COVID-19 Update
We made the difficult decision to cancel this summer’s retreat. With travel and gathering restrictions still in place in Ontario, and public health guidance cautioning against prolonged indoor exposure, we just can’t see being able to offer it safely and viably. This feels like the right decision to prioritize the health and well-being of our community during this challenging time. We will aim to offer it again in summer 2021. Thanks for understanding!
Not a retreat. This is an ADVANCE
Info Package and Registration Info coming soon
Read the CEC Retreat Manual here
Meditation
We sit in MEDITATION throughout the day, a mix of solo and guided excursions into sound, energy, openness, silence, gratitude, and rest, as well as more dynamic movement and nature meditations. Each of these is an adventure into a different corner of human experience, a fresh inquiry into who and how we are, a unique exploration of consciousness. As the meditation and the silence settle our minds, we begin to make contact with a nice stillness …
Activation
… thus opening a space for our late afternoon ACTIVATION sessions. Here we build on our meditation insights by playing with them live, in community. So: how to work with the energy of our self-consciousness, how to trust our own spontaneity and creativity, and finally how to help others by using our own honest direct experience as both teacher and guide.
Celebration

The CELEBRATION here is what emerges naturally when there’s trust and relaxation and the right proportion of irreverence. So: we might recreate embarrassing moments with theatre props, or explore the deranged richness of our imaginations in an evening drum-journey and art practice, or we might explore movement and dance – eyes open or closed – maybe with the instruction to dance like robots, or barn animals, or whatever it takes to free ourselves from the social pressure to look “good.”
Basically we have a good time. And why shouldn’t we? What else is meditation for if it can’t deliver on that?
Meditate, Celebrate, Activate
Sit to find the freedom, move to warm it up ’til its so hot you got to let it out, spread it out, which takes you back to a Consciousness Explorers first principles: Meditate, Celebrate, Activate. Repeat.
For real keeners, you can read the last year’s retreat manual HERE.