Open The Gateway - Healing Arts New Years Retreat
Thursday, December 31 – Sunday, January 3, 2016
New Years Retreat
Open the Gateway to 2016
A Yoga, Meditation & Expressive Arts Retreat with
Liz Diaz, Ayrlie MacEachern & Guest Facilitator Darren Austin Hall
Thursday, December 31st, 2015 to Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
Take a deep breath and land in a sacred container to release 2015, restore, envision and celebrate into 2016.
We will tuck into the warm and special space of Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre amid the peaceful beauty of nature. Walk trails, listen to the birds, the breeze, feel your heartbeat, and your breath. Enjoy whole foods while nourishing your soul at the same time.
Throughout the time you will be invited to connect deeply to yourself through meditation, yoga, art, dance, & crystal bowl sound healing.
These practices are known to provide deep connection to one-self, our emotions, act as catalysts for fresh perspectives and change while enhancing our well-being.
Crystal bowl sound healing is deeply relaxing, and rejuvenating. Creating states of clarity, balancing the chakras, while opening up realms of wisdom and understanding.
No experience is necessary. This retreat is perfect if you’re curious about meditation and expressive arts but not sure how to start or what to expect.
Everything over the weekend is completely optional. When you need to rest and skip a session, please do. If you are in need of a massage or reiki treatment, we will arrange that for you.
Allow this weekend to be the kindest gift you could ever give yourself and honour your needs.
If all you can do is get away for a couple hours, you are welcome to join us on New Year’s Day for the evening concert:
Sacred Music Concert to Renew the Year with Darren Austin Hall
Friday January 1st 8-10pm $25 at door
Join us for a healing experience like no other: a sound bath with the healing tones of quartz crystal singing bowls, shamanic singing and other sacred instruments.
Since ancient times, sound and music have been used as medicines to effect us on a vibrational, energetic level and to foster states of deep, healing peace and relaxation. The crystal bowls are known to be some of the most profound sound healing instruments in the world and their tones have a deeply positive effect on our mind-body-soul.
Schedule
Thursday, Dec 31st
3:00 – 5:00 pm Arrive and settle into your cabin
6:00 – 6:30pm Introductions and dinner at 6:30
8:30 Opening Circle the Gateway to 2016! New Years Celebration & Fire Ceremony!
Friday, Happy New Year! Jan 1
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:30 -12 Stretch into the New You! – Nia dance class with Ayrlie
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
2:30 -4:00 Creating your New Year, expressive writing, guided visualizations & meditation with Liz
4:00 -5:30 Create your 2016 Dream Catcher with Ayrlie
6:00-7:00 Dinner
8:00-10:00 Sacred Music Concert to Renew the Year with Darren
Saturday, Jan 2
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:30-12:00 Refresh & Renew Yoga with Crystal Bowls & Reiki with Ayrlie, Darren & Liz
12:30-1:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Create your New Year, expressive writing, guided visualizations & meditation with Liz
4:00-5:30 Creative Creation Collage with Ayrlie
6:00-7:00 Dinner
8-10:30 Open Heart Dance Party 2016
Conscious Dance Party, free-style dj dance with opening and closing meditation with crystal bowls
Sunday, Jan 3
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:00- 11:30 Closing Circle
12:30-1:30 Lunch
3:00 Departure
What’s included:
3 nights accommodations
8 delicious hearty vegan meals
6 facilitated workshops
We welcome you to take your place in our circle as we call in the New Year with celebration, ritual, expressive arts and embodied pleasure.
Allow your heart to open & the magic within you to arise.
Birth your visions & dreams as we Open the Gateway.
Liz Diaz
Movement Facilitator, Healing Arts Practitioner, DJ & Conscious Event Promoter
Liz believes that movement and dance is a practice of self-discovery, healing, celebration & transformation. Liz’s calling and passion is to hold and create spaces that inspires others to explore and cultivate embodied awareness. Liz believes that the body is the gateway to deeper levels of joy, connection to self, and the divine.
Liz is the host and creator of Conscious Dance Parties Toronto,
CDP Toronto a unique events company that creates experience that brings together dance, live & dj music, meditation, raw food and sacred community.
In her private practice as a life coach she integrates her sessions with movement, mindfulness, yoga, positive psychology, reiki, and expressive arts. http://consciousdance.ca/
Ayrlie MacEachern
I am a dancer, an artist facilitator and an expressive arts therapist. I teach dance & yoga classes in rural communities. For 19 years, I have been facilitating creativity-based experiences for all ages – in schools, on weekend retreats, in day-long workshops, camps and classes.
My passion is to hold safe and supportive spaces where people of all ages come together to co-create and grow. I aspire to contribute to an inclusive, dynamic and peace-full world where the real juice comes from blending the diversity of age, geography, culture and creative medium.
What inspires me is witnessing people’s creativity in action: the bubbling up of possibility, the emotional connection with themselves and each other, a tangible sense of joy & peace.
Let’s PLAY! www.ayrlie.ca
Special Guest Facilitator: Darren Austin Hall is a sacred musician, sound healer and spiritual teacher. His empowering music entails diverse, salving instrumentation, from the crystal singing bowls, Indian tanpura, mystical guitar and shamanic singing.
Trained in Chinese Medicine and shamanic healing, Darren is also a gifted teacher and facilitator of a wide array of workshops on new paradigms of spirituality and healing. He is a writer of the blog called The Druid and is published online on sites such as Elephant Journal. Darren co-facilitates a men’s group in Toronto devoted to raising the consciousness of the masculine and is a devotee of the wisdom of nature.
What people are saying about Darren’s Music:
” Darren Austin Hall’s Music is Sound-Healing-Energy. A journey into the deep bliss of your being and an evolution of consciousness at its highest level. His use of the crystal bowls and also his shamanic voice sends you into another dimension, one of Total Healing and Integration..Sublime!”
Meenakshi & Ron Reid of Swaha
Registration Details
What’s included:
3 nights accommodations
9 delicious hearty vegan meals
6 facilitated workshops + so much more
$525 regular price – after Dec 14th
Register with a friend you each get $50 off the retreat price.
Please contact us for more information about this bonus!
Sacred Music Concert to Renew the Year with Darren Austin Hall
Friday January 1st 8-10pm $25 at door
Call Liz Diaz if you have any questions: 647-893-6980
payments can be made via etransfer to
Big Heart Dance Camp [email protected]
For more info visit ayrlie.ca or email [email protected]
Payment plans & bursaries available
New Years Retreat
Open the Gateway to 2016
A Yoga, Meditation & Expressive Arts Retreat with
Liz Diaz, Ayrlie MacEachern & Guest Facilitator Darren Austin Hall
Thursday, December 31st, 2015 to Sunday, January 3rd, 2016
Take a deep breath and land in a sacred container to release 2015, restore, envision and celebrate into 2016.
We will tuck into the warm and special space of Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre amid the peaceful beauty of nature. Walk trails, listen to the birds, the breeze, feel your heartbeat, and your breath. Enjoy whole foods while nourishing your soul at the same time.
Throughout the time you will be invited to connect deeply to yourself through meditation, yoga, art, dance, & crystal bowl sound healing.
These practices are known to provide deep connection to one-self, our emotions, act as catalysts for fresh perspectives and change while enhancing our well-being.
Crystal bowl sound healing is deeply relaxing, and rejuvenating. Creating states of clarity, balancing the chakras, while opening up realms of wisdom and understanding.
No experience is necessary. This retreat is perfect if you’re curious about meditation and expressive arts but not sure how to start or what to expect.
Everything over the weekend is completely optional. When you need to rest and skip a session, please do. If you are in need of a massage or reiki treatment, we will arrange that for you.
Allow this weekend to be the kindest gift you could ever give yourself and honour your needs.
If all you can do is get away for a couple hours, you are welcome to join us on New Year’s Day for the evening concert:
Sacred Music Concert to Renew the Year with Darren Austin Hall
Friday January 1st 8-10pm $25 at door
Join us for a healing experience like no other: a sound bath with the healing tones of quartz crystal singing bowls, shamanic singing and other sacred instruments.
Since ancient times, sound and music have been used as medicines to effect us on a vibrational, energetic level and to foster states of deep, healing peace and relaxation. The crystal bowls are known to be some of the most profound sound healing instruments in the world and their tones have a deeply positive effect on our mind-body-soul.
Schedule
Thursday, Dec 31st
3:00 – 5:00 pm Arrive and settle into your cabin
6:00 – 6:30pm Introductions and dinner at 6:30
8:30 Opening Circle the Gateway to 2016! New Years Celebration & Fire Ceremony!
Friday, Happy New Year! Jan 1
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:30 -12 Stretch into the New You! – Nia dance class with Ayrlie
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
2:30 -4:00 Creating your New Year, expressive writing, guided visualizations & meditation with Liz
4:00 -5:30 Create your 2016 Dream Catcher with Ayrlie
6:00-7:00 Dinner
8:00-10:00 Sacred Music Concert to Renew the Year with Darren
Saturday, Jan 2
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:30-12:00 Refresh & Renew Yoga with Crystal Bowls & Reiki with Ayrlie, Darren & Liz
12:30-1:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Create your New Year, expressive writing, guided visualizations & meditation with Liz
4:00-5:30 Creative Creation Collage with Ayrlie
6:00-7:00 Dinner
8-10:30 Open Heart Dance Party 2016
Conscious Dance Party, free-style dj dance with opening and closing meditation with crystal bowls
Sunday, Jan 3
8:30-9:30 Breakfast
10:00- 11:30 Closing Circle
12:30-1:30 Lunch
3:00 Departure
What’s included:
3 nights accommodations
8 delicious hearty vegan meals
6 facilitated workshops
We welcome you to take your place in our circle as we call in the New Year with celebration, ritual, expressive arts and embodied pleasure.
Allow your heart to open & the magic within you to arise.
Birth your visions & dreams as we Open the Gateway.
