Please join us for a day of outdoor restorative retreat at the Hart House Farm! Our Outdoor Wellness Retreat is a collaboration between Multi-Faith Centre and Well Being Collective @ Hart House for Indigenous, Black and Racialized students. Students will be exposed to the outdoors, connect with nature and spirituality through reflective meditations and wellness activities, while building community. Meal will be catered by Hue Foods.
Specific itinerary details will be provided shortly. The bus will pick-up students outside of Convocation Hall at 8:45 a.m. and drop-students back on-campus at around 9:30 p.m. Registration is free and a plant based meal and snack catered by Hue Foods will be provided.
Spots are limited and registration is required.
About the day
Join Asha Frost, Indigenous Healer for a ceremony filled with love, connection and guidance. The Fall Equinox time where our Medicine Wheel is turning, we are asked to surrender and let go. We make room for what is abundantly ours to claim and harvest what we are worthy of. We will be engaging in a sacred smudge ceremony, teachings on the Land and a healing activation.
Join Demiesha in discovering a love for the outdoors through engaging activities, including a bonfire camp session with storytelling and smores. Participants will explore the many ways that they can enjoy nature and it's many benefits as a community.
Join Bryan Allan for a meditative outdoor yoga session with headsets that allow the participants to connect on a more personal level and come away with a calm mind.
Facilitators
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Asha Frost
Author and Founder of Sacred Membership
Asha Frost is an Indigenous Medicine Woman, author and founder of Sacred Membership, a global online medicine circle community. She is a member of Chippewas of Nawash First Nation.
Asha has served thousands of people for the past two decades in her work as a native healer, homeopath, teacher, and leader and has studied with many shamans, medicine people, elders, and guides. She has specialized in helping people heal through illness, mental/emotional disorders and ancestral disconnection. Through this work, she has loved seeing people find their own healing wisdom, presence, and power. Her book, You are the Medicine will be released by Hay House in 2022.
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Bryan Clyde Jones
Yoga & Meditation Specialist
Bryan Clyde Jones: With 15+ years of a yoga journey under his belt, his foundation is built on the idea that it's less about him and more about what we can do for each other. Despite labels being placed on him for not "looking like a yoga teacher", Bryan continues to inspire people from all backgrounds in his classes @actifysocial. Committed to creating equal opportunities for all to succeed, and to help meet core values of creating economic opportunity for every member of the wellness workforce. Focusing on enabling historically underrepresented practitioners to thrive in the wellness industry. He dedicates his celebrations to women-identifying souls and their allies for being the first to believe in his potential.
Actify experiences take place once a month in secret locations across the country, as their community of like-minded souls gather under the energy of the Moon. Synchronized with the lunar calendar, these 2-hour celebrations take place in major Canadian cities intertwining all-levels yoga, sound healing meditation, guided journaling, dancing, connecting with others, and more.
They discuss how the power of the moon provides an opportunity for growth, acknowledgement, symbolic release, and a time to celebrate your journey thus far. These experiences attract upwards of 200-500+ participants, dozens of health & wellness focused vendors, and active promotion and participation from local fitness and yoga studios. Expect a magical atmosphere with string lights and candles, immersive headphone yoga, a silent disco with live DJs, astrology & more!
Whether you're joining us alone or with friends, you’ll embark on a powerful inward journey, meet beautiful people and feel connected to something bigger than yourself. Actify Social is made for every soul and you are welcome here. -
Demiesha Dennis
Founder and CEO of Brown Girl Outdoor World
Demiesha Dennis (pronouns She/Her) is the Founder and CEO of Brown Girl Outdoor World. As an outdoor enthusiast with a passion for building community and representation in outdoor spaces, she shares her love for the outdoors through various adventures, while encouraging and inspiring others to step out and do the same. She is actively working to change present narratives regarding people of colour and their place and engagement in outdoor spaces.
When not navigating Toronto’s corporate jungle, she can be found fishing, bungee jumping, camping or hiking from coast to coast and doesn’t see herself stopping soon. With a community behind her working to make tangible changes, she is guiding others into nature and challenging them to “Change the Narrative Through Outdoor Adventure.”
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Aisha Lesley Bentham
Vegan chef, artist
Aisha Lesley Bentham; Vegan chef, artist, health enthusiast, and lifestyle expert started the HUE brand four years ago and has worked with a diverse clientele from providing meals for working mothers to the international Artist WU-tang. Her love for food and art motivated her to create a vegan food and lifestyle brand that inspires vegan meals offers tips and tools on how to be a more sustainable and aware consumer. She believes in her mission to educate, inform and encourage her community to create a life that has no rules but rather an array of options for you to pick and choose from.
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