New Year Manifestation Mini Retreat
Step into the new year with clarity, intention, and an awakened spirit.
Join us for a soul-nourishing 3-hour journey designed to help you connect with your deepest desires and call in the energy you want to cultivate for the coming year. This mini retreat weaves together ceremony, neuroscience-informed manifestation practices, yoga, and creativity to support a powerful reset.
We’ll begin with a heart-opening cacao ceremony, inviting warmth, presence, and creative flow into the space. As we sip cacao together, we’ll explore the truth behind manifestation—unpacking common myths and diving into its roots in neuroscience, the law of attraction, and the transformative power of intentional affirmation.
With softened hearts and inspired minds, you’ll flow into a reflective journaling session, where you’ll craft personalized affirmations and manifestation statements to align your energy with what you want to attract in the new year.
Our journey continues with a vitality-raising yoga flow, blending breathwork, mindful movement, and a manifestation-focused sequence to elevate your vibration. This seamlessly melts into a sound bath savasana, guiding you into deep relaxation as visualization techniques anchor your intentions into your subconscious.
Following this inner work, you’ll have time to translate your visions into form by creating your own vision board. A blank canvas, magazines, scissors, glue, and creative materials will be provided, and you’re welcome to bring any additional images or items that feel meaningful to your intentions.
As you create, you’ll enjoy delicious Ayurvedic treats to ground and nourish the body.
Come as you are and leave with clarity, inspiration, and a tangible reminder of the beautiful path you're calling in for the year ahead.
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Friday January 9th from 6:00-9:00pm
at Yoga by Abbey
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Investment: $75.00
Yoga Nidra & Sound Bath
This session combines the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra with the healing vibrations of sound healing instruments for the ultimate tranquil journey within.
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Yoga Nidra is an ancient practice that translates to "yogic sleep". Similar to meditation, it is tremendously relaxing for the nervous system and healing for the mind body and spirit. Yoga Nidra takes us on a journey through the koshas (layers) of our being to the eternal unchanging self, or the soul, where we plant the seed of our Sankalpa, or deepest heartfelt desire.
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Participants lay down comfortably to receive this practice, while supported by props and blankets if desired. There is no movement, it is similar to a guided meditation.
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This session pairs this powerful practice with the healing vibrations of the sound healing instruments, allowing us to drop into a deeply restful state with ease and invite the sound to bring healing to our mind, body and spirit.
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You will be provided with a blanket, yoga bolster and yoga blocks to make yourself comfortable. Please bring a yoga mat or comfortable surface to lay on and anything else you might like to be comfortable (ex a head pillow or an eye pillow).
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Wednesday January 14th & 28th from 7:00-8:00pm
(happens bi-weekly)
at Yoga by Abbey
Investment: $27.00
*Included in Yoga by Abbey class packages
Living in Balance:
Your Ayurvedic Mind-Body Map
Step into the world of Ayurveda, the timeless, holistic science that teaches us how to live in harmony with our unique nature and the rhythms of the world around us.
This introductory workshop is designed to help you understand your mind-body blueprint, reconnect with balance, and learn simple, sustainable practices you can begin using right away.
While sipping a nourishing Ayurvedic beverage, through a blend of education, reflection, and guided exploration, you will:
Discover What Ayurveda Really Is:
Learn the foundations of this ancient healing system. Where it comes from, what it teaches, and why it remains profoundly relevant for modern life. You’ll explore the elemental building blocks of Ayurveda and what makes it such a deeply personalized approach to wellbeing.
Explore the Ayurvedic Clock:
Uncover how the three doshas, Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, shape the rhythms of life:
• the seasons of the year
• the stages of life
• the cycles of each day
Understanding the Ayurvedic clock will help you align with nature’s flow so you can feel more grounded, energized, and balanced throughout the year.
Understand the Doshas & Your Unique Blueprint:
Get to know Vata, Pitta, and Kapha in depth by exploring their qualities, characteristics, strengths, and imbalances. You’ll gain insight into your own Prakruti (your innate constitution) and Vikruti (your current state of imbalance), helping you recognize what supports you, what throws you off, and how to restore harmony.
Ayurvedic Self-Care for Daily Radiance:
You’ll also explore a series of traditional Ayurvedic self-care practices designed to nourish the senses, soothe the nervous system, and support balance in the doshas. We will cover:
• Dinacharya – daily rituals that help you start and end your day in harmony
• Abhyanga – the deeply grounding practice of self-massage with warm oil
• Cleansing practices such as tongue scraping, jala neti, nasya, oil pulling, and the invigorating kapalabhati pranayama
•Intuitive energy practice to help manage the flow of your prana (life force energy) •Pranayama practices to help regulate the nervous system These nourishing rituals help you embrace your inner radiance and cultivate a deeper relationship with your body’s natural wisdom.
By the end of this workshop, you’ll walk away with a clearer understanding of your Ayurvedic mind-body map, along with practical tools and self-care rituals to support balance—seasonally, energetically, and intuitively.
This workshop includes an informative handout to guide your learning during and after the session, classic Ayurvedic recipes, as well as a special Ayurvedic gift to support your new rituals.
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Wednesday January 21st from 7:00-9:00pm
at Yoga by Abbey
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Investment: $50.00
Full Moon in Leo Circle
Join myself (Abbey) and Nancy Drope in this popular monthly experience tuning into the energy of the Full Moon at the Yoga by Abbey studio in St. Catharines.
This full moon is in the fiery astrological sign of Leo.
This experience begins with an engaging astrology discussion with Nancy Drope, helping you to understand and integrate the themes of the full moon into your being. You will receive your personal horoscope for this full moon based on your rising sign in astrology and get to interact with the oracle cards to help you set your intention for the evening.
I will then guide us through an intentional full moon yoga practice, exploring the themes of this full moon through movement breath and awareness. Together we will shift and move stagnant energy and release all that no longer serves our highest good!
Our yoga practice will lead us into a restful savasana pose, prepared to immerse ourselves in the healing vibration of sound. With the crystal singing bowls and the gong, Nancy and I will take you on a blissful sound healing journey, rejuvenating your mind body and spirit.
Conclude the evening by burning away what no longer serves you into the ceremonial burning pot.
A truly empowering and transformative experience, all are welcome!
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Sunday February 1st from 1:00-3:00pm
at Yoga by Abbey
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Investment: $60.00
Sound & Sanctuary for Mamas
Join myself and Nectar Doula Care for an evening of Mother's Circle & Sound Healing!
Together we will facilitate a safe and quiet space to hold mothers through guided breathwork, self-reflection prompts, gentle movement and healing sound. These cross cultural circles have always served as a space for bonding, connection, storytelling and healing practices.
This is an invitation for all pregnant, new or seasoned mamas, as well as all non-crawling babies. Come catch a new breath, a new wind, fill your reservoir, be seen and be heard!
At the end of our Mother's Circle we will immerse ourselves in the healing vibrations of the crystal singing bowls through a recalibrating sound healing journey. Sound therapy is a powerful holistic modality that is deeply restorative for the nervous system, helps to balance the chakra system and even supports proper hormone function.
Note: Mother's circles are also deeply nurturing for non-birthing individuals. They provide an opportunity to hear stories, widen our understanding, and cultivate confidence over fear within the birth space.
Wednesday February 4th from 7:00-8:30pm
at Yoga by Abbey
The investment for this experience is sliding scale.
You are invited to choose a donation amount that honours your financial
ability within the range of $25-$45.​​
Mini Facial & Sound Bath
I am thrilled to be joined by the Calm Down Club's very own Cassandra Bradshaw in this unique holistic experience at Yoga by Abbey. Using the healing power of touch, scent, sound and stillness, we will float into the hypnagogic state together.
hyp•na•gog•ic (adj.)
hypnagogia is the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep.
Enjoy a blissful mini facial experience with Certified aromatherapist and holistic skin therapist Cassandra Bradshaw (she/her) while I guide us through tranquil journey of healing sound. You will be invited to lay comfortably on your back using the support of the yoga props for ultimate relaxation.
The sacred sounds of the crystal sining bowls have a frequency that alter the brain wave state. It is possible through sound healing to reach the same brain wave state as REM sleep. This is extremely relaxing for the nervous system. The vibration of these sounds can help to clear energetic blocks and provide healing throughout the entire body.
Throughout our sound journey together, Cassandra will be able to spend time with each person to provide the wonderful gift of healing hands on touch. Breathe in an organic blend of therapeutic essential oils and carrier oils that are chosen to support your skin’s natural ability to heal and thrive. Intentional acupressure points on the face will be stimulated to encourage flow and chi— our life force energy—to decrease congestion and impart a radiant, healthy glow. An intuitive facial massage will support this restorative experience. Using natural face-lifting techniques, working with the fascia and tense muscular tissue, you'll feel bright and rejuvenated.
*we invite you to arrive with a clean, product-free face.
Enjoy herbal tea upon arrival while you settle in to the space.
There are only 8 spots available per session.
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Wednesday February 18th from 7:00-8:30pm
at Yoga by Abbey
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Investment: $70.00