
The Shamanu:
Sacred Union Retreat
A 7 Day Soul Journey Into Eco-Cosmic Belonging
July 11 - 17, 2025 | The Living Centre, Ontario
Awaken The Ancient
Knowing Within You
What if the Earth is not a resource, but a relative?
What if the stars are not distant, but dreaming through you?
In a world unraveling, this retreat is a sanctuary. A remembering. A homecoming.
✦To the wild intelligence of nature that lives within your bones.
✦To the ancient wisdom of the stars that sings through your cells.
✦To the sacred union of body and Earth, spirit and cosmos
The Shamanu: Sacred Union Retreat is not just a gathering - it’s a soul initiation. To live eco-cosmically is to know we are both soil and stardust -body and breath, grief and grace. It is to feel your animal body pulsing with the rhythm of the stars, to sense the Earth dreaming through you. It is a path of embodied presence and visionary wisdom, where the personal becomes planetary.
Small Group Experience
This intimate retreat is limited to 8 participants, creating a sacred space for deep connection, personalized guidance, and heartfelt community.
Retreat Dates
July 11 to 17, 2025. We begin together at 9:30 AM on the first day. The journey concludes with a heartfelt closing circle and farewell feast after lunch.
Daily Rhythm
Mornings begin with eco-somatic embodiment practices, brunch and solo rituals of connection. Afternoons include Earth Wisdom Teachings and experience and dinner. Evening are a time to deepen into earth-centred ceremonies and sharing.
Immersive Location
Held at The Living Centre in Ontario, where forest trails, lush gardens, ponds, and natural buildings create a sanctuary for deep connection and renewal.

Included In Your Journey
Eco-Somatic Practices
Movement, Dance, Sound and Elemental Journeys, Sacred Theatre & Earth-centred Meditations.
Elemental Rituals
Reconnect with the power of the five elements through movement, ceremony, sacred song, and nature offerings.
Personal Insight & Reflection
Join Council Circles and Clarity Quests to awaken inner wisdom, deepen self-awareness, and foster a sense of belonging.
Guest Facilitators
Guided Retreat Facilitation
Daily sessions led by Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings.
Wisdom from experienced guides, including Ayurvedic and plant energetics elder Shantree Kacera.
Accommodations
Choose from private indoor space or bring your own tent for a nature-immersed stay.
Retreat Resources
Receive printed resources and guidance to help carry your insights into daily life.
Organic Plant-Based Meals
Enjoy nourishing seasonal brunches, dinners, and afternoon snacks prepared with love.
Daily Schedule
Each day is a living ceremony, guided by the elements, grounded in the body, and held in sacred rhythm.
Retreat Dates
July 11 to 17, 2025
Meals will include a hearty organic plant-based brunch (10:30 am to noon) and dinner (5 pm to 7pm) with snacks served in the afternoon. Lunch & dinner are served on the day of arrival.
Woven Throughout
• Eco-somatic exploration
• Elemental rituals
• Primordial movement, dance, sound, and breath
• Nature-based meditation
• Council practice and shared reflection
• Personal mentorship and contemplative time
Eco-somatics blends somatic awareness (the felt experience of being in a body) with ecological consciousness, exploring the deep relationship between the body and the Earth.
Primordial Movement is a sacred remembrance, a return to the original pulse that birthed the stars and shaped the Earth. It is a living current that moves through the body. This intuitive, heart-led practice opens the gateway to both our cosmic and earthly origins. As a daily rhythm, it unravels layers of conditioning and invites us to move as life itself moves - fluid, cyclical, and elemental. This journey becomes a return to embodied wholeness
Day 1: Opening the Sacred Field
We begin with a welcoming ritual to fully arrive, meet the land, and attune to the inner and outer landscapes. Through eco-somatic practices, we open the spiral of this elemental journey of self-discovery. Rooted in the Shamanu Earth Wisdom teachings, we establish foundational principles that reconnect us to more interconnected ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
Introduction to Primordial Movement.
Day 2: Reclaiming the Wild Soul - Earth Element
We begin to journey into the untamed undercurrents that lie beneath domestication. Eco-somatic processes guide us to listen with the whole body as part of the larger body of the Earth. This restores a felt sense of belonging, reciprocity, and vitality. Earth DanceJourney and grounded rituals root us into the wisdom of the body and the steady presence of the Earth as a source of strength, stability, and guidance.
Day 3: The Waters of Remembering - Water Element
We descend into the fluid realms of emotion, intuition, and ancestral memory. Water rituals, playful movement, and the Water DanceJourney awaken the inner currents of the heart. A sacred grief ceremony honours what has been lost, softening what has been hardened and cleansing the inner rivers. Reconnecting with the Spirit of Water offers us renewal, release, and emotional attunement.
Day 4: The Fire of Transformation - Fire Element
We turn toward the alchemical force of fire, the great transformer. Solar attunement stokes the inner flame. Through shaking medicine, prayer, storytelling, and the Fire DanceJourney, we awaken passion, clarity, and life-force energy. In the fire offering ritual, we release what no longer serves and invoke the Spirit of Fire as teacher, purifier, and illuminator of truth.
Day 5: Air, Imagination, and Visioning - Air Element
We rise into the airy realms of breath, insight, and creativity. Breathwork, SoundJourney, the Clarity Quest, and the Air DanceJourney help clear mental fog, open perception, and invite inspiration. Beneath the night sky, we call forth personal and collective vision, dreaming with the stars to remember why we are here.
Day 6: Ether and Integration - Ether Element
We enter the spaciousness of Ether, the field of pure potential and divine presence. Through visioning circles, SoundJourney meditation and energy attunement practices, we begin to gather the threads of insight and allow embodied wisdom to surface. The Spirit of Ether invites us into soul remembrance, where we glimpse the interconnectedness of all life and begin to gently shape the way forward.
Day 7: Living the Union
We return to the field of Ether as a living space of Spirit and subtle connection. In this closing day, we draw together all we have touched through silence, guided practices, and shared reflection. The path ahead begins to take shape - not through effort, but through alignment with the essence of who we are. Integration becomes devotion, and our lives become the offering.
Retreat Investment
Investment
$2650
Private Indoor Accommodations
Investment
$2450
Tenting Accommodations
$2450
We offer flexible payment plans and partial work trade options.
If you feel called to join and need financial assistance, please reach out.
We’re happy to explore what’s possible.
