Rose Initiation and Women's Rites of Passage Guide Training

Women’s Initiation + Rites of Passage Guide Training

The Rose Initiation is a Women’s Initiation and Rites of Passage Guide Training for those called to hold thresholds of becoming—first for themselves, and from that place of being initiated, to hold initiations and transformational spaces in their communities.

This immersive experience is both a deep personal initiation and a professional training for women who feel called to receive and guide rites of passage, initiations, and transitional spaces. It is an integral part of the Rites of Passage Guide Training pathway and counts towards our full rites of passage guide certification.

At the center of this initiation is Rose—teacher of beauty with backbone, devotion with discernment, and generous love rooted in impeccable boundaries. Through ritual, embodiment, medicine-making, song, and sisterhood, initiates deepen their capacity to hold powerful, nourishing containers for transformation.

Initiation as Training

In the Earth Path Education lineage, initiation and guide training are inseparable.

You will be initiated through the very practices you are learning to one day hold for others. As you are steeped in Rose medicine, ritual, and collective holding, you are simultaneously learning how to:

• Create safety without control

• Hold intimacy with emotional presence

• Work skillfully with boundaries, consent, and containment

• Guide others through change with clarity, care, and grounded leadership

This initiation strengthens both the inner maturity of the guide and the outer skill of facilitation.

Rose Initiation

This is a women’s initiation held in the arms of Rose—a descent into beauty, devotion, and embodied belonging.

We work intimately with Rose—anointing our skin and our sisters with Rose Water and her luminous fragrance, steeping body, heart, and spirit in Rose medicine through daily Rose dieta and embodiment practices. Through flower blessings, crafting rose hydrosol in the copper still, anointing rituals with Rose Water and Aqua Florida, sacred smoke, and song, Rose reveals herself not as symbol, but as living presence—the Divine Mother: tender and fierce, ancient and ever-renewing.

This initiation is sensual and grounded, rooted in the body and the earth. It welcomes pleasure, grief, laughter, tenderness, and power to move freely. Rose teaches through the senses—scent, touch, rhythm, and the way of the open heart.

Voluptuous Earth Medicine & Apothecary Work

We spend our days making Rose medicine with our hands—crushing petals, distilling rose hydrosol, crafting rose candles, and creating agua floridas.

Held at SunSong, a permaculture farm and community devoted to growing organic heirloom roses, this initiation takes place in peak Rose season. Initiates learn Rose medicine as relational medicine—how to listen to the plant, harvest with reverence, and work with Rose in ceremonial and initiatory contexts.

Rose medicine is especially supportive for:

• Heartbreak and grief

• Exhaustion from over-giving

• Wounds around intimacy and trust

• Reclaiming beauty, pleasure, and devotion

• Activating a life of heart-led service

This is medicine for women who have loved deeply, carried much, and are ready to give and receive in beautiful balance.

Thorns, Boundaries & Fierce Grace

Rose does not initiate us into softness alone.

Through ritual, movement, and somatic inquiry, we engage the teaching of the thorn—exploring boundaries as sacred architecture. This work supports embodied learning around consent, self-trust, and energetic containment—essential skills for anyone holding transformational space.

Rose teaches us how to:

• Remain open without leaking

• Protect without armoring

• Say yes with the whole body

• Say no without apology

This is beauty that can hold herself.

Song, Council & Sisterhood

This Rose initiation is communal.

We gather in circle and council—singing, sharing stories, and witnessing one another’s becoming. Song weaves the nervous system into coherence and reminds the body that it belongs—to itself, to the land, and to the village.

This sisterhood is organic, slow, and deeply nourishing—a remembering of women singing while they work, grieve, bless, and initiate one another.

Rose Dieta, Activated Creativity & Devotion

This work is rooted in relationship with Rose as a living teacher.

Through a Rose dieta, we enter an ongoing devotional practice—not about restriction, but about listening. A dieta invites conscious communion with a plant through daily ritual, sensory attunement, prayer, journaling, and creative expression. It supports emotional opening, heart healing, clarity, and devotion grounded in embodiment.

Activated creativity arises naturally from this relationship. Creativity becomes a form of listening—expressed through writing, art, song, movement, and ritual—received rather than forced.

When we speak of the Divine Mother, we are naming a universal presence recognized across cultures: the source of life, compassion, fierce protection, and renewal. In this work, Rose is experienced as a living expression of that presence—tender and thorned, ancient and wise, deeply personal and profoundly alive.

Rose Rosaries: Prayer in the Hands

The word rosary comes from rosarium—a garland of roses.

In this initiation, we revive an ancient way of praying with roses—returning devotion to the hands, the body, and the living plant.

Initiates craft traditional rose rosaries made directly from rose petals.

As the petals are rolled, pressed, and shaped into beads, the natural oils of the rose are activated. Over time, warmth from the body releases their fragrance. Worn over the heart, the beads gently steam with scent—offering Rose medicine through heat, touch, and devotion. This is not metaphor; it is living exchange.

Each rosary becomes a vessel of prayer, repetition, and care—continuing to release Rose medicine long after it is formed.

What This Initiation Prepares You For

This initiation is for women called to:

Receive a beautiful Women's Rose Initiation, receiving healing, clarity, guidance and integration.

• Hold rites of passage and initiations

• Guide others through life transitions

• Serve as mentors, aunties, and ceremonial leaders

• Anchor community spaces of transformation

You leave with lived experience of how to hold thresholds—not from theory, from the body and soul.

A Threshold of Service

The Rose Initiation is a remembering.

A remembering of your body as sacred. Of your heart as intelligent. Of your capacity to love fiercely—and wisely.

You will leave steeped in Rose—scented, strengthened, softened in the right places—carrying medicine for yourself and for the thresholds you are called to hold in the world.

An Invitation

If you feel the magnetism, this is your invitation.

Come receive your Rose Initiation. Come be welcomed into a lineage of women who know how to open with discernment, love with boundaries, and serve with integrity.

As you are initiated, you learn how to initiate, as you are held, you learn how to hold.

Rose is Calling us Home.