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Urban & Nature Retreats

Retreats

Retreats offer a rare opportunity to step out of the pace of everyday life and reconnect with what matters most. Whether held in a natural retreat setting or offered closer to home in an urban format, these experiences create space to pause, reflect, and restore—supporting both newcomers and seasoned practitioners alike.

”Listen to silence, it has much to say.” — Rumi

Upcoming

Mindfulness Tools for Anxiety- An Urban Retreat-Style Workshop

Led by Jennifer Innes

Join us for a restorative day of practice, reflection, and presence at Mindfulness at Centrepointe in Nepean.

Designed as an urban retreat, this workshop offers the depth and quiet of a traditional silent retreat — without leaving the city — while also weaving in guided teaching and structured learning. Through periods of silence, meditation, and reflective instruction, you’ll deepen your understanding of mindfulness and develop practical tools you can integrate into daily life.

Anxiety can often feel overwhelming. Many of us develop coping strategies that offer short-term relief but, over time, can unintentionally reinforce anxious patterns. This day is designed to help you understand anxiety more clearly and respond to it with greater skill, steadiness, and care.

Throughout the day, you’ll be guided through experiential mindfulness practices interwoven with reflective inquiry. Much of the retreat unfolds in supportive silence, allowing space to turn inward, settle the nervous system, and meet what’s present with greater awareness and compassion.

What the Day Includes

(Structure & supports)

  • Guided mindfulness practices informed by nervous-system awareness
  • Extended periods of supportive silence for rest and integration
  • Gentle movement and time in nature (weather permitting)
  • Space for reflection, inquiry, and personal integration
  • A paced, choice-oriented approach that respects individual nervous systems
What We’ll Explore

(Themes & learning)

This retreat supports a more workable relationship with anxiety—one rooted in understanding, choice, and care rather than effort or avoidance.

Through guided practice, reflection, and silence, we’ll explore:

  • How anxiety shows up in the body, emotions, and thinking—and why it can feel so compelling
  • Why common strategies such as worrying, avoiding, or over-controlling can bring short-term relief while reinforcing anxiety over time
  • Mindfulness as a way of turning toward experience in doable doses, rather than fixing, suppressing, or pushing through
  • Skillful ways of relating to worry-based thinking so it has less influence over behaviour
  • Supportive responses for moments of heightened or acute anxiety
  • How to integrate what you learn into daily life in realistic, sustainable ways

No prior mindfulness experience is required.

Practical Details

Date & Time: Saturday, May 30 | 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: Mindfulness at Centrepointe in Nepean. Please bring a lunch.

Cost: $250 + HST. Register here

 

Other Urban Retreats

Half-Day MSC Retreat with Jennifer Innes, February 7, 2026, from 9:00-1:00. Register Here.

Day-Long Spring MBSR Retreat with Jennifer Innes, May 2, 2026, from 9:30-3:30. Register Here.

 

*For MBSR and MSC retreats, we open a few spots to the public if you have some experience. Please contact info@omwellness.ca to check availability. 1-Day Intensives are open to all. All Urban Retreat are held at Mindfulness at Centrepointe in Nepean, Ontario

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