Description
Emergence : A Two Day Medicine Gathering
To Honour the Year of the Fire Horse
Three Medicine Ceremonies over 2 Days
Feb 21-22 in Calgary, AB
Medicines: Fun guy, K, M (please inquire for more info re. the medicine)
Facilitators: Kali Slate, Allison Bachmeier & Stephen Gilmour
Emergence is a gathering devoted to movement that is already underway.
Not movement driven by urgency or pressure, but the kind that arises when something internal has reached readiness and is allowed to step forward. The kind of emergence that happens when clarity meets embodiment.
This two-day medicine gathering is held in honour of the Year of the Fire Horse — a year traditionally associated with vitality, courage, momentum, and self-directed motion. Fire Horse energy is not about force or intensity for its own sake. At its best, it represents clean ignition: movement that comes from alignment rather than compulsion, from inner authority rather than external demand.
In this context, Fire Horse is understood as:
* Forward motion that is self-led
* Vitality without frenzy
* Courage without recklessness
* Action that arises from embodied clarity
* Momentum that can be sustained, not burned out
Emergence offers a carefully held container where these qualities can be explored somatically, relationally, and through medicine work — with attention to pacing, consent, and integration.
Over the course of two days, participants are supported to:
* Listen for what is ready to move or change
* Notice where momentum has been stalled or over-controlled
* Allow impulse to organize naturally through the body
* Release old holding patterns without pushing or forcing
* Strengthen trust in inner direction and timing
This is not a space for fixing, striving, or peak-seeking.
Nor is it about dramatic catharsis or personal mythology.
Rather, the emphasis is on embodied emergence — letting what has already been forming internally take shape in a grounded, integrated way.
The container is intentionally small and well-regulated, allowing for depth while maintaining nervous-system safety. Integration, relational awareness, and aftercare are considered essential parts of the process, not add-ons.
Emergence is well suited for those who sense a genuine threshold in their lives — a readiness for movement, reorientation, or forward step — and who value medicine work that is sober, embodied, and responsibly held.
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Sample Itinerary
All times in MDT
Mon Feb 16 at 7-8:30pm Zoom Call Intros (Participants and Facilitators), Preparation Instructions, Q & A
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7305509259
Meeting ID: 730 550 9259
Sat Feb 21
9:00am – 4pm Medicine journey with Fun guy
4:00pm – Supper
5:30pm – 8:30pm Medicine journey with K
8:30pm – Hearty Snack
Sun Feb 22
8am Breakfast
9:30 – 4:30pm Medicine Journey with M
4:30pm Hearty Snack
6:00pm Goodbye and Departure
Sun Mar 1, 7-8:30pm: Follow-Up Zoom Call
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7305509259
Meeting ID: 730 550 9259
Investment:
$1300 – 3 ceremonies and additional group exercises, 2 Meals, 2 Hearty Snacks (you won’t leave hungry!), and optional accommodations if desired for folks out of town or folks wanting to stay over in the shared ceremony space (we’ve got room for everyone) and fully retreat.
Space is limited in size to 8 max.
A consultation call is a pre-req for anyone new to working with us.
The Chef: Stephen Gilmour
Chef Gilmour bring you all his heart and soul. Chef Gilmour’s lifelong passion for food as a vehicle for service has expanded dramatically since he began to began offering his culinary gifts to growth oriented events. Lightness, nutrition and love pour through every bite. Over 30 years experience culminate in deliciousness that now emanate from Chef Gilmour’s pans. Red seal trained under 2 Canadian Culinary Olympic Team members and even more rigorously honed by the brutally honest palettes of the children in his very popular Calgary Waldorf School Lunch program.
Kali Slate:
With nearly twenty years as a licensed psychologist in North America, her work has been deeply rooted in clinical training and professional practice. And yet, along the way, she found herself seeking something beyond the boundaries of the traditional mental health system—a deeper connection to healing, meaning, and wholeness.
That search has taken her inward. She has spent years facing and tending to her own pain and trauma, exploring how her lived experiences has shaped her worldview and patterns. This personal healing has led her into a space where psychology meets spirituality—where evidence-based practice coexists with earth medicines, sacred ceremony, animist perspectives, and other integrative traditions.
She now holds space for others from that intersection. Her work blends clinical insight with lived experience and a deep reverence for the many forms healing can take. She is committed to creating spaces where we can explore not just pain, but also joy, eros, curiosity, and the real work of becoming. As she continues to find her voice as a writer, she remains devoted to service—supporting others in uncovering their path with honesty, clarity, and care.
Allison Bachmeier:
A somatic storyteller and soul guide devoted to the art of awakening through the body. With over two decades of experience in consciousness studies, she weaves together nervous system attunement, trauma-informed care, and pathways of breath, presence, and sacred ceremony.
Her facilitation bridges science and spirit — drawing from her background in anatomy and psychology, BodyTalk, Hakomi, and conscious connected breathwork — to guide participants into direct communion with the intelligence that lives beneath words. Through medicine work, Allison holds space for what is ancient to re-member itself through the human form: the breath as bridge, the body as oracle, the heart as temple.
Participants are invited not to transcend their humanity, but to inhabit it fully: to breathe, feel, and listen as the body reveals the story of its becoming.
Questions?
Find me on WhatsApp or text at 306-280-8264 or email at transformation@sasktel.net
Yours In Service,
Allison Bachmeier