Our WholeHer Wellness Retreat is a weekend sanctuary from Friday evening to Sunday at 2 pm, where women gather in a safe, nurturing environment to rejuvenate body, heart, mind, and spirit. The program combines gentle movement, somatic healing, nourishing meals, nature walks, personal reflection, and soulful community-building for holistic renewal.
Here is a sneak peek of the program:
May 22, Friday (evening): Welcome & Connection
May 23, Saturday (full day and evening): Wholeness in Action
May 24, Sunday (morning and lunch): Integration &Community
Key Features:
- Whole-person practices: breathwork, mindfulness, yoga, expressive arts
- Spiritual exploration, peace process, and emotional healing
- Heart-centred facilitation and nervous system support
- Community sharing and lasting wellbeing
Program Details:
Friday night
- Venue orientation
- Introductions and connections, snacks and socializing
- Setting the tone for safety, wellbeing, encouragement and learning
- Settling your nervous system: sound bowls, breathwork, visualization, Yoga Nidra for sleep
Saturday
- Heart-brain coherence
- Anxiety dissolving peace process
- Full-length Yoga class
- Spiritual purpose, meditation, prayer practices
- Soothing and regulating emotions
- Breathwork for calming or awakening
- Fitness for where you are at now
- Using the language of virtues
- Body awareness, intuition, body self-testing
- Personal time, partner work and group connection
Saturday night
- Walking trails and forest bathing
- Nordic spa with hot and cold tubs and sauna
- Creative arts expression
Sunday Closure
- Recap of our experience
- Consultation about taking the tools forward into our lives
- Connection nurturing following the retreat
- Celebrating and depending on the unity of sisterhood
Who should attend?
Women with busy lives who need time to reflect, rejuvenate and reconnect.
Where's the venue?
Rising Moon Studio outside Sherwood Park Alberta.
Rising Moon is a retreat house with two indoor spaces and one outdoor space, natural light, Nordic sauna, hot and cold tubs, overnight full-accommodation, and 25 acres of walking paths.
What will I experience?
Immersive, lasting wellness designed for women who are ready to feel well not just in moments of rest, but in everyday life.
What will I receive?
- Full program facilitation and all support resources
- Meals (dietary restrictions accommodates), snacks, beverages and accommodation
- Copy of Marie’s book “The Spirit of Work: Timeless Wisdom, Current Realities”
- A healing candle from Harmonic Medicine
What should I bring?
- All-in-one sleep mask with eye covering and ear noise cancelling capacities. They are available online for between $5 and $11 and will help you sleep soundly
- Yoga mats are provided but you may bring your own
- Running shoes for fitness sessions
- A blank journal and pen
- Outdoor shoes and warm outdoor wear for walking the nature trails
- Bathing suit, robe and flip flops/sandals for the sauna/Nordic spa experience Saturday night.
- Your own snacks as desired
Where will I sleep?
Sleeping at the venue is separate beds in communal rooms, with easy access to washrooms, bedding and towels provided.
Is food provided?
All meals, snacks, tea, and coffee are included, with delicious and healthy options provided — and all dietary restrictions or special diets will be fully accommodated.
Pricing
Early Bird Installments
starts January 1st ($300 Savings!)Early Bird Full Payment
on or before March 20th ($300 Savings!)Regular
between March 21st to May 8thFacilitators
Marie Gervais - Emotional Freedom Practitioner
Marie Gervais, PhD, is a Certified coach (ICF) and Certified Emotional Freedom (EFT) practitioner, who specializes in easing workplace, career and life distress through somatic and emotional regulation modalities. Her facilitation weaves spiritually and emotionally inclusive practices with hands-on, real world health and wellness tools.
As a Certified Canadian Professional Trainer and Developer, Dr.Gervais has facilitated 500+ courses, workshops, retreats, and events in countries around the world. She is a compassionate and powerful speaker embodying trauma informed and intercultural communication skills to engage and inspire. With a background as a professional musician, artist and writer, participants benefit by experiencing self-discovery insights through the arts.
She is the author of “The Spirit of Work: Timeless Wisdom, Current Realities”.
Elara Reardon – Yoga and Wellness
With a profound dedication to holistic healing and a heart-centered approach, Elara has devoted her career to helping individuals find lasting peace, joy, and fulfillment.
Having been on a personal healing journey all her life, Elara discovered the profound tools she now shares, witnessing their miraculous healing effects in both her own life, and those of her clients.
With certifications as a Life Coach, Compassion Key Practitioner, Peace Process Master, Reiki Master, Health Counselor, Yoga Nidra Facilitator, and a Yoga Teacher, specializing in Yoga as Therapy, Elara brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her practice.
Her holistic healing programs are designed to guide clients through transformative journeys, nurturing the body, heart, mind, and soul.