Welcome to Drop Anchor

Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness, and Retreats supporting Stillness, Strength, and Self-Discovery.

*Drop Anchor is an HCAI-registered and FSRA-authorized service provider*

Come as you are.

Drop Anchor.

Begin again.

About

A studio born from practice, purpose & peace

Drop Anchor Yoga & Meditation is more than a name. It is a gentle reminder to pause, breathe, and return to what is steady within.

Hello, I’m Carey. I’m so glad you’ve found your way here.

I founded Drop Anchor in 2017 with one clear intention: to make yoga, mindfulness, and meditation accessible, welcoming, and deeply meaningful for real people living real lives. My approach blends traditional yoga postures and philosophy with grounded, practical application. No fancy poses are required, and no previous experience is needed.

Over the years, my work has naturally evolved to support people navigating chronic pain, life after brain injury, nervous system stress, and the physical and emotional transitions of midlife. Many students come to Drop Anchor feeling cautious in their bodies, tired of pushing, or unsure where they belong. This is a space where you do not have to prove anything or keep up. You are invited to move at a pace that honours where you are today.

I hold degrees in Psychology and Biology with Highest Honours and am a 350-hour Registered Yoga Teacher through the Canadian Yoga Alliance. I have completed specialized training in Yoga for Traumatic Brain Injury through the LoveYourBrain Foundation, as well as training in Hatha, Yin, Ashtanga, and Yoga for Chronic Back Pain and Scoliosis. I bring over a decade of experience in public health and years of experience in education administration. I am also a devoted student of A Course in Miracles, which continues to shape my work and my life in meaningful ways.

At Drop Anchor, you’ll find thoughtfully designed programs for a wide range of bodies and life stages, including small-group yoga, functional strength training, 1:1 private sessions, mindfulness and meditation workshops, and offerings designed to support people navigating injury, including brain injuries, chronic pain, neurological changes, and life transitions. Classes are intentionally paced to support joint health, mobility, balance, and nervous system regulation, making them especially supportive for those in midlife or living with ongoing tension or pain.

Each class is an opportunity to move, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.
No prerequisites. No pressure. Just the courage to show up as you are.

Drop Anchor is proud to be an authorized (non-regulated) health care facility under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) and Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI). I offer direct billing for motor vehicle accident claims to help make care more accessible for those recovering from injury.

Whether you are here to build strength, find calm and ease, support your body through midlife changes, or simply carve out space for yourself in the midst of a full life, you are welcome here.

You have officially dropped anchor.

A little yoga studio with a big heart

Drop Anchor’s boutique yoga studio offers a calm, welcoming space designed with care and accessibility. Located in the heart of Carleton Place, this cozy gem of a studio accommodates small group classes and private sessions. I am also mobile, offering private sessions at your home and traveling to clients in the Carleton Place, Almonte, and Lanark area.

Mindfulness & Meditation Coaching & Small Group Workshops.

Welcome to Drop Anchor Yoga & Meditation — a cozy, light-filled studio in Carleton Place where movement meets mindfulness.

Whole Self Wellness

1:1 Private Yoga Sessions

Personalized 1:1 yoga sessions are designed to meet you exactly where you are, both in person and online.
Each session is thoughtfully tailored to your body, needs, and intentions, with a focus on supporting strength, mobility, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being. These sessions are especially supportive for people navigating chronic pain, injury recovery, neurological changes, and life transitions.
As a certified CYA E-RYT 350 yoga teacher, I bring extensive experience across multiple yoga styles, including Yin, Ashtanga, Hatha, Prenatal, and specialized practices for Back Pain and Scoliosis. My background in psychology, biology, and public health further informs a grounded, practical approach to care.
Each session is created with care, blending skilled guidance with a calm, heart-centered presence so your practice feels safe, effective, and supportive, without pressure to perform or push beyond your limits.
Private Session Rate: $120/hour + tax

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1:1 Mindfulness & Meditation Coaching

My private mindfulness and meditation coaching sessions offer a powerful, supportive space to transform how you experience your mind and body. These sessions guide you to move beyond stress, tension, and habitual patterns, helping you access clarity, calm, and presence, often more quickly than you expect.
Through targeted mindfulness practices, embodied awareness, and guided inquiry, we uncover the underlying beliefs and patterns that shape how you react, feel, and think. Each session gives you practical tools you can use immediately in daily life to reduce reactivity, release tension, and strengthen emotional balance.
These sessions are ideal for people navigating stress, life transitions, chronic pain or tension, or anyone seeking greater clarity, emotional resilience, and a more peaceful relationship with themselves and others.
Every session is designed to be profound yet practical, helping you make meaningful shifts in both mind and body in real time.
Private Session Rate: $85/hour + tax

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1:1 Support for Acquired Brain Injury

These 1:1 sessions combine movement and stillness practices for people living with brain injury.
Sessions are delivered in person or online and integrate movement, breathwork, meditation, and nervous system support techniques to support a deeper sense of well-being.
My approach is trauma-informed and LoveYourBrain-certified, blending gentle Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness to support meaningful recovery from acquired brain injury (ABI). Research shows these practices can foster functional changes in the brain, helping with emotional regulation, memory, pain perception, balance, self-awareness, and overall quality of life (LoveYourBrain Foundation, 2025).
Drop Anchor is an authorized health care facility under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) and Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI), offering direct billing for motor vehicle accident claims.
Private Session Rate: $120/hour + tax

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The Strength Ritual: Your Mindful Strength Training Yoga Program

Move with purpose. Breathe with strength. Transform with ritual.
The Strength Ritual is not your typical gym workout. It is a mindful strength training yoga program designed to help you build strength, balance, and confidence in a warm, supportive studio space. You will attend two small-group classes each week and commit to one powerful ritual each month that supports real, lasting transformation.
Classes are paced slowly and intentionally to ensure safe, injury-aware movement, making them suitable for people at any fitness level or life stage, including those navigating midlife, chronic tension, or past injuries. Each session integrates functional strength training with yoga-based movement to improve posture, stability, flexibility, and confidence in daily life. Small group settings allow for personalized guidance and careful attention to form and alignment.
By combining consistent practice with mindful reflection, the Strength Ritual helps you cultivate resilience, body awareness, and strength that carries beyond the studio into every part of your life.
Sessions run at 6:30 am, 9:30 am and 12:00 pm, Monday to Thursday.

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Tuesday Night Community Yoga Classes

February 3 – April 28, 2026 (no class March 17).
Recharge your week on Tuesday evenings from 6:15–7:15 PM at the Carambeck Community Centre, Main Gymnasium. This beginner-friendly class is thoughtfully designed to build strength safely, increase flexibility, and leave you feeling energized and stretched. Perfect for anyone looking for a welcoming, supportive, and rejuvenating midweek reset.
Pricing: Drop-in: $20/class | Full 12-class series: $186 + tax

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Mindfulness & Meditation Small Group Workshops

Approval Detox Workshop
Starting this February, join a 6-week workshop designed to help you release stress, reclaim your energy, and explore practical ways to move beyond approval-seeking patterns that can drain your energy and impact overall well-being.
Through guided mindfulness and meditation exercises, this themed series provides a supportive space to notice thoughts and beliefs as they arise, and to experiment with choosing differently. By shifting how we respond to habitual thinking, participants often experience a profound sense of relief, clarity, and lightness in both mind and body.
These workshops are especially beneficial for people navigating midlife stress, persistent tension, or patterns that keep energy and confidence stuck.
Series Registration Fee: $165 + tax
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Day Retreats

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Silent Retreats

Drop Anchor’s silent retreats unfold in a breathtaking sanctuary surrounded by forest and embraced by three tranquil shorelines on Big Gull Lake in the heart of North Frontenac.
2025 Retreat Status: FULL
Stay tuned for 2026 dates!

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Silent Retreats

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2025 Fall Silent Retreat

September 29 – October 5, 2025
Clarendon Station, North Frontenac

A Week of Deep Rest, Silence, Yoga & Mindfulness

Drop Anchor’s silent retreats unfold in a breathtaking sanctuary surrounded by forest and embraced by three tranquil shorelines on Big Gull Lake in the heart of North Frontenac.

Each retreat begins with a virtual orientation to help set intentions and gently ease into stillness. From there, the days flow with grounding practices such as mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and quiet time in nature, coupled with cold plunges, sauna sessions, nourishing meals, and daily sharing circles. Optional massage and hot stone therapy are offered for those interested.

Imagine meditating by the water’s edge as loons call across the lake, journaling on a screened-in porch with the scent of pine in the air, or watching the sunrise ripple across the surface as you sip warm tea in silence. These moments become portals to deep reflection and inner clarity.

Our 7-day silent retreat is designed to help you reconnect with yourself through stillness, nature, and meaningful inner work. Held on a private peninsula with 2,000 feet of shoreline and a castle-like lodge, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to step away from daily distractions and return to the heart of what matters.

Retreat Theme: Forgiveness

True forgiveness isn’t about letting others off the hook or forcing ourselves to feel positive. It’s about bringing awareness to the limiting beliefs we carry and gently letting them go. As those beliefs shift, so does our experience of life. This retreat is about exploring that shift (in the mind) and experiencing the expansion of freedom and joy that results! It's powerful to witness how profoundly our experience of life and of ourselves transforms as our perceptions shift.

Why Silence?

Silence allows us to turn inward and listen deeply. With the exception of group sessions and activities, the retreat is held in silence to support self-reflection, self-inquiry, insight, and deep rest.

What’s Included

Six nights of shared accommodation (2 guests per room + ensuite)
All meals and snacks prepared by our in-house chef
Daily yoga, meditation, mindfulness practices & group programming
Access to walking trails, forest, lake, and sauna
One-on-one coaching sessions
Pre-retreat virtual orientation

Retreat Cost

$1,852.50 (no taxes)
Includes accommodations, meals, full programming, coaching, and unlimited sauna access.

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel before July 1, 2025:
A $600 cancellation fee applies. The remaining balance will be refunded.

If you cancel on or after July 1, 2025:
You may transfer your spot to someone else, provided both parties inform us in writing. If no replacement is found, your payment is non-refundable.

If we cancel the retreat:
You will receive a full refund of all payments made.

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A bedroom with two beds, wooden floors, windows with blinds, and a small desk with a fan and a lamp.

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Testimonials

"I feel centered and able to experience a more meaningful meditation."

“I was not completely new to the world of meditation when I started taking Carey’s meditation sessions, however, I always struggled whenever I tried to practice (on my own). I feel centered and able to experience a more meaningful meditation (now). Carey has a true gift and I can honestly say that without her offerings and support, I would still feel stuck. I am extremely grateful.”
Erin (on Meditation & Mindfulness Instruction)
"The 1:1 support for brain injury program offered by Carey has been a highly empowering tool in my recovery."

"I found Drop Anchor Yoga while searching for an effective therapy after a brain injury. The 1:1 support for brain injury program offered by Carey has been a highly empowering tool in my recovery; strengthening my body, improving my balance, and challenging my brain/body connection. I can never thank Carey enough for the compassion and encouragement she has shown me during the difficult rehabilitation process. She has been a light of hope in often dismal days."
Sara (on 1:1 Support for Acquired Brain Injury Programming)
"This program has been a lifeline in my healing journey: physically, mentally, and emotionally."

"Carey's gentle, mindful approach helped me reconnect with my body and heart and start to feel safe again. I’ve regained confidence, and have discovered a sense of strength within me that I didn’t realize was there. This program has been a lifeline in my healing journey: physically, mentally, and emotionally."
Mara (on 1:1 Support for Acquired Brain Injury Programming)
"Carey’s retreats are life changing experiences in the very best ways!"

"Carey’s retreats are life changing experiences in the very best ways!
1. The retreat setting is beyond stunning, it relaxes you as soon as you drive up. Swimming in a lake in the Fall… yup, all thumbs up. The sunsets; words can not express how amazing those are. And you haven't even gone inside yet.
2. The people… well, let's just say you will have met your tribe and they will become your people, almost more so after you leave.
3. What you learn about yourself: it is hard work, but you leave a very different person then when you arrived, in so many amazing ways.
4. The quiet and silence: you may think that you can't manage not to talk, but amazingly you don't need to and those times when you "have to" (during an expression session) are transformative and will shift your world.
5. The total package, the setting, the people, the way Carey creates the "program ", the food… it all cumulates into making you the best version of yourself at that moment. There is silence, there is laughter, there are tears, there is swimming and there is love. You will leave forever changed, but in so many amazing ways! Thank you for the experience. I am going for the third time this year and I can't wait. Thank you, Carey, for everything!"
Amanda (on Silent Retreats)
"I feel very safe when I share at our sessions."

“Carey has been working with me for over 4 years now. I feel very safe when I share at our sessions. She has a way of cleansing any fears I might have. I always leave her studio feeling more mindful, spiritually free and at peace.”
Michael (on 1:1 Mindfulness Coaching Sessions)
"...(Carey) has assisted me in attuning to the Divine Guidance within myself..."

“Carey has been a true Anam Chara (Soul Friend) for me on my healing journey. Carey has been a safe and loving presence for me, but more than that, she has assisted me in attuning to the Divine Guidance within myself, to find clarity and certitude in my life’s purpose.”
Annemarrie (on Mindfulness Coaching)