Community Hero's First Responder Healing Retreat - Chelsea, QC

5.002 reviews
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Chelsea, Quebec, Canada
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Up to 4 in group
Date
August 22 - 27, 2025

Retreat Highlights

  • - Private Lake Front Cottage
  • - Spa Day with Thermal Baths
  • - Relaxation Massage
  • - 2 Interactive Workshops
  • - Sound healing experience
  • - Adventure Day Excursion
  • - Daily Movement
  • - 2 Psilocybin Ceremonies
  • - 2 Integration Group Sessions
  • - 2 Integration Group Sessions
  • - Daily Meditation & Shadow Work

About this Retreat

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Join Us for an Intimate 4 person, 6 Day, 4 Night Retreat

Dates: August 22 - 27, 2025
Where: Chelsea, Quebec Canada


When you walk into the world in your uniform, you step into a role of deep sacrifice—a choice to serve others through long hours, nights, holidays, and weekends. All while standing face-to-face with humanity’s devastation, day in and day out.


At some point in our careers, without proper care for our own well-being, our mental health can begin to spiral—sometimes to a place that feels like there’s no way back. In many cases, this leads to substance abuse, chronic anxiety, depression, and PTSD.

What if healing didn’t mean coping, but actually transforming?

What if you could wake up every day feeling ready to take on your day of service—strong, grounded, and empowered?

What if you could feel joy again—truly feel it?

What if you could face challenges with more resilience and ease?
What if you had the capacity to be fully present for your family, friends, and community?

It’s time we honour our walking heroes—and offer them the same level of care and service they so selflessly give our communities.

It is an honour to give back to this community—not for personal gain, but purely out of love and a deep desire to serve those who serve others.

Guided by a former paramedic who has walked the same path and rebuilt her life from burnout and breakdown, this retreat offers a space where the uniform comes off and the true healing begins.

“I have been there. For the last five years of my nine-year paramedic career, I simply existed—living in pure exhaustion, battling clinically diagnosed PTSD, depression, and anxiety. I didn’t even know what joy felt like—I was flat. I walked your path, but I was able to transform myself from rock bottom and rise.

I offer you a space where the uniform comes off and the healing begins. A safe, judgment-free space.


I have been a part of the Canadian team that was able to gain the first legal access to Psilocybin Therapy for end-of-life destress and have become a very vocal Psilocybin Advocate. I am currently a Certified Clinical Hypnotist, Certified Natural Health Practitioner, Author, Speaker, and cast member of a docu-series streaming on TV platforms, for my success with clients in the field of mental health.

I welcome you into a space in which I have trained to use the same modalities that transformed my own mental health in an open and safe space of tranquility.”

— Tara Portelli (Former PCP) CCh CNHP


Retreat Experiences:

- Private Lake Front Cottage
- Spa Day with Thermal Baths
- Relaxation Massage
- 2 Interactive Workshops
- Sound healing experience
- Adventure Day Excursion
- Daily Movement
- 2 Psilocybin Ceremonies
- 2 Integration Group Sessions
- 2 Integration Group Sessions
- Daily Meditation & Shadow Work

Contact Tara at heal@arcadiahealing.ca to Apply

Schedule

Example Schedule: 4 Days & 3 Nights

Day 1

4:30 pm - Check in
5:00 pm - Welcome Mock-tail
6:00 pm - Welcome Dinner w group


Day 2

9 - 9:30 am - Meditation/Shadow work 10 - 10:30 am - Light pre ceremony brunch
11- 1:30pm - free time
1::30 - 2:30 pm - Sound Healilng
3:30 - 9 pm - Psilocybin Ceremony
(dinner will be available after)

Day 3

8:15 - 9:00 am - Meditation/Movement
9:15 - 10:30 pm - Workshop
11:00- 1:30pm - Integration
2:00 - 4:30 pm - Free Time
5:30 - 7:00 pm - DInner
7:30 - 9:00 pm - Fire Gathering


Day 4

9 - 9:30 am - Meditation/Shadow work 10 - 10:30 10:00 - 11:00 am - Light pre ceremony brunch
11- 1:30pm - free time
1::30 - 2:30 pm - Nature Therapy
3:30 - 9 pm - Psilocybin Ceremony
(dinner will be available after)


Day 5

8:15 - 9:00 am - Meditation/Shadow Work
9:15 - 11:15 pm - Integration
12:00- 5:00pm - Thermal Spa
6:30 - 8:00 pm - Dinner
8::00 - 9:30 pm - Fire Gathering



Day 6

8:30 - 9:00 am - Meditation & Closing Ceremony
9:00 - 9:45 am - Breakfast
12 pm - Check out
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Arcadia Healing Sanctum , Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

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Chelsea QC

Accommodation

All accommodations have private rooms/space, air conditioning. Some rooms available with ensuite bathrooms.

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Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms icon A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea icon Coffee/Tea
Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon Bicycles For Rent
Your Sanctum for the week will be in the beautiful Chelsea QC, in a lakefront cottage.

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What's Included

  • - Private Lake Front Cottage
  • - Spa Day with Thermal Baths
  • - Relaxation Massage
  • - 2 Interactive Workshops
  • - Sound healing experience
  • - Adventure Day Excursion
  • - Daily Movement
  • - 2 Psilocybin Ceremonies
  • - 2 Integration Group Sessions
  • - 2 Integration Group Sessions
  • - Daily Meditation & Shadow Work

What's Not Included

  • Airport Transportation
  • Transport during free time
  • Airfare

Customer Reviews

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Enlightening and Life Changing

My personal three-day retreat with Tara/Arcadia Healing Sanctum was tremendously enlightening and significantly lifechanging.

I experienced an acute awakening of my true and authentic self. I have finally been able to clearly understand and begin to deal with historical trauma and move forward with a healthy and healed soul.

I feel an incredible bond with Tara; her insight and facilitation of all of my experiences while in Tulum have not only broadened my spiritual beliefs but have given me a new outlook and lease on life. I feel alive and so optimistic as I continue to grow and "do the work" to lead a healthy and productive existence.

The magical medicine as well as the deep integration and activities provided by Tara essentially saved my life. The journey is not one that I will ever forget or ever not be grateful to have experienced.

When used under the guidance of Tara, along with surrendering and trusting the medicine, self-healing is inevitable. My mind has been fully opened, and I am staggeringly excited for all that is now on the horizon. I believe in ME again; and am filled with gratitude and love for what Tara has given me.

I can't say enough positive things about my experience with Tara and highly recommend her for an incomparable adventure which has given me back genuine happiness.

- Jessa (Philadelphia)

Date of experience: August 2022

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A Life Changing Experience
I did a 5-day psilocybin retreat in Tulum with Tara at the end of June. It was the most amazing experience, all that I had hoped for and more. What Tara and the medicine helped me see is absolutely life-changing. I could trust her with my innermost thoughts and feelings, and with her skill, compassion, and guidance, I worked through issues that had kept me from really living my life for many years. My daily "waking up and dreading the day" has disappeared. I feel calm and peaceful, and so much better about myself. I'm able to let go of negative thought patterns. I used marijuana daily for years for anxiety and depression, and since returning from Tulum, have no desire or need for it! I'm amazed! I now have new tools for coping.
I've told all of my friends and family about this wonderful experience, and I would recommend Tara and this retreat to everyone!
The villa, the chef and the incredible food, the massages, the sound healing, the day at the cenote were all awesome!

Thank you Tara - you are love and light and beauty. You changed my life, and I will forever be grateful.

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