The Unseen Threshold

November 13 - 16, 2025

Earth Song Sanctuary, Western North Carolina

A ritual immersion retreat for adult women navigating - or integrating - the transformational process of a loss of relationship through separation, divorce or the death of a partner.

The Unseen Threshold is a sacred space for women who are walking — or have walked — through the dissolution of marriage or an ending to a partnership. Divorce or separation is not only an ending, but also a profound initiation, a passage that reshapes identity, belonging, and the path ahead. This retreat offers a circle of nourishment, ritual, and recognition where women can be witnessed, held, and empowered to reap the profound benefits of this transformation.

While our culture puts so much emphasis on the celebration around the union of two, it often leaves us without guidance or closure when we find ourselves on the other side returning to one. This ritual immersion is an invitation to step out of isolation and into the circle, where your grief, your healing, and your becoming are witnessed and honored.

Program Highlights

• Art Therapy: Creative expression to give form to the unseen layers of this journey.

• Food as Medicine: Shared meals and teachings on nourishment as a way to restore body and spirit.

• Council & Story: Circles of truth-telling and deep listening, where each woman’s experience is honored.

• Nature Immersion: Practices of connection with the land to mirror and support inner renewal.

• Somatic Experiencing: Gentle body-based practices to shift energy and awareness.

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​Program Details

The Unseen Threshold is a sacred gathering for women walking through the tender terrain of separation and divorce — a passage that can feel like death and rebirth, rupture and remembering.

Here, we recognize divorce not as failure, but as initiation — a rite of passage into a deeper embodiment of truth, power, and soul. Together, we will tend the ashes of what has ended, and invoke the seeds of what is ready to be born.

Hosted at Earth Song, a micro retreat center nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina with flower gardens, long-distance mountain views, and a feeling of homecoming, this 4-day ceremony is a feast of healing, nature, practices, beauty, ritual art and deep sisterhood to guide and support your transformation.

Elemental Rituals & Ceremonial Arts: Work with the elements — fire, water, earth, and air — to honor endings, release old stories, and call back your life force. Among many other earth based practices- We will receive a Waterfall Purification Ritual, a full-body prayer for renewal.

Grief Tending & Grief Ceremony: You will be held in a safe, sacred space to feel and express grief through ritual, sound, movement, and communal witness. Together we will honor loss as medicine and create beauty from the breaking.

Breathwork, Somatic Practice & Yoga: Daily practices to restore balance in the nervous system, ground the body, and help energy flow. You’ll leave with tools to soothe anxiety, regulate emotion, and come home to your body.

Energetic Toolkits & Grounding Practices: Learn powerful yet gentle techniques for energetic hygiene, boundary repair, and spiritual grounding to carry into your daily life.

Art & Creativity as Healing: Guided creative sessions to alchemize pain into beauty ritual art as doorway to integration, healing and re-membering who you are. 

Council & Deep Listening: Enter sacred council space where your story is heard, your voice matters, and your truth is honored. Receive the medicine of being deeply witnessed.

Nourishment & Food as Medicine: Enjoy exquisite, healing meals prepared with love. Participate in a Cooking Class with Chef Evie, a brilliant culinary alchemist and “Chef Queen,” as she shares cooking skills and wisdom on nourishment as devotion.

Fireside Evenings & Stargazing: Sing under the stars. Sit by the fire. Let the night hold what words cannot. Connection, laughter, tears, and song will weave us together.

The Facilitators

Lena Eastes is devoted to cultural renewal, Earth connection, and sacred rites of passage. With contagious joy and deep empathy, she inspires others to live in alignment with their inner wisdom, the rhythms of nature, and the call of justice and beauty.

For over 16 years, Lena has led transformational Rites of Passage for girls and women. As the founder of Earth Path Education, with a sacred calling as a thresHOLDER, she lovingly officiates life’s major thresholds.

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She is a singer for the Earth, a protector of childhood and human dignity, and a creative artist of community and ceremony. Whether she's playing flute to the sunrise, blessing waters, crafting herbal medicine, or hiding in a bush during a Deer & Coyote game, Lena brings fierce grace, presence, and a wild-hearted devotion to all she touches.

Lena walks as student, teacher, mother, mentor, divorcee and friend, who has also buried her wife—with reverence for the plant world, the spirit world, and the deep intelligence of each being she meets, weaving sacred ceremony with the world around her.

Evelyn Irving is an Ayurvedic practitioner, holistic chef, and above all, a guide into unknown territory. From horseback trail rides along the Pacific Crest Trail to leading bicycle tours through New England, she has long helped others find their way through both landscapes and life-scapes. Today, she brings that same spirit of guidance to the thresholds of healing and transformation.

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Her own divorce in 2017 deepened this calling, affirming that stepping into new chapters—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—requires perseverance and devotion to the path ahead, even when that path is unknown. With decades in the healing arts, a background in hospitality and nutrition, she bridges ancient wisdom with modern life, striving to make it both accessible and personally relevant.

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She is honored to be walking beside others as they reclaim vitality, rediscover nourishment, embrace their whole selves and step with courage into the next chapter of their becoming. Whether in the kitchen, the consultation room, or under open skies, Evelyn brings presence, intuition, and care, holding space for each person’s unique rhythm, resilience, and unfolding.

Accommodations

Hosted at EarthSong Sanctuary, a sanctuary of beauty and peace. You may choose between:

• A private bedroom

• Indoor communal sleeping space

• Or camping under the stars in the gardens

The land offers mountain views, gardens, walking trails, and fireside spaces for reflection and gathering.

Tuition

$888Includes lodging, meals, and all program materials.Payment plans and partial scholarships available upon request.

A Circle of Women. A Threshold of Becoming.

This is a rite of passage for women reclaiming themselves from the fires of separation. Through elemental ritual, body practice, grief ceremony, and creative expression, you will be met exactly where you are and supported in remembering who you are becoming.

You are not broken. You are being reborn.