"Pilgrimage" is defined as a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life transformed.

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In these times of tremendous societal and social change on our planet, we need women standing in their true power now more than ever. This kind of personal empowerment journey is exactly what you'll experience through this destination retreat.

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When powerful women of ancient times visited holy places for prayer and divination, they engaged in very specific rituals to prepare themselves to receive messages and direction - both for themselves personally and for their loved ones or community. They began at the sacred springs to cleanse and anoint themselves, then fed themselves from the sacred plants of the land, before making their way to the temples or power spots to commune with the divine.

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This pilgrimage will begin in the city of Athens where, like the powerful women of ancient times, we will bathe and anoint ourselves in the waters of the hammam and imbibe the ambrosia of the land through culinary delights, preparing ourselves to make our way to the Parthenon, Temple of Athena, the patron Goddess for whom Athens was named. As we take this pilgrimage for tapping into our personal power we turn to the goddess Athena as the goddess of justice and strategy and wisdom to help us get in touch with our own personal power and garner wisdom for how to more fully live from it in our lives. From Athens we will journey to the island of Crete, where we'll immerse ourselves in the gifts of the Minoan society. We'll journey to Knossos, the Palace of the Snake Goddess, to deepen our pilgrimage into our individual power by finding an embodied expression of what we learned through communing with Athena. From there, we will join a convocation of Priestesses - both women and men - for a week of rituals, ceremonies and celebrations to fully claim and anchor your ability to have command and influence in your life.

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The temples, palaces, land and sea of Greece hold a deep spiritual heritage from which you can gather strength, energy and vitality. This retreat is an opportunity to experience yourself outside of your day to day life... to feel yourself returned to essence.

We’ll explore stunning locations of ancient history, including the Parthenon, Temple built to Athena, and the Theater of Dionysis at the Acropolis, and the Palace of Knossos, glorious natural settings for swimming in the Aegean arm of the Mediterranean Sea, museums that tell the stories of ancient Goddess sites, and vibrant city settings where we'll indulge ourselves in the luscious bounty of Greek olives and olive oil, spanikopita, baklava, honey, sheep's cheese, and wine.​

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Throughout it all, there will be ample opportunity to slow down and savor the experience over a delicious espresso, or sunbathing by the pool, or swimming in the sea. Integration time is built in to our itinerary so that you can fully take in all of what you'll receive there, and return home feeling full and clear and sure in the power of who you really are.

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We’ll enjoy three nights in the beauty of our hotel in Athens before making our way to Crete for an overnight in the port city of Heraklion, and finally landing for a week in our all-inclusive hotel’s natural setting where we can be unpacked for the rest of our time together. We'll have ample time to immerse ourselves in each place of beauty, soaking in glorious sunsets over a cup of tea or a glass of local wine.

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We’ll incorporate rituals and skillful teachings to ensure that you know how to return to this newfound sense of your center, your essence self, ongoingly, after the retreat.​​

Be ready, and hopefully relieved, to leave politics, opinions, and contention at the gate to the temple.

We are gathering to drink from a deeper well, and if you join us, the requirement is that we all protect this holy place of meeting from our own and culture's contention, so that we can listen to a deeper Knowing, bathe in a clearer stream.