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Creating portals of transformation for you to step through.
- Joëlle Martina
Listen to our interview with Joëlle
Joëlle Martina is a Montrealer who moves fluently between worlds, dance, sport, fashion, art, parenting, and solo travel, and lets every one of them feed her need to connect with people of all ages. Speaking with another human is an art form for Joëlle, and she has built a practice around designing conversations that foster openness and integration, working with students, athletes, schools, families, and companies who come together with her guidance. Her gift is helping the people in front of her actually hear each other, and every community she touches feels the impact. At La Maison Ralia, Joëlle activated Room 201, an apartment-style space layered with cosy textures and quiet writing moments, and Content Room 2, a space built for the kind of conversations she facilitates so beautifully in person. Both rooms hold the same invitation, slow down, soften, and step through a portal of your own design.
Quick Links
Human Design Profile: Manifesting Generator
Best way to connect with Joëlle: @joellemartina on Instagram
Best way to follow her work: Les Lilas Society — where Joëlle's facilitation and community work lives.
Mini Tipi Blanket Choices: Birch in Room 201 (APT 3), and Kwe in Content Room 2 (APT 4). Every room at La Maison Ralia is layered with a Mini Tipi blanket because we believe in furnishing our hotel through Canadian makers who carry meaning into their craft. Mini Tipi is a women-led, Indigenous owned company whose blankets tell stories rooted in this land, and each Activator chose the one that resonated with them. When you wrap yourself in one, you are holding a piece of that story too.
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Rooms designed by Florence Charron of Indee Design. Every room at La Maison Ralia was designed by Florence, whose vision holds the architectural and sensory through line that runs across the entire building.
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About the Activator Program
The Activator Program is the heart of what makes a stay at La Maison Ralia different. Every room in our hotel has been designed by Montreal's own Florence Charron of Indee Design, then handed over to a local Activator, a Montrealer whose work, energy, and story shape the soul of the space. Each Activator walked their own Human Design journey to arrive at the decisions they made for their room, so when you stay with us, you are not just sleeping in beautiful surroundings, you are stepping into a curated expression of a real person, their craft, and their gifts to this city.
We chose this model because we believe regenerative hospitality starts with relationship. Featuring Montreal makers, healers, designers, and founders inside our walls is how we keep the local economy circulating, invite guests into genuine connection, and honour the philosophy that has shaped Ralia from day one: we are inviting you to the table. Explore the rest of our Activator blogs to meet the Montrealers behind each room, and discover the businesses we want you to fall in love with too.