Happy June from
Aziza Healing Adventures
Time to start planning your summer adventures?
Interested in a meaningful, life enhancing vacation?
Our week-long Personal Growth Retreats are set in gorgeous getaway
locations.
Have just a few days to rejuvenate and get your feet wet?
Our Co-ed and Women's three day Wellness Sea Kayak Retreats are
a perfect fit.
In this June Issue:
Truly Madly Deeply Workshop Review
Announcements
Sea Kayak Retreats
Summer Vacation Sampler
Women's Wellness Weekends
Workshops
Web page links
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Truly Madly Deeply Art & Therapy
Workshop Review
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Our first in a series of monthly introductory evening workshops
at Super Sprouts in Toronto proved to be an unexpected eye opener
for those who joined us. Each participant enjoyed the chance to
play with clay- some for the first time- and have fun decorating
their creation with the colourful multi media available. Discussion
using Gestalt Therapy principles inspired insight and awareness,
completing a satisfying two hour creative self-exploration.
Here's what was said about the workshop:
"Working with Laila and the arts to continue my self realization
is Truly Madly Deeply a gift that I am so grateful for. I have done
two workshops now and would recommend anyone who is looking for
self insight to join her for an evening of fun and challenge!"
- J. L., Super Sprouts Office Manager
"To be shown that what we create in our ART has so much to
say to about who we are and what is going on in our present lives
is incredible. Laila has the gift to interpret what we have created
to an "alarming" accuracy that still amazes me."
- T. R., Super Sprouts Production Manager
"Insight through art is a beautiful way to discover yourself!
To be in Laila's presence is truly a blessing and I am excited for
the next workshop!"
- A. S., Super Sprouts Delivery Manager
Next Super Sprouts TMD workshop
this Thursday, June 17
7-9pm.
$40
720 Bathurst St. south of Bloor
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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Announcements
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Aziza founder, Laila Ghattas, has been interviewed by Women Can
Do Anything,
which is a wonderful resource directory and online community for
women. They also offer a great newsletter you can sign up to receive.
If you'd like to read the interview, please go to the link found
under WEB PAGE LINKS located at the end of the newsletter.
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Wisdom Gatherers Weekend
at Thirteen Moons Women's Retreat Centre
June 18-20
Celebrating the new moon, new season, and new beginnings
A weekend of sharing, learning, meeting, dreaming, playing, beginning,
building, creating...featuring a variety of workshops with the gifted
facilitators.
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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A new Women's Wellness Weekend inspired by words from Sandra
Shamas:
“Someone told me once that in this life, you get who you are,
not what you want. If that’s true, and I believe it is, becoming
everything you want to see in someone else acts as a kind of beacon,
drawing toward you someone who is or will be the perfect mate for
you.”
Flying Solo
June 25 - 27
at Thirteen Moons, Ontario
On this Women's weekend retreat we explore how you are in intimate
relationships- How your past relationships repeat certain patterns,
how your family influenced your idea of what intimacy and relating
look like; what you really believe to be true; what's appropriate
to keep and what you're ready to leave behind. Whether you are solo
or involved, with this awareness you'll have a clearer understanding
of what you expect and want in a relationship.
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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REDISCOVER YOUR SELF IN BALI
a creative/yoga/wellness retreat
Co-ed: January 26- February 4, 2005.
This unforgettable Creative /Yoga/Wellness retreat set in both tranquil
Ubud and East Bali, offers diverse activities for a delicious taste
of this paradise island. Imagine ten days in the lush embrace of
Bali. Ten days to walk along rice paddies, through weaving villages,
past Hindu temples and other sacred sites; Time to be creative,
to reflect, paint, journal, meditate, feast on local culinary delights,
unwind with massage, refresh with yoga, surrender to a labyrinth
path and doze off on your own veranda. This retreat offers the perfect
place to rediscover and connect with the whole you.
Early registration discount!
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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SUMMER VACATION SAMPLER
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Georgian Bay
Three-Day
Sea Kayak Wellness Retreats
Georgian Bay is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and
Ontario's crowning jewel. The retreat days are designed to make
time for kayaking and swimming in the sheltered waters of the gorgeous
Georgian Bay archipelago, play with art materials, and take a glimpse
at the insights that emerge. Delicious hearty meals complement the
gentle rhythm of this retreat.
Co-ed date: July 3-5
Women's retreat: July 7-9 ( full)
Women's retreat: July 21-23 ( 2 spots left)
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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Women's Wellness Five-Day Retreat
I Gotta be ME
Who are you? Are you a fan? Anybody else you'd really rather be?
This retreat affords a week long exploration of aspects of yourself
through mask making and drama. During this 5 day journey you get
to rediscover and know some of the bits and pieces that make up
the whole you that got lost along the way to the forum. Held at
Thirteen Moons Women's Retreat, Norwood, Ontario
Mon. Aug. 2 - Fri. Aug. 6
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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Lake Superior
Personal Growth Kayak Retreat
Six Day Co-ed Retreat: August 21 - 26
Lake Superior is one of the greatest sea-kayaking destinations in
the world. From rocky headlands to Caribbean-like white sand beaches
the sights of Superior are awe inspiring. Our 6 day personal growth
retreat combines Expressive Art activities conducted at the lodge
and in the outdoors with local hiking and a 2 day sea-kayak and
overnight camping excursion along the spectacular Superior shoreline.
There's plenty of time for relaxation, reflection and journal writing
as you drink in the riches all around you. Memorable, satisfying
meals enhance the whole of your Superior experience.This retreat
provides a unique environment where self-awareness and balance can
be explored and restored with a combination of art exercises, sea
kayaking , spectacular coastal walks and Gestalt therapy.
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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Nova Scotia
Creative Wellness Retreat
Our exceptional Atlantic location is found at Prospect Bed &
Breakfast, half an hour south of Halifax. Our week together offers
the rich combination of creativity, relaxation, reflection, coastal
walks, an introductory sea kayak excursion, sunset at Peggy's Cove,
local seafood feasts, starlit strolls and sublime ocean gazing.
Prospect Bay offers the very best of Nova Scotia. Free of tourist
influence, this remote, boulder studded coastline invites exploration,
meditation, ritual and much insight to ponder as sun, mist and fog
move over the endless expanse of Atlantic magic.
Five-day Co-ed Retreat
September 27 – October 1
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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Women's
Weekend Wellness Retreats
A monthly offering of themed retreats geared to women and held at
the
tranquil Thirteen Moons Women's Retreat Centre, Norwood, near Peterborough,
Ontario.
Please plan to register early to avoid disappointment.
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Flying Solo
On this retreat we explore how you are in intimate relationships-
How your past relationships repeat certain patterns, how your family
influenced your idea of what intimacy and relating look like; what
you really believe to be true; what's appropriate to keep and what
you're ready to leave behind. Whether you are solo or involved,
with this awareness you'll have a clearer understanding of what
you expect and want from a relationship.
June 25 - 27
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Fear, Worry and Other Nuisances
Worry much? Can you imagine the worst case scenario from the smallest
crumb of threat? You can't worry and be in the current moment. This
weekend we explore how you avoid the often less frightening now
and choose to fret about later, and over all the 'what if' scenarios.
July 16 -18
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Food Glorious Food
Is food your friend or foe? Is eating something you look forward
to doing, or something you avoid, feel guilty about, or turn to
for stress relief? This two day retreat gives you a chance to creatively
explore your relationship to food, and enjoy participating in an
organic vegetarian cooking class designed to inspire an appropriate
focus on the loving act of true self nourishment.
Sept 18-19
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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WORKSHOPS
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Truly Madly Deeply Art & Therapy Workshops
Our evening workshop format is hands on, offering a variety of
materials to explore and play with. Suggested projects are sure
to unveil new ways of looking at yourself and your way of being.
Small group discussions are led using Gestalt Therapy Principles
No previous art experience is necessary. Just bring an open mind
and art making attire.
Evenings at SuperSprouts
720 Bathurst St. South of Bloor, Toronto, Ontario
7-9 pm
$40
see workshop review at top of the page
June 17
July 14
Sept. 22
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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If you have a group of 3 or more, a private workshop can be
designed for you on alternate date- day or evening.
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The Art of Receiving: a Couples Workshop series
A couple's personal growth One Day Workshop series exploring attitudes,
habits and assumptions interfering with true intimacy. Mitzvah Teacher
Danella Hesler and Gestalt therapist Laila Ghattas use movement,
creativity and language to enhance awareness and expression of welcome
contact. Held in Peterborough County, Ontario.
Saturday, Oct. 30
web page link listed on WEB PAGE LINKS below
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WEB PAGE LINKS
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Retreat Calendar www.aziza.ca/calendarRetreats
Interview with Laila Ghattas http://www.womencandoanything.com/interviews/530_lailaghattas.htm
Wisdom Gatherers Weekend www.aziza.ca/wgw
Flying Solo www.aziza.ca/13moons
Rediscover Your Self in Bali www.aziza.ca/bali
Georgian Bay 3-Day Sea Kayaking www.aziza.ca/grgnbay
Women's Wellness Week- I Gotta Be Me www.aziza.ca/13moons
Lake Superior Personal Growth Retreat http://www.aziza.ca/spg
Nova Scotia Creative Wellness Retreat
www.aziza.ca/novascta
Women's Wellness Weekends www.aziza.ca/13moons
Truly Madly Deeply Art & Therapy Workshops
www.aziza.ca/workshps
Couples Workshops www.aziza.ca/couples
Deluscious Wearables www.aziza.ca/dw
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Have a corporate or private group with a special focus?
Aziza Healing Adventures will design a retreat to meet your specific
needs.
Please visit www.aziza.ca/group
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Laila Ghattas, B.F.A.Visual Arts, B.Ed., Certificate in Gestalt
Therapy, Certificate in Expressive Arts, Usui Reiki 1st & 2nd
degree, is the founder of Aziza Healing Adventures and leader of
the retreats and workshops. Laila is an artist, Gestalt therapist,
group facilitator, Reiki practitioner, and has worldwide outdoor
adventure experience.
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For more information please email laila@aziza.ca or call 416-696-0086
If you have friends who might be interested, please forward this
newsletter,
with our thanks!
sincerely yours,
Laila Ghattas
Aziza Healing Adventures
www.aziza.ca
