119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada
Up to 12 in group
October 16 - 20, 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.
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.
Details of this retreat
Bundles and Blessings - Ancestral Stories Known and Unknown
How we carry them, and the possibility for transformation
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Tending the Wounds and Accessing the Gifts of Ancestral Heritage
DEEP IN OUR BONES we carry ancestral stories that have been passed down to us over many generations. Woven in the shadows of time and family narratives are the ways we have been formed, with all the migrations, celebrations, tragedies, gifts and wounds. Hidden histories haunt us through a kind of longing for what we do not know: A longing for a sense of true belonging; to know where we come from; to know more fully who we are. The Bundle is what we carry.
During our time together, we will enter both landscape and deep imagination, to cross a threshold into the House of the Ancestors, to track the known and unknown people and stories that have shaped our lives in mysterious ways. There will be many opportunities to wander the landscape of the wild highland forest of Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, to listen with our bones and our hearts for ancestral energies, and engage with them and embody them through story, movement, and image.
Between wanders we will take up the soul practices of council, deep imagery, poetry, ceremony and dream work to court the Old Ones and sort the threads of our personal and collective stories. Through this process, we will seek a deepened sense of ourselves, find lost heirlooms, and possibly bring a balm to ancient wounds.
Our 4 days of together of deep listening will be a gift to the ancestors, as well as to ourselves. When we intimately encounter the ancestral stories living in our bones, our compassion for our own history as well as the world’s wounds opens up a depth of soulful understanding that can transform consciousness in ways essential to life on the planet.
Bundles and Blessings is inspired by the Bone House, created by soul guides Peter Scanlan and Annie Bloom, and taught to Stéphanie and Sarah by Peter Scanlan. We are honouring his trust in us to bring this work forward.
Please join us for us this opportunity for ancestor connection in Bundles and Blessings.
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