Emerge; a Spring Equinox Retreat

Welcome to EMERGE where we will weave the sacred and the mundane; where we will walk in two worlds.

Who: Curious and open hearted women ready to say YES to their next right steps toward a restored, rejuvenated, and awakened soul.

 

What: Emerge; A Spring Equinox Retreat for Women desiring a pause in the mundane to reclaim the sacred.  Your investment of $1800 includes: room/board, nine meals (beginning with dinner on Thursday 3/19 and ending with lunch Sunday 3/22), snacks, and all workshop activities.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT of $1500 with deposit of $300 to hold your place available through 8/9!!  

We have extended our EARLY BIRD through 9/22!!

When: Thursday, March 19th @  4pm - Sunday, March 22nd @ 2pm

 

Why:  In this consciously created container, participants will have the opportunity to experience story as medicine, healing as a practice, and creativity as a soulful expression. 

 

Where: The beautifully tended and held Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat Center in Wallingford, PA (just outside of Philadelphia).

 

 

Too often, women are the emotional and physical holders for their beloveds, friends, and families.  Making space for any amount of soulful inquiry or tending to the inner soul life can feel daunting and overwhelming.  At EMERGE, we want to shift that narrative and guide participants toward cultivating their own inner life while in a community setting.  There will be space for  solo exploration, as well as, time spent in circle with other participants. We believe that we need each other more than ever and making space for our personal growth work ripples healing to all those in our lives. 

Together, we'll use myth, image, dreams, creative exploration, expressive writing, discussion, gentle movement, breath, sound, and ritual in a gently supported and sacredly held container to access the inner experience, the inner life that's waiting to emerge. You will leave restored, rejuvenated, and connected to your awakening soul. 

The Spring Equinox is a point of perfect balance on the Soul's Journey through the  wheel of the year.  Both night and day are of equal length, in perfect equilibrium - dark and light, masculine and feminine, inner and outer. It is a time to cultivate the natural balance of all that is us, and all that surrounds us.

Register here!   Learn more here!

Your Facilitators 

Kristin Elaine Wilson, LCSW

Kristin is a White Southern Appalachian American queer cis-woman of European ancestry committed to partnering with organizations, groups, and individuals seeking a greater holistic sense of well-being by implementing liberatory relationship-based frameworks. 

Kristin has a long history as a therapist, coach, and facilitator working with individuals, families, and groups in healing from trauma, reclaiming one's power and "gold" from shadows (aspects that have been rejected, projected or repressed parts of oneself), and leveling up to grow and be in alignment living their best lives.

Kristin works nationally as a trainer and consultant for organizations, groups, and individuals with predominantly White identified people decolonizing and embodying a culture that aligns with liberatory values. She worked much of the past 9 years in Asheville, NC at Buncombe County DHHS, most recently as a Resiliency Coordinator and organizing member of the Racial Equity Group in Social Services, and Neutral Facilitator of Child and Family Team meetings in Child Protective Services to advocate for children and families and support social workers, community providers and supports to build a resilient, healthy community free of violence, abuse and neglect.  

Kristin has worked within the non-profit, private, and government sectors specializing in women’s empowerment, therapy, domestic violence, child protective services, anti-racism, spirit-centered work, LGBTQIA2S+ initiatives, youth work, leadership development, and holistic healing. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a MSW from Smith College School for Social Work with background studies in Shadow Work® and Naturopathic Medicine at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

Connect with Kristin via email here or through her website here

Laurie Martinez

Temenos Creatrix

My dedication is creating space for women's gatherings, ritual, and intimate workshops with a focus in Somatic Exploration, Story, Dreams, Art, Movement, and Creativity utilizing an interdisciplinary approach for embodied processing. 

I have a Master’s Degree in Counseling, the Creative & Expressive Arts, & Holistic Leadership and am a nationally board certified body therapist. My work has been inspired by BodySoul Rhythms®,  a method developed by Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, Mask Specialist Ann Skinner and Movement Professor Mary Hamilton.  

In 2018, I founded a small, grassroots not-for-profit organization which brings this work to women who might not otherwise have access to it.  Additionally, in tending the legacy and growth of BodySoul Rhythms® work, I'm in service as Board Member to the Marion Woodman Foundation. I'm also an assistant for the international professional development training program for BodyDreaming®; an embodied practice that helps to ground psychotherapy, and ensoul somatic practice, a unique methodology of a combination of the psychology of C.G. Jung, Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms®, Peter Levine's trauma therapy Somatic Experiencing®,  Neuroscience, Attachment and Developmental Theory,  developed by Jungian Analyst, and author, Marian Dunlea, Director of Training for BodySoul Rhythms® Europe.

For the past 10 years, I’ve had the good fortune to sit at the feet of a wise teacher, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, Senior Jungian Analyst and beloved author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves” in her residential study program at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross Cultural Studies. My study with Dr. Estés is the compass for my work and way of living; as well as my experience as apprentice in a women’s mystery school with ALisa Starkweather.  My work is also touched by Advanced Training in Shadow Work® & Shadow Types®.   I’m a Graduate of the Musea Center for Intentional Creativity and Consciousness and with a ceaseless curiosity of Depth Psychology, Mythopoeticism, Alchemy and Animistica, I continue my studies as student at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

I’m a native New Yorker, currently residing in Florida. My history includes working in International Finance on Wall Street, becoming a Mother and Homeschooling Mom, then in Hospitality Management, the Performance Arts, and Live Events Production Coordination before moving into the Healing Arts.

My current Archetype is Kitchen Witch, creating magic with a wooden spoon, Hearth Tender, Storyteller, Medicine Maker, living at the Forest’s Edge,….drop by the cottage for a cuppa along your journey.

Connect with Laurie via email here:  hello@mywomenscenter.org

 

Katie Chiaravolloti

Katie Chiaravolloti is a commitment to unearthing true self and bringing forth consciousness with curiosity and love. She is a queer, cis-gendered Soul Guide, an Emotional Baggage Hander and a Creatrix of Sacred Space. Having studied under Ann Sousa, an initiated elder of the West African Dagara Tradition, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, ALisa Starkweather, and within the teachings of BodySoul Rhythms®  (Marion Woodman, Anne Skinner, and Mary Hamilton) through Janice Steiber-Rous, Jean Ester, and Polly Howells, Katie believes that making space for one’s own inner wisdom (especially in community/groups settings) weaves the path toward healing.  Katie walks as a witness and guide for folks to discover and harness the gold that lives hidden in the shadowy places. She is a Shadow Types® Practitioner and Shadow Work® Facilitator and Coach. It is her hope and prayer that as one integrates one’s own healing, the ripples of love and care will blossom out to family, friends, and community.

 

Katie is part of the transition team holding the thread of hope for the world we are creating.  She can be found in South Jersey, weaving communities in healing ceremonies and is always up for an adventure.  Katie has been partnered for over 25 years and is mama to three young men who have been catalysts for consensual parenting, living a vibrant life, and transforming generational pain and trauma into a lineage of love and liberation.  She is a child-led, earth-based, secular homeschooling mama who has co-created and co-led various learning laboratories over the years. Co-creating embodied, healing spaces and ceremonies calls deeply to her being.