Transformational Retreats for personal & professional development in Ontario

As a centre for transformational leadership, Northern Edge Algonquin is proud to present select retreats and trainings designed to connect you more deeply with yourself, work towards living more joyfully and authentically, exploring your leadership potential, and more.

Upcoming

Ontario-based Specialty Workshops & Transformational Retreats for Personal Growth and Professional Development

Whether you’re looking for personal development, inner & outer work, continuing education, or leadership training, we’ve got a mix of signature and hosted programs that can help you to grow & evolve with the support of experienced facilitators and leaders.

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Heart Flame

Retreat With the Way of the Circle Centre


Connect deeply with your heart, nature, and a heart-centered & like-minded community in this Heart Wisdom Healing Retreat. Coming home to the Fire Within, let us gather under the stars in the stillness of winter dreamtime to re-ignite our passions.

  • Feb 6 – 9, 2025
  • Nature & Self Connection
  • Circle Work & Earth-based Spiritual Practice
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1084 +HST/Person
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Heart Flow

Way of the Circle Retreat

Connect deeply with your heart, nature, and a heart-centered & like-minded community in this Heart Wisdom Healing Retreat. Flowing with renewed life, we embrace our child-like innocence as we plant & nurture the seeds of new dreams.

  • May 1 – 4, 2025
  • Nature & Self Connection
  • Circle Work & Earth-based Spiritual Practice
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1084 +HST/Person
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Evolve: the Art of Transformational Leadership

A Northern Edge Algonquin Retreat

Evolve your leadership style with our Art of Transformational Leadership & Facilitation training developed for leaders of all types.

  • May 16 – May 19, 2025
  • Personal Leadership Development
  • Co-created retreat in the Way of the Circle
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1634 +HST/Person
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Folk Herbalism & Plant Connection Retreat

A Retreat With The Gaia Hive

Turn off your phone and turn on the plant frequencies.” Tap into the wild innate parts of yourself through herbalism & natural plant medicines. Experience guided plant journeys with local trees and plants. Paddle on the serene lake waters honouring the waters within you. Be fed, nourished and deepen your connection to the plants.

  • May 23 – 25, 2025
  • Paddling, forest bathing, & light outdoor activities
  • Herbalism & natural plant medicines (substance-free)
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 946 +HST/Person
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Aerial Yoga Teacher Training

Training Retreat with Grounded U

Join us to elevate and translate your yoga teaching skills to the aerial silks, attaining certification in Aerial Yoga. This continuing education training for certified yoga teachers is run concurrently with our SUP Yoga Teacher Training as a nourishing & educational retreat experience.

  • July 3 – 6, 2025
  • Aerial Yoga Teacher Training & Certification
  • Well-rounded retreat experience with fellow yogis
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1,734 +HST/Person
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SUP Yoga Teacher Training

Training with Rebel Soul & Court Outdoors

Join us to elevate and translate your yoga teaching skills to the SUP board, attaining certification in SUP Yoga as well as Basic SUP Instruction. This continuing education training for certified yoga teachers is run concurrently with our Aerial Yoga Teacher Training as a nourishing & educational retreat experience.

  • July 3 – 6, 2025
  • SUP Yoga Teacher Training & Certification
  • Stand-Up Paddleboard Instructor Training & Certification
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1,734 +HST/Person
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Heart Blossom

Way of the Circle Retreat

Connect deeply with your heart, nature, and a heart-centered & like-minded community in this Heart Wisdom Healing Retreat. Playing outside and daydreaming in nature, join us as we honour our ability to create in this time of abundance.

  • Aug 14 – 17, 2025
  • Nature & Self Connection
  • Circle Work & Earth-based Spiritual Practice
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1084 +HST/Person
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Landing Together Again

Retreat With Allie Chisholm-Smith

Stabilizing and grounding back to ourselves with energizing & restorative yoga, conversations about Ayurveda and philosophy . . . We will play and rest, remembering ourselves as sacred.

  • Aug 20 – 24, 2025
  • Energizing & restorative yoga
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1,675 +HST/Person
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Deepen Your Love (A Getting the Love You Want Retreat)

Couples Retreat With Replenish Relationships

This transformative workshop using Imago Relationship Therapy is renowned for it’s positive impact on any couple in a romantic relationship who wishes to enhance their connection, repair hurts and resentments, and built a more meaningful & conscious relationship.

  • Sept 18 – 21, 2025
  • Getting the Love You Want workshop designed by Harville Hendrix & Helen Lakelly Hunt
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 2,898 +HST/Couple
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The Habit Reset

Our Signature Health & Wellness Retreat

Transform your personal habits in this immersive health retreat & habits workshop for individuals seeking wellbeing, transformation, and wishing for a reset.

  • Sept 25 – 28, 2025
  • Specialty Habits Workshop
  • Introductory wellness practices
  • Fall colours retreat
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1234 +HST/Person
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Heart Wood

A Retreat With The Way of the Circle Centre

Connect deeply with your heart, nature, and a heart-centered & like-minded community in this Heart Wisdom Healing Retreat. Harvesting the wisdom from the wind and trees, join us to root deep into the earth and restore our hearts.

  • Oct 16 – 19, 2025
  • Nature & Self Connection
  • Circle Work & Earth-based Spiritual Practice
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 1084 +HST/Person
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Reset the System: a Healthcare Provider Retreat

A Retreat With

Lindsay MacMillan, Jeff Warren, and Allie Chisholm-Smith

Inspiration

Take time to reboot, recharge and reset your system. After a challenging few years in our health care field, we could all use a moment to reflect, renew and restore. We will come away with lighter hearts, clearer minds and refreshed souls.

  • Sept 15 – Sept 17, 2023
  • Restoration & Resilience
All-Inclusive Pricing From
$ 935 +HST/Person

All Retreats Feature

Nourishing Meals

Delicious, one-of-a-kind meals crafted with care from local ingredients and catered to a diverse range of dietary needs.

Time Outside

Outdoor experiences and activities in nature that will have you out exploring and trying something new.

Sustainability

Comfortable eco-friendly accommodations.  From our solar power system to our local food initiatives, you’ll see & feel the difference of visiting a sustainable retreat.

Plan your next retreat with Northern Edge Algonquin

Passionate Leaders

Retreats facilitated by passionate and skilled leaders who can help inspire you to connect more deeply with yourself, others, and nature.

Time for Self-care

Rejuvenative practices for wellness, creativity, self-growth, and for you to experience true rest and dreamtime.

Community

Community-centered group programming that will introduce you to new like-minded friends and allies to share experiences with.

Signs You Are Ready for a Transformative Retreat

  • You are tired of seeking leaders and gurus for the answers, and you are ready to find the answers within yourself and in nature.
  • You are ready to evolve, whether that means resetting your habits or goals, evolving your leadership style, or stepping into your more authentic self.
  • You are ready to deepen your connection with yourself through self-inquiry and inner work.
  • You can feel a change coming to the way we lead, work with, and treat one another, and you are ready to be a part of that change.
  • You are tired of waiting to live the life of your dreams, and you’re ready to go out there and make it happen.
  • You are tired of online trainings and you wish to unplug and earn a certification in good company, in-person.
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