We carry more than we know.

There is a stream of memory that runs beneath the surface of our lives. Persistent and sacred, it carries the voices of those who came before us, the ache of what could not be spoken, the prayers whispered in the dark.
We often do not hear it directly, but we feel it—in the way our shoulders carry weight that is not ours, in the mysterious fatigue that rests behind our eyes, in the inherited silence that lives inside our longing.
But beneath the surface, a quiet aliveness awaits, not just to be released, but to be reclaimed.

When our roots are threaded with war, displacement, or loss, we may carry the invisible residue of survivor guilt—a grief with many faces. It may appear as a dullness of joy, an inner emptiness despite outer abundance, a relentless striving to prove our right to exist.

We learn to carry the unspeakable in pieces—addressing symptoms one by one, never quite seeing the whole tapestry. But what was born of collective trauma cannot be healed in isolation.

It needs breath.

 It needs witnessing.

 It needs the power of a community.

In this retreat, we step into a community circle—a space where myth and memory can dance, where healing is not a task to complete but a sacred story told back to the body.

Woven quietly through our time together is the essence of Ileana Cosânzeana—the luminous feminine of Romanian myth. A soul-healer, a light-bringer, a weaver of the golden thread, she reminds us that even the sorrow we inherit carries within it the seed of beauty. Like the rose that blooms through frost, she teaches us that even in silence, there is a song waiting to be sung.

Her presence in this field invites us to soften where we once braced, to follow the rhythm of our own becoming, and to remember that healing can also be grace.

This Seeing with Your Heart 5-day immersive retreat invites you into the ancestral field—a space where time collapses, and past, present, and future converge. Through Systemic Family Constellations, we will tune into the wisdom of the ancestors and the knowledge that lives in our bodies, allowing what has been forgotten or silenced to find its rightful place. Together in community, you will learn to access your body’s evolutionary capacity to perceive and integrate the ordinary, ancestral, and spiritual dimensions of consciousness that are at the core of what it means to be human, and to allow what has been hidden to come into the light of love.

Through Seeing with Your Heart Alchemical Constellations, and held within a field of reverence, we will:

🌿 Welcome the stories that have lived in silence and shadow.

🌿 Tend to inherited burdens with meticulous compassion, loving awareness and the wisdom to begin writing a new story – your story.

🌿 Reclaim life force that was frozen by fear or sorrow—and invite it to return as joy, creativity, and clarity of purpose.

When we come together—across bloodlines, across borders, across lifetimes—we become more than individuals. We become part of a field of eternal wholeness.

In this space, we will gather not just to release the past, but to plant the future.
To allow the stories of those who could not live fully to find rest.
To carry the past with love—and shape the future in radiant freedom.

Dan Cohen, PhD specializes in helping individuals, couples, and families heal the effects of inherited trauma and fulfill their deepest longings for love, connection, and meaningful impact. He has a particular passion for addressing generational trauma passed down through war, genocide, and the legacy of slavery. Blending a near-encyclopedic knowledge of world history, mythology, and culture with an uncanny psychic awareness, Dan offers profound, transformative healing that restores peace of mind and expands new possibilities for life’s flourishing.

Before earning his PhD in psychology and training directly with Bert Hellinger as a Constellations facilitator, Dan was internationally recognized for his work in violence prevention and conflict resolution. As a former Strategic Planning consultant to the Director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he pivoted away from national security to become a founding member of the City of Cambridge(MA) Peace Commission in 1981. For over four decades, he has devoted himself to understanding the violent and hostile urges that shadow the human heart.

Since 2000, Dan has been a leading voice in integrating personal, ancestral, and spirit consciousness into therapeutic practice. He holds a PhD in psychology from Saybrook University and an MBA from Boston University. Dan is the author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He has led Seeing with Your Heart workshops and training courses across 19 countries in Europe, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, South America, Africa, and throughout the United States.

When he’s not with clients or teaching, Dan can be found writing reflections on a recent class, chasing the latest theories on consciousness, or reading scientific research most people wouldn’t touch without a glossary. He walks daily along the shore of Martha’s Vineyard with his dog Ruby, listening for eternal truths in the ocean wind—and occasionally offering dry commentary in return.

A devoted father, partner, and adoring grandfather, Dan lights up most when his family and dear friends are near. In his world, brilliance and humility walk side by side—stalking wise words and wisecracks in equal measure. A longtime Red Sox fan, he’s intimately acquainted with hope and heartbreak—and still shows up to every season with unwavering enthusiasm tempered by just the right amount of irony.

Emily Blefeld, LICSW, is an internationally recognized Systemic Family Constellations trainer, facilitator, and psychotherapist. With more than two decades of experience, she specializes in supporting change-makers, healers, and entrepreneurs to dismantle outdated paradigms, ancestral narratives, and ancient codes that limit their growth. Known for her extraordinary intuitive gifts and ability to commune with the ancestral realm, Emily skillfully attunes to the subtle dimensions of consciousness to help individuals release intergenerational trauma and live with greater authenticity, express their love more fully, and align with their life’s purpose. 

Emily’s professional approach integrates psychotherapy, coaching, and mentoring with advanced methods in Systemic Family Constellations, Core Energetics, Compassionate Spirit Release, and Women’s Mystery Traditions. She holds a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Minnesota and is certified in a range of therapeutic modalities that support holistic healing and transformation. Emily has presented at premier institutions including the Omega Institute, Kripalu, and the North American Systemic Constellations Conference, and served on the faculty of the North American Constellation Intensive. In addition to her private practice, she leads trainings and workshops across the U.S. and internationally in countries including Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Bali, Germany, and Africa.

When she’s not guiding clients or leading workshops, Emily walks the ocean shore of Aquinnah, where she resides—gathering inspiration from the tides and the whispers of the land. She receives nourishment from ritual, gratitude, and the simple act of greeting each new day with movement under the rising sun, offering thanks for the unseen worlds that shape her path. Rooted in reverence and alive with boundless energy, Emily is frequently found in heartfelt gatherings with friends and family or joyfully supporting the creative visions of others. A natural night owl, Emily does some of her most inspired work under moonlight, when the veils are thin and her love of the liminal hums with possibility. Whether guiding a constellation or shaping magazine cuttings into soulful vision, Emily brings deep presence, mythic insight, and wild reverence for the mystery that connects us all. Her artistry bridges healing and imagination, inviting others to join her in the sacred dance between worlds.

Oana Tănase is an alchemist at heart. As a systemic coach and constellations facilitator for the past decade, her evolutionary path has led her to train in systemic and executive coaching, business and family constellations, alchemical constellations and somatic oriented approaches. Her blended approach aims to re-shape the personal “attraction field” so that people live from their radiance and act in resonance with their evolutionary calling.

Oana is an artful teacher of embodiment – bridging the art and science of attuning our biology (our nervous systems) to consciously make sense of the resonance showing up in our bodies. She guides clients to use that as information to support the process of conscious evolution that transmutes ancestral imprints into radiant wisdom in service of Life.

Language, especially poetry, is deeply important to her as “words create worlds.” She teaches people to shape their felt experience into words. The resonant sentences of truth which emerge from the experience of being in a constellation ground and seal new possibilities from the field of potentiality into actualized reality.

When she’s not mid-constellation, sipping Vanilla Rooibos, or whispering poems to the sea under star-salted skies, Oana can be found weaving temporary rituals that leave permanent echoes in the soul. She delights in the dance between myth and modernity, science and spirit, precision and poetry. Whether invoking the wisdom of the crone or tuning into the quiet hum of a resonant truth, she lives for that moment when a client’s eyes light up—when ancestral density softens into embodied radiance.

Oana believes that transformation is both an art and a love story. Her compass? The whisper of the body, the pulse of the field, and the timeless rhythm of Life unfolding.

You can find more about Oana at www.constellationsandrituals.com

Friday, Nov 7, 2025

3 – 5 pm Arrival and Check-in
5 – 7:00pm Opening Circle
7:30 – 8:30 pm Dinner

Saturday November 8, 2025

8 – 9 am Breakfast
9 – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 12:30 pm Morning Program
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2 pm Break
2 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 – 6 pm Break
6 – 7 pm Dinner
7 – 9 pm Evening Program

Sunday, November 9, 2025

8 – 9 am Breakfast
9 – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 12:30 pm Morning Program
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2 pm Break
2 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 – 6 pm Break
6 – 7 pm Dinner
7 – 9 pm Evening Program

Monday, November 10, 2025

8 – 9 am Breakfast
9 – 9:30 am Break
9:30 am – 12:30 pm Morning Program
12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2 pm Break
2 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Program
5:30 – 6 pm Break
6 – 7 pm Dinner

*Please note that the schedule is subject to change.