Slow the Season: A Women’s Festive Wellness Retreat
Slow the Season
A Women's Festive Wellness Retreat
As the world picks up pace for the holidays, we invite you to do the opposite.
Slow the Season is a gentle, grounding weekend retreat for women who long to greet the festive season with more presence and less pressure. Held in the stillness of late November, this retreat offers space to reconnect with yourself before the demands of the holidays set in.
Through nourishing movement, restorative rituals, mindful feasting, and quiet reflection, you’ll be guided back to your center. Think candlelit yoga, forest walks under bare branches, simple craftwork, fireside chats, and time to just be—without agenda.
Together, we’ll reimagine what this season can feel like when we honour our inner rhythm instead of rushing to meet expectations.
Come home to yourself before heading into the holidays.
Come slow the season.
Dates: November 28-30, 2025
Join us for an opportunity to chart your own path and
Slow the Season
✨ What’s Included in Your Soulful Winter Retreat
🌙 A Dreamy 3-day, 2-Night Stay
Unwind in your choice of a cozy Mongolian yurt or stylish Loft apartment—each with its own private hot tub for the ultimate relaxation.
🧖♀️ DIY Self-Spa Afternoon with Samantha Sambrooke
Treat yourself to a full day of self-care:
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Start with SomaYin yoga, a gentle, meditative practice
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Create your own luxurious winter body butter
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Melt into relaxation with a nourishing Ayurvedic face mask and guided sensory unwind
🌲 Forest Bathing Nature Walk with Heather
Connect with nature in a mindful way. Learn about local plants, engage in meditative forest exploration, and ground yourself in the magic of the woods.
🎶 Sound Journey with Trevor Grant
Experience a deep musical meditation as Trevor weaves together rhythms, flutes, and singing bowls to take you on a transformative inner journey.
🎄 Holiday Wreath Workshop
Create your own beautiful seasonal wreath with Carina from Sweet Pea Farms—no experience needed, just holiday spirit!
🧘 Yoga & Meditation with Heather
Flow through gentle movement, breathwork, and mindfulness practices that leave you feeling centered and deeply restored.
🍽️ Soul-Nourishing Meals
Savor every bite, sip, and snack with our all-inclusive menu—made with love from seasonal, wholesome ingredients to fuel and comfort your body and soul.
🌿 Nature-Based Healing
Recharge in our tranquil setting with hot tubs, a sauna, cold therapy zones, forest trails, a lakeside meditation labyrinth, and the peaceful energy of nature all around you.
Weekend Itinerary
3:00-5:00pm – Check in’s
5:30pm – Welcome, Introductions & Festive Mocktails
6:00pm – Group Supper
7:30pm – SoundEscapes sound healing journey with Trevor Grant
Breakfast in your Accommodations
9:30am-10:30am – Gentle Hatha Yoga with Heather
10:45am-12:15am – Forest Bathing Nature Walk with Heather
12:30pm-1:30pm – Group Lunch
2:00pm-6:00pm – Self-Spa Afternoon with Samantha Sambrooke
4:00pm-6:00pm – Foraged Art – Driftwood Wreath Workshop
6:00pm-7:00pm – Group Supper
7:00pm – Freetime for sauna, cold plunging, bonfires, hot tubs, relaxing and connecting
9:00am-10:00am – Group Breakfast
10:00am-12:00pm – Holiday Wreath Making Workshop with Carina from Sweet Pea Farms
12:30pm-1:30pm – Group Lunch and Closing
2:00pm – Check outs & Departures
Retreat Pricing
This retreat has multiple accommodation types and a variety of pricing options based on the size of your group. The prices below are all-inclusive and include accommodations, retreat registration, food & activities. Groups must be pre-arranged with friends/family as we do not sell single beds for our retreats.
Mongolian Yurts
Our authentic Mongolian Yurts are suitable for up to 3 adults (one queen bed and 2 twin beds)
Group of 1 in Yurt – $949+tax total
Group of 2 in Yurt – $1498+tax total ($749/pp)
Group of 3 in Yurt – $1999+tax total ($667/pp)
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Eagle’s Nest Loft
Our Eagle’s Nest Loft is a self-contained suite with own kitchen & washroom. Suitable for up to 3 adults (one queen bed and 2 twin beds).
Group of 1 in Loft – $1049+tax total
Group of 2 in Yurt – $1598+tax total ($799/pp)
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GlowBug Cottage
The GlowBug cottage is a 2-bedroom cottage with kitchen and washroom. There is no hot tub, but there is a clawfoot tub. You also have access to the sauna and cold therapy zones at the resort. Suitable for a group of 2-4 guests. One room has a queen bed and the other room has two twin beds with adult bunkbed!
Group of 2 in Cottage is $1498+tax total ($749/pp)
Group of 3 in Cottage is $1999+tax total ($667/pp)
Group of 4 in Cottage is $2499+tax total ($624/pp)
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Retreat fees only: $549 includes all meals, snacks, all experiences on the itinerary & access to all resort amenities.
Meet Your Facilitators
Samantha Sambrooke
Samantha completed her first Yoga certification in 2009 with YogaLife in India. She is a Yoga Therapist, a graduate of Yoga North International Soma Yoga Institute, an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT at the 500-hour level) and a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN). Her over 4000 training hours also includes an 800-hour Yoga history and Philosophy program, Yoga-Nidra Levels 1 and 2 as well as Yoga-Nidra for Children through Traditional Yoga Studies (Brenda and Georg Feuerstein), a year-long Mastery of Mantra training with Russill Paul and Ayurveda, Chakras and more with Indu Arora. And currently, is enrolled in an Ayurveda Practitioner course.
Carina Phillips
Artist-Farmer turned Flower Aficionado! She can make a beautiful arrangement on your plate with as much joy as she can create a beautiful bouquet for you to carry in your hands. Making the farm attractive to beneficial insects and biodiversity is her endgame
Trevor Grant
Trevor Grant has been performing his magical SoundEscapes sound journeys here at Nature Space Resort since we opened. Trevor says "I have been fascinated by sound for as long as I can remember, be it the wind in the trees, a metal railing echoing in a great hall, a rock band in full flight or the most delicate tap of a cymbal, it all speaks to me. As a percussionist I get to explore and release all sorts of frequencies, from primal beats of a drum to the gentle sparkle of tiny bells, Adding the breath of wooden flutes creates a palette of sounds that allow for a full range of expression. For me, music is a multi-sensory experience, something that is not only heard, but felt. My hope for my SoundEscape sessions is for people to experience sound and music in a deeper more attentive way than usual and to bring attention to the important role our sonic environment can play in our daily lives."
Heather & Jarrod Gunn McQuillan
Heather is the co-owner of Nature Space Resort in beautiful St. Peter’s Harbour, PEI. She is a certified RYT 200hr Yoga Alliance Teacher (500h currently in process with certifications in Vinyasa, Yin, Yoga Nidra, and Chair Yoga). Heather has actively practiced yoga since 2009, is trained in Mindfulness Meditation (MBSR graduate), and has practiced meditation since 2013. She is also certified as a meditation and mindfulness instructor and is a graduate from Canada's only graduate-level University program in Mindfulness (Mindfulness Based Teaching and Learning offered from The University of the Fraser Valley). Heather is also a certified MBSR facilitator from the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. Jarrod is the co-owner of Nature Space Resort and brings a wide variety of life and work experiences to their project at the resort. His educational background includes Commerce and Science degrees and early in his career his work focused on sustainability & localizing food systems and he worked closely with primary food producers, community groups and Indigenous communities in Ontario and British Columbia. More recently, prior to opening the resort, he spent more than 10 years as the Oyster Biologist for the Province of Prince Edward Island and still grows his own oysters and shares experiences and his passion for oysters with guests at the resort. Jarrod has used cold water therapy for years through his athletic career, but recently has begun to implement many of the breath work and mindfulness strategies to broaden his understanding and use of cold water. He is currently completing his Cold Water Therapy Diploma and has begun training on the Wim Hof Method. He is also a passionate naturalist and outdoor leader. He is one of the most highly certified sea kayak instructors in Atlantic Canada with Paddle Canada and has had the pleasure of leading programs & expeditions as well attending sea kayak gatherings as a guest coach all across Canada, the United States and beyond through his sea kayak instructional business – Cloud 9 Adventures.