Heart Foundations

What might it be like to come home to your heart, remembering how to live by the guidance of your inner wisdom, while nourishing and growing the passions that fulfill you?

The Heart Foundations series offers one retreat program each season, open to participants of all experience levels. Each retreat has a guiding theme that explores different aspects of building a strong and sustainable foundation of heart-centered living.

Each retreat experience is co-created by the participants through a process of walking the Spiral Path in the Way of the Circle. Participants tap into their intuition, unique gifts, soul yearnings, day and nighttime dreams, innate wisdom, and helping spirits to co-create living ceremony. Going deep within they rediscovering their greatest leader, teacher and healer within. This allows the retreat group to receive magical learning experiences that meet their individual needs while being of service to the greater Circle. Through the heart’s gateway within, one is able to respond with their innate gifts and abilities, fulfilling the greatest needs they perceive in their lives and the world.

No matter who we are, or where we are on our journey in life, the heart is our meeting place . . .

What will you experience?

• Tapping into your innate wisdom through heart-lead forms of self inquiry.
• Community building in the sustainable Way of the Circle.
• A deepening connection with the earth.
• Learning how to facilitate and co-create peacemaking in your family, in your communities, and in the world.
• Resetting your internal rhythms, flowing in harmony with the elements and seasons.
• Developing trust and compassion within, and with others.
• Healing the past.
• Living presently.
• Preparing for the future.
• Making lifelong transformations that support wholeness and health.
• Ongoing community building and support through seasonal virtual gatherings and newsletters.
• Coming home to your true nature.

Curious about what to expect?  Read The Unexpected: What to expect at a circle gathering at Northern Edge Algonquin

“The Heart Foundations are vehicles for change. Within the safe and supportive structure of the Way of the Circle, we realize our inter-connectedness, traveling deep within to retrieve the gifts we came into this world to share. Being seen, feeling heard, inspiring each other, and honoring one another’s values, we heal the root cause of isolation and scarcity. Coming together we undergo a joyous alchemical process, transmuting the dream of fear, divisiveness and disharmony into the dream of Love, Unity, and Peace. Our survival as a human species depends on us remembering ancient wisdom, and our connection to the Spirit that lives in all things.”

Martha Lucier, Co-Founder

Some words from past attendees :

• "I felt so very humbled by this time together. We came as strangers and left as soul sisters and brothers, each from different parts of a symbolic forest.We sang, we played instruments, we connected with the trees and Mother Earth, we sweat together and swam together.  We lay together and trusted that the mycelium underneath would help to decompose what no longer served our spirit. We soared in this new longing for more. We continue to connect with the magic inside of us and look forward to our return to the Edge – a place that brought us to a breath-taking view of ourselves and the knowing that we can always return.”
  -Bina Mittal, October 2021
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• "Beautiful area set back into the woods on a lake. It was an entire weekend of meditation on a personal level, of which, assisted me to work through personal stressful events of every day life. Very clean, and organized, comfortable for certain. The Staff, are very kind, and friendly. LOVE THE EDGE!"
  -Jane Mathers, April 2019
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• "Nature has a way of creating a deep play for young ones, but also for adults too. At the Edge, I was able to dream, create, and become mindful at the moment, leading by my heart centre. My heart had been broken, my sense of identity lost. Coming to the circle, an ancient community practice, at the Edge, helped me understand what my new normal would become."
  -Jennifer Casement Buttineau, Barrie, September 2018
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• "It is hard to describe in words how much I love the Edge. Feeling beyond grateful for an experience filled with awe and wonder. Far more fulfilling than a week down south and has restored my childhood love of the winter! Every person, place and thing at the Edge contributed to an experience that left me replenished, whole and happier than I had been in months... Staff at the Edge helped me figure out how to help myself. Leaving me able to replenish myself in my regular crazy and hectic life!"
  -Joanne Hofinger, February 2018
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