RECAP: Fusion Wellness Retreat 2018 - Black Creek, BC

On the weekend of Sept 7-10, 2018, TOPS hosted our first FUSION RETREAT, a movement and writing workshop designed specifically for people with fused spines.

On Friday night, 11 women from all over North America - 9 with fused spines - arrived at beautiful Ocean Resort in Black Creek, BC, to enjoy the expansive ocean view, fresh salty air, and the first sprinklings from the fall rainforest.

Throughout the weekend, TOPS director Martha Carter led the group through gentle exercises that included meditation, breathing, yoga, stretch, and free-style movement. To finish each session, poet and teacher, Ahava Shira, guided participants to write, offering a chance for all of us to express and share our unique fusion stories in new ways. To add to the experience, the talented chef Kate Rice, from Vancouver’s ‘At Your Table’, created delicious and nutritious meals - completing our nourishment of mind, body and soul!

TEMPTED? Consider joining our upcoming Fusion Wellness Retreat - June 2020!

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. Register by our Registration Deadline March 5, 2020 and save $50. Input coupon code: FUSION2020 at Registration.

Join spinal fusion wellness expert, Martha Carter, and special guest, author Ahava Shira, for a wholehearted exploration of spinal fusions! Designed for people with scoliosis and spinal fusions, this unique workshop combines gentle movement and guided writing to address how this confounding condition affects the whole self - body, mind, and spirit.

Using a gentle blend of breathing, yoga, somatics, and freestyle movement, Martha’s comforting approach will help participants to better understand their bodies - with the goal of replacing stiffness and fear, with mobility and freedom.

Ahava's guided writing sessions encourage freewriting - stories, memories, emotions, not to mention reflections on some of the the unusual medical moments that we all struggled through - that can either be shared, or stay private.

Relax and unwind on beautiful Vancouver Island while finding new sensation and awareness in the whole body!

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