Schedule
wellness comes from within
Weekend Retreat
November 7 & 8, 2026
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Saturday
Sunday
November 7, 2026
8:00am - 8:25am Check-in
November 8, 2026
8:30am - 8:50am Check-in​
8:30am - 9:15am
Living with Presence
Presenters: Todd and Lisa Moroz
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Start off this weekend retreat with a practical introduction to mindfulness and self-awareness. In a world of constant demands and distractions, it’s easy to lose sight of the present moment.
Join us as we explore what it means to live with presence. Through guided discussion and experiential exercises, participants will learn how to notice their stress patterns, reconnect with the here and now, and build simple practices they can carry with them into the weekend and everyday life—supporting focus, balance, and resilience.
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Bring a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, or any other comfort items.
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9:15am - 10:15am
Yoga For Mind and Body
Presenter: Derek Rowe
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This session of yoga will include the basics of breathing and movement. Building on traditional postures, participants will be able to explore the deeper meaning behind yoga. The class will be adaptable for all ages, skill levels and EVERYbody. Options will include easier modified or deeper more challenging poses. Learn how to breathe and move with intention drawing our awareness within.
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Bring a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, or any other comfort items.
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10:30am - 12:00pm
You Are Not Broken
Presenter: Shauna Laubman
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What if healing wasn't about fixing yourself...
but remembering yourself?
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This heartfelt workshop explores how stress, trauma, and life experiences shape the way we think, feel, and respond—and why none of it means there is something wrong with you.
Through mindfulness, nervous system education, guided meditation, and compassionate reflection, you'll discover practical tools to quiet your inner critic, reconnect with your Wise Self, and begin living with greater peace, courage, and self-compassion.
Come exactly as you are.
You are not broken.
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Bring yoga mat, blanket, pillow, and journal to create a comfy nest.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch Break
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1:00pm - 2:00pm
The Hidden Root Causes of Your Symptoms
Presenters: Ninu Lammens, RN
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In this practical and eye-opening talk, Ninu Lammens explores why common symptoms such as fatigue, bloating, poor sleep, stubborn weight changes, brain fog, cravings, mood changes, and hormonal symptoms are often not isolated problems, but signs of deeper imbalances in the body. Rather than focusing solely on managing symptoms, Ninu will walk attendees through several of the most common underlying contributors she sees in practice, including gut dysfunction, mineral deficiencies, blood-sugar instability, chronic stress and nervous-system dysregulation, and the way these systems can influence overall health and wellness.
Attendees will learn how seemingly unrelated symptoms can be connected, why standard approaches sometimes fail to uncover the full picture, and what clues the body may be giving us when something feels “off.” The talk will also include simple, realistic strategies attendees can begin using right away to better support digestion, energy, blood sugar, stress resilience, sleep, and overall health. The goal is for attendees to leave with a clearer understanding of how the body works as an interconnected system and a new way of thinking about symptoms: not simply as something to suppress, but as valuable information that can help point toward the underlying cause.
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​​Bring a journal and pen.
2:15pm - 3:45pm
The Inner Compass: Living With Presence When You Don't Know What's Next
Presenter: Elaine Jagielski BSc, MA
What happens when the familiar ways of orienting yourself—your plans, expectations, identities, beliefs, and external measures of success—no longer seem to provide the answers? Presence is often thought of as simply being “in the moment.” However, presence can be much more: a way of becoming sufficiently aware to recognize what is happening within you, around you, and beneath the assumptions that normally guide your life.
You will explore the idea of an “inner compass”—your capacity to orient yourself through uncertainty by becoming more deeply aware of your own experience, values, intuition, and sense of meaning. You will examine how you can distinguish conditioned responses from deeper knowing and begin to trust yourself without requiring absolute certainty.
Participants will be invited to reconsider a fundamental question: What if purpose is not something you find once and for all, but something that becomes clearer as you learn to live more consciously?
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Bring a journal and pen.
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4:00pm - 5:00pm
Vibrant Health All Year Long:
Seasonal Secrets From 2000 Years of Healing
Presenters: Dr. Matthew Rider, Dr. Ac.
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Health isn't static - it's a rhythm, shifting with the seasons and asking something different of us at each turn. Discover how the time-tested principles of Chinese Medicine can help your body
move through every season with ease, building lasting energy, resilience, and immunity all year round.
With a special focus on winter, this interactive presentation explores proper seasonal care to prevent the fatigue, low immunity, and illness that occur during the colder months.
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Bring a journal and pen.
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5:00pm - 6:00pm Dinner Break​​​
Wellness Market and Guest Speakers
6:00pm - 10:00pm​​
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7:00pm - 8:00pm
Cassie McBean
Inspirational Speaker
​​​Cassie McBean recounts surviving a near-death, head-on highway crash caused by a drunk driver, and how her recovery unfolded. She shares how holistic practices—breathwork, sound bowls, drumming, yoga, and physio—helped her heal physically and emotionally, and what she learned along the way.
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Beyond the Mind:
The Body as a Gateway to Presence and Communication
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​​Presence isn’t just mental—the body continually receives cues about safety, relationships, and the moment. Breath, movement, sensation, and physiology shape your ability to stay engaged. If you feel disconnected despite knowing better, your body can still be the doorway back to awareness: don’t escape it—notice it more fully.
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Bring a journal and a pen.​​
9:00am - 11:00am
Come Back to Yourself:
A Practice of Presence
Presenter: Theresa White
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Life is happening here—not in the moment that has passed or the one that has yet to arrive. This 2-hour Kundalini Yoga workshop is an invitation to step out of the constant movement of the mind and return to the experience of being fully present. Through conscious breath, Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and deep relaxation, we’ll cultivate self-awareness to notice where our attention goes—and practice gently bringing it back.
As awareness deepens, we begin to notice what is already here. The breath. The body. The people we love. The ordinary moments we so easily move past. From presence, gratitude becomes more than a thought or practice; it becomes a way of experiencing the life we are already living.
Together, we’ll explore simple ways to carry this awareness beyond the practice and into the rhythms of everyday life.
Come back to the breath. Come back to the moment. Come back to yourself.
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Bring a yoga mat, blanket, pillow, or any other comfort items.
11:15am - 12:30pm
Elemental Biodynamics
Presenters: Bob Goldsmith & Lindsay Mac
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​This workshop invites participants into Elemental Biodynamics, an embodied modality that integrates breath, non-linear movement, voice and sound, and self-touch. Drawing on the qualities of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether, Bob guides participants through a supportive, musical practice designed to cultivate deeper awareness, presence, and connection to the body.
This 75-minute experiential session explores and embodies the five elements through guided prompts and sound-based exploration; Introduction and instruction, guided elemental practice and reflections.​ The practice may include breath, movement, sound, voice, and self-touch, with optional consent-based touch where appropriate.
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Bring yoga mat, blanket, pillow, and journal to create a comfy nest.
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12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break
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1:30pm - 3:00pm
Capacity for Life:
The Embodied Practice of Deep Presence
Presenter: Lindsay Mac
Our bodies naturally protect us when life feels overwhelmingby bracing, numbing, disconnecting, or controlling. Over time, those same protections can also limit how deeply we can experience life.
This experiential workshop gently expands our capacity to stay present with sensation, uncertainty, and what’s actually here. Through teaching and guided somatic practices, we’ll explore how past experiences become connected to present feelings—and how to slow that process down with curiosity rather than escape.
Together, we’ll ask: What’s our capacity for pleasure, beauty, awe, and deep presence? And how can we build a safer, more sacred relationship with life—without forcing ourselves beyond our boundaries?
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Bring yoga mat, journal and pen.
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3:15pm - 4:45pm
Qi Balance
Presenter: Dr. Jared McCollum Dr. Ac.
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The Meridian system is all about learning how it works, how to locate important points, and how to bring balance back into your body. Join Dr. Jared McCollum as you discover the wonders of Qi—how its smooth flow can help relieve pain and support the balance of your organs. By the end of the session, every participant will learn a head, neck, and shoulder release, along with acupressure points to support a healthy, vibrant-looking face. To wrap things up, Dr. McCollum will guide you through a short set of gentle Qi Gong movements to help rebalance your body with Qi. You’ll leave equipped with a complete daily routine that includes acupressure for targeted release and balance, plus Qi Gong movements for sustained energy and healing.
Bring a yoga mat, journal and pen.
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