KIND Founder Ellen Reesor invites you to join her for a weekend of yoga, meditation, nature immersion, and community connection.
The transition of seasons from fall to winter can be an uneasy shift for many of us living in colder climates. This retreat will be an opportunity to shift your mindset and embrace the upcoming winter feeling aligned, balanced, and centered in what's important to you. Together we'll use yoga, nature immersion, meditation and community connection to go inwards, rebuild and grow making the most of the season and preparing for springtime.
Friday November 18 (4:00PM) to Sunday November 20 (4:00PM)
DETAILS
The retreat includes:
All activities while at the Harmony Dawn Retreat Center
Delicious and healthy vegan and vegetarian meals
4 yoga classes + an additional optional class
Meditation and Awareness-based exercises
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.
The Retreat Center
The 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.
The 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.
The Accommodations: The central pod houses the living room, bedrooms and washrooms and is also partially bermed. The ground and second floors have 10 foot ceilings and the 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 the most precious facilities isn’t actually a facility, but the land - Nature itself. The unique 50 acres of rolling meadows and forests are beautiful, organic, tranquil and healing. They buffer the retreat center from the everyday world of noise, pollution, traffic, stress and close neighbours. The building is a sheltered half kilometer away from a quiet country road. Arborists, biologists, and historians have informed us that the air is clean and highly oxygenated; the forest trees are varied, healthy, healing and medicinal.
The 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, they grow a selected variety of organic herbs and vegetables and have access to a wider variety within the local organic farming community.
INVESTMENT
The retreat requires two payments:
First Payment: $215 + HST (Retreat Fee - this fee is payable to KIND Yoga; click the Register button below)
Second Payment: $310 +HST (Accommodation & Food Fee - this fee is payable directly to the Harmony Dawn Retreat Centre; see the payment instructions here)
You can save $62! This expense is eligible for the Ontario Staycation tax credit.