Choose your own growth adventure at Nusqool
Leave the city. Step off the grid. Return to your true self.
What if your retreat was designed by your soul?
At Nusqool — a century old rural schoolhouse located in Mount Horeb (1.5 hours from Toronto and 30 min from Peterborough) — you’re invited to slow down, tune in, and choose the kind of care your spirit is calling for.
This is a self-directed, co-created retreat experience.
You choose the pace. You choose the focus.
Once you arrive, we’ll walk with you.
Chapter 1: The Seed.
Begin by choosing your window of wonder.
🌱 For those seeking a gentle drop in session, you can choose the 1.5 hour to reset and reconnect with your truth.
🌼 For those ready to step into deeper transformation, you can choose to spend a 3 hour adventure.
When you arrive at Nusqool, you will be greeted with your first choice of the day.
Will you begin your journey with a tea that calms the nervous system, opens the heart, or clears the mind?
You’ll find herbs harvested from the land and the region — dandelion, lemon balm, nettle, tulsi, rose, mint, and more. You’re invited to follow your intuition, blend your own cup, and set your intention with the first sip.
Let your senses lead the way. Your adventure begins.
Chapter 2: The Sprout.
What kind of care is calling to you?
Hands on Healing
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Sometimes, our bodies hold onto signals of danger or injury long after the threat has passed. This hands-on practice helps identify sensory receptors that may be misfiring — sending outdated or exaggerated messages to the brain.
Using gentle muscle testing and manual techniques and intuitive sensing, calibration helps bring your system back into balance, leaving more space for safety, clarity and your truth to surface.
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A gentle, hands-on energy practice that involves lightly touching 32 points on the head — each linked to different aspects of your life, like creativity, clarity, control, and receiving.
These points help discharge the mental clutter and emotional tension. As the system relaxes, many people report a sense of spaciousness, ease, and deep calm — like a nervous system reset for the mind and spirit.
Guided Movement
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TRE helps release deep stress and tension through neurogenic tremors — gentle, involuntary shaking that starts when the body feels safe enough to let go.
You’ll be guided through simple exercises to activate this natural release. Outcomes often include better sleep, reduced anxiety, pelvic floor relaxation, and a greater sense of calm and clarity.
If you’re more experienced, we’ll work hands-on to help tremors reach new areas, bringing more awareness to patterns your system may be ready to shift.
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Medical Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese healing practice that combines gentle movement, breath, and visualization to support the body’s natural energy flow.
You’ll learn a personalized sequence based on your physical, emotional, or spiritual needs — designed to clear stagnation, calm the nervous system, and strengthen your inner vitality.
Soul Conversations
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Sometimes we just need a safe space to say things out loud, to hear our own truth reflected back, and to gently sort through the fog.
In these sessions, we explore what’s alive for you — what you want, what you already have, and what might be in the way. Whether you’re navigating uncertainty, making a transition, or feeling stuck in a familiar pattern, coaching helps surface clarity, reconnect you to your values, and invite forward motion with more self-trust.
Thu is a PCC-certified coach through the ICF with advanced training in Co-Active Coaching, the Neuroscience of Change, Coaching Relational Trauma, and the Trauma of Money. She has worked with hundreds of senior leaders, startup founders, and creatives — always meeting people at the intersection of insight, embodiment, and aligned action.
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This is a spacious, integrative session where all of my tools — somatic awareness, coaching, nervous system regulation, energy work, and intuitive sensing — come into the conversation.
Together, we’ll tune into what’s happening in your body, what your system is holding, and what your deeper self is ready to name, release, or move toward. These sessions are guided by what’s alive in the moment — sometimes it’s words, sometimes it’s tremors, breath, imagery, or stillness.
This isn’t about fixing — it’s about listening. To your truth. To what’s beneath the patterns. To what’s quietly trying to emerge.
Whether you’re navigating grief, transition, burnout, creative blocks, or a longing for deeper alignment, this is a space to be witnessed and supported — as you come back to yourself.
Chapter 3: Bloom.
The Space In-Between
After your session, you step out into stillness, a liminal time where you get to choose.
If you feel curiosity sparking, let your senses lead the way out into the land to explore.
If calm is what you crave, find the hammock and reflection questions you can contemplate while resting.
If creativity whispers, open your journal, grab an instrument, create a cyanotype nature postcard.
If courage stirs, walk barefoot in the grass.
If clarity feels close, sit quietly with tea and see what reveals itself.
There’s no wrong turn — just let your higher self lead the way.
Meet Your Guide
As you step onto the this adventure, you’re not alone. When you arrive — someone with a big smile will greet you. She’s walked this path before, and she’ll walk beside you now.
Thu Nguyen (she/her) is a somatic leadership coach and founder of Nusqool: a new school for old souls — a sanctuary for rest, healing, and creative growth, where people reconnect with their truth through the wisdom of the body.
Her own adventure began in the world of hyper-growth tech startups, where she spent 20 years between Toronto & Silicon Valley as an engineer, senior leader and founder — until life handed her a different curriculum: cancer, chronic illness, burnout, complex PTSD, and near-death experiences. She chose to listen to her body. To follow its wisdom. And it continues to surprise her and rewards her with vitality.
Now, she walks with others who are navigating change, seeking clarity, or remembering who they really are. Through coaching, nervous system work, and intuitive somatic practices, Thu doesn’t lead with answers — she helps you hear your own. Gently. Honestly. At your own pace. This is your journey. And she’s here, when you’re ready.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes — if you're craving space to reconnect with yourself, gently regulate your nervous system, or birth something new. Whether you're navigating change, seeking clarity, or just needing rest, this is a space to slow down, listen inward, and be supported.
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Your Choose Your Own Growth Adventure begins before you arrive — with a few simple steps to help us co-create a meaningful experience:
Book your adventure and Fill out the intake form
Share a little about where you’re at, what’s calling you, and what kind of support or experience you’re craving. You can be as open or as brief as you like.Jump on a quick call (optional)
If it’s your first time or you’re unsure what you need, we can hop on a short call to clarify your intention and design a session that feels right.Arrive in comfy clothes
This is a space to soften. Dress for movement, rest, or being barefoot in the grass. Whatever helps your body exhale.Bring a journal and pen
We’ll have extra, but you’re welcome to bring your favorite tools for reflection. There will be time to write, wander, and listen inward.Let the land do its work
Tea, trees, and time. We’ll take it slow, follow what feels alive, and leave room for surprise.
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Nusqool is located in Kawartha Lakes on Mount Horeb x Hillhead Rd, north of the 115 on the 35. Driving is the easiest option to get here.
Alternatively, there is a GO Bus that goes between Oshawa and Peterborough that drops you off at the 35/115 and we’re happy to come pick you up from there if you give us some notice.
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Snacks are included in your bookings.
You have the option of packing your own food for your adventure. Or we can provide a nourishing seasonal soup and fresh salad for $22.
Nearby, there is a chip truck about 10 min away and more options in Lindsay, Ontario which is 20 min drive away.
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If you have questions or want help designing your visit, send us a note.
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Ask yourself if you want to relax and lay down, stand and move, or sit and talk - and perhaps a combination. Have questions? Book a quick call with Thu.
Here’s a summary of your choices.
Movement:
🌬️ TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises)
Release deep stress and tension through neurogenic tremors and let your body exhale what it no longer needs.
🌾 Medical Qi Gong
Personalized breath and movement sequences to restore energy flow, clear stagnation, and support healing.
Laying down on a massage table
Access Bars
A gentle touch practice that clears mental clutter and invites deep calm through 32 points on the head.
🧠 Nervous System Calibration
Reset and rewire misfiring stress patterns using manual muscle testing and subtle nervous system interventions.
Seated and upright
🧭 Coaching Conversations
Explore what you want, what you have, and what’s in the way — with clear, compassionate support to help you move forward.
🌕 Intuitive Somatic Coaching
An integrative session blending coaching, somatics, energy work, and body-based awareness to help you listen to your deepest truth.
