119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
Up to 12 in group
July 23 - 27, 2025
About this Retreat
Stephanie MacKay is the Co-founder and Director of Fianna Wilderness School. She specializes in ancestral knowledge, earth-based skills, ceremony and myth. She has a degree in literature, and her work is informed by over 15 years of practice and study through Animas Valley Institute, Haven Institute, Wilderness Awareness School, and 12 years of study with Martín Prechtel.
She is a fiercely compassionate facilitator, mentor and guide in search of perspectives and practices to deepen the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Stephanie is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of old European mythologies, within our own bodies, and within our ancestral memory.
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
Details of this retreat
Enter into a deep study of Myth, as a doorway to the numinous realms of Soul and Land. As the ancient teachings of the Myth unfurl, we will engage with them through land-based practices and retrieving deep images. An Indo-European myth will accompany us in our process of searching for our lost Soul pelts.
Masks and other media, as intersections between the other world and the inner world, will be used to receive images of our lost gifts, and to feed our relationship with both. We will nourish life as we engage in story, land, and by giving form to the part of us that are waiting to be remembered.
Join Stephanie MacKay and Stéphanie Marchal for a gathering around old Indo-European stories that carry the seed memory of an ancient way of feeding life. We will wander through the teachings of one story, allowing our curiosity and the story Soul to guide us. Along the way, we will attempt to court the remaining vestiges of an intact, earth-based culture and spirituality.
The gathering will include an in-depth study of the story, mask and other shape-making, deepening practices, ceremony, and connection with the land. As the process unfolds, we will find whispers of profound beauty that touch our deepest longings, nourish our souls, and offer us guidance towards a life of reverence and reciprocity.
Ground for this work
GUIDED BY MYTH
HELD BY THE LAND
SUPPORTED BY MYSTERY
What to expect:
Group ceremony and wild ritual
Land-based practices to deepen into Soul
Council sharing practice
Clear and strong container
Mask making
Deepening exercises such as dyads, deep imagination journeys, writing prompts…
Dinners provided.
Possible work-trade and receipts for some insurance purposes.
**For more information about this work, visit SacredWeaving.org**
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