Hey there and thank you for joining me for another episode of YQG In Bloom.
My name is Tracy Martens and today I am here with Simi Sereg and we are going to be talking
about an event that she is going to be putting on pretty soon in October at Longavita.
Hi Simi, how you doing?
I'm excellent Tracy, how are you?
I'm doing good.
I'm really excited about this event that's coming up and it's coming up in October.
We're doing this a little early because tickets are just going to be starting to roll out
pretty soon.
Soon, very soon.
When are the tickets coming?
We're hoping May 1st.
Yeah.
Timeline is A1st.
Well, okay Simi, tell me about this event that you are going to be creating.
For sure.
So Wellness Festival, nothing like this has been done in Windsor, Essex.
I think maybe even Southwestern Ontario so it's going to be the first time an event is
being held like this.
Wellness Festival because there's going to be different types of modality for exercise
so yoga, Pilates, bar, meditation, breath work.
There's also going to be an outdoor gym space that's sponsored by my friend Michael Patella
who owns Common.
He had a couple of gyms around Windsor, Essex and now does personal training online.
So shout out to Mike.
So yeah, it's going to be hosted at Lungavita.
It's a full property rental October 4th to the 6th.
You can either buy a pass to stay the whole weekend and the idea is for the weekend pass
is it's all inclusive.
And that is with the yurts, right?
Yeah, so they've got geodome setups along with the yurts still so they have about 10
that they're holding out.
Hopefully they take them down by the end of the summer but I asked if they could keep
them until the beginning of October hoping for an Indian summer obviously.
But the event is happening rain or shine anyways.
So yeah, so essentially you can buy a ticket.
You can stay the whole weekend.
You have access to so Friday night is going to be come check in, get comfortable.
We'll be doing a community dinner so everybody that's staying on the property Friday night
will get together.
There's going to be a live band bonfires.
So music food that's catered by some Windsor Essex caterers.
So everything's gonna be locally sourced.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
And so that's the Friday night and then Saturday there's going to be just back to back scheduling
of all of these classes.
So like I mentioned yoga, pilates, bar, meditation, breath work.
And essentially you have access to all of these things.
So maybe you'll sign up.
Maybe you won't.
You'll decide that you want to kind of tour the Windsor Essex area or around Harrow.
Lungavita has a lot of amenities that you can use on the property.
So you can take a bike, hop on, check out the wineries around the property as well.
So there's a lot of options for what you can do.
But essentially if you stay for the whole weekend, you have access to all of these classes
throughout the day.
And then in the evening, I've got a couple of DJs that are coming into town that'll be
providing some music for the evening.
Oh nice.
Yeah.
So a little bit of a concert type deal in the evening.
And then Sunday you'll round out the day or the morning I suppose before checkout.
There'll be a couple of yoga classes offered.
Maybe Pilates class two.
So that's it.
So you can either buy the ticket to stay the weekend or I'll be offering day passes as
well for the Saturday.
So you can come as early as 6 a.m. and then you can stay all the way, check out the concert
in the evening until about midnight.
That's nice.
So these classes that you're having, are they for any beginners up to expert?
Totally.
So the idea behind it was I guess how I got into maybe...
Yeah.
My next question was going to be what has made you want to create this event?
For sure.
So do you want to dive into that question first maybe?
Why not?
Yeah.
For sure.
So I only got into Pilates I guess just a little bit over a year ago.
I found it after having my second son.
So I've got two boys.
They're going to be four and two next month and then in June.
And I was pretty laid up after the second pregnancy.
So the first one was a scheduled C-section.
That went fine.
Obviously major abdominal surgery I was recovering from.
Never fun.
No, never fun.
And then the second one I was able to have a successful V-back.
Regular delivery.
So that was fine other than I was laid up pretty badly.
So the delivery just was a little bit on the bumpier side.
And I found myself in chronic pain for the better part of a year.
And I just didn't really have a lot of options.
So I tried to explore, talk to a bunch of different doctors about the pain, tried to
figure out where the source was coming from and just kept hitting brick walls.
Yeah, because it's usually the opposite.
The V-bursts are usually the easier ones than the C-sections.
Did they ever figure out what it was?
No, no.
I mean I could speculate but I mean different podcasts different times for sure.
So what ended up happening was in my exploration to try to fix myself.
Not really the type of person to kind of take the answer no and then lay down and accept
that as my reality.
And then also knowing that the boys were going to need me physically to be able to chase
them around, move around.
Boys are a lot more physical than girls.
So I knew that.
So I knew I had to get better.
And I mean not being able to move really, really impacted the way that I was thinking.
So yes, mental health for sure played a big part of it too.
And I just yeah, I just didn't want to be that person that was in chronic pain.
Because when you're in pain you...
Oh, I hear you.
Yeah, like a lot of things, a lot of things deteriorate.
And it makes it the more you sit and are stagnant the harder it is to get going.
And the more I find the more pain you're in when you're stagnant than when you're up
and moving around.
For sure.
And then you know, and you start to dwell and you start to ruminate about the same things
and it's just like it's very unhealthy overall, right?
So I ended up finding a rehab Pilates program by a local chiropractor.
So shout out to Sun Nguyen as well.
So Sun helped me get back some autonomy of my body.
And then I realized very quickly that Pilates was helping me along with the pain.
So a couple of months had passed since I had started.
And it was one day I just I got up and I went to put on a pair of pants.
And at that point I wasn't able to stand on my two feet to put on a pair of pants.
I had to sit down because I couldn't balance between the two legs.
And so I was standing and I put my legs on.
My legs on.
My legs are still attached by the way.
Put my pants on and realized that I hadn't sat down to do so and thought, oh my God.
And then I thought, well, when was the last time I even had because I was having really
bad episodes like pains like shooting up my side.
Oh, I was like, when was the last time that happened?
And I was like, oh my God, like it's been a couple of months.
So all this to bring it back to your question.
You never really realize how much you require your mobility and how much joy or happiness
stems from being able to move your body.
And we take our bodies for granted just because they do so many things for us without our
intention, right?
We're not actively thinking, OK, now walk left, right, swing your arms.
Remember to breathe, remember to blink, remember to swallow, all of those things.
We take those for granted.
And so if you're laid up with even this tiniest issue, you stub your toe and your foot's hurting
and you're limping, we're grunting about that.
And so I had a huge awakening.
I had a huge awakening to my mobility.
And then I realized, well, you know what?
In learning all of this about Pilates, I fell in love with the modality because it's about
functional movement.
So getting up off of the chair, why it's important to strengthen your hips, reaching up over
your head, why it's important to get mobility in that shoulder joint, moving forward, moving
back, moving the scapula forward and back and just, you know, the cliche, if you don't
use it, you lose it.
Right.
And so so I got certified not necessarily to teach.
I did it for myself to educate myself on my body.
As a woman, there was a lot of other things that I'd be kind of looking at later down
the line, like incontinence, et cetera, et cetera.
And I just didn't want to, you know, I didn't want a lifetime subscription to panty liners.
No, thanks.
No.
Right.
Like that's not what I want to spend my membership at Costco doing, just buying boxes and boxes
of panty liners.
So so yeah, there is a way to fix that.
And I realized that there's a way to fix that.
And so from there, I ended up falling into teaching.
So in order to get your certification, obviously to get your Pilate certification, you have
to teach a class in order to pass your exam.
And so I put together a group of my friends to practice teach.
Okay.
And as I was sitting in front of them and I was teaching the class, I don't know, call
it my purpose or something, my servitude, like something just aligned inside.
It was your calling.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Or maybe.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Yes.
I guess it is.
I think so because it just all of a sudden, it clicked.
It just, it really did.
Like I, and the joy that I feel like in teaching all of my classes, I just, I feel like I get
more out of it than the students.
I tell them that sometimes too, but there's so much happening for me in helping them move
their bodies and bringing awareness to their bodies on how they can move better.
And I mean, we have this one body for our life for however long, I don't know.
But if you treat it well and you move it well, you live well.
You live better.
Yeah.
Now, do you find that you also do yoga and barre and all the other ones as well?
Have you expanded?
Yes.
It moves from one thing to another, to another.
It's true.
It's funny you ask.
So, so because I loved teaching it so much, I ended up starting to teach before I went
back to work.
So before my Matley was up.
And I said to my husband, I said, okay, you know what?
I have to leave space to teach Pilates.
I can't go back to work full time.
I have to leave space.
Now, I have a lot of liberty because I work for my family business.
That makes it nice.
Makes it nice.
And so I said to my mom, you know, I've fallen in love with this thing.
It brings me so much joy.
I have to do it.
And so she said, oh, she's going to say, so she said, yeah, okay.
So two times a week.
So I said to my husband, okay, I'm going to teach two times a week.
He's like, okay.
Okay.
So that was in October.
We are now in almost May.
Almost.
Okay.
So April.
Okay.
So I'm up to, I'm up to, I think, seven classes a week for Pilates in addition to working
part time and then teaching.
And then a friend of mine that owns the bar house in Walkerville wants me to also learn
bar and has just hired me on to learn bar and then to also teach at her place.
So now I'm up to, I think, nine classes.
I think you got a new career going.
I don't, I don't know.
Working part time and now planning a wellness festival.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
You definitely got your, you got your energy back.
Yes.
Yeah.
And then some.
Yes.
And then like, how did I even come up with this idea of the wellness festival?
I went to Lungavita last May.
I saw somewhere that there was a yoga retreat for the day and I had fallen into this hole
of who the hell am I now?
Two kids in.
I was still in a little bit of pain then.
I had started the Pilates and I said to my husband, I need to go to this yoga retreat.
It's only 20 minutes from my house or our house.
I said, I'm going to go and do it and I think I'm going to stay the night also.
And he's like, by yourself?
And I was like, yeah, by myself.
Mommy needs a night out.
Yeah.
And he's like, okay.
And I said to him, I said, I kind of want to do two nights, but that seems really selfish.
And I'm just going to leave you with the kids and I'm just going to go and be by myself
in a tent, you know?
And he goes, if that's what you want to do, do it.
He goes, what difference does it make if you leave Saturday morning or you leave Friday
night?
So I was like, okay, fine.
I'm doing this.
I was like, I'm going on a retreat by myself.
I knew nobody going to the yoga retreat.
So I went to Lungavita in May and I was sitting outside the tent, the yurt and staring into
my bonfire.
And I was thinking, okay, epiphany, epiphany, like hit me with it.
Like, you know, where am I?
Because I've, I've lot like you lose yourself in motherhood.
Oh, I hear you.
Right?
Like maternity leave swallows you up and depending on who you are.
And there are like, there's a full spectrum of women that love mat leave, want to do it
for the rest of their life.
And then there's women that realize very quickly maternity leave is not for them and they want
to get back to work.
Like we've got like, and I know women on both sides and then scattered in between.
Yep.
Neither is right or wrong.
Neither.
Everybody's different.
But like we just, we're in a comparative society, right?
Like we compare ourselves to everybody and what our friends are doing and what other
people are doing.
And so anyways, I had lost myself.
I used to, when I, before I was married, before I had kids, I was the person that you'd see
eating by themselves.
And I was cool with it.
I was good with it.
But you know, trying to find two minutes to even use the bathroom alone.
Forgive it.
In this type of circumstances.
Like you're not doing it, right?
Yep.
So I'm sitting at Langavita, have, I don't have the epiphany.
Obviously that's not how epiphanies work.
You cannot like ask for one.
Demand it.
Yeah.
And it'll happen in that moment.
So it didn't happen in that moment, but there was a lot that did happen for me when I went
to that yoga retreat.
Again, I could give another shout out because Windsor's so, so I'm not originally from Windsor.
So Windsor's very cool because I feel like the community is so supportive.
Very much so.
Everybody's like trying to lift each other up, right?
So I could give a shout out to Lisa Kodina that she does Ayurveda, also yoga teacher
at the bar house now too.
So she's kind of known about town, but she led that yoga retreat and we wrote on these
stones like what we were wanting to see for ourselves.
And I wrote transformation because I was looking for a transformation.
And I have that stone still beside my bed.
That's nice.
Yeah.
And so while I was there, I was thinking, well, how cool would it be to like do something
in this space because that space now has like a little bit of a sacred meeting for me anyways.
For sure.
And so May circle around to October, just this past October, I did a siblings retreat
with my siblings at Lingavita and my brother is a DJ.
Yes, he will be DJing at this event.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And I said to him that day, I said, Sean, what do you think if I want to do like a wellness
thing, but like we love to party and we love music and like good music.
What if we kind of came together to do something?
And he said, if you're going to do it, I'm in.
So that's kind of where that finished off.
And so I wanted to do the event, I guess, to bring it back to your original question.
I wanted to do the event because there's such a dichotomy within our society for lots of
different things.
So there's people that like to work out and like love to work out and that's all they
do.
And then there's some people that like to dabble in a yoga class here and there or sometimes
maybe go to the gym, right?
Like full spectrum.
Or people like me that like to complain about their weight and not do anything.
Sure.
So full spectrum too.
Yep.
And so for this event, I wanted the main purpose of the event was to create a space that allows
people to come in, see what's going on.
And if they've ever thought about trying any of those things, it's available to them should
they wish to step into the space.
And that's why I think I definitely want to get tickets, whether it's the weekend or just
the Saturday because Pilates is scary and even like yoga and for somebody that's in
their fifties and has hit the menopause jackpot and weight gain.
And it's hard because you're in that cycle of I know I need to lose weight and I need
to be more mobile.
But yet I'm too tired because my body's carrying an extra 50 pounds.
So it's cyclical.
So I think something like this is phenomenal for either people like you who love to do
the workouts and do the different classes and people like me that are like, I'm not
sure which one I will like so I can try all of them and see what is a better fit for me
because I was always that person that I'll spend the money on the gym and then just never
go.
I just want to make sure that there's something that's really going to fit my needs and I
think that's great.
Plus I've never been to Longavita so I need to go.
Perfect excuse to be there.
And I like to party so much.
See?
Yes.
So this hybrid.
So like you nailed it.
So I mean I want this space to be very, very inclusive.
And so one of the most important things for me was choosing the instructors that are going
to lead the classes.
It's so different and I've been to like a wide variety of classes but it's a very different
experience to attend a class where the instructor is just oozing joy and passion for what they
do.
And Windsor, I'm trying to highlight Windsor Essex because this is now my home.
There are so many instructors that just ooze passion and love and want to spread kind of
the benefits of all these different modalities.
And I feel like gyms are wonderful for sure.
But like in this type of space it gives everybody a very relaxed, oh there's a class going on
at 10.
Maybe I'll step into that class.
Or you watch the class happen because they're going to be happening under tents on the property.
You can see them, you can observe them and then maybe you hop into the next one.
Well and it's nice because this wellness festival sounds like the retreats that you see on TV
like The Real Housewives and they spend thousands and thousands of dollars to go away for the
weekend.
And we're finally getting something like that in Windsor Essex County and it's not going
to cost thousands and thousands of dollars.
No, no it's not going to.
It's exciting that we're finally going to have something like this and hopefully it'll
become a year of long...
Annual.
An annual thing, yes.
I mean I can only hope right?
And so to your point of liking to party, yes.
Again, it's this whole like spreading right?
Like full spread.
So okay you like to do yoga, maybe you're a plant-based diet, you know that's your dietary
choice.
Or you go to the gym and you're eating steak and like protein and that's your intake.
You don't have it all.
We have it all right?
Like whatever your preference is.
Do you have the chef set up yet or are you still sorting everything out?
We've got two that we've spoken with.
We're just kind of ironing out details.
We're trying to make the experience elevated to bring back to that.
I like that.
Elevate 5 to 8.
And so we want people on Sunday to leave with this feeling of that was worth my time.
That was worth every penny.
And I feel amazing.
I feel like I've connected with people that I didn't arrive with.
I got to experience something different.
So maybe I've learned about myself in my body.
And maybe you found a new passion for you know one of those modalities.
Exactly.
So that's kind of the idea.
And yeah like to round it off with music because you need to you know let go after.
Let go.
Move your so there's a difference between moving your body with intention like with
an instructor led class.
But then there's a different like just moving to move your body to good music.
I'm going to tell you a quick story.
I had five knee surgeries on this knee.
And back in the day I was very very very skinny.
And doctors told me no stairs no bikes no this no that.
I was in like you chronic pain for a few years.
And finally I said screw that.
And I started going out to the bar and just dancing and just doing the dancing doing stairs
because I lived on the second floor apartment.
I couldn't avoid it.
And just doing movement like that.
I noticed the pain slowly starting to go to now where it's just if we have really cruddy
weather which Windsor does here and there.
Then I'll feel it.
But other than that if I would have listened to the doctors and wasn't moving.
Who knows where it would have been.
So I agree with both the intentional movement and dancing.
I think it's it really helps your body as well.
Totally.
And your mind.
For sure.
And I mean yes of course I love my brother.
Is there bias having him there?
Partial partial bias.
But what's unique about what my brother does and why I thought it would be a good synergy
unrelated.
My brother started getting into producing music because he started studying water and
frequency and the effects of vibration on the human body because we're mostly comprised
of water.
Wow.
And so when he went to school because he completed a sound engineering background in music.
He started tuning his music to 528 Hertz.
So Elevate 528.
I was going to ask you where that 528 came from.
So Elevate 528 because at 528 it's a frequency that's been scientifically proven to promote
healing and so it helps settle the body with anxiety, depression and promote feeling of
love and joy.
And so essentially Elevate 528 after coming to this event when you leave.
I'm hoping to have elevated your frequency.
Yeah and in places like this where you have a retreat.
I almost like to go by myself to feel the experience by yourself and to meet the people
and to not worry about you know all my friends are doing the Pilates so I guess I have to
do it.
You can just do your own thing at your own pace and then meet new people as well and
just really open up your experiences.
Yeah and like that's what I hope to see.
Like I hope I mean the events being promoted obviously locally.
All the instructors will be pushing it out to you know their following and this podcast
is obviously going to help because your podcast is just like catching some vibes for sure.
But it's also going to be promoted outside of Windsor Essex and so it's going to draw
people in to Windsor Essex.
And so we're really trying to showcase so there's also going to be a vendor market that's
supporting local businesses.
Oh that's great.
So like we're trying not to duplicate right so if we've got somebody that's got one offering
and somebody else that's got a different offering but we're trying to have like a nice spread
of businesses that are kind of within that wellness space or wellness realm to showcase
what Windsor Essex has to offer.
And so there's going to be a good mix of people that are attending the event.
I get the most out of these types of things when I open myself up and talk to all the
other people that are there.
And so again like going back to why I even came up with this event it was because in
my mind I wanted to attend an event that was like this and I couldn't find one.
And it's not necessarily a retreat per se it's more of a wellness festival because it joins
two things.
And life is not like life is not one thing it's not linear life is a full beautiful spectrum
of all types of things you know.
And so creating this environment where you can move you can bike you can walk you can
do all the classes you can do none of the classes if that's your preference you can
sit in front of your dome in front of your own fire you can do your own thing on the
picnic bench and just be in the environment too for some people they get something from
that.
Yeah.
Oh for sure.
And so there's nothing that's necessarily like dictated in terms of the schedule it's
all available it's like going to an all-inclusive it's all there for you you can drink if you
want to drink or you don't you can eat as much as you want or don't.
Yep.
You can do all the pool classes or you don't.
Usually I don't.
I know what I mean but it's totally up to you.
So it's yeah full like you do your own thing you buy your ticket and it's essentially your
weekend and you create it how you'd like it to look.
I like the fact that you're also trying to get people to come into Windsor Essex County
because that's like I like to support Windsor Essex County and show the small businesses
and the events but I want to show people outside of Windsor Essex County that we have a lot
to offer and there is a lot of growth here with these different businesses and Longavita
and the wineries around there and the small businesses you're going to have in.
It can be its own little destination area here if people realize that we were even here.
Yeah 100% 100% and I mean coming from the GTA like I've been now in Windsor Essex for
six years it has so much to offer.
The offerings are endless essentially and what I love so much about it is that they're
one-offs.
There's not a lot of franchises and so you get a lot of heart into what you find.
So for all the businesses there's so much heart that goes behind it.
You know COVID wiped out a lot of small businesses especially in the GTA Windsor Essex too but
for the businesses that survived or actually started because of COVID they're flourishing.
There's so much variety.
Yeah we've got a lot to showcase.
We really do.
I'm really glad that you're going to have this small business that you're going to have
market there as well.
I did not know that.
Do you know how many people are going to be able to buy tickets?
What is the capacity?
Yeah so the capacity for the accommodations is only 124 people because we're limited to
the accommodations that are on the property already.
So if you want the tickets when are they going on sale?
May 1st.
I would snatch them up if you can because they're probably going to go fast.
I think they're going to go fast.
The day passes there's going to be 150 available.
On top of the 120 that are staying there?
So 124 for if you want to stay the Friday to the Sunday and then the Saturday is 150
extra tickets that I'll be selling just for the day.
But like 150 is not a lot either.
No it's not.
I know quite a few people that are just essentially just waiting for the tickets to go on sale.
Have you guys figured out the price point for them yet?
Yeah.
So there's going to be it ranges from $13.50.
For the full weekend?
For the full weekend for one person.
So solo occupancy.
So if you think about like an all-inclusive if you're one person going into a double occupancy
room you pay a little bit more.
And then as so you can stay by yourself or you can go up to four people in a dome.
And then I think that rate off the top of my head I want to say is $6.50 a person.
So it gets cheaper obviously the more people that are in the dome.
And then that's including is that including meals?
That includes five meals.
So Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast lunch dinner and then Sunday morning breakfast.
So your five meals, beverages, coffee.
Lungavita has a bring your own libation policy.
So we'll have that taken care of that way.
And then what else access to all your classes, access to all the amenities.
So Lungavita has an in-ground heated pool.
But again we're hoping for an Indian summer so it'll be warm.
Obviously lake access so there's kayaks available as well.
There's bikes that you can just hop on and take wherever you'd like around the county
which is really nice.
And if it's cold you can always do that polar dip and get that blood flowing.
Yeah you could do a cold plunge for sure.
There you go.
Yes.
They've got the barrel saunas.
They are doing some major renovations.
They're doing a lot of work like they've done fabulous work in the three years that they've
been open.
But they're replacing their hot tubs to in-ground tubs.
Oh that's nice.
It's gonna look really nice.
Yeah by the time October rolls around they'll be done and yeah it'll look fabulous.
So they'll have access to that as well?
So you'll have access to all of that and then the vendor market and then the performances.
So live music on the Friday as well as the live performance on Saturday night.
And did we catch how much the day pass is?
No we didn't.
$300.
Oh that's not bad.
Yeah.
That's not bad at all.
And that includes the meals?
Saturday will not include the meals, the day pass.
We're trying to have food trucks on site so that you've got access to food and you don't
necessarily need to leave.
Oh that's good.
Well yeah because you're gonna have the vendors anyways.
People won't be able to just come and check out the vendors and everything.
You have to have a ticket to get on.
So it's a full property rental so you'll have to have a wristband to get onto the property.
So whether you're there for the weekend that'll look different than if you're just there for
your day pass.
Okay.
Yeah so just because of a strict capacity issue for the site.
Okay.
And how are people going to be able to get the tickets?
So you can check out the website Elevate528.com.
Ticket sales on May 1st and so you'll be able to see kind of your options and then it'll
take you to the ticket sales.
Oh okay.
Yeah.
And then you have social media.
Have you guys started the social media yet?
Yeah there's an about video that I did.
Oh that's good.
It's hard right?
Like it's hard to do these types of things because you hold so much judgment for yourself
and so I saw myself on the video and I'm like oh my god I can't believe I'm putting this
out there.
But I put it out there.
I did it.
Hey why not?
You got to.
I just I mean like I could critique it to death and then just never do it and then I'm
in a place of inaction so.
Yep.
I did it.
You got to take the plunge.
Yeah literally.
So it's yeah it's up on the social media page now.
And what is your it's Instagram only?
It's Instagram only.
Okay.
We might have a Facebook page.
I'm kind of debating.
I'm not huge on social media.
A lot of people are finding this out because now that I'm teaching they're trying to look
me up and I've got nothing.
I've got Instagram for the kids.
Daycare that's how daycare corresponds with me but.
Oh okay.
Yeah terrible for all of that stuff.
I mean I hate to say it but I am.
I'm terrible for it.
Honestly I am too.
I hate to say this even though I have to.
I'd rather just scroll through and watch everybody else's stuff than having to put my own open.
Yeah that's what my sister said.
My sister made me change my profile picture because she's like you look very like a creeper
account she called it because you have no picture and then you're just on Instagram
so now you see my picture with my name.
That's my personal page but for Elevate 528 what's it called the handle.
Yeah.
Is that what all the cool kids are calling it.
Why not.
Let's go there.
So it's 3L3Vate 528.
We'll have that in our description on YouTube and all the podcasts so they will definitely
be able to get a hold of you and I think it's great.
I'm really excited about this.
I'm pumped too.
I'm very excited for it.
A lot of people have said that Windsor's not seen something like this.
No and we need it.
Yeah we do.
Big time we need it.
We need a place to be able to come together community right.
So community is a big one.
Get to know new people.
Move your body.
And have fun doing it.
So again a lot of the instructors I'll send you maybe some of their names but just off
the top of my head we've got Paulina from the bar house that's going to be there.
We've got Lisa Mitchell.
She teaches us the yoga effect.
Gloria, Diane Bondi, my gosh who else, Sun, myself.
There's going to be like a handful of instructors.
And like all these ladies love what they do.
Which shows.
I mean there's nothing better than having somebody that actually loves the movement
and loves teaching the classes and teaching new people.
And it really shows.
Yeah and like I was having a conversation with somebody a little while ago and I said
you know try to remember back to that one teacher in school or if you were fortunate
maybe you had a few.
That like doesn't matter how old you get you can always remember back to that one teacher
because they had a passion for teaching.
And they impacted your life for sure.
And people can oh yeah you know I'm a grade three teacher so and so.
And you remember the name.
Because they had that impact for you.
And so for movement I've found that if you find that teacher or you have those teachers
around you it helps to keep you motivated.
Wanting to come back to learn a little bit more.
It's true.
I had a great and it's so funny as you're saying this I'm remembering it.
My grade eight teacher and we were warned for years that he was a horrible teacher.
He was a monster.
Everybody hated him.
But he loved teaching.
If you listened.
And we had the best year.
Everybody participated.
Everybody loved it.
And he turned out to be a fabulous teacher and would take the time to help us out.
And it's nice to have like you said the teachers and especially when you're trying something
new like movement of any kind.
Oh is there going to be meditation as well?
Yes.
Yeah so for sure we've got a 6 a.m. on Saturday breathwork and meditation class for those
that are you know dedicated to their craft.
I don't know if I will be in that class.
I mean I might try to be.
But there will be a 6 a.m. meditation breathwork followed by like a morning yoga class which
will be really nice actually.
Lisa Mitchell will also be doing a meditative nature walk which is going to be kind of interesting.
I've not done something like that so I would like to try that.
And then we're also going to because we're still quite a ways out from the event so I've
got some time to like play around with the schedule to see what we can offer.
But I'd like to have a sound bath as well available maybe a rinky session.
Just seen sound baths.
I had no idea what they were before and I literally just saw them on I think YouTube.
Oh my god.
It looks really fascinating.
Yeah.
The vibration frequency so with the sound bowls it's awesome.
So if we can get that some rakeys so like a group rakey session.
Yeah so just like things that we hear about because a lot of these things have been around
for a very long time whether or not they're popular within the area.
Just having them available so that maybe you can then expose yourself if you want to.
It's there for you to try.
It's going to be so exciting to have this wellness festival and that's again October
4th, 5th and 6th of 2024 out at Longavita in Harrow, Ontario and we will contact you
on Elevate528.com to get the tickets and make sure as of May 1st, 2024 they go on sale.
You grab them whether it is the whole weekend or just a Saturday day pass because they are
limited and they're going to go fast.
I know it.
I'll be very shocked because we've never had anything like this in this area and it's hopefully
the first of many.
Hopefully.
Yes and thank you so much Simi.
I really do appreciate you being on here today.
Thank you.
I really appreciate you giving me this space.
Amazing studio.
Love it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you very much.
And again, my name is Tracy Martens and I want to thank you for joining me for another
episode of YQG in Bloom.
You guys have a great day.