

Choose You!
A day to nourish, replenish and celebrate YOU.
Discover Self-Compassion, Healing Your Inner Child, Personal Boundaries in Harmoney, Self-Love, Inner Peace & Joy.
Sunday Dec 7th, 2025
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Ancaster ON
with Wendy Ziemiak
Certified Yoga Teacher, Mental Health Practitioner
& Registered Nurse
A day to nourish, replenish, and celebrate YOU before the season's holidays.
Discover Self-Compassion, Healing Your Inner Child, Personal Boundaries in Harmoney, Self-Love, Inner Peace &
While we are familiar with ways to care for ourselves, we often neglect our self-care practices because we have created powerful habits of caring for others. Helping others triggers dopamine release. Acts of kindness and generosity activate the brain's reward centers, releasing "feel-good" neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. This creates a "helper's high," a sense of pleasure that reinforces the behavior.
Discover what it means to put self-care into your daily practice that nourish, replenish and sustrain you.
Connect with a Community of Women who share similar journeys of their lives and desire to live authentically.
What this full-day retreat includes:
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Introductions and Intention Setting
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Tuning Into Our Needs-Guided Meditation & Journaling
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Gentle Yoga Flow (no previous experience needed)
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Build a "self-reward" system: pair a self-care action with a reward
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Lunch and refreshments included
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Living in Harmoney with Personal Boundaries for your authentic self
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Breathwork and Restorative Yoga
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Meditation for Inner Peace
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Closing Circle
Date: Sunday Dec 7th, 2025.
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Mount Mary Retreat Center
Location: 437 Wilson St. E.
ANCASTER ON
PRICE: $150 CAD
"Self-compassion is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel"
- Eleanor Brown
Registration
Choose You!
Women's Retreat
Date: Sunday Dec 7th, 2025.
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Mount Mary Retreat Center
Location: 437 Wilson St. E.
ANCASTER ON
Price: $150 CAD
Lunch included
[Space is limited]
Refund Policy: 50% refund is available until Nov 7th, 2025.
No refunds available for cancellations after Nov 7th, 2025.
Pictures from Past Retreats & Events

About Your Guide
Wendy Ziemiak
Certified Yoga Teacher, Mental Health Practitioner
& Registered Nurse
As a Yoga & Meditation Teacher and Registered Nurse with extensive experience in Mental Health, I offer retreats & self-care workshops to help women find greater self-compassion,
self-love and transform their limited beliefs into empowering life choices for self-care.
As part of my own healing and self-help I became a student of Yoga and Meditation and
started to experience ease in my mind and body. I learned to challenge my unhelpful thinking patterns that lead to anxiety and depression. I learned to disarm my inner critic and manage painful emotions through self-compassion practice. I gave myself permission to meet my
needs for self-care, meaningful connections, healing and inner growth. I learned to be
brave by facing my fears about financial scarcity, being lovable and being good enough.
This is now why I love helping women to create ease and peace and joy in their lives.
Join me for a women's retreat where you will learn these skills and practices that assist with healing, stress reduction and growing self-love and self-compassion within.

Credentials & Training
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Yoga & Meditation Teacher Training
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Registered Nurse & Practicing Mental Health Practitioner
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Meditation Practice for inner peace and stillness
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Self-Compassion Practice for self-acceptance and self-love
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for resetting our beliefs
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Dialectical Behavioural Therapy to calm our big emotions
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Mindfulness Based Therapy to live in the present and reduce overwhelm
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to relieve suffering & build a rich & fulfilling life
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Internal Family Systems Model to gain more insight and honor our good and bad parts
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Roll Model® Method Therapy Certified using Therapy Balls for releasing body tension
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Certified Breathwork Facilitator




