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Grief Grove - Deep listening to the songs of the heart

4.867 reviews
Location icon
119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Up to 12 in group
Date
November 17, 2024

Retreat Highlights

  • Nature wanders
  • Way of the council
  • Movement practices
  • Deep imagination
  • Soulcraft practices
  • Healing/Wholing exercises
  • Introduction to Bill Plotkin's map of the psyche

About this Retreat

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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”.

 



 

 

Getting Here

Location icon Cedar Song, 119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

Accommodation

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
This 54 acre lot in the Highlands is bordered by hundreds more acres of park land (Mt Work and Gowlland Tod) including lake, ocean and mountain access all directly from the property.Just 25 minutes from Victoria, it’s home to beautiful forests of Cedars, Arbutus, Fir and Maple; mossy bluffs with ocean views, a seasonal creek and waterfall; Ravens, Wrens and Cooper's Hawks.

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Customer Reviews

4.86 out of 5.0 average rating

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Nourishing program, facilitators, and land
The Cedar Song Center is in gorgeous, varied land that is tended with care: a perfect place for the nature-based explorations of land and psyche. I recently attended the Wild Mind Immersion, led by Stephanie Marchal and Sarah Frizelle.
Remembering, I'm nourished by the care, humour, wisdom and experience of the facilitators, as well as the gifts and camaraderie brought by the participants. The land held us in discovering how aspects of ourselves connect with the wild, providing mythically rich spots for soul encounters.
The childrens' nature school taking place elsewhere on the land felt supportive as well, as I reckon the land is glad to sense human little ones running around joyfully. I feel a kinship with the land, the hosts, and the work being done there.

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Beautiful land, incredible life-changing experience
I attended a ReWilding Immersion here in August, 2023. I sought out this experience to address a lack of connection I felt with the natural world, and could not have anticipated how much more I would get from this retreat.

I connected with my wholeness, called upon and honed my deep inner knowing, expressed long-held and largely unconscious feelings, and left feeling more aligned, healed and connected to myself and the more-than-human world.

Stephanie and Sarah were such incredible guides and facilitators, sharing their knowledge and gifts generously. They walked the perfect line of giving us space, freedom and trust to explore our own processes, while always being present if support was needed.

The land itself is incredible, with a variety of trees and plants and creatures to connect with. Pease Lake is a short walk away, and I enjoyed a few peaceful swims. The house was used to prepare our meals and held some of our gatherings. It all felt 10/10 perfect to me.

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Deep listener
My experience of Stephanie is that she is a compassionate and deep listener who asks skillful questions to gently nudge and deepen a person's understanding of themselves. She also has a sense of humour, and is down to earth.

4.0
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Gorgeous space!
Cedar Song is a beautiful space surrounded by nature. The kitchen is well stocked for all food prep, the bathrooms and showers are fine, and the big room is spacious, and beautifully adorned with elements of nature. There are different meeting places around the property, a large deck to dine on, and paths in multiple directions to wander onto the land.

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A fantastic retreat, expertly guided. Don't overthink it. Just sign up and go!
In speaking with a friend, I described my Rewilding retreat with Stephanie and Becky as "delightfully not spiritual," meaning that I wasn’t in the presence of a bunch of pseudo-spiritual egos trying to look all zenny while they were exploding on the inside. Instead, I felt privileged to be with an extraordinary group of very real and honest women who were being their perfectly imperfect selves while our guides expertly held the space for our explorations. I feel ongoing gratitude for the retreat and for all those who made it possible. Bill Plotkin's simple, yet brilliant map of the self and the sub-personalities continues to serve as a guide for my inner work. Highly recommended!