Mothering the Bones: An Immersive 3 Day Experience

September 25 — 27, 2026

Mothering the Bones is about tending the female pelvis in a radically wholistic way:

Woman to Woman - Body to Body - Bones to Bones.

Women have tended each other this way across time and culture:

Whether receiving, giving or witnessing Mothering the Bones, everyone in the room has a sense of remembering how ancient and sacred this practice is. The intrinsic need of humans for connection and holding to move through big things is met by this powerful practice.

The intension of this gathering:

• To reweave the threads of communal holding and healing.
• To centre human connection, exploring and practicing what it means to be human together.

The practice of Mothering the Bones involves:

Embodiment, attuned presence, skilled touch and nervous system tracking. We will learn to feel, communicate and surf the waves of the innate healing response that mobilizes when a living body is held this way.

This seminar is about Apprenticeship:

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.

Oral and touch transmission will be the main pathway of teaching. Presence and practice will be the main pathway of learning and skill development.

It is important to understand that Mothering the Bones is a lay-personor common folk practice. Therefore this seminar is not certificate based nor about a technique to "get" or master. This seminar is about cultivating skills and the embodied understanding of principles that support positive reparative experiences within and between humans.

During our time together we will:

• Move and inhabit our bodies
• 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
• Practice ceremony in the ordinary, not as performance, but as presence
• Build curiosity for the emergent and steadiness in relationship to the unknown

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

This immersive experience may be for you if:

• You're interested in what it means to bring ceremony into our touch transactions - not for the sake of ceremony itself, but in the name of presence, allowing for the emergent and shared experience.
• You're interested in what it means to remember and centre humanness in your interactions with others.
• You might work with Women/Mothers in the birth continuum and are looking for a wholistic practice to support them to process & integrate their big experiences
• You're interested in exploring what it means to slow down enough to allow your body to lead you
• You're interested in holding humans rather than doing holds to humans
• You're interested in cultivating a relationship with your sensory intelligence and inner knowing
• You're interested in exploring the transformative healing power of attuned presence and skilled touch that listens to what the body has to share
• You know that the body is designed to protect and sustain life and that there is a way to support the body in alignment with this innate intelligence - even if you don’t know how, you know that there is a right way to support healing

This immersive experience may NOT be for you if:

• You are currently navigating a crisis and are unable to bring your wise, resourced, adult Self to the seminar
• Reading this seminar description sounds or feels a little too intimate or you don't feel ready to explore this level of vulnerability at this time
• You're uncomfortable with inviting exploration and the emergent into the learning environment. You prefer slide shows, lecture, concrete structure, protocol etc.
• You are looking for another certificate of achievement to add to your list

Investment: Early-bird $825

(Available until July 17, 2026).

Regular $900

Space is limited to 12 participants

Any Woman that feels the call is welcome to register.

For more info or to register:

Email: wellspringcranio@gmail.com

Call/text: 780-216-2609

Schedule: 09:30-5:30 each day

*Online Follow-up Circle:

Friday, October 9 @ 12:00-2:00

Location: Rising Moon Studio

Nature will hold us as we hold each other

52219 RR231 Sherwood Park, Ab T8B1A7

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Led by Angela Dechaine, RCST:

Angela is a Mother, INNATE Postpartum Care Certified Practitioner, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner & 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.

Here’s what Women are saying about their Mothering the Bones experience:

This past weekend, I took a 3-day workshop called 'Mothering the Bones', led by Angela Dechaine of Wellspring Craniosacral Therapy. This course intrigued me when I read about it because it was about 'tending the female pelvis' – an area that I had not learned much about in my Somatic Experiencing training – and we would be taught how to touch and hold women in their pelvic area in a supportive and healing manner.
In my previous bodywork trainings, I have never had the sense of safety and clarity of purpose that I experienced in this course with Angie. It was obvious that she had given much care and intention to how she structured our learning to prepare us for the actual touch work. Two and a half days of learning about Give/Receive/Take/Allow, about negotiation, about creating the conditions for true safety to prepare us to touch and be touched. Because of this care and preparation, when we got to practice holding and supporting another woman's pelvis, the learning seemed to just fall into place. Feeling safe, feeling heard, feeling supported in both our learning and in our receiving care from another. Bones and tissues that had carried the energy of accidents, of difficult birthing, of caesarean sections, of various traumas, had the opportunity to be witnessed and to let go.
My pelvis has held injuries from falling on ice, breaking my sacrum, torn ligaments from a fall off a horse, in addition to holding deep visceral memories of very early childhood trauma. I was so incredibly fortunate to be a demo client for Angela and, as she 'mothered my bones,' I could begin to connect into the sensations in my pelvic area in a new way. An area that had always been somewhat numb and foggy began to let go of years of 'freeze' response and I could feel aliveness return to my pelvis and spread down my legs to my ankles and feet. It made me wonder if the reason I have so much trouble walking now is because the lower part of my body has been 'disconnected' for most of my life!!
I can see that Mothering the Bones will be a powerful addition to my Somatic Experiencing trauma recovery work. But my real learning this weekend was about the care and intention that needs to go into creating the safe space for this most sacred and vulnerable work.
Barb Ganske, Reclaim Connection
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Eponaquest Instructor, BSc (Pharm), MTS (Spirituality)

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 Brousseau, Hallow Bone Collective
Holistic Medicine Practitioner

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 Dupuis, Natasha Marie Rose
Somatic Healing Practitioner

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 Lange, Parallel Effects Equine
Certified Trauma Informed Horse Facilitated Development and Grief Guide

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 Little, Soul to Sole
Reflexology and Energy Healing

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 Broadhurst, Co-Owner of Holistic Fertility Group
Doctor of Acupuncture, TCMD

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Tracking the Tide

Exploring Emergent Tidal Expressions

A 5 Day Immersive Experience

September 9-13, 2026

The emphasis of this seminar will be on map building the expressions and therapeutic effects of the Tide within living human systems. Map building helps us to feel oriented when working within an emergent landscape; orientation supports your system to feel safe, curious and confident in the face of the unknown.

The focus of this seminar will be on experiential research through hands on sessions and discussion. We will start our map building with what we know to be true. Then we will apprentice the Breath of Life and living body to clarify and build out our maps of the Tide and therapeutic process. This exploratory learning dynamic sets us up to actively practice the foundational skills required for working with the Tide and making sense of what we are perceiving - even if it is novel, unfamiliar or contradicts what we have been taught.

This seminar is about Apprenticeship:

It will be demonstration and practice focused so that you learn from the experience itself. Oral and touch transmission will be the main pathway of teaching. Presence and practice will be the main pathway of cultivating an embodied understanding of the foundational principles and skills required for working with the Tide.

This seminar will transform your practice:

Shift OUT of having a vague sense of what is happening in session and the uncertainty of what to do next or what to communicate to clients.

Shift INTO tracking the Tide and therapeutic process with clarity, respond with more confidence in session and interact with clients in a way that centres their somatic experience of the session

Limited to 6 participants:

This is an immersive small group mentorship seminar where participants will work closely with Angela Dechaine and each other to track and map the Tide and therapeutic process. The goal is to maximize the personal mentorship opportunities for each participant within the group.

Each participant will have the opportunity to experience:

• A full BCST session from Angela for demonstration - learn while you are personally tended by Angela and simultaneously witnessed by the group with attuned presence.
• A full BCST session where you are in the practitioner role and Angela sits in to guide and mentor you in tracking the Tide and therapeutic process.

Goals of this seminar:

• Learn foundational principles and practices for tracking the Tide so that you feel confident to sit with emergent processes going forward with curiosity and excitement for the unknown.
• Explore the principles of pattern recognition, taking cues from nature to support our sense making of how the Tide moves through and shifts the rhythmical state of the living body.
• Map out the different expression of the Tide that we have noticed in our practice and what effects they appear to have on the living human system together. Explore the emergent expressions of the Tide in session to clarify and build out our maps of the Tide and therapeutic process.
• Learn how to create the conditions for the Tide to reveal itself and discredit the idea that some bodies cannot access fluidity or the Tide.
• Build/refine an embodied connection to the unified fluid field (aka fluid body), how and why it emerges and what that means in relationship to the healing process and thriving life. Get in touch with your innate sea creature motility, embryology and accumulated biological wisdom.
• Map out the natural arc of a therapeutic session (beginning, middle and completion), the patterns that cue what phase of the session we are in and the transitions between each phase of the session from beginning to completion.
• Map out the shape of the Tide as it moves through the living human system as a wave and the effects each part of the wave has on the body physiology and the therapeutic process. Map out the common pathway the Tide moves through in its inhale/exhale cycle and the variations it can take.
• Map out the therapeutic process into 4 phases and how the Tide interacts with the living body in each phase.
• Explore what inertia is and how the Tide interacts with it in form and field. Explore what an inertial fulcrum is, how the practitioner can locate it and why it matters.

This seminar could be for you if:

• You find the Tide mysterious and/or do not yet fully understand its role in the therapeutic process. You might be sensing things that are hard to name or you feel unsure about what you are sensing. You know that there is more to communing with the Breath of Life and Tide and wish someone could guide you in relating to the nuances of this work in real time.
• You're interested in learning in community and the synergistic potential of collaboration. The emphasis of this seminar is to explore the Tide and map build together. We will research, share, make sense of and celebrate our discoveries as a group.
• You're interested in reweaving the threads of communal holding and healing. As we behold the Breath of Life within each other and ourselves, big healing can unfold. We will practice holding what emerges in the healing process collectively, tending ourselves and one another with attuned presence. In doing so may we remember what is understood across time and culture - that healing is not meant to be traversed alone.
• You're interested in apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is about learning over time through presence & practice, relationship, wisdom transmission and mentorship. The Breath of Life and living body are always teaching us. This is a seminar to actively build/refine your relationship with these Intelligent teachers with skilled guidance and personalized mentorship from Angela. Oral and touch transmission will be the main pathway of teaching. Presence and practice will be the main pathway of learning and skill development.
• You're interested in skill building. In this seminar we will lean into our sensory intelligence to track emergent processes. Skills like curiosity, orientation, pendulation, reverential data collection, pattern recognition, inquiry, contemplation, and collaboration will be actively practiced.
• You're a Truth seeker. You can sense there is more to this work than what you've been taught, but find what you sense hard to name or maybe it contradicts what you’ve been taught and you are hesitant to step outside or challenge the paradigm. Truth is that which corresponds to reality - if your senses are perceiving something, and it is a repeatable pattern or a phenomenon also perceived by others, there is a Truth to discover.
• You would like to feel nourished and inspired by this seminar. Imagine an exit from the city into the country with quieter surroundings and slower pace. A beautiful space to practice in with natural light, resting next to body of water and the horizon you can see out the windows. Surrounded by Nature that you are welcome to explore. Supported to grow with a lot of personalized mentorship. Held and tended with attuned presence. Genuine human connection and a shared experience of discovery. How do those prompts feel in your system?

This seminar would NOT be for you if:

• You are uncomfortable with inviting exploration and the emergent into the learning environment. Rather than experiential learning you are looking for top-down learning: slide shows, lecture, concrete structures, protocols, information acquisition etc.
• You do not wish to challenge the paradigm you work from. You are uncomfortable with the possibility that this exploration could shift how you currently understand and practice BCST.
• You are not interested in learning and healing in community, it's too vulnerable to practice being human together.
• Your are currently navigating a crisis and are unable to bring your wise, resourced, adult Self to the seminar.

Investment: $1600 +gst

*Limited to 6 participants

*Payment plans available

Dates: Wednesday September 9 - Sunday September 14, 2026

Schedule: 09:30-5:30 each day

Location: On the Rocks Cabin @ Pigeon Lake, AB

Nature will hold us as we hold each other

• Practice space with natural lighting and a clear view of the water and horizon
• Lake front access with paddle-boards & paddle-boat
• Hot Tub
• Full Kitchen

Limited onsite accommodation available (3 rooms available total):

• Private queen bedroom - shared bathroom. Single $80/night. Double $120/night
• Private bunkhouse with queen/single bunkbed - private bathroom. $100/night. Double $150
• Private queen bedroom - shared bathroom. Single $80/night. Double $120/night

For more info or to register:

Email: wellspringcranio@gmail.com

Call/text: 780-216-2609

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Led by Angela Dechaine, RCST:

In practice since 2014 and teaching since 2020, Angela is devoted to restoring what it means to be human together, especially in the healing and educational space. She is interested in, and skilled at, supporting positive reparative experiences through genuine connection, attunement and touch. Angela is an emergent teacher, consistently modelling healing work that is embodied, responsive, non-forceful, and always in right relationship.

What people are saying about Angela:

"What a gift you have for teaching and supporting. The way you educate through empowerment is deeply missing in the "wholistic" world. I learned so much I'm speechless for how impactful this was! I fall in love with humans who hold their medicine with depth & integrity and you do so with out hesitation, which is even more liberating to witness. You are a rare little creature and how grateful I am that our paths crossed!"
- Richel

"In my previous bodywork trainings, I have never had the sense of safety and clarity of purpose that I experienced in this course with Angie. It was obvious that she had given much care and intention to how she structured our learning to prepare us for the actual touch work."
- Barb

"I am so thankful to have had Ang as a teacher. She has this way of sharing enough of her own vulnerability that it normalizes the vulnerable parts of the learning and healing process. She's able to see the human in us all no matter the situation and has this admirable way of bringing down the boundaries between student and teacher so that a true exchange can emerge. She is one of the only teachers I have felt comfortable letting my guard down around. Such safety. Such genuine intent to support my learning process in an enriching way. Her knowledge, passion and teaching style is magnetic and easy to absorb, and her powerful connection to the work made the material she shared so relatable."
- Corina

"I so very much appreciate your connection to the work and the way you are able to put words to it. Your why and passion and love for BCST and what it can mean for healing really comes through. Your capacity to be animated and excited is just as important as your capacity to crate a deeply grounded and safe space. I will jump at the chance to be involved in any offerings you have"
- Cora

"From the first day I met Angela in the classroom I felt listened to and truly heard no matter how many questions I asked - she even answered them all thoroughly! I look forward to her seminars because she presents her teaching material with excitement, embodied understanding, and a deep reverence for the human body. With her patient support and guidance I have gained confidence in my skill set. I hope to have the joy of being in her classroom once again in the future."
- Brenda

"Angela is a very gifted BCST practitioner and teacher. We have worked together for a few years already, and she has been a tremendous help. She has not only supported and guided me through the ups and downs that are inherent to every new practitioner, but she definitely made a difference when I had difficulties finding my fluid body and articulating the felt sense experience. She always employs a useful yet simple and clear language to talk about phenomena in and outside the body that a new practitioner may find hard to explain and make sense of. I am truly grateful to have worked with her one on one and to be able to reach out to her to chat on various craniosacral topics or about what's going on in my practice. I definitely recommend her to any new or not so new student/practitioner who wants to gain clarity and deepen their perceptual skills of primary respiration and stillness. Thanks, Angie. I couldn't have made it so far without you!"
- Marian

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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.