
Saturday, April 18, 2026
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
With care and intention, we’ve chosen to pause and cancel this retreat due to unforeseen circumstances and a need to prioritize healing. All participants will receive a full refund. Thank you for your grace and for being part of our community, we hope to gather again soon.
​As we step into the blossoming energy of spring, we are invited to cleanse, refresh, and restore balance - within ourselves, within our relationships, and within the homes that hold us. This season of renewal calls us to bring light to the places that feel stagnant, to release old patterns, and to invite fresh energy and loving flow into every part of our lives.
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We invite you to join us for a deeply restorative retreat that weaves together self, family, and home healing. Together, we’ll explore how to balance the inner and outer worlds, creating sacred alignment between your body, your family field, and your living space.
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This retreat arrives at a powerful turning point, as the energy of 2026, a Universal Year 1, invites new beginnings, fresh inspiration, and the courage to design life with intention. By tending to yourself, your relationships, and your home, you open pathways for abundance, peace, and vitality to flow freely once more.
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Let this day be your sacred reset, a return to wholeness, harmony, and heart-centered living.
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This is more than a retreat. It’s a homecoming, for your soul, your family, and the spaces you dwell in.
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A Deeper Look at the Day...
This retreat is both restorative and empowering, designed not only to support your own healing, but to offer practical tools you can bring into your home, your relationships, and your work in the world.
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Throughout the day, you’ll be guided through gentle teachings, embodied practices, and experiential learning that help you reconnect with yourself, create safer and more intentional spaces, and deepen the way you show up with others.
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This is not about fixing or performing, it’s about presence, awareness, and remembering what you already carry within you.
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What You’ll Experience...
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The Art of Beginning
Creating an altar is often the beginning of the work, and the most powerful part. This is where intention is anchored, energy is gathered, and manifestation begins.
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Alisha and I have worked with altars for years, not as decoration, but as living points of focus that create safety, clarity, and alignment. There is deep power in beginnings, and this foundational step is one many people miss in personal healing, group work, and manifesting.
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In this interactive, hands-on practice, you’ll explore how simple, intentional altar work can support healing, connection, and meaningful change - at home, in community, and in your everyday life.
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“What we gather with care,
we call into being.”
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Sacred Witnessing & Conscious Listening
At the heart of this retreat is a powerful relational practice called Sacred Witnessing.
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Most of us were never taught how to truly listen, to ourselves or to others, without fixing, judging, or rushing to respond. In this section of the day, we explore how healing happens when we are met without being fixed.
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You’ll learn and experience:
• Sacred listening and presence
• How to witness emotion without absorbing it
• How safety and nervous-system regulation support clarity and connection
• How to express emotion through the body, without explanation or performance
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Through a guided embodied practice with music and movement, you’ll experience what it feels like to be seen, witnessed, and appreciated, and how to offer that same gift to others.
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These are skills you can bring into:
• family conversations
• friendships and partnerships
• community circles
• leadership and work environments
• your relationship with yourself
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Space Clearing & Energetic Hygiene
Everything holds energy, our homes, our bodies, our belongings, and the places we gather.​​
In this section, we explore:
• What energy is and how it moves
• Residual and environmental energy in homes, workplaces, and shared spaces
• When to clear energy and when to bless or strengthen it
You’ll learn multiple accessible ways to clear and refresh
energy, including:
• Sound, breath, movement, and body-based clearing
• Smudging and non-smoke alternatives
• Clearing corners, thresholds, objects, and personal
space
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You’ll also be introduced to dowsing and intuitive sensing as tools for awareness, learning to feel energy directly through your body, rather than relying solely on tools.
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Each participant will receive a small clearing tool to take home, supporting ongoing practice.​
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Foundations of Gentle Energy Work
This portion of the day introduces simple, ethical, heart-centered energy practices that can be used with yourself, family members, and loved ones.
You’ll learn:
• Grounding and presence before offering
energy work
• How to sense energy through the hands
and body
• Consent-based, non-invasive approaches
• How to open and close a healing
interaction with care
You’ll be guided through a gentle heart-energy practice, with options for:
• self-healing
• partnered practice
• working with the aura or through hovering hands
This is about sensitivity and awareness, not doing anything “right.”
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Integration, Reflection & Closing Circle
We’ll close the day together in circle, allowing time to:
• reflect on what you’re taking home
• integrate the practices
• share insights
• receive a group blessing
You’ll leave feeling grounded, resourced, and inspired, with tools you can return to again and again.
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Who This Retreat Is For
This day is for you if you:
• long to feel more at home in yourself
• want to create safer, more intentional spaces
• support others in any capacity (parent, partner, leader, healer, facilitator)
• are curious about energy, presence, and conscious connection
• want practical tools that feel soulful and grounded
No experience is required. Come exactly as you are.
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What You’ll Take With You
✔ A deeper connection to yourself
✔ Tools for creating sacred and safe spaces
✔ Skills for conscious listening and holding space
✔ Gentle energy practices for everyday life
✔ A renewed sense of clarity, calm, and confidence
A Note on What This Day Is Rooted In...
This retreat is intentionally designed as a foundational experience. Many of the practices you’ll explore, sacred space, circle work, conscious listening, and gentle energy healing, form the groundwork of a larger body of work Alisha and I have been weaving for years.
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In full transparency, this day also serves as the stepping stone into a future training we’ll be offering next fall:
Return to Self Practitioner Training, a certification focused on circle work, healing presence, and ethical, heart-led practice. Participants of this retreat will receive a Certificate of Completion and will be offered priority access and a special discount should they feel called to continue into the full practitioner training when it opens.
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There is no pressure or expectation, this day stands fully on its own. Simply come for the experience, and trust what unfolds.
✨ Come as you are. Leave lighter, clearer, and inspired to bring healing energy into every part of your life.
A day of learning, laughter, energy work, and magickal spring renewal.





When: Saturday, April 18, 2026
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: Red Deer Lake Community Hall
(Located West of Spruce Meadows on the outside edge of Calgary: 178136 112 St W, Foothills AB)
Investment: $177
(Includes teachings, all supplies, tea, and snacks)



✨What Awaits You
Join Gillian White & Alishia Alibhai, two soul guides with over 40 years of combined experience in soul coaching® and sacred teachings, for a deeply restorative retreat that invites you to return to your essence. We’ve been guiding beautiful humans through transformational journeys for years, but at the heart of it all, we are simply sisters on this path—learning, growing, and evolving alongside you. We are all one. No matter where you are on your journey, there is wisdom in every soul, and together, we remember our power.
Soul Sessions is about reconnecting with your soul’s essence and discovering the power in simplicity. It doesn’t matter what rising sun you are, what season it is, or what phase the moon may be in. This retreat transcends labels and aligns with one universal truth: healing begins when we strip away the noise and come home to ourselves.
Throughout time, our ancestors gathered in circles—to heal, to share, to grow. There is something sacred, something ancient, about sitting in community. In this retreat, we return to that sacred practice, weaving our stories and energies together, honouring the old ways in a way that feels aligned with today.
Strip away the noise, the labels, the distractions. What remains is your soul’s truth.
💫 What to Bring
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A bagged lunch (we’ll provide tea and light snacks)
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Comfortable clothing
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A journal & pen
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Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, backjack chair, or pillow—whatever helps you feel most comfortable. We'll be sitting on the floor, but there are chairs available at the hall for anyone who prefers one. Our intention is for you to feel relaxed, supported, and nourished throughout the experience.
Healing isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering who you’ve always been.
Our Intention for This Gathering
At its heart, this retreat is a sanctuary—a space for restoration, connection, and deep soul nourishment. Healing doesn’t have to be complicated. There is immense power in the simple act of pausing, breathing, and being held in a safe, sacred space.
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We gather not as teachers and students, but as a circle of souls—each bringing wisdom, stories, and personal magick. Alishia and I have been weaving these experiences together for years, and with each gathering, our belief in the power of community grows stronger. There is beauty in simply showing up as you are, and knowing you are enough.
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We will connect with nature—the nature around us, and the nature within. There is a rhythm to life, and when we align with it, everything flows. This retreat is your invitation to breathe, release, and realign.
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Who Is This For?
This retreat is open to all, not just women. The soul has no boundaries, and neither does healing. We believe in creating a space where all are welcome, where community strengthens us, and where we can grow together.
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If you are feeling called to rest, realign, and reconnect, this gathering is for you. It’s for those seeking stillness in the midst of a chaotic world, for those longing to feel seen, and for those ready to refill their cup with soul-nourishing healing.
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You don’t need to have experience with rituals, meditation, or spiritual practices—just an open heart and a willingness to embrace simplicity, presence, and connection.
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Come rooted in your story. Leave rising in your truth.​​​
With care and intention, we’ve chosen to pause and cancel this retreat due to unforeseen circumstances and a need to prioritize healing. All participants will receive a full refund. Thank you for your grace and for being part of our community, we hope to gather again soon.
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The power of a circle is that it has no beginning and no end—just souls, meeting in the middle.


May you always find the space to pause, breathe, and return to yourself.
May your soul be nourished, your heart be light, and your spirit be free.
May you walk this path knowing you are never alone—
you are held, you are seen, you are deeply loved!
We invite you to gather in circle with us, to reconnect with your essence,
to embrace the simple magick of healing, and to walk beside us—soul to soul, heart to heart.
With love and gratitude,
Gillian & Alishia






