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 we call 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 both our individual needs while being of service to the greater Circle. Through the heart’s gateway within, we are able to respond with our innate gifts and abilities, fulfilling the greatest needs we perceive in our 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 I 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 circadian 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 monthly calls 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 :

• "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’s difficult to put into words just how much transformation can come from a weekend where all we do is eat and breathe into the question of creation, and dig into ourselves in a way we might not in our ordinary reality ...  Something changed in me. Something deep in the roots of my heart and something that outreached beyond myself."
  -Vanessa Brown, Trout Creek, February 2018
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• "I feel so grateful to write a second review for this unique and authentic facility, its programs, its values and its spiritual grounding. Once again, the physical setting was so ideal for this [Heart Blossom] retreat. We drummed, danced, dined like kings and played in the water to reconnect with our inner selves and our collective power to support and care for one another. All the superlative adjectives in the world would barely scratch the surface of how special this place is in so many ways. Make time for it, if it calls to you. You won't be disappointed."
  -Tanya Marwitz, August 2018
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• "Heart Flow was without a doubt the most deeply extraordinary experience that I've ever had which provided me with clarity and assurance that nature knows the way, when we are truly connected within ourselves and are brave and willing -- deep down we know the way, and that when we hold a dream within a community we can co-create the way. The way to love, to peace, to acceptance, to balance, to harmony, to beauty --- I'm on my way."
  -Courtney Sinclair, May 2016
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