Inspiring Minds Canada: Two-Day Lifestyle Retreat
Saturday, October 28th 10 AM - 2 PM
Sunday, October 29th 1 PM - 5 PM
A Two-Day Lifestyle Retreat for Health and Happiness and Wholeness, offered by Inspiring Minds Canada, is a transformative experience that focuses on nurturing the mind, body, and promoting overall well-being.
Through practices such as yoga, meditation, chi gong, vision workshops, healthy financial education, sound healing, and empowerment for mental health, participants will embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth. The retreat provides a space for individuals to connect with their bodies, reduce stress, and improve their overall well-being through yoga, meditation, and chi gong exercises. Vision workshops allow participants to explore their goals and aspirations, helping them gain clarity and create a clear vision for their future.
In addition, healthy financial education sessions empower individuals with valuable insights and strategies for managing their personal finances, enabling them to make informed financial decisions. Sound healing sessions utilize the power of sound vibrations to promote relaxation, reduce anxiety, and restore balance, contributing to participants’ mental and emotional well-being.
The retreat also emphasizes the importance of mental health by offering activities and discussions that promote self-care, self-awareness, and emotional well-being. This holistic approach highlights the integral role of mental health in personal growth and empowerment. By participating in the Two-Day Lifestyle Retreat, individuals will gain valuable tools, insights, and practices to enhance their mental, emotional, and financial well-being. The retreat aims to empower participants to lead fulfilling and balanced lives, promoting health, happiness, and wholeness.
Registration
- Early bird rate of $150 per person
- The fee will be $175 per person.
The registration fee covers both days of the retreat and includes lunch. Depending on the number of attendees, we will arrange for catering services. Rest assured, my team of experts will be actively promoting the event on various social media platforms and other relevant channels.
This rejuvenating day is designed to allow you to feel relaxation and peace
About Your Instructors
Tracey Celotti
Tracey is a certified Transformational Life Coach with Brave Thinking Institute and a mother of four, she brings a unique perspective and skill set to the coaching profession. With a deep understanding of the demands and rewards of balancing personal and professional responsibilities.
Tracey is passionate about helping clients achieve personal transformation and growth. Having recovered from food addiction and bulimia and being an advocate of a 12-step program.
Tracey has a deep understanding of the power of transformation and the importance of a supportive community. With 25 years of experience working with addicts, she specializes in empowering women to overcome their challenges and achieve their goals. Through a combination of powerful coaching tools and techniques, a 12-step approach, and personalized support, Tracey helps clients develop the skills and mindset needed to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. Tracey has designed a 90-day program and a four-week mentorship. to help you uplevel your life through nutrition, fitness, mindset modalities, biohacking the body, and spiritual principles.
Tracey has taken courses and programs with several well-respected individuals and coaches and speakers and thought leaders in the industry. Such as, Mary Morrisey, the founder of Brave Thinking Institute, Gabriel Bernstein Spiritual Junkie 8 weeks Master Class, Deepak Chopra, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard, Robin Sharma. Tracey offers a holistic approach to personal growth and development that incorporates prayers, meditation, yoga, and mindfulness. With a deep understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection.
Tracey empowers clients to overcome limiting beliefs and behaviors, to tap into their inner wisdom, and live a life of purpose, joy, and fulfillment.
As a transformational coach. Tracey believes that everything begins within, and that finding God is essential, and that true transformation occurs, when we align our minds, body, and spirit, and depend on God’s guidance and strength.
Teresa Yeung
Master Teresa Yeung has been giving hope and joy to people all over the world with her Pureland Qi Gong. She is an internationally recognized Master of Chi Gong, speaker, healer and three-time #1 international bestselling award-winning author.
Master Teresa is an inspiration of balanced and calm energy, excellent health and success for women of all ages. She overcame her own health issues and personal struggles to raise her three children as a single mother; founded two distinguished Chi Gong schools: Pureland International Qi Gong and The Seventh Happiness School of Chi Gong, while continuing the legacy of her teacher Grandmaster Wu’s Chi Gong lineage. He is the creator of Wu’s Eye Qi Gong® which has successfully helped millions of people worldwide.
In addition, she is a continuing education professional development activity (PDA) provider of the U.S.A. National Certification Commission for Acupuncturists and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM).
PurelandQiGong.com (school)
Chi Gong: The Natural Menopause Solution (women)
Jacqueline LeBeau
Evölve was founded by Jacqueline LeBeau, a Registered Psychotherapist (Q) with a passion for helping others. Jacqueline’s journey in the field of psychology began with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. She then ventured into the legal field, working in prestigious law firms across Ontario and Vancouver, where she assisted clients in family law and personal injury matters. However, after a decade in the legal industry, Jacqueline felt a calling to return to her true passion and pursue a Masters degree in psychology.
Jacqueline’s dedication to her craft led her to attain a Master of Arts Degree in Counselling Psychology. During her clinical training, she gained valuable experience in utilizing a range of treatment modalities for individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy. Her professional background includes working in private practice and providing psycho-educational consulting through Halton Woman’s Centre, where she established and led group therapy practices.
Jacqueline is registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and is a member of the Ontario Association of Counsellors, Consultants, Psychotherapists and Psychometrics (OACCPP).
Driven by a commitment to ongoing growth and development as a therapist, Jacqueline actively pursues continuing education and certification in various modalities. She is certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and possesses expertise in PTSD and trauma therapy.
In her practice, Jacqueline integrates additional therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Systemic Therapy, Play Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Meditation, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. By employing these diverse approaches, Jacqueline aims to enhance her clients’ overall well-being and sense of health.
Above all, Jacqueline recognizes the significance of the therapeutic alliance in facilitating positive change. She prioritizes establishing a trusting and safe environment for all her clients, fostering a strong foundation for healing and growth. With her expertise, ongoing learning, and unwavering dedication, Jacqueline is committed to supporting individuals on their unique therapeutic journeys at Evölve.
Anna Knight
Anna Knight is the Founder, Severance and Pension Specialist and the Certified Financial Planner at Simplicity Financial. She started Simplicity Financial with over 20 years of industry experience and with the goal of empowering Canadians to take charge of and have pride in their finances. She is a trusted source of financial advice to her clients and key associates, and strives to be the same for the community at large.
To elevate her impact and reach, Anna delivers her money management and wealth building courses to corporations and a number of organizations and online through her carefully curated courses. She also shared her valuable and time tested wealth building strategies in her latest book “The Million Dollar Difference”.
In her well established private practice, Anna either offers fee for service financial planning guidance or gets retained by her clients to manage their financial affairs ongoingly.
To implement the simple yet powerful financial plan, Anna has partnered with some industry leaders.
To provide investment management advice, Anna is a Financial Advisor with Keybase Financial, an independent MFDA dealer. If her plans call for alterations or adding new life insurance solutions, Anna works ass an Insurance Broker with Allen Wong & Associates / BridgeForce Financial.
In case her clients need any mortgages, Anna is a full service mortgage broker (M18002128) through Assured Mortgages Division of 1490845 Ontario Ltd. (FC #10259). Through Assured Mortgages, Anna has access to any and all lenders from traditional banks, to credit unions and private lenders.
Prior to setting up her own independent practice, Anna has worked for ICM, another independent MFDA dealer for a number of years, and Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank and Manulife Financial prior to that. She not only has extensive education in her field but also years of hands on experience.
As a wellness and fitness enthusiast, world explorer and dancer and a mom, Anna ensures to keep on creating a work life balance, and encourages her clients to do the same.
Urban Buddhist Monk: Reverend Dr. Bhante Saranapala
The Urban Buddhist Monk, Global Public Speaker and Teacher of Mindfulness Meditation, Spiritual Counsellor & Founder of “Canada: A Mindful and Kind Nation”- Recipient of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms from the Government of Canada- Recipient of “Canada 150 Medal and Sesquicentennial Community Award” from the Government of Canada- Recipient of Spirit Award from the Government of Ontario Known as the “Urban Buddhist Monk”, an appropriate nomenclature for a Buddhist Monk for modern times, Bhante Saranapala has been acclaimed as a consummate teacher of meditation by a growing number of seekers of spiritual and healthy life and peace of mind in North America and Europe who admire his simple and all-embracing approach in transmitting the universal message of love, kindness, compassion, understanding and wisdom. He has earned an enviable reputation as a global public speaker and a meditation master par excellence.
Born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Bhante Saranapala, after receiving both his monastic and secular education in Sri Lanka, made his way to Canada to further his studies (did his undergrad and grad studies at the University of Toronto and McMaster University) and soon addressed his mind to the noble task of spreading in the West his own tested approach to Mindfulness and Insight Meditation. Settling down in the City of Mississauga-Toronto West, he has been a monk in residence at the monastic fraternity of the West End Buddhist Temple and (Monastery) Meditation Centre for the past 23 years.
A veritable dynamo of activity at his Mississauga Buddhist Monastery, he is the Principal of its Sunday Dhamma School and the Director of its Youth Forum that conducts a Soup Kitchen Project / Sharing is Caring, now in its 16th year, in collaboration with the Toronto Downtown’s Good Shepherd Centre.
Acclaimed as a Buddhist monk for the modern times by a growing band of admirers, Bhante Saranapala has earned an enviable reputation as a public speaker and a meditation teacher par excellence. Within a short period of time, his scholarly lectures expounding the Teaching of the Buddha and mindfulness and Vipassana meditation began to attract the attention of the university academic circles and the Inter-faith community of Canada. Bhante Saranapala soon became a popular guest speaker at many prestigious parleys. In 2004, he was invited to address the parliamentarians in Ottawa. In 2005 September, he was accorded the honor of officiating on behalf of all religious denominations at the induction ceremonies connected with the Order of Ontario Awards in the Ontario Legislature.
Bhante Saranapala is a recipient of Spirit Award from the Government of Ontario for his humanitarian services. In 2017 and 2018, the Government of Canada has recognized his mindfulness meditation sessions with the Canadian police and spiritual services to the different communities across Canada by granting him “Canada 150 Medal and Sesquicentennial Community Award” and “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” He has conducted meditation retreats to the City Counselors in Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto, the Peel Region and the Toronto District School Board Principals. His inspiring lectures at the Peel Region’s District and Catholic Schools Boards’ Secondary Schools have won him much praise making him one of the most sought after speakers on mindfulness meditation, kindfulness, wellness, self-care, mental health and spirituality.
John Tan
John Tan is a gifted healer who has been involved in the Spiritual Healing Mind/Body/Spirit for over twenty years and very passionate about changing people’s lives. John comes from a family of Healers, and Business Entrepreneurs. He was influenced by Eastern teachings and esoteric practices, since he was nine years old. He is a member of the Theosophical Society, a Free Mason, a Rosicrucian and a graduate of The Silva Mind Method Technique. He is a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and a Spiritual Architect Consultant Group Facilitator, meditation instructor, and paranormal investigator.
After a successful career with the Government of Manitoba, working as the Program Director for First Nation for five years and a career as a Financial Advisor and owned a Financial Brokerage firm for ten years in Winnipeg and Toronto, John made the decision to follow his passion and teach what he learned from the Mind/Body/Spirit.
John also created a program for stress management for a hospital that has been featured in MacLean’s magazine. John is the founder of Inspiring Minds Canada. John has studied the teachings of two of the great World Teachers of our time. Jiddu Krishnamurti called, “The Buddha of the Century and Paramahansa Yogananda, an Eastern Avatar, who brought Yoga to the West to spread the teachings of Kriya Yoga” John is the midst of finishing his book “Spiritual Architect.”
He has travelled throughout Canada and United States and have met, many of the most well respected influential individuals in the Mind/Body/Spirit/Medicine/Business, such as, Deepak Chopra, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Jack Canfield, Robin Sharma, Eckhart Tolle, Shakti Gawain, Carolyn Myss, Bruce Lipton, Dr. Bernie Siegel, Dr. Lisa Rankin, Dr. Larry Dossey, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Gregg Braden, Burt Goldman, Bob Proctor, Vishen Lakhiani, Christie Marie Sheldon, Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Sir Richard Branson, Laura Silva, Marianne Williamson, Shakti Gawain, Thích Nhất, Hạnh, Bhante Saranapala, Lama Samten, Jon Kabat -Zinn, Pema Chodron. Ken Wilber.
He has established a client base across Canada; his sought after for his healing gifts and incredible workshops, John has worked on individuals with Cancer, Depression, Anxiety, Lupus, Muscular Dystrophy, Mental Illness, Epilepsy. John outgoing personality, sense of humor and compassion for others, makes him popular with clients and students alike.
John has learned that everything must begin within; that we are all interconnected and believe we are all here for a greater purpose. John works on changing the Mindset of others and Energy, and to help free their mind, from all the limitation of the negative conditioning and addresses the root causes of dis-ease, which block the ability for one to create their highest possible reality. By removing these blocks, we increase one’s light vibration creating clarity and illumination in perceptions of reality.