Relationship Revelation Couples Retreats at Viamede Resort, Ontario, Canada.

Aziza has chosen Viamede Resort as the ideal location for its Weekend Couples Retreats. Our retreat is just 2 hours east of Toronto, 3 hours west of Ottawa. In the 1870s, Colonel Sam Strickland established the original site. Viamede is located on Stoney Lake's scenic north shore on the historic Trent Severn Waterway, and is recognized as one of Ontario's premier resort destinations.

Accommodations for our relationship retreat are individual cottages or lodge rooms located at the water's edge with walkout decks. Each one has a comfortable living room, 4-piece bath, entertainment centre, kitchen and BBQ.

Free time can be spent exploring the beautiful natural grounds, Spa on site, water activities like swimming, canoeing or kayaking, a few rounds at the nearby golf course or lounging on your private deck.

Enjoy intimate dinners at the Mount Julian Inn dinning room and linger over breakfast on a majestic wraparound porch at the lodge while overlooking spectacular Stoney Lake. The newly renovated Boathouse Lounge offers the casual fare for lunch. If you prefer, you can cook your own meal at your cottage.

Laila Ghattas, founder of Aziza Healing Adventures, is an artist, Gestalt therapist and the retreat facilitator. Her passionate belief in and extensive experience with the healing combination of creative self-expression and psychotherapy led to the creation of these life altering workshops for couples.

Many couples search for support to improve their relationship. Partners desire better communication, emotional intimacy and understanding. Some are in crisis, some want to enhance an already good thing, many somewhere in-between.

On this weekend Aziza uniquely utilizes creative materials to explore relationship issues. Partners can see what their loved one honestly believes, can see behind the words that have lost meaning over the years of repetition, can see clearly into the source of misunderstandings and disappointments.

This visual component results in a new way of hearing your lover's story. It's simply amazing. Click here to find out more about how we support you on your healing journey as a couple.

Reluctant partners who participate often come round in the end because creative self-expression opens the heart, illuminates the truth, inspires a clarity both poignant and practical, and delivers the gift of compassion on which to build anew.

In addition to the creative explorations, workshop participants pair up to learn the art of listening and experience the gift of being heard. These communication exercises are a proven method to create the space necessary for self-knowledge to emerge and to nurture understanding between people as each speak his/her truth without interruption, guidance or judgment.

The workshop on this retreat offers opportunity to honestly address immediate issues interfering with harmony and satisfaction in your relationship. Small group discussions, communication exercises and creative explorations are used to develop healthier relating styles.

It's an opportunity to fully focus on your relationship without distraction while relaxing away from the city, and in the midst of others seeking to better their connections. Group size maximum is only 6 couples.

Please reserve your spot early.Workshop begins Saturday morning at 10 AM and ends Sunday at 4:30 PM. Participants are encouraged to arrive Friday night and ease into this love enhancing event.

Couples Weekend Retreats

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Closest airport is Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario, Canada. You can rent a car to drive the 2.5 hours to the resort.

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Laila Ghattas is an artist, Gestalt therapist and Reiki practitioner. She is an author, public speaker and the founder of Aziza Healing Adventures.

Laila combines creative self-expression with psychotherapy in programs designed to heighten awareness, inspire personal insight and improve the life of those who participate.

Laila holds therapeutic workshops in Toronto, and draws on her worldwide outdoor adventure experience to facilitate international healing retreats for women, couples, mixed groups and corporations.