Rites of Passage Summer CamPS

Growing Goddesses (Ages 11-14) and Moon Mystics (Ages 15-18)

Session Two:
July 15-19, 2024

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.

Twice this summer, a group 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 elder trees.

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 13 years, this will be our 14th 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.

We believe rites of passage is essential for healthy culture and an empowered entry into womanhood. The ceremonial beauty of this Rites of Passage feeds both the wild soul and the Earth.

We believe intergenerational mentorship, sisterhood, strong intuition, awakened creativity and a deep connection with the Earth provides the taproot of strength needed to weather the tests of life and womanhood in a healthy way.

We believe you don’t have to come of age in isolation, unaware and in trauma. Rather, we rise connected, in tune and resilient. Womanhood is beautiful, powerful and worth celebrating!

We gather to witness, celebrate, uplift and orient girls on the threshold of their womanhood through a Rites of Passage ritual in the mountain wilderness of one of the regions most gorgeous retreat centers near Asheville, NC- Sacred Mountain Waters.

While we can’t share everything these young women will experience together, here is a description of some of our main activities. (*We cannot guarantee everything listed will happen as our priority is honoring needs of each young woman and the group over any agenda.)

I must take a moment to underline the deep skillfulness of this team of committed and highly training Village Aunties and Grandmothers, Mentors and Guides who will be tending your daughters and these initiates. This work is our deep commitment. I know of no other program with the level of facilitation and support that we are offering towards the vision of Rites of Passage for young women.

Session 2: July 15-19, 2024

at Sacred Mountain Waters Retreat Center in Marshall, NC (near Asheville, NC)

Theme: SilverSmithing Wedding Rings,

Wilderness SOlo and Vow Writing

Self Marriage Ceremony

Flute Doula from the Dreamtime
Village Send off and Welcome Back Ceremony
Self Marriage Ceremony
Energetic Toolkit in the Mornings
Choose your crystal for your wedding ring (stone apothecary)
Silversmith your own ring
Wilderness Solo and Vow Writing
Get to know you games/ Team-building/ Nature Awareness Games
Elemental Blessingway
Singing
Dancing
Drumming
A band playing and dancing after our wedding.
Cacao ceremony
Vocal empowerment
Fire Side Theater Games
Floral Arts
Altar Creation
Adornment
Water Ceremony at the Confluence
Sauna
Hydrotherapy (cedar hot tubs/river/pond)
Stargazing

Then, when our time together is near completion, our families and community will be the open arms of the “village” as we return like fresh water from the high mountains to nourish all of life with our clarity, power, and beauty. Please join for our Welcome Home Ceremony from 5 -7 pm on our final day.

We believe the importance of fire tending has practical, ceremonial and inner significance. We will learn to tend the fire of our passions, creativity and power with skill and grace.

Myths are maps, and we will share some especially potent maps from the wise woman mystery school of mythic stories, these stories come alive within us, silently guiding us towards our path and our truth.

*How did we get so super blessed to have Evelyn Irving, lead Chef Queen, Ayurvedically Trained and creatress of jaw dropping flavor and deep nourishment. The feedback (no offense parents) is that they want Evie to come home with them and keep cooking.

Our meals will be nourishing, local when possible, and can accommodate allergies with advance notice. Please note, we strive to keep a majority plant based menu, with sustainable animal protein offered a couple to a few times.

We really go for it each year with this ceremony, bringing together an epic group of facilitators to vision, design and tend this prayer throughout the year. We center Nature Reverence and Community, Cultural and Personal Healing and braid it with art, music, prayer, practical skills, movement, body and cultural awareness and tool building for these critical times.

Most women I meet say they did not receive a proper honoring or initiation as they entered into womanhood. We as Village Aunties are here to say: not on our watch! This generation will have the red carpet of honoring their importance and becoming rolled out for them in joyful service to their unique souls and celebrating their sacred walk on this Earth.

We hold a space to detoxify and heal from the dominant culture and personal life/family traumas. So that young women have the inner spaciousness to write their own stories and hear their own inner guidance and truth.

SACRED RECIPROCITY

Presenting Tiered Pricing. There are 25 spaces open in each session. Once one Tier is sold out the next tier will be available.

We are starting with

8 spaces for $666

9 Spaces at $766

8 Spaces at $866

Pricing is for five days and four nights, per young woman.

Session One: July 8-12, 2024

Theme: Earth My Body and the Ecology of the Wild Soul, CLay Cook Pots