Having celebrated it's 10th year since opening, the Inner Arts Collective is a community of individuals dedicated to helping people thrive. This is made possible by a constant vigilance to self-care, personal development, and collaboration. Together, we create a healing hub for the new millennium, bringing health, positive energy, and personal development opportunities to each other, our communities and the planet.
We are a coworking space, and have survived this far because we as Members pool our resources. We are a 100% staff-free, Membership-run organization. Our location on the Danforth is filled with donated furniture, walls we painted ourselves, floor we laid, and the reverberations of thousands of souls who have relaxed, released and replenished within its walls. We welcome and are incredibly grateful for the support of our local and global community, our families, and our clients, to help us through the good times and help us learn from the challenges.
Meet Our Members
What We Do
At Inner Arts Collective we offer membership plans to practitioners seeking healing spaces to meet clients, collaborative work space to network with other practitioners or work on projects, and group spaces to attend or offer classes, workshops, or retreats. We also offer space for community groups (spiritual communities, meditation circles, peer circles) to create a home for their group offerings. Membership plans range from $44-$2000/month, based on the time and space needs of the practitioner / community.
How We Differ From The Rest
Inner Arts Collective is not a typical coworking office space. Membership also includes networking opportunities, the chance to be part of the Danforth BIA, our Rosseau Sanctuary, unlimited access to the main floor lounge to work on personal projects, and opportunities to attend monthly professional Development Workshops. Members are encouraged to book their own professional events or workshops as well, as part of connecting professionally with the collective and increasing awareness about what you do within the community.
At Inner Arts Collective, support is reciprocal: The more you put into collaborating and receiving support at the IAC, the more you get out of it. No member is required to participate in any of our events, however the more connections one makes, the more opportunities they have to grow themselves and their practice. At the IAC you can grow your practice, your professional community and your clientele simultaneously, all the while keeping it affordable, co-operative and Fun.
For clients, the IAC is an safe and compassionate oasis for self-care and personal development. Our Members offer a range of services to meet you where you're at, be it body, mind, or soul.
We are a coworking space, and have survived this far because we as Members pool our resources. We are a 100% staff-free, Membership-run organization. Our location on the Danforth is filled with donated furniture, walls we painted ourselves, floor we laid, and the reverberations of thousands of souls who have relaxed, released and replenished within its walls. We welcome and are incredibly grateful for the support of our local and global community, our families, and our clients, to help us through the good times and help us learn from the challenges.
Meet Our Members
What We Do
At Inner Arts Collective we offer membership plans to practitioners seeking healing spaces to meet clients, collaborative work space to network with other practitioners or work on projects, and group spaces to attend or offer classes, workshops, or retreats. We also offer space for community groups (spiritual communities, meditation circles, peer circles) to create a home for their group offerings. Membership plans range from $44-$2000/month, based on the time and space needs of the practitioner / community.
How We Differ From The Rest
Inner Arts Collective is not a typical coworking office space. Membership also includes networking opportunities, the chance to be part of the Danforth BIA, our Rosseau Sanctuary, unlimited access to the main floor lounge to work on personal projects, and opportunities to attend monthly professional Development Workshops. Members are encouraged to book their own professional events or workshops as well, as part of connecting professionally with the collective and increasing awareness about what you do within the community.
At Inner Arts Collective, support is reciprocal: The more you put into collaborating and receiving support at the IAC, the more you get out of it. No member is required to participate in any of our events, however the more connections one makes, the more opportunities they have to grow themselves and their practice. At the IAC you can grow your practice, your professional community and your clientele simultaneously, all the while keeping it affordable, co-operative and Fun.
For clients, the IAC is an safe and compassionate oasis for self-care and personal development. Our Members offer a range of services to meet you where you're at, be it body, mind, or soul.
How We Began
Born in August of 2014, Inner Arts Collective was essentially a response created out of a combination of offer and need. Several practitioners were renting a healing room together from Melanie at the Village Healing Centre, using a flexible calendar-sharing model coupled with potlucks, pooling resources for marketing and practice costs, and constant improvements to the space and model based on feedback from both clients and practitioners. A growing need by other practitioners to rent the space in this model came at the same time that Sarah received lease offer for a larger wellness studio, so Melanie and Sarah decided to collaborate on the creation of a new, larger version of the healing room.
The basic outline of the business came easily, as it was addressing a gap in practitioners and healers in their need of affordable space, a flexible schedule and a desire to be part of a community while maintaining their independence in their practice. Coworking offered a perfect model. Melanie and Sarah registered the business, completed their business plan, and moved forward with having a lawyer review the lease offer. The lease was not aligned with the model, but the lawyer suggested that despite this initial set-back, the idea was solid and needed to be realized.
This lead Sarah and Melanie to find their first location, at the Oddfellow's building of 2 College Street, in 2015. Moving in over 2 freezing cold January days, the Inner Arts Collective spent the next 10 months growing and fostering an amazing core community. By October that same year, they found out about a series of major construction projects happening on and around the corner. The noise began to escalate, so they decided that in order to support the Members in their practice, we had to move again.
Born in August of 2014, Inner Arts Collective was essentially a response created out of a combination of offer and need. Several practitioners were renting a healing room together from Melanie at the Village Healing Centre, using a flexible calendar-sharing model coupled with potlucks, pooling resources for marketing and practice costs, and constant improvements to the space and model based on feedback from both clients and practitioners. A growing need by other practitioners to rent the space in this model came at the same time that Sarah received lease offer for a larger wellness studio, so Melanie and Sarah decided to collaborate on the creation of a new, larger version of the healing room.
The basic outline of the business came easily, as it was addressing a gap in practitioners and healers in their need of affordable space, a flexible schedule and a desire to be part of a community while maintaining their independence in their practice. Coworking offered a perfect model. Melanie and Sarah registered the business, completed their business plan, and moved forward with having a lawyer review the lease offer. The lease was not aligned with the model, but the lawyer suggested that despite this initial set-back, the idea was solid and needed to be realized.
This lead Sarah and Melanie to find their first location, at the Oddfellow's building of 2 College Street, in 2015. Moving in over 2 freezing cold January days, the Inner Arts Collective spent the next 10 months growing and fostering an amazing core community. By October that same year, they found out about a series of major construction projects happening on and around the corner. The noise began to escalate, so they decided that in order to support the Members in their practice, we had to move again.
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257 Danforth Avenue
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2 College Street
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Danforth and Riverdale (2016 to present)
Melanie had a background in community development, and knew that community involvement in this relocation would be detrimental to maintaining the momentum that was building within our community. So over the next month, Melanie and Sarah conducted a community consultation process to learn from our members what their dream location would be. As those results were being synthesized, they found the most perfect home at 257 Danforth! It was love at first sight. Although it was triple the cost and the space, all meditations with the land and consultations with our community confirmed it to be perfect for being a hub of healing and community. Miraculously, 2 investors came forward to sponsor our relocation, and our landlords offered us a lower lease to begin, with tiered increase over our first 2 years. The dream was becoming a reality! Once the papers were signed for a 10 year lease, we gathered our Members to clear and bless the space and the land, gathered donations and support to renovate and furnish it, and opened doors for January 1st, 2016. We are now located at 257 Danforth Ave, in the heart of Riverdale. Nestled between Broadview and Chester stations. We offer 40 members a beautiful space and an incredible location to see clients and build community - The neighbourhood is more than we could have ever asked for. |
