Mystic Avenue, 18 King Street E, Colborne, ON (2025)

12/29/2025

🎲 Game Nights Are Coming to Mystic Avenue 🎲
Beginning this February, Mystic Avenue is hosting a series of game nights designed to bring people together for fun, connection, and a little friendly competition. Whether you are learning something new or returning to a favourite pastime, there is a place for you at the table.

✨ Dungeons & Dragons – Learn to Play (18+)
New to D & D? These guided sessions are the perfect introduction.
• $15 per person, per night
• February 13 & 20
• 7:00 – 10:00 PM
• Register here:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/DDLearn

🐉 Monthly Dungeons & Dragons Game Night (18+)
Step into an ongoing adventure led by Dungeon Master Nick.
• 4th Friday of each month
• February 27, March 27, April 24
• $5 table fee
• 7:00 – 10:00 PM
• Register here:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/DDPlay

🎲 Board Games Afternoon (11+)
A relaxed and welcoming afternoon of classic and modern board games.
• $5 per person
• 3rd Saturday of the month
• 2:00 – 4:00 PM
• February 21, March 21, April 18
• Register here:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/boardgames

🃏 Euchre Night (18+)
An evening of cards, conversation, and community.
• $10 per person
• 3rd Saturday of the month
• 6:30 – 9:30 PM
• February 21, March 21, April 18
• Register here:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/Euchre

Games are better when shared. We look forward to welcoming you for game nights at Mystic Avenue. ✨

12/29/2025

✨ GODDESS RISING RETREAT ✨
A Sacred Feminine Weekend of Connection, Renewal & Remembering

You are invited into a deeply nourishing retreat created for women who feel the call to slow down, turn inward, and reconnect with their intuitive and embodied wisdom.

📍 Mystic Avenue Retreat Centre, Castleton, Ontario
🗓 Begins Saturday, February 21 at 10:00 am
🕯 Concludes Sunday, February 22 at 12:00 noon

Held on private land surrounded by trees and a peaceful pond, this space offers a rare sense of privacy, quiet, and being deeply held. Goddess Rising is an invitation to soften into nature, sacred space, and sisterhood.

🌿 This retreat includes:
• Sauna and Swim Spa experiences
• Fire pit gatherings beneath the winter sky
• Walking meditation through the outdoor labyrinth
• Sacred ritual, circle, and guided meditation
• Gentle movement, journaling, and creative expression
• A dedicated self-care room with body massagers
• Spacious time for rest, integration, and connection

🛏 Accommodation options:
• Semi-private rooms
• Dorm-style shared accommodation

🚆 Travel support:
Pick-up from the VIA Rail station is available to support ease of arrival.

💫 Investment:
• $350 early registration (before January 15)
• $425 after January 15

Payment plans and sliding scale options are available as part of our commitment to accessibility.

✨ Facilitation Team
Rev. Kim Etherington is a Metaphysical Minister, retreat facilitator, and co-founder of Mystic Avenue. Her work is rooted in sacred space, ritual, spiritual inquiry, and guiding women back to their inner truth with compassion and depth.

Michelle Gilmour is a facilitator devoted to embodied healing, intuition, and feminine wisdom. She brings a grounded, heart-centred presence, supporting women in reconnecting with their bodies, inner voice, and natural rhythms.

🔗 Register here:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/GoddessRising

Spaces are intentionally limited to honour the intimacy of this experience.
If you have been feeling the quiet stirring… this is your invitation to rise. 🌙

12/28/2025

🌿Sunday Reflections: Listening Forward 🌿

As this year slowly turns toward its final pages, many people are already feeling the quiet pull of what comes next. Plans for 2026 begin to hover at the edges of our awareness, not loudly, not urgently, but like a soft whisper asking, Who are you becoming?

This time of year often brings talk of vision boards, goal setting, and future planning. These practices can be beautiful and meaningful, but only when they are rooted in something deeper than achievement or control. Otherwise, they can become another way we pressure ourselves to be someone other than who we are right now.

Spiritually speaking, the future is not something we force into being. It is something we begin to listen for.

Before we ask what we want to do in 2026, it may be more important to ask what we want to feel. What kind of inner climate are you hoping to live within? More spaciousness, more trust, more ease? More courage, more creativity, more connection? The soul tends to speak in feelings long before it speaks in plans.

This kind of reflection asks us to slow down. To notice the subtle ways our life has already been shaping us. To honour what this year has taught us, not just through its joys, but through its challenges, pauses, and unexpected turns. Often, the seeds of what comes next are already present, quietly taking root beneath the surface.

Planning from a spiritual place does not mean having everything mapped out. It means aligning with what feels true. It means allowing intention to arise from integrity rather than fear. When we plan this way, our visions are less about fixing ourselves and more about expressing ourselves.

You might find it helpful to imagine 2026 not as a checklist of goals, but as a landscape you are walking into. What kind of terrain do you hope to move through? What rhythms would support you? What would it mean to move forward with trust rather than urgency?

There is no rush to decide. The turning of the year is not a deadline, it is an invitation. An opening. A gentle reminder that life unfolds in seasons, and each season has its own wisdom.

This Sunday, perhaps the most meaningful planning you can do is simply to sit with yourself and listen. To ask not, What should I want? but instead, What is quietly calling me forward?

That listening is already a form of prayer. And from it, the next year will begin to take shape, naturally, faithfully, and in its own perfect time.

Be blessed,
Rev. Kim Etherington

12/27/2025

✨ Calling Local & Aligned Artisans ✨

As part of our upcoming store refresh at Mystic Avenue, we are opening a limited consignment program and inviting original artists and creators to share their work in our space.

The shop will be redesigned throughout the month of January and will reopen on February 7th, with a renewed focus on intentional, soulful offerings.

Our store is street level in downtown Colborne, offering excellent visibility and foot traffic, a beautiful opportunity for creators looking for meaningful exposure within a supportive community.

We are looking for handmade, thoughtfully created pieces that align with our grounded, mystical, heart centred vibe. Items that feel intentional, meaningful, and made with care.

We are especially drawn to
• Original art and illustration
• Handmade jewellery
• Ritual tools and altar pieces
• Candles, ceramics, textiles
• Herbal, apothecary, and nature inspired creations
• One of a kind pieces with story and meaning

This program is best suited for creators who value quality over quantity and who feel aligned with community, mindfulness, and conscious living.

Space is limited and curated. Not all submissions will be accepted.

If you feel your work belongs here, send us a DM or email with
• A short note about you and your work
• Photos or a link to your creations

We cannot wait to see what you are creating 🤍
Let’s build something beautiful together.

12/27/2025

✨ Living the Course ✨
A Monthly ACIM Circle at Mystic Avenue

Living the Course is a monthly circle devoted to exploring A Course in Miracles, a profound spiritual teaching centred on love, forgiveness, and inner peace. This gathering is open to anyone with an interest, whether you are new to the Course or have been walking with it for years.

If you do not yet have the Course, we recommend the three-part edition, which includes the Text (Teachings), Workbook for Students (Lessons), and Manual for Teachers. You are welcome to attend even if you do not yet have the books.

📖 You may purchase the ACIM manual through us if you wish.
Please let us know in advance and we will have one ready for you on the first day.

🗓 First Sunday of each month
🕰 12:30–1:30 pm
📍 Mystic Avenue Yoga & Wellness Studio
24 King St. E., Colborne

🌿 No fee to register
🌿 Open to all stages of the journey
🌿 A welcoming, reflective, and inclusive space

Led by Rev. Kim Etherington, this circle offers gentle discussion, shared inquiry, and space to bring the teachings into everyday life.

🔗 To join or reserve your spot:
https://MysticAvenueYogaandWellnessStudio.as.me/ACIM

If you feel called to explore A Course in Miracles in community, you are warmly welcome. 💛

12/25/2025

❄A Christmas Blessing ❄

May this season meet you exactly where you are.
May it hold space for joy, and also for the ache that often walks beside it.

May we remember that not all hearts feel light at Christmas.
Some are grieving, some are lonely, some are quietly enduring.
May we soften our expectations and widen our compassion, knowing that presence is often the greatest gift.

May the warmth we seek in candles, kitchens, and gatherings also live in our words and actions.
May we notice who is missing, who is struggling, who needs a gentler pace.

If you are celebrating, may your joy be rooted and grateful.
If you are hurting, may you feel less alone.
If you are somewhere in between, may you know that this too is enough.

May this Christmas remind us that love is not loud, it is steady.
Not perfect, but real.
Not guaranteed, but always worth offering.

From our hearts at Mystic Avenue, we send you peace, tenderness, and quiet grace this season. ✨🤍

12/22/2025

January and February often invite a gentle return to yourself ❄️✨ As routines settle and intentions begin to take shape, this is a beautiful time to invest in your health, your nervous system, and your overall well being 🌿

At Mystic Avenue Yoga & Wellness Studio 🧘‍♀️ we offer a variety of class packages to support you through the winter months, whether you are looking to move more 🔥, slow down 🌙, or create a steady practice that feels nourishing and sustainable 🤍 We are also excited to share that Mat Pilates has been added to the schedule, running Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning in January 💪✨ A wonderful complement to your yoga practice and overall strength and mobility.

If you have been feeling the call to prioritise your wellness, this is your invitation ✨ Join us on the mat and let January and February be a time of grounding, strength, and care.

Click the link to purchase a package: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/catalog.php?owner=32778407&category=Class+Packages

12/21/2025

🌿Sunday Reflections: The Wisdom of the Winter Solstice🌿
❄December 21st❄

Today marks the Winter Solstice, the longest night and the shortest day of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, we stand at the threshold of stillness. The world quiets under a blanket of darkness. Nature contracts. Trees shed their leaves, animals hibernate, and the earth seems to sleep. Yet beneath this surface stillness, something vital is happening.

The Winter Solstice reminds us that contraction is not a failure or a pause in progress. It is a necessary part of the cycle. It is not the end, but the beginning. While the light begins its slow return after today, we are still deeply embedded in the energy of winter, and this season invites us to honour rest, reflection, and retreat.

In a culture that so often celebrates growth, movement, and productivity, darkness can be misunderstood. Stillness can feel uncomfortable. We are conditioned to push forward, to strive, to keep the light burning at all costs. But there is wisdom in the dark. There is value in stepping back.

This is a time for going inward. Just as the seed lies buried in the earth before it sprouts, we too need time in the shadows. It is in these quieter, darker moments that we gather energy for the cycles of expansion ahead. It is here that we reconnect with our inner world, rediscover what is essential, and tend to the parts of ourselves that are too often neglected in the rush of doing.

There is a kind of sacredness in this seasonal contraction. It teaches us to trust the rhythm of life. To remember that rest is not wasted time. That pulling back is not regression. Like the moon waning before it waxes again, we are always in a dance of expansion and contraction, light and shadow, activity and rest.

The solstice offers a chance to pause and reflect. What have you learned this year? What are you ready to let go of? What parts of you are asking for rest, for silence, for healing? This is a beautiful time to journal, to light a candle and sit in quietude, to allow yourself space to simply be.

Do not rush toward the light. Let the darkness do its work. Let it cradle you in its deep, enveloping stillness. In this womb-like space, something within you is taking root. Energy is gathering. Insight is gestating. You are not lost. You are not behind. You are becoming.

As we cross this turning point, may you give yourself permission to rest. To slow down. To listen inward. The light will return in its own time, and when it does, you will be ready, not because you pushed through, but because you honoured the wisdom of the dark.

May this Solstice be a reminder that the shadows are not something to fear, but a sacred space where deep transformation begins.

May you be blessed
Rev. Kim Etherington

12/21/2025

🌒 Winter Solstice & The 13 Magical Nights 🌘

Today, the Winter Solstice graces us with the longest night of the year. The darkness peaks, but with it comes a quiet promise: the light will return. This turning point in the solar cycle has been honoured for thousands of years across cultures as a time of renewal, stillness, and inner light.

From this sacred night onward, we enter the mystical period known as the 13 Magical Nights — a tradition rooted in Germanic, Celtic, and Alpine folklore. Starting on December 21st or 24th, each night corresponds to one month of the coming year. These nights were seen as a time when the veil between worlds is thin, offering clarity, prophecy, and connection to spirit.

🌟 Each night invites reflection, intention, and magic. Here's how you can honour them:

🕯️ Light a candle each night and reflect in silence

✍️ Keep a dream journal, messages from the soul may come

🔮 Pull a card or rune for each night to guide the corresponding month

🔥 Write and burn what you're ready to release from the old year

🌀 Cleanse your home with herbs, incense, or sound

🙏 Leave offerings or speak words of thanks to your ancestors

This is a time of deep listening. Let your intuition guide you. The insights you receive over these 13 nights can shape your path for the entire year ahead.

So tonight, as the sun stands still, light a flame and honour both the darkness and the returning light. A new cycle begins, let it be intentional.

✨ Will you be journeying through the 13 Magical Nights this year?

12/19/2025

SOLD OUT!
Our Return to the Heart Retreat in January is officially full — thank you to everyone joining us for this soul-nourishing journey. 💖

✨ Missed out? Don’t worry — another retreat date is coming soon. But spots go quickly, so register early to hold your spot. Your heart will thank you.

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