Spring Renewal: Embodied Constellations Evenings

Embodied Constellations Evenings
Spring Renewal: Unfurling into the Light

Systemic and Family Constellations with
India Amara, Kat Gibson, and Simona Irwin

Wonderlit Studio, Toronto
6:30 – 9:30 PM
May 26 and June 18

Our Spring Renewal: Unfurling into the Light evenings begins from the understanding that all life is animate and alive. Our lineages are not only human. Our ancestors include rivers, trees, mosses, stones, birds, soil, and stars. The living world carries stories, ruptures, resilience, and belonging alongside our family systems.

This work is grounded in deep listening. Listening to what has been carried across generations. Listening to what lives in the body, the land, and the wider ancestral field. Through embodied constellation practice, we explore what is moving in the present as a doorway into ancestral repair and reconnection, and how repeating challenges may be loyalties to energies of the past that are ready to shift.

Embodied Constellations are practiced within this wider field of relationship. We listen not only to family histories, but to ecosystems, places, waters, and living forces that have shaped our people across time. This perspective offers a broader ground for healing, one that recognizes many of the patterns we live with as inherited, systemic, and relational.

Spring is a season of renewal, of unfurling into the light. What has been held beneath the surface begins to emerge, gently taking form. In this season, we meet what is ready to come forward, with care, attention, and the support of the wider field.

What Are Constellations?

Family and Systemic Constellations are an embodied way of bringing hidden patterns, inherited dynamics, and unresolved movements into view. With roots in Indigenous Zulu wisdom from South Africa, this work allows us to perceive the larger systems we belong to and to sense where life has been interrupted, excluded, or unable to flow.

Constellations do not work through analysis or explanation. Information arises through sensation, emotion, impulse, and relationship. What becomes visible is often felt immediately, without needing to be understood conceptually.

What Happens in a Session?

Each evening unfolds with care, spaciousness, and attention to integration. We begin by gathering as a group and sharing what is alive for each of us. From there, we move into two group constellation processes, one before the break and one after.

Flow of the Evening

6:30 PM – Opening tea ceremony, container and land acknowledgement
6:45 PM – Introduction to constellations, meeting one another, and sharing intentions
7:00 PM – First group constellation
7:50 PM – Integration meditation
8:00–8:15 PM – Break
8:15 PM – Second group constellation
9:10 PM – Integration meditation and closing circle
9:30 PM – Complete

One or two participants bring forward an issue, block, question, or place of curiosity they are living with. This may relate to family, health, grief, belonging, relationships, work, or something that is present but difficult to name.

With facilitator support, elements connected to this theme are represented by people in the group. Representations may include ancestors, family members, emotions, illnesses, beliefs, inner parts, land, plants, or archetypal forces. There is no acting or performance. Participants simply notice what arises in their bodies and share when invited.

What If I Don’t Have Any Experience?

No prior experience with constellations is needed. Representation is always optional. You may be invited to represent something, or you may remain in the witnessing circle for the entire evening. Both are full and meaningful ways of participating.

What If I Don’t Feel Connected to My Family of Origin?

You do not need to have knowledge of, agreement with, or positive feelings toward your family of origin. Family systems include biological, adoptive, foster, step, and chosen family, as well as cultural and land-based lineages.

You do not need to reconcile, forgive, or make contact for this work to be meaningful. Constellations meet what is present now, not an idealized version of family or history.

One Person’s Work Is Shared Work

In group constellations, the work of one person often carries something for many. What you represent for another may hold insight or movement for your own life. What you witness may touch places in your own lineage that are ready to be seen.

Each evening includes integration meditations where the movements revealed in the constellation are brought back into our own bodies and lineages. In this way, ancestral repair and reconnection move through the whole group, becoming embodied through each of us.

Holding the Complexity of Lineage

We will be in group practice together, working with ancestral and historical themes that can be tender, complex, and at times challenging to meet. While we hold the space with care, presence, and deep listening, the field itself can carry many layers of emotion, memory, and story.

All lineages have caused harm and been harmed. These truths may arise in our sessions to be witnessed and named. We hold the belief that even the most difficult realities can be included when we are willing to understand the lineages and conditions that created them.

This work does not rush toward resolution, but makes space for honesty, complexity, and shared witnessing.

If you have questions about the suitability of this work, or if this approach is new for you, we welcome you to reach out before joining.

Pricing

Sliding scale $55–$75 per session

$55 Supported
$65 Sustainability
$75 Supporting

E-transfer option

You are welcome to pay via e-transfer. Please register on Humanitix and use the discount code etransfer. This will give you 100% discount at checkout.

To complete your registration, send an e-transfer in the amount of the tuition tier you selected to:

hello@turningtowards.me

Your registration is complete upon receipt of your e-transfer.

Cancellation Policy

All registrations are final and non-refundable. If you are unable to attend, your payment may be transferred as a credit toward a future Embodied Constellations session, minus a $10 administrative fee when cancelled with 24 hours notice.

We kindly ask that you give as much notice as possible so we can support the flow of the group and the work being held.

Important Notes

This work can be emotionally activating and requires a willingness to stay present with your experience. Clear agreements and a grounded container are part of how we hold this space.

Community agreements

More information:
https://www.ofearthandblooms.com/embodied-constellations
https://turningtowards.me/embodied-constellations