Winter Immersion Retreat: Purify Your Vessel Before Ramadan
February 11-16, 2026 | Edmonton, Alberta
This retreat is held in the final, reflective days of Sha'ban, the sacred month of preparation. Designed for caregivers and first responders, it offers a sanctuary to release the accumulated professional and emotional weight of the past year.
Through spiritual and somatic practices, we focus on purification of the heart and regulating the nervous system, so you may enter the holy month of Ramadan spiritually receptive, emotionally balanced, and resilient, ready for both worship and service.
You Have Been Holding So Much
You provide spiritual and emotional support in high-stakes environments. You bear witness to suffering, hold sacred space for grief, and remain steady when others cannot. This is holy work, and it takes a profound toll.
Compassion fatigue. The weight of others' trauma. A spiritual well that feels depleted. These are not signs of weakness. They are signs that you have been giving deeply, and that it may be time to receive.
This retreat is a sacred pause designed specifically for you.
The Winter Sanctuary: Embracing Sacred Preparation
The "Winter Immersion" retreat is your spiritual and professional purification. Just as the body requires wudu (ablution) for prayer, the soul of the caregiver requires cleansing from the residues of vicarious trauma and burnout to stand in sincere worship and service.
Held in the final, reflective days of Sha'ban, this retreat provides the structured container for that deep purification. We address the fatigue that clouds the heart, using guided practices from the Prophetic tradition and contemporary somatic healing to create inner spaciousness.
This is not about adding more duties, but about making your entire being a clean vessel so you can meet the blessings of Ramadan from a place of wholeness, not depletion, and serve your community with renewed rahmah (mercy).
"This retreat is the sacred pause that allows caregivers to release the weight of others' suffering, purify their hearts, and enter Ramadan spiritually receptive and emotionally balanced."
