V I S I O N A R Y
A person planning the future with intention, imagination and wisdom.
1day NIKKI MAGIC
CREATIVE RETREAT
When: Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Where: Verity Women's Club - 111d Queen Street East, Toronto
Cost - $333+hst
V I S I O N A R Y | A person thinking about or planning the future with intention, imagination and wisdom.
Join Nikki at Verity Women's Club for a 1day Nikki Magic Creative Retreat, designed to deeply nourish, inspire and ignite your creativity, amplify & align your visions to live unapologetically free while tending to your overall well-being.
MASTERING THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
Step 1: The Process of Listening & Personal Investigation
Step 2: The Process of Creating Clarity & Personal Truth
Step 3: Experiencing Joy in the Process, Living Life By Design with Everyday Tools to Support
OUR INTENTIONS:
To live our life with intention we must deeply connect to our 'why' and truly prioritize our daily habits that support our well-being, have clarity in our values, living a life in harmony and ease. When our nervous system is regulated, we are embodied physically and energetically, we align to a grounded ease and our intuition and creativity is more easily accessible.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
During the day we will take time to tune into our inner wisdom through visual meditation, somatic breathwork, art therapy and a 'Life By Design' workshop.
NOURISHMENT, INSPIRATION & REPLENISHMENT
Are you listening to your own personal wisdom or is it interrupted by the world around you? Go inward. Deeply Listen.
VISUAL MEDITATION TO AMPLIFY YOUR 2025 VISIONS
Where focus goes, energy flows. Amplify & align your visions and desires to live a deeply connected meaningful life, wildly creative, curious, open and unapologetically free! Visioning or planning for the future with imagination and wisdom creates a purposeful life where our goals, dreams and desires become our reality.
SOMATIC BREATHWORK TO SUPPORT WELLBEING & CREATIVITY
When we take time out for skillful rest and allow ourselves to slow down our nervous system becomes regulated, embodied physically and energetically. When we are grounded in ease, trust and connection with ourselves we can more easily access our inner wisdom, intuition and potent creativity.
CREATIVE ART - UNAPOLOGETIC SELF-EXPRESSION
When was the last time you did something or made something 'just for fun?' We often find ourselves always 'doing' for a specific outcome or pleasing for an audience to get a positive result. The creative process needs space to think freely, joy in the evolution, self-exploration, deep understanding, curiosity, contemplation, and deep active listening.
LIFE BY DESIGN WORKSHOP
Are you living a life by YOUR DESIGN or others?
If your time was limited, what would you do differently?
Visioning or planning for the future with imagination and wisdom creates a purposeful life where our goals, dreams and desires become our reality. Ask yourself - What is my deepest heart desire? What is it that I want more than anything else in this world.
“You're not what you think you are, but what YOU THINK, you ARE!”
- American psychologist, William James
Verity is a sanctuary to an amazing, diverse group of Members. From CEO’s of major corporations and award-winning entrepreneurs, to globally-inspired creative artisans and the top legal minds in Canada—network and grow alongside some of the most influential decision-makers in the country.
BELIEVE IN YOUR MAGIC.
TRUST IN YOUR HEART, BRING YOUR VISIONS TO LIFE.
ASK YOURSELF
What is my deepest heart desire? What is it that I want more than anything else in this world. If your time was limited, what would you do differently?
"Take me away to a place full of surprises." — Unknown
1day NIKKI MAGIC
CREATIVE RETREAT
LIFE BY DESIGN
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Host at VERITY: Amanda Bradley
Join Nikki at Verity Women's Club for a 1day Nikki Magic Creative Retreat, designed to deeply nourish, inspire and ignite your creativity, amplify & align your visions to live unapologetically free while tending to your overall well-being.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
quiet time | unplug
6:00am Self-Practice Invitation: 30min personal practice
8:30am Arrival
9:00am Welcome & Opening Meditation
9:30am Nikki Magic Embodiment Workshop
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Somatic Breathwork
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Creative Visioning
12:00pm Lunch at the VERITY
1:00pm Nikki Magic Creative Workshop
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Mastering the Process of Creative Flow & Life By Design
3:30pm Closing Circle
4:00pm Integration at the Verity Club
quiet time | unplug
Afternoon Integration & Invitation: After our time together, please make sure to give yourself time to integrate the experience. Spend the late afternoon at the Sweetgrass Spa to support the creative integration and support your nervous system during the Holiday season. Consider booking an evening hotel for a staycation - you will feel so nourished, grounded and rested with this extra add on after such a beautiful inspiring day.
*please note that above is a tentative schedule and is subject to change.
WHERE FOCUS GOES, ENERGY FLOWS.
"Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear." - Tony Robbins
ABOUT NIKKI
NIKKI MAGIC | Creative Visionary
I'm a lover of life, creative visionary, holder of space, dreamer and seer of all things. My magic is seeing and believing in your magic and highest potential, helping inspire your visions and actualize a life that aligns with your deepest passions, values and connection to the world and how you live and stay present in it.
With an eclectic blend of talents and an unwavering passion for fostering growth and creativity, Nikki Leigh McKean is a highly-sought after expert in the realms of coaching, leadership development, and visual storytelling. Her journey as a 2x cancer survivor is a testament to the power of having a creative mindset to overcome adversity, seamlessly merging her expertise as a visionary meditation & yoga teacher, coach, commercial photographer, restaurateur, and entrepreneur.
Nikki focuses on a holistic mind/body/spirit approach to her creative mindset coaching. She believes in a balanced mix of performance and developmental coaching where we can both take accountability for taking action and achieving goals and have a deep sense of balance and focus on the development of your "Being" through daily ritual practices.
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Take a breath... Make a wish.
WHY
SHOULD WE VISION?
Where focus goes, energy flows.
Visioning or planning for the future with imagination and wisdom creates a purposeful life where our goals, dreams and desires become our reality.
When we truly live our life with intention, deeply connected to our 'why' we begin to prioritize our daily habits that support our well-being, have clarity in our values, living a life in harmony and ease.When our nervous system is regulated, we are embodied physically and energetically, we align to ease and our intuition and creativity is more easily accessible.
"I want someone to stare at me the way I stare out of an airplane window." — Unknown
“The true measure of success is a calm nervous system."
WHAT IS YOGA NIDRA?
Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation also known as “yogic sleep” or “effortless relaxation”. Yoga nidra or yogic sleep is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like the "going-to-sleep" stage, typically induced by a guided meditation.
iRest® Yoga Nidra is a profound, yet accessible, meditation practice that systematically combines deep relaxation, affirmation, breathing, mindfulness, visualization and self-inquiry to facilitate the integration of body, mind, and spirit. It is guided meditation that is easy to follow and accessible to everyone who is open in finding a deeper connection to true health, healing, and peace of mind.I like to refer to yoga nidra as yoga napping that allows for deep relaxation to deepen your meditation practice.
During Cancer treatment I remember feeling an immense amount of peace and expansion during what most would have assumed to be ‘the most traumatic’ experience of their lives.At the time I didn’t really understand this true peace and creativity flowing through my body but I learned quickly to surrender to it and love my whole self for being alive and welcomed all and any sensations present.It was after treatment that I needed 'iRest' the most - not 'get back to life' so to speak.Truly surrender. Something that became so natural during treatment had quickly drifted away and I didn’t know how to get back to the peaceful bits… the little nuggets of joy and I was craving deep connection and most of all sleep and relaxation.
Yoga Nidra Meditation has given me the tools to understand that during this time I was in ‘awareness’ and the state of ‘pure being’ accepting ‘what is’ and welcoming all that is present with no expectations of changing or fixing anything, just acknowledging that my mind was telling me “I want to live” when in fact “I am alive”.Cancer really taught me to live life day by day and to truly feel emotions as they appear and welcome them in.iRest teaches you to go a step further by welcoming what is present and maybe even ‘inviting them in for tea’.Imagine anger or frustration was present... now imagine welcoming anger or frustration in for a tea party?!Regular practice of iRest, ‘a little and often’ enables you to feel a bit softer, lighter in your day… maybe soften the sharp edges of the ‘daily grind’.
Imagine – Nothing to do… Nowhere to go…
You are healthy, whole, and complete just as you are. Untouched by anything or anyone. Everything you need is within you. Feel that. Feel your true nature - the vitality of your magic in your body.
Yoga Nidra Benefits
Increase vitality
Deep healing and relaxation
Allows your body to rest and reset in 'conscious deep sleep'
Enhance concentration
Emotional and physical healing
Reduce stress
Lower blood pressure
Change habits that no longer serve you
Clear negative thoughts and beliefs
Encourage love and compassion for self and for others
