Retreats for people who need SPACE, STILLNESS,
and a more honest way back to THEMSELVES.
Therapist-designed retreats and bespoke retreat experiences.
Return to what is real. Live from who you are.
Move beyond sessions, screens, and schedules into rest, reflection, and
deeper reconnection.
Whether you’re craving solitude, meaningful connection or simply enough space to hear yourself again,
this is where you come to remember who you are.
Permission to pause, without needing to earn it.
These therapist-designed retreats are not spa weekends dressed up as transformation. They are thoughtfully created spaces for genuine pause, reflection and return.
The world demands performance until you forget what it feels like to simply be. Pure Consciousness Retreats creates deliberate distance from the noise, input and roles of ordinary life — giving you enough space to hear yourself again.
Our current Canadian retreat home is Westmeath Oasis, a private waterfront property on the Ottawa River in Ontario. Here, water, fire, open sky and uninterrupted space become part of the retreat experience.
Pure Consciousness Retreats is designed to travel. Future retreat experiences and collaborations may take place at carefully selected locations beyond Westmeath Oasis.
At our current Ontario retreat home, Westmeath Oasis, watercraft, hammocks, open sky, waterfront and a private wellness studio create space for movement, rest and reflection.
Choose a self-guided retreat where the rhythm remains yours, or step into a facilitated experience when deeper structure, silence and guidance are what you need.
UPCOMING Retreats.
Your Retreat, your way.
Your pause button, without pressure, without rules.
SOVEREIGN
Private Self-Guided Retreat
A private, therapist-designed retreat where the programme is written but the schedule is yours. Follow it closely, use parts of it, or let your own rhythm take over.
NO FACILITATOR. NO RIGID SCHEDULE. NO STRANGERS. JUST A THOUGHTFULLY DESIGNED SPACE TO RETREAT ON YOUR OWN TERMS
18 SEPtember -
31 OCTober 2026
Private groups of up to 8 available.
CAD $1,999 | 1-2 guests*
Sovereign
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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 Need to Stop Holding It All Together.
UNMADE | Women's Retreat
UNMADE isn’t about escape. It is an intentional pause from the roles, pressure and constant responsibility of ordinary life. A space where you can step out of the role without justifying a single thing. Space to walk, rest, sit beside the fire, spend time in stillness and remember what you feel like when nobody needs anything from you. Just women, silence, laughter, and the raw simplicity of being.
Not curated. Not striving. Not fixed.
Just UNMADE.
TBC
Private groups of up to 8 available.
CAD $1,999 | 1-2 guests*
Unmade
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When the noise stops, something deeper becomes impossible to ignore.
The world trains you to drown silence with noise, to soothe discomfort with quick fixes, to run from the confrontation of deep stillness. Here, you step out of the usual pace of life and into something simpler.
This isn’t a retreat. It’s a threshold.
UNVEILED Silent Retreat
UNVEILED isn’t soft or spa-like. It’s not about glow or gentle guidance.
Built around silence, deep reflection and meaningful confrontation with yourself, UNVEILED is for people ready to stop filling every quiet space and listen to what emerges underneath it.
This is for people ready for depth, not performance.
TBC
Private groups of up to 8 available.
CAD $1,999 | 1-2 guests
Unveiled
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The PURE Consciousness Retreat Experience.
Every Pure Consciousness retreat begins with the same principle: create enough intentional space for something real to become audible again.
This is not a luxury spa.
This is not a content-curated holiday.
It is intentional retreat space designed around less noise, less performance and more room to notice what is actually there.
No gimmicks. No wellness theatre.
Just real space to rest, reflect, and reconnect.
STARGAZE beneath an open sky, journal outside or simply sit long enough to notice the night.
MOVE through self-guided or facilitated somatic practices, meditation, breathwork, stretching or reflection — depending on the retreat.
PAUSE in silence, solitude or connection. Each retreat uses these differently.
WALK through trails, forest, shoreline or whatever landscape surrounds the retreat.
GATHER around fire, conversation or shared practice when the retreat calls for connection.
REST properly. Without turning rest into another task to master.
Some experiences are self-guided. Others are facilitated. Some use silence; others leave the rhythm entirely to you. The structure changes. The philosophy does not.
"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."
"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 more intelligent way to retreat.
Pure Consciousness Retreats brings together psychologically informed reflection, somatic awareness, contemplative practice, nature and intentional retreat design.
Thoughtfully designed. Deliberately spacious.
SPACE — enough room for the nervous system and mind to stop constantly responding.
STRUCTURE — enough guidance to make the retreat meaningful without over-programming it.
ENVIRONMENT — allowing nature and place to become part of the experience rather than merely the backdrop.
INTEGRATION — creating space to notice what becomes clearer and what deserves to return home with you.
Our Current Retreat Home
Every PCR experience balances four things:
Westmeath Oasis · Ontario, Canada
Not every retreat uses every element. The methodology is adapted to the purpose of the experience, the people attending and the environment in which it takes place.
Future PCR retreats, collaborations and bespoke experiences may be hosted at selected retreat properties in Canada and international locations.
The property gives PCR an extraordinary environment in which to develop, refine and deliver our retreat methodology, while the methodology itself is not tied to a single place.
Pure Consciousness Retreats currently hosts its Canadian experiences at Westmeath Oasis, a private waterfront property on the Ottawa River.
Meet the Founder & Retreat Designer
Pure Consciousness Retreats was created by Yolande Herbst, an integrative therapist whose work spans forensic psychology, counselling-hypnotherapy, behaviour consulting, subconscious pattern work, somatic approaches and Spiritual Psychology.
Her role within PCR is larger than facilitation: she designs the psychological architecture, rhythm, reflective frameworks and experiences that turn time away into intentional retreat.
That methodology can live at Westmeath Oasis — or be adapted for exceptional retreat spaces elsewhere.
Return to what is real. Live from who you are.
Therapist-designed retreats · Bespoke retreat experiences · Retreat collaborations
