✦ Holding the
Mother Line ✦


Women + AFAB Cohort ✦
1-3 May ✦

Queer + Trans Cohort ✧
8-10 May ✧

Mission, BC ✦
Starting at $600 ✦

✦ Holding the
Mother Line ✦

A three-day ✧Embodied Portrait Gathering✧
for women, queer and trans folk exploring healing, art, and community.

✧ love ✧ care ✧ loss ✧ distance ✧ resilience ✧ grief ✧ lo

For a lot of us, the
✧ Mother Line ✧
isn’t simple.

✧ care, grief, distance, love, loss, resilience ✧
the mother line carries our story

ss ✧ complexity ✧ distance ✧ love ✧ grief ✧ resilience ✧

So, let’s move through it
✧ together ✧

Three days in community to settle the nervous system and listen to the body.

✧ Embodied Portraiture
in Community ✧

Group portrait sessions as a practice of presence and witnessing one another.

✧ seen ✧ held ✧ space ✧ care✧ resilience ✧ community

This isn’t a
✧ retreat ✧
from life

✧ it’s a gathering to meet ourselves more fully ✧ held in community

ommunity ✧ held ✧ space ✧ gathering ✧ resilience ✧ se

✧ What We’ll Do ✧

Over the course of three days, we will move gently between rest, reflection, embodiment, and connection.

You will also have spacious time for rest, reading, journaling, quiet conversation, or simply being.

Practices and offerings may include:

  • ✦ introductions, expectations, and intention-setting

    ✧ small offerings of gratitude to earth mother and the mother line

    ✦ barefoot grounding and sensory connection to earth

  • ✦ guided visualization for deep rest

    ✧ sound bath for release and integration

    ✦ soothing morning and evening rituals

    ✧ journalling, drawing, and personal reflection

  • ✦ yoga for deep rest and relaxation

    ✧ somatic exploration of the body’s wisdom through touch and awareness

    ✦ hot-cold exploration

    ✧ barefoot grounding and sensory connection to earth

  • ✦ guided discussion

    ✧ sharing circles

    ✦ group portrait-making

    ✧ communal living and dining

  • ✧ collective reflection

    ✦ make a custom crystal necklace talisman

    ✧ gratitude to land and Mother Gaia

    ✦ close

Optional Offerings

• Embodied Portrait Sessions •

Portrait sessions are offered as a creative exploration of witnessing and embodiment.

These portraits may be created individually or with a partner or close friend.

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• Extend Your Stay •

Stay an additional night for a quiet container of shared silence from 7:00pm to 7:00am.

This offering invites deeper listening, integration, and presence with the body, the land, and the experience of the gathering.

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Who This is For

This gathering invites women, AFAB nonbinary &/or sapphic-identified folks who feel resonance with the theme of the mother line.

You’re welcome to attend solo, with a partner, or with a friend.

Accommodation

• Embodied Portrait Sessions •

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Registration

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✦ This gathering is intentionally small, with space for 6-8 participants.

✧ If the invitation resonates with you, you are warmly invited to apply to join the circle.

✦ To apply, please complete the application form below. Once your application is received, you will be sent confirmation details and instructions for reserving your place.

✧ A non-refundable $200 deposit is required to secure your spot. Spaces are confirmed in the order that deposits are received.

✦ The remaining balance will be due by 5pm, 20th April, 2026

Hi, I’m Anna.

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My work is rooted in the belief that when the nervous system feels safe, connection, with ourselves and with one another, becomes possible.

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I hold a graduate degree from the University of British Columbia in health, somatic, and nature-based learning. I am a Hatha and Yin yoga teacher, meditation facilitator, photographer, and art educator with more than 10 years of experience supporting youth navigating complex mental health experiences.

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Across my work I bring together movement, meditation, creativity, nature, and relational witnessing to create spaces where people can slow down, ground into the body, and reconnect with themselves and each other.

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Through contemplative practices we begin by calming the nervous system and gently greeting the body. As we ground into the body, presence and awareness naturally deepen, allowing us to attune to ourselves, to the land around us, and to one another in ways that are often simple, meaningful, and sometimes profound.

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The gatherings I facilitate are grounded in consent, nervous system awareness, and the belief that healing often happens in relationship: with land, with community, and with the stories we carry.

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About Your Host

FAQs

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    Meals will be simple, nourishing, and prepared together. All meals will be vegetarian with vegan options available. Light snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided throughout the gathering.

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    Because meals are prepared communally, we are unfortunately not able to accommodate complex food allergies or specialized diets. Participants should ensure they are able to safely eat simple vegetarian meals.

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    You are welcome to bring any vegan/vegetarian snacks to enjoy &/or share.

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    A key part of this experience is that we will share the rhythms of living together.

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    You will share rooms or beds, prepare meals together, and help with simple kitchen cleanup.

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    These shared gestures help create a sense of care, belonging, and collective responsibility.

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    This is a sober gathering

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    The intention is to support presence, nervous system regulation, and clear connection with ourselves and one another.

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    All practices are invitations.

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    You are welcome to participate in ways that feel supportive for you.

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  • Portrait sessions are offered as a creative exploration of witnessing and embodiment.

    These portraits may be created individually or with a partner or close friend.

    ✦ Embodied Portrait Session ✦

    Solo or partnered portrait session Clothed, undergarments or nude
    Includes 1 edited portrait image
    $75 per person

    ✦ Body Portrait Session ✦

    For those who feel called, more intimate body portraiture is also available.

    ✧ Chest portrait - $95 per person (includes 1 edited image)
    ✧ Vulva/genital portrait - $105 per person (includes 1 edited image)
    ✧ Chest/Genital Combo - $165 per person (includes 2 edited images)

    ✦ Additional Images ✦

    If you would like more images from your session, additional edited portraits may be purchased for $20 per image.

    All portrait sessions are grounded in respect, consent, and collaboration. They are not sexual, performative, or voyeuristic, rather, they’re offered as a way to witness the body with care and presence.

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    You can choose to stay an additional night for a quiet container of shared silence from 7:00pm to 7:00am, with a check out of 9:00am.

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    During this time we will move through simple evening and morning rhythms together - preparing food, tending the space, moving our bodies, and beginning the day - all in intentional silence.

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    This offering invites deeper listening, integration, and presence with the body, the land, and the experience of the gathering.

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  • ✦ collective reflection

    ✧ gratitude to land and Mother Gaia

    ✦ closing circle

    A detailed packing list will be shared after registration, but generally:

    • comfortable clothing
    • warm layers
    • journal
    • yoga mat
    • walking shoes
    • personal toiletries
    • towel for sauna or hot tub
    • photoshoot clothes/items

    • sarong or light sheet/shawl for meditation
    • eye mask
    • sketchbook and basic art supplies