KIND Founder Ellen Reesor invites you to join her for a weekend of yoga, meditation, nature immersion, and community connection.
This retreat will serve as an opportunity to slow down and get intentional. We’ll focus on shifting our attention away from the busyness and chaos of everyday life, and move towards a more balanced, grounded, and centered way of being. Together we'll get clear on our priorities, and what brings us more joy and calm, and use yoga, nature immersion, meditation and community connection to go inwards, rebuild and grow.
Friday April 1st (4:00PM) to Sunday April 3rd (4:00PM)
WHERE?
Harmony Dawn Retreat Center
800 Baxter Road, RR#1
Hastings, Ontario
K0L 1Y0
Harmony Dawn (Ontario) Retreat is located 25 minutes north of Cobourg and situated on the shores of beautiful Rice Lake in Northumberland County. It is approximately 1 ½ hours from Toronto in good traffic.
The centre is easily accessible from Hwy 401 east of Toronto. Please follow their directions . It is not recommended to use your GPS system, as people routinely get lost that way. If you have any questions please contact the center directly.
COST?
Early Bird Rate
$465.00+tax
After March 17th, 2022
$485.00+tax
There are two private accommodations available for an additional $260+tax (first come, first serve).
Note: This is a very intimate retreat opportunity as the capacity is limited, this means extra attention from the facilitator and more opportunity for group connection.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Details
The cost of the retreat includes:
Accommodations
All activities while at the Retreat Center
Delicious and healthy vegan and vegetarian meals
4 yoga classes + an additional optional class
Meditation and Awareness-based exercises
The cost of the retreat does not include:
Transportation to and from the Retreat Center
The Retreat Center
Our building, completed in 2003, was custom designed as a green retreat centre, using most of the sustainable energy technologies available. It was voted one of the greenest buildings in Canada. It also incorporates Andy’s and Nicola’s Feng-shui and Yin-Yang knowledge, which endows the building and its surroundings with a harmonious, safe, cozy, in-nature feeling, commonly noted by our guests. It is nestled into a hill top overlooking Rice Lake, surrounded by 50 acres of rolling meadows and healing forest, which lead to the swimming-friendly lake.
Our Studio, is bermed into the top of the hill, while the front offers sunny, expansive views of rolling hills through our 10-foot, floor-to-ceiling, high-tech windows. You feel as if you are sitting out in a high, open meadow and indeed foxes, turkeys and deer occasionally walk by. Berming is the technique of totally or partially covering a building in earth to take advantage of the temperature of the earth, 55 F or 13 C., through all seasons. Our studio also has radiant-heated floors, which can adjust to the required room temperature. There is a living “green roof” over the studio.
Our Accommodations: Our central pod houses our living room, bedrooms and washrooms and is also partially bermed. The ground and second floors have 10 foot ceilings and our loft ceiling is even higher. All floors boast large windows; all washrooms have heated floors. There are radiators on the second and third floors and in the living room, there is a wood-burning, glass-windowed masonry fireplace, which heats all three floors and provides a warm and cozy winter ambience, very popular with our guests.
The Property: One of our most precious facilities isn’t actually a facility, but our land - Nature itself. Our unique 50 acres of rolling meadows and forests are beautiful, organic, tranquil and healing. They buffer us from the everyday world of noise, pollution, traffic, stress and close neighbours. Our building is a sheltered half kilometer away from a quiet country road. Arborists, biologists, and historians have informed us that our air is clean and highly oxygenated; our forest trees are varied, healthy, healing and medicinal.
Meals: Nicola has had a life-long passion for food and cooking going back to her childhood. She has worked in the food industry, had her own catering company and now has found the perfect outlet for her food passion and knowledge as Chef of Harmony Dawn. Her cuisine encompasses international cooking from across the planet as well as specialty diets including lacto-vegetarian, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, macrobiotic and more. She is a passionate advocate for fresh, local and organic food whenever possible. At HD we grow a selected variety of organic herbs and vegetables and have access to a wider variety within the local organic farming community.
We hope you will join us!
Cancellation Policy
If for any reason you are unable to attend our retreat, a full refund is available until March 11th. After March 11th, a half refund will be given until March 18th.