in person retreat
remember
we gather together,
bodies in space
We gather together to remember ourselves as part of the land and our ancestral peoples. Reweaving severed culture, plant kin relationships, and connection to our own bodies, we root down so that we may play our part in unspelling empire.
REMEMBER: A weekend in-person retreat for European descended settlers supporting connecting to ancestral culture & devotional relationship with land
We come together to reweave cultural lineage, reckon with our ancestral legacies, and reconnect with the sacred to support us in meeting this political moment firmly rooted in who we are and who we want to be.
We will engage in creative, ritual & somatic practices to cultivate relationships with land, plant kin, ancestors, and each other. Throughout the weekend, we will be in the practice of deep, deep listening, devotion, being with what emerges from within, and collectively dreaming toward the world to come.
As with all of the work I facilitate, this offering is made in service to a world beyond whiteness and movements for justice & healing.
Join us in circle as we gather with likeminded community to be held, challenged and transformed through deepening with land, ancestors and lineage.
Hi, i’m rowan.
i’m a qt facilitator, folklorist, herbalist, somatic bodyworker and researcher. im a third gen settler living on n america / turtle island of Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish & Sicilian peoples. i believe deeply in the transformative power of anticolonial cultural reclamation, in service to a world beyond whiteness. join me in person as we remember our peoples, reconnect to the land and commit ourselves to the present work of dismantling empire within & without.
we gather together to listen & remember the land, our peoples, and ourselves.
why in person work now?
i’ve been doing this work online for 6 years, and lately ive been dreaming of the possibilities of doing this work in person together. i’ve been letting that call linger in the air, feeling what might be, open to seeing what emerges. facilitating the first cohort of wellspring: exploring the three cauldrons and embodied white supremacy only clarified the path forward for me: that in addition to offering work online, it’s also time to begin to move in person. to be bodies in a room together. to be on the same land, feet in dirt, head tilted up to the sky. to be sharing air, sharing voice, feeling each other as we connect to ancestors, to land, to plants, to spirit.
to that end, i’ve decided to be facilitate weekend in-person offerings around the same themes i host online. if you are interested in being a part of upcoming in-person retreats that weave ancestral plants, embodiment practice and ritual for european-descended settlers on turtle island, you can read more and add yourself to the interest list here: In-Person Ancestral Reconnection Retreat
Some details:
- We will gather in person for weekend work: 2-4 days in length per retreat.
- There will be one retreat late summer (Aug/Sept) and one around Samhain (Nov) 2026. A third is being planned for Spring (March) 2027.
- Space will be limited for intimacy – approximately 10 people per session
- Price will be on a sliding scale as usual, somewhere like $3,000 – $500 (to be determined, depending on the location, length of retreat, whether its residential or not, cost for infrastructure, etc.) Exact price tbd.
- Participants will be asked to attend the entire weekend, ie staying for the duration and not arriving late//leaving early
- For DJ and health of the group, folks will be asked to covid test before coming, and will be asked to stay home if they test positive or otherwise are sick. We will have air purifiers running in all indoor spaces. Depending on how much we are indoors/outdoors, we may also be masking indoors – more on that tbd.
- Folks on the waitlist having filled out the interest survey will receive first invitation for the upcoming retreats.
Interested in participating? Fill out the interest survey, hop on the waitlist, and hear first when registration is formally open!