Wake Your Wonder

For anyone who feels like life has become more about managing, rushing, or getting through the day — and is craving more colour, curiosity, beauty, and aliveness.

Wonder is easy to lose touch with. Life gets full. Responsibilities pile up. We get used to being productive, practical, prepared, and in control. And over time, the playful, creative, curious, expressive parts of ourselves can start to feel tucked away beneath everything we’re carrying.

Wake Your Wonder is a 3-hour experience designed to help you slow down, soften the grip of managing everything, and remember what it feels like to wander, notice, and simply be.

Set inside the lush beauty of Allan Gardens Conservatory, this experience invites you to reconnect with your body and explore how wonder can widen your attention beyond everything life asks you to carry. Through guided reflection, simple somatic practices, sensory noticing, moments of gentle sharing, and invitations to follow what draws you in, you’ll be invited to remember that life is not only something to manage; it’s something we’re allowed to experience.

You’ll leave with:

• a deeper understanding of how wonder, play, and aliveness can get buried beneath responsibility, routine, or self-protection
• simple somatic tools to help calm your nervous system and create more space for curiosity, beauty, and everyday goodness
• the Wonder Hunt, a guided noticing practice you can return to anytime you want to slow down, follow your curiosity, and reconnect with what feels alive
• a renewed connection to the playful, creative, curious, or expressive parts of yourself that may be ready for more room
• a simple take-home reminder to help you carry the experience into everyday life

Come curious. Leave with a deeper connection to the wonder within you, and the parts of yourself ready to wake back up.
Community Access Tickets

A small number of $44 community access tickets are available for those who feel called to join but are navigating financial barriers at this time.

If this applies to you, please reach out to me before booking at [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram at @yourjourneybacktoself, and I’ll share the access code with you privately.

From past Wake Your Wonder participants:
“Fantastic workshop! Christina created a beautiful, welcoming, and calming environment. The exercises weren’t overwhelming but still deep and meaningful enough to have an impact. I left feeling peaceful, happy, and connected.”
— Natalie M.

“Christina has a wonderful nature about her that helped me open up to myself and others in the group. Her guidance is supportive. Her body-based practices are very helpful in reconnecting with yourself.”
— Teresa W.

Info: Arrive at Allan Gardens Conservatory, settle into the space, and ease into the morning before we begin.

Info: Benefit: Connect with the group and gain insight into the shared ways we can lose touch with wonder, play, and aliveness when life becomes full, rushed, or overly focused on responsibility.

Info: Benefit: Reawaken your attention through the Wonder Hunt inside the conservatory — a noticing practice designed to help you slow down, follow your curiosity, and reconnect with what feels alive beneath the noise.

Info: Benefit: Practice simple somatic tools you can use in daily life to soften productivity mode, calm your nervous system, and create more space for curiosity, play, beauty, and everyday moments of goodness.

Info: Benefit: Reconnect with the playful, creative, curious, or expressive parts of yourself that may have been tucked away beneath responsibility, self-protection, or routine — and begin naming what wants more space, colour, freedom, or expression in your life.

Info: Benefit: Anchor what the morning awakened through a gentle integration practice, helping you notice what you want to carry forward and how wonder can become something you return to in everyday life.

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Allan Gardens Children's Conservatory, 19 Horticultural Avenue, Toronto, Canada

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