Matriarch the Retreat
Women are tenders, creators, leaders, nurturers, our place in the world and in our lives deeply impactful.
Matriarch the retreat is a space for women to come to create a new pathway of tending, to be held as they hold, to find a way of being a matriarch of their lives that feels deeply nourishing and fulfilling where we both honor our capacity and our natural limits.
To lead with the matriarch means we lead with a sense of integrity not just outside of ourselves but to our own inner world. Where we reclaim our sense of roots, power and connection to nature. Where we remember what it is like to tend and lead from a place of expansion, authenticity and purpose over depletion and conditioning.
Where we get to be held as the holder of all, to find replenishment, community, and a space where we feel safe to land to be honest with our path and how we are showing up with gentle compassion.
And at times it can feel as if we are tending too much, our responsibilities perhaps begin to feel burdensome, our sense of fulfillment lost in what we feel is ours to tend to.
Or we start to have an awareness that how we are tending and showing up in the world not just for what we hold but for ourselves is no longer working. We aren’t being nourished by our lives and our sense of purpose, feeling depleted by life.
This retreat is for the woman who knows it’s her time to be held, to remember the wisdom of her ancestry and to connect to deeper spaces in herself through the medicine of horses, the land and indigenous teachings.
You will leave this retreat with a different grounding in yourself, feeling cleansed of your burdens, knowing your path to deeper fulfillment and self nourishment with permission of showing up in a different way.
That spark of purpose and power reclaimed and a knowing of how to hold this archetype of matriarch in a way that feels deeply supportive of you, your community and your service.
What we walk through in this retreat:
Identifying the places of wounding in how we are leading and tending to others and self, and where we need to rebalance how we are showing up.
Connection to our inner matriarch and how she wants to be embodied and lead us and what that feels like to hold that with a deeper place of grounding and wisdom.
Rituals to support our own tending that sustains the spaces we have to hold.
Grounding into the identity of what it looks like practical for us to lead from a new place within ourselves and in our world.
A deeper clarity of purpose in what we are called to tend to and hold in the world.
Our depth of capacity is not found in where we self sacrifice but rather where we are deeply rooted in our own wisdom and honoring of our self, our vision and community.
Your retreat includes:
5 night accommodation in a private cabin
4 days of immersion with the herd and facilitators
Catered meals
Shuttle to and from the ranch
MEET YOUR FACILITATORS
CAROL archie
Carol Archie is from the Stswecem'c Xget'tem First Nation, from the northern part of Secwepemcúl’ecw, located south west of Williams Lake. She now resides in Kelowna and has raised two beautiful daughters.
Learning from parents & elders grounded her in traditional teachings that shaped a resolute and enduring path to understand and help those in need navigate systems bureaucracy. Her journey and dominion over many traumatic experiences resulted in achieving a refined intuition and connection to spirit help others discover to their own gifts and abilities. She will bring the divine feminine, quiet strength and vision to hold space for a deep inner journey.
Hillary schneider
Hillary is the founder and lead facilitator of the Epona Rise Retreat Center and Horse Medicine Leadership Academy, she has been leading and teaching retreats and trainings with her herd for the last 12 years.
Passionate about bringing the teachings of the horses to impact the lives of humans, she has been devoted to her own vision and purpose of creating a space in nature where people can come and receive the wisdom of horses, the land and their own inner guidance.
She has over the last 12 years had the privilege of hosting and leading retreats for a range of people who are seeking to become more masterful in their experience of being a human with their own passion of personal and professional growth and development.
When:
May 21st - May 24th, 2026
Investment:
$3200 CDN plus taxes
(custom payment plans available)