Early Bird Rates
$749 Double Occupancy
$849 Single Occupancy
Regular Rates
$849 Double Occupancy
$949 Single Occupancy
Each of our separate journeys on this earth can result in emotional injury and blockages within our systems that can emerge in unhelpful ways in our work life, our relationships, our families, our communities, and beyond. Depression and Anxiety are on the rise as a result, and one of the foremost causes of these illnesses is disconnection - disconnection between mind and body, soul, spirit. We often numb out to cope, instead of finding healing through integrating our whole selves and discovering our own strength and resiliency.
Reconnection, integration, balance and wholeness are key. Within the beautiful, natural environment of British Columbia’s Loon Lake Retreat Centre, come reconnect your body, mind, soul and spirit at a retreat which combines a nervous-system healing yoga practice with trauma-informed systemic group and individualized therapeutic techniques. Anila and Juliana have developed a modality which combines systemic and somatic therapy with trauma-informed yoga to create a safe experience that invites you to explore both your lightness and your heaviness and engage in beginning the journey with us towards integrating the whole, to be the best self you can be.
Women’s Mind-Body Connection
Retreat Schedule
day 1
3:00
Registration and Welcome / Getting Settled
4:00 - 5:30
Introduction: Psycho-ed / Kinetic Circle - How Your Body Tells Your Story
5:30 - 6:00
Belly and Square Breathing Practice
6:00
Dinner
7:00 - 9:00
Breakout Groups and Guided Question Sharing
9:00 - 9:15
Invitation to Prepare for Bed
9:15 - 10:00
Yin Practice
10:00
Quiet Time / Bed
day 2
8:00 - 8:15
Morning Flow and Salutation
8:15
Breakfast
9:00 - 10:45
Group Therapy Session
11:00 - 12:15
Dragon Power Flow Yoga
12:15 - 1:00
Decompression / Free Time
1:00
Lunch
1:45 - 3:45
Combined Mental Health / Yoga Practice - Practicalities of Processing Trauma in Every Day Life / Movement / Trauma Group Treatment
3:45
Fire and Hot Chocolate
4:45 - 6:45
Meditation Pranayama Practice, Titration - Resiliency and Exposure Therapy
7:00
Dinner
8:00 - 9:30
Nervous System Healing Flow with Satir Meditation
9:30
Invitation to Prepare for Bed
9:30 - 10:00
Fire Gazing
10:00
Quiet Time / Bed
day 3
8:00 - 8:15
Morning Flow and Salutation
8:15
Breakfast
8:45 - 9:15
Clean Up Rooms
9:15 - 10:45
Group Therapy Session
11:00 - 12:15
Nervous System Healing Flow
12:30
Lunch
1:30 - 3:00
Closing Circle - Takeaways
*NOTE: This schedule is subject to change based on attending to the needs of each particular group.*
** NOTE: Every activity/treatment offered during this weekend is by invitation, it is NOT mandatory. You are invited to listen to your body this weekend and attend what serves you, and not attend what would not serve you/feels like too much for you, and follow your own flow. **
Retreat FAQs
Do I need to have any yoga experience?
No - all skill levels and abilities are welcome. Our retreat will leave plenty of room for those with little to no experience, and also those who have more experience and wish to push themselves.
What do I need to bring?
You will receive a registration package via email which will tell you in more detail what you need to bring.
How will I get a feel for if this will be a safe space, with safe people?
Before the retreat we will meet via Zoom as a collective of all those who have registered. If it feels like an unsafe space in any way we would invite you to address that with us leaders afterwards, and if it still doesn’t feel right or we can’t find a way to make it safer for you, you are welcome to withdraw from the retreat with a full refund.
How many participants will be in attendance?
In order to move ahead with the retreat we will need between 16-22 participants. If we have less than 16 registered we may have to cancel the retreat. In this instance notice will be given via email and each registrant will receive a full refund.
Juliana Fruhling
MA-MFT, RCC
Juliana is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC, a community and parent mental health educator, certified trauma-informed yoga practitioner and Collaborative Coach. She is passionate about helping people of all ages discover wellness through building their own resilience, and discovering healing through integration. Through her trauma-informed counselling approach, which combines elements of somatic, systemic and emotion-focused therapy, Juliana has created an experiential group treatment that invites deeper mental health healing and integration.
Juliana’s clinical work over the last 10 years has deepened and expanded her gentle wisdom and ability to empathize with us all. Her insights into human nature are enriched by her wide vision, perspective and unconditional compassion while also offering practical and personal action items. She continues to deepen her own language of self-knowledge in emotion, and is able to match you wherever you are.
When she’s not working towards integration and healing, Juliana is a wife to a wonderful husband, and a mother to her two beautiful kids and her Yorkie mix, Marmalade.
Anila Lacroix
E-RYT500, YACEP
Anila is an experienced yoga teacher and teacher trainer who has taught a wide variety of yoga styles for the last 15 years. She was a teacher trainer with YYoga for their 200 and 500hr programs, and for the Salt Spring Center of Yoga(SSCY) for their 200hr program. She is now a Legacy Lululemon Ambassador, a psychology and philosophy major at the University of British Columbia and continues her connections with SSCY. Her additional trauma-informed training came through personal experience, gained after a couple of car collisions and years in rehabilitation and physical therapy.
Anila's intuitive approach and quiet, mischievous spirit creates safety for all who are around her, while her vast knowledge of the body and its systems as well as her ability to spot and gently re-align movement inspires healing and trust in all who have the pleasure to be led by her in practice. She weaves meditation, breathing practices and ancient teachings into her classes so that mind, body and spirit have something to learn and nurture.
Anila is a single mom to two very active teen sons and to their trusty companion, Sage the Dog.
For further inquiries or to register, please contact: retreat@anchorcounsellingandwellness.com