AN ELEMENTAL RITE OF PASSAGE & RETREAT FOR WOMENFIREKEEPER
SEPTEMBER 4-6, 2026COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO
A threshold crossing for women choosing to become trustworthy stewards of their own fire.
Through ritual, movement, prayer, silence, witnessing, elemental practice, honest conversation & community support…
Women will be guided to gently titrate, attune to & mobilize their life force.
A steady, carefully held rhythm that allows the body to soften its grip, speak its truth, remember its own wisdom & exalt its FIRE.
This is a living ceremony to reclaim your anger, your boundaries and your elemental power and become free - for you, and perhaps for your ancestors, too.
THE ARC OF THE JOURNEY...Friday | The Gathering In
WE BUILD THE FIELDThrough story, ritual, and ceremony we'll create the collective map for the weekend and prepare for the threshold ahead.
Saturday | The Building & The Crossing
OUR DEEPEST DAY OF PRACTICEWorking outdoors with the fire, you'll experience martial arts training woven with nervous system regulation, emotional integration, shamanic journeying, and ancestral healing.
Together we'll explore:
• The medicine of anger
• Embodied boundaries
• Mobilizing frozen life force
• Learning to resource under challenge
• Reclaiming your voice, instincts, and power
This is deep work—but not overwhelming work.
While emotion and catharsis are welcome in organic impulse, this container is built on capacity building. We aren't interested in blowing ourselves open. We're interested in becoming women who can hold more of themselves.
Sunday | The Gift
AFTER EVERY SYMBOLIC DEATH COMES A GIFTThe morning begins in silence as you sit on the land alone, listening for what is emerging now that something old has been released. We gather one final time to witness, integrate, and carry the medicine home.
MEET YOUR GUIDE
Emma Mae, co-steward of The Sacred Village, is re-igniting her decade of experience in mixed martial arts training & coaching self defence. Now, her approach for guiding women to mobilize energy & safely inhabit their animal bodies is supported by another decade of work in the healing arts, ceremony & emotional integration.
She believes that what we cannot BE WITH with will continue to shape our lives from beneath the surface & play out unconsciously.
Her work precisely & powerfully teaches women how to stay.
To stay with high sensation, numbness, anger, shame, sorrow longing, guilt, confusion, despair… all of it.
To stay without abandoning themselves. To return to the seat of their power, whole & complete.
Emma is a protector of feminine life force, a prayer bear & ceremonialist, and a truly masterful guide who can meet the full range of a woman’s emotion with an unparalleled depth of presence and attunement.
Your Weekend Includes…
• Two nights on our beautiful country land overlooking Georgian Bay just outside of Collingwood
• Sacred fire tended throughout the weekend & fire teachings passed from Emma’s shamanic teachers
• Martial arts instruction integrated with shamanic practice
• Ceremony, ritual, and guided journeys
• Nourishing homemade meals
• An intimate circle of 10 women
+An integration call following the retreat for continued digestion & support
The first 3 women to register will receive a bed in the house.
The remaining participants will camp outside on our land (it’s stunning!)
Investment
$555+HST CAD until August 1
$655+HST CAD after August 1
Only 10 spaces are available.
*Payment plans through Klarna are available at checkout.
A note on cancellation: Because this retreat is limited to just 10 women, all registrations are final and non-refundable. Please register only if you feel able to fully commit to the weekend.
If unforeseen circumstances prevent you from attending, please reach out. While we cannot guarantee a refund or credit, we'll always do our best to support you if we're able to fill your space, or can explore putting the funds towards another upcoming offering.
A note before saying “yes”
No martial arts experience is necessary. All practices will be adapted to honour a wide range of physical abilities, and you will always be invited to work within the wisdom of your own body.
This retreat is designed for women who already have some experience with emotional healing, or therapeutic work. While you do not need to identify as a practitioner, we ask that you arrive with a willingness to engage your experience with curiosity, self-responsibility, and care.
This is mature and deep work.
Throughout the weekend, we will explore themes of anger, boundaries, ancestral patterning, and emotional integration through embodied practice, ceremony, and guided process. We do not believe transformation comes through overwhelming the nervous system. Instead, we work with attunement, titration, and building the capacity to stay in relationship with ourselves.
You are always your own authority.
Every practice throughout the weekend is invitational, consent-based, and optional. You are encouraged to honour your own pace, communicate your needs, and participate in ways that feel true for your body and nervous system.
By registering, you acknowledge that this retreat invites deep personal exploration and that you are responsible for your own wellbeing, boundaries, and resourcing throughout the weekend. While we will offer skilled facilitation and a carefully held container, this experience is not a substitute for psychotherapy, crisis support, or medical care.
We ask that you join us only if you feel a wholehearted yes to this invitation and are prepared to meet the work with presence, honesty, and care—for yourself and for the women beside you.
Every lineage prays for someone willing to touch what could not be touched before.
Someone willing to end the silence without creating more harm.
Someone willing to carry fire without becoming consumed by it.
Perhaps this is how we honour the women who came before us…
Instead of carrying their burdens & inheritances…
we become free enough to lay some of it down.