Emily Blefeld
Emily Blefeld, LICSW, is an internationally recognized Systemic Family Constellations trainer, psychotherapist, and mystic with over 25 years of experience. She specializes in helping change-makers, healers, and entrepreneurs release ancestral patterns and intergenerational trauma so they can live, love, and lead with greater authenticity. Integrating psychotherapy with Systemic Family Constellations, Core Energetics, Compassionate Spirit Release, and Women’s Mystery Traditions, Emily bridges clinical expertise with profound intuitive perception. She has taught internationally in over 20 countries and presented at leading institutions including Omega and Kripalu, guiding thousands into deeper healing, purpose, and connection with the unseen forces that shape our lives.
Emily’s Work in General
Over more than two decades, Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld, Co-Founders of Seeing with Your Heart, have developed an approach they call Alchemical Systemic Family Constellations, where systemic work meets expanded states of consciousness, intuitive and psychic perception, ancestral and collective fields, archetypal forces, energy medicine, ritual, and the transpersonal.
Central to their approach is a deep trust in the intelligence of the field itself, with a willingness to work at its edges. When information arises that might sit outside a conventional systemic frame, they don’t automatically reduce it to metaphor or redirect it toward what is already familiar. They stay curious. They follow it. And they allow the constellation to move across different layers of consciousness when that is where the field leads.
Emily’s and Dan’s Workshops in the Retreat
WS1. The Courage to Be Seen: Visibility, Creativity, Belonging & the Hidden Forces that Shape Who We Become
For the visionary, the artist, and the mystic ready to express what is true and live more fully as themselves.
There is a particular kind of magic in being fully yourself. In following the creative impulse that will not leave you alone. In trusting what you sense, even when you cannot explain it. In allowing your voice to be heard, your gifts to take form, and your presence to be felt.
And when we allow ourselves to be seen, our self-expression ripples into our relationships, work, and the world around us. Being seen in our truth calls for the courage to find our place in the world without disappearing into the expectations of others.
Our creativity invites us to explore the unconventional. Our intuition leads us into unfamiliar territory. Our truth sometimes challenges the expectations and loyalties shaping our lives.
In this experiential workshop, we will explore the hidden dynamics shaping our relationship with visibility, creativity, authenticity, and belonging.
Drawing on Systemic Family Constellations, alchemy, consciousness, intuition, and ancestral wisdom, Emily Blefeld and Dan Cohen will guide you in exploring the patterns that limit your expression and the possibilities that emerge when you begin to loosen their hold.
Through guided exercises and a group constellation, we will explore how to:
- Recognise inherited patterns and invisible loyalties shaping your expression.
- Understand why visibility, creativity, and change sometimes evoke fear or self-doubt.
- Strengthen trust in your intuition, perception, and creative gifts.
- Honor your ancestry while expressing more fully who you are becoming.
The magic of being fully seen supports your gifts to find expression, your soul to have room to emerge, and your life to begin reflecting more of who you are.
Join us to explore the courage to be seen, the freedom of authentic expression, and the mysterious meeting point between belonging to where we come from and becoming the magic of our true self.
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WS2 Intention and Resistance: The Hidden Agenda of Our Ancestors
The Ancestral Roots of Self-Sabotage
Why does resistance so often appear the moment we decide to fully live?
We all want everyday life to be meaningful and reflect that we are living our purpose, in the flow of love, and feeling happy and whole. However, too often when we wake up to the call of our heart and declare a strong intention for fulfilling its desires, we somehow mysteriously activate what stands in our way.
Many people assume these reactions mean they are unready, incapable, or unconsciously sabotaging themselves.
From a Seeing with Your Heart Constellations perspective, the moment we declare a true intention, we often activate unresolved tensions within the ancestral field. Hidden loyalties, inherited survival strategies, generational grief, exclusions, unfinished trauma, and unconscious family agreements can rise into awareness precisely when we attempt to move toward greater love, freedom, visibility, intimacy, creativity, or purpose.
These blocks are often intelligent systemic responses emerging through pathways of ancestral memory.
In this workshop, Emily and Dan will guide participants through the hidden relationship between desire and resistance, exploring how the very act of choosing a new future can awaken inherited patterns that have been waiting for acknowledgment and resolution.
Through teaching, experiential exercises, and Seeing with Your Heart Constellation processes, participants will explore how intentions can become portals into ancestral healing and systemic transformation.
Rather than viewing resistance as failure, participants will learn to recognize it as meaningful information arising from within families and human systems.
This workshop is especially powerful for those who feel caught between a genuine longing for expansion and an equally strong force pulling them backward.
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WS3 The Knowing Field and Cellular Memory
Applying Epigenetics and Quantum Theory to Alchemical Constellations
This workshop explores the profound intersection between Systemic Family Constellations, epigenetics, quantum theory, and embodied healing. Through the lens of Alchemical Constellations, we will enter the mysterious territory where ancestral memory, cellular intelligence, and the Knowing Field converge.
Systemic Constellations reveal that human beings are deeply interconnected through unseen relational and energetic bonds. Representatives often access accurate emotional, physical, and psychological information about people they have never met, pointing toward a field of consciousness that extends beyond ordinary perception.
Emily and Dan use their signature Alchemical Constellation approach to bridge these phenomenological experiences with emerging discoveries in molecular biology, biophysics, and quantum theory. Their work explores how unresolved trauma within family systems may continue through epigenetic expression, shaping nervous systems, emotional patterns, health outcomes, visibility, belonging, and relational dynamics across generations.
In this experiential training workshop, participants will explore:
- How trauma and unresolved experiences can imprint through family lineages
- The relationship between cellular memory and ancestral entanglement, deepening the understanding of epigenetics and its relevance to ancestral healing
- Explore practical applications of quantum theory within Constellation work
- Learn how healing sentences and meditations can work with the Observer Effect to release entanglements and free ancestors.
- Experience the healing potential of seeing ancestral wounds through “the eye of the heart”
Whether you are an experienced facilitator or newer to systemic work, this workshop offers a deeper framework for understanding how ancestral healing, consciousness, biology, and relational fields interact within transformational practice.
This is an invitation into the living mystery between science and spirit… where inherited suffering can become movement, insight, and liberation.
