The Fire Within
Empowering the Creative Transition from Womanhood to Crone
June 29th -Oct 20th 2024, Vancouver Island
“Is it not a magical thing, this life, when just a little ash, cinder, and unclear water can arrange themselves into a beautiful old woman who sways, lifts, kisses, loves, sickens, argues, loses, bears up under it all, and, wrinkling, still lives under all that and yet feeds the Holy in Nature by just the way she moves barefoot down a path?”
- Martín Prechtel
About this Series
Join Stephanie MacKay and Cari Burdett as we gather to hold the sacred questions as we transition through (peri)menopause to Cronedom – in community, in strength, with the Land. This offering is for female-body individuals who have journeyed through so many moon cycles of the body, and are now stepping into new realms of what it means to be a woman at this time.
~ For mothers ~
~ For women who wanted to be mothers ~
~ For women who chose to intentionally not to be mothers ~
~ The grief and praise, and everything in between ~
We will ask the big questions and look to each other, our innate wisdom and the messages from the land to guide us on our journey.
What have I been doing and who am I becoming as I live into Crone?
It is said by wise old ones from around the world, this stage of life is our most “powerful” time as women. We will explore song, myth, ceremony, and creating beauty with our hands to reclaim the strength of our AGE.
We will touch our deepest longings, disrupt limiting beliefs from the dominant culture, and let our hearts and soul run wild!
Indigenous cultures have always recognized the new creative power that women have access to as they pass through menopause.
“‘As the bleeding stops, the fire goes within,’ Lakota elder Paula Gunn Allen says, noting also that in her tradition medicine women do not practice until they have reached their menopausal years.” ~Sharon Blackie, Hagitude.
June 29th – Sun 30th | Sat July 27th | Sat August 17th | Sat September 14th | Friday Oct 18th – Sunday Oct 20th
LOCATIONS: In the Wild on Vancouver Island and at Lila Music and Nature Centre, Duncan BC
PRICES: Early bird $950 (until May 15th). After that $1100.
Payment plans and scholarships are available by request and based on need.
**Registration is only permitted for the whole series.
4pm – 5pm Closing sharing, Gratitude.
**Overnights will include longer solo wanders and ceremony
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The Fire Within
5-Session Series
Session 1:
Air & Eagle & Arrows Sat
Connecting to Breath and our ability to soar as Eagle. Initial weekend to meet, connect, set intentions, build containers, create a craft that will be sent off with you on a mission, offerings of prayers and feeding our reciprocity. With a focus on air, we will sing, share stories, connect to our inner fire and unfold our intuitive myth making ways. We will embody and claim our power at this time in our lives with our voice, our prayers, while keeping an eagle eye on the sacred within.
June 29th – Sun 30th: 10 am – 4pm
In the Wild, Camping on Vancouver Island
Session 2:
Earth & Plant & Medicine
Honoring the earth, where all life comes from, we lay beside her and seek plant allies for support in medicine making. What songs and myths are alive in the mossy forest floor? How does the earth hold us in this time of transformation to the elder and aging self?
Sat July 27th: 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
Session 3:
Water & Salmon & Skin
Diving deep into the water allies and medicine of the sacred salmon, who swims away and returns home again. What lessons can we learn and where is our home in our body, heart, spirit, soul in this time as women? What skins are we shedding and what are we transforming into? Who are we now? Who are we becoming? What are we releasing? How does the water hold us and change us? What messages are we receiving from the waters as we grow into our crone years.
Sat August 17th: 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
Session 4:
Fire & Bear & Copper
The fire lives within us all, what is burning and wanting to become ash and coal? As a wild animal, how can we embrace and embody the sensual crawl of the bear? What lives inside the magic and beauty of copper? Fire as medicine is potent and life giving, giving answers to our scared questions. Working with alchemy copper may invite us into the realms of magic and transformation.
Sat Sept 14th 10am – 4pm
Lila Music and Nature Centre Yurt, Duncan BC
Session 5:
Reciprocity & Prayer & Ceremony
Weaving and Bringing it together in an embodied and ceremonial space, we will stand at our threshold of the questions we seek answers to and go into the wild for a solo quest, bringing with us the previous sessions crafts, animal and plant allies and go into deep listening on the land.
Returning to a sacred holding and witnessing of each participant in celebration of the becoming, the accepting, the surrendering, the awakening, the letting go, the renewal, the mystery, the magic.
Friday Oct 18th 10am – Sunday Oct 20th, 4pm
In the Wild, Camping on Vancouver Island
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