feel nourished & empowered at midlife

Honoring the Queen: A mini-retreat for midlife women

A self-paced retreat experience

Held live on October 19, 2024

you’re no longer young, but you’re not old either

What if you saw yourself as Queen?

How would that change your midlife experience?

In this online mini-retreat, you’ll meet the Queen - a powerful and supportive archetype for midlife women.

You’ll walk away with practical tools, resources, and insights to help you navigate this chapter of life feeling rested, nourished, and empowered.

Here’s What’s Included

I have organized all of the retreat material into small digestible parts, so that it feels restful for you. You can move through the content a little at a time or set aside three hours and experience the whole thing.

Part 1: Meet the Queen

Our retreat begins with an introduction to a powerful and supportive archetype for midlife women - the Queen.

We’ll explore how the Queen represents a unique opportunity to redefine how you journey through midlife.

You’ll enjoy discovering how this archetype connects to the everyday world around you. You’ll deepen your connection to the Queen archetype through reflective prompts, images, and poetry.

You’ll also receive a Meet the Queen journal for you to download and keep.

Part 2: Caring for the Queen

with Louise Carr, Holistic Nutritionist

Louise will share her expertise on how to care for your body and spirit as you navigate this transformative phase. The session with Louise will cover the following topics, plus there will be time for your questions.

Reclaiming Queen Power

Learn how to reclaim your energy after years of caring for others, drawing your strength back to focus on your own needs and desires.

Protecting the Queen

Discover how to use boundaries effectively to protect your energy, health, rest, and exercise, ensuring that your Queen thrives in all aspects of life.

Nourishing the Queen

Move beyond diet and restriction thinking. Louise will guide you on how to deeply nourish your Queen through balanced nutrition that supports your body’s unique needs during midlife.

Speaking as Queen

Embrace the importance of speaking up for your needs. Discover the critical role of thyroid health in the hormonal changes of midlife and how to support this vital aspect of your well-being.

Part 3: Rest like a Queen

with Certified Daring to Rest facilitator & teacher-trainer Shelagh Lenon

Experience deep rest and rejuvenation with a 35 minute Yoga Nidra meditation. This guided meditation will help you release stress, restore balance, and connect with your inner Queen, leaving you feeling refreshed and empowered.

You will receive a recording of the meditation to download so that you can keep resting.

The practice of Yoga Nidra is a sanctuary for midlife women.

It offers deep, restorative rest that nurtures your body and provides it with the care it truly needs.

Practicing yoga nidra regularly:

  • soothes and balances the nervous system

  • relieves tension and stress

  • shifts brain waves into a nourishing state of regeneration

  • awakens creativity & increases clarity

  • brings you back home to your wisdom, insight, intuition

Here’s an overview of the flow of the mini-retreat.

✓ Opening of the mini-retreat with a short rest practice

✓ An introduction to the Queen archetype with Shelagh Lenon

✓ Caring for the Queen session with Louise Carr

✓ Wellness break and quiet time to go outside, journal, or move your body

✓ Deep rest yoga nidra session with Shelagh Lenon

✓ Closing of the mini-retreat

rested, nourished, empowered

Ready to step into your queendom?

INVESTMENT

Sliding Scale: $30, $40, $50 CAD

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MEET YOUR RETREAT GUIDES

Shelagh Lenon

Shelagh Lenon has been called a fairy godmother, upgraded for the 21st Century.

She thrives in supporting women to step fully into their wild & precious lives - abundantly nourished and resourced.

She’s a Daring to Rest yoga nidra facilitator & teacher-trainer, mentor, website designer, virtual assistant, online learning specialist, and aromatherapist.

Learn more about Shelagh here.

Louise Carr

Louise is a Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition with 13 years of experience working with women in midlife.

She works with midlife women who are feeling anxious, exhausted, and plagued by random menopausal symptoms who want to get back to feeling energized, sleeping like a baby and feeling like their old selves again.

Louise teaches an online course, Menopause U, which provides science based, easy to understand information about midlife women’s bodies, hormones and the implications of hormonal change on women’s health.

Menopause U empowers women in perimenopause and menopause with the information they need to get back on the same side as their bodies and feed themselves the dense nutrition their bodies crave and can reduce and eliminate uncomfortable symptoms in midlife.  

Menopause U takes a step-by-step approach to explaining the root cause of your menopausal symptoms, the nutrition your body needs to alleviate those symptoms and easy and delicious recipes that help you to shift from feeling overwhelmed and uncomfortable to calm, confident and back in control of your life.

What Women Are Saying

  • I was feeling really lost in finding a new role for myself at midlife. The experience of feeling like a queen, who is wise, strong, knows what she needs and wants, and harvests the wealth of her experience, gave me new strength and a new perspective. That’s just marvelous!

    Steffi Meyl

  • Shelagh is like a balm for the soul - her voice, her gentle way, and her way of holding space feels like honey and has been so healing to my nervous system. Being in her presence feels truly sacred.

    Isabelle Griffith, Founder of The School Of Somatic Leadership For Women™

  • "Shelagh shows up 100% for everything she does - and she will for you. Her offerings are of the heart.

    Karen Brody, founder Daring to Rest

  • “Magical. Transporting. Healing. Divine. Meaningful. Powerful. Shelagh is a divine creator and artiste. It is like she has been doing this work for lifetimes.”

    Cathy Byers

  • Louise is brilliant and loving! She’s a gifted healer and teacher of empowerment for women's health concerns.

    Alesia

  • Let me just say that I feel held. Nurtured. Actually seen and heard by you , Louise. Even when we first spoke, I felt a good vibe…this is someone I want in my corner. I knew you were knowledgeable but your report tells me that you are kind and big-hearted and want what is best for me in all facets of my life, of course focusing on nutrition, but also holistically looking at the bigger picture. Thank you for fresh eyes and good advice.

    Darla Martens-Reece

HEY QUEEN

Ready to reframe midlife?

INVESTMENT

Sliding Scale: $30, $40, $50 CAD

Please have a look at this image to determine where you fall on the sliding scale.