A weekend retreat with Shawna Thibodeau and Laurie Oakes, to heal, connect to the wisdom of your soul and step onto your highest path.
When:
January 17th-19th, 2025
WHERE:
A beautiful, luxurious, riverfront mansion in Lewiston, New York – see pictures below! (Address provided on registration)
ABOUT:
Join meditation teacher & psychospiritual coach, Shawna Thibodeau and medium and spiritual teacher, Laurie Oakes for a transformative women’s weekend retreat that nourishes mind, body & soul.
This retreat is for any woman needing time to heal, rejuvenate and learn skills & practices that can help navigate life’s challenges and stressors with greater ease and to connect inwards to hear the wisdom and guidance of your soul.
Throughout the retreat you’ll be learning and exploring the most effective skills & practices Shawna has found that help facilitate healing, growth and the development of greater self-love, inner peace, joy and empowerment within, as well as teachings and group mediumship from Laurie Oakes on soul growth, tuning in to one’s truths and hearing the wisdom of your soul.
Modalities included on the Soul Expansion Retreat...
The Soul Expansion Retreat includes a powerful combination of modalities that can provide deep release, healing, clarity, insight and shifts within. These include meditation, breathwork, intuition development exercises, group mediumship sessions, inner child work, manifestation work and gentle yoga.
Meditation
Guided meditation sessions to explore the nature of mind, reduce stress and connect inwards.
Breathwork
Breathwork is a practice of consciously working with your breathing pattern, lying down, to music. The rhythmic breathing in breathwork helps put the mind into different meditative states. Putting our mind into meditative states allows us to experience our thoughts, emotions, and situations in life in a different way compared to the analytical/thinking mind. It’s also a space for going inwards and connecting with your inner truths and your heart’s needs & desires.
Meditation & Breathwork can help with...
- Insights and understanding of different situations in your life
- Healing of the mind and body
- Deep sense of peace and bliss
- New creative ideas
- Deep connection towards oneself
- Ideas of life direction/next steps
- Release of emotions that might be limiting you and keeping you stuck
- Calming of the nervous system
- Greater awareness of patterns of the mind
- Boosting of mood
- Boosting of self-esteem, confidence & feelings of empowerment
Intuition Development Exercises
Practices and group exercises to practice developing the skill of hearing and strengthening your own intuition, your own inner wisdom and your own messages of guidance. The practices of meditation and breathwork throughout the week will also help to strengthen and connect to this inner voice.
Group mediumship sessions
Laurie Oakes is a gifted medium who channels messages from the Divine that assist you on your life path. During a group channeling session, Laurie works around the room and channels a message for each person. Often these messages provide guidance, clarity and direction on different areas in your life and guidance is often provided on ways to work through and approach different challenges. You can also ask Laurie for guidance on a certain area of life.
Inner Child Work & Manifestation (i.e. Co-Creation) Work
Stepping into our highest path also involves healing things from the past that may still be affecting our lives (our thought patterns, belief systems, mood & emotions, behaviours and levels of stress). Through inner child work activities we work to heal the past so that we can move forward in a more confident and peaceful way. After we strengthen our connection to our inner voice and inner guidance system, we then also work to align our energy in the direction of our truths and desires, helping them become a reality within our lives.
Gentle Yoga
Gentle yoga & movement will be included in the week to help strengthen our relationship to our bodies and the messages our bodies hold.
Details
Arrive anytime after 4pm on Friday January 17th (to relax and enjoy the home), and depart at noon on Sunday January 19th. Programming starts at 6:45PM Friday. A take-home PDF booklet of the skills & practices covered is provided to help equip you with review & resources for continued use at home.
*Note – Dinner will not be served Friday night. You are welcome to bring dinner (put it in the fridge) or visit Lewiston before the retreat. Evening circle snack provided Friday night.
**A retreat that includes skills, practices & concepts that can continue to heal, empower & benefit you for the rest of your life**
A take-home PDF booklet of the skills & practices covered is provided to help equip you with review & resources for continued use at home.
Flexible Booking Options
choose your getaway package
Trio getaway
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Register with two friends or register alone and get paired with other women. If registering with a friend(s), please register spots at the same time.
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Payment plans available at checkout
double getaway
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Register with a friend or register alone and get paired with another woman. If registering with a friend, please register both spots at the same time.
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Payment plans available at checkout
single getaway
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Retreat registration if coming solo for a weekend getaway.
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Payment plans available at checkout
If using payment plan, the first payment/first instalment is non-refundable at any time of cancellation. If paying in full, 33% of payment is a non-refundable instalment at any time of cancellation. No exceptions to this policy. A 50% refund (on total amount paid minus non-refundable deposit) is available if cancelling 61-90 days from retreat start date. Then, due to limited retreat spots and costs to cover retreat, no refunds are available if cancelling 60 days or less prior to retreat. No transfer of dates available at any time. If one spot is cancelled in a double or trio getaway, the spot becomes open for another registration. If retreat is cancelled, a full refund is provided. Following travel policies of Ontario, above is registration for retreat services, programming & meals. Accommodation and transportation is not included in retreat pricing however, accommodation for the retreat is graciously donated (at no extra cost) from the venue. Securing of the complementary room is done after retreat registration through Zen on River (instructions provided in post-registration email).
WHAT TO EXPECT
About the Venue:
The Setting
A luxurious colonial-style mansion located in Lewiston, New York. A riverfront property, immersed among the trees, this is your luxury escape into relaxation, healing & rejuvenation.
What's Included...
- Guided Meditation Sessions (taught by both Shawna & Laurie)
- 2 Guided Breathwork Sessions
- 2 Yoga Practices (no experience needed, beginners welcome)
- Workshop/Group Teaching: What is the Soul? - Why we experience life as a physical body + The path of the soul and the path of healing, evolving and raising consciousness
- Strengthening Our Intuition Group Exercise
- Group coaching circles throughout the week to reflect & to connect
- Trauma, Soul Growth & Healing the Inner Child Workshop - Saturday morning - **a favourite of past retreat guests!**
- Group Mediumship Session with Laurie
- Working With Challenging Emotions + EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique) Workshop (Saturday)
- Empowerment Workshop: Using Law-of-Attraction & Manifestation to Step Into a Life of Greater Empowerment (Sunday)
- Sacred Letting Go Ceremony - Sunday morning Daily Group Coaching Circles for inner reflection, journaling, connection & healing
- Friday Evening Snacks Saturday Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (cooked by our private in-house chef) Sunday Breakfast (cooked by our private in-house chef)
Frequently Asked Questions
Absolutely! YES YES YES! Going to a retreat alone can be extremely powerful and transformative. Common feedback we also receive is the welcoming, safe and connected vibe we create and the relationships you create on retreats sometimes turn in to lifelong friends. Around 50% of Shawna’s past retreat attendees have come on their own and this % increases with international retreats.
Another big YES! We welcome women of all levels and complete beginners too! Retreats are a great place to learn or to solidify established practices and routines.
Yes, a retreat information email with all this information will be sent out closer to the retreat date.
The villa is able to accommodate for dietary restrictions. Send an email to befree@shawnathibodeau.com if you have any dietary restrictions to ensure that week’s menu will accommodate you.
Meet your facilitators
Laurie Oakes
Her journey to find answers about spirituality and life outside of the physical body began at a young age. She found herself questioning her soul’s purpose, following her intuition, and receiving messages and “inner knowings” as young as she can remember.
Today, she shares her wisdom through various platforms, including workshops, retreats, and online courses. Her teachings empower individuals to awaken their spiritual potential, find inner peace, and live authentically.
Laurie gently guides her clients into letting go of the trauma and that which no longer serves them and empowers them with channelled guidance on their journey of personal growth and spiritual exploration.
She believes in the inherent divinity within each person and strives to help others discover their own inner truth and connection to their Creator.
Shawna Thibodeau
Shawna is a meditation, breathwork and yoga teacher as well as a healing, empowerment and spiritual mentor. A history of depression and anxiety in her teens, led her in her early 20’s onto a healing and spiritual path. Finding and practicing meditation completely shifted her life and opened her up to learning and studying various holistic and spiritual modalities over the next 12 years.
With a professional background of 8 years in mental health nursing, Shawna combines therapeutic and spiritual modalities to help others heal, gain clarity and step into greater empowerment and more aligned and authentic lives. She is passionate about teaching others how using the mind can influence reality as well as how belief systems create the current reality you are living. She helps clients heal, release what does not serve them and step into minds, beliefs systems and a path that aligns more with their truths and their highest self.
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