3 Day "Heart Foundations" Circle Retreat in Algonquin Park, Ontario

Come home and remember how to live in ceremony, nourish and grow the passions that give you great fulfillment and connect with inner wisdom to help guide your purposeful journey. The Heart Foundations of Shamanism series offers one gathering each season, open to participants of all experience levels on their spiritual paths. Each seasonal gathering has a guiding theme and inspiration, exploring different aspects of building a strong and sustainable foundation of heart-centered living.

Each retreats program is co-created with participants through a process you call the way of the circle. Participants tap into their intuition, unique gifts, soul yearnings, day and nighttime dreams, ancestral wisdom, and helping spirits to co-create living ceremony, going deeper into rediscovering their greatest teacher and healer within.This allows you each to receive a magical learning experience that meets your individual needs while being of service to the greater circle. Through the heart’s gateway within, you are able to respond with your innate gifts and abilities, fulfilling the greatest needs you see in the world around you.

How will you grow?

• Develop trust and love within, and with others.
• Join a heart-centered community working in the way of the circle.
• Empower yourself and learn to empower others.
• Tap into the deep well of ancestral wisdom within you.
• Heal the past; nourish present living; prepare for the future.
• Transform with love and support from your soul family.
• Come home to your true nature.

Upcoming training dates

Heart Wood, October 12 - 14, 2018

Gathering wisdom from the wind and trees, root deep into the earth and restore your soul.

Heart Flame, January 25 – 27, 2019

Come home to the fire within, gathering under the stars in the stillness of winter to re-ignite your passion.

Heart Flow, April 26 - 28, 2019

Flowing with renewed life, embrace your child-like innocence and plant the seeds of new dreams.

Heart Blossom, July 19 - 21, 2019

Step outside to daydream in nature, honouring your ability to create in this time of abundance.

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 Algonquin Parks Highway 60 corridor and check out the visitor centre 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. Learn more about public transit. Sadly, the Northlander Train from Union Station is no longer in service, but their bus service still brings people to the park daily.

You will be provided with daily healthy 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. Some food ingredients come from their garden, but most come from local gardens and Ontario farms, including a local organic meat provider.

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

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 8000 square kilometers of lakes, streams, rivers, bogs, forests in the rugged Canadian Shield. Home to abundant wildlife, the parks 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. Motor boats are restricted to a few lakes of the larger lakes and road access is only available in the well-travelled Highway 60 corridor. In the winter, Algonquin Park’s backcountry is travelled 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 program start, or on departure day after the retreat has ended. Please check availability and book this service in advance.

• 3-day all inclusive retreat program
• All meals from arrival day dinner to departure day lunch
• 2 nights comfortable forest accommodation (shared or private)
• Program materials and facilitation
• Pre-and-post retreat conference calls

• Travel to and from the location

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• 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 on arrival.