From Myth to Soul Pelt, is a journey into the constellation of soul, land, and mythology. We will unfold the teachings held within an old story, in an attempt to court the remaining vestiges of an intact, earth-based culture and spirituality. Mask making and somatic practices offer us the opportunity to make manifest the unseen world, inspiring the hidden parts of our soul to reveal themselves. From Myth to Mask will be a combination of Myth study, crafting, and land-based practices. The mythic work carries the lineage of Martín Prechtel, while the land-based, soul work carries the lineage of the Animas Valley Institute.
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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. What is revealed to us through this process will be supported as we spend time on the land and in community.
When: July 23-27
Where: Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging, Victoria
Cost: $1,100 - $1,500 sliding scale (includes camping and two dinners)
To begin remembering our Indigenous belonging on the Earth back to life we must metabolize as individuals the grief of recognition of our lost directions, digest it into a valuable spiritual compost that allows us to learn to stay put without outrunning our strange past, and get small, unarmed, brave, and beautiful.
By trying to feed the Holy in Nature the fruit of beauty from the tree of memory of our Indigenous Souls, grown in the composted failures of our past need to conquer, watered by the tears of cultural grief, we might become ancestors worth descending from and possibly grow a place of hope for a time beyond our own.
― Martin Prechtel, The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parelled Lives of People as Plants
Masks are gifted to us from the intersection between the Otherworld and our own inner world, to strengthen our relationship with both. We will nourish life by giving form to the masks that are waiting for us to remember them. In ancient cultures, masks were the dream of the land, gifted to the people so that the land could be danced into life at seasonal ceremonies. The land is still dreaming but we have forgotten how to listen.
The masks are asking us to embody them, dream them, remember them. Can we turn our hearts towards the depths of our inner world so that we may truly hear the longings of the Otherworld?
Part of each day will be dedicated to creating our mask, and welcoming them into our circle. The mask itself is a mystery - when we wear it, we will also be Mystery. An encounter with Other, in reciprocity and love.
Once our masks have taken shape, we will enter into ceremony to gift the ones that guided us through our process. We will gift the numinous landscape in reciprocity for what was gifted to us.
Drawing from years of study with Animas Valley Institute, your guides will invite you into solo practices on the land that facilitate connection to the other-than-human world.
Weaving into our constellation of connection, we will gather together to share from our hearts and tell our stories. This includes: Council Sharing, Dyads, Journalling, Dream Tending, etc..
Your journey will be held within a strong energetic field, created and held by your guides. The more you are energetically held, the safer your nervous system feels, allowing for a deep dive into mystery.
Dr. Stéphanie Marchal is a registered psychologist working in Victoria. Her practice focuses on relationships, attachment, trans-generational trauma and transitions/transformations. She is a wilderness personal guide, and has 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 personally interested in supporting deep and courageous transformations driven by the participants. One of Stephanie’s focus is to support the weaving of authentic experiences and visions with the person’s embodied life. She’s a firm supporter of people’s authentic voices and helps them be heard. She uses dream images, guided journeys and somatic practices to help clarify the thread to deep experience, and support integration and manifestation.
Stephanie MacKay is the founder of Myth Club and 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.
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