Rest & Renewal: A Spring Awakening

Rest & Renewal: A Spring Awakening

Sunday, May 17| 1:00-4:00 PM

As the season shifts and light returns, you are invited into an afternoon designed to restore, balance, awaken clarity, and gently guide you forward with intention.

Rest & Renewal is the first of its kind in our city. Nothing like this has been done before. We invite you to a curated experience that blends movement, stillness, and sensory immersion. Together, we will soften into the body, release what no longer serves, and create space for expansion - honouring both rest and becoming.

Your journey begins with a 45-minute somatic yoga practice, a slow and intuitive form of movement that reconnects you to the intelligence of your body. Through mindful awareness and gentle release, somatic yoga supports nervous system regulation, deep relaxation, and a renewed sense of inner harmony across mind, body, and spirit.

We then transition into a 45-minute guided hypnosis, a deeply restorative state that quiets the conscious mind and opens a pathway to the subconscious. In this space, you will be guided to release limiting patterns, connect with your higher self, and step into a more expansive, aligned version of who you are becoming.

All experiences will be held within the serene beauty of The Garden Venue - a lush, light-filled sanctuary that invites stillness, presence, and connection with the natural rhythms of the season. Throughout the afternoon, a live soundscape by multidisciplinary artist and DJ - Airisuai will gently carry you, weaving calming, immersive frequencies that deepen the experience.

Following the sessions, we will gather in community to enjoy nourishing elixirs, sweet treats and light bites - a moment to ground, connect, and integrate.

This is more than an event - it is a return to yourself.

100% of profits will be donated to YOUCAN Youth Services, supporting meaningful change within our community. A non-profit charitable organization dedicated to helping young people out of harm's way and onto a path of economic independence. 

Together, We're Building Hope.

Meet your event facilitators:

Marnie Spoegler - Somatic Yoga Embodiment Teacher and Founder of Pure Yoga & Retreats. Marnie has been a student of yoga for over 20 years and spends her time living and teaching in both Italy & Canada. She is the resident teacher at Paradiso Pure Living (located in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy), offering both daily yoga classes and unique Alpine hiking and yoga retreats to international guests during the summer and winter seasons. 

When in Canada, she teaches private & public yoga sessions & offers workshops in Somatic Embodiment Yoga. Her experience in classic Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Yin & Restorative lineages allows her to bring together, adaptive, flexible, & creative classes. She incorporates a natural playfulness, & curiosity in her teachings that ensures yoga is enjoyable & accessible for everyone.

Thelma Salvador is a Certified Hypnotherapist and a member of the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. Her work blends modern hypnotherapy with subtle energetic practices to help people access deeper clarity, healing, and transformation.

With a background in energy healing, flower essence therapy, and facilitation of women's circles and sound bath experiences, Thelma creates spaces that are both deeply restorative and powerfully transformative. Her sessions weave subconscious reprogramming, guided visualization, and gentle energetic practices to support meaningful inner shifts.

Through her work, participants are invited to reconnect with their own inner wisdom and step forward into a renewed sense of alignment and possibility.

Our Location:

Located just west of Edmonton near Stony Plain, The Garden Venue is a peaceful gathering space designed for meaningful experiences, connection, and community. The venue offers a natural sanctuary where guests can step away from the pace of everyday life and reconnect with themselves in a calm, restorative environment.

At the heart of the property is the marquis tent, a bright and welcoming indoor space that allows guests to gather comfortably while still feeling connected to the surrounding land. With its natural light-filled atmosphere, the marquis creates the perfect container for weddings, workshops, ceremonies, and transformative group experiences.

The Garden Venue provides the ideal setting to transition from winter’s inward reflection into the fresh potential of spring. Even before the gardens begin to fully bloom, the land holds the quiet promise of renewal, making it a beautiful space to pause, release what no longer serves, and gently step into the next season of growth.

The Experience with DJ Airisuai

Airisuai (pronounced iris-i) is a multifaceted artist, blending the worlds of music, design & fashion into a mesmerizing creative journey. Airisuai grew up classically trained as a violist and bassist. Her unwavering passion lies in curating immersive atmospheres and crafting mood-setting mixes. For her, music is a portal into boundless realms of emotion and time, enriching her artistic tapestry with every rhythmic pulse she finds.

The Cause:

Help make a difference to the lives of Edmonton's most vulnerable youth.

The youth that come across YOUCAN Youth Services, have hopes and dreams. They want to build lives they can be proud of and give back to their community.

With your support, they can receive essentials like food, work clothing, and bus passes. Some of the small things that make a big difference as they move toward stability and independence. The youth are the future.

Help create a lasting impact for a YOUCAN youth today.

Learn more about YOUCAN Youth Services here.

Investment:

Founding Guests - $111 (Limited to 6 spots). A rare opportunity to be among the first to experience The Rest & Renewal Event. 

The Rest & Renewal Experience - $155 Full access to the three hour immersive experience.

Elevated - The Ritual Experience - $222 Includes the Rest & Renewal Experience + a curated take home element to continue your rest ritual at home - a value of $146.00

**Once the founding spots are filled, all remaining tickets will be released at the standard rate.

In a world that rewards constant movement, this is an invitation to pause. Rest & Renewal is a curated three-hour experience designed to slow the body, quiet the mind, and reconnect you to a more intentional way of living. Through guided rest practices, sensory elements, and intentional stillness, you will be held in an environment that invites you to soften - fully. 

This is not a workshop. It is a return.

** Please note: this experience is intentionally intimate and limited in capacity to preserve its depth.

COMMUNITY THANK YOU!:

This gathering has been brought to life through the generosity, creativity and care of our beautiful community. We're so grateful to be supported by local businesses and individuals who believe in creating spaces like this - because when we come together, something special happens. It truly takes a village.

With heartfelt thank you to:

Pure Yoga & Retreats | Resana Healing | The Garden Venue | DJ Airisuai | Lisa Casillas Photography | Forza Yoga & Pilates | Truffula | The Cookie House | Pretty Little Treats | YEG M4TCHA