making time
RETREAT
A 2024 Witch and Taoist Wellness Journey for Rest and Yearly Reflection
November 25-29, 2024
Join us for the MAKING TIME RETREAT from November 25-29, 2024, on Nexwlélexwm (Bowen Island), BC in beautiful, minimalistic cabins, nestled in 20 acres of woodlands.
This 5-day, 4-night retreat is a unique blend of restorative practices, spellcasting, and Taoist wisdom, offering a space to reflect, envision, and time craft according to your Chinese astrological elements.
OUR GREATEST EMERGENCE IS THROUGH OUR PREPARATION
Set in late fall 2024, this retreat is your opportunity to pause, rest, and reflect. Led by Mimi Young, a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium, this holistic retreat and restful getaway at at the Condé Nast Traveler-featured NECTAR RETREAT CENTRE is designed for entrepreneurs, creatives, mystics, and those seeking a regenerative approach to goal-setting, planning, and working with ancestors or other spirit guides.
HIGHLIGHTS OF
making time retreat :
Engage in end of the year reflections
Daily animist divination and Tea ceremonies
Exploration of Chinese Five Elements, the Bagua of the I Ching, and Taoist Principles for your unique composition and archetype
Balancing rest and activity following Yin and Yang principles. Discover optimal ways to socialize, create, move, and explore during high-energy days or seasons with greater ease.
Engaging with solar, lunar, elemental, and Tea archetypes
Deconstructing bias and extractive programming from harmful New Age teachings
Fluid solo making time for self-discovery and collaboration with spirits
Experience a renewed sense of trust and actionable clarity, as you venture into the Unseen and materialize your next version of yourself, creative project, or career move for planning your year ahead
Thermal and Hydro Therapy sessions to soothe and revitalize the mind, body, and spirit
Set aside time in 2024 to rest, reflect, and look ahead.
Each Day’s Key Energetics
day 1
Enter the Yin and Decelerate
day 2
Restore and Attune
day 3
In Servitude of the Yin: Sustainable Yang Visions
day 4
Timecrafting and Spellcasting
day 5
Renewed and Renewing
INCLUDED IN THE RETREAT
5 days (4 nights) accommodations at NECTAR RETREAT CENTRE , Bowen Island, BC
Organic, nutrient-dense, and delicious plant-based traditional meals.
Daily course programming and handouts
Daily tea ceremonies and tea sits
Solitude and stillness for personal reflection and spirit work
Group gatherings with spirit-led life-direction messages channeled by Mimi Young
Morning gentle, functional movement sessions
As a bonus: Making Space + Time with Thermal and Hydro Therapy at Mist Thermal Sanctuary (tentative soft opening)
Winter forest bathing in Nectar’s Forest Bathing Hot Tub
OPTIONAL PRIVATE SESSIONS
Opportunities to work privately with Mimi as additional bookings at a preferred rate of $275 USD* a session (regularly $325 USD) while on the retreat, including SHAMANIC READINGS, FIVE ELEMENTS ZODIAC READINGS, and PRIVATE MENTORSHIP SESSIONS are available, though limited. When you register for your spot at the retreat, a special rate booking link will be emailed to you from which private readings and sessions can be booked. *plus 5% tax.
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED
This retreat does not include transportation to or from the venue; attendees are responsible for their own transportation. Ferry schedules can be found on BC Ferries’ website TO BOWEN, and returning TO VANCOUVER. It is advised to check BCFERRIES.COM frequently as the retreat approaches as BC Ferries update their schedules regularly. *Complete list of materials will be provided upon sign up for the retreat.
RETREAT ITINERARY
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Orientation + Land Acknowledgement
Settling In + Grounding
Tea as Portal: Activating the Altar + Invoking the Spirits
Dinner
Making Time Session 1
Gentle Somatic Movement Evening Practice
Quiet Time
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Gentle Somatic Movement Morning Practice (optional)
Breakfast
Tea as Portal: Opening to Receive
Making Time Session 2
Lunch
Winter forest walks or Optional Private Sessions
End of the Year Reflections
Dinner
Fluid Solo Making Time
Winter forest bathing in Nectar’s Forest Bathing Hot Tub
Quiet time
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Gentle Somatic Movement Morning Practice (optional)
Breakfast
Tea as Portal: Opening to Receive
Making Time Session 3
Lunch
Winter forest walks or Optional Private Sessions
Fluid Solo Making Time
Dinner
Fluid Solo Making Time
Making Space + Time through Thermal and Hydro Therapy (more details to come)
Quiet time
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Gentle Somatic Movement Morning Practice (optional)
Breakfast
Tea as Portal: Opening to Receive
Making Time Session 4 – Seeding and Planning Your Year Circle
Lunch
Winter forest walks or Optional Private Sessions
Fluid Solo Making Time
Dinner
Making Time Session 5 – Candlelight Group Sharing + Witnessing
Evening Mix: Gua sha circle with Mimi, Planning your year, Snacks, and Market (optional)
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Gentle Somatic Movement Morning Practice (optional)
Breakfast
Making Time Session 6 – Celebrating + Releasing the Altar
Closing + Benediction
Schedule is subject to change.
LOCATION
Making Time Retreat in November 2024 takes place at Nectar on Nexwlélexwm (Bowen Island, BC), set on 20 pristine forested acres within the traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation People. A quick 20-minute ferry ride from Vancouver, this Bowen Island wellness getaway is a nature-forward space devoted for a peaceful escape with modern comforts.
Four lodging options are available, along with payment plans. More under the Retreat Investment section.
MEALS
Immerse yourself in mouth-watering, plant-based global-traditional cuisine, prepared onsite at Nectar Retreat Centre with locally sourced ingredients that celebrate the season. These nourishing dishes aim to kindle warmth within, fostering a deeper connection to yourself and the land. Nectar is a meat and fish-free facility, and can accommodate meals to various allergies and dietary needs.
MOVEMENT
Optional, gentle daily, functional movement sessions that focus on breath and alignment of the body in ways that feel easeful and just-enough-challenge for those we seek it. Andrea Clark blends various yoga disciplines with pilates and flowing motions of Gyrotonic that support ease and mobility for all bodies, and all ages.
Why I created this witches’ retreat
MEET MIMI
Hello! My name is Mimi Young, and I’m a Taiwanese Canadian animist spirit medium and the founder of Ceremonie, where I resource folks who seek greater intuition and creative possibilities with the Unseen, especially when approaching endings or beginnings in wildly vibrant and renewing ways.
Making Time Retreat is to meet you in the places that shape and sometimes unravel us, be it endings, beginnings, or the in-between. Maybe you’re needing to take time out for yourself to be, to fall apart, to let go, to merge, to cross pollinate, to rebuild. Making Time is a realm of inquiry and visions, planning and practice, with roots in embodied rest and elemental magick.
Since society does not honour and guard our quiet times, I’m hosting this wellness retreat dedicated to preserving and safeguarding the sanctity of stillness, reflection, and re-imagining.
The Tao that makes Space and Time is infinitely vaster, bewildering, and more splendorous than our limited human perception. It yearns to collaboratively regeneratively create with you, where together, you are invited to co-create new timelines from the Unseen into the Seen.
INVESTMENT
This 5 days, 4 nights retreat is open up to 16 participants. For the list of what is included in the retreat, refer to the “Highlight of What’s Included” section.
Four lodging options are available, available via a payment plan, or save by paying in one sum. The fees below include everything listed in the “Highlights of What’s Included” section.
Clients signing up for retreat
must read and consent to this agreement
GST is applicable for all transactions.
EMERALD ROOM (now sold out)
Private or Shared - Most Affordable
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Located in the Main Lodge, the Emerald room features the option of a solo room with a double bed or as a shared room with separate twin beds, and shared attached bathroom.
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Sleeps either 1 solo guest with a double bed or 2 shared accommodation guests with separate twin beds
Ensuite bathroom
Natural, locally-made toiletries
In-room Wi-Fi
Smart TV
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Shared Accommodations (save $760 each compared to Solo):
One (1) payment of $1798 +Tax per person (save $77 +Tax when paid in lump sum)
OR Three (3) payments of $625 +Tax (3 monthly payments per person. Payment plan available until August 20, 2024).
Solo Accommodation:
One (1) payment of $2558 +Tax (save $97 +Tax when paid in lump sum)
OR Three (3) payments of $885 +Tax (3 monthly payments. Payment plan available until August 20, 2024).
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Clean, non-smoking facility
SHARED
SOLO
AMBER/TURQUOISE ROOMS (now sold out)
Private
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Located in the Main Lodge, this option features private rooms with double bed, with shared detached bathroom.
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Each room sleeps 1 guest, double bed
Shared bathroom between both rooms
Natural, locally-made toiletries
In-room Wi-Fi
Smart TV
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One (1) payment of $1898 +Tax (save $67 +Tax ) per person.
OR Three (3) payments of $655 +Tax (3 monthly payments per person. Payment plan available until August 20, 2024).
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These lodging options are now SOLD OUT.
Clean, non-smoking facility
A-FRAMES (now sold out)
Private - Minimal
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Double bed in private A-frame cottage with shared detached washroom in separate Main Lodge.
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Each A-frame sleeps 1 guest, double bed
Covered front deck with year-round seating
Shared detach bathrooms, with showers (10 meters outside walk away)
Natural, locally-made toiletries
Wifi available in the Main Lodge
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One (1) payment of $1958 +Tax (save $67 +Tax )
OR Three (3) payments of $675 +Tax (3 monthly payments. Payment plan available until August 20, 2024).
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These lodging options are now SOLD OUT.
Clean, non-smoking facility
DELUXE COTTAGES (now sold out)
Private Accommodation and Shared Accommodation options
- both with enriched amenities
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Guests have the option to select solo or shared accommodations (with savings for shared options).
If solo accommodation is selected, you will have a queen size bed to yourself, with the ensuite bathroom for yoursef.
For those who select shared accommodations, beds will be srranged as single beds in semi-private cottage (max capacity 3 in each cottage), with shared ensuite bathroom.
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Each cottage sleeps up to 3 guests, twin beds (see ‘Sleeping Arrangement’) OR if you’ve selected solo accommodation, you’ll have the entire cottage all to yourself!
Ensuite bathroom (double sinks, indoor shower, toilet)
Outdoor shower (available when temperatures are above 0 degrees Celsius)
Natural, locally-made toiletries
Mini fridge
Kettle, mugs, assorted teas
Indoor reading nook overlooking the forest
In-cabin Wifi
Private deck with reading chairs
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Shared Accommodations (save $1227 each compared to Solo):
One (1) payment of $1998 +Tax (save $96 +Tax when paid in lump sum)
The general retreat registration via a 3-part payment plan has ended. If a 2-part payment plan interests you, please fill out this contact form and Mimi will get back to you.
Solo Accommodations:
One (1) payment of $3225 +Tax (save $150+Tax when paid in lump sum)
The general retreat registration via a 3-part payment plan has ended. If a 2-part payment plan interests you, please fill out this contact form and Mimi will get back to you.
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Up to 3 shared spots OR 1 solo spot left
For those who select the shared accommodation option, we encourage guests choosing this lodging option to book as a couple, with friends, or are open to making new ones.
Please also note one of the beds is located in the cottage’s loft; the guest staying in the loft must have full mobility and is comfortable going up and down a ladder. Please indicate at the time of registration if you are not comfortable with sleeping in the loft.
Clean, non-smoking facility
SHARED
SOLO
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP CLOSED
Please help us provide community care by holding yourself to a standard of personal honesty. Our Partial Scholarship is intended for those facing financial hardship and would otherwise not be able to attend a wellness witch retreat.
Ceremonie, in collaboration with Nectar Retreat, is humbled to offer metaphysical scholarships, known as Partial Ceremonie Scholarships, available in limited quantities and reserved for those encountering obstacles or systemic biases hindering sufficient income for survival. We encourage individuals facing financial challenges, including those from marginalized racial, ethnic, and LGBTQIA+ communities, individuals with diverse neurological abilities, over-stretched single parents, or anyone else facing extenuating circumstances, to apply by completing the contact form.
In an effort to ensure that community care funds are directed to those who need it most, please note that Partial Ceremonie Scholarships are NOT meant for folks who can comfortably meet survival needs, own assets or investments, or have privileges based on class background.
