Tree of Life

04/02/2026

🕉️ Laya Yoga Meditation Retreats

with Meranda Squires

🌿 5-Day Immersions
👥 Small group: 6–8 participants

📅 July 5–10, 2026
📅 July 12–17, 2026
📅 August 9–14, 2026
📅 August 16–21, 2026

Step into a deeply immersive journey of meditation, energy awakening, and self-discovery.

Laya Yoga is a powerful practice that works with breath, energy, and awareness to bring the body and mind into harmony. Rooted in ancient yogic traditions, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to go beyond postures and explore the deeper dimensions of yoga.

✨ Throughout the retreat, you will experience:
• 🧘‍♀️ Yoga postures (Hatha)
• 🌬️ Breathwork (Pranayama)
• ✋ Mudras (sacred hand gestures)
• 🔆 Chakra activation & study
• 🔥 Kriyas (purification practices)
• 🕉️ Mantra & sacred sound
• 💗 Bhakti & surrender meditation
• 🎶 Sound baths & deep rest
• 🤝 Partner yoga (somatic assist & release)
• 📖 Yogic philosophy discussions

🌲 Held in Nature

Surrounded by the wild beauty of Newfoundland, you’ll have time each day to rest, explore, and integrate:

💧 Waterfall swims
🌿 Forest walks
☀️ Quiet reflection time

🌙 Meet Your Facilitator:

Meranda Squires

Raised at the Ferryland lighthouse in Newfoundland and daughter of renowned artist Gerald Squires, Meranda’s spiritual path began early.

Her journey led her to India, where she spent 17 years studying meditation, yoga, and Vedanta philosophy under Swami Shyam at the International Meditation Institute in India.

Since returning to Canada, she has dedicated her life to guiding others through:
• yoga & meditation teachings
• private mind-clearing sessions
• Enlightenment Intensives
• Laya Yoga retreats

✨ She is also co-founder of the Tree of Life Retreat Centre, an off-grid sanctuary nestled in the boreal forest—offering a truly unique space for deep inner work.

🗓️ Daily Rhythm

☀️ 7–9am Himalayan Kriya & Laya Yoga
🥣 9–9:45am Breakfast
📖 9:45–11am Philosophy discussion
🤲 11–12pm Somatic Assist & Release
🌿 12–2pm Lunch, waterfalls & free time
🔆 2–3pm Chakra study
✨ 3–3:30pm Chakra practice
🧘 3:30–4pm Postures
🕉️ 4–5pm Mudra, pranayama, chant & meditation
🍽️ 5–7pm Supper

💫 Investment

$650 CAD
Includes:
• 🛏️ 5 days & nights accommodation
• 🥗 Nourishing raw food meals
• 🌿 Full retreat program

This retreat is an invitation to slow down, go inward, and awaken your energy from within.

A rare opportunity to study with a deeply experienced teacher in an intimate, nature-based setting 🌲✨

04/01/2026

🌿🧘‍♂️ Vipassanā & Metta Meditation Retreat 🧘‍♀️🌿
Facilitator: Whit Hornsberger
📅 July 1–5, 2026
👥 Group size: max 18 practitioners

✨ SOLD OUT — Join the waitlist & stay tuned for 2027! ✨

Step into a profound 5-day journey of silence, insight, and inner transformation.
This retreat offers the powerful and time-honored practice of vipassanā meditation, guiding participants toward direct insight into the true nature of mind and body… and the gentle unraveling of suffering (dukkha).

💫 Rooted in the lineage of the revered Burmese master Mahāsi Sayadaw, Whit shares from over 16 years of dedicated study and monastic practice in Myanmar.

❤️ This retreat also integrates metta (loving-kindness) meditation — a heart-opening practice that supports and deepens insight, creating a foundation of compassion and presence.

Together, these practices invite:
🌱 Deep inner stillness
🌱 Clarity and insight
🌱 Emotional balance
🌱 A return to your natural state of peace (viveka)

🏡 Retreat Details
• 5 days of guided meditation and noble silence
• Intimate group (max 18 participants)
• Nourishing vegan/vegetarian meals
• Simple, supportive accommodations

💛 Offered in the spirit of Dāna (generosity)
The teachings are freely given. Payment covers accommodation and meals only.

✨ This retreat is now fully booked ✨
If this speaks to you, we warmly invite you to follow us and stay connected for next year’s offering.

📩 Feel free to reach out to express interest for 2027 or future retreats.

For more details, please visit our website: treeoflifenl.com

03/24/2026

🌞 Enlightenment Intensive – Summer Solstice or ‘Litha’ as called by the ancients
With Ian Goudie & Johanne Robitaille

📅 June 18–22, 2026
📍 Tree of Life
🌿 4 Days | 👥 Small group (12)

Do you feel the call to go deeper… beyond roles, beyond stories, beyond who you think you are?

The Enlightenment Intensive is a unique group retreat that offers the possibility of a spiritual enlightenment experience within a relatively short time.🔥

Through a powerful process using dyads, you de-identify, layer by layer…
Releasing fixed patterns, old identities, and the ways you’ve learned to hold yourself in the world.

As these structures soften, something else begins to emerge…
✨ Presence
✨ Clarity
✨ Aliveness

Over four days of sacred contemplation, communication, and deep inquiry into yourself, you are invited to:
🌌 Step beyond the known
🕊️ Rest in stillness
🔥 Experience who you truly are—directly

This work asks for courage… and devotion.
But what opens is beyond measure.

🤍 A return to what has always been here

Spaces are limited to 12 participants.
If you feel the call… trust it.

To register: please reach us at: treeoflifenl11@gmail.com

03/19/2026

✨ THE JOURNEY WITHIN ✨
🌿 Solstice Season Retreat at Tree of Life 🌿

📅 June 12–14, 2026
🌙 + Optional One-to-One Sessions: June 15–18

💫 Exchange: $666
🏡 Shared lodging & nourishing meals included

Join us for a deeply transformative Solstice retreat, “The Journey Within” — a sacred invitation to reconnect with your body, mind, and spirit.

Guided by Robyn and Merlin, two experienced and heart-centered facilitators, you will be gently held in a safe, nurturing, and sacred space for healing, growth, and self-discovery. 🤍

Surrounded by the beauty of nature, you’ll be invited to slow down, soften, and truly land — supported by community and the energy of the land. 🌳✨

🌿 Your Journey Includes:

🌙 Friday Evening
Grounding practices, a nourishing supper, and a soothing sound bath to help you arrive, settle, and open.

🔥 Saturday
Shakti dance meditation, intention setting, and embodied movement to awaken and align your energy.
The day flows into a powerful sacred plant ceremony, guided with deep reverence and Indigenous invocation — offering a space to explore, release, and expand within. 🌌

🌸 Sunday
A gentle integration day with optional morning practices, heartfelt group sharing, and dyadic exercises to help anchor your experience.
We close with prayer and intention, leaving you feeling renewed, empowered, and aligned with the rhythms of nature. 🌞

🌺 This is a unique opportunity to deepen your connection to yourself and others, while embracing the transformative energy of the approaching Summer Solstice.

✨ Come as you are. Leave expanded, grounded, and inspired. ✨

📩 TO REGISTER
Please reach out to Merlin at:
📧 merlinhealingarts@gmail.com

A call will be arranged to connect, answer your questions, and ensure you feel fully supported in your journey. 🤍

Spots are limited — we welcome you with open hearts 🌿

03/15/2026

✨ A Journey Through the Koshas ✨
📅 June 5–7, 2026
👥 Limited spots: 7–12 participants

Are you longing to step away from the busyness of life and return to a deeper sense of peace, balance, and truth? 🌿

Join us at Tree of Life, for a transformative 3-day retreat designed to guide you through the five layers of self — the Koshas — and support you in reconnecting with your True Self. 💛

This intimate retreat is an invitation to:
✨ Soften
✨ Discover
✨ Restore
✨ Embrace your inner stillness

Crafted with intention, beauty, and soul, this heart-led experience offers a nurturing space to listen deeply, reconnect with your inner voice, and live with more self-love and authenticity. 🕊️

Held in the peaceful embrace of nature, this retreat is ideal for anyone seeking renewal, reflection, and meaningful inner connection.

Spaces are limited, allowing for a personal and supportive group experience.
Reserve your place and give yourself the gift of stillness, healing, and transformation. ✨
To register, please email Jennifer at balancedlifewithjen@gmail.com
For more details, visit our website: treeoflifenl.com

03/10/2026

✨ Soul Awakening Retreat with Susan Goodman ✨
📅 May 29–31, 2026
👥 Intimate group – only 8 participants
🕊 3 days of deep inner exploration

We are delighted to welcome Susan Goodman, spiritual guide, intuitive educator, and founder of Soul Awakening Solutions, for a powerful and intimate retreat experience.

Susan’s work beautifully weaves together consciousness studies, sacred ritual, and embodied wisdom to support individuals and communities in awakening to their highest potential. 🌿

Rooted in the understanding that we are evolving into a more conscious way of living — often described as 5D awareness — Susan helps participants reconnect with their intuition, compassion, and energetic alignment. In this space, we remember our inner sovereignty and our natural ability to heal, grow, and expand. ✨

Throughout the retreat, Susan creates a grounded, heart-centered environment where transformation unfolds gently and safely. Her guidance invites each participant to explore deeper truth, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and step forward with greater clarity and empowerment. 💫

With a small group of just 8 participants, this retreat offers a rare opportunity for meaningful connection, personal attention, and profound inner work.

🌸 If you feel called to deepen your spiritual journey and awaken new possibilities within yourself, this retreat may be for you.

📍 Hosted at Tree of Life
📅 May 29–31, 2026
👥 Limited to 8 participants

✨ Spaces are very limited.

03/06/2026

🌿 Sacred Earth Medicines Retreat with Marylou Sanchez 🌿
📅 May 22–24, 2026 | 🌲 Tree of Life
10 participants

We are honoured to welcome Marylou Sanchez for a 2.5-day ceremonial retreat devoted to healing, inner truth, and spiritual awakening through Sacred Earth Medicines. ✨

Born nearly 65 years ago in a small town in Durango, Mexico 🇲🇽, Marylou grew up in a large and loving family guided by deeply devoted parents. From early childhood she felt a strong spiritual calling—one that eventually led her beyond traditional Catholicism into a 25-year esoteric and spiritual path with the Gnostic tradition in both Mexico and Canada. 🌎

In 2012, after a profound health crisis that conventional medicine could not resolve, Marylou experienced deep healing through a sacred plant medicine. 🌱 That experience restored her health and revealed the path that would become her life’s mission.

For the past 12 years, Marylou has been organizing and facilitating sacred ceremonies. Her training has unfolded through a deep and ongoing relationship with the medicines themselves, supported by years of apprenticeship and teacher-plant dietas in the Amazon. 🌿 Her path has been guided by experienced elders and rooted in traditions that honour reverence, safety, and responsibility in ceremonial space. 🕊️

Although she facilitates ceremonies internationally in Mexico and Malaysia, Marylou’s primary focus has become Canada 🇨🇦, where a spiritual family has been quietly growing around this work.

Marylou approaches this role with humility and devotion, seeing herself simply as a human being in service to the sacred and to the awakening of humanity. 💫

This retreat offers a carefully held ceremonial space for those who feel sincerely called to engage in deep inner work and connection with Sacred Earth Medicines within a supportive community. 🤲

If you feel the call to explore healing, truth, and transformation, we welcome you to join us. 🌟

To register, write us on: treeoflifenl11@gmail.com

✨ *“Freedom for Humanity.

03/03/2026

🌿 Who Are You… Really? 🌿

Step out of the noise of daily life and into a rare, focused space of deep inquiry and truth-telling.

This May, join us for a 4-day Enlightenment Intensive facilitated by Meranda Squires, a powerful retreat that weaves together Western psychology and Eastern contemplative practice to support a direct experience of who you truly are.

Through the simple yet profound practice of dyads, participants inquire into the essential question “Who am I?”, speaking what arises moment by moment in a supportive, grounded container. Over the course of the retreat, layers soften, clarity deepens, and something true has space to emerge.

✨ Intimate group
✨ Deep presence
✨ Honest self-discovery
✨ A pause from the world to meet yourself

📅 May 14–18, 2026
👥 8–16 participants
⏳ 4 days / 3.5 days of intensive inquiry

💫 If this question is already stirring something in you, it may be time.
Spots are limited, reach out soon to learn more or reserve your place.
Visit our website at: treeoflifenl@gmail.com for more details.
To register, contact Meranda at: merandasquires@thelotuscentre.ca

03/01/2026

💃🌿 Move. Breathe. Elevate. 🌿💃

This spring, Tree of Life invites you to a joyful, soul-nourishing weekend with Lea Coultas — a 2.5-day retreat designed to help you release stress, move your body, and reconnect with what lights you up.

Expect yoga dance, gentle yoga & meditation, an ecstatic dance evening, nourishing plant-based meals, time in nature, and plenty of space to simply be. Lea creates playful, supportive spaces where movement meets music, fears soften, and your nervous system can finally exhale.

Small group. Big vibes. Deep rest. ✨

📅 May 1–3, 2026
👥 6–10 participants
📍 Tree of Life

✨ Ready to elevate your experience?
Spots are limited — email connect@gentleyogawithlea.com to register and save your place!

02/26/2026

✨ Announcing Our 2026 Retreat Season ✨

We are delighted to share our 2026 season of retreats, running from May 1 through December, at The Tree of Life. This year’s offerings bring together inspiring facilitators, transformational practices, and immersive experiences designed to support deep connection, healing, and awakening.

You can explore full details and register at treeoflifenl.com. We’ll also be sharing individual retreat highlights right here on this page.

⸻

🌿 What’s Coming in 2026 🌿

May
• May 1–3 – The Elevated Experience Retreat
with Lea Coultas
• May 14–18 – Enlightenment Intensive
with Meranda Squires
• May 22–24 – Sacred Earth Medicines
with Marylou Sanchez
• May 29–31 – Awakened Alignment: Living Consciously
with Susan Goodman

June
• June 5–7 – A Journey Through the Koshas
with Jen Ellsworth
• June 12–18 – Journey Within
with Patrick Huynh & Robyn Noftall
• June 18–22 – Enlightenment Intensive Retreat
with Ian Goudie & Johanne Robitaille
• June 26–28 – The Heart of Harmonious Relationships
with Johanne Robitaille

July
• July 1–5 – Vipassana Meditation Retreat
with Whit Hornsberger
• July 5–10 – Laya Yoga Meditation Retreat
with Meranda Squires
• July 12–17 – Laya Yoga Meditation Retreat
with Meranda Squires
• July 23–31 – Enlightenment Intensive
with Meranda Squires

August
• August 9–14 – Laya Yoga Meditation Retreat
with Meranda Squires
• August 16–21 – Laya Yoga Meditation Retreat
with Meranda Squires
• August 28–30 – Lunar Tides Retreat
with Charlie Marie, Leslie Kenney & Angie Ryan

September
• September 4–6 – Sacred Pole Dancing
with Roe Nightingale
• September 11–13 – Heal Retreat
with Jody Williams
• September 17–21 – Enlightenment Intensive Retreat
with Ian Goudie & Johanne Robitaille
• September 25 – Trauma-Informed Yoga Training
with Laurel MacKay

October
• October 2–4 – Awakened Alignment: Living Consciously
with Susan Goodman
• October 8–12 – Enlightenment Intensive
with Meranda Squires
• October 16–18 – Lila Immersion
with Angela Martin

December
• December 17–21 – Enlightenment Intensive Retreat
with Ian Goudie & Johanne Robitaille

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🌟 Feeling called to join us?
Visit treeoflifenl.com to register and learn more about each retreat.

If you have any questions, we’d love to hear from you — feel free to reach out at
📧 treeoflifenl11@gmail.com

We look forward to welcoming you for a transformative 2026 season 💛

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02/18/2026

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12/05/2025

Are you longing to be touched by something deeper? Do you sense that there is something more to life than what you’ve experienced so far? Most of us have heard people mention that they have found who they truly are, but what does that really mean?

It takes a certain wildness to slip beyond the surface of ordinary perception and touch the realms hidden beneath. To taste the deeper mystery moving through this world, we must be willing to step past the borders of comfort…beyond the teachings we inherited, beyond the maps we’ve trusted…into the luminous unknown. It is in these wild inner territories, untouched by convention, that the presence of spirit begins to shimmer through.

Most people enter this terrain when life cracks them open. We cling to our beliefs as if they were anchors, holding us steady in familiar waters. But when illness, heartbreak, or loss shakes the ground beneath us, a fissure appears in the mind’s certainty. Through that crack, something vast may pour in…a glimpse of majesty, a whisper from the deeper world, a sense of being held by something far greater than ourselves.

The mystery dwells in these hidden sanctuaries, along paths no one else can walk for us…quiet thresholds where the soul recognizes itself and steps forward.

Enlightenment Intensives open a doorway to that threshold: the meeting place between the known and the unknowable, where the veil thins and something ancient and alive touches the center of our being.

Join us to our Yule WINTER SOLSTICE Enlightenment Intensive coming up between December 18 to 22, 2025 at The Tree Of Life.

The retreat is nearly full now. We’re at 10 participants, with only two open spots if you feel called to join us.

To register, write us on : treeoflifenl11@gmail.com or call Johanne at: 709-697-2996