Special Events & Guest Speakers
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A special retreat designed for both beginners and intermediates. The goal of this retreat is to immerse ourselves into our heart center through several different practices of yoga and meditation, along with fabulous healthy vegetarian foods, body balancing treatments and evening discussions with your host Amanda Stuart. |
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Walk on the Wild Side! ~ Fun filled Retreat Weekend for Adventurous Foodies! September 10-12 Join our Grail foodie team while we dive into a weekend all about one of our favorite subjects....FOOD! Learn, forage, cook and eat all weekend long as we spend time with Mother Nature, walking through the forest and learning about the edible and medicinal properties of plants that grow wild in our own backyard here in Ontario. Learn to make your own tea infusions, aromatic cedar sticks, health compresses, and so much more! |
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'Fearless Mastery' Creative Weekend Retreat with the engaging Diane Devenyi September 17 to 19 The Fearless Mastery hands-on workshop is a fun, engaging space in which you can fearlessly master new skills and re-unite with your body, mind, and spirit. If you have been afraid to dance, sing, sculpt, speak in public, eat healthy food—you name it—Diane is here to change your story. Diane will share her journey that gave her the confidence to become Toronto's Virtual Mayor and provide fun activities that will change your life forever!"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience as you look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt |
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The Healing Power of Music with Canadian Recording Artist Debbie Danbrook ~ September 24-26 A very special retreat presentation offers participants the opportunity to experience the healing energy of the Shakuhachi flute and voice in our peaceful sacred settings. The Shakuhachi's revitalizing and powerful sound vibrations is unique to the world as is Debbie, the only woman in the world to master this instrument originally played by monks. |
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Katherine and Russ Loader have been turning lives around for decades. Experts in the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui, considered an exact science, they will once again lead a most fascinating workshop. Precisely sharing with you what you can do in your home to bring about more wealth, joy and abundance into your life. Katherine and Russ are regular guests at Canada Blooms and TV and radio appearances include HGTV, Toronto’s Breakfast Television, Canada AM, Rogers Daytime, House Calls, CH Morning Live, CHEX TV, CFRB 1010 Talk Radio! |
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"Why do I think We Women Can Save this World? And how do I think it can be done? Join me for a lively presentation and discussions on the many secret formula's women are using to create sustainable green businesses that serve themselves, their families, their planet and how you can too." |
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Experience a 5-day long immersion into a sustainable live food lifestyle with expert Imani, author of 'The Absence of Soul' and founder of 'Growing Green Co-op' in Connecticut! Discover ways to energize your body, detoxify your temple, clarify your priorities and magnetize your intentions to be aligned with your inner calling. Our focus will be on conscious consumption with food as the foundation to fuel our passion. |
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Ready to rediscover your passion? Or ignite new ones? Ignite the flame that burns within you. The Grail is very proud to be hosting Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood's renowned Passion Test taken by thousands of individuals world-wide. Join this special retreat, fill your cup, and meet the destiny that is awaiting you... |
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Detox your Life for Emotional Freedom! ~ with Carol Prentice October 22 to 24 Are you holding on to stored negative emotions that are weighing you down physically and mentally? Are you holding on to limiting beliefs that were developed years ago and no longer serving you? Allow yourself to discover your unlimited potential and experience true joy and bliss in your life by joining us for this special detox weekend for body, mind and Spirit! |
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Harvest Goddess Playshop & Retreat with Darinka Blagaj ~ October 29-31 Come play! A co-creative harvest of the heart - bring your dreams & inner journey into outer manifestation. Connect within, living and being the Goddess within a creative, supportive come-unity of sisters in a gorgeous natural setting. We celebrate the anchoring of our deepest dreams together during this auspicious weekend where healing, expression and creativity meet the inspiration of the present moment. |
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"Inspiring, exhilarating, soul-awakening! This weekend retreat filled my cup and brought me back to LIFE!" If you believe in Magic, and believe you can create miracles every single day for the rest of your life, then we say this retreat is one you do not want to miss! Follow Madeleine Marentette into the secret world of manifestation. Walk the sacred walk, discover your long lost passions and begin doing what your soul was truly meant to do...with ease. How deep into the heart of life are you willing and ready to go? |
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Six days and five nights dedicated to healthy eating, detoxification, getting fit, learning to meditate, connect with nature... all based around very special themed retreat playshops that are sure to inspire and change the course of your life! |
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Women's Retreat ~ Journey to the Mists of Avalon with us in a fun filled weekend steeped in legend & lore, magick and mystery! ~ with Glastonbury Grail Expert Gail Cornwell and Grail founder Madeleine Marentette November 12-14 Glastonbury, a place of magic and spirituality, is thought to be the place of the legendary Avalon, the very place that King Arthur himself is thought to be buried. Join Glastonbury expert and wand maker Gail Cornwell and Grail hobbyist Madeleine Marentette as they take you on a magical journey past the veil of Avalon. Spend a weekend steeped in the magick and mystery of the timeless quest for the holy grail. |
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Be inspired to reconnect with your ancestral knowledge as you are initiated into this ancient way of being with Amanda Stuart. As they say 'Everything happens for a reason." |
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Join us for one of our most popular retreats: VISION YOUR LIFE! November 26-28 Immerse your 'Self' in what continues to be one of the most popular, life-changing weekends for so many individuals. Join expert coaches in their field as they share their wisdom, life experiences and inspirations in exciting interactive workshops that will bring focus and action into your life. As well as these workshops, you will enjoy yoga and the Grail Mantra, hiking and spa therapies to feel anew. Find out what really matters to YOU. Discover your passion, ignite your passion, and then learn the secrets of manifesting your passion. Become the voyageur of your own life destiny! |
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Just imagine holiday festivities where someone else does all the cooking AND you don't have those 'after the holiday extra pounds' to contend with. It's the COOLEST place to be during the holiday season. Think snowshoeing across the lake, curling up by the Great Hall fireplace, roasted chestnuts, aromatherapy massage in your own room, yoga by candlelight...dreamy... |
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A favorite speaker amongst our guests, the engaging Gordon Spowart is back again for what is truly an entertaining, lively AND enlightening weekend of workshops. Gordon is the founder and president of the Numerology Institute of Canada. Today he instructs, teaches and reveals latent psychic abilities in others and once you have been enlightened with the knowledge of how powerfully connected numbers are to every facet of your life, you will appreciate the opportunity to "know thyself and thou shalt know the universe"! |
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SACRED JOURNEY to MACHU PICCHU for WOMEN May 12-24, 2011 Travel with Grail Springs founder Madeleine Marentette in partnership with Vera Lopez of Spirits of the Earth and Bernadetta Alvarez, Peruvian Shaman, as we journey through the Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu this coming May 2011 during the full moon cycle. If you missed our last trip be sure to put this once in a lifetime journey for body, mind and spirit on your calendar. "Truly one of the most meaningful journey's of my life. And I cannot imagine doing it without Vera Lopez. For she truly is the embodiment of the spirit of Machu Picchu herself." ~ MM |
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Join this one-of-a-kind incredible gathering, Canada's 2nd annual summer festival for women inspiring women. Interact with over 20+ leading-edge change makers, authors, thought leaders, spiritual guides, educators, recording artists, economists and green business leaders. Glean new ideas and new inspirations. Celebrate with music, song, dance, arts and culture, participate in traditional ceremony and the co-creation of new ideas. Simply divine! |
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48th Annual Rockhound Gemboree, Canada's Largest Gem & Mineral Show Aug 25-28, 2011 Rock into the Mineral Capital of Canada, home of Grail Springs. During your stay it's a 'must do' to visit the Rockhound Gemboree. This weekend we'll also hike to our own crystal outcrop for an outdoor yoga and meditation class. |
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Join Pamela Gerrand for a heart-opening journey of music, mantra and meditation featuring Nada Yoga - the yoga of sound. Pam offers a magical journey to your heart wisdom, weaving her original songs and poetry with ancient chants that are literally sonic codes for healing and harmony. Learn how to use sound to raise your JOY vibration, and feel better in mind, body and spirit! No previous musical experience required - be bathed in the healing sounds, or dive in and play! |
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