Wintering Well: Thrive // Wintering Well Morning Flow Yoga + Wellness Workshop
Facilitated by Heidi Zimmer and Rebeka Ndosi
Part of the Wintering Well Series, sponsored by Wild Rice Retreat
Feb 4, 2024
The Market at Malcolm Yards
This 60-minute session will begin with a grounding and inspired all-levels yoga class led by Heidi Zimmer (Founder, Wild Rice Retreat) and breathwork and meditation by Rebeka Ndosi (Founder, Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary)—followed by a discussion on the blessings of the winter season to rest and replenish your spirit. Heidi will conclude the session and series by sharing wisdom, tips, and resources used at Wild Rice Retreat for truly “wintering well” and inviting opportunities for connection and conversation among event participants.
Please bring a yoga mat and water bottle and plan on wearing comfortable clothing.
Please note that photographs and video footage will be taken throughout this event. These will be used by The Great Northern and its partners for marketing and publicity, our archives, on our website and in social media.
About the Facilitators:
Heidi Zimmer, Founder of Wild Rice Retreat, is committed to a holistic and integrative experience allowing each guest to ground themselves in nature, tap into their creative spirit and connect to their body and breath’s inner wisdom and strength. She creates intentional, safe spaces for people to show up and be met wherever they are. For some that means time to explore and create; for others it means to move, grieve, let go; and others to simply rest, celebrate, and find joy.
As an accomplished compassionate leader, Heidi also provides wisdom and guidance for gathering courage, tools for moving through transitions with grace, and building resilience. Heidi’s open-hearted and joyful approach to yoga and personal development is accessible and approachable.
Certification: Trained by Tanya Boigenzahn at Devanadi School of Yoga in Minneapolis, MN, Heidi has been practicing and studying yoga for more than 20 years and is 200hr RYT Certified through Yoga Alliance.
Rebeka Ndosi, M.S., L.Ac., is Founder and Keeper of the Vision for Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary, a nature-based emerging healing retreat near the North Shore of Gichigami (Lake Superior). As a Sanctuary and Homecoming, Maji ya Chai will center rest, rejuvenation, joy and thriving for Black, Native and People of Color across generations. Rebeka is a board licensed acupuncturist and herbalist; a teacher and teacher trainer of child, youth, adult and family yoga and meditation; a certified Community Coach in Healing Justice; and a certified Soul Answer Healer. In 2016, Rebeka co-founded the Youth Healing Justice Network, and in 2017, she created Warriors of Light™ Card Deck: Tools & Techniques for Feeling Healthy, Happy, and Whole featuring youth of the African Diaspora. Dedicated to building a culture and practice of soul, mind and body wellbeing for youth of color and the adults in their everyday spaces and places, her work recognizes, honors, and nurtures the individual and collective wisdom that we hold. Rebeka’s practice is driven by the firm belief that lasting, revolutionary, change and healing starts from within. Learn more about Rebeka’s work at www.rebeka.org.
About the Wintering Well Series:
Wild Rice Retreat’s Wintering Well series, specially curated for The Great Northern, focuses on harnessing the winter months as a time of wellness. The three-part series will incorporate guided breathwork, meditation, yoga, wellness, and bathing practices to support your health and wellbeing during the winter months.
The series is inspired by the wintering well principles of Wild Rice Retreat in Bayfield, WI—the North’s award winning nature-based wellness resort, with a special focus on supporting the BIPOC experience in healing spaces and the great outdoors of the North.
All proceeds from these events will further the mission of Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary—a Black-led nature based healing retreat being developed on Minnesota's North Shore.
The three-part series will incorporate different wellness and healing practices into the sessions to help you restore, rejuvenate, and thrive in the winter season.