Embodied Systemic and Family Constellations
Our bodies are a river delta; personal, ancestral, and collective currents meeting in one living landscape.
Embodied Constellation practices gently reveal the unseen loyalties, entanglements, and inherited stories shaping your relationships, health, and sense of belonging. Through guided, relational process, we create space for truth, dignity, integration and new flow.
1:1 Sessions Online via Zoom
In these private sessions, we explore the lineage and deeper roots of what you are carrying. Together, we look at repeated patterns and persistent challenges, tracing how they may live in both your personal history and your ancestry, the land you come from, your communities, and the wider cultural field.
Using altar constellations, we engage in a relational, body-based process of deep listening and felt-sense awareness. I share my screen and guide you as we work with simple objects to represent family members, symptoms, emotions, intentions, blocks, and resources. As the constellation unfolds, hidden dynamics often become visible — and space opens for clarity, dignity, and new movement.
Online Family and Systemic Constellations Circle
Available only inside The Gathering Stream community space
Each month, we explore a facet of our family lineage, its gifts and its burdens, through a guided meditative constellation practice that is done individually, but in a group container. We trace the roots of the monthly and seasonal themes inside The Gathering Stream, with each class carrying its own focus.
Together, we notice where the past may still be repeating in the present and invite healing movements, phrases, and witnessing for ourselves and our family systems. At the end of our practice there is time to share and reflect together on the weaving of the individual and group story.
This option is a gentle step into this work, one that feels steady, contained, and deeply supported.
About Family and Systemic Constellations
What Are Family and Systemic Constellations?
Family and Systemic Constellations are an embodied approach to unearthing the systemic roots and inherited patterns of the issues we face in our lives. The modern form of this work was developed by Bert Hellinger and was influenced by his time with the Zulu people of South Africa, along with phenomenology and family systems theory.
The process helps us see the wider landscape of our life, relationships, entanglements, and longings. What feels personal or confusing often begins to reveal its systemic context. Repeated patterns can be understood within the larger web of family, community, land, and culture.
A constellation can take place in a group setting or 1:1 with a facilitator. You bring an intention, question, or issue, and together we create a constellation by assigning people or objects to represent aspects of the system. These elements form a living map. As the process unfolds, movements arise, new connections become visible, and something inside often shifts as well.
At its heart, this work is about inclusion and belonging. Every part has a place in the ecosystem. When we slow down and allow what is here, something new can begin to move.
About Embodied Constellations
What are Embodied Constellations?
From the beginning of our collaboration, Kat, India, and I have used the term Embodied Constellations to describe the way we practice together.
For us, this work is not only perceptual, it is lived through the body. We include sensation, movement, sound, and expression as part of the constellation itself. We understand many patterns as incomplete mobilizations that never had the chance to move through. In a constellation, those unfinished impulses can gently complete themselves through embodied experience. A step that was never taken, a breath that was held, or a sound that was swallowed. We do not force these movements. We listen for them.
A central part of our work is bringing in resource. We actively support co-regulation with what feels entangled or traumatic from the past. Rather than re-exposing someone to overwhelm, we widen the system. We include support, allies, orientation, and grounding so that what was once too much can finally metabolize in a steady way.
Our approach is rooted in the understanding that the body is a personal, ancestral, and collective river delta. The nervous system carries more than individual biography. It carries relational history. Together we weave traditional constellation principles with embodied awareness, trauma-informed practice, and deep ecology. We slow the process down and track posture, breath, sensation, and impulse.
In this way, the work becomes integrative. Small movements matter. A shift in weight, a sentence spoken with resolution, a sound or breath released at the right moment can change the whole field.
HOlding a Strong and Steady Container
Setting a Safe Enough Energetic Container for Transformational Work
Constellation work touches deep personal and ancestral layers, and how it is held matters. Safety, clarity, and grounding are foundational to the way we practice. We are rooted in a practical, embodied approach while honouring the lineage and spiritual origins of this work with respect and responsibility.
The Online Container
Online sessions are held with clarity, structure, and strong boundaries. We begin by orienting to intention and choice, ensuring that you remain in control of your pace at all times.
I guide the process through screen sharing and the use of simple objects as representatives. We move slowly and stay connected to sensation and breath. There is no pressure to perform or disclose more than feels right.
The container is steady and contained. We begin and end with grounding and integration so that whatever moves in the constellation has time to settle in the nervous system.
Even through a screen, the work can feel precise, intimate, and deeply supported when held with care.
The In Person Container
Evenings, Daylongs and Retreats in Toronto
I facilitate these gatherings alongside Kat Gibson and India Amara. Each of us carries decades of experience working with the earth, energetic medicine, and ritual in grounded, collective ways.
Before we gather, one of us visits the local river. A rock is placed for the group, and a simple prayer is spoken for flow, clarity, allyship, and protection. It is an important act of orientation and responsibility that we are held by the bigger body of the land.
In our shared space, we build an altar to anchor us, layering intention and guardianship into the room. Between pieces of work, we consciously clear the space so that each process remains distinct. The group is grounded at the beginning, throughout our time, and at the close, allowing what has moved to settle and integrate.
Each of us works with a strong inner set of values, allies, and ancestors, and we hold a clear shared commitment to group safety.
The container is protected and boundaried, yet fluid enough to allow the natural intelligence of the field to move. You are sent home with aftercare, and we also follow up with the group after each session to tend to anything that feels incomplete.
FAQ's
Are Constellations Therapy?
No. Constellations are not therapy, and they do not replace psychotherapy, medical care, or mental health treatment.
That said, many people experience them as deeply therapeutic. Insight, relief, clarity, and emotional movement can arise. The difference is that constellation work focuses on relational and systemic patterns rather than diagnosis, analysis, or treatment.
You remain in choice and agency throughout the process.
Are Constellations Channeling or Mediumship?
No. This work is not channeling and does not require a particular spiritual belief.
While we may speak about ancestors or the past, we are working with relational patterns that live in the body and nervous system. We notice qualities of energy, name them, and support their metabolization through witnessing and embodied movement.
You do not have to see the work as mystical for it to be meaningful. It is accessible to people of all faiths and to those who do not identify as spiritual.
What If I’m Scared of Working With Ancestors?
That is completely understandable. Working with ancestors does not mean summoning spirits or entering into something supernatural.
Often, it simply means acknowledging that we come from somewhere and that history shapes us.
Sometimes it is as simple as recognizing that a burden you carry did not begin with you. We move at the pace of your nervous system. Fear itself can be included gently in the process.
And if it does not feel right for you, you are encouraged to follow your impulse!
Is This Work Right for Me?
Constellations are meaningful for most people who are curious about patterns in their lives and willing to sit in a room where feeling, witnessing, and shared human experience are present.
This work can be emotional. Waves of activation may move through the space. We may witness stories of harm, rupture, and resolution. It requires some capacity to stay present with sensation and emotion, both your own and others’.
If you are currently in acute mental distress, highly anxious to the point of dysregulation, or without the capacity to be in a shared emotional space, it may be wise to stabilize with individual therapeutic support first.
If you are unsure, you are always welcome to reach out and connect before joining. We are happy to help you discern whether this is the right timing.
Are You Able to Work With Different Cultures and Backgrounds?
We are three Caucasian women with our own distinct lineages, life experiences, and ancestral histories. We bring depth, devotion, and care to this work, and we also recognize that we carry our own blind spots and limitations.
We regularly work with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, genders, identities, and lived experiences. Our spaces are often richly diverse. When someone steps into representation, they do so not as themselves, but in service of the system being explored. The field does not require similarity of background in order for insight or movement to arise.
At the same time, we approach this work with humility. We are committed to doing our best to ensure healing rather than harm. We continue to learn, to examine our own conditioning, and to remain open to feedback and ongoing dialogue.
If you have specific questions about how this work might meet your cultural or ancestral background, you are welcome to reach out and connect with us directly.