Current programs
winter 2022
Alchemy of the Season: Wisdom of Winter
Heart centered & seasonally inspired personalized wellness
This seasonal immersive retreat program is an expert-led heart centred embodied approach to personalized healing in the incredible wilds of Margaree! We are guided by nature and natural seasonal rhythms, the Celtic Wheel of the year, and the neurobiology of change.
By engaging in the cyclical rhythm and wisdom of nature, we can remember how deeply connected we truly are.
Samhain (Oct 31) marks the last harvest before the long winter. It is a time to honour our ancestors and embrace the darker days, and shadowy parts of ourselves, asking to be loved with light.
The shorter days and colder nights remind us to look inward, honour our bodies, and our truly embodied experience. This allowance is a safe invitation to witness our shadow selves, so that we may bring it into our wholeness, so that we can patch back together parts of ourselves that have fragmented off.
Wisdom of Winter is a time of involution. It is a time to engage with the feminine energy, and our internal landscape. It is the time for allowing decay, death and things which no longer serve us to recede.
We can remember our capacity, our intuitive knowing and our innate power. Self-care and compassion are our essential teachers, as we nestle in to cultivate a practice of self-love, embodied feeling, radical acceptance and nourishment. We can sit in community, our fire circle, our tribe bathed in warm candlelight spaces, and prepare for the insular winter ahead.
DETAILS:
Get the most out of your retreat experience with your personalized assessment!
Begin your journey with a 1 hr private confidential 1:1 integrative and functional medicine consultation to name your inspired targeted wellness goal, and craft a holistic care plan around the pillars of lifestyle medicine. What do you feel ready to change?
Step in to your 2 day, 2 nights holistic healing retreat. Your team of highly skilled compassionate guides will hold this sacred space, and lead us through the psychospiritual biological stepping stones of personalized healing, heart-centered awareness, lasting behaviour change, with embodied integration in community.
So many delicious offerings! Programming will include:
- Ceremony, Gratitude, Seasonal wisdom with Celtic Wheel of the Year invitation
- Integrative/Functional medicine education/integration: dig into the “biology of change”
- Explore your intuition with Art therapy and integration
- Guided Meditation
- Emotional freedom technique, or “tapping” for neuromodulation
- Kundalini yoga
- Light language channeling
- Ecstatic dance
- Nightly Bonfire, circle and restoration!
Where: Hosted at "The Innovation Shed" (New Development by McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects) in the breathtaking and magical Margaree river valley.
2417 East Margaree Road, Margaree Forks Cape Breton
https://www.mlsarchitects.ca/margareeresearchshed
Heart centered & seasonally inspired personalized wellness
This seasonal immersive retreat program is an expert-led heart centred embodied approach to personalized healing in the incredible wilds of Margaree! We are guided by nature and natural seasonal rhythms, the Celtic Wheel of the year, and the neurobiology of change.
By engaging in the cyclical rhythm and wisdom of nature, we can remember how deeply connected we truly are.
Samhain (Oct 31) marks the last harvest before the long winter. It is a time to honour our ancestors and embrace the darker days, and shadowy parts of ourselves, asking to be loved with light.
The shorter days and colder nights remind us to look inward, honour our bodies, and our truly embodied experience. This allowance is a safe invitation to witness our shadow selves, so that we may bring it into our wholeness, so that we can patch back together parts of ourselves that have fragmented off.
Wisdom of Winter is a time of involution. It is a time to engage with the feminine energy, and our internal landscape. It is the time for allowing decay, death and things which no longer serve us to recede.
We can remember our capacity, our intuitive knowing and our innate power. Self-care and compassion are our essential teachers, as we nestle in to cultivate a practice of self-love, embodied feeling, radical acceptance and nourishment. We can sit in community, our fire circle, our tribe bathed in warm candlelight spaces, and prepare for the insular winter ahead.
DETAILS:
Get the most out of your retreat experience with your personalized assessment!
Begin your journey with a 1 hr private confidential 1:1 integrative and functional medicine consultation to name your inspired targeted wellness goal, and craft a holistic care plan around the pillars of lifestyle medicine. What do you feel ready to change?
Step in to your 2 day, 2 nights holistic healing retreat. Your team of highly skilled compassionate guides will hold this sacred space, and lead us through the psychospiritual biological stepping stones of personalized healing, heart-centered awareness, lasting behaviour change, with embodied integration in community.
So many delicious offerings! Programming will include:
- Ceremony, Gratitude, Seasonal wisdom with Celtic Wheel of the Year invitation
- Integrative/Functional medicine education/integration: dig into the “biology of change”
- Explore your intuition with Art therapy and integration
- Guided Meditation
- Emotional freedom technique, or “tapping” for neuromodulation
- Kundalini yoga
- Light language channeling
- Ecstatic dance
- Nightly Bonfire, circle and restoration!
Where: Hosted at "The Innovation Shed" (New Development by McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects) in the breathtaking and magical Margaree river valley.
2417 East Margaree Road, Margaree Forks Cape Breton
https://www.mlsarchitects.ca/margareeresearchshed
Registration:
alchemyoftheseason@gmail.com. We will reply with registration intake, accommodation options and payment information!
Our Fall Hands On Horses program for Teens was a huge success, so we're offering another 4 week program!
Dawn Josey (Equine Specialist) and Nathan Torti, MA, RCT, (Wilderness Therapist) are facilitating an intimate equine therapy group to deepen your relationship with yourself and the Horses.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) offers humans a calm, emotionally safe connection with these beautiful beings. It is evidence-based support for PTSD, Anxiety, Grief & Loss and Activated nervous systems! Being around these gentle giants can show us who we truly are and help us feel safe, accepted, seen and heard. EAP can empower self confidence, teach us how to use our voice, strengthen attachment bonds and communicate more clearly. The benefits are endless and the relationships between horses and humans are ancient.
This group is covered under most health insurance!
Costs is: $575 + HST
Dawn Josey (Equine Specialist) and Nathan Torti, MA, RCT, (Wilderness Therapist) are facilitating an intimate equine therapy group to deepen your relationship with yourself and the Horses.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) offers humans a calm, emotionally safe connection with these beautiful beings. It is evidence-based support for PTSD, Anxiety, Grief & Loss and Activated nervous systems! Being around these gentle giants can show us who we truly are and help us feel safe, accepted, seen and heard. EAP can empower self confidence, teach us how to use our voice, strengthen attachment bonds and communicate more clearly. The benefits are endless and the relationships between horses and humans are ancient.
This group is covered under most health insurance!
Costs is: $575 + HST
Fall 2022
Equine Assisted Therapy is evidence-based support for PTSD, Anxiety, Grief & Loss, Nervous system disorders, and so much more. Being around these gentle giants can show us who we truly are and help us feel safe, accepted, seen and heard. Equine therapy can empower self confidence, help us use our voice, strengthen attachment bonds and communicate more clearly. The benefits are endless and the relationships between horses and humans are ancient.
Join us for a 4-week equine therapy group guided by Dawn Josey (Equine Specialist) and Nathan Torti, MA, RCT, (Wilderness Therapist). This Hands on Horses program will deepen your relationship with yourself and with the beautiful beings that grace us with their presence. Check out Todd Hill Farm!
Divided into two age groups:
Adult group (ages 18+) focused on PTSD and anxiety 6-7pm
Youth group (ages 10-18) focused on anxiety 430-530pm
4 consecutive Mondays, starting Sept 12
Costs is: $575 + HST (for each group)
Join us for a 4-week equine therapy group guided by Dawn Josey (Equine Specialist) and Nathan Torti, MA, RCT, (Wilderness Therapist). This Hands on Horses program will deepen your relationship with yourself and with the beautiful beings that grace us with their presence. Check out Todd Hill Farm!
Divided into two age groups:
Adult group (ages 18+) focused on PTSD and anxiety 6-7pm
Youth group (ages 10-18) focused on anxiety 430-530pm
4 consecutive Mondays, starting Sept 12
Costs is: $575 + HST (for each group)
Fall Equinox Retreat
September 2022
Time to get out of your head, and into your heart?
Re-member with Alchemy of the Season, Autumn Equinox Retreat for the Soul in the wilds of Cape Breton.
Join Dr. Alexis Goth and her incredible team of heart-centered therapists who invite you to an immersive experience of self-growth, healing, and rejuvenation in community and nature. Through ceremony, meditation, 1:1 therapy, ecstatic dance, yoga, and art integration it is time to awaken your spirit.
This immersion is a modern human’s guide to reconnect with our deep inner knowing, reawaken our integrity, creativity & healing wisdom, remember our deep connectivity to all life, and find balance and meaning in our daily experience.
This is the Medicine We Need.
We will honor the balance of inner growth and play during your two day, two night seasonal holistic retreat, hosted in the majestic Margaree Forks, Cape Breton. Our container is the stunning Innovation Shed (McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects).
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Alchemy of the Season
Alchemy is the changing of states and with each season, we are reminded of the changes we can embody. The rising feminine energy on the planet is asking for us to evolve out of mind-heavy limiting belief systems, and instead to live from our hearts so we can let go of what no longer serves us.
It is time to co-create a new story, in this now, at this time.
The Season of the Fall will be our guide in this journey.
What changes are asking to emerge? What patterns can we release?
With radical curiosity can we explore our unique roles in our collective unfolding?
Can we practice radical acceptance, in order to write a new narrative?
Can we balance our sacred power with humility, tolerance and compassion for everyone, including ourselves?
Who : All curious humans over 18 years
When: Sept 23/22 4 pm arrival - Sept 25/22 1 pm departure
Where: Hosted at "The Innovation Shed" (New Development by McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects) 2417 East Margaree Rd, Margaree Forks, Cape Breton NS
Group size: fourteen
What: Fabulous Weekend of connection includes : Direct healing experience, expert-led opportunity for personalized inner work; time for self-care, self-love and self-compassion and creative expansion.
Eats: delicious seasonal foods (vegetarian) catered by Coco and Justin
Sleeps: Cost for accommodation is separate. We have secured various accommodation options, at local locations to suit all budgets (ranging from camping/sleeping in the Innovation Shed $0 to own room in airbnb $120 per night). Full details with registration.
Live Life Intents https://livelifeintents.com/
Sea la Vie Farmhouse https://airbnb.com/h/sea-la-vie-in-margaree-cape-breton
Investment: $695
Re-member with Alchemy of the Season, Autumn Equinox Retreat for the Soul in the wilds of Cape Breton.
Join Dr. Alexis Goth and her incredible team of heart-centered therapists who invite you to an immersive experience of self-growth, healing, and rejuvenation in community and nature. Through ceremony, meditation, 1:1 therapy, ecstatic dance, yoga, and art integration it is time to awaken your spirit.
This immersion is a modern human’s guide to reconnect with our deep inner knowing, reawaken our integrity, creativity & healing wisdom, remember our deep connectivity to all life, and find balance and meaning in our daily experience.
This is the Medicine We Need.
We will honor the balance of inner growth and play during your two day, two night seasonal holistic retreat, hosted in the majestic Margaree Forks, Cape Breton. Our container is the stunning Innovation Shed (McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects).
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Alchemy of the Season
Alchemy is the changing of states and with each season, we are reminded of the changes we can embody. The rising feminine energy on the planet is asking for us to evolve out of mind-heavy limiting belief systems, and instead to live from our hearts so we can let go of what no longer serves us.
It is time to co-create a new story, in this now, at this time.
The Season of the Fall will be our guide in this journey.
What changes are asking to emerge? What patterns can we release?
With radical curiosity can we explore our unique roles in our collective unfolding?
Can we practice radical acceptance, in order to write a new narrative?
Can we balance our sacred power with humility, tolerance and compassion for everyone, including ourselves?
Who : All curious humans over 18 years
When: Sept 23/22 4 pm arrival - Sept 25/22 1 pm departure
Where: Hosted at "The Innovation Shed" (New Development by McKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects) 2417 East Margaree Rd, Margaree Forks, Cape Breton NS
Group size: fourteen
What: Fabulous Weekend of connection includes : Direct healing experience, expert-led opportunity for personalized inner work; time for self-care, self-love and self-compassion and creative expansion.
Eats: delicious seasonal foods (vegetarian) catered by Coco and Justin
Sleeps: Cost for accommodation is separate. We have secured various accommodation options, at local locations to suit all budgets (ranging from camping/sleeping in the Innovation Shed $0 to own room in airbnb $120 per night). Full details with registration.
Live Life Intents https://livelifeintents.com/
Sea la Vie Farmhouse https://airbnb.com/h/sea-la-vie-in-margaree-cape-breton
Investment: $695
Summer 2022
Unique Summer Camp!
ReWild Your Child
Are you looking for more than just another summer day camp?
Do you value reflective experiences and would like your child to have a meaningful outdoor experience?
Would you like your child to have a vibrant connection to themself, others and the natural world?
ReWild Your Child day camp has the programming capacity that invites junior high schoolers to engage with themselves, each other and the natural world in these ways.
With two professionals leading the way (learn more about Shelby and Kenzie here), participants will experientially learn outdoor skills, tools to connect with themselves and the Wild, emotional regulation activities and deep listening as well as outdoor play through adventures in the forest and on the water.
This day camp has been created through the lens of Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy, Deep Ecology and “Rewilding” principals for growth and development.
Rewilding is an approach to conservation that trusts the wisdom of the wild, natural world. It explores relaxing into and trusting the power of the Wild to restore itself, without intervention.
We are bringing this perspective to youth by inviting them to feel at home in themselves, to trust their own intuition and listen to the wisdom of their common sense.
Are you looking for more than just another summer day camp?
Do you value reflective experiences and would like your child to have a meaningful outdoor experience?
Would you like your child to have a vibrant connection to themself, others and the natural world?
ReWild Your Child day camp has the programming capacity that invites junior high schoolers to engage with themselves, each other and the natural world in these ways.
With two professionals leading the way (learn more about Shelby and Kenzie here), participants will experientially learn outdoor skills, tools to connect with themselves and the Wild, emotional regulation activities and deep listening as well as outdoor play through adventures in the forest and on the water.
This day camp has been created through the lens of Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy, Deep Ecology and “Rewilding” principals for growth and development.
Rewilding is an approach to conservation that trusts the wisdom of the wild, natural world. It explores relaxing into and trusting the power of the Wild to restore itself, without intervention.
We are bringing this perspective to youth by inviting them to feel at home in themselves, to trust their own intuition and listen to the wisdom of their common sense.
CURRENT PROGRAM & EVENTS
Fall 2021
We are BACK!!
Thank you to all of the front line workers, safety restrictions have lifted enough for us to launch a fall group!
If you would like to connect with Jeff or Nate for counseling therapy or questions,
they can be easily reached by clicking HERE
Thank you to all of the front line workers, safety restrictions have lifted enough for us to launch a fall group!
If you would like to connect with Jeff or Nate for counseling therapy or questions,
they can be easily reached by clicking HERE
services & specializations offered
Individual counsellingCounseling and coaching sessions are held in confidential spaces, conveniently located in and around the Halifax area.
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professional supervisionProviding supervision for professionals seeking:
RCT (Registered Counseling Therapist) RCAT (Registered Canadian Art Therapist). |
Technology ADDICTIONOffering concrete tools and non-judgmental support to people of all ages who are negatively impacted by their screen time.
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