
Digging deep and raising taller!
Juliette Angelhart Zedda, Florian Boulais, Katrine Frese and Jen Massie welcome you to a weekend of learning, practice and self-care to bring joy, fullfilment and community to grow.
Their curiosity and research constantly explore new ideas around creativity and the brain, personality, behaviour, body work, spirituality, communication, leadership, plant medicine, citizen agency, globalism, the survival of bodily death, and more.
Collaboratively, we will create a space that nurtures an interpersonal connection where the ability to be authentic, is met with integrity, compassion, and the enthusiasm to move towards your full potential. We will be using Nature’s rhythms and their momentum to reconnect with your well-being:
- Connecting with your inner alignment
- Identifying patterns and be able to let them go as they do not serve you well
- Acknowledging what the negative aspects of our life have brought in terms of positive
- Viewing yourself as if you were looking at a friend
- Finding the courage to envision new beginnings
- Flying strong in workplace and family and recreation
The food provided, the venue and the landscape will support the process and catalyze your experience.
The retreat starts Saturday, October 21 at 9 a.m. and will close on Sunday, October 22 around 3:30 p.m. See the schedule for more details.
Your Hosts

Juliette Angelhart Zedda
Counsellor, Coach, Supervisor, Facilitator, Psychosomatic & Expressive Arts therapist, Yoga teacher. She will meet you where you are. A real treat to work with her.
Juliette sees humans for who they are, including all the dimensions of our beings: cognitive, emotional, somatic, interpersonal, moral and spiritual and she deeply rejoices in the presence of socio-cultural and ethnic differences. We all have shadows and blindspots, animal instincts and drives, attachment to our sense of self (ego) and to our personal expectations and we are also made up of amazing divine gifts and wonderful loving capacities. Juliette believes that each one of us is on a journey of recovery, healing, repairing, growing and learning how to manifest authentically and creatively. She also believes that the individual personal work we do directly impacts those around us and our society at large. In order to find health, we have to connect with our families, neighbours and communities and to start deeply honouring our land, resources and all sentient beings. Juliette welcomes all of you who are ready to make deep and lasting changes in your life to find new relationships, skills, meaning and fulfillment. As she puts it: S/HE + THEY = WE

Katrine Frese
Facilitator, Trainer, Educator, Researcher, Geologist, Consultant. Gifted with natural curiosity and intelligence, Katrine’s calling is connecting people and facilitating meaning-making relations. She is driven and dedicated to the people and projects that make herself and her community better. After spending her life on various continents, Katrine is a newcomer to Canada and has lived, loved, laughed, worked and played in the Yukon for the last 15 years. Katrine loves the movement as well as stillness. Since a very young age, she was drawn to yoga as a way to calm her mind and connect to and embody the animal world. At the same time, not many days passed without a pencil in her hand creating, analyzing, calculating. If there was a slogan that expresses her philosophy best this would be ‘The only thing I know is that I don’t know.’ She is a lifelong learner and has changed life multiple times, always looking for more truth and peace.

Jen Massie
Jen believes that dancing/movement is everyone’s birthright and adores the accessibility it provides for each individual’s unique self-expression, freedom and joy. Combining her appetite for spontaneous movement, playful humour, diverse music, Somatic Experiencing (www.traumahealing.org) and the wilds of the Yukon, Boreal Boogie aims to have a little something for everyone! To find out more please visit www.borealboogie.com

Florian Boulais
Jack of all trades, master of some, constantly learning more, he has been passionate about understanding what it takes to find peace, purpose and joy in uncertain time for the past 25 years. Florian is a newcomer to Canada, long-term Yukoner and an Integral Coach, facilitator, long-term Vipassana Practitioner and MHC Resiliency Teacher (Certification in process). He will guide you through techniques designed to enhance your intuitive abilities to discover and connect with your Self and your purpose, so that you may live a more resilient and meaningful life in alignment with your Self’s deepest yearning. He is also a musician and an artist who integrates life-long personal experiences and studies of world indigenous and ancestral story, collective evolution, philosophy, psychology, myth and healing in his work.
Saturday
9:00 am Arrival and check in and welcome
9:45 am Morning workshop
12:00 pm Yoga
1:00 pm Lunch
2:15 pm Afternoon workshop
4:30 pm Your time – reflection – integration – socialize – hot tub – walk
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm Boogie Dance
9:00 pm Your time – hot tub – bonfire – socialize- reflect
Sunday
6:00 am Wake up – matcha, coffee, tea
6:30 am Meditation, breath work
7:30 am Light breakfast
7:50 am Yoga
9:00 am Morning workshop
11:30 am Brunch
1:00 pm Afternoon session
3:30 pm Checkout and good bye
What to bring
- An open mind for whatever new experiences may come in the upcoming days
- Positive energy and friendly demeanor
- Wear comfy and warm clothes to move in (inside and outside) and think about a pair of shoes you are comfortable to dance in outside that matches the possibility of a muddy season with maybe first snow.
- A bathing suit for the hot tub
- A journal, pen, pencils and or crayons if you like doodling or express yourself in artsy ways
- Reusable water bottle
- Meals, snacks, tea and coffee will be provided.
- Yoga mats, pillows and blankets are on site.
- Your personal items, such as toiletries, medication, headphones, sleep-aids (e.g., earplugs – think shared accommodation), etc.
What NOT to bring
- Perfume (we try to maintain a scent-free space)
- Expectations
- Negativity or judgement
- Wifi adapter and your work email (disconnecting is a part of the experience, right?)
- Too many clothes
- High heels 😉
The Root and Rise Retreat is $690 per person plus gst.
This covers
- One night, two-day accommodation at the luxurious Boréale Lodge.
- Four experienced practitioners with training in facilitation, yoga, meditation, dance, psychosomatic therapy, arts therapy, integral coaching, counselling, adult education, and last but not least paramedic first responder training.
- Four interactive learning blocs, designed and planned to accommodate the various learning styles to allow for your best possible experience and build your ecology of practice.
- Five sessions with physical activities, i.e., yoga, breathwork, dance, meditation, and time for personal reflection and relaxation.
- Four fresh, healthy meals plus snacks over the two days.
How to Register
- Please fill out the form below.
- We will respond within 24 hours to confirm availability.
- After confirmation of availability, full payment is due to complete registration and can be made by e-transfer to info@fb-consulting.ca. Payment plans are not available.
Cancellation
- 15 days cancellation notice must be given to receive your registration fee refund (minus a $50 administrative fee).
- If you cancel between 14 days and 8 days in advance, 50% of the registration fee (minus a $50 administrative fee) will be refunded. Some exceptions may be made at the discretion of the organizers if another participant is able to take your place.
- Any cancellations within 7 days of the retreat will result in the entire forfeit of your registration fee. Some exceptions may be made at the discretion of the organizers.
- No refund is available if you cancel on the first day of the retreat, do not show up, leave the event, or accommodation early.
- If a participant tests positive for Covid-19 during the retreat they must leave the Lodge. Participants required to leave due to a positive Covid-19 test will be eligible for a pro-rated refund or credit valid for 1 year from date of issue for the portion missed due to early departure.
Money should never stand in the way of human potential. Using a sliding scale tuition-fee is our way to make the transformational magic of our retreats more easily accessible to a more diverse community of brains, hearts, and souls. Please get in touch and let’s talk.