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!!

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.

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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

Years ago, when I was a practicing Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher,  I attended a 6 day intensive BodySoul Rhythms® retreat, a method developed by Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman, Mask Specialist Ann Skinner and Movement Professor Mary Hamilton, it was a profound experience, one that shifted the trajectory of my life with renewed purpose.

Inspired, I returned to Graduate studies, earning a Master’s Degree in Counseling, the Creative & Expressive Arts, and Holistic Leadership to further support the women I worked with.  For nearly 20 years, I've regularly held space for women’s gatherings and

ritual within the wise women traditions, and more recently, intimate workshops with a focus in Somatic Exploration, Story, Dreams, Art, Movement, and Creativity utilizing various modalities of embodied processing.  I’m a nationally licensed with Board Certification Body Therapist.

Further inspired in my continued BodySoul Rhythms® journey, and recognizing how beneficial this work was and needed, after completing studies, and a career change, I founded and am Director for a small not-for-profit organization which brings this work to women that might not otherwise have access to it.  Additionally, in tending the legacy and growth of BodySoul Rhythms® work, I am in service, as Board Member, to the Marion Woodman Foundation. Thank you to Janice, Jeanne and Polly for introducing me to this work.   I'm currently 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, Marian Dunlea, Director of Training for BodySoul Rhythms® Europe.

For the past 10 years, I’ve been fortunate to sit at the feet of a prolific and profoundly wise teacher, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes, Senior Jungian Analyst and beloved author of, “Women Who Run With the Wolves”.  With Dr. Estés Réyes, I trained in her residential study program at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross Cultural Studies which greatly informs the way I walk in this world; as does an empowering experience as an apprentice in a women’s mystery school with ALisa Starkweather.  My work is also informed by Advanced Training in Shadow Work® & Shadow Types®.  I’m a Graduate of the Musea Center for Intentional Creativity and Consciousness taught by Shiloh Sophia.  With a ceaseless curiosity of all things Depth Psychology, Mythopoeticism, Alchemy and Animistica, I continue to learn on this journey and continue my studies as a student at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

I’m a native New Yorker, currently residing in Florida taking in the warm Sun and Waters. Prior to this life shift, my history includes working in International Finance on Wall Street, becoming a Mother and Homeschooler, then in Hospitality Management, the Performance Arts, and Live Events Production Coordination before moving into the Healing Arts.

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

Connect with Laurie via email here

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.