Join us for a deeply rejuvinating weekend retreat May 2 – 4, 2025.

Step away from the distractions of daily life and immerse yourself in a retreat designed to reconnect you with movement, music, and stillness. Join Tiina, Fraser (Rishi), and Dana at the beautiful Kingfisher Bay Retreat Centre for a weekend of Yoga, Qi Gong, meditation, chanting, and deep rest.

Set against the peaceful backdrop of Stoney Lake’s pristine waters and lush forests, this retreat invites you to slow down, reset, and rediscover what truly nourishes your body and mind. Whether you seek rejuvenation, community, or a space to deepen your practice, this weekend is an invitation to come home to yourself.

More information HERE

Facilitators

Tiina Kivinen

Hi, I’m Tiina Kivinen, and I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). I work with people seeking help for feelings of overwhelm or emotional pain. Some are managing emotions like anxiety, stress, and depression, while others are healing from past trauma. But there’s hope. The path toward understanding and emotional well-being is something we can walk together. I focus on helping those who are navigating various life transitions, healing emotional pain, or simply want to understand themselves better. In partnering with me, we’ll open doors to new possibilities of healing and growth. In our sessions, we’ll work together to make your life tangibly better.

With my over 20 years of experience guiding people to connect with themselves and others, we’ll use the most effective tools to help you heal and grow emotionally. We’ll integrate insights from my background in meditation, yoga, and guided relaxation to help you tap into deeper states of awareness for a well-rounded approach to mental-emotional wellness.

My role is to offer a kind and respectful space where together, we can identify the healing tools that resonate with you and the best strategies to improve your life. Reaching out is often the first step in creating a better future for oneself. I invite you to join me on this journey, and together, we’ll navigate the path toward your best self.

Psychotherapy or Psychological Services covered by most extended health insurance, or Sliding Scale options available

Irish Dhindsa

As you move along your journey of life, you may encounter two things: challenges in life and the desire for personal growth. I am here to work with you through both of these, side by side, to support the development of authentic living, as you need. Our work together is mindfully and intentionally focused on supporting you in becoming the person you want to be and exuding the ripples of that into your life. I approach therapy with an integrative and holistic belief and passionately value an emphasis on the whole-person, mind, body, and soul healing.

Our work together will integrate a deep understanding of your past, present, and future goals through a culturally responsive and strengths-based lens. I use a variety of therapies through an integrative method which includes, various talk therapies, and alternative therapies such as therapeutic arts, somatic practice, and mindfulness practice. I prioritize your sense of safety, support, and care in every session and throughout all our communications.

As we work together, we join hands to bring forth the power of compassion, acceptance, empathy, understanding, and empowerment in relation to you and your life. In the therapy work, I incorporate Jungian psychology, existential therapy, poly-vagal theory, person-centered therapy, transpersonal psychology, and parts work as a part of the integrative approach. Through the application of these therapies, I work with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, loss, life changes, attachment wounds, relational concerns, trauma, work-related challenges, self-worth concerns, and the desire for personal growth.

I have four years of experience in working with people experiencing loss and trauma through individual and group support. I have a certification in working with Highly Sensitive People
(HSPs), I am a WellCoaches Certified Coach, a Peer Support Canada Certified Peer Supporter, and a Therapeutic Arts Practitioner. I am presently pursuing my Master’s in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. In addition, I have completed a Trauma Certificate from Laurier University and a Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate from The Embody Lab.

I strongly believe in the power of the Self and the innate capacity every person contains to transform, heal, and grow into their fullest potential. I respect the initiative and courage it takes clients to reach out for support and I am committed to being present with them throughout our time together.

Join us for a FREE 5-Day Immersion Yoga for the Nervous System, from May 27 – 31, and you can do the practices anytime! Experience Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, Breathwork, and Relaxation all designed to support you in feeling calm, centered, and improving stress resilience!  SIGN UP HERE!

Every time we gather for our Heart of Practice overnight retreat, there is such a great energy and we feel so uplifted and rejuvenated. Retreats can offer an amazing reset – a chance to reflect, open the body and heart, relax the mind and rejuvenate our focus so we can return to life with fresh perspective and clarity. Join Tiina Kivinen and Fraser Macdonald for this one-day mini-retreat at Peterborough Living Yoga, with Dana Salahub offering her angelic voice for live music and kirtan.

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In this Heart of Practice mini-retreat, you will experience:

*Deeply relaxing and enlivening Yoga classes for all body types.

*Energizing and joyful Kirtan (group chanting)

*Qi Gong session specifically tailored to sustain us through the winter season, calling upon traditional chinese medicine to find optimally health in connection with the seasons.

*Caring, fun, and heart-centred community connection.

*Chakra chanting for activating and aligning central energy centres

Tentative Schedule

10:30 am (Arrival, Tea, and Community Connection time)

11:00 am Opening Circle intention setting, Kirtan

12:00 pm Breathwork Meditation and Gentle Yoga with Tiina

1:30 pm Lunch (a simple, nourishing lunch will be provided)

2:30 pm Kirtan for Activation of Chakras

3:00 – 4:00 pm Qi Gong for optimal health in the winter season

4:00 pm Tea Break

4:20pm – 5:15pm Restorative Yoga

5:20 – 6:00 pm Closing Circle and Kirtan

Gentle Flow and Restore Online Yoga

with Tiina Kivinen

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Sign up Here to join us for 7 Days of FREE Yoga and Yoga Nidra practices for the 7 Chakras,

starting August 8th!

Heart of Practice Retreat 2022

with Tiina Kivinen, Fraser Mcdonald, and Dana Salahub

Lotus Heart Retreat Centre, Brighton ON (less than an hour from Peterborough, accessible to Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto)

Date and Time: Friday, Oct  28– Sunday,  Oct 30, (Check-in 4 pm or after on Friday, Check out 2 pm Sunday)

Price: Early Bird (until September 1): Sliding Scale $120 – $180 + HST, Regular: Sliding scale $150+ HST – $220 (Retreat Deposit)

Follow the link below to register for your chosen price, or pay via e-transfer or Paypal/ Credit Card (our preferred method of payment is e-transfer to [email protected])

Price for accommodation and food paid to Lotus Heart Centre: $390+ HST, Private rooms have a $50 fee for the weekend. When you register via the ‘Retreat Deposit’, we will send you instructions for making payment to LHC.

*The Price for LHC  and retreat fees have gone up a bit from our last retreat, due to increased operating costs and inflation.  We truly cherish this opportunity to practice and share space together, so we don’t want cost to be an obstacle, so we have created a sliding scale option. Please contact us if you need to explore a scholarship. 

Join us this Fall for a weekend immersion in the heart of practice. Located at the beautiful and tranquil Lotus Heart Retreat Centre in the Brighton area. This retreat – with the fall colours and crisp air and wonderful community connections – is quickly becoming a highlight of the year. It is for those with all levels of experience with yoga.

Throughout the weekend, Tiina Kivinen and Fraser McDonald will hold space together, creating a retreat container for wisdom and connection to emerge from your own inner experience. Within this container of sacred space and intention, you will experience a variety of practices, including Yoga, Meditation, Qi-Gong/Tai Chi, Pranayama (breathwork), Yoga Nida (yogic sleep meditation), Japa and live music Kirtan (chanting). We are excited to welcome guest musicians for Kirtan as well, including Fraser’s beloved partner, Dana Salahub.

Our intention for this retreat is to foster a space to deepen current practices, cultivate new practices for inspiration, or simply rest within the space of being and see what emerges. Connecting into the heart of our practice, we have the potential to bring a felt sense of peace and presence into our bodies, minds, and hearts. Together as a community, we create space for wisdom, clarity, and spirit to arise from within. Community forms as we connect and create, self-inquiry with a focus on compassion and curious contemplation, and the heart brightens with music, chanting, movement, and expression.

The weekend will include:

• 2 nights stay in a lovely retreat centre, private and shared accommodation
• Delicious and nourishing vegetarian meals
• Inspired Yoga and meditation classes and workshops for deepening your practice, with Fraser Mcdonald, Tiina Kivinen and guest musicians
• Other highlights include Yoga with live music, campfire Kirtan and Concert, fire ceremony, and a contemplative forest walk w/ Qi Gong practice.
• Spacious time to just be.

Embodied Wisdom 200 hr ONLINE Yoga Teacher Training is Yoga Alliance approved and adapted from our decade of experience teaching transformational 200 hr Yoga Teacher Trainings and our past two years of discovering best practices for online yoga teacher education. It has been so amazing to experience the depth that is possible online with students from around the world!

This training includes everything you need to know in order to skillfully lead authentic and unique Yoga classes that are true to YOU and to the roots of Yoga. You will become confident at leading and delivering this inspired practice that creates benefits to all of the different layers of the self. Supporting each human experience from helping keep our physical bodies healthy to creating emotional resiliency, mental health and regulating the nervous system, to fostering a connection to all of life and that mysterious intelligence that creates live itself. This online training will teach you everything you need to learn to teach others empowering and inspiring yoga classes that come from your heart. You will be guided towards a philosophy of ongoing self-inquiry that empowers your unique gifts and supports your well-being, whether you choose to teach or not. For those that choose to teach, this training is highly focused on developing your own practice so that you can teach through transmission and true wisdom. Deepen your own practice and understanding of this ancient science that brings clarity, peace, resilience, fulfillment and purpose.

It is our belief that transformed people transform this world and that Yoga is a way to spread the tools necessary to create healing, peace and a brighter future for our planet. This is what the Embodied Wisdom Teacher Training was born from, this calling of the heart to serve the planet in this way that seems so needed at this time.

Do you feel the call to dive in to this training with us? Sign up here for updates and to download our information package, or reply to this email with any questions!

With excitement,
Tiina

Words cannot truly express the wealth of knowledge, expertise, and loving-kindness of this group of beautiful humans and teachers! I am in awe of them and the positive effect they have on their participants. Look no further if you are serious about becoming a bonafide yoga teacher, graduating the course with the best of curriculum, delivery, encouragement, constant support, modeling, rapport, and authenticity. ~ Karin D

I expected to come out of this training with the knowledge and experience to start me on my journey as a yoga teacher. What I did not anticipate was the lifechanging transformation I would get through while taking this class. Yoga is so much more than postures and while we did learn the physical aspects of yoga, it was the emotional and spiritual journey that touched me the most..~ Marie G

Thank you to our beloved Kristyn Rose for offering a beautiful evening of deep rest!

Register Here!

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