A registered psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience, Donald leads Retreat programming at Dimensions Algonquin Highlands. He was a core team member of Helix Healthcare, a clinic specializing in addiction and mental health. His clinical work focuses on healing through somatic and trauma therapies that are evidence-based and supported by neuroscience research.

“Our connection to the earth and ourselves is strengthened when we eat with mindfulness and reflect on the experience,” says Chef Echeverria. Born and raised in Veracruz, Mexico, Miriam moved to Canada in 2008 and swiftly made her entrance into the Toronto culinary scene. Miriam was named “one of the reasons to love Toronto” by Toronto Life magazine and one of the 16 best female chefs in the city.

As founder of Cheffing 4 Good, a non-profit organization in support of women in need, she hosts charitable, plant-based dinners in collaboration with other women in the industry.

Tiffany is a certified sound therapy practitioner and transformational hypnotherapist, with training in reiki and bodywork. She has hosted private and group sound baths all over Ontario, and provides a supportive and safe container for your body to do what it is naturally capable of doing – healing. Tiffany will host two evening Sound Baths and one winter morning meditation as part of the Dimensions Winter Wellness Series over the nights of January 3 + 4, 2024.

On Saturday, January 6 the wellness dining spotlight is on Guest Chef, Matthew Ravenscroft. He arrives with Ontario’s best picked and grown during the first weekend of the all-inclusive Winter Wellness Series at Dimensions Algonquin Highlands. The culinary wellness weekend begins on Friday with Dimensions’ Executive Chef, Miriam Echeverria’s leading the delicious plant-forward menus at Dimensions Retreats’ new Canadian lakeside destination. On Saturday, Guest Chef, Matthew Ravenscroft shares his simple mission: to get the world to eat their damn veggies with a celebratory vegetarian tasting menu. Working with some of Toronto’s best chefs, Matthew’s focus is on cooking with seasonal, local produce that aims to celebrate the joys of plant-focused eating. Chef Ravenscroft shows us that we can always eat more plants, and even crave them too.

Dimensions Retreats is proud to partner with Kristopher to launch the We Are Journey, a series of highly curated one-of-a-kind photographic experiences meant to expand the consciousness of the participants while connecting to their higher self, the planet.

Kristopher Grunert is a visionary Canadian artist using photography to lift the veil, revealing what seems to be a spiritual realm here on Earth. His lens is a conduit that channels wisdom, wonder, and spirituality. By deciphering his own intuitive process, he developed a program called Photography As Meditation, which he teaches others so that they can find presence while bridging their internal and external worlds.

The all-inclusive Winter Wellness Series features a wellness spotlight with holistic Chef, Doris Fin. Chef Fin will lead the Dimensions Algonquin Highlands’ kitchen with her signature plant-forward “Nourish to Flourish” menus on the evenings of February 17,18 and 19. Fin is a well-travelled holistic Chef with more than 15 years’ experience educating and serving up unforgettable flavour through her interactive culinary classes, dinners, catering wellness retreats, and in the past year has been facilitating her own Wellness Cooking Retreats, “Nourish to Flourish”. An entrepreneur and leader in holistic food offerings, Doris sources from local, sustainable, regenerative, and organic practicing farmers, whom she prefers to meet and shake hands (and hug) with personally. Along with mindful eating Doris believes the quality and integrity of the soil and the hands that tend to the Earth are of utmost importance for a harmonious mind, body, and gut connection (which dictate all other functions of life).

Be guided by the guest experts of UNBOUNDED and experience winter differently, embrace the cold and change your relationship with winter, nature and yourself. One guided Maple Lake cold plunge per day will be featured during your stay.