Join us in honoring and celebrating the blossoming women in our lives as they receive their birthright of a beautiful and intact Rites of Passage Ceremony. 

Growing Goddess (ages 11-14) and Moon Mystics (Ages 15-18) July 7-11, 2025

Growing Goddess Session 1: Water - Our First Medicine, Rise Water Priestesses! To Listen, To Protect, To Honor All Life as Sacred!

Join us for a transformative initiation ceremony into Womanhood through the sacred realm of Water, the first medicine of life, in our Nature-Based Rites of Passage: Growing Goddess and Moon Mystics. 

This session, led by Lena Eastes, Vox Lumina (20+ years of Water Priestessing), Missy Crowe (Water Protector and member of the Cherokee Nation and a leader in the Indigenous Environmental Network), Iya Sangoma (Yoruban Priestess and Ceremonialist) will bring us to the water and we will be immersed in the deep wisdom and healing power of water.

As Water Priestesses, we will honor and embody the sacredness of water as a vital force that nourishes and sustains all life. Through prayer, offerings, and ceremony, we will learn how to tend to the emotional waters within ourselves, cultivating the capacity to heal, release, and transform. As you tend the emotional waters within yourself much is made clear. 

In this sacred space, we will practice the ancient tradition of Water Prayer, honoring water as both a physical and spiritual medicine. You’ll also be introduced to the Water Song School, where song becomes a tool of deep connection, healing, and prayer.

This initiation is an invitation to step into the role of protector—we are water protectors. By aligning with water’s sacred flow, we learn to listen, to offer gratitude, and to surrender. We will explore the role of water as healer, guide, and purifier, learning to release the past, embrace the present, and honor the eternal flow.

Together, we will embody the ancient waters of the world, reconnecting with the elemental power that sustains us all. Come prepared to surrender, to be nourished, and to reclaim your power as a Water Priestess.

This journey is for those ready to step into their sacred connection with water, heal emotional waters, and learn from the powerful teachings of our planet's life source.

An initiation that will awaken the ancient memory of water within your body, mind, and spirit. celebration of Water, the first medicine of life, and its sacred role in healing, purification, and emotional nourishment. This is a celebration of Water, the first medicine of life, and its sacred role in healing, purification, and emotional nourishment.

This session is an invitation to become Water Priestesses. Together, we will:

• Swim in the Pond, soak in the hot tub, and awaken in waterfalls, allowing the waters to cleanse and renew us.

• Engage in Watsu Level 1, a water-based therapeutic practice that teaches us how to flow with the water’s movement and release deep emotional blockages.

• Make flower and gem essences, powerful remedies that capture the vibrational healing properties of nature.

• Create Aqua Florida, an aromatic essence that opens the heart and clears emotional space. We will create the hydrosol together in a copper still. 

• Initiate the Waters of the World Practice, activating the memory of water in our bodies, reconnecting with ancient knowledge that flows through the rivers of time.

These rites of passage are not just about learning practices—they are about embodying transformation. Water is the connector to all life. By engaging in these sacred acts, we align ourselves with the eternal flow of life, remembering our role as protectors of the earth and her waters.

Rites of passage are an essential part of human development, offering us the opportunity to transition, heal, integrate and embody our true power. This is a call to activate the wisdom carried in your cells, to reclaim your place as a healer, protector, and steward of the sacred waters that sustain all life.

We are water. We are the medicine. We are the guardians of Sacred Waters.

Come, immerse yourself in the flow of life, and become a Water Priestess. This is your invitation to remember and honor the elemental power that flows through you.

This summer Growing Goddess Celebrates our 16th Year of Holding Transformational Rites of Passages for Young Women. We gather as a circle of of devoted, skilled mentors and young women ages 11-14 (Growing Goddess) and 15-18 (Moon Mystics) will take to the gorgeous mountain wilderness of North Carolina to feast our wild souls with the songs of trickling wild streams, hawks soaring flight, bubbling laughter and the power of being witnessed and held to rise to who we are and activate our dharmas. Why are you here? What is your purpose? What excites you to get out of bed in the morning? What calls you?

Through supportive sisterhood/frienships, fun, ritual and nature connection each young woman's/initiate’s inner gifts and natural authenticity emerge. The blossoming woman is nourished through connection to true self, nature and community. Community Supported/ Nature Based Rites of Passage helps usher a girl into healthy young womanhood, feeling confident and connected to herself, her family, her community and the natural world. 

Growing Goddess is a Nature-based Rites of Passage Camp honoring the sacred time when a girl is becoming a woman. We have been offering Rites of Passage ceremony for 14 years, this will be our 15th summer of holding these sacred thresholds for healing and upliftment of the feminine spirit and witnessing teens in their becoming.

This is the time to claim our passageways and make them reflective of the natural, wild and wise beings we are, as we feed beauty to the Earth and serve our families and communities.