I’ve been coming to Thirteen Moons Wellness Centre for over
5 years. It is a rare place in Ontario
where women are called in to gather, heal, connect and ground on the
Earth. Louise, who is the founder of the
Centre, has consciously created a place that has compostable toilets that don’t
smell, eco-friendly beauty care products, nutritious and delicious vegetarian
meals (she is a certified holistic nutritionist), a labyrinth and a medicine
wheel, along with various serene trails. The trees envelope around the centre,
creating a safe space to cry, scream, feel and return to the centre of oneself
in retreat. She has oracle cards in the
living room, a warm fireplace for the winter and hammocks outside on the trees
for the summer.
Louise followed her inner guidance to create this centre, allowing
for women from all walks of life and backgrounds to come and rest in the gifts
of the woman’s spiritual path and find support to be in the mystery of the
inner world.
For me, I continually need this reprieve from the world that
is all about the yang approach – of doing, achieving, producing, competing, and
disconnecting from one’s inner truth.
When I come to Thirteen Moons, I know I’m going to have some really
profound insights that lead me to the things that actually really matter in my
life. I walk the labyrinth, sit in stillness on the earth, reflect on my
dilemmas and issues and sleep in the comfortable beds. One room has huge
windows that look out to the big forest and the sky. At night, it literally feels like you are
sleeping with the stars.
I remember one night so clearly when I had a mystical dream
at Thirteen Moons. I tend to be a vivid
dreamer in general, but this one felt like it was an otherworldly
experience.
In the dream, I felt I was transported to a whole other
region and my body was lifted and laid to rest on the top of a flat
mountain-like structure. As I was laying there, I heard a loud voice and felt
the presence of spiritual beings who were giving me a healing. The voice said
“we invited you here”. The words were comforting and it made me feel that all
was well. The place seemed familiar yet
I had never been anywhere like it. Then
immediately I woke up and saw that I was back at Thirteen Moons and the sky was
still dark with the bright stars.
On this most recent trip, I discovered my deep need for
expression and writing, along with doing more things in my daily life that
nourish my soul. I came face-to-face with
my pain of sexual abuse in my life and the women in my family system. It became
so clear that I need to resolve it, heal it and release any unconscious shame
around it so my womb and body can heal. I understood, through my meditations, that I
am needing the support of other women who can validate, understand and support
me with coming into my own, while I support other women to come into their own. This is the true spirit behind women’s path
of relationships and interconnections. And it is the purpose of Thirteen Moons
to bring women together so they can heal.
I encourage you, if you are a woman who needs time away to
reflect, regenerate and reconnect with yourself to check out Thirteen Moons.
I offer retreat weekends for Child-free Women here and I also
do personal mini-getaways for any woman on a soul path who wants to grow in
self-discovery. If you would like more
information, please send me an email to: heather@blossomingheart.ca
Here is to happy, centred and healthy
women in the world!
