Workshops & Retreats
Workshops and retreats offer dedicated time to step out of ordinary routines and to engage more fully with what matters.
Through shared practise, reflective inquiry, creative exploration, and time in nature, these spaces invite us to meet our experience and our lives with greater presence and aliveness. We begin to see more clearly the habitual thoughts, emotional patterns, and beliefs that shape how we live and can learn how to create new ways of being.
This clarity can support a more alive, compassionate, and authentic return to everyday life. At times, sustained practice and silence may also open a deeper inquiry: not only into our minds and lives, but into the fundamental nature of being
Workshops & Retreats
“True creation happens when we are empty—free from imposed constructs.
It is spontaneous, and it happens now.”
-Shira Taylor
Workshops
Online and in-person workshops offer focused opportunities to explore themes such as meditation, self-love, embodiment, relationship with nature, and creative expression. They may be a single gathering or a series, with practical teaching, experiential exercises, reflection, and community.
Each workshop offers a different doorway into the same invitation: to meet ourselves, one another, and life with greater presence, love, and openness.
retreats
Day-long and multi-day retreats offer more sustained space for rest, silence, insight meditation, inquiry, and renewal. We begin to clearly see and transfmor the habitual mental and emotional patterns that shape our lives. This can help us to live more consciously and compassionately when we return to our the fullness of life.
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“My personal journey with Shira began with ‘Mind Your Inner Monkey’, then ‘Monkey 2’ (as I called it) ….. and probably many other Monkey’s after that. To join any of Shira’s groups felt like ‘coming home’ – coming home to myself as well as the group, which she so thoughtfully orchestrated.
Shira has mastered the art of holding space for people at their most vulnerable both in person as well as on Zoom. Her professionalism and compassion combined with her educational background, facilitation and lived experience captured me and inspired me to keep coming back.
I am grateful to have crossed paths with Shira and know that our paths will continue to cross as we move through this world.”
-Wendy Blain, Toronto, Retired Principal & Meditation Teacher