SOLSTICE SOUL RETRIEVAL
1-Day Workshop with Kat Nantz and Tessa Fleming, In grand Bend Ontario at a nordic spa retreat centre
Dec 8, 2024
if you’ve landed here on this page, you likely feel a longing that you want to become more aquatinted with.
That longing, the feelings of being lost, misplaced, not quite right, numb, agitated, feeling outside your body like you can never quite land, are all ways your soul beckons you to listen, to come home.
What is a soul retrieval?
It's a potent Re-membering ritual.
A song we sing over our bodies, a song that when we hear it, it reminds us of something we abandoned long ago.
It calls all our wild and wise, our lost and hidden parts of ourselves home.
Remembering this body, is mine. This wonderful yet beautifully heartbreaking life is mine.
Soul retrieval invites us to reintroduce the creative, playful, curious, embodied parts of ourself.
It’s a soft yet honest landing, an opportunity to fully inhabit our bodies in a way that feels long forgotten.
Restoring the natural rhythm and wisdom that exists within.
Our goal with this one day workshop is to nourish you.
The seasons are changing once more; marking this shift into the darker days and longer nights helps the body transition into a new rhythm. Inspired by the work of Clarissa Pincola Estés in her ground breaking book, Women Who Run With the Wolves we will bring forth and explore the wild woman archetype. What is this force that Estes argues is inseparable from who we are? How can we sense it, get in touch with it so it can strengthen our imagination, our intuition and fuel our life? Estés describes the Wild Woman archetype in the introduction to her book as follows.
How does the Wild Woman archetype affect women? With Wild Woman as ally, as leader, model, teacher, we see not through two eyes, but through the eyes of intuition which is many-eyed. When we assert intuition, we are therefore like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes.
When we give ourselves time to slow down, and listen within, we give the creative beings in our unconscious a chance to talk to us and play! There is much hidden in the realms of our unconscious, creative treasures our waking life would benefit from integrating.
Structured around one of the myths in Dr. Estés book Women Who Run With The Wolves the workshop will consist of somatic movement exercises, sharing, intuitive writing exercises, story telling through movement and writing, and gentle yogic breath work and time to unwind and luxuriate in the onsite nordic spa.
Our hope is that these exercises will be ones you can take with you and do on your own. The workshop will give you uninterrupted time with your imagination, so your body can slow down, and feel the rhythms of your intuition emerge in a shared collective space with others.
What's provided:
There will be nourishing snacks, tea, coffee and a homemade meal.
Stationary will be available.
Please bring your journal if you have one.
Join us on Dec 8th, for a beautiful day where you will be held with such care and love, and guided through an experience of re-meeting yourself. Through movement, somatic practices, creative writing, inner exploration, you will leave with an opening, a glimpse into what it feels like to be more yourself.
The workshop is sliding scale $80-$200 (+HST). The lower end is for folks who couldn’t make it otherwise, the higher end of the scale is us making a livable wage, and in between would covers costs. We trust that folks will choose a price based on what is workable for them while also honouring the time and energy that we as the facilitators put into an event like this.
If using sliding scale, please email Kat at kat@katnantz.com
If paying in full, register below.
Hi, I'm Kat Nantz
I'm a somatic sex coach & Somatic Experiencing trained at the Advanced level. My passion is bringing more pleasure and freedom to folks who struggle to be in their body or who have experienced trauma (Hint! This is most of us!).
It is an incredible privilege to be a trusted guide in this work. I feel deeply honoured to hold folks in their most tender moments, to return them home to their body's and pleasure, to witness them in their bravest and scariest moments of becoming.
I offer this work because it transformed my life, completely. I hope it will offer you the same gifts.
COMING SOON...
Soul Retrieval: 12 Month calling the soul home program
A 12 Month Creativity Homecoming & Somatic Immersion Program co- facilitated with Tessa Fleming
Inspired by Dr. Estés groundbreaking book, Women Who Run With The Wolves we will connect to the wild women archetype through ancient, age old myths and stories, movement, attunement and embodied writing practices that remind us how to return home to the sanctity and sanctuary of our bodies and souls. This program is a soul retreival. It’s a remembering of our wild ways of being, our intuition, our aliveness, our erotic selves. This program is a waking up from the amnesia and fog that made us forget what we are truly made of.
Value:
Monthly 4.5 hour classes
Bi-weekly 45min calls where Kat and Tessa lead either a guided writing, somatic, or movement practice or exercise,
A rich year long deeply held and nourished community with built in calls with each other
24/7 community chat. with 'office hours' with facilitators
monthly 15 min one-on-one calls with facilitators
Leadership opportunities
A deep soulful dive back into yourself
Investment: $400.00 a month or $4,800 for the year
sliding scale applications available
Additionally:
In person 5 night Soul Retrieval group retreat with nourishing food, meaningful relationship connections, guided practices and exercises, and spaciousness to explore your inner landscape
cost: $2,200