Embodying our Ancient Stories through Ceremony
With Dr. Stéphanie Marchal and Stephanie MacKay
August 23 – 25, 2024
Enter into a deep study of Myth, as a doorway to the numinous realms of Soul and Land.
As the ancient teachings of the Myth unfurl, we will engage with them through land-based practices and mask making.
Masks are gifted to us from the intersection between the other world and the inner world, to feed our relationship with both. We will nourish life as we engage in story, land, and by giving form to the masks that are waiting for us to remember them.
Join Stephanie MacKay and Stéphanie Marchal for a gathering around old Indo-European stories that carry the seed memory of an ancient way of feeding life. We will wander through the teachings of one story, allowing our curiosity and the story Soul to guide us. Along the way, we will attempt to court the remaining vestiges of an intact, earth-based culture and spirituality.
The gathering will include an in-depth study of the story, mask-making, deepening practices, ceremony, and connection with the land. As the process unfolds, we will find whispers of profound beauty that touch our deepest longings, nourish our souls, and offer us guidance towards a life of reverence and reciprocity.
Ground for this work:
- GUIDED BY MYTH
- HELD BY THE LAND
- SUPPORTED BY MYSTERY
What to expect:
- Group ceremony and wild ritual
- Land-based practices to deepen into Soul
- Council sharing practice
- Clear and strong container
- Mask making
- Deepening exercises such as dyads, deep imagination journeys and writing prompts
About the Leaders
Stéphanie Marchal
Dr. Stéphanie Marchal 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 also a registered psychologist working in Victoria, BC. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations.
Stephanie MacKay
Stephanie MacKay is the Co-founder and Director of Fianna Wilderness School. She specializes in ancestral knowledge, earth-based skills, ceremony and myth. She has a degree in literature, and her work is informed by over 15 years of practice and study through Animas Valley Institute, Haven Institute, Wilderness Awareness School, and 12 years of study with Martín Prechtel.
She is a fiercely compassionate facilitator, mentor and guide in search of perspectives and practices to deepen the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Stephanie is dedicated to uncovering the vestiges of intact cultural origins within the body of old European mythologies, within our own bodies, and within our ancestral memory.
Diving deep
I highly recommend this retreat for anyone who is interested into diving deep into their own psyche. Committing 100% to the experience is highly recommended.
~ S.L. | Participant