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is an embodied spiritual care centre that centers the body as the site of healing and transformation. Here, we invite you to meet your own inner teacher and guide so that you can stop healing and start living. Through land, body, and spirit-based practices designed to help you feel how whole you already are, we step deeper into purpose, connection, and vitality- so that you can be who you came here to be.
Our world needs those gifts that only you can offer.
ways we work
A body-based and spirit-centered approach to:
Somatic Psychotherapy
Online across Ontario for individuals (18+), partners, families and groups
Transformational Groups
Online and in-person somatic and creative practice groups.
Somatic Bodywork Retreats
Individual and group day retreats in touch-based trauma work. In-person in Puslinch, ON.
Somatic approaches for working with:
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2SLGBTQIA+ and Queer identity
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ADHD/Autism and neuro-diversity
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Ancestral practices & intergenerational trauma repair
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Anxiety, depression, collapse, burnout
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Chronic stress & urgency
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Cultural resilience & embodiment
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Ecological & cultural grief
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Family care for ADHD/Autism/PDA/neuro-divergence
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Grief, loss, death, dying, change
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Identity: shifts, changes, inquiries, loss thereof
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Menstrual Mental Health + Cyclical Living
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Nervous-System informed parenting
- Parental & Perinatal Mental Health
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Pregnancy, postpartum and reproductive care
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Relationship skills for couples and families
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Self-compassion and mindfulness
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Sex, sexuality and embodied life-force
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Shame and self-criticism
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Spiritual emergence and embodiment
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Trauma repair & resilience
the deets
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Sessions are experiential, and occur seated with cozy props
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Sessions are integrative, blending: somatic bodywork, touch work for trauma recovery, gentle movement, sound therapies, breathwork, and expressive somatic release for nervous system recovery, stress reduction, and parasympathetic support
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Half-day retreat: up to 3 hours; $250/hr
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Full-day retreat: up to 6 hours; $250/hr
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BYOLunch, or a catered lunch is available for a $25 fee
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Intensive psychotherapy is contraindicated in some cases
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Contact us to see if a day retreat would be a good fit for you
Therapeutic Day Retreats
A Somatic Bodywork &
Forest Therapy Experience
Rest, reset, and reimagine the kind of care that possible in your life. Our 1:1 Therapeutic Day Retreats are held at the stunning Crieff Hills Retreat Centre in Puslinch, ON. Sessions are integrative, blending restorative breath and bodywork, gentle movement, sound therapies, and intentional somatic release to discharge stress, reset chronic holding patterns, and feel our way through to the aliveness on the other side. Book a half-day or full-day retreat, and spend time before and after our session immersing yourself in the therapeutic Crieff grounds, walking the prayer labyrinth, visiting the farm animals, or adventuring in the woods. Preparation and post-retreat integration psychotherapy is available, to support you in feeling well-held as you meet the well and wise parts of you that already know and rest in wholeness.
As a Registered Psychotherapist, half-day and full-day retreats are covered by many extended benefits plans.
Therapeutic Songwriting for Survivors
Online across Ontario - begins Winter 2027
Over the course of this 9-week series, we will each be invited to bring a song to life. Blending foundational songwriting skill development with somatic practices in therapeutic-creative expression, you will learn to write, record, and share (if desired) your heart song. With additional group exercises in joyful community singing, ceremony, and creative-somatic practices for courage and resilience, we will build our songs as well as our capacity for connection with ourselves and others. You will also have the option of having your song produced (by me), if you like. No musical experience (or talent!) required, all voices welcome!
Own Your Rhythms: Menstrual Mental Health + Cycle Somatics
Online anywhere
Own Your Rhythms is a 4-week group workshop in Menstrual Mental Health and cyclical (ecological) living. By learning, mapping, and understanding our cycles, we cultivate deeper self-compassion and reverence for the wild world and our place within it. This workshop is geared toward people with periods, though trans-women, post-menopausal women and those without uteruses who resonate with menstruality are all welcome in our space.
Alive as Folk: Intro to Cycle Somatics
Online across Ontario
Cycle Somatics is an ecological model for working with trauma. As the foundations course in Cycle Somatics, Alive as Folk offers a 4-week introduction to working with trauma/stress in an embodied and eco-cyclical way. Rooted in ritual, myth, and the wisdom of the land, we will come together to remember and practice what our bodies already know: that aliveness is available to us in each moment. And there is always a way to feel ourselves back home.
Groups rotate seasonally based on participant interest and my capacity. The next group is Therapeutic Songwriting for Survivors in January 2026. To join a waitlist, reach out below.
The Well: Integrative Somatic Bodywork Group Retreat
In-Person at Crieff Hills Retreat Centre, Puslinch, ON
Are you feeling stressed, depressed, or stuck? Have you tried everything on your "healing" journey and still feel locked in repetitive patterns of working on yourself? In this therapeutic day retreat, we go beyond healing and start living. Together in community we will learn somatic practices for releasing somatic stress, engaging our vitality, and moving beyond our "healing" journeys and into Self-empowerment. This retreat includes day use of the therapeutic grounds at Crieff Hills Retreat Centre, and a catered lunch. As a Registered Psychotherapist, Somatic Group Therapies are covered by many extended insurance benefits plans.
Workshops + Groups
Somatic workshops + therapeutic groups
a bit about emily
My psychotherapy practice is rooted years of intentional meandering in creative arts, folklore, transpersonal somatics, grief work, and community justice organizing. After being diagnosed with PTSD in my teens, I set my heart to finding compassionate ways to repair trauma that were accessible, impactful, and could be shared in community. This brought me to training in embodiment practices like trauma yoga, birthwork, expressive arts, ritual, ceremony, and ancestral practices in digesting activation (trauma) and building resilience. It also brought to the joy of creating, and the wonderment of direct communion with the Sacred that we get to experience in our bodies through the creative act. I hope that through our work together, you can begin to access the Sacred through your own senses too. I take my responsibility in this work quite seriously - which is why I believe it should be done with reverent playfulness, curiosity, and a commitment to the joyful disruption of systems which are no longer habitable for us.
In my personal life, I am an artist and musician, a parent, a nature-lover, an Earth-based spiritual practitioner, and a neurodivergent (autistic) nerd who loves all things magic, folklore, and cycles. When I'm not in the office, I'm probably researching spiritual-somatic-ecological practices and the sensory body as a tool of divine communication, reading the biographies of the female saints, engaging in art-making or music producing, thrifting, snuggling and wrestling my friends, or revelling in the wild world with my partner, kiddo and beloved community.
meet emily
Our Founder + Clinical Director
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emily barrie (she/her) MA, RP
Registered Psychotherapist #15917
Integrative Somatic Therapist + Bodyworker (ISTP®-Certified)
500hr RYT: Yoga for Trauma; Perinatal/Menstrual Yoga
500hr CBE: Embodied Birthwork + Somatic Cycle Education
I work with: individuals (18+), relationship constellations, families, groups
My lens is: spiritually-oriented, trauma-focused, neuro-, gender-, culturally-affirming
My work is: trauma-centred, somatic (body-based), experiential, ecological, attachment-focused, arts-based, playful, spiritually-integrative, justice-oriented, client-focused
I study and practice: Spiritual Psychotherapy, Integrative Somatic Therapies, Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies, Focusing, Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, Full-Spectrum Birthwork and Perinatal/Parental Support, Yoga & Mindfulness, Somatic Bodywork + Touch Therapies for trauma, Embodied Theology, Queer Ecology, Cycle Somatics, Autism/ADHD-affirming therapies, PDA-behaviour profile within Autism
My somatic bodywork education comes through: Kathy L. Kain (Somatic Practice), Aline LaPierre (Intro to NE Touch), Integrative Somatic Therapy Practice (ISTP®), 1000+ hours of Yoga + Birthwork training, Integrative Energy Medicine (Reiki, Hynni)
My special interests are: eco-somatics, cyclical living and menstrual mental health, ancestral transpersonal practices, future-dreaming, expressive arts (song writing and producing), community ritual, neuro-divergence and trance states, folklore + fiction.
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