From Myth to Soul Pelt: a Journey of Embodiment of our Ancient Stories

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119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Up to 12 in group
Date
July 23 - 27, 2025

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

Your Guides

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**

 

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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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.

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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!