Mothering the Bones: An Immersive 3 Day Experience

February 27 — March 1, 2026

Mothering the Bones is about tending the female pelvis in a radically wholistic way:
Woman to Woman - Body to Body - Bones to Bones.

Whether receiving, giving or witnessing this practice, everyone in the room has a sense of Remembering - that Women have tended each other this way throughout the ages.
This practice is ancient & sacred. This practice is simple & intimate.

The intensions of this gathering:

• To reweave the threads of communal holding and healing as we explore this powerful practice and what it means to be human together.
• To practice ceremony in the ordinary - not as performance, but as presence.

This seminar is about Apprenticeship:

It is not certificate-based, not driven by acquisition, not a technique to "get" or master. It is about learning through presence, oral and touch transmission, relationship and time.

This seminar will be demonstration and practice focused so that you learn from the experience itself. You will be held and you will hold others.

The practice of Mothering the Bones involves attuned presence, skilled touch and nervous system tracking. We will learn to feel, communicate and surf the waves of the innate healing responses that mobilize when a living body is tended this way.

During our time together we will:

• Move and inhabit our body
• Practice somatic tracking and attunement
• Do real time repair work
• Witness a live somatic session
• Learn to be with process rather than seek an outcome

Topics that could be acknowledged in the space have a relationship to the experiences the female pelvis holds:

• Birth Continuum: conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum experiences
• Gynaecology: female reproductive/pleasure system health, conditions, procedures
• Cycles/Transformation: Menarche, Matrescence, Sage-escence/Menopause
• Sexuality: pleasure, the erotic, boundary ruptures, shame

Led by Angela Dechaine, RCST:

Angela is a Mother, INNATE Postpartum Care Certified Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Educator. She works with humans in a wholistic way that honours our physiological need for connection, attunement and touch. She is devoted to practices that centre humanness so that we remember what that means within and between us.

What Women are saying about their experience at Mothering the Bones:

Wowwwwwww. I am speechless for how impactful this weekend was. What a gift you have for teaching and supporting. The way you educate through empowerment is deeply misssing in the "wholistic" world and I learned so much! I fall in love with humans who hold their medicine with depth & integrity and you do without hesitation, which is even more liberating to witness. You are a rate little creature and how grateful I am that our paths crossed.
- Richel

This is the work I feel like my body has been waiting/longing for; the language and context that I have been searching for and the space to practice while being fully immersed in the medicine itself. I am really grateful for the way you teach and how you hold everyone while doing so. I went into the weekend with the intention to hold and be held - with the wanting to be held a little more than I thought I wanted to hold. Holding another woman was soooo informative, as well as the support I received from you afterwards. I became very aware of how much I have ability to hold and the parts of me that heal when holding others this way.
- Natasha

This experience put language to the things I was already intuitively sensing. It was a demonstration of how to be with a human, allowing for the emergent.
- Shari

Integrating what I learned at Mothering the Bones into my life and practice has been so nourishing. It's like I changed over that weekend, and everything became different in the most excellent way. I feel more like myself, and it's a Self I didn't really know was in there. It feels like a coming back home and a lot of things are just more clear. There's less confusion and muddling around things in my life that have been challenging or hard, they seem more simple. In my work we go deeper; there is something powerful about humans being together this way and the feedback from my clients has been fulfilling to my heart.
- Michelle

My experience from this weekend makes me emotional because it was so special and impactful in the most luscious way. The way you presented the material and held everything was so beautiful. It was like the things that I have felt with my inner knowing collided with tangible principles and practices. These have now trickled into every aspect of my life and have led to big and meaningful shifts. I'm receiving unbelievable feedback from clients and I'm excited to see what will continue to unfold.
- Nicole

Space is limited to 12 participants. Any Woman that feels the call is welcome to register.

Investment: Early-bird $675 (Available until January 16, 2026).
Regular $750

Location: Wollfhouse Retreat Space
Nestled in the heart of an arboreal forest, Nature will hold us as we hold each other.
52104 Range Road 223 Sherwood Park, Alberta T8C1A7 wollfhouse.ca

*There is limited onsite accommodation at Wollfhouse: Single $69/night. Double $99/night

Schedule:
Friday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1, 2026 @ 09:30-5:30 each day
Online Follow-up Circle: Friday, March 13 @ 1:00-3:00

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In-Home Postpartum BCST for Mother and Babe

I deeply align with Innate Traditions and their primary commitment to maternal health and the revival of true postpartum care. In-home postpartum BCST for mums and babes is a deeply heartfelt service to support this movement in our culture toward centring care on mothers and honouring this profound time of the 4th trimester. Please reach out through the request form if you would like an in-home BCST session or would like to gift one to a family expecting or newly postpartum. You can also call/text directly 780.216.2609. I’m always willing to be creative to find a time that suits as soon as possible.