From Myth to Soul Pelt: a Journey of Embodiment of our Ancient Stories

With Stephanie MacKay and Dr. Stéphanie Marchal

July 23 - 27, 2025

Date and Time Details: Wednesday July 23rd 5pm to Sunday July 27th 1pm

Location: Cedar Song Centre for Wild Belonging

Address: 119 Ross Durrance Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

Contact: Stéphanie Marchal
Stephanie@cedarsong.org
778-678-4181

Prices
  • CAD $1,100.00 to CAD $1,500.00 – Pay to your capacity level. Higher rates will support scholarships.

Enter into a deep study of Myth, as a doorway to the numinous realms of Soul and Land. As the ancient teachings of the Myth unfurl, we will engage with them through land-based practices and retrieving deep images. An Indo-European myth will accompany us in our process of searching for our lost Soul pelts.  

Masks and other media, as intersections between the other world and the inner world, will be used to receive images of our lost gifts, and to feed our relationship with both. We will nourish life as we engage in story, land, and by giving form to the part of us that are waiting to be remembered.

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. Along the way, we will attempt to court the remaining vestiges of an intact, earth-based culture and spirituality. 

The gathering will include an in-depth study of the story, mask and other shape-making, deepening practices, ceremony, and connection with the land. As the process unfolds, we will find whispers of profound beauty that touch our deepest longings, nourish our souls, and offer us guidance towards a life of reverence and reciprocity. 

 

Ground for this work

GUIDED BY MYTH

HELD BY THE LAND           

SUPPORTED BY MYSTERY

 

What to expect:

    • Group ceremony and wild ritual
    • Land-based practices to deepen into Soul
    • Council sharing practice
    • Clear and strong container
    • Mask making 
    • Deepening exercises such as dyads, deep imagination journeys, writing prompts…

Dinners provided.

Possible work-trade and receipts for some insurance purposes.

**For more information about this work, visit SacredWeaving.org**

 

About the Leaders

Stephanie MacKay

  Stephanie MacKay is the 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 […]

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Dr. Stéphanie Marchal

  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 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 […]

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