About us
Welcome to IFS Toronto, a gathering space for those curious about and practicing Internal Family Systems (IFS) — whether you're brand new, training in the model, or deeply immersed in parts work.
IFS invites us to explore the many parts within us — protective, exiled, wise — and to lead from our core Self: compassionate, curious, calm, and connected. In this group, we create space to learn, share, and support each other on our journeys toward deeper healing, self-awareness, and wholeness.
We’ll host regular events such as:
- Peer-led parts mapping and practice circles
- IFS-informed breathwork
- Weekend Retreats with psychedelic medicines
- Nature-based IFS experiences (yes, even cold dips!)
- Workshops, guest speakers, and community collaborations
This is a welcoming, inclusive, and non-clinical space rooted in authenticity, respect, and kindness. Whether you're doing personal healing, holding space for others, or just feeling called to connect — all of you is welcome here.
Let’s get to know our inner worlds, together.
Hi I'm Nici, your organizer. Feel free to check out who I am. You can go to my website Breathing in Nature to see everything I do, or explore my professional credentials on LinkedIn. Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.
Upcoming events
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Women's Retreat (IFS-informed)
Luxury Cottage in Bancroft, ON, 26 Van Luven Lane, Bancroft, ON, CAThis weekend is an invitation for women to slow down, come home to themselves, and explore their inner world in a supportive, nature-held environment.
Our work is informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), a gentle and respectful approach that understands the psyche as made up of different “parts,” all of which are trying to help in some way. You do not need any prior IFS experience. Everything is introduced slowly, in accessible language, and at a pace that honours safety and consent.
Rather than fixing, pushing, or analysing, we’ll practice turning toward our inner experience with curiosity and compassion. Through guided IFS-inspired reflections, breathwork, sound journeys, a guided medicine journey, time in nature, and rest, you are supported in meeting your inner world with more spaciousness and self-trust.This is an all-inclusive weekend, all meals, snacks and medicines are included. **A shared room (with 2 seperate beds in it) is $750. Check out all the info on our website. **To book a free info call to see if this adventure if right for you, please email Nici at nici@breathinginnature.com.
## What's included?
- 3 days, 2 nights in a beautiful cottage in nature (Bancroft, ON)
- Small group (max 10 women)
- Shared or private accommodations
- Fully guided and supported by your experienced facilitators Nici & Jennifer
- All delicious meals/snacks included
- Guided Transformational Medicine journey
- Prep and Integration
- Lake plunges
- Breathwork & Sound Journey
- Free time to recharge
## Flow of the Weekend
## Friday: Arrival
We arrive at our beautiful home away from home in the early afternoon and get settled in. We gather to open the container for the weekend with breathwork. We hear each others stories of healing and chat about expectations for the weekend and the medicine journey. We share a deliscious dinner and dive deep with a magical sound journey.
## Saturday: Group Medicine Journey
This healing weekend is about sacred ceremony with transformational medicine. Our hearts will be open, connected to Self and each other. The intense love and compassion of the day will allow you to turn this healing energy inwards. We explore our blocks to giving and receving love. The great block of FEAR will release and you will hear your truth. Being held and witnessed by your sisters in community is the true medicine.
## Sunday: Integration & Closing
The integration of our medicine experiene is all about making sense of what happened to us: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and in relation. We tap into self-energy with our breath, take a cold plunge into the lake and share what has come up for us. Hearing our own story and sharing these parts of us is what helps integrate and grow from the experience. Sunday is all about rest and recovery.
We allow the powerful energy of gratitude to flow through us. Thanking ourselves for showing up, thankful for the experiences we shared and being present with each other. We close the container of ceremony. Renewed in our strength as women, understanding that we are the medicine and everything we need is already within us. This is the beginning of your journey.1 attendee
IFS Healing Retreat with Transformational Medicine
Luxury Cottage on Georgian Bay, Wendak Road, Tiny, ON, CASometimes we need to gather in ceremony, out of our mundane environments and routines. We allow our stories to flow through us within the container of community held by mother nature. We release our wild parts and reclaim what has been denied or forbidden. Magical things happen when we gather to share and heal with transformational medicine. This is an all inclusive, small group, cottage adventure: all meals, snacks and medicines will be provided. Open to all levels of experience with the IFS model. Costs range from $777-$1111 depending on shared or private accomodations.
Interested? Check out our website. To safe your spot you need to email Nici and book a call to see if this adventure is right for you: nici@breathinginnature.com
## Why use transformational medicines in This Work?
This powerful, heart-opening empathogen gently softens fear and defensive responses, creating a profound sense of safety within yourself. In this state:
- Compassion naturally arises for every part of you—especially those holding pain, anger, shame, or fear.
- Clarity emerges, allowing you to see old stories, patterns, and relational wounds from a fresh, truthful perspective.
- Courage awakens, making it possible to approach even your most hidden or feared parts without judgment.
- Curiosity expands—you meet your inner world with the mind of an explorer, eager to understand rather than fix or reject.
- Connection deepens—not only with yourself, but also with others, as relational barriers begin to soften.
This medicine helps protectors feel at ease so that your deeper Self can lead with these qualities. When we bring our self-energy to the system, healing happens. When we are in a room filled with people in self-energy, magic happens.
## The Power of the Group
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation—it happens in relationship (just like wounding).
In this intimate group setting:- You’ll have the unique opportunity to witness how your own protectors and triggers respond to the protectors and parts of others.
- You’ll see clearly where you guard your heart and how you long for authentic connection.
- The group field amplifies compassion—for yourself and for others.
- By being truly seen and accepted, you’ll experience a taste of relational healing that ripples far beyond this weekend.
## What's included?
- 3 days, 2 nights in a luxury cottage close to Toronto
- Small group (max 10 people)
- Shared or private accommodation
- Fully guided and supported by your experienced facilitators Nici and Steve
- All delicious meals/snacks included
- Guided Transformational Medicine journey
- Prep and Integration
- Breathwork
- Free time to recharge
## Flow of the Weekend
## Friday: Arrival
We arrive at our beautiful home away from home in the early afternoon and get settled in. We gather in circle around the fire to open the container for the weekend with breathwork. We hear each others stories of healing. We share a deliscious dinner and chat about expectations for the weekend in general and the medicine journey in particular.
## Saturday: Group Medicine Journey
This healing weekend is about the Sacred Ceremony with transformational medicine. Our hearts will be open, connected to each other, and connected to all life. The intense love and compassion of the day will allow you to turn this healing energy inwards. We explore our blocks to giving and receving love. The great block of FEAR will release and you will hear your truth. Being witnessed in community is the true medicine.
## Sunday: Integration and Closing
On our last day together, we allow the powerful energy of gratitude to flow through us. Thanking ourselves for showing up, thankful for the experiences we shared and being present with each other. We close the container of ceremony with breathwork. Renewed in our strength, understanding that we are the medicine and everything we need is already within us. This is the beginning of your journey.
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