CEC Halloween Virtual Meditation Retreat

Join the Consciousness Explorers Club teaching team as we explore the weird and wonderful world of meditation at this virtual Halloween retreat. The magic and mystery of contemplative practice will be on full display this weekend. Come get weird with us!

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Tentative Retreat Schedule, very subject to change! All times in EDT:

 

Friday, October 29th

7- 7:45pm Welcome to the Weird with Erin Oke

8:00-9:30pm: The Teaching is Coming From Inside the House with Jeff Warren

 

Saturday, October 30th

7-8am silent sit with Kevin Lacroix (different zoom link for this!)

9-10:30am Death Becomes Her with Tasha Schumann

11am- 12:30pm Growing a Third Eye with Luke Anderson

12:30 – 2pm lunch break

2-3:30pm Inner Ghouls and Vampires with Warren Hooley

4-5:30pm A Magic Potion for Bliss with Stephanie DeBou

5:30-7:00pm dinner break

7:00-7:30pm silent sit

7:30-7:45 breakout group check-ins

8:00-9:30pm Ghost in the Machine with James Maskalyk and DJ Mystery

 

Sunday, October 31st

7-8am silent sit with Kevin Lacroix (different zoom link for this!)

9-10:30am The Realm of Hungry Ghosts with Oliver Rabba

11am – 12:30pm Facing our Fears with Jasna Todorovic

12:30 – 1pm little lunch break

1-2pm Closing meditation and re-membering circle with Erin Oke

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Participants are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, but we understand if time zone or life calls you away sometimes! Please design a retreat experience for yourself as best suits your life and practice.

This weekend retreat is being offered on a “pay what you’re able to” model, with a wide sliding scale to accomodate all income ranges. The funds will go toward supporting the CEC and helping to expand programming and extend the benefits of practice to more people.The CEC is a registered not-for-profit with the mission of making meditation and personal growth practices fun and accessible to all.

 

Instructors

Founder, Chief Exploration Officer, Teacher

Jeff Warren is a writer and a meditation teacher. He is the co-author, along with Dan Harris and Carlye Adler, of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, and author of The Head Trip, a travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and waking consciousness. Jeff’s specialties as a meditation guide – i.e., those things he has the most personal experience with – … Continued

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Co-Founder, Director of Conjubilation, Teacher

James is a physician and author, both of the international bestseller “Six Months in Sudan” and more recently, “Life on the Ground Floor“. He practices emergency medicine and trauma at St. Michael’s, Toronto’s inner-city hospital and is an award winning teacher at the University of Toronto. He directs a program that works with Ethiopian partners at … Continued

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Executive Director, Teacher

Erin teaches meditation and Executively Directs the Consciousness Explorers Club. Her focus is on meditation for self-care and emotional well being and she has taught mindfulness skills in health care, education, corporate and non-profit settings. She has guided meditating teenagers on iBme’s Teen Retreats and taught mindfulness in high schools for KidEvolve. She also does mindfulness coaching … Continued

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Teacher, CEC Podcast co-host

Tasha Schumann is a creator, community-builder, and explorer of the mind. A Juno-nominated recording artist (Tasha the Amazon), her work has been featured widely from HBO to Netflix, Comedy Central to video games, and she’s been profiled in places like Billboard Magazine, New York Magazine, and VICE. She’s practiced and taught in the Indo-Tibetan traditions … Continued

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Luke (he/him/his) has a background in engineering which helped him foster a respect for the importance of quantitative science in our external world and it’s part in helping create an environmentally and socially healthy planet. In 2015 he left his structural engineering gig and took on the role of Executive Director of Toronto’s StopGap Foundation, … Continued

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Warren Hooley is a 34-year old man from the Syilx (Okanagan) Territory in Penticton, British Columbia. Having mixed roots of Okanagan, Irish and Ukrainian and growing up in both western and indigenous worlds, Warren sees himself as a bridge, helping both sides of his ancestry move from polarity to deeper connection. For the past 10 … Continued

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After spending 15 years in the corporate world, Stephanie started begrudgingly meditating in 2014 as a mandatory requirement of her Yoga Teacher Training. Little did she know 3 years later she would come to love sitting in meditation, as much and maybe even more, than moving on her yoga mat. Stephanie practices and teaches many forms of … Continued

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Oliver began studying Buddhism and practicing mindfulness meditation in 2005. In 2007, he attended his first silent ten-day meditation retreat at Suan Mokh Buddhist Monastery in Thailand. Daily meditation practice, Buddhist study, and silent retreats have been a major part of his life ever since. He’s a member of the Toronto groups Satipañña Insight Meditation … Continued

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I started meditating in 2010, seeking to work with a disquieting insight: I felt like, if I stopped being busy I would disappear. I needed to be busy to validate my existence. My daily grind of endless to-do lists and deadlines had been driven by – and distracting me from – the deep-seated feeling that … Continued

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Jasna Seishin has spent more than a decade working in the Toronto tech startup space as a computer scientist, wearing nearly every hat imaginable. In 2018, after seeing that her typical modern way of life was unsustainable both for her own wellbeing and for the sustainability of life on earth, she left full-time work and … Continued

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Fees & Registration

Sliding Scale tickets: general admission $150/ subsidized admission $50/pay-it-forward $250/ pay-what-you-can $any amount!

Information and Registration via Eventbrite