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Retreats and days of shared practice with collaborators — somatic intuition, energetic work, shadow work, Circling, shamanic journey, and deep, lasting change.

Sunday, August 9, 2026

Shamanic Journey, Somatic Shadow Work & Circling

A day of deep presence, unraveling, and return

Join Marilyn Walker and Charmaine for a day that brings together shamanic journeying, somatic shadow work, and Circling.

Marilyn's shamanic work opens a doorway into deep energetic movement — inviting contact with parts of ourselves that everyday awareness doesn't usually reach, and softening the boundary between the seen and the unseen, and the inner and outer self. Because traditional shamanism views Nature as the source of all wellness, we find ways to connect, on many levels, with its wisdom, teachings and spirit medicine.

Circling then offers a rare opportunity to stay in relationship with what's surfacing as it happens. As what has been held beneath awareness comes into consciousness, it can begin to release and reorganize. Nothing needs to be pushed away, analyzed, or fixed, but transformed through allowing, presence, and being witnessed in supportive relationship with others.

Together, these approaches invite a different way of meeting yourself — one grounded in direct experience, embodied awareness, and authentic human connection.

  • No experience necessary. Just a willingness to show up.
  • South Salt Spring Island — full address shared upon registration.
  • $90 CAD (a reduced rate of $55 CAD is available if cost is a barrier). Priced in CAD, as this retreat is held in Canada.
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Dr. Marilyn Walker

Dr. Marilyn Walker is a medical anthropologist and shamanic practitioner whose work bridges academic inquiry with lived, ceremonial practice. Rooted in her own Celtic ancestry and practice of Celtic shamanism, she also draws from decades of dedicated study and practice within core shamanism.

Her path has taken her deep into traditional healing systems across cultures through long standing, immersive relationships with Indigenous shamans and knowledge keepers in Mongolia, Siberia, Canada, the United States, and beyond. These were not brief encounters, but years of shared learning, ceremony, and cultural exchange. Within a number of these traditions, Marilyn was formally initiated and entrusted with specific teachings and ceremonial practices, receiving permission from respected elders and teachers to carry aspects of this work forward. She brings a breadth of study — along with years of hands-on shamanic work — into a practice that's both rigorous and deeply felt, honouring the traditions from which she has learned while remaining grounded in her own ancestral roots.

September 2026 — date coming soon

Tarot & Deep Shadow Processing

A day of unveiling and integration

Join Natalie Salvino, Charmaine, and our facilitation team for a day in the Cowichan Valley exploring the meeting place between symbolic insight and embodied awareness.

Through tarot, Circling, and deep shadow processing, we create a space where unconscious patterns — including what the body has held long after the experience itself has passed — become visible, and are met with curiosity, presence, and compassion. Here, deep releasing happens.

What's ready to move, moves. Sometimes subtly, sometimes powerfully. What's ready to be released, releases. Not by force — but by finally being seen all the way through.

  • No experience necessary. Just a willingness to show up as you are.
  • Location shared upon registration. More details coming soon.
  • Contact us to be notified when registration opens.
Natalie Salvino

Natalie comes from a family lineage of psychic intuitive practitioners, and has spent more than three decades studying tarot, mediumship, and astrology. For this retreat, tarot isn't used to predict — it's a mirror. The cards get approached with curiosity, a way into the symbolic language of the psyche. What comes up in a reading — the archetype, the ancient pattern — stirs something in you that's already ready: a pattern within you, an old protection, something moving that wants out. Whatever opens, or simply whatever's ready to release, is powerfully explored individually, one by one, in the facilitated Circling.

October 2026 — Armstrong / Spallumcheen area

Somatic Shadow Work & Circling

A day of deep presence, unraveling, and return

Join Liesa and Charmaine for a day of somatic shadow work and Circling — a space to meet what's unconscious, feel what's been held, and be seen without performing.

We'll move between body-based practice and relational Circling, letting what needs to surface have room to surface, and what needs to be witnessed find witness.

  • No experience necessary. Just a willingness to show up as you are.
  • Location shared upon registration.
  • Contact us for details and to reserve your spot.
Liesa

Liesa has been sitting with people in the depths of their shadow material from the time she was young. She knows this territory from the inside — having walked her own long path through the kind of darkness that either breaks you or opens you wide. It opened her. Deeply intuitive and unshakeable in the places that matter, people often describe working with her as feeling simultaneously seen and completely safe to fall apart, held by a fierce, grounded compassion that makes the darker territory feel navigable rather than overwhelming.

"I feel like many things have been lifted from me. I feel so light and young. And most of all my migraines are finally gone after years of seeking relief!"

— R.T., March 2020

"I didn't expect anything to shift so quickly, but something in me settled within the first part of the meeting. Being in a group like this felt unlike anything I've experienced before."

— M.T., group work participant, 2026
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