Somatic Story Retreat
A weekend of therapeutic story, systemic constellations, movement, and creativity
Join us for a deeply restorative retreat over the August long weekend — a carefully held space to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with what is vital and alive within you.
This retreat invites participants into liminal inner landscapes, where healing, insight, and re-membering become possible. Through the weaving together of wisdom stories, systemic constellations, dance-movement, and creative expression, we explore the threads of our personal and collective lives — gently touching places of healing, resilience, and renewal.
Wisdom stories carry archetypal truths that speak across time and culture. As we give voice, movement, and creative form to these stories, meaning begins to emerge organically, offering fresh perspectives on life’s challenges, transitions, and choices. The stories become mirrors — revealing both what has shaped us and what is waiting to be reclaimed.
Systemic constellations, informed by the living field of these stories, allow unseen relational and ancestral dynamics to come into view. When these dynamics are acknowledged and held with care, new movement becomes possible — releasing stuck patterns and opening space for greater flow, connection, and vitality.
Creative expression and dance-movement deepen this process by inviting the body into the conversation. Through embodied reflection, participants are supported in integrating insight, restoring nervous system balance, and reconnecting with a sense of aliveness, creativity, and joy.
At the heart of this retreat is a sacred invitation to listen and remember — to restore the medicine of the myths that live through us, and through the wider human and ancestral fields to which we belong. Drawing on both ancient and contemporary wisdom stories — myths of exile and return, concealment and revelation, and the reclamation of creative possibility — the retreat offers a gentle yet profound space for renewal and transformation.
Retreat Highlights
Guided systemic constellations
Embodied practices including biodanza
Guided nature immersion
Time for personal reflection, journaling, and meditation
Nourishing, plant based meals
Comfortable accommodation in a tranquil, natural setting
About Your Facilitator
Vasintha Pather is an Expressive Arts Therapist, educator, and leadership coach whose work sits at the intersection of trauma healing, embodied practice, and creative expression.
Vasintha supports individuals and organisations in healing trauma-related patterns and restoring creative vitality, particularly where early attachment experiences, childhood adversity, or systemic and ancestral trauma have shaped ways of being. Her facilitation is grounded, compassionate, and attuned to the wisdom of the body, offering participants a safe and responsive container for deep listening, integration, and renewal.
Costs
R4350 Single ensuite
R 4050 Single room with shared bathroom
R3600 Shared room with shared bathroom
Teaching on this retreat is offered freely in the spirit of dana. We welcome free will offerings in appreciation for the teacher.
The above rates humbly cover food and accommodation for the retreat.