An Invitation to Connection
A long weekend retreat to practice remembering our place in the Family of Life
A peaceful and warm welcome to the second year of Blue Ridge Constellations Camp. In a world where we often feel the need to choose between listening alone or tuning out together, we want to create a sacred container for listening together. You are joyfully welcomed to meet the rhythms of this beautiful land, to let it meet you, to come steep in your own knowing, the knowing we share and the knowing of our ancestors of bone, path and place.
5 Days, 4 Nights of Ceremony
Deepen your capacity to listen, attune and connect — with your body & spirit, family lineage, nature spirits in this container that centers personal and collective resourcing through constellations, creative expression and connection to land.
DAILY CONSTELLATIONS CIRCLE
CREATIVE RITUALS,
SONG & DANCE
FIRESIDE COOKING & CAMPING
What to Expect
We will gather together in the welcoming embrace of rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Each morning we will gather to move, sing and eat breakfast before coming together for our whole group constellations circle in the big tent. Afternoons will be spacious to encourage integration and rest, with addition of resourcing workshops and opportunity to explore the land. Evenings will center on shared meals and stories around a fire. Together we will follow innate rhythms older than words and hold loving witness for opportunities for personal and collective healing and growth.
An integral part of constellations work is a non-moralistic framework of "acknowledging what is" and this has been foundational in our process of getting to know this land and its rich history. We share here a bit of the land's history to offer you a window into the roots of this place.
Sample Schedule*
Thursday Sept 24
Arrival + Opening
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12:30-2:30 pm: Arrival & Orientation
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4:00-5:00 pm: Opening Ceremony
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5:15-6:45 pm: Dinner and Orientation
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Evening: Camp family shares around the fire
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10:00 pm: Quiet hours begin
Friday, Saturday and Sunday Sept 24-27
Deepening
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8:00-8:45 am: Breakfast
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8:45-9:15 am: Morning Movement
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9:15-10:00 am: Greeting the Directions & Song
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10:00-1:00 pm: Morning Constellations Session
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1:00-2:30 pm: Lunch + Rest
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2:30-4:30 pm: Afternoon Integration Session
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4:30-8:15 pm Dinner/sunset/camp family shares
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8:30 pm: Evening Activity
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10:00 pm: Quiet hours
Monday Sept 28
Closing + Departure
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8:00-8:45 am: Breakfast
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8:45-9:15 am: Morning Movement
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9:15-10:00 am: Greeting the Directions & Song
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10:00-12:00 pm: Final Constellations Session
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12:00-1:00 pm: Closing Ceremony
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1:00 pm Lunch + Packing
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By 4:00 pm: Departure
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This is only a preview to give a sense of the weekend's flow and content. Final schedule to be determined.
Mission & Values
Our mission is to co-create a welcoming culture of deepening connection with self, other, and land.
Through the collective practices of constellation work, song, dance, circle sharing, communal meals and rest, we aim to foster the embodiment of more love, reciprocity, and soulful togetherness.
We believe in tending a field of collective presence where healing and growth can unfold.
Core Values
Mutual Respect & Compassion
Meeting each other with dignity, humility and attuned care; honoring each individual’s sovereignty through practicing boundaries and consent.
Responsibility & Accountability
Participating within capacity by practicing honesty, integrity, and heartful presence — even when it's hard.
Reverence & Reciprocity with Place
Listening to and relating with Land and more-than-human ones as ancestor, teacher, and kin.
Honoring Ancestry
Everyone comes from a family lineage of gifts and challenges that shape their beliefs and perceptions.
When we honor our roots and include the excluded, we can make peace with the past and space for the future.
Embodiment
Honoring the felt-sense of body knowing (intuition); Supporting self- and co-regulation, and capacity, nervous system care.
Our Team
We are a group of close friends who share a common mission to co-create a culture of human thriving in meaningful dialogue with Land and Ancestors.
Facilitator and Creatrix
is a second generation constellations facilitator and acupuncturist moved by cultures of deep listening, natural and systemic thinking and radical inclusion. She first attended the Ireland Constellation Camp in 2023, and continues to be moved by it's impulse and impact that sparked a desire for a similar type of gathering on the other side of the Atlantic.
Lead Facilitator
is a constellations facilitator, narrative guide, and story weaver whose work is rooted in reverence for ancestral memory, systemic wisdom, and the living presence of the land. She was called to be a core member and lead facilitator of this camp through a deep-soul knowing—that the Earth is our first ancestor, and that healing begins in relationship with land, lineage, and the wider field of belonging.
Movement Facillitator
is a therapeutic bodyworker, embodiment guide, nature lover, and dancer. In the last 5 years, he has deepened his learning within trauma informed somatic inquiry and is interested in deepening his practice of listening to land and ancestral threads. His curiosity has led to leaning into Family Constellations and newer community projects like Blue Ridge Constellations Camp.
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Sacred Song Weaver
Alexandra Nelligan
is a song carrier, land lover, somatic trauma resolution practitioner, dancer, future biodynamic craniosacral practitioner, and lover of listening. Her orientation is to be in deep listening relationship with Earth and Spirit first, which was beautifully modeled in the Ireland Constellations Camp she attended in 2024, and it’s been a pleasure listening in this way in the creation of Blue Ridge Constellations camp.
Facilitator and Operations Coordinator
is a Healing Arts practitioner centering creative agency through embodied expression with an animistic lens. He is rooted in western Mass, where he directs a community event center The Hidden Temple. As Learning Tree Farms has been his family home for over 20 years, he is proud to play host for this soulful gathering.
Host
Learning Tree Farms
David and Mary Collins have stewarded this land since the mid 1990s, preserving its natural splendor as an educational sanctuary for animals and people alike. Originally the homeland of the Manahoac, this place was stewarded as ‘Mont Blanc’ by the family of Chief Justice John Marshall in the 1800s before serving as cow pastureland and game hunting for most of the 20th century.
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