The Container
An 8-Month Held Heroine’s Journey
A Held Heroine’s Journey
The Container is a held, eight-month journey for women who feel called to go deeper and meet their medicine within. Through preparation, ceremony, and integration, this somatic and soul-led process supports women in cultivating inner resourcing, self-trust, and the capacity to walk themselves through inner alchemical transformation and change.
Rooted in trauma-informed care and depth-oriented practice, The Container offers a steady relational field within which women can cross meaningful inner thresholds with trust, presence and agency. Within this container, we tend the conditions that make depth possible: safety, consent, continuity, and relational presence. Through guided practices, group process, and ritual thresholds, participants are invited into a living relationship with their inner healer, their body’s intelligence, and their own sovereign knowing.
What to Expect
Preparation
This journey begins long before the retreat. Preparation is a slow and intentional process that supports safety, trust, and inner resourcing.
Ceremony
Ceremony is held as a threshold, not a destination. During the in-person retreat, preparation meets direct experience within a carefully supported and contained space.
Integration
In the months following ceremony, you are supported in digesting your experience and weaving insight into daily life, relationships, and the nervous system.
We are calling in women who…
⋒ Feel called to deeper inner work that honours both psyche and nervous system
⋒ Desire a slow, relational, well-held approach to ceremony and integration
⋒ Are ready to engage with somatic practices, reflection, and embodied inquiry
⋒ Want support without dependency, and sovereignty without isolation
⋒ Value preparation and integration as much as the ceremony itself
You do not need prior experience with retreats, medicine work, or somatic practices. You only need a willingness to listen inward and move at your own pace.
“Not a peak to chase.
A spiral to remember.”
Group Preparation (4 Months)
Before the retreat, we focus on attunement, self-inquiry, and inner resourcing.
Approximately 12 live online group sessions
Weekly sessions for the first six weeks, then bi-weekly
Guided practices including Yoga Nidra, meditation, breathwork, somatic inquiry, and written reflection
Support in clarifying intention and building relationship with your inner healer
1:1 Preparation Call
A personal preparation call with your facilitator, scheduled between July 28 and August 4, allowing for spacious attunement and readiness leading into the retreat.
In-Person Group Medicine Retreat
August 6 to 9, 2026
Held at a private retreat centre located 15 minutes west of Edmonton, Alberta.
This retreat marks The Portal, a threshold moment where preparation meets direct experience. Ceremony is held as a turning point, not a destination.
Group Integration (4 Months)
After the retreat, the focus shifts to integration and embodied change.
Approximately 9 live online group sessions
Guided integration practices between sessions
Support in weaving insight into daily life, relationships, and nervous system regulation
Space for meaning to emerge gradually through the body and lived experience
Resource Library Access
Recordings, guided practices, and written materials to support preparation and integration throughout the journey.
Closing Integration Circle
A final group integration circle held in March 2027, offering space for reflection, completion, and discernment around what comes next.
What’s Included
The Details
Dates: April 13 to November 30, 2026
Live Sessions: Select Mondays, 7 to 9 PM MST
Format: Online group sessions and one in-person retreat
Between live sessions, participants are invited to engage in at-home practices that take approximately one to two hours per week. These practices are an essential part of the preparation and integration process.
The more you lean into the rhythm of the container, the more the journey will support you.
The Arc of The Container
The Container is structured as a living journey across inner thresholds. Inspired by depth psychology, myth, and somatic, soul-led practices, this process reflects the arc of the Heroine’s Journey—a cyclical descent and return that centres embodiment, relational healing, and inner sovereignty.
Rather than rushing toward a singular, transcendent, or “peak” ceremony experience, the Heroine’s Journey invites inscendence: a gradual turning inward towards what is ready to be met. By slowing down, listening, and honouring the body’s process, The Container holds space for the inner journey to unfold with presence and care. In this space, resilience, trust, and safety are nurtured from within, allowing one’s inner healer to emerge and meaningful change to take root in embodied, sustainable ways.
Through Preparation, Ceremony, and Integration, The Container supports inner transformation through grounded pacing, nervous system attunement, and relational support. Each phase holds a distinct function, inviting participants into deeper relationship with themselves, their bodies, and their inner knowing.
meet your guideI’m Jennilee
I’m a dynamic, compassionate, intuitive being who loves to immerse myself in safe, healing spaces with others who are also walking this path. I also love to dive deep into shadow work and illuminate what is calling me to be seen, felt, and known. Being able to explore the jungles within as well as the skies has created a foundation that allows me to witness others in many forms.
meet your guideI’m Zana
I am a queer, Integrative Somatic Therapist, multidisciplinary artist & Soul Guide. Following my body’s lead, my personal journey through post-traumatic growth, healing & transformation has spanned over 12 years. Through this process I have cultivated deep reverence, unending curiosity, love and gratitude for the body’s inherent wisdom, and the ways Soul invites us to embody, so we may become more present and awake to life and to our medicine within.
Through sacred rest, creativity, eco-somatics, and ceremony, I am honored to follow a path of heart service and to offer these integrative, healing supports at this time in space. It is my deepest prayer that this work supports personal and collective return to Remembrance, that is: bringing us back into sacred connection with ourselves, one another, and with Mother Earth.
Course FAQs
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Yes! The first payment is required as a deposit upon registration with the option to pay the remainder in 7 additional payments, on the first of the month, beginning in April.
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After paying your deposit online, we’ll reach out to schedule an intake call. This is to ensure that The Container is the right fit for you, including a screening for medicine work. If for any reason the Container isn’t the best fit at this time, your deposit will be fully refunded.
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While we encourage consistent participation, we understand that life happens. In the event that you miss a session, recordings will be made available for review, and we will provide guidance for staying in rhythm with the container. If you expect to be away or unavailable for any dates, please contact your facilitators ahead of time to discuss.
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The Container is designed to hold both new and experienced participants. The first six weeks focus on preparation, building trust, and establishing comfort within the group. Everyone is invited to move at their own pace, learning how to hold themselves while also being held by the facilitators and the group.
Still Deciding?
We encourage you to check out the full course PDF, with an expanded description of The Container, along with exact dates and further details.