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.

03/04/2026

5 spots remain for our Tending Grief Together Retreat

“We are designed to receive touch, to hear sounds and words entering our ears that soothe and comfort. We are shaped for closeness and for intimacy with our surroundings. Our profound feelings of lacking something are not reflection of personal failure, but the reflection of a society that has failed to offer us what we were designed to expect.”-Francis Weller

SALT & SOUL RETREATMAY 21-24th UCLULET SALT & SOUL IS A COASTAL INVITATION FOR WILD WOMEN TO RETURN TO THE RAW INTELLIGE...
02/23/2026

SALT & SOUL RETREAT
MAY 21-24th
UCLULET

SALT & SOUL IS A COASTAL INVITATION FOR WILD WOMEN TO RETURN TO THE RAW INTELLIGENCE OF THEIR BODIES AND THE UNTAMED RHYTHMS OF THE EARTH.

HELD AT THE EDGE OF RAINFOREST AND SEA, THIS SPRING INITIATION IS A REMEMBERING — THROUGH SALTWATER, SONG, FIRE, AND MOVEMENT — OF WHO YOU ARE BENEATH THE NOISE OF THE WORLD.
WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
Selkie Mythology and storytelling

Rain Forest Rituals

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

Sauna and 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

breast/chest self-massage,

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

Untamed woman photoshoot

Through sauna and cold ocean immersion, we soften and strengthen the nervous system, meeting discomfort as devotion and resilience as ritual.

Guided rainforest walks and meditations invite you to listen — not with the mind, but with the body — to the ancient intelligence of moss, wind, and root.

Surfing, dance, and embodied movement awaken feral joy, presence, and play, reconnecting you to the wild pulse that lives beneath conditioning.

As night falls, we gather in temple song, drum circle, and fire ceremony, letting voice, rhythm, and flame carry prayers into the dark. is for those hungry to:

METABOLIZING GRIEF Tending grief is an act of love that warms our hearts. As we learn to metabolize grief, we mobilize w...
02/21/2026

METABOLIZING GRIEF

Tending grief is an act of love that warms our hearts. As we learn to metabolize grief, we mobilize what has been bound in body and mind, freeing ourselves to be more fully alive.
Join us for an afternoon of connection and transformation. Open to new possibilities through movement, conscious breath, experiential processes, writing and ritual. Trusting your own journey empowers you; Allowing emotion to flow freely brings a sense of relief and liberation.
We were never meant to tend our grief alone. Although universal, we each experience grief uniquely. When grief comes, and cracks us open, our task may be to accept that part of us will dwell in the Underworld, at least part-time, and to fill this place with as much love and compassion as possible.
This supportive guided experience meets you where you are. Be fortified in community and tap into your courage to feel and breathe and allow grief to move. At this workshop you will find your rhythm, and tend in your way, to clarify the past and deepen into presence.
“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Please bring your journal, a pen, a yoga mat, and a pillow.
Day: Saturday
Date: February 28 2026
Time: 2pm-6pm
Cost: $88-$108 sliding scale
Presented by Sharon Abbondanza and Teresa Renzetti
REGISTER www.lalupavia.com click on my shop for the workshop

“Imagine the feeling of relief that would flood our whole being if we knew that when we were in the grip of sorrow or il...
02/17/2026

“Imagine the feeling of relief that would flood our whole being if we knew that when we were in the grip of sorrow or illness, our village would respond to our need. This would not be out of pity, but out of a realization that every one of us will take our turn at being ill, and we will need one another. The indigenous thought is when one of us is ill, all of us are ill. Taking this thought a little further, we see that healing is a matter, in great part, of having our, connections to the community and the cosmos restored. This truth has been acknowledged in many studies. Our immune response is strengthened when we feel our connection with community. By regularly renewing the bonds of belonging, we support our ability to remain healthy and whole.”
Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Registration

TENDING GRIEF TOGETHER RETREATSpring 2026: March 25 – 29  on Bowen island “I walk away lighter, having left tears on the...
02/05/2026

TENDING GRIEF TOGETHER RETREAT

Spring 2026: March 25 – 29
on Bowen island
“I walk away lighter, having left tears on the altar, and I walk away with a better understanding of what I am experiencing. I feel more equipped to face the storm.” SJ

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.

March 25-29 2026
Xenia Retreat Centre on Bowen Island
Private & Shared Accommodation Available ($1,675 – $2,175)
Deposit $300 (non-refundable)
Email: sharonabbondanza@telus.net

LUPA BOTANICA 🌿  She-wolf botanicals, vegan, all-natural, made by hand, made with loveEach product  is an invitation to ...
02/02/2026

LUPA BOTANICA 🌿
She-wolf botanicals, vegan, all-natural, made by hand, made with love
Each product is an invitation to return to yourself.
To slow. To soften. To remember your body and heart.
In a harsh world and oppressive systems that thrive on our disconnect , this tenderness is resistance.
Presence is a portal to metabolizing emotion.
Pleasure is medicine.

These botanicals are crafted for embodiment—for healing, for joy, for connection.
For touching the earth and being touched back.
For honoring the wild, intuitive wisdom that lives in you.
Come home to yourself 🐺🌙
VeganBotanicals ReturnToYourself

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.

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