Art is Medicine. This day long retreat is crafted as an artistic rite of passage journey allowing pregnant mamas to reveal their innermost expression in this precious time of construction of a new identity. By sitting together in council, dancing, entering in contact with our higher self and spirit baby & photography, we’ll make this day most nourishing, creative and transformative. Part of the experience includes a soulful photoshoot, capturing your true essence.
WHY GATHERING?
This day long creative retreat is designed to celebrate and honor the powerful soul journey pregnant women enter as she prepares herself to give birth to a child.
Who am I in this rebirth?
Who am I called to be?
How can I connect deeper to my ancestral roots?
What does it mean to be a mother during these wild times?
BUILDING THE VILLAGE
Coming into motherhood is a remarkable Rite of Passage. Life altering, identity morphing, and so sacred.
You may be feeling a mix of profound inspiration, excitement, fear, loneliness and energized.
Most often in this culture, the focus is put on preparing for the arrival of the baby while your inner journey is left behind.
Sometimes, we even forget that we, new mamas, need one another. We need each other to be loving allies and generous friends. We need each other to feel whole, capable, abundant, and resilient. We need each other to express and celebrate each other’s creative spirit. We need each other be clear mirrors. We need each other to honor the power and vulnerability that we all feel. We need each other to help us get back on our feet and in our heart when we are falling. We need each other to stand by our sides when we are stepping up. We need each other to heal, transmute old stories and reveal parts of ourselves we don’t know existed.
We need each other to protect and serve life in ways that we can only do together. So let’s honor this rite of passage in the most creative, supportive and embodied ways.
This lunch gathering is an invitation to step out of the day-to-day demands, investing in our bodies, hearts and souls.
We will share food, potluck style, weaving the fabric of new mamas as allies.
We will tune into our truth until our most authentic selves show her faces within our sisterhood.
Let’s gather. Find our ground. Open our hearts. Be in our truths.
Everyone who identify as female and expect a new born, or recently gave birth, is welcome.
THE GIFT
This Artistic Rite of Passage Retreat offers an emotional, spiritual and soulful community space to consciously mark one of the most potent and transformative phases of their life.
By harnessing the power of sisterhood, healing arts, creative rituals and consciousness practices, we will open a sacred ground. Be prepared to delve into who you really are, celebrate what’s moving through you and take you through an archetypal journey reflecting different parts of yourself in your wholeness.
WHO IS INVITED
The retreat will bring a unique circle of 12 pregnant women and mamas who gave birth during the past few months, who each value the power of sisterhood, ceremony, deep listening, celebration and creative expression as medicine.
The retreat will be spacious, integrative, nourishing and rooted in stillness, allowing each participant the space to deepen relationship with their soul and the soul that’s growing inside their womb.
THE GIFTS & MYTHIC FRAME
She who participates allows herself the unearth what helps her feel more whole, resilient and grounded as she enters this sacred phase of motherhood. Supported by the wheel of life, archetypal exploration and a mythic lens, we will explore personal, relational, universal and cultural aspects connected to this journey into conscious motherhood. Through out this journey of self-actualization, old identities, stories and limiting beliefs that are not authentic will be shed, deepening your capacity for joy, presence, connection. Organically, our vision will be nurtured, as well as emotional and spiritual skills will be developed to better meet this new chapter.
This day long retreat is designed as an artistic healing journey allowing each participant to unearth the different parts of themself and celebrate who you are becoming. We will explore dance, music, poetry & photography as medicine, documenting our experiences in video and photography.
RETREAT FORMAT
In person retreats
Part 1 : Sacred Pregnancy as Rite of Passage
Saturday March 27th, 2020 - 10-5:30pm
Part 2: Photography as Rite of Passage
Saturday April 18th, 2020 - 10-5:30pm
Online retreat
Weds 5pm PT (90 min Zoom call) *
April 1st & April 8th - Two calls focused on the Maiden & Mother Archetype.
April 15th - Preparation for the Archetypal Photography Rite of Passage Experience occurring Sat. April 18th.
* For those who can’t attend the online calls, a recording will be sent to you via email.
CREATIVE OUTPUT OF PART 2 OF LIVE RETREAT
Archetypal photography capturing the essence of the participants. Each participants will receive one to three images of themselves, web friendly. Higher resolution will be available for purchase for additional cost.
YOUR GUIDES
Magalie Bonneau, Soul Guide
Our Guest Teacher
Aleks Evanguelidi, LM, CPM
Aleks Evanguelidi has been working in birth for 15 years. She began her work in birth while maintaining her presence as a nutritionist and as an herbalist and educator for Gaia Herbs. A firm believer and proponent in living a sustainable lifestyle, she utilizes her years of experience in nutrition to support her clients in having an extraordinary sense of wellness while preparing for conception or to experience the healthiest pregnancy possible. Having studied pre and perinatal psychology and birth, Aleks brings to her clients a profound sense of trust in their own bodies while supporting them in this tremendous period of transformation. Over the years Aleks has worked with over 3000 clients, opened and operated as Clinical Director at The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center, trained 25 student midwives, and has contributed to several documentaries and publications on birth related topics.