Winter has kept us cocooned in its deep silence, nestled in the bear’s cave of introspection, rest, and the slow gathering of energy. But, as the Earth begins its thaw and life stirs beneath the soil, an ancient rhythm calls us forward.

Spring is not merely a season—it is an awakening. It is a time of emergence, of shedding what no longer serves and opening ourselves to the blossoming of new possibilities. Just as the bear stretches its limbs and steps into the warming light, we, too, are invited to move from the hibernation of our old selves and attune to the vibration of our soul’s highest timeline. This retreat is an invitation to embody the shift from winter’s stillness into spring’s renewal, aligning with your soul’s true essence, purpose, and creative flow.

Together, through Systemic Family Constellations, Ancestral Healing, Sacred Sound Journeys, Breathwork, and Creative Alchemy, we will transmute the inherited generational patterns, limiting beliefs, and wounds that flatten our expression and keep us tethered to a lower vibrational reality—one of scarcity, doubt, grief, and fear. In community, rediscover mobility along the path where your energy, purpose, and creativity align in their most expansive and authentic expression. With vibrational frequency where your soul’s truth is fully embodied, and your actions resonate harmoniously with the greater pulse of the universe, we will access the ancestral and spirit resources that are at the source of true liberation.

Your Wildness is Calling

This weekend retreat offers the opportunity to transmute blocks, step beyond familiar patterns and constraints, and open the infinite possibilities that await you.

Reconnect with your inner rhythms. Awaken your creative fire. Heal, transform, and align with the infinite possibilities of your life’s purpose.

To the wild thing in you say yes

To the thing that gets you out of the warmth of your bed

and into the cold sea

in your long white skirt

while the light is new

and the seagulls glide through the blue frame, one bird at a time

and their squawk is music

and the tiny, discarded shells, empty of their animals, opened

in the shape of butterfly wings, saying yes,

even in death,

Yes.

~ Elana Bell

Reconnect with Your Inner Wildness

• Rediscover your natural rhythms and primal essence, breaking free from societal conditioning and inherited patterns, while reclaiming your authentic self.
• Embody the wisdom of your instincts and the power of your intuitive knowing to navigate life’s transitions with clarity and confidence.

Sacred Sound and Vibrational Medicine to Support Your Soul’s Becoming

• Use sound, movement, and meditation to tune your body to its optimal frequency, creating alignment between your inner and outer worlds.
• Explore how vibrational resonance can open doorways to creativity, healing, and manifestation.
• Receive the therapeutic resonance of tuning forks, the Monolina, and other instruments.

Ancestral Healing and Generational Alchemy

• Engage with the healing power of Systemic Family Constellations to release the burdens of inherited trauma and limiting narratives.
• Honor and integrate the gifts of your ancestors, guides, and muses, weaving their wisdom into your life’s unfolding story and accessing inspiration.

Creative Alchemy and Self-Expression

• Connect to your Creative Fire through embodied practices including breath, movement, and vocal release.
• Transform raw emotion into artistic expression through guided prompts, journaling, and intuitive art-making.
• Expand your capacity for self-expression and authenticity in relationships, work, and personal pursuits.

Breathwork Session

• Be carried on a journey home to your truest you within the healing waves of breath. 
• The mediums of Breathwork can be  fortifying, cathartic, and offer deep healing. 
• Find your own unique truths, heighten intuition, focus, dreams, and deepen creativity beneath the noise.
• Find where we are connected, your exhale my inhale, walking upon the same precious earth.

Spring Renewal for the Heart of Your Being

• Learn rituals and practices to align with the seasonal energies of growth, renewal, and possibility.
• Set intentions and plant the seeds for a flourishing, high-vibrational year.

Alchemical family constellations are a unique and powerful method of unearthing the systemic roots of the issues we face in our lives. 

A Sacred Sound journey uses various instruments and voice to create a vibrational healing experience. It provides the opportunity to drop in more deeply into the self, to come back to your body. This work can support in calming the nervous system, and encouraging overall restoration and access to creativity.

Combined, these processes are powerful, deeply transformational, and help us to see and understand the landscape of our life, relationships, challenges, and aspirations in an expansive and clear way.

Many of us recognize that what is unconscious will continue to permeate our lives until it is made conscious; however, have you extended that idea to include what is unconscious in your family lineage? What was unresolved, repressed, and irreconcilable in our grandparents’ and great grandparents’ lives finds its way into our unconscious and shapes our everyday pursuit for happiness, health, passion, and purpose.

While yearning to embody a vibrant, regenerative, creative, and loving self, we find ourselves living the resounding echoes of an incomplete past (near and distant). Through the deepest caverns of the heart, and sometimes the most soulful quests, we acknowledge the suffering of our present situation or relationship as an opportunity to bring healing and transformation to generational burdens and we embark on a journey with intention to liberate not only ourselves but those that stand behind us and those that come after us. 

Coupled with breathwork, sacred sound, and embodied creative expression, this work restores the long evolved human capacity to engage with the organ of perception that evolved in the human species over millions of years.

Over 2.5 days, we will immerse ourselves in transformative practices that harmonize the body, mind, and spirit with the emerging energies of the Spring. Nestled in the serene beauty of Crescent Farm, this soul nourishing retreat offers the perfect sanctuary to thaw the frozen parts of your being, reconnect with your inner wilderness, and rise into a new season of creativity and vitality.

Friday Evening: Awakening the Senses (7:00 PM – 9:30 PM)
Begin your weekend with an opening circle, systemic constellation exercise, and a Sound Healing session, where the vibrations of tuning forks, the Monolina, and voice will guide you into a state of deep relaxation. Awaken the senses, welcome your ancestral field, and attune to the frequency of your heart’s deepest desires.

Saturday: Tending the Thaw (9:30 AM – 9:00 PM)
The longest day of our journey is a deep dive into transformative work:

• • Embodiment: Embodied practices like breathwork, movement, and sound healing support you to awaken your body’s innate intelligence, travel to the bear cave within, greet your soul’s readiness for emergence, and tend the fire of your intentions.
  • Transformation: Systemic Family Constellations and Ancestral Healing to release inherited blocks, burdens, and unconscious loyalty to the slumber of stuckness, depths of loneliness, or generational pain.  Now is the time to reclaim the strength and wisdom of your lineage.
  • Creative Alchemy: The Creative Fire process will connect you to the authentic creative spark alive in you. It will support you to ignite your unique voice and vision, call forward your muse, and invite you to write a new story and weave a new thread into your soul’s becoming.

Sunday: Planting Seeds (9:30 AM – 4:00 PM)
The final day focuses on integration and manifestation:

• • Individual systemic constellations, with sound healing, to attune to your highest timeline and clarify your soul’s next steps.
  • A closing circle to honor your journey and commit to living vibrationally aligned with your soul’s truth.

A homemade nourishing lunch on Saturday and Sunday is included in your program cost.

Crescent Hudson Valley is a canvas, a well, a healing space, a clan gathering, an interwoven tapestry, a red tent, a table to feast at, a gallery, a vibrant market, a classroom, a lush garden, a playground, a sacred space, a joyous microcosm. Crescent Farm is a place for lush creativity and healing through community, traditional wisdom, a reconnection with our Earth Mama, a deepened awareness of self-responsibility and sacred reciprocity. Located in the beautiful Hudson Valley NY, 80 miles north of NYC. A kind of sprawling, fertile oasis.

Nestled under a glorious sky and between the Shawangunk Ridge and a gentle river in the beautiful Hudson Valley, Crescent Farm offers 26+ acres of inspiring landscapes. The property features meadows, woodlands, and a cozy studio space, making it a sacred haven for creative and spiritual renewal. 

Transportation

By Air: Crescent Farm is accessible from all major New York airports. The closest options are Albany International Airport, New York Stewart International Airport, and Westchester County Airport (White Plains). While these airports are convenient, they may be more expensive or lack direct flights depending on your departure location.

By Bus: A 1½-hour Adirondack Trailways bus ride from New York City’s Port Authority to New Paltz brings you within 10 minutes of the farm. From New Paltz, you can take a short taxi ride (under $20) or arrange for a pick-up from the farm.

Address: 1201 Bruynswick Rd, Gardiner, NY 12525.

Lodging Options

Limited accommodations are available, including a charming farmhouse, cozy cottages, and a well-equipped studio. These options allow you to fully immerse yourself in the Crescent Farm experience. Enjoy organic, home-cooked breakfast included with your stay along with coffee and tea available throughout your visit.

For availability, please contact Jenny Wonderling via email at hello@crescenthv.com and include “Sacred Emergence” in the subject line. Once on-site spaces are full, you are welcome to secure lodging through local hotels, Airbnb, or Vrbo.

Learn More about the lodging possibilities.

Farmhouse

• Bedrooms: 6 rooms available:
  • 4 with queen beds.
  • 1 room with a queen bed and a twin.
  • 1 room with a king bed (can accommodate an additional twin).
• Rates:
  • Private rooms: $125-$150 per night (includes organic breakfast and beverages).
  • Shared rooms: Rates vary based on occupancy; please inquire.
• Details:
  • Wood stove, living room, dining room (seats 8-12), eat-in kitchen with a 6-burner stove, dishwasher, and 3 bathrooms.
  • Entire farmhouse: $900 per night plus $350 cleaning fee.

Cottage B

• Layout:
  • One bedroom with a queen bed.
  • One bedroom with a twin bed.
  • Fold-out couch in the living area.
• Rates: $245 per night plus $125 cleaning fee.

Cottage A

• Layout:
  • One bedroom with flexibility to add a twin bed.
  • Couch can be used as an additional sleeping option.
• Rates: $225 per night plus $125 cleaning fee.

Additional Off-Site Lodging Options:

The following options are located within 15-20 minutes of the retreat location and vary in price. We recommend having a car or carpooling. If you would like to rent an AirBnB, we recommend booking one in Gardiner or New Paltz.

Minnewaska Lodge

Hampton Inn New Paltz

Moonrise Bed and Breakfast

The Inn at Kettleboro

Emily Blefeld, LICSW, Co-Founder of Seeing with Your Heart, is a Psychotherapist, Systemic Family Constellations Facilitator and Trainer, and Sva Ha Sound and Energy Medicine Healer. She specializes in supporting empaths, 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 and purpose.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience and training, she combines expert psychotherapy, coaching and mentoring with ancestral healing, natural law, oral transmission, and the synergy of sound to help free clients from the traps of limiting beliefs, patterns and habits. Emily holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is certified in multiple therapeutic modalities including Systemic Family Constellations, Core Energetics, Energy Medicine 1, 2, 3, and 5D, Sva Ha Yoga and the Synergy of Sound Healing, Past Life Regression and Hypnotherapy, Oral Transmission, Compassionate Spirit Release, ADHD treatment, Organizational Consulting and Systemic Coaching, and Women’s Mystery Traditions. She has presented at the Omega Institute, Kripalu, the North American Systemic Constellations Conference and served on the faculty of the North American Constellation Intensive. In addition to her private practice, she regularly travels throughout the US and internationally, including presenting training and workshops in Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, Hungary, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Bali, and Germany.

Elana Bell is a poet, sound practitioner, and creative guide. She facilitates artistic rituals and processes that support individuals and groups in accessing their authentic voice and alchemizing raw experience and emotion into artistic expression. Whether through her soul-stirring poetry, her sacred sound journeys, or through her inspiring workshops, Elana creates a space where all people’s voices and stories are heard and deeply valued.

Elana is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020), poems about fertility, motherhood, and mental illness. She is also the founder of the Mother-Artist Salon, a virtual community dedicated to supporting mothers in their artistic practice. Her debut collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones (LSU Press 2012), was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and brings her complex heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Elana holds a certification in Sound and Music Integration from the New York Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute, and leads one-on-one Sound Alchemy Sessions and group Sacred Sound Journeys using a variety of instruments and voice to support participants in tapping into a deep state of relaxation and healing, allowing space to release emotions and open the creative channel. Her sound work has been presented by the Origins Company, Columbia University, You Can Thrive, The Assemblage, The Shift Network, Public Allies, and The Emotional Institute, among others.

Elana also sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus, a group of women activists and musicians committed to bringing joy and song to the resistance movement. They have shared the stage with Patti Smith, Angelique Kidjo, Sweet Honey in the Rock, among others.

In addition to her own signature Creative Fire programs,  Elana facilitates writing and performance workshops nationally and internationally for participants of all ages. She offers workshops on college campuses, for educators, women in prison and throughout a spectrum of other communities. 

She was an inaugural finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism, an award which recognizes and honors a poet who is doing innovative and transformative work at the intersection of poetry and social change for her work with Seeds of Peace and Tent of Nations, using creative writing to support dialogue and peace-building for educators and community members from regions in conflict. 

Elana has taught literature and creative writing at CUNY College of Staten Island and Brandeis University, and currently teaches poetry to the first year drama students at the Juilliard School.  To find out more about Elana’s work please visit elanabell.com/.

Jenny Wonderling has been meditating and writing creatively since she was five years old, and has practiced yoga for three decades. She celebrates spaces where shame is obliterated, allowing the full expression of one’s Spirit to shine. Jenny regularly holds classes, events and retreats at Crescent, her farm and oasis in Gardiner, NY. Within compassionate, mutually supportive community, new and old friends get creative, immerse in, and share sacred experiences, while cultivating a greater love for the planet and ancestral wisdom.


Breathwork is also a powerful force in her life; she trained with David Elliot. She marvels at how breath can awaken dreams, connect us with Spirit and creativity, foster a sense of purpose, and help heal generational trauma. Jenny weaves deep care, intuitive energy healing, and sound into her offerings, along with invitations for movement, writing, and open-hearted communication. She firmly believes in the transformational power of creativity and collaboration to bring audacious dreams and unique gifts to life. She joyously expresses this through her writing projects, and especially through her extravagant interactive ritual theater productions, which she knows make her ancestors very, very happy. She is also the proud mama of three sons.

You can find out more at: crescenthv.com and jennywonderling.com.