Our Upcoming events
Join us in person to learn, experience & heal in community
Join Joelle for an evening of conversation that has the potential to transform your life. We will explore a body of knowledge that becomes a gateway to a new way of being, one that starts inside of you. This paradigm is base on internal referencing: your body as a quantum biological processor, not something to fix, but an intelligent interface for truth, signal and transformation. A process of accelerated personal evolution, rooted in modern science, expressed through simple models, clear language, and embodied integration. At its heart? An invitation to remember who you are, so you live fully awake, fully alive and fully in charge of your own emergence.
Join Sudbury’s own Mama G—featured on Eastlink and Love the North Podcast (www.lovethenorth.ca) —for an unforgettable stuffed pasta class that brings restaurant-quality flavor to your home kitchen. Led by a culinary community favorite, this hands-on workshop teaches you to craft three irresistible fillings: a silky cheese, a savory meat, and a vibrant vegetable option. Perfect for beginners and home cooks wanting to level up, the class focuses on technique, flavor balance, and practical tips you’ll use again and again.
Join online or in-person!
Discover how to create simple, balanced meals using whole grains, legumes, and vegetables. This way of eating provides everything your body needs to nourish and gently cleanse itself—all in one meal. Bring greater balance to your body and your life with this simple, practical way of cooking.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
FlowFusion is a gentle, body-based movement experience designed to support people living with chronic pain, including conditions such as fibromyalgia, as well as fatigue, tension, stress, and nervous-system overwhelm.
Participants will be guided through a gradual journey from stillness into gentle activation, expression, and movement, then slowly back toward grounding, softness, and rest.
We are inviting all herbalists to join us for tea and discussion. This is a free event to encourage conversation and teach people about the abundance found in our forests. New and experienced persons are welcome! Each month we will do a deeper dive into one or two herbs or techniques. We have maximum seating of 12 for this free event. Please reserve a spot!
EFT is a simple technique which involves tapping on specific points on the body to help calm the nervous system and recenter our attention. In this workshop, you’ll learn some fundamentals of Tapping and experience how it can support greater calm, clarity, and self-awareness.
Willa is an Advanced EFT Practitioner with EFTi. She has been using EFT since 2013 and utilizes its tools regularly to support her own emotional and mental health.
For more information please visit her instagram, @tapwithwilla
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
This workshop is an invitation to self-inquiry through a self-awareness system called The Gene Keys. The Gene Keys are a "grand synthesis of practical wisdom to help guide you to a deeper understanding of yourself and your true potential". For those familiar with Astrology, Human Design, or the I Ching, this will tie into what you have already discovered and expand on it.
Our menstrual cycle shouldn’t have to be something we dread every month.
In this 90-minute presentation, we’ll explore the menstrual cycle in a simple, empowering and easy-to-understand way.
We’ll talk about some of the often-overlooked pieces that can influence how we feel throughout the month, including nutrition, key vitamins and minerals, hormones, digestion, stress and everyday habits.
Living with chronic pain can affect far more than the body; it can impact mood, sleep, relationships, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. This 90 minute workshop offers an accessible look at chronic pain, the nervous system, and the relationship between pain and mental health.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
Join Mama G and Rachelle Rocha for a special evening celebrating the abundance of Northern Ontario’s harvest and the people who bring it to our tables.
Enjoy a thoughtfully prepared, plated dinner featuring seasonal ingredients and products from local farmers, alongside specialty drinks, flowing apple cider, live music, and plenty of good conversation. Throughout the evening, we’ll make space for farmers to share tales from the growing season: the successes, the challenges, the surprises, and their hopes for the seasons ahead.
Are you curious about alternative health modalities? Perhaps Ayurveda is what you’ve been searching for.
Ayurveda is an ancient system of health that focuses on prevention as a way to support a long life filled with joy and vitality.
Join Dan Barrette to practice Qi-Gong. Qi-Gong is Active Relaxation… it’s a moving meditation to boost energy, relieve stress and balance our energy system. These relaxation exercises consider mind, body, and spirit all at once.
What kind of meat do you have in the freezer? What did you pick up at the farmers' market?
What did you hunt yourself?
Now let’s turn it into sausage.
Join Mama G for a hands-on evening of sausage-making and learn the fundamentals of making your own sausage at home.
We’ll talk about choosing your meat, building flavour, seasoning, mixing and forming, and the equipment and techniques that make the process easier. We’ll also get into sausage casings, including natural hog casings, and where to find them.
Join online or in-person!
Join Dan Barrette to practice Qi-Gong. Qi-Gong is Active Relaxation… it’s a moving meditation to boost energy, relieve stress and balance our energy system. These relaxation exercises consider mind, body, and spirit all at once.
Delicate. Delicious. Don't overcook it.
Fish is one of the most delicate proteins, and learning how to handle it properly makes all the difference.
Join Mama G for a hands-on evening exploring all things fish and pescatarian cooking.
Join in person or online!
Join Dan Barrette to practice Qi-Gong. Qi-Gong is Active Relaxation… it’s a moving meditation to boost energy, relieve stress and balance our energy system. These relaxation exercises consider mind, body, and spirit all at once.
Intimidating? Yes.
Weird? Maybe.
Delicious? Absolutely.
Tongue is one of those cuts that can make people stop in their tracks. But here's the thing: some of the parts of an animal that seem strangest to us can also be some of the most delicious.
Join Mama G for an evening exploring tongue, nose-to-tail cooking and the wonderful world of the not-so-ordinary.
Join in person or online!
Mama G's Cooking Class - High Tea Menu, Thursday May 6th 2026, 6:30-9:00 pm
Fascinators encouraged. Tea is essential.
There is something wonderfully civilized about putting the kettle on, setting out a beautiful spread and inviting people to stay awhile.
Join Mama G for a special afternoon tea party as we explore the traditions, recipes and rituals behind one of the world's most beloved ways to gather.
Join in person or online!
The Gene Keys - Shedding Light on the Shadows
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This workshop is an invitation to self-inquiry through a self-awareness system called The Gene Keys. The Gene Keys are a "grand synthesis of practical wisdom to help guide you to a deeper understanding of yourself and your true potential". For those familiar with Astrology, Human Design, or the I Ching, this will tie into what you have already discovered and expand on it.
Living With Chronic Pain: Understanding the Mind–Body Connection
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Living with chronic pain can affect far more than the body; it can impact mood, sleep, relationships, daily functioning, and overall quality of life. This 90 minute workshop offers an accessible look at chronic pain, the nervous system, and the relationship between pain and mental health.
Past Events
Take an evening to slow down, breathe, and reconnect. This guided Chakra Meditation and Energy Balancing experience uses gentle meditation, breathwork, and energy work to bring awareness to the body’s seven main energy centres, calm the mind, release tension, and invite greater balance and ease. No previous experience is needed.
Chakradance is a powerful healing modality that uses the Chakras, movement, meditation and mandala art to explore what may be stuck or buried deep within you.
Kristina is a holistic wellness practitioner that uses multiple modalities to guide others to live their very best life.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
Join Dan Barrette to practice Qi-Gong. Qi-Gong is Active Relaxation… it’s a moving meditation to boost energy, relieve stress and balance our energy system. These relaxation exercises consider mind, body, and spirit all at once.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
Offering a very special GLUTEN FREE sourdough making class, with Adelle Larmour-Delong. Adelle has been living without wheat and gluten for many years, and she has perfected a recipe for sourdough bread that actually looks, rises and tastes like bread. It can be made with any gluten free flour.
Join Dr. Tony Martin and Rachelle Rocha for a conversation about how to eat your way to good health! We will learn about Insulin Resistance and the cluster of illnesses attached to Metabolic Syndrome. This will be a combination live event for participants in person at Seasons Pharmacy and Culinaria, where there will be a cooking demonstration and sampling at the end of the session. There will be an opportunity for questions to be answered.
We are offering this session to the virtual world via Zoom, so if you are far away, you will be able to view the presentation and cooking demonstration and we will be answering questions in the live chat.
Dr. Tony Martin has spent more than 50 years studying health, nutrition and natural approaches to wellness. A longtime practitioner at the Martin Clinic in Sudbury, Dr. Martin has dedicated his career to helping people understand the powerful connection between food, lifestyle and health.
He is the author of numerous books and the host and co-host of The Doctor Is In Podcast, where he shares his perspectives on nutrition, metabolism, inflammation, chronic disease and the role of food in supporting the body. His approach is simple and often challenges conventional thinking: start with real food and look at what the body needs to thrive.
For his international audience, we are thrilled to offer the virtual attendance opportunity.
Experience a powerful sound therapy method that uses tuning forks to target nervous system relaxation which helps alleviate physical, mental, and emotional symptoms.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
We are inviting all herbalists to join us for tea and discussion. This is a free event to encourage conversation and teach people about the abundance found in our forests. New and experienced persons are welcome! Each month we will do a deeper dive into one or two herbs or techniques. We have maximum seating of 12 for this free event. Please reserve a spot!
Join Sudbury’s own Mama G—featured on Eastlink and Love the North Podcast (www.lovethenorth.ca) —for an unforgettable stuffed pasta class that brings restaurant-quality flavor to your home kitchen. Led by a culinary community favorite, this hands-on workshop teaches you to craft three irresistible fillings: a silky cheese, a savory meat, and a vibrant vegetable option. Perfect for beginners and home cooks wanting to level up, the class focuses on technique, flavor balance, and practical tips you’ll use again and again.
Join online or in-person!
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
CACAO CEREMONY & SOUND BATH
Join Cindy Mehmet Woodbury for a gentle evening of ceremonial cacao, connection and restorative sound.
Cacao meets you where you are. Whether you are grieving or celebrating, or simply needing a moment to pause, you are welcome just as you are.
We will share ceremonial cacao together before settling into a soothing and restorative sound bath.
No previous experience is needed. Come as you are.
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
This drum circle will be outdoors at 6:30 on Thursday, September 26 at a home in Moonglow. Enrollment is limited and the address will be disclosed to registrants. Please bring a lawn chair. If the weather is terrible, we will move indoors.
Join us in sacred rhythm, where each heartbeat meets the drum. In this circle, we gather not to perform, but to remember—to listen, to feel, to express. Through the ancient language of drumming, we awaken connection: to ourselves, to one another, and to the pulse of something greater. No experience is needed—only the willingness to be present. We will drum, breathe, and be together in a space of safety, rhythm, and release. Bring your own drum if you have one—or come as you are. Instruments and hearts will be shared.
Discover Your Human Design Type: A Practical Guide to Self-Awareness, Energy & Wellbeing
Maggie is a Human Design Guide and wellbeing practitioner who helps people better understand themselves through the lens of Human Design. She believes that self-awareness is the foundation of wellbeing and that when we understand how we're naturally designed to move through life, we can experience greater ease, make more aligned decisions, and cultivate a deeper sense of balance and fulfillment.
We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to help build a Medicine Wheel Healing Garden in Hanmer.
Moving Dirt and Rocks before WINTER!
Indigenous Grandmothers need some assistance!
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.
Come meet the makers behind Brew Barn Apothecary and spend some time exploring what we create!
This casual drop-in Meet & Greet is a chance to discover Brew Barn products, ask questions, learn a little more about how they're made, and sample or try select products.
Whether you've been curious about Brew Barn, already have a favorite product, or simply want to stop by and say hello, everyone is welcome.
We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to help build a Medicine Wheel Healing Garden in Hanmer.
Moving Dirt and Rocks before WINTER!
Indigenous Grandmothers need some assistance!
This is a live interactive session with Dr. Josee Poulin, a family physician and functional medicine expert, specializing in midlife transitions, and Rachelle Rocha, our very own pharmacist and food as medicine enthusiast. The topic for the evening is detox and energy. We will be talking about all the ways that we are exposed to toxicity, how to prevent and minimize the impacts of these exposures.
This event will be hosted both LIVE in person at Seasons Pharmacy and Culinaria, as well as ONLINE. At the end of the presentation, we will be doing a cooking demonstration and talking about how to use food as medicine.
The online audience will be muted and then opened for questions, and there will be a live chat open which to make the experience as informative as possible. In person, we will be enjoying the products made in the cooking demonstration.
Movements to reset your overloaded mind. Discover simple, 5-minute playful movement practices that take you out of your head and into your body. Clear mental clutter, de-stress, build inner strength through easy practices you can squeeze into your busy life. You'll balance your chakras, release tension, stretch the body, find your groove and fall into flow.
Sari Huhtala's commitment to conscious living, with over 8,000 days of daily spiritual practice behind her, has helped her stay on the path of living a soulful life. Movement saved her life. She has over 30 years of dance experience, and is the creator of Chakra Flow somatic body movement. She launched Dance of Joy women's retreats in 2011, and offers retreats & workshops at her healing farm.
We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to help build a Medicine Wheel Healing Garden in Hanmer.
Moving Dirt and Rocks before WINTER!
Indigenous Grandmothers need some assistance!
Join us for Applefest!
Sudbury is an apple growers paradise! Yes, its true! We have been growing apples for over 25 years, and we are showcasing local varietals for fresh eating and drinking.
Apple Tasting - We will have some tasting sheets to record the culinary elements of the apples.
Apple Cider Pressing - We will have Phil’s industrial apple chopper and bladder press on site to make the best cider you have ever tasted! The most delicious cider comes from mixing crab apples and having at least some apples with red skin. If you have an apple tree in your yard, or on your street, please bring them and help us process them. If you want to bottle your own personal cider, please make arrangements with Phil at Beautiful Fields Farm, and you can go out to the farm to press. The press can also do pears, so if you have your own pears, we can make a batch of perry, too. Grapes do not work in this press.
Recipes - Learn about making cider, fresh or fermented and making your very own apple cider vinegar!
Buy an Apple Tree: Meet local apple orchardist Phil Beauchamp from Beautiful Field Farm and get all of your questions answered about orcharding in the north! Fall is a great time to plant an apple tree!
For All Ages: Family‑friendly and free; children’s activities and hands‑on experiences welcome.
If you have too many apples for your own use, we are accepting donations of apples at Seasons Pharmacy and Culinaria, 815 Lorne Street starting on Tuesday, September 8, or just bring some with you on Saturday. We will sort the apples for tastings and making community apple cider on Saturday! Please document the name of the varietal and where it was grown.
We are inviting all herbalists to join us for tea and discussion. This is a free event to encourage conversation and teach people about the abundance found in our forests. New and experienced persons are welcome! Each month we will do a deeper dive into one or two herbs or techniques. We have maximum seating of 12 for this free event. Please reserve a spot!
Join us in sacred rhythm, where each heartbeat meets the drum. In this circle, we gather not to perform, but to remember—to listen, to feel, to express. Through the ancient language of drumming, we awaken connection: to ourselves, to one another, and to the pulse of something greater. No experience is needed—only the willingness to be present. We will drum, breathe, and be together in a space of safety, rhythm, and release. Bring your own drum if you have one—or come as you are. Instruments and hearts will be shared.
We are offering a series of herb walks, once a month, with Heather Arbour, the Frolicking Forager! !
We are offering a series of herb walks, once a month, with Heather Arbour, the Frolicking Forager! !
Visit a rose garden retreat on a stunning one-acre lot in the heart of the city with well over 200 rose specimens, hardy to our climatic zone. This is a private garden tour. Here you will find old garden roses – Gallicas, Damasks, Portlands, Albas, Moss, Centifolias, and a very special rugosa rose, Souvenir de Philémon Cochet.
Please, no dogs, and if you sign up, this is a guided tour - please arrive on time. Location to be disclosed upon registration.
We are offering a series of herb walks, once a month, with Heather Arbour, the Frolicking Forager! !
Action Lab™ is a pharmacist-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change program that helps participants put food as medicine into practice through education, accountability, community support, and measurable health tracking.
Hosted by pharmacists Rachelle Rocha or Laurie Pennell, Action Lab meets every Tuesday from 6:00pm - 7:00pm and is available both in person and online. Participants joining online attend live and interact with the group just as if they were in the room.
Each session includes a focused lesson on a timely health topic, designed to increase your understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and practical strategies for improving your health. Participants are encouraged to ask questions, share experiences, and engage in meaningful discussions that support lasting behavior change.