La Lupa Via

La Lupa Via Retreats, Bodywork, Birth&Death work, EcstaticDance, EnergyWork, Rituals,Ceremony,Yoga & Grief Work Integrative Bodywork. Scar Remediation. Celebrant.

Death and Grief Guide. Full spectrum doula. Director of Yoga Teacher Trainings & Retreats
Womb Healing. Queer, trans, GNC and non binary affirming in everything I offer. LA LUPA VIA translates in an italian-Latin translation as, 'The Wolf Way". I am of Italian-European heritage and grew up with a potent and mystical affinity to both the Italian Wolf Goddess, Feronia-queen of the wilderness, wildlife, untamed nature who is known for her liberating nature, fertility, a protector of wolves and Lucina-goddess of wild things, protector of childbirth and of all vulnerable beings(animal or human), a guide though life's transitions. In addition to Feronia and Lucina, I have an ancient soul connection to La Loba. This story told by Clarissa Pinkola Este, originates from the deserts and mountains of Northern Mexico, about a wolf-woman-bone collector, who resurrects the wild spirit of life from the depths of the underworld. At the heart and soul of my offerings is the spirit of wolves and these Goddesses: the energy of midwifing spaces of rebirth, soul reclamation, soul restoration and life liberation. I midwife/doula sacred and inclusive spaces for returning to our wild instincts,reverencing our dark and light as whole, restoring and resacrailzing our lives and energy.

01/26/2026

LUPA BOTANICA -She-Wolf Botanicals.

I move with the river, with the wolf, with a body and spirit that refuses extraction.
Lupa Botanica exists in defiance of a world that profits from our disembodiment, from speed, from self-abandonment. From the lie that nature is something to dominate, package, or rise above.
These botanicals are not beauty products.
They are not productivity tools.
They are an act of refusal. They are rituals and remembering.
A refusal to live cut off from the land. A remembering of our connection to everything.
A refusal to treat the body as a machine. A remembering that TENDERNESS is the revolution.
A refusal to sever femininity from power, or softness from strength.
This is slow medicine for a culture of urgency.
This is self-love as political practice.
This is remembering that when we return to our bodies, our spirits, the plants and earth, the systems built on extraction begin to fail.
To be embodied is to be ungovernable.
To stay connected to nature is to stay dangerous.
To love yourself deeply is to disrupt everything that taught you not to.

Thank you thank you thank you .nicole.marshall .bc for your constancy of friendship, your brilliance of photography and reels and your belief in all I do for community.

As a grief walker, somatic, bodywork therapist and breath guide, you are welcome as you are, in sessions we collaborate ...
01/10/2026

As a grief walker, somatic, bodywork therapist and breath guide, you are welcome as you are, in sessions we collaborate and I’ll always bring my utmost reverence and assiduous care tending to your seen and unseen scars.
Thank you for the care and makeup at this time. Tho the coloured version of the makeup can be seen@in other@posts to do her work justice. My scar wound is not makeup

12/20/2025

SLEEP SWEETER GIFT BOX by for your loved ones or for yourself!
Vagus nerve support bath salts
mullein tea
Body butter of your choice
Sleep sweeter roll on
Eye pillow you can hear up or cool down
****Delivery available tomorrow through Wednesday morning

12/20/2025

Lupa Botanica LOVERS GIFT BOX!
Includes plant powered sensual rituals:
Nectar Body Massage oil
Velvet Mocha chai bath salts
Velvet Mocha Chai body butter
Eye pillow
Hand crafted@botanicals-no perfumes -vegan-made with@love to bring you back to@embodied presence

12/19/2025

The Grievers gift box by . Nurture your beloved friends and family who are grieving with these supportive plant powered offerings:the box includes:

HEART AND LUNG SUPPORT SERUM
SLEEP SWEETER BATH SALTS
LUMINOUS EASE ROLL ON
MULLEIN TEA

Gift box is $99 whic saves you $15
Dm me to order
griefandloss

10/21/2025

Lupa a Botanica is a line of ritual care products crafted to nourish the body, mind, and soul. Rooted in plant wisdom and hand-made with love and reciprocity, our botanical serums are created as sacred companions for your most tender, profound-thresholds and moments—grief, menstruation, hormonal shifts, emotional realms, sleep support and sensual awakening. Each formula is a ritual in itself: intentional, intuitive, and grounded in the rhythms of nature.
Let your tending of self become ceremony and co regulation rituals of remembering.

Thank you thank you thank you .nicole.marshall for your brilliance in witnessing me and capturing -videoing-creating collaborating to make this video and gorgeous photos as I birth this sacred offering into the world.

Descend and Illuminate Retreat November 14-17th2025Bowen Island-Nexwlélexwm-The Squamish Name for Bowen IslandMythic Emb...
09/04/2025

Descend and Illuminate Retreat November 14-17th
2025

Bowen Island-Nexwlélexwm-The Squamish Name for Bowen Island

Mythic Embodiment • Ritual Reclamation • Elemental Healing

WELCOME TO THE DESCENT
As autumn invites us inward, Descend and Illuminate offers a sacred space to journey into the mythic underworld of dark feminine wisdom. This retreat is a rite of passage—a weekend of deep embodiment, ritual, play and reclamation inspired by the stories of the Dark Goddess. the wisdom of our bodies and hearts and our regenerative cellular and soulful capacities.

We gather to honor the fierce, sensual, wise, grieving, and ecstatic archetypes that live within us. Through ritual movement, dance, song circle, cacao ceremony, hot and cold water therapy and creative expression, we descend into shadow and we rise illuminated.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
Dark Goddess Mythology and storytelling

Cacao & Tea Ceremony Heart-opening cacao and tea circles

Fire Ceremony- fire ritual under the stars to release, invoke, and transform.

Hot & Cold Water Therapy Elemental immersion to be held by the water goddess energy and deepen your connection to your body and breath

Sensual Embodiment Practices V***a mapping, breast/chest self-massage, cervical de-armoring and expressive art to reclaim pleasure, sovereignty, and creative flow.

Earth-Based Rituals Nature altars, offerings, and seasonal rites to root your transformation in the rhythms of the land.

Dance Temple sessions to express and digest, to play and empower ourselves

Breath work Circle-liberate your life as we breathe down to our root and cellularly regenerate

Body Painting Ritual and wild crafting

BREATH WORK AND BODY WORK SESSIONS Monday-Wednesdays-Thursdays Breath Work & Body Work SessionsMy sessions offer a deep...
08/22/2025

BREATH WORK AND BODY WORK SESSIONS

Monday-Wednesdays-Thursdays

Breath Work & Body Work Sessions

My sessions offer a deeply attuned space where breath, body, and relationship converge for healing. Each experience is shaped by your unique nervous system, your emotional landscape, and your body’s innate intelligence.
We collaborate together in session and meet each moment with curiosity, reverence and consent.

The Power of Relational Healing

Relational healing recognizes that much of our wounding happened in relationship, and so too must the healing. This work gently explores relational ruptures, old and new, offering space for recognition and re-patterning. Together, we invite in new experiences of safety, trust, and connection—experiences that can ripple out into your life, relationships, and sense of self.

WHY GRIEVE IN COMMUNITY????As grief teachers like Francis Weller and Martín Prechtel remind us, grief was never meant to...
08/12/2025

WHY GRIEVE IN COMMUNITY????

As grief teachers like Francis Weller and Martín Prechtel remind us, grief was never meant to be carried alone. In many traditional and indigenous cultures, grief is not a private burden but a communal responsibility—something that is sung, danced, and witnessed together.
Weller speaks of grief as a vital nutrient for the soul, necessary for our full aliveness. But in a culture that pathologizes sorrow and exiles our pain, we are left to grieve in isolation—disconnected from the rituals and relationships that help metabolize loss. He reminds us that we need ritual containers, held by community, where grief can be expressed freely, without judgment or fixing. These sacred spaces give us permission to feel the full weight of our sorrow—and in doing so, they allow healing to begin.

Martín Prechtel echoes this truth when he says that grief is praise, because it arises from deep love. He teaches that when grief is not expressed, it turns to a kind of soul sickness—where life loses its flavor and we become estranged from our roots. In his words, unexpressed grief is “like a stagnant pond”—and it must be moved, witnessed, and sung out loud to be transformed. Ritual, song, and communal expression allow grief to move through the body and back into the earth.

In this way, communal grieving is not just healing for the individual—it is medicine for the collective.

When we gather to grieve, we remember that our sorrow is not a sign of weakness, but of humanity. We bear witness to each other’s pain, and in doing so, we stitch back the torn fabric of belonging. Our tears become offerings. Our songs become prayers. And slowly, we make space for joy to return—not in spite of the grief, but because we’ve made room for it.

What an absolute honour and dream come true it is to collaborate and co facilitate with one of the most stunning and pro...
07/25/2025

What an absolute honour and dream come true it is to collaborate and co facilitate with one of the most stunning and profound humans I know-Sharon Abbondanza, C-IAYT
SHARON ABBONDANZA draws on over three decades of study and training in yoga therapy, meditation, breath facilitation and grief work. She has a private practice in Vancouver, teaches an extensive online program, and has offered retreats, workshops and trainings internationally for fifteen years. An intuitive and dynamic teacher, Sharon cultivates a soulful learning environment that honours the body as a profound portal to our multidimensionality.

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Only 6 SPOTS LEFT!September 18-22, 2025Xenia Retreat Centre on Bowen IslandPrivate & Shared Accommodation Available ($1,...
07/25/2025

Only 6 SPOTS LEFT!

September 18-22, 2025
Xenia Retreat Centre on Bowen Island
Private & Shared Accommodation Available ($1,675 – $2,175)

We all carry grief; each one of us will take our turn experiencing loss and hardship and sorrow. Retreats provide an intentional space to slow down and turn inward. ‘Tending Grief Together’ will integrate movement and meditation practices, silence and wisdom circles, conscious connected breath, educational components and experiential processes. Be held in community by the healing power of nature; replenish your body, mind and soul. Be supported in navigating the terrain of grief with warmth, respect and reverence.

September 18-22, 2025
Xenia Retreat Centre on Bowen Island
Private & Shared Accommodation Available ($1,675 – $2,175)
Deposit $300 (non-refundable)

Register www.inspiringyoga.com

KUNDALINI MORNING SERIES Let’s liberate together! Your life is shaped by your habits. into@community, chanting, somati...
06/02/2025

KUNDALINI MORNING SERIES
Let’s liberate together!
Your life is shaped by your habits. into@community, chanting, somatics to digest stress.
Tuesday and Thursday mornings 630-745am

Register for the whole series or drop in!

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