PURE Consciousness
Where you heal through presence, movement & immersion. SACRED. SOULFUL. STILLNESS
This is the wild edge of healing.
Retreats & ADVENTURE Therapy.
Move beyond sessions, screens, and schedules into EMBODIED
transformation.
Whether you're craving solitude, connection, or somatic recalibration:
this is where you come to remember who you are.
Permission to Pause. Because Rest is Revolutionary!
Arrive when you’re ready to drop the performance.
Leave when you remember who you really are.
The world demands performance until you forget what it feels like to simply be. At Pure Consciousness Retreats, you trade the mental clutter for simplicity and clarity, the endless scroll for conscious connection, and the mind noise for space to actually hear yourself again.
The lake keeps moving. The fire keeps burning. None of it asks anything of you. It just is. And here, so are you. Set on the shores of Lower Lake Alumette on the Ottawa River, the retreat holds space for both stillness and connection.
Choose a Self-Guided Retreat rhythm with silence and digital detox optional. Light alcoholic beverages permitted for your breathtaking sunsets, or new friendships unfolding around the fire pit. Or step into the deep work of a guided Silent Retreat with Yolande, where the vow of silence becomes your portal to Soul Remembrance.
Watercraft, incredible stargazing, hammocks, and a beautiful wellness studio invite you back into your body, while the shoreline reminds you what it means to feel grounded again.
UPCOMING Retreats.
Your Retreat, your choice.
NO DISTRACTIONS. NO ESCAPE. NO ILLUSIONS.
The world trains you to drown silence with noise, to soothe discomfort with quick fixes, to run from the confrontation of deep stillness. Here, we flip the script.
This isn’t a retreat. It’s a threshold.
UNVEILED Silent Retreat
28-30 Nov 2025
From 750 pp sharing
Retreat Details:
UNVEILED isn’t soft or spa-like. It’s not about glow or gentle guidance.
It’s shadow work. Adventure. Discomfort. Deep reflection. Because healing isn’t always soft—sometimes it’s a rupture that finally lets the truth through.
If you’re looking for coddling, this isn’t for you. If you’re ready to meet yourself, unmasked, this is it.
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Life pulls you in a hundred directions until you forget how to slow down. This is not a silent retreat (unless you want it to be).
Here, silence is optional, laughter is welcome, and light wine at sunset tastes like freedom.
Your pause button, without pressure, without rules.
SOVEREIGN Self-Guided Retreat
14-16 Nov 2025
From 450 pp sharing
Retreat Details:
At Westmeath Oasis Lakeside Retreat, you choose your rhythm. The programme is written, but the schedule is yours. Whether you crave stillness, adventure, or connection, you get to decide.
This isn’t about doing more. It’s about unplugging from the noise, slowing down, and remembering who you are.
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We don’t need another breakthrough.
We need a break from holding it all together. Modern life demands constant coherence, be useful, be consistent, keep the calendar, keep the image, manage the emotions (yours and everyone else’s).
A Retreat for Women Who Crave Stillness, Not Self-Improvement.
UNMADE Self-Guided Retreat.
5-7 dec 2025
From 450 pp sharing
Retreat Details:
UNMADE isn’t about escape. It’s a quiet rebellion. A pause.
A space where you can step out of the role without justifying a single thing. This isn’t a retreat for chasing glow-ups.
It’s for women who need a pause. To walk the wild trails. To sit fireside and remember warmth. To gather the old way, without masks, without performance. Just women, silence, laughter, and the raw simplicity of being.
Not curated. Not striving. Not fixed.
Just UNMADE.
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The PURE Consciousness Retreat.
Experience.
Whether you choose the raw truth of UNVEILED, the quiet pause of UNMADE, or the flexible flow of SOVEREIGN, the Pure Consciousness Retreat Experience will shift you. Not into someone new—but back into someone whole.
This is not a luxury spa.
This is not a content-curated vacation.
This is where you unplug from the noise and plug back into yourself.
Pure Consciousness Retreats are not about escape. They’re thresholds. Each retreat is designed to strip back the noise, dissolve performance, and reconnect you to the raw, unfiltered truth of who you are.
STARGAZE by night, journaling or simply being under the vast quiet sky.
PRACTICE mindful movements, somatic awareness, sound healing & self-reflection in The Hummingbird Wellness Studio.
PAUSE in silence, or laugh, share, connect with others who crave something real.
WALK through wild trails and provincial parks where nature mirrors you back perfect for self-reflection.
GATHER around fire pits and ceremonies that invite both release and renewal.
REST in a lakeside cottage where wood stoves crackle & the water holds you steady.
Perfect for you if...
You feel MENTALLY CLUTTERED – It’s impossible to hear your own thoughts with all the noise of daily life crowding in.
YOU'RE OVERSTIMULATED – Your mind is running on overdrive and all you're craving is silence.
You’re BURNED OUT and emotionally drained – Your tank is empty, and you know you need a real reset, not another quick fix.
You feel stuck or UNFULFILLED – Something’s missing, you can feel it in your bones, but you can’t quite name what it is.
You’re DISCONNECTED from yourself and nature – You’ve lost touch with who you are and what actually matters.
PURE Consciousness Retreats are the antidote.
It replaces disconnection with clarity, presence,
and a deep exhale.
You don’t just stumble into PURE Consciousness. You arrive when life says: ENOUGH!
curated experiences that crack you open, pull you into stillness, and remind you what’s real.
Ideal when you desire:
This is your IMMERSION.
Welcome to PURE
Consciousness Retreats.
Flexibility Without Overwhelm – Choose your depth: stay as a guest, guide yourself through a retreat kit, or immerse fully in Yolande’s guidance.
Clarity Without Pressure – You don’t have to force anything. The space, rituals, and energy do support you.
Stillness Without Isolation – Surrounded by nature, yet supported by intentional guidance.
Transformation Without Pretense – No guru complex. No jargon. Just grounded, real breakthroughs.
Renewal Without Escape – You don’t run from life—you return to it clearer, calmer, and stronger.
PURE Consciousness Retreats are not spa days dressed up as fru fru healing.
Deep-Dive Experiences
Soul
Reconnect, Reset & Rewild Your
PURE CONSCIOUSNESS RETREATS isn’t just about unwinding. It’s about rewiring, breaking through, and stepping into something bigger. Whether it’s a silent retreat or a deep dive into personal growth, we curate retreats that matter.
Transformation without the performance. Depth that feels real, not curated fluff. This is space to breathe, reflect, and actually hear yourself again. The lake keeps moving. The fire keeps burning. None of it asks anything of you. It just is, here, so are you.
PURE Consciousness Retreats...
No gimmicks. No surface-level hacks. Just Pure Consciousness, awakened.
Set on the shores of the Ottawa River, Pure Consciousness Retreats hold space for both connection and stillness. Whether you choose the ease of a Self-Guided Retreat or the deep work of a Silent Retreat with Yolande, you’ll find yourself coming home to who you were always meant to be—clear, grounded, and aligned with your next evolution.
"I loved sharing the silence and the sounds of nature with others. I would recommend this silent retreat to people who need to rediscover who they are and who want to connect with their Soul because its is about you in the silence. I loved how passionately and soulfully this retreat was created by Yolande and the almost instant feeling of oneness by all of us. I didn't expect to enjoy something I thought I couldn't do, like journaling and putting my feet in ice cold water. The whole experience was beyond my imagination. A CELEBRATION OF THE NEW ME!"
"This Retreat helped me self-reflect through nature."
"To immerse into the stillness & beauty of the surrounding and most importantly it enabled me to connect and get close to my Higher Self. This Silent Retreat helped me to finally relax.
One thing I really liked was the serene, easy flow of the entire retreat's pace. I recommend this Silent Retreat to people who need time to REFLECT, RESET & RECONNECT with who they truly are."
"This Retreat helped me to finally relax."
"My experience at Silent Retreat, I was surrounded by your unspoken guidance with love and energy and it all aligned myself, the mighty nature and the universe and manifested an outcome to trust myself and the universe for transformation to my new path.
Thank you for helping me go beyond my limits, showing your authentic self and walking me through my life journey.
I KEEP EVOLVING!"
"Surrounded by unspoken guidance with love and energy."
"The setting and semi-structured programme developed & facilitated by Yolande allows for remembering and reconnecting with your true self.
I didn’t expect to easily journal and reflect so much in writing as per various prompts and questions prepared in the workbook. The whole experience was amazing, delightful, fulfilling, divine, nourishing, uplifting and medicine for the Soul."
"The experience was uplifting and medicine for the Soul."
Not another wellness trend.
A full-body, Soul-level reset.
Our retreats weave together neuroscience, psychology, somatic practices, and ancient wisdom—giving you the tools to rewire your nervous system, clear mental clutter, and return to yourself.
In an intentional space designed for deep transformation, you’ll:
Restore your natural rhythm – sleep deeper, breathe easier, and finally feel your body exhale.
Rebuild your resilience – strengthen your mind, emotions, and nervous system so you bounce back with ease.
Release what no longer serves you – let go of stress, patterns, and stories that keep you stuck.
Reclaim your vitality – step into clarity, energy, and alignment that actually lasts.
Transformational Retreat Experiences:
A VARIATION OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BE AVAILABLE TO EXPERIENCE at WESTMEATH OASIS LAKESIDE RETREAT.
Adventure
Retreats
Custom curated adventure therapy experiences with yolande.
Combining nature immersion, resilience practices, and nervous system recalibration.
STEP OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE.
Move your Soul.
Curious? Join the waitlist now.
Adventure, Love & Balance
When I am not in session, helping clients, with groundbreaking therapy techniques and exciting resources, REAL LIFE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS, and unconventional integrative resources to help them change their situation, you can find me blowing off steam at mixed martial arts or seeking adventures and exciting new experiences with my wife, two kids, and a dog, in Ontario, Canada where we now live.
I am an adventurer at heart and my all-time favourite adventures include swimming with pigs, sharks, and dolphins in the Bahamas, traveling around places with ancient history, like England, South Africa, China, Egypt, and Europe, flying in helicopters and parasailing, driving army tanks & monster trucks, downhill skiing, dog sledding, building igloos and taking ice baths.
With the weighing scales in my zodiac sign (Libra), balance is an integral part of my being. As much as I love excitement and adventure, I recalibrate and restore my energy in the peace and tranquility of nature, like weekends spent exploring, kayaking, bonfires on the beach, meditating in the cabana or just lazing in a hammock, soaking up all nature's elements.
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