119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
Up to 12 in group
November 17, 2024
About this Retreat
Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations. She is a wilderness personal guide, and studied with Animas Valley Institute and Francis Weller among others. She works with people toward recovering their wholeness, uncovering their gifts, and applying these in their lives and for the good of their community. She has experienced wilderness as a powerful ally in these tasks.
She is personally interested in supporting deep and courageous transformations driven by the participants. One of Stephanie's focus is to support the weaving of authentic experiences and visions with the person's embodied life. She's a firm supporter of people's authentic voices and helps them be heard. She uses dream images, guided journeys and somatic practices to help clarify the thread to deep experience, and support integration and manifestation.
Some of Stéphanie's integration work is brought into psychedelic-assisted therapy as she is legally trained to support the use of psilocybin, MDMA and Ketamine.
Visit Stéphanie's page: www.SacredWeaving.org
My personal journey is one of passion for story-tracking and celebrating life with heart. Ritual and ceremony have been hallmarks in my personal and professional life to create the context for this kind of intimacy to grow and take root as a way of being in this precious world. Every day, I seek to fall in love with the world at my fingertips, and to embrace poet Jalal al-Din Rumi’s invitation to “let the beauty we love be what we do”, finding my own way to “kneel and kiss the ground.
Brooke's page: www.fireandhoney.ca
Details of this retreat
Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by Earth, community, and ceremony.
Interweaving the language of wild ritual, group ceremony, council sharing practice, and contemplative practices on the land, we will create a community container to mutually support and witness each other as we move into the sacred grounds of grief and love.
On-land/indoor gathering, Sundays 10am-5pm, once a season, ongoing yearly, on beautiful Cedar Song land, nestled in parks and visited by a creek.
Ground for this work
SAFE CONTAINER FOR EXPRESSION
HELD BY THE LAND
NURTURED BY COMMUNITY
What to expect:
Group ceremony and wild ritual
Contemplative practices on the land
Council sharing practice
The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Come to rest your sorrows seasonally, held by earth, community, and ceremony.
We might hold the wish that we, too, “come into the peace of wild things”.
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