Algonquin Park Blog

The weather forcast is for sunny warm days this weekend as a full house of women gathers for Quest for Balance (our second full to capacity yoga/sea kayaking retreat this summer). Only a few spaces remain for the upcoming two retreats.
It’s the Million Dollar Hole in One weekend in North Bay! With all [...]

Vision Quest? Dream Quest, that’s right, we’re taking time to venture into nature and dream this month. Two featured events include dream researcher Craig Webb’s Dream Quest while Martha has been busy for months planning to lead her first Vision Quest.
Since recorded history, people have been going off into wilderness on quests to connect [...]

Guests of the Edge participiting in this weekends Morning Tea with Moose canoe trip were treated to a stellar sunrise before heading out for a misty morning paddle and hike to oft unexplored Cayuga Lake for a day of creativity.
In the evening nearby campers were invited to come and see their creations which were made [...]

Our Quest for Balance Yoga and Sea Kayaking retreats are so popular we are considering adding one more scheduled retreat for the end of August. Some days we just can’t keep up with the inquiries, but we’re doing our best. We’ll post the new trip as soon as possible. Stay tuned.
Thanks to [...]

Over the past 6 days we’ve played host to a wonderful group of Tibetan Monks. We’ve shared in inspiring lectures on Buddhist practices, learned about the meaning of prayer flags, witnessed the 5 day creation of a sand mandela - the Medicine Buddha mandela, witnessed a fire puja healing ceremony, shared an evening performance [...]

Our innagural Algonquin Park Sea Kayak trip was a joy to behold with fabulous weather and inspiring comradery of the adventurers. As with each of our sea kayak trips and canoe trips a library of images is available to participants. Here’s a sneak peak at the fun that was had.
These sea kayak [...]

Unless you’ve been to the Edge for a visit with Tibetan Monks, it is impossible to describe the essence of this event fully for you. Today on my ride to town for a CBC Radio interview with Ontario Today’s Kathy Stackelberg, I asked Sonam (the monk interpereter) to talk with me on a mp3 [...]

We’ve got our crimson and gold robed guests visiting at the Edge. Guests arriving today for our third retreat with the Tibetan Monks of Gaden Jangste. It’s truly the highlight of the summer. Look for images and sounds online soon of the monks tour. Looking forward to finding time to [...]

We’re back!Thank you to our top-notch staff at the Edge for keeping a very busy week at the Edge rolling right along while Martha and I and family headed to Winnipeg for the Folk Festival last week.We really enjoyed travelling Northern Ontario and stopped quite often at some beautiful locations including Lake Superior Provincial Park [...]

Busy days continue at the Edge. Martha and I just said goodbye to attendees of a business retreat and it’s time for another!Anna Gibson and Mark Van Kooy lead this one for an executive team from Toronto and New York.This weekend is very busy as well, with our first Quest for Balance Retreat, which [...]