Rooted: A Retreat of reclaiming and healing through land and horse medicine.
The healing of the self is the most powerful pathway of healing we can offer to our world. When we reclaim the lost parts of us, reconnect with the land that holds us and seek the wisdom that is being offered to us, we can bring healing not just to ourselves but the world.
It is a bringing together of indigenous teachings with horse medicine for us to find our way to healing, transformation and reconciliation for the earth, its beings and one another.
There are stories of transformation connected to the land for thousands of years. Through Secwepemc knowledge carriers we will explore the importance of transformation as it applies to lived experience and inner work. Relationships were important to the Indigenous tribes, for family support, community connection and land stewardship. Individual well-being is an important contribution to the collective.
The retreat unfolds with each day having time going through a teaching and intention that is held through the lens of indigenous teaching and then a session with the horses to deepen and receive support from the herd.
We will gather with the land and in circle each day, honoring how each woman wants to be seen and tended to in that space, you will always have choice in how you want to show up, giving room to any boundaries you feel you need to honor your process.
This retreat Is looking at how we tend to the relationship of self, our community, our land, the beings that walk it, the horses and the human race.
Our healing journey is not a selfish one, it is a brave one that has ripple effects in the world. In a time where many are divided, we seek to create a space where we can come and gather as one.
This is a space of honoring. A safe circle to be held, to find healing in the places we need it and being in a circle with other women that will walk with us, will be a witness to us, and will help heal spaces in ourselves and our relationships that are being called to be tended to.
We gather as a circle of women, each bringing a piece of our own wisdom to the circle, we facilitate from this circle to gather, to tend to ritual and to see what wisdom the land and herd have to support us on our journey.
How the retreat is held:
Each day there will be guided teachings, sessions with the herd and connection with the land to support the wisdom and journey that you will be supported in while you are here in retreat.
There will be self reflection time to journal and walk the land, time to be with women in circle and time with the herd.
Why horses?
Horses are a pure energy, they don’t hold any of the baggage and wounding that we do as humans, they also witness us in our most brilliant and healed form, when we see our reflection in relationship to how the horses witness us, we see ourselves in a new light.
Horses as wisdom keepers, way showers and teachers, we walk into their space learning their language and how to be with them and look upon them as guides and healers on our path. No previous horse experience is necessary.
Horses are rooted in themselves and in the connection to the land, when we walk with horses we are walking the old ways of knowing how to be in tune with the cycle of natures and reach the depths of who we are accessing wisdom that can help us along on our journey of reclaiming and rooting.
You retreat includes:
Your accommodation in a cabin, either private or shared.
3 days of being guided and tended to by the land and herd.
Facilitated Teachings by our facilitators.
Catered Meals.
Shuttle to the ranch if you need it.
When: JUNE 27TH - 30TH
3 shared cabins available
4 private cabins available
Investment for a shared cabin: $2000 CDN plus taxes
Investment for Private Cabin: $2400 CDN plus taxes
Custom payment plans are available if need be.
To claim a space, deposit link or apply to attend the retreat.
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
Carol Archie
Carol Archie is from the Stswecem'c Xget'tem First Nation, from the northern part of Secwepemcúl’ecw, located south west of Williams Lake. She now resides in Kelowna and has raised two beautiful daughters.
Learning from parents & elders grounded her in traditional teachings that shaped a resolute and enduring path to understand and help those in need navigate systems bureaucracy. Her journey and dominion over many traumatic experiences resulted in achieving a refined intuition and connection to spirit help others discover to their own gifts and abilities. She will bring the divine feminine, quiet strength and vision to hold space for a deep inner journey.
Hillary Schneider
Hillary is the founder and lead facilitator of the Epona Rise Retreat Center and Horse Medicine Leadership Academy, she has been leading and teaching retreats and trainings with her herd for the last 12 years.
Passionate about bringing the teachings of the horses to impact the lives of humans, she has been devoted to her own vision and purpose of creating a space in nature where people can come and receive the wisdom of horses, the land and their own inner guidance.
She has over the last 12 years had the privilege of hosting and leading retreats for a range of people who are seeking to become more masterful in their experience of being a human with their own passion of personal and professional growth and development.
Tamara Archie
Tamara Archie is from the Stswecem'c Xgat'tem First Nation, from the northern part of Secwepemcúl’ecw, located south west of Williams Lake. Tamara now resides in Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops, BC) where she works and plays.
Her lived experience is a path that crosses many decades to heal intergenerational trauma and reconnect with Secwépemc ways of knowing and being. With a strong spiritual connection to the land and ancestral knowledge she will share insights that will foster connection to self, explore individual transformation and personal perspective on reconciliation. Her compassion, warmth and humour will assist in grounding the experience.
