• Heal Your Mind & Body at Dewa Spa

  • Study with World-Class Teachers

  • Practice in One of Our Unique Venues

  • Expand Your Awareness with Meditation

  • Go Hiking in the Catskill Mountains

  • Enjoy Delicious Nourishing Farm-to-Table Cuisine

  • Menla is a Project of Tibet House US,

    the Dalai Lama’s Cultural Center in NYC

  • Deluxe Queen – $912.00
  • Private Queen – $820.80
  • Private Single (Shared Bath) – $793.80
  • Deluxe Double Full - Shared bath (Shared Room) – $667.20
  • Deluxe Double Twin - Shared bath (Shared Room) – $616.80
  • Standard Single – $585.60
  • Standard Double (Shared Room) – $561.60
  • Standard Triple (Shared Room) – $535.20
  • Standard Quad (Shared Room) – $501.60

Address: 375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States

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Alchemical Constellations: A Retreat for the Living and the Dead

With Emily Blefeld, LICSW and Dan Cohen, PhD

November 2 - 5, 2023

Love, Pleasure, Power, Freedom, Joy, Abundance, and Everything that Sparks Your Spirit is Calling!
The Seeing with Your Heart retreat is a deep dive into the primal mysteries of human consciousness. Alchemical Constellations give a newfound strength to the inner center, not one that comes from self-improvement but rather from reawakening to evolution’s eternal truths which have been nearly exterminated by cultural, societal, and family traumas. This happens first by engaging with ancestral presences to release the oppressive structures of guilt, shame, and fear that squeeze the juice out of life and second through the alchemy of the heart which transforms the decay of trauma into the food that nourishes the full flowering of your life. Seeing with Your Heart will open your body and mind to new pathways of creativity, purpose, passion, and community.
Retreat leaders, Emily Blefeld and Dan Cohen, are internationally renowned Systemic Family Constellations trainers and facilitators who are adept at traveling the unconscious pathways of hidden intergenerational patterns. With their guidance, you will gain insights into your family, your work, your doubts and dreams. Together, we will dive into the deepest parts of human experience where you can feel, in an entirely new way, how the living and dead remain in relationship and can together contribute to a deeper assertion of life. When you learn to see with your heart, you see yourself and the world in new light.
Unite worlds and bridge realities with a groundbreaking experience where the boundaries between the online and physical realms dissolve. Participants may join online from anywhere on the planet or in person at Menla, creating a truly immersive and dynamic international/local event. Working around the globe and around the clock, you may join this journey of self-discovery and growth no matter where you are. All will experience the magic of a unified event and be part of a global community on a shared quest for personal transformation.

Schedule
Thursday, November 2
  • 3 – 6 pm Arrival and Check-in
  • 6 – 7 pm Dinner
  • 7 – 9:30 pm No Program Schedule This Evening – Casual Gathering in the The Barn

Friday, November 3

  • 8 – 9 am Breakfast
  • 9 – 9:30 am Break
  • 9:30 am – 12 pm Morning Circle
  • 12:30 – 2 pm Virtual Circle for Virtual Participants
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch for Live Participants
  • 1:30 – 2 pm Break
  • 2 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Circle
  • 5:30 – 6 pm Break
  • 6 – 7 pm Dinner
  • 7  – 7:30 pm Break
  • 7:30 – 9 pm Evening Circle
  • 9  – 10 pm Open Space Moonlight Session

Saturday, November 4

  • 5 – 7 am Virtual Circle for Virtual Participants
  • 6:50 – 7:50 am Open Space Sunrise Session
  • 8 – 9 am Breakfast
  • 9 – 9:30 am Break
  • 9:30 am – 12 pm Morning Circle
  • 12:30 – 2 pm Virtual Circle for Virtual Participants
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch for Live Participants
  • 1:30 – 2 pm Break
  • 2 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Circle
  • 5:30 – 6 pm Break
  • 6 – 7 pm Dinner
  • 7 – 7:30 pm Break
  • 7:30 – 9 pm Evening Circle
  • 9 – 10 pm Open Space Moonlight Session

Sunday, November 5

  • 5 – 7 am Virtual Circle for Virtual Participants
  • 6:50 – 7:50 am Open Space Sunrise Session
  • 7 – 11 am Check-out of Rooms
  • 8 – 9 am Breakfast
  • 9 – 9:30 am Break
  • 9:30 am – 12 pm Morning Circle
  • 12:30 – 2 pm Virtual Circle for Virtual Participants & Closure
  • 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch for Live Participants & Departure

*Please note that the schedule is subject to change at any time. 

Leaders

Emily Blefeld, LICSW
Emily Blefeld, LICSW is internationally known as a trainer, Systemic Family Constellations facilitator, and psychotherapist. She specializes in supporting change-agents, visionaries and entrepreneurs to dismantle the old paradigms, outdated narratives, and ancient codes that hold them back and open to the full expression of their life’s purpose and soul’s path.  Her intuitive gift of sight and knowledge of the hidden pathways of energy, consciousness, and vibration help clients trace inherited family and soul trauma through multiple generations or incarnations to release the burdens and blocks that interfere with living their truth, expressing their love, and embodying their passion. Drawing from…
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Dan Cohen, PhD
Since 2000, Dan Cohen, PhD has been a leading voice for incorporating personal, ancestral and spirit consciousness into therapeutic practices. He specializes in helping individuals, couples and families heal the effects of inherited trauma and fulfill their desires for having more love and deeper impact in their lives. Combining a near-encyclopedic knowledge of world history, mythology and culture with an uncanny psychic awareness, Dan offers clients profound and transformative healing. Prior to training with Bert Hellinger as a Constellations facilitator, Dan was internationally known for his work as a violence prevention and conflict resolution facilitator. A former Strategic Planning consultant…
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