Terre Madre Retreat

Women's Winter Ceremony
2025-01-03 08:00 - 2026-01-04 13:00 (America/New_York)
Gather with us for an overnight women’s retreat. We will soak up the medicine of winter by slowing down, engaging in silence, meditation, breathwork, and self-compassion.
Cost: $200 includes retreat supplies, overnight accommodations, and delicious, organic, plant-based meals.

Paint From Your Soul
2025-06-27 16:00 - 2025-06-29 12:00
For more information and to sign up, visit: https://www.artofthesoul.art

Buck Moon
2025-07-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Terre Madre Retreat, 4100 Timber Wood Road, Maryville, TN, 37801, United States
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.
The Capricorn energy guides us to connect with ambition, put sweat equity into our dreams and manifest our hearts longing with joy.

Corn Moon
2025-09-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Terre Madre Retreat, 4100 Timber Wood Road, Maryville, TN, 37801, United States
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.
Pisces has us exploring the temple of emotion, imagination, and intuition.

Harvest Hunter’s Moon
2025-10-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Terre Madre Retreat, 4100 Timber Wood Road, Maryville, TN, 37801, United States
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.
Aries moon brings the heat! Connect with your passion and uncover what really makes you feel alive.

Beaver Moon
2025-11-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Terre Madre Retreat, 4100 Timber Wood Road, Maryville, TN, 37801, United States
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.
Tarus brings us into the roots, earth, body through sensual exploration.

Cold Moon
2025-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Terre Madre Retreat, 4100 Timber Wood Road, Maryville, TN, 37801, United States
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.
Gemini moon has us weaving a new narrative through writing, storytelling, deep soul sharing, laughing and singing.

Snow Moon
2026-02-01 18:00 - 20:00
The Full Moon Circles are a space to gather in sisterhood for movement, sound, art, storytelling, and ritual. We will follow the mythopoetic thread of each moon, deepening our connection with ourselves, the circle, and the land.

Worm Moon
2026-03-03 18:00 - 20:00

Women's Spring Ceremony
2026-03-28 08:00 - 2026-03-29 13:00
Spring brings new life, and we will celebrate together, engaging nature and expressive arts.
Cost: $200 includes retreat supplies, overnight accommodations, and delicious, organic, plant-based meals.

Pink Moon
2026-04-01 18:00 - 20:00

Women's Soul Midwifery Focusing Training
2026-04-24 - 2026-04-27
If you identify as a woman and are a licensed mental health therapist looking to incorporate somatic body wisdom and sacred feminine arts into your practice, this training is for you!
This two-year training program for healers will create a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature as the ground for developing our capacity to midwife soul healing. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits. You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop: deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach skills to engage the wisdom of the felt sense and its interaction with nature, dreams, art, movement, song, poetry, storytelling, ancestor work, ritual, ceremony, and the healing power of beauty.

Trainer Biography

Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and Tennessee, specializing in somatic and eco-approaches to psychotherapy, clinical supervision, pedagogy, research, community building, and social change. Dr. Hensley lives at Terre Madre Retreat, on the original homelands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) people, stewarding 20 acres of land and hosting circles, workshops, and retreats. She believes in the power of circle-based, participatory, and empowered learning spaces. She is an Associate Professor and Program Chair at Pacifica Graduate Institute and teaches Body-Oriented Psychotherapy in the Mind-Body Medicine PhD program at Saybrook University. Dr. Hensley is a certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist and Certifying Coordinator in training with the International Focusing Institute. Her Coordinating Mentors are Doralee Grindler-Katonah, M. Div, PsyD, Jan Winhall, MSW and Glenn Fleisch, PhD, LMFT.
Program Components

Three in-person weekend retreats
Biweekly 90 min training online
Focusing partnership learning
Readings and reflection
Co-leading groups, assist facilitation of trainings & retreats Expressive arts integration project.

Prerequisites
Must be a licensed mental health clinician. The ability to focus/ basic training in focusing (reach out for opportunities to learn)
Certification
We offer certification as a Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist specializing in soul midwifery through the International Focusing Institute. Continuing Education hours are available.
Cost
Total $3,000 ($1,500/ year), including retreat accommodations, meals, and TIFI membership fee. Payment plans are available.
Logistics
There will be a virtual orientation in early April, and the training will begin on the last weekend in April with the in-person retreat. The immersion weekends are held in rural East Tennessee at Terre Madre Retreat. For more information about the venue, check out the website here. The online trainings will be held every other Friday 12-1:30 pm PST/ 3-4:30 pm EST via Zoom. Focusing partnership meetings can be scheduled at a convenient time for each pair.
Program Content
Year 1 Topics:

Steps of Focusing
Clearing a space
Using focusing as a therapeutic approach
Avenues
The client-therapist relationship
Engaging the felt sense in assessment & treatment planning
Trauma, addiction, anxiety and depression
Holistic health and mind-body medicine

Year 2 Topics:

Spirituality, ceremony & ritual
Sourcing and tending to the knowing field
Working with dreams
Engaging expressive arts and the mythopoetic
Ancestor and lineage work
Psyche and the Natural World
Facilitating community-led soul recovery

Readings & Learning Outcomes

Link to the readings
Link to the Certifying Competencies

Flower Moon
2026-05-01 18:00 - 20:00

Blue Moon
2026-05-31 18:00 - 20:00

Strawberry Moon
2026-06-29 18:00 - 20:00

Buck Moon
2026-07-29 18:00 - 20:00
