Time to Awaken: A Virtual Retreat

Join us May 24* for a day of writing, yoga, and meditation

*Please note that this retreat has been re-scheduled to Sunday, May 24

It’s been a full winter. As we tiptoe more fully into spring, do you find yourself longing to feel more grounded? Are your body, mind, and spirit yearning to shake off the cobwebs and feel more vigorously alive?

Join yoga instructor Joshua Lewis and author Trevor Corkum for Time to Awaken, a one-day virtual retreat. As much as possible, we’ll replicate the quiet serenity and restorative benefits of an in-person retreat. Over the course of the day, we’ll engage in revitalizing yoga, deep meditative practice, and a series of reflective writing practises designed to nourish your body and sharpen your sensory awareness. Together we’ll embrace the energetic calling of spring, leaving you anchored in body and mind. Special musical guest, kirtan artist Lana Sugarman, will join us for the day.

No prior yoga or writing experience necessary. While participants will practice from home, we’ll offer suggestions for easy hacks for at-home equipment you can use, so if you don’t have yoga props or equipment at your disposal, no worries! We’ll also provide some special healthy recipes and additional activities to help support your day.

PWYC Sliding Scale Fee: $50-$75 per person

*If you have the desire and means to sponsor somebody to attend this retreat offering at the full price, we would humbly accept a donation on your behalf above the $75 fee noted above.

OVERVIEW

Sunday, May 17

10:00 AM Arrive & Opening Meditation
10:30 AM Hatha Yoga for Awakening Vital Energy
11:30 AM Writing Activity
12:15-1:00 PM Health Break
1:00 PM Writing Activity (continued)
1:45 PM Gentle Movement and Restorative Yoga
2:15 PM Music & Mantra with Lana


WORKSHOP PRICE INCLUDES:

-3 yoga/meditation sessions
-reflective writing and journaling exercises
-healthy plant-based recipes and optional exercises
-special musical guest performance
-discounts on future workshops, writing and yoga sessions
-yoga nidra audio recording

REGISTRATION

Please contact Joshua Lewis at yoga@joshualewis.com to reserve your spot. Full payment is due upon registration.

Payment Methods

1. Email money transfer (send to yoga@joshualewis.com / no password required as I’m set up for autodeposit)

2. Paypal via: www.paypal.me/yogawithjosh

Savour the End of Summer: A Yoga and Writing Retreat

In Canada, summer is a time to play

It's a time to remember a time when the months stretched by like years, when summer meant a refreshing dip into the lake. A time to meet the day with wild, uninhibited abandon.

I'm so pleased to be teeming up with renowned yogi (and all around great guy) Joshua Lewis on a special four-day, mid-week retreat savouring the full glory of summer. Before the routines and obligations and general busyness of fall take hold, we'll gather together at gorgeous Shanti Retreat on Wolfe Island, an idyllic lakeside getaway just a short ferry ride from Kingston. 

Looking for a sweet combination of relaxation and grounding as summer winds down? 

Unwind into the final days of August with vigour and play—while heeding the call to anchor in and cultivate reflective practices to support you as the seasons shift and the autumn ‘new year’ arrives. We've lovingly structured the retreat to provide the twin anchors of a nourishing yoga practice and structured personal writing time to help you tap into your innate creative spirit.

Daily meditation and yoga will be led by Joshua in his signature all-levels accessible and inclusive style. Long-time practitioners, as well as those with little or no experience, will find Joshua’s embodied and inspired teaching methodology to be approachable and profoundly impactful – calming and soothing for the body, mind and the heart. Classes will be offered in the Hatha tradition weaving a creative mixture of dynamic slow flow sequences with therapeutic modalities such as yin, self-massage ball rolling and guided meditation and visualization (yoga nidra).

I'm excited to be leading the writing practise at the retreat. Whether you are curious about writing, love to journal, have been working on a secret memoir, or have a specific fiction, poetry, or other projects in mind, this retreat will give you ample space to commit time, energy and focus to your writing practice. Guided activities will include responding to writing prompts, playful and interactive storytelling activities, and the opportunity to complete a short piece through the week. No prior writing experience is necessary, and there will be no expectation that you share your work if you prefer to simply indulge in some quiet writing time. All writing activities are optional. We hope to end the retreat with an opportunity for participants to share their own writing (or other talents) in a low-key, supportive setting.

An essential element supporting these personal adventures is the shared experience of connecting with your deepest self while in the community of others doing the same. Everything about the Shanti experience is intentionally designed to drop you in to the sweetest and most sublime state—from the idyllic lakeside locale and private seclusion of Wolfe Island to the vibrantly fresh and flavourful meals, not to mention the various waterfront activities at your disposal (swim, sunbathe, canoe and kayak to your heart’s content!)—this retreat promises to be a time for self-care, renewal and enlivenment.

Shanti retreats sell out early. We'll be offering a number of group and other special discounts through early spring, so get in touch with questions or learn more about how to secure your spot.