Aphrodite Health
Our Vision
Imagine a culture rooted in reciprocity, where women support each other not out of obligation but because they recognize that both to need and being needed impart shape and purpose to life.
Envision a community of women regularly gathering, exploring their internal landscape and building relationships with their fellow sisters through trauma-informed work, myth, and storytelling.
Picture a network of women supporting and witnessing each other through all seasons and cycles.
We aren’t meant to do this alone.
Upcoming Offerings
Seven Sisters Winter Gathering
February 9-11 | Mont Blanc, QC
Seven Sisters is a gathering place where women hold a collective intention of cultivating deeper meaning and relationships to their bodies, their inner ‘Self’, other women, nature, and the innate healing of being needed within a community.
We are crafting a vision and holding an intention, and now, we need YOU to help breathe life into it.
ritual / sisterhood / connection / collaboration
The hearth has gone cold
We exist in a time and place both unfamiliar and recognizable. Isolation, disconnection, and fear propel us along in our individuality, safely insulated, bobbing at the surface. Yet, something is amiss. We yearn for depth but grapple with fear, anxiety, and depression amid the safety and familiarity of a hyper-independent culture. We long for deeper connection and relationships but can’t seem to find them anywhere.
The hearth has gone cold, leaving behind only the dust and embers of a distant memory — the ghostly echoes of laughter and tears shared by women around the fire that once was.
We believe that not all is lost.
It takes a village to tend to the fire
We have lovingly and intentionally crafted women’s circles, workshops, intimate plant medicine work, deep dive gatherings, and one-on-one psychedelic support to fan the flames and unite women.
Our offerings align with the seasonal cycles of Mother Nature, embracing the fullness of her wisdom to guide us home to each other and our bodies.
These gatherings beckon the hearts and hands of every woman called to the village-minded way — those seeking spaces to uncover their authentic selves, embrace interdependence, and cultivate healthy relationships rooted in consciousness.
Our Offerings
What We've Seen
We live and breathe this work, witnessing its transformative impact on the relationships and lives of women in the community.
Approaching group work in this manner builds radical trust and invokes the spirit of community collaboration. Being an active participant and exploring relational dynamics through group work, circles, and 1:1 containers has catalyzed our embodiment of what it means to live in a village-minded way.
We have observed women continuing to connect and cultivate meaningful relationships. Witnessed them breaking patterns to foster healthier and radically honest friendships.
We have seen women inspire each other through the profound act of sharing and being witnessed in their personal journeys.
Women have come together to give back to the community through volunteer work and creative contributions, forming powerful collaborations.
Maidens, mothers, and crones have descended into the underworld, emerging bonded and transformed on the other side.
Yet, we have also seen women leave this communal constellation, the mystery of life far too great for any of us to understand. We trust that every woman is on her rightful path, and though they must go, we keep the teapot warm, anticipating the day they might return. No woman left behind.
Our Story
Through Aphrodite Health, we aspire to create a community culture where healing and consciousness flourish. Our vision symbolizes a continuation of a legacy, a convergence of the old and new, a remembering of those who came before us, and an acknowledgement of grief for what was lost and never will be. It marks a stride toward liberating ourselves from the shackles of generational patterns and fostering new ways of being — anchored in radical truth, reciprocity, ritual, womanhood, and consciousness.
Meet Your Guides
Melissa Vrouvides - Community Organizer, Psychedelic-Harm Reduction
Melissa is devoted to helping women connect to their innate healing intelligence and authentic nature. Her work is relationship-centred, weaving in a humanistic approach while bridging mind/body modalities. She believes healing is a relational endeavour, with community at the centre.
Melissa is part of the second cohort of the Vital Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training, EmbodyLab Somatic Psychedelic Certificate Training, and has completed advanced training and workshops in Internal Family Systems, psychedelic foundations & neuroscience, psychedelic integration, and is under the mentorship of Micah Stover, Trauma Midwife & Psychedelic Somatic Therapist. Additionally, Melissa is on the Women on Psychedelics team, a community movement that provides a space for women to explore the healing potential of psychedelics.
