A full day retreat with Shawna Thibodeau and Laurie Oakes to release what is no longer serving you and to come into greater internal regulation and grounded-ness
When:
Saturday, May 24th, 2025 10:00 am – 6:00 pm EST
or
Sunday May 25th, 2025 10:00 am – 6:00 pm EST
WHERE:
Grand Bend, Ontario (address provided upon registration) – picture here is of actual location
ABOUT:
Join Shawna Thibodeau and Laurie Oakes for a healing day retreat, where we’ll explore releasing what might be keeping us stuck and no longer serves us and practicing greater internal regulation and grounded-ness.
95% of our lives are governed by the subconscious mind. Within it, we hold thoughts, perspectives, and belief systems that often operate outside of our awareness. These subconscious patterns are shaped by childhood experiences, societal norms, cultural conditioning, and both micro and macro traumas. They impact nearly every aspect of our lives—our thoughts, emotions, stress levels, relationships, reactions, and our ability to take action on our desires, set boundaries, and live authentically.
This retreat offers a space to explore how your thoughts and subconscious mind influence your experience in the present. Healing, transformation, and growth all occur in the Now—the exact conditions for your healing and expansion exist in this moment and in the circumstances of your life right now.
Throughout the retreat, you’ll uncover what’s happening in your present reality that can serve as a doorway to greater healing, alignment, and empowerment. By exploring your thoughts, beliefs, and subconscious patterns, you’ll learn how to move beyond fear-based thinking and tap into a deeper sense of fulfillment, clarity and personal power as you move forward on your path.
Modalities included on The Power of Now Retreat
The Release & Regulate 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, embodiment + co-creation.
Meditation
Meditation practice helps us quiet our minds and connect to our true selves and inner truths. A 25-30-minute guided meditation practice period will be included.
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
Intuitive coaching / Group Mediumship
Laurie Oakes is a gifted medium who channels messages from the Divine that assist you on your life path. During a group channeling or intuitive coaching 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.
*Some of the messages that come through may involve suppressed or unresolved emotions or traumas you are working on healing*
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.
release & regulate day retreat
Saturday, May 24th, 2025-
A healing day retreat with Shawna Thibodeau and Laurie Oakes to release, regulate and find greater clarity and groundedness within. 10am-6pm EST Grand Bend, ON
Release & Regulate Day retreat
Sunday, May 25th, 2025-
A healing day retreat with Shawna Thibodeau and Laurie Oakes to release, regulate and find greater clarity and groundedness within. 10am-6pm EST Grand Bend, ON
WHAT TO EXPECT
About the day
This retreat is a deep dive with Shawna and Laurie, exploring the modalities of healing which have helped each of them the most on their paths.
Sharing and participation are always left to your comfort level, you are welcome to go as deep as you wish. Please respect that everyone is at a different point of their journey and may wish to share more or less.
On this retreat, we welcome and embrace every emotion which is coming up for you. Whether that’s sadness, fear, anger, or joy, this day welcomes the entire spectrum, as we aim to bring light to the darkness.
If you’re ready to reach a new level of healing and releasing, we can’t wait to see you here!
What's Included...
- 1 delicious warm prepared lunch
- Snacks, coffee, tea, and refreshments throughout the day
- Guided Meditation Sessions
- Breathwork workshop + 1 hourlong Breathwork Sessions for healing, clarity and connection to oneself & one's path
- Group Mediumship and intuitive coaching throughout the day to help bring what is holding you back to light so we can release it
- Contrast therapy - Sauna & Cold Plunge circuit to regulate nervous system
- Empowering & healing group workshops (IFS, Non-Dualism teachings, Co-Creation)
- Intuitive healings, reiki,...
- A PDF book of the various skills & practices + all journaling prompts and workshop exercises learned to continue your inward journey of healing & growth
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.
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
Laurie is a spiritual medium and channel dedicated to sharing her wisdom through diverse platforms, including workshops, retreats, and online courses. Her teachings are designed to empower individuals to awaken their spiritual potential, cultivate inner peace, and embrace authentic living.
With a compassionate approach, Laurie guides her clients in releasing trauma and shedding limiting beliefs, offering channelled insights that support personal growth and spiritual exploration.
She is deeply committed to helping others recognize their inherent divinity, guiding them toward the discovery of their inner truth and a deeper connection with their Creator.
Laurie has been working professional as a medium for over 4 years and has hosted over 20 retreats and worked with hundreds of women and men to offer them channeled guidance.
Shawna Thibodeau
With over 10 years of experience, Shawna is a meditation teacher, spiritual mentor and advocate of inner work, passionate about enhancing mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Formerly a mental health nurse, she transformed her life through holistic practices, spiritual development and inner work and now helps others using a psychospiritual approach that blends science and spirituality.
Shawna leads retreats and programs online and worldwide, including in Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, Portugal, Italy and Peru. She has guided extensive circles, online classes & webinars, and over 60 retreats, ranging from half-day to week-long events. Additionally, she has developed three successful online group coaching programs, empowering individuals through inner work and taking action to step onto their highest path.
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