Re-Enchant Your Life

Our boutique homestead and yoga retreat offers elegant comfort paired with warm, genuine care and sensitive guidance. Choose a soul-affirming weekend retreat or a nourishing day retreat, each thoughtfully curated with you in mind. It's a well-deserved pause for light workers, healers, coaches, stewards of the earth and channellers to receive, recover and re-align with their source, so that you can shine with clarity and a heart full of love.

So pack your bags, my loves, and come home to yourselves. 🤍

All Incl. Weekend Retreat

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Step away from the busyness of everyday life and retreat into the quiet beauty of nature.

Welcoming only 2–4 guests at a time, Whispering Forest offers deeply personal retreat experiences intentionally designed for rest, nervous system restoration and creative expansion.

Nestled amongst the trees in Ontario cottage country, Weather you stay for the weekend or longer, Whispering Forest Retreat offers an intimate and nourishing environment designed to help you slow down, re-connect and re-energized for your soul’s mission.

Through gentle yoga, guided support, healthy plant-based meals, healing arts, meaningful conversations and restful moments in nature, this boutique retreat offers space to exhale, regulate your nervous system and reconnect with yourself.

Your Stay Includes:

✔ Boutique accommodations in a peaceful forest setting
✔ Daily yoga, meditation & mindful movement
✔ Garden-to-table plant-based meals
✔ Restorative spaces for relaxation and reflection
✔ Enchanting Fire Ceremony
✔ Small group experience for comfort and personal care

Located in beautiful Ontario cottage country near Bancroft, Whispering Forest Retreat welcomes guests seeking a restorative escape in nature.

A Glimpse of your Weekend Wellness Experience

Day 1: Arrival & settling in • Welcoming Snacks and Mocktails • 15 min 1:1 Coaching for Intention Setting • Opening Ceremony • Nourishing dinner • Private Time to rest and connect.

Day 2: Morning Yoga • Nutritious Breakfast • Soul Nourishing 1:1 Healing Session • Light Lunch • Experiential Workshop • Forest Bathing • Garden to table Plant-Based Dinner • Evening Talk and Meditation

Day 3: Breath-work and Gentle Movement Practice • Slow Breakfast • Letting Go Fire Ceremony •  1:1 Coaching • Departure feeling grounded and renewed

You can extend your retreat up to 5 nights to have more spacious experience to rest and explore the area.

Schedule may shift with the season and retreat focus.

Please note that we are a self-build, living and evolving sanctuary, therefore, there may occasionally be small projects underway as we continue to enhance the property and guest experience. We take great care to ensure your stay is peaceful, comfortable, and restorative, and we thank you for embracing the beauty of a place that is unfolding.

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MAGICAL
DAY RETREAT

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REST, RESTORE and re-CONNECT

A 4-hour private retreat for small groups (4-6 people) facilitated by Ece and Laura offers time to slow down, breathe and nurture your mind, body and soul. This intimate private retreat is a perfect way to enrich your weekend with your friends and family.

What to Expect:

  • Welcome mocktails and light snacks

  • Opening Circle (introductions and intentions)

  • Workshop of your Choice
    - Manifest your Dream Life
    - Body Speaks - 5 Bodies and the Nervous System
    - Release - Reprogram with EFT Tapping
    - Plant-based Cooking with Ivan
    - Arts and Crafts
    - Facilitated Journaling

  • Time to Rest and Enjoy with Tea and Snacks

  • Gentle Restorative Yoga Practice with Sound-bowls

  • Closing Ceremony (integration and take aways)

Only Available on Wednesday’s and Saturday’s
Rate: $250 pp for groups or 4 or 6 or a min payment of $1000

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Meet Your Guides

Ece Savas Bancroft

Ece Savas

Ece is a gentle and smiling soul, a yoga teacher, healer, and life-coach with over a decade of experience teaching and training in spiritual&body based practices like yoga and martial arts. She brings a compassionate, nature-focused, and trauma-informed approach, deepened by her own lived experiences, integrating breath, movement, coaching and somatic practices to support deeper wellbeing and inner resilience.

She is a carrier of elemental wisdom, holding an unconditionally loving and energetically attuned presence for others. She effortlessly brings people together in community, creating non-judgemental space where authenticity is welcomed and celebrated.

Through great dedication and hard labour, Ece has built her home as a sanctuary for sensitive souls to feel safe, seen, and held with great love and compassion.

Laura White Bancroft

Laura White

Laura Rainbow Love White is the embodiment of a Fairy! She is authentically expressed as she embodies Magic, Wisdom, and Joy. She has been serving others with compassion and generosity in her energy healing, channeling, and workshops for years and touched hundreds of lives in profound and life-changing ways.

As a highly sensitive soul, she has dedicated her life to helping others understand their nature and purpose so they can consciously create and celebrate their life. 

Her ability to see who someone truly is and help them remember their power and self-worth has become an artform.

If you are looking to align and expand in joyous embodiment, Laura is an honoured witness and cheerleader on your journey. 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes absolutely you can. The wellness package can be curated based on your rhythm and needs. See our Accommodation page for pricing.

  • Absolutely. Many guests come solo and leave feeling deeply connected and restored.

  • We do our best to accommodate various dietary restriction and allergies however our kitchen is not fully equipped to accommodate for severe allergies. Please communicate your special dietary needs during the booking.

  • Comfortable clothing, layers for nature, yoga may and anything that helps you feel cozy and at home.

  • Whispering Forest Retreat is located in Ontario cottage country near Bancroft, 3 - 4 hours from Toronto and 2,5 - 3 hours from Ottawa depending on the weekend traffic.

  • To reserve your retreat space, a non-refundable deposit of 25% is required at booking. Remaining balance is due 10 days prior to arrival.