Sarah Frizelle is a counselor in private practice in Victoria BC who offers wholistic counselling to individuals, couples and families. She has worked with individuals in roles of educator, psychotherapist and wilderness guide for over 25 years, sometimes combining all three roles in nature-based therapy or eco-psychology with individuals and groups.
Sarah works to support positive personal, family and cultural level changes. She embraces transformative learning and is dedicated to unleash the creative gifts and potential of people to heal and transform, in support of creativity, collaboration and innovation.
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”.
Getting Here
Cedar Song, 119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
Accommodation
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.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Customer Reviews
4.86 out of 5.0 average rating
5.0
Verified
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.
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.
5.0
Verified
Very compassionate, caring and easy to talk to
Sarah has a gift of deep listening and reflecting back one's strengths, grief, love and longing in an easy, gentle, compassionate way. She is at home with the language of magic and mystery, and welcomes the journey into dark and scary places in search of lost treasures.
4.0
Verified
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.
5.0
Verified
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!
Select your options
Available Dates
March 2, 2025
Select a Room
Pay what you can. Higher fees will support scholarships. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact us if you need financial support. No refund or transfers.
Verified
