🌿Restore + Recharge: MINDFULNESS NATURE IMMERSION WEEKENDS

At Get Calm, we believe that sometimes the most productive thing you can do is stop trying so hard.

Our retreats are designed as an opportunity to come out of your head and back into your body. To quiet the constant mental noise, settle your nervous system, and create enough space to hear what is actually going on underneath it all.

Through gentle somatic movement, yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing, aromatherapy, energetic practices, journaling, and mindful time in nature, you'll be invited to notice the patterns that shape how you think, feel, and respond.

Some of those patterns may have once helped you cope. But now, they may simply no longer serve who you're becoming.

The work isn't about forcing yourself to change. It's about creating the conditions for awareness, release, and choice.

Alongside the deeper inner work, there is plenty of room for the simple things that remind you that you're alive: floating quietly down the river in a kayak, sitting in the forest sauna, walking beneath the trees, gathering around a fire, laughing with new people, sleeping beneath the stars, and doing absolutely nothing for a while.

Because healing doesn't always look profound. Sometimes it looks like finally taking a breath you didn't realize you were holding.

Each element is intentionally designed to support an internal shift, not just a temporary sense of calm. 

Meditation

Quiet the mental chatter and develop the ability to observe what is happening within you without immediately reacting to it.

Gentle Yoga + Somatic Movement

Reconnect with your body through movement that is mindful, accessible, and responsive rather than performative.

Breathwork

Use conscious breathing to shift your state, create space, and deepen your awareness of the relationship between breath, body, and emotion.

Sound Healing

Allow sound and vibration to become a pathway into deep rest and stillness through singing bowls, tuning forks, gong, and other instruments.

Aromatherapy

Work with natural plant aromas as part of a sensory experience designed to support grounding, presence, and relaxation.

Energetic Clearing + Realignment

Explore practices intended to help you release stagnant emotional and energetic patterns and create a greater sense of openness and alignment.

Reflection + Journaling

Put language to what you're noticing, uncover what may be keeping you stuck, and create space for new perspectives.

Nature Immersion

Step outside the usual four walls. Walk through the forest. Sit beside the river. Kayak. Watch the fire. Listen to the trees.

Sauna + Kayaking

Both are included in the retreat experience, giving you opportunities to experience the restorative qualities of water, heat, movement, and nature.

Small Group Connection

With only a handful of guests, the experience is personal rather than anonymous. There is room for genuine conversation, quiet connection, individual attention, and silence if that's your preference.

Our Mindfulness Immersions have structure, but they aren't rigid.

The weekend unfolds in a gentle rhythm that allows you to move between guided practice, nature, reflection, connection, and spaciousness.

Friday: Ground + Settle

Arrive. Exhale. Leave the outside world at the gate.

Friday begins with grounding practices, meditation, breathwork, gentle somatic movement, and reflection before settling into a nourishing dinner and deeply restorative evening practices.

The intention is simple: slow everything down.

Saturday: Dive Deeper

Saturday gives you space to explore more deeply.

There are guided practices, time for reflection and creative exploration, gentle movement, meditation, and opportunities to experience the river and forest, including kayaking and the cedar sauna.

The evening gathers everyone around the fire for reflection, release, and connection.

Sunday: Embody + Integrate

Sunday isn't about rushing back into ordinary life.

The morning is devoted to integration, embodiment, meditation, breathwork, movement, and closing reflection.

You'll have space to gather what you've discovered, consider what you want to carry forward, and leave with intention rather than simply checking out and heading home.

And in Between...

There is room to wander, journal, nap, sit by the river, talk, practice silence, stare into a burning fire for extended periods.

Through gentle, guided practices, you may begin to notice:

• Emotional release and lightness
• Clarity around what's been weighing on you
• Reconnection with your inner voice
• A renewed sense of strength and empowerment
• A more relaxed and steady nervous system
• A deeper sense of calm that stays with you
• A sense of self-awareness that feels earned, not temporary 

 You may remember what it feels like to be yourself. 

The setting isn't decoration. It's part of the retreat.

Get Calm is nestled on 111 acres of forest and emerging lavender farm along the Otonabee River in the Peterborough region.

Here, the forest surrounds you.

Canvas tents sit beneath the trees. Forest trails invite you to wander. The river moves quietly nearby. A cedar sauna is tucked away among the woods. Evenings gather around the fire.

There are no hotel lobbies. No conference rooms. No polished wellness resort designed to make you forget you're outside.

Instead, there is the sound of breeze rustling through the trees.

The smell of woodsmoke.

The feel of cool morning air.

The rhythm of water beneath your kayak.

The quiet that arrives when your phone stops being the most interesting thing in the room.

Get Calm isn't polished into perfection. It's a living, evolving farm. The lavender is young. The forest is wild. The retreat space is intentionally intimate and rustic. That's what helps the space remain real, and the people, grounded. 

You won't leave Get Calm having suddenly figured out your entire life. And you probably won't become a person who wakes up at 5 a.m. every morning, drinks green juice, and no longer reacts unreasonably questionable emails.

That's not the goal. The goal is something more useful. To create enough space for your nervous system to settle, become more aware of the patterns that keep you stuck, reconnect with your body and your own inner knowing, release what you're ready to stop carrying, and create a little more space between what happens and how you automatically respond.

The goal is to remember that beneath all the roles, expectations, responsibilities, stories, and adaptations you've accumulated over the years, you can always choose to reconnect with yourself.

You may leave feeling lighter. Clearer. More grounded. More present. More like yourself. The world waiting for you when you leave Get Calm will be the same world you left behind on Friday. But you may meet it differently on Sunday.

Your retreat experience doesn't have to end when you leave the farm.

Each guest receives a handcrafted lavender sachet, filled with blossoms harvested and dried right here at Get Calm. Tuck it beside your pillow, into a drawer, or somewhere you need a little reminder to breathe. Its scent brings a small piece of the farm, and the feeling of your retreat home with you.

You'll also take home your personal art piece, created during the retreat as a tangible reflection of your experience on the land and what spoke to you over the weekend. No two pieces are alike, because no two people experience the land in quite the same way.

And because insights tend to fade once real life gets loud, you'll receive a journal to continue reflecting on the lessons, realizations, and intentions that emerged throughout your weekend.

Three simple reminders to carry the experience with you:

the scent of the lavender,
the art of your experience,
and the words you discovered along the way.