Growing Goddess Weekend Retreat: January 7-9,2022 Earth song (NEAR ASHEVILLE, NC)

We are gathering to reconnect and integrate our powerful summer and also to welcome new sisters into the weave. We are gathering to celebrate and nourish the wild women heart, to dance and sing, to sweat and pray, to know deeply that we belong. We belong to the Earth, we belong in sisterhood and community, and we belong to our radiant true selves.

In this retreat we have the opportunity to make something that we will use throughout the winter to tend our hearth and homes, and to tend our inner worlds, a long time magical tool- a broom.

We will enter the Temezcal (newly built at Earth Song with Aixa Amankay) for a sweat lodge ceremony. This is a powerful prayer of purification and rebirth.

Let’s gather as the coolness draws in to cozy up in myth, song, dance, yoga, good company, healthy food, crafting, and to celebrate connection by the light of the fire and embraced by the hug of the forest.

Details:

Friday January 7th 5pm-Sunday January 9th at 5pm

Young Women ages 11-14

Sleeping in the cozy home and retreat center EarthSong (in Candler, NC, address given upon registration) on beds, shared rooms. Due to space we are only open to 14 young women max.

6 Delicious Vegetarian Meals

Broom Craft with Emily Bell: making your own hearth tending, ritually-crafted broom

Yoga and Meditation

Deep Nature Connection Games

Hiking

Fire Circle and Songs

Storytelling

Wild Herbal Tea Ceremony

Dancing Freedom

Temezcal (Sweat Lodge)

Your Guides:

Lena Eastes

Through her contagious joy and energy, Lena motivates and inspires people to take action to bring peace, beauty and justice on Earth. 

She is gifted at finding creative solutions to problems, from the details to the cultural re-weaving. She guides and leads by listening to her intuitive wisdom and encouraging others to drop into their inner knowings. Her authentic curiosity and question asking invites others to find truth. 

Lena offers empathetic listening in a way that deeply meets the needs of others to be heard and understood. She is blessed with a generosity of Spirit, positivity, and open heartedness that welcomes all she meets and loves. 

Lena is continually located as an uplifter and protector of childhood, human and Earth rights, and ceremony. 

She is a thresHOLDER. She holds Rites of Passage ceremonies for Birth and Becoming a Mother, Marriage and Self Marriage, and she has artfully tended the threshold from Girlhood into Womanhood for the past 12 years through Earth Path’s 5 day Rites of Passage Ceremony for young women. 

Lena is a carrier of fierce grace, singer for the Earth, blesser of waters, creative artist of cultural renewal and seed planter. She flies with hummingbird medicine and walks with the power of the wild cats. 

You may find her playing her flute to the rising sun, arranging flowers for a celebration, hiding in a bush during a Deer and Coyote game with kids, singing under a waterfall in the middle of winter, or helping to create dignified jobs for women living in communities vulnerable to extreme poverty and human trafficking. 

Her love and communication with the plant world is a wonder and she’s a devoted student, teacher, mentor, mother, daughter and friend. 

Emily Bell

Descended from a long line of grandmothers whose bones now rest in the Appalachian mountains, Emily Bell has chosen to reclaim her ties to her heritage through a craft of hand tied brooms. She views her work as practical art: one that embodies beauty, simplicity, heritage, and functionality. 

When we truly belong to ourselves and to a place, we find grace and rhythm in the day to day tasks.  Emily’s handmade brooms are an invitation to the beauty of presence in the everyday.

Register soon to secure a space:

• Empowering Earth Songs

• Hiking and Plant Walks

• Moon Lodge Sweat Lodge

• Belly Dancing

• Team Building Activities

• Nature Connection Games

• Tools for Empowerment

• Sharpening the Intuition

• Heart Opening Cacao Ceremony

• Many fun surprises…