friends. Studio cabins are heated year-round and used for the winter and summer retreat guests.

Dreamer's Hill, the new Ecoluxe Log Cabin, is available for guests seeking more comfort.

  • Comfortable feather duvets and colorful linen sheets on queen beds
  • En-suite bathrooms feature running water and showers (private for the first 3 bedrooms filled, semi-private for the other two bedrooms)
  • Each queen bed can be split into two singles if you prefer to share a room

Log cabin bedroom

The luxurious and comfortable log cabin is located a bit further from main programming spaces for optimal rest, and features en-suite bathrooms with showers. Each room’s Queen bed can convert into two twin beds, providing flexibility for solo travelers, couples, or friends.

The eco-luxe, colorful bedrooms in Dreamers’ Hill are their most comfortable rooms available (and their only accommodations featuring private showers – not an easy feat running on solar power!).

The bedrooms Amethyst, Labradorite, and Citrine come equipped with a 3 pc private en-suite bathroom with showers, while Jade and Sodalite share the fourth semi-private bathroom and shower.

Program

Come join them on a journey of self-discovery at a Heart Wisdom healing retreat. It’s an experience like no other, with activities that give you the tools to create positive change in your life.

From creating personal rituals, engaging more deeply with your family, to identifying your passions and following your dreams – they help you empower yourself to use your heart’s wisdom as a tool for transformation.

Nestled in the heart of nature, these transformational retreats invite you to come home to your true nature, awakening the guidance of your inner wisdom. Engaging in practices that help you to dream, connect, explore, and create are the foundation of heart-centered wellness.

Their unique and experiential programs evoke your childlike wonder, your dreamer within, and your wise leader. Learn how to drop into the heart’s center, express yourself more honestly, be present, and actively listen – all while creating wonderful shared memories with like-minded participants.

Program

The Heart Wisdom healing retreat series offers one retreat program each season, open to participants of all experience levels. Each retreat has a guiding theme that explores different aspects of building a strong and sustainable foundation of heart-centered living.

These themes are then blended with transformative and spiritual practices and activities that help cultivate your wisdom such as nature connection, journaling and sharing in circle, movement and meditation, sound healing, sauna sessions, crafting and art, energy healing, and co-created ceremony.

Each experience is co-created by the participants through a process they call the "Way of the Circle." Participants tap into their intuition, unique gifts, soul yearnings, day and nighttime dreams, innate wisdom, and helping spirits to co-create living ceremony and rediscover their greatest leader, teacher, and healer within.

This allows the retreat group to receive magical learning experiences that meet their individual needs while being in service to the greater circle. Through the heart’s gateway within, one is able to respond with their innate gifts and abilities, fulfilling the greatest needs they perceive in their lives and the world.

"No matter who we are, or where we are on our journey in life, the heart is our meeting place . . ."

Universal teachings

The community is comprised of a beautifully diverse group of heart-centered individuals from a variety of cultural and spiritual backgrounds. During a retreat program, participants may feel called to share a personal tradition or practice with the group. They welcome all universal learnings that nourish love, peace, unity, and connection.

This retreat is for you if you’re

  • Feeling stuck or in a transition period and unsure how to move forward
  • Seeking a conscious connection to your life’s purpose
  • Open to learning heart-led forms of self-inquiry to tap into your deepest desires
  • Keen to develop trust and compassion for yourself and others
  • Ready to make lifelong transformations that support wholeness and health
  • Intent on deepening your connection with nature and its ancient wisdom
  • Called to learn more about heart-centered communication and how to cultivate peace in your family, in your communities, and in the world
  • Ready to heal the past, live in the present, and empower your future
  • Seeking belonging and support through compassionate circle community
  • Feeling ready to explore deeply within yourself in a safe and natural, drug and alcohol-free spiritual space

They believe that your heart knows the answers and if you can learn how to listen, you can uncover all that you already possess.

By slowing down, unplugging, and following an inspiration, rather than an itinerary, you allow for personal growth inspired by nature, meeting individual desires while creating a meaningful community. No matter who you are, or where you are on your journey in life, the heart is your meeting place.

Program themes

  • Heart Flame - Winter: Coming home to the "Fire Within", gather under the stars in the stillness of winter to re-ignite your passions
  • Heart Flow - Spring: Flowing with renewed life, embrace your child-like innocence as you nurture the seeds of new dreams
  • Heart Blossom - Summer: Playing outside and daydreaming in nature, honor your ability to create in this time of growth and abundance
  • Heart Wood - Fall: Harvesting wisdom from the wind and trees, let us root deep into the earth, connecting and restoring our balance

Instructors

Martha Lucier

Trae Robinson

Location

Algonquin Park

Algonquin Park is often referred to as the Gem of the Ontario Parks system. Ontario’s oldest and largest provincial park, Algonquin, is often thought of as a National Park - perhaps owing to its original name - Algonquin National Park of Ontario (est. 1893). In survey after survey, Algonquin Park is continually listed 2nd (behind only Banff National Park) as Canadians' Most Priceless National Park.

Each year Algonquin Park hosts over 800,000 visitors. Most visitors stick to the Algonquin Parks Highway 60 corridor and check out the visitor center or hike a trail.

Guests at eco-lodges and resorts like Northern Edge Algonquin go off-the-beaten track and discover the magic of Algonquin on 3-4 day all-inclusive guided explorer packages.

Algonquin Park was originally only accessible by train from Toronto. Today, Algonquin Park is accessible by public transit with Ontario Northland, making this part of Algonquin Park (Access Point 1 - Kawawaymog Lake) accessible from downtown Toronto’s Bay Street station.

Sadly, the Northlander Train from Union Station is no longer in service, but their bus service still brings people to the park daily.

Features

Activities

  • Sauna

General

  • Dining area
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Fireplace
  • Garden
  • Kitchen
  • Labyrinth
  • Lake
  • Lobby
  • Lounge
  • Meditation garden
  • Restaurant
  • Special menu request
  • Terrace
  • Yoga deck
  • Yoga studio

Services

  • Conference room
  • Free bicycle
  • Free parking
  • Library
  • Meeting room
  • Tour assistance

Food

You will be provided with daily meals. Proudly serving a taste of Northern Edge Algonquin's region, cooking at the Edge focuses on balancing globally far-flung tastes with provincially produced foods. While seasonal menus are inspired by flavors from afar, they seek to prepare your meals with ingredients raised closer to home.

The award-winning mealtime steward, Greg Waters, and the culinary experiences have been recognized by the tourism industry as some of the best in Canada, and they were proudly the first food provider in Ontario recognized by Feast On for the taste of place as a certified purveyor of locally sourced food.

Some food ingredients come from the garden, but most come from local gardens and Ontario farms, and partnerships with local food providers.

The promise

Your mealtime experiences at the Algonquin Park home will be remembered and treasured by everyone. The meals take into account specialty food restrictions for health and personal reasons ensuring each individual’s needs are looked after when they deliver a colorful, tasteful buffet-style meal.

Special dietary needs

They absolutely cater to special dietary needs! During the registration process, you’ll have the opportunity to let them know about your dietary needs, and you’ll be very well taken care of.

Over the years, they have met the needs of a wide variety of dietary restrictions. It is each visitor’s responsibility to provide information on any pre-existing medical conditions, food allergies / preferences, or related issues prior to participation in any program. They always deliver healthy, regional food prepared with care from scratch.

Guest information is shared with your guide / facilitator and dietary needs go straight to the chef, Gregor. None of this information is made public. If it’s a repeat visit, they will ask for this information again because your needs may change.

What is mealtime like?

In a word – “Amazing”. They take great pride in delivering a culinary experience that will have you asking for recipes. Savor abundant, freshly harvested, global culture buffet dining with chef Gregor’s specialties to thrill your pallet and expand your culinary savvy.

Meals at the Edge are more akin to attending a dinner party with an engaging chef than visiting a buffet at an all-inclusive. In the spirit of community, they invite guests to assist with clearing and washing personal dishes.

Remember those days before automatic dishwashers when the best conversations happened at the kitchen sink? It’s that way here all the time.

When are meals served?

The bell will ring to signal mealtime, which is typically at 8:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 6 pm, though timings may vary for your retreat. They encourage everyone to be on time for meals as ingredients are often combined at the last minute as guests arrive in the dining room, ensuring fresh tastes are enjoyed at their peak of flavor.

Is tap water safe to drink?

Yes, the source of all tap water at the Edge is the deep well. It’s delicious, refreshing, and safe to drink. Water is not drawn from the lake except to water the flowers or put out campfires. They are visited regularly by the health unit to ensure the highest level of clean water is available for the staff and guests.

The following meals are included:

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Drinks

The following drinks are included:

  • Water
  • Coffee
  • Tea

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan
  • Gluten Free
  • Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
  • Other dietary requirements on request
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

Things to do (optional)

Explore the park

Easily accessible from major centers in eastern Canada and the US, Algonquin Park holds a special place in the heart of many naturalists, canoeists, and backcountry solitude-seekers. Algonquin Park is the natural destination of choice for visitors to Ontario looking to spend quiet time away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Algonquin Park is almost 8,000 square kilometers of lakes, streams, rivers, bogs, and forests in the rugged Canadian Shield. Home to abundant wildlife, the park's most famous residents include moose, wolves, and black bears.

Many smaller mammals including playful river otters, foxes, chipmunks, squirrels, and raccoons, and a wide variety of waterfowl including osprey, herons, and loons are often seen by park visitors.

Canoeing is the best way to navigate Algonquin Park with over 1500 kilometers of canoe routes that follow lakes, streams, and portage trails throughout the park’s interior. Motorboats are restricted to a few lakes of the larger lakes and road access is only available in the well-traveled Highway 60 corridor. In the winter, Algonquin Park’s backcountry is traveled very little, usually by dog sled.

Northern Edge Algonquin sits at the Northwest Algonquin Park Access 1, Kawawaymog Lake, east of South River. In addition to lakefront access to Algonquin Park, and nature exploration opportunities within Algonquin Park, the nearby Forgotten Trails offer a wealth of trail hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, and skiing opportunities for the nature enthusiast.

Reflexology appointments

Reflexology appointments with Vicki Waters may be available on arrival day prior to the program start, or on the departure day after the retreat has ended. Please check availability and book this service in advance.

What's included

  • Transformational wellness program led by passionate facilitators
  • Co-created program that tunes into your own dreams and inspiration
  • 3 nights comfortable forest cabin accommodation
  • All meals from arrival day dinner to departure day lunch
  • All program materials, mentoring, and administration

What's not included

  • Airfare
  • Travel to and from the location
  • Gratuities
  • 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) will be charged separately
  • Personal expenses

How to get there

Recommended Airports

Driving directions from South River via Highway 11

  • Take the “Mountain View Road” exit from Highway 11
  • Follow signs to the town of South River
  • Follow the green provincial signs to Kawawaymog Lake, Algonquin Park
  • At the South River lights, turn onto Ottawa Avenue, towards Algonquin Park. Their office should be on your left at 100 Ottawa Ave. Please note: It may be a left or right hand turn depending on the exit you take into South River
  • Continue driving East on Ottawa Ave, crossing a bridge on a long causeway leading to Kawawaymog (Round) Lake
  • Continue on the same road for 22 kilometers, following Northern Edge signs to help to guide your way
  • At the Algonquin Park Kawawaymog Lake parking lot, turn right, up, and over a hill
  • Make a sharp left turn when you reach the bottom of the hill to enter their driveway

Arrival by car

You can search for “Northern Edge Algonquin” on your phone in Google Maps or Apple Maps. Whether North or South-bound, they recommend staying on the highway until South River and exiting via Mountain View Road. “Waze” in particular seems to direct guests on indirect and confusing logging roads.

Once on Chemical Road, cellular service will be interrupted but your GPS may continue to work — either way, keep your eyes peeled for their posted signage which should help to direct you.

Arrival by shuttle or bus

Shuttle from South River Bus Stop is available for 32.5 CAD plus HST. While the remote location is most easily accessed by a vehicle, there are other options available for those who don’t drive.

Arrival via bus to South River or plane to North Bay is possible and they will be happy to provide an at-cost shuttle service to help get you the rest of the way. As well, they love to encourage carpooling! For more information, please send an inquiry.

Cancellation Policy

  • A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
  • The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
  • The rest of the payment should be paid 15 days before arrival.

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