Soul Song: Return to Love October Retreat

Name: Soul Song: Return to Love October Retreat
Start: 2025-10-03T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-06T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Halfmoon Haven

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm to Mon, 06 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Halfmoon Haven | Gibsons, BC

Soulsong: Return to Love💙💙💙
A 4-DAY RETREAT FOR GRIEVERS
👉ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN
INTO MEDICINE FOR THE WORLD?
APPLY NOW TO JOIN US HERE:
https://darkwoodsofgrief.com/retreat/
🌲October 3rd-6th, 2025 @ Halfmoon Haven Retreat Center Sunshine Coast, British Columbia
✨✨✨5 of 12 Spots Remain✨✨✨
Early Bird Pricing Ends July 1st 2025
🌲🌲🌲Through the Depths of Grief, the Soul Calls
When we experience major loss, crisis or change in our lives, it is common to feel disoriented, overwhelmed or completely undone. These type of experiences, since time immemorial, have also been the hallmarks of INITIATION.
The initiatory quality of grief is critical to understand & embrace. Doing so turns our pain into medicine. Not only do we find a deeper connection with our soul and a sense of renewed purpose in the world. We also deepen our connection with LOVE, with SPIRIT, and with LIFE.
In a world that tells us, “Pull up your bootstraps and carry-on,” “Haven’t you taken enough time off work?” etc, it can be hard to know where we are truly supposed to be, let alone receive the gifts of our grief…
When you feel it, it is a feeling so ancient & profound, that your whole body cannot help but move towards it.
And yet it can also feel daunting, and we may hesitate – because our Soul often asks more of us than we are ready to give.
Our Soul doesn’t mind our mistakes and failures. What our Soul takes issue with is when we ignore its Song – its voice – guiding us home.
THERE ARE MANY GATES TO THIS SOUL JOURNEY HOME, AND GRIEF IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THEM, ALONG WITH REVERENCE FOR LIFE.
And there are as many gates to grief as there are types of loss and change in our lives.
We are often initiated into grief and soul work through the death of a loved one or other major loss.
But the Soul also asks us to recognize and honor the letting go of patterns, beliefs, attachments, world views, identities, hopes for the future, dreams, longings for what may never be, or even our old ways of knowing as we’re asked to step into a wider perspective.
Sometimes, the task is to find a space to learn about the grief we have not yet recognized or acknowledged.
Every so often, we must have a place we can rest & feel ourselves deeply.
Quiet enough for us to hear the Song of Our Soul.
This retreat is a place to allow what is broken to rest.
It is a place to listen inwardly, and be witnessed in what you find.
To remember who you are, or perhaps, to find out who you are now, after everything.
🌿The Details🌿
THE
Retreat
DATES: OCTOBER 3RD-6TH, 2025
What to Expect:
This is a weekend of guided, intentional practices, held in confidence among participants, to tend to our personal and collective grief and to honour the care of the Soul.
Arrival Friday evening – we ask everyone to aim to arrive between 4-6pm.
Friday dinner at 6pm followed by opening circle + deep rest.
Saturday we will have ample time and supportive practices to build the energy towards the heart of the weekend, the Truth Mandala ritual on Saturday afternoon.
The opportunity to share and express through this ritual will be open for everyone, and is optional. When one person moves energy, they move it for the whole group, and the whole group supports them to do this.
This ritual is a profoundly life-giving way to meet the energy of grief and trauma, allowing real healing to take place for ourselves, our ancestors and the planet. It is based on the work of Joanna Macy + the Work that Reconnects.
Sunday will be focused on gentle integration practices in the morning + evening, and free time in the afternoon (journal, nap, walk on the beach, or indulge in bodywork + spa available on the premises etc), we do ask that you stay on or near the retreat grounds/area to support the ritual container… (ie no forays into the nearby town etc unless absolutely necessary and communicated with facilitators).
Monday morning we will have a light breakfast followed by closing circle and a light lunch + goodbyes at 12pm. Check out from rooms is at 11am, with full departure by 1pm. If you need to leave earlier than 1pm or would like to stay another night, please let us know.