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Alchemical Constellations Training & Facilitator Certification

Name: Alchemical Constellations Training & Facilitator Certification
Start: 2026-04-15
End: 2026-04-19
Location: Menla
Rating: 4.73

4.7315 reviews

375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

April 15 - 19, 2026

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Emily

Dan

Emily Blefeld, LICSW

Emily Blefeld, LICSW, is an internationally recognized Systemic Family Constellations trainer, facilitator, and psychotherapist. With more than two decades of experience, she specializes in supporting change-makers, healers, and entrepreneurs to dismantle outdated paradigms, narratives, and ancient codes that limit their growth. Known for her extraordinary intuitive gifts and ability to commune with the ancestral realm, Emily skillfully attunes to the subtle dimensions of consciousness to help individuals release intergenerational trauma and live with greater authenticity, express their love more fully, and align with their life’s purpose. Emily’s professional approach integrates psychotherapy, coaching, and mentoring with advanced methods in Systemic Family Constellations, Core Energetics, Compassionate Spirit Release, and Women’s Mystery Traditions. She holds a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is certified in a range of therapeutic modalities that support holistic healing and transformation. Emily has presented at premier institutions including the Omega Institute, Kripalu, and the North American Systemic Constellations Conference, and served on the faculty of the North American Constellation Intensive. In addition to her private practice, she leads trainings and workshops across the U.S. and internationally in countries including Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Bali, Germany, and Africa. When she’s not guiding clients or leading workshops, Emily walks the ocean shore of Aquinnah, where she resides—gathering inspiration from the tides and the whispers of the land. She receives nourishment from ritual, gratitude, and the simple act of greeting each new day with movement under the rising sun, offering thanks for the unseen worlds that shape her path. Rooted in reverence and alive with boundless energy, Emily is frequently found in heartfelt gatherings with friends and family or joyfully supporting the creative visions of others. A natural night owl, Emily does some of her most inspired work under moonlight, when the veils are thin and her love of the liminal hums with possibility. Whether guiding a constellation or shaping magazine cuttings into soulful vision, Emily brings deep presence, mythic insight, and wild reverence for the mystery that connects us all. Her artistry bridges healing and imagination, inviting others to join her in the sacred dance between worlds.

Dan Cohen, PhD

Dan Cohen, PhD specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families heal the effects of inherited trauma and fulfill their deepest longings for love, connection, and meaningful impact. He has a particular passion for addressing generational trauma passed down through war, genocide, and the legacy of slavery. Blending a near-encyclopedic knowledge of world history, mythology, and culture with an uncanny psychic awareness, Dan offers profound, transformative healing that restores peace of mind and expands new possibilities for life’s flourishing. Before earning his PhD in psychology and training directly with Bert Hellinger as a Constellations facilitator, Dan was internationally recognized for his work in violence prevention and conflict resolution. As a former Strategic Planning consultant to the Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he pivoted away from national security to become a founding member of the City of Cambridge(MA) Peace Commission in 1981. For over four decades, he has devoted himself to understanding the violent and hostile urges that shadow the human heart. Since 2000, Dan has been a leading voice in integrating personal, ancestral, and spirit consciousness into therapeutic practice. He holds a PhD in psychology from Saybrook University and an MBA from Boston University. Dan is the author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He has led Seeing with Your Heart workshops and training courses across 19 countries in Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, South America, Africa, and throughout the United States. When he’s not with clients or teaching, Dan can be found writing reflections on a recent class, chasing the latest theories on consciousness, or reading scientific research most people wouldn’t touch without a glossary. He walks daily along the shore of Martha’s Vineyard with his dog Ruby, listening for eternal truths in the ocean wind—and occasionally offering dry commentary in return. A devoted father, partner, and adoring grandfather, Dan lights up most when his family and dear friends are near. In his world, brilliance and humility walk side by side—stalking wise words and wisecracks in equal measure. A longtime Red Sox fan, he’s intimately acquainted with hope and heartbreak—and still shows up to every season with unwavering enthusiasm tempered by just the right amount of irony.

Details of this retreat

See with Your Heart. Live from Your Heart. Lead Through Your Heart.
The Seeing with Your Heart Alchemical Constellations Training and Facilitator Certification is for individuals ready to untie the tangled threads of past generational sorrows, free themselves to live into the possibilities of spontaneous creation, and expand their lives, healing practice, and work. The training includes both online and in-person elements, which combine advanced teaching with epic transformational constellations. You’ll receive expert guidance, masterful facilitation and powerful integration of the stories, blocks and unseen traumas that come to be
witnessed, transformed, and woven into a greater sense of wholeness.

Everything you desire to create in life, whether in your family, relationships, career, community, or the greater issues facing the planet, begins and ends with your own emotions, mind, body, heart, and consciousness. Our advanced tools are designed to teach you how to harmonize these with the lifeforce that comes from the earth beneath our feet, the cells of our bodies and the greater cosmos. Seeing with Your Heart means accessing your body’s evolutionary capacity to perceive and integrate the ordinary, ancestral, and spiritual dimensions of consciousness that are at the core of what it means to be human. The training introduces a rhythmic approach to
facilitate Constellations and artfully grow a private practice, while transmuting the effects of inherited family trauma, disempowering cultural fractals, and collective suffering.

This is for you if…

Your current modality isn’t enough anymore. You crave a deeper, more integrated way to support transformation for yourself and others.
You want to strengthen and trust in your intuitive abilities. It’s time to put them to use and make your life more heart-led, mystical, spontaneous and delightfully fulfilling.
You feel the weight of ancestral trauma and are ready to untangle their threads
You know in your bones, that healing is not just personal – it is planetary. That magic is a natural expression of being fully alive and that staying awake in a sleepwalking world is an act of resistance and devotion.
You’re ready to stop identifying with your wounds and start living from your wisdom.
You’ve taken multiple workshops and many courses on different healing modalities and while each one lights you up, you’re still looking for the one that feels like lightning.

Hear what people are saying about their experience in the program…

"This moment in time is one that is fully supporting the all of us to step forward - to find and share our gifts - to build community - to step into the new world - to love ourselves and each other more than ever before. If you desire support in your blossom - this is where you will find it!" - Elizabeth Lynn Rohr, Graduate

“The value of this program goes far beyond patching up your current dilemmas; it reaches into your soul and illuminates the truth that lies deep within us all. Emily and Dan’s unique methodology, shared wisdom, and impeccable support not only created deep, palpable shifts in my life, but also equipped me with the concrete tools and intuitive vision to access the wellspring of knowledge that the conscious field provides.” - Elise Bish, Graduate

To learn more visit https://seeingwithyourheart.com/act-certification/

Wednesday, April 15

3 - 6 pm Arrival and Check-in
6-7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 pm Welcome Circle (Naranda Conference Center)
9:30 - 10 pm Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)

Thursday, April 16

7 - 7:40 am Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12:00 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 9:00 pm Evening Program
9 - 10 pm Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)

Friday, April 17

7 - 7:40 am Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
1 - 1:45 pm Optional Hearthtending (Devi Room)
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 9 pm Evening Program
9 - 10 pm Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)

Saturday, April 18

7 - 7:40am Optional Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Break
9:30 am - 12 pm Morning Program
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2 pm Break
1 - 1:45 pm Optional Hearthtending (Devi Room)
2 - 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 - 6 pm Break
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7 - 7:30 pm Break
7:30 - 10 pm Closing Session & Party

Sunday, April 19

7 - 7:40am Movement & Integration (Naranda Conference Center)
7 - 8 am Pack Up/Check-Out of Rooms
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 - 9:30 am Pack Up/Check-Out of Rooms
9:30 am - 11:30 am Closing Program
11:30am - 12:30 pm Gather Items, Photos, Goodbyes
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 Departure

*Please note this schedule is subject to change.

Getting Here

Menla, 375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

Accommodation

Deluxe King

Deluxe King Room with King Bed and Private Bathroom Free Phone and Hi-Speed Wifi Internet Access Available Air Conditioning This Space is not ADA compliant. Deluxe King Rooms are Available only in Kathmandu House * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations

Deluxe Queen

Deluxe Queen Room with Queen Bed and Private Bathroom Free Phone and Hi-Speed Wifi Internet Access Available Air Conditioning All Rooms in Lhasa are Handicap-Accessible, Including Four Rooms with Wheelchair Accessible Showers. Deluxe Queen Rooms are Available in Lhasa Inn and Kathmandu House * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations

Economy Premium Single - Shared Bath

Standard Premium Single Room with a Queen or Full Bed and Shared Bathroom Up to 10 guests share two large bathrooms. Each bathroom has two shower stalls and two toilets. A phone is not available but high-speed WiFi is available in the room Phone Access Available in Upper Level Of Conference Center. All calls are free of charge This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note rates include meals and accommodations.

Economy Single - Shared Bath

Standard Single Room with a Twin Bed and Shared Bathroom Bathroom is Shared with One to Six Other Guests on Your Floor. A phone is not available but high-speed WiFi is available in the room Phone Access Available in Nearby Conference Center and also Lhasa in Business Center. All calls are free of charge. This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note rates include meals and accommodations.

Economy Double - Shared Bath (Shared Room)

Standard Double with Twin Beds and Shared Bathroom The bathroom is Shared with other rooms on the same floor. High-speed Wi-Fi is available in the room. Phone Access Available in Nearby Conference Center and also Lhasa in Business Center. All calls are free of charge. This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations * Please note: this is an open door policy room, meaning there are no keys to lock the door (we have lockers you can use at Lhasa if needed) * This booking is for one bed in a double shared room: We May Assign You Roommates if You Do Not Register with others

Economy Quad - Shared Bath (Shared Room)

Standard Quad Room with Quad Twin Beds and Shared Bathroom Accommodations Fee Includes All Meals. High speed Wi-Fi is available in the room. Phone Access Available in Nearby Conference Center and also Lhasa in Business Center. All calls are free of charge. This Lodging Type is not ADA Compliant. * Please note that rates include meals and accommodations * Please note: this is an open door policy room, meaning there are no keys to lock the door (we have lockers you can use at Lhasa if needed) * This booking is for one bed in a quad shared room: We May Assign You Roommates if You Do Not Register with others.

Customer Reviews

4.73 out of 5.0 average rating

Amit • Jan 04, 2026

5.0

Verified

An Awesome Retreat Experience for mind and body

I went into IGNITING 2026: Light the Fire of Joy through Compassion at the Menla Institute thinking it would be “nice.” It ended up being so much more than I expected - one of those retreats that leaves you feeling genuinely lighter, more grounded, and strangely energized in the best way.

Food: Truly ah-mazing. Since it was vegan and gluten-free, I was expecting it to be… fine. Instead, everything was full of flavor, thoughtfully prepared, and satisfying. And the desserts at dinner? Honestly, a highlight on their own.

Dr. Bob Thurman: The star of the show. Every one of us LOVED his talks. He’s wildly knowledgeable, sharp, and somehow manages to make profound teachings feel totally alive and accessible. Also: he is hilarious. We were completely locked in listening to him - equal parts learning and laughing.

Yoga (Michele Loew): I loved Michele’s classes. She guided the whole group through a beautiful sequence - warm-up, deep stretching, and meditation - in a way that felt supportive and skillful. Her Yoga Nidra was especially powerful, and having Arjun join for the sound bath made it even more immersive.

Krishna Das: Forever the best. He’s the reason we showed up - and he delivered that heart-opening magic he always does. What I didn’t expect was how much I’d also love Michele and Dr. Thurman. This retreat wasn’t just “Krishna Das + extras” - it felt like a complete, beautifully balanced experience.

Marina Abramović: What a soul. Hearing her story - where she came from, what she endured, and how she continues to transform - was deeply moving. She carries a kind of strength and honesty that makes you reflect on your own life in a meaningful way.

Gratitude: Special thanks to Piotr for the tech setup. He was fantastic - calm, capable, and it made everything run smoothly.

Overall, this retreat felt like a real New Year reset - a blend of dharma, movement, music, and reflection that actually lands in your body and your life. I left with more joy, more clarity, and a very full heart.

Song • Jan 04, 2026

5.0

Verified

Delighted and Ignited!

Everything was wonderful. The lodging, (Eva's cabin), the amazing food, and especially, everyone who works there, soul food on every level. Michelle's yoga and yoga nidra were unexpected highlights for me. She is emobodied wisdom. Can't imagine this retreat without her. I loved yoga with John Campbell of course--it would be wonderful to have both!!! Like she could do morning and he could have afternoon offering? The yoga nidra and soundscape were very powerful and transformational. Of course, Bob Thurman is a delight and central. The kirtan was so nourishing and pure pleasure. I am just awed by the experience that was created. Divine abundance. The part that couldn't be "controlled" of course by Menla, is the other retreaters--and my fellow passengers were so wise, funny, earnest, kind, considerate, adult--exactly who would be drawn to such an event, at that time, as I had hoped. Did I mention how amazing Michelle is :-)?

Stephanie • Jan 02, 2026

5.0

Verified

Menla is a warm supportive space for personal growth and transformation

Everyone at Menla is devoted to provided a supportive space for personal growth. I am deeply grateful. And, the food is delicious.

Gabriela • Dec 25, 2025

5.0

Verified

Healty Place with nice peoples and magical nature. Rejouvinate and

Rejuvenating and restorative.Well equipped. Excellent food. Competent staff.

Anonymous • Nov 26, 2025

2.0

Verified

Disappointment with facilities (again)

I have been to Menla several times and I always enjoy the programming, food, and staff. I had a wonderful facial this weekend and a lovely women's retreat. However, the boiler broke in the building where I was staying and was moved to a dorm facility with the bathroom down the hall (not what I had booked). Unfortunately, this was not the first time that there was a problem with the room that I had planned on staying and had to be moved, which leads me to the conclusion that there is not great oversight of the facilities and I now expect there to be a problem coming in.

Alchemical Constellations Training & Facilitator Certification

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Emily Blefeld, LICSW

Dan Cohen, PhD

Details of this retreat

Getting Here