WELCOME, VILLAGE AUNTIE

We see you. We hear the same calling. And you are not alone.

There are some women who feel the pull long before they understand it —

women woven for threshold work,

who instinctively move toward ceremony,

who feel innate responsibility to care for the young ones, the elders, the birthing mothers, the waters, life!

who are called to rebuild the cultural topsoil of their communities.

If you are here, reading this, chances are you are one of those women.

You already carry the heartbeat of the Village Auntie —

the archetype of the one who protects, midwives, mentors, listens, sings, tends the fire, and stands at the threshold with unwavering courage and devotion.

This training is an invitation to rise into what you already are.

To gather with other women who hear the same ancestral and future call.

To step into an initiatory framework that gives structure, integrity, skill, and ceremonial grounding to the gifts you already hold.

To strengthen the vessels through which your Dharma longs to flow.

We are not here to create hierarchy or power over, this is a movement of power with.

We are here to create village.

We gather:

• so we can rise as initiated women

• so we can hold initiations for others

• so the Earth’s dreaming can move through us

• so our youth can feel seen, held, and guided as they cross the threshold into adulthood

• so future generations inherit a world where rites of passage are alive and life giving

• so we remember who we are and why we came and live fully in that alignment

This is a convergence of devotion.

A weaving of women answering the same prayer.

A cultural remembering.

A return.

If your body knows this call,

if something ancient in you leans forward,

if you feel the quiet YES rising in your bones —

You are in the right place.

Women’s Initiation and Rites of Passage Guide Training

Full Certification Pathway

Our Women's Initiation and Rites of Passage Guide Training is a transformational pathway for women who feel called to serve their communities through ceremony, mentorship, and initiatory leadership. Rooted in earth-based traditions, ancestral remembrance, the inner development that true initiation calls forth and village-model mentorship, this training opens the doorway into our Mystery School and the lifelong art of guiding others through thresholds.

This path unfolds through two in-person immersions, a year-long online training, and a practicum, all held in deep ceremony, sisterhood, and the integrity of our Earth Path lineage. Each immersion is an initiation and a training in its own right — and together they create the full foundation for graduation as a certified Rites of Passage Guide.

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How the Trainings Work Together

5-Day Women’s Initiation & Guide Training

This immersion offers the foundational teachings of Rites of Passage work. You’ll receive core ceremonial frameworks, embodiment practices, the village model, and the essential psychology of initiation. The 5-day is a profound activation into your own path and a first step into holding this work for others.

10-Day Women’s Initiation & Guide Training

With twice the time, the 10-Day opens more layers of ceremony, practice, and integration. It includes all the foundational elements of the 5-day while adding deeper facilitation training, more Mystery School teachings, and depending on the focus of the 10 day may include our 4-day Vision Quest in the Sun Bear lineage or immersion into one of our core routines like Soy de Barro . Ceremony moves in its own rhythm — and the longer container naturally allows a fuller unfolding.

Complementary, Not Redundant

Both immersions are powerful. Both are essential. They carry different teachings, open different layers, and deepen different aspects of the Mystery School pillars. Whether you do the 5-day first or the 10-day first, each one unlocks new terrain. We cannot transmit the entire Mystery School in any single experience — these immersions are drop-ins along a longer ceremonial path.

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Full Certification Pathway — $5,100

To graduate as a certified Rites of Passage Guide through Earth Path Education, you complete:

1. 5-Day Women’s Initiation

2. 10-Day Women’s Initiation & Guide Training

3. Year-long Online Mystery School (self-paced modules + option for 1 on 1  calls)

4. Practicum: supporting or leading a youth or women’s Rite of Passage

5. Mentor/Elder Review

Total for all four components: $5,100

(This is a bundled rate for those committing to the full pathway.)

This path is for women who feel a deep calling to hold transformative spaces, guide youth and adults through life thresholds, and step into a lineage of service, remembrance, and leadership.

Optional One-on-One Mentorship & Program Design (Additional Offering)

For women walking the full certification pathway, I offer a limited number of one-on-one mentorship sessions for those who want individualized support in bringing their own Rites of Passage work to life.

This is not “coaching.”

This is lineage-guided consultation and design work for serious practitioners, including:

• Curriculum design for youth and women’s rites

• Program architecture for camps, retreats, and year-long journeys

• Creating a Gap Year or transformational learning program

• Facilitation development and ceremonial container design

• Support in launching or refining your own Rites of Passage offerings

• Ethics, integrity, and cultural grounding in this field

• Business structure & enrollment strategy for sustainable community service

These sessions are for women who feel called to step into leadership in a way that is rooted, culturally respectful, trauma-informed, and aligned with the deeper currents of initiation.

Mentorship is offered at an additional rate and can be scheduled at any point along your training journey.

Welcome to the Maloca.

Welcome to the circle.

Welcome to the path of becoming an initiated woman

who holds the initiations of others

in service to the Earth, the youth, and the future ones.

WHAT IS A MALOCA?

The Ancestral House of Learning, Ceremony, and Collective Transformation

A Maloca is a ceremonial house, a teaching lodge, a sacred gathering space found throughout many Indigenous cultures of the Amazon and greater South America.

It is:

• a house of learning

• a house of medicine

• a house of community

• a house of vision

• a house of initiation

The Maloca is where the people come to remember who they are —

and where the village gathers to dream the future into being.

It is:

the center of community life

a space to hold rites of passage

a house for elders and teachers

a place for song, story, prayer, and healing

a container for seasonal and ceremonial cycles

a site where wisdom is passed down

Every beam, pole, and opening reflects a teaching.

It is both a physical space and a spiritual architecture.

WHY WE USE THE MALOCA AS A METAPHOR

Although this training is rooted in your own tradition of deep nature connection, cultural regeneration, village auntie work, earth skills, and women’s initiation, the Maloca metaphor best describes the structure we are co-creating.

We use “Maloca” not to claim Indigenous Amazonian lineage —

but to honor and reference:

• a universal architecture of initiation

• a house of wisdom

• a center pole of community life

• a structure built for transformation

• a cultural container that holds growth, grief, learning, song, and ceremony

Every culture once had its version of a Maloca:

• the longhouse

• the kiva

• the tipi

• the women’s lodge

• the council house

• the fire circle

• the community temple

The Maloca captures the spirit of what we are building here:

a house of learning, healing, initiation, and cultural regeneration.

It names the container and the ceremonial posture of the training.

THE MALOCA AS A LIVING FRAMEWORK

When we speak of “The Pillars of the Maloca,” we are naming the structural beams — the teachings, arts, and responsibilities — that uphold the ceremonial house of a Rites of Passage Guide.

Just as a physical Maloca must be:

• built with intention

• aligned with the land

• tended with care

• maintained in relationship

• used for the benefit of the whole village

so too must the inner Maloca of a Guide be built with:

• integrity

• prayer

• humility

• devotion

• discipline

• love

• cultural accountability

In this work, you are not only entering the Maloca —

you are becoming the Maloca.

Becoming the house that holds ceremony, shelters rising young women, steadies the village, carries the songs, houses the fire, remembers the stories, and protects the thresholds.

The Eight Pillars are the beams that support this sacred house within you.

THE EIGHT PILLARS OF THE MALOCA

Foundational arts, skills, and responsibilities of a Rites of Passage Guide

Pillar One: Song Apothecary & Musical Medicine

In this tradition, song is medicine — regulating, unifying, healing, and activating.

You learn:

Song as community medicine

Receiving songs as a channel

Songs for grief, joy, grounding, transition, transformation

Drum, rattle, rhythm & silence as ritual tools

Building and tending a singing village

Your Song Apothecary becomes your medicine cabinet.

Pillar Two: Grief Tending & Community Grief Ceremony

Grief is not a problem — it is a portal.

You learn:

Affinity circles

How to build a grief altar

Community grief ceremony design

Embodied grief practices

The lineage and psychology of grief

How grief reveals identity, purpose & transformation

A Guide must know how to sit with what others avoid.

Pillar Three: Village Building & Cultural Regeneration

Guides are culture makers — weavers of belonging.

You learn:

Earth-based ritual rooted in place

Seasonal & elemental ceremony

Intergenerational mentorship

Hearth tending & communal practices

Belonging rituals & village ethos

Co-creating culture with the land

Village is not a location — it is relationship + practice.

Pillar Four: Deep Nature Connection & The Core Routines

Nature connection is a cultural technology of awareness, perception, and belonging.

You learn:

Bird language

Coyote mentoring

Sit spot

Tracking & sensory awareness

Nature-based games

The Eight Shields model (ceremony, program flow, daily design)

This pillar shapes Guides who are grounded, intuitive, perceptive, and relationally attuned.

Pillar Five: Earth Skills — The Mystery School of Human Belonging

Earth skills are ancestral technologies that restore competence, confidence, and belonging.

You learn:

Bow drill fire & sacred fire tending

Watershed regeneration

Plant literacy & earth medicine

Clay work, basketry, fiber arts, natural dye

Storytelling, listening, communication

Family & community care

Earth skills reconnect you to your humanness — and your place in the web of life.

Pillar Six: Initiatory Psychology & Threshold Work

Thresholders walk the spaces where identity is shed and reborn.

You learn:

The anatomy of a threshold (separation, liminality, return)

Plotkin’s developmental model

Tasks of adolescence & adulthood

Symbolic death & rebirth

How to hold liminality ethically

How to guide psychological maturation

Thresholders are midwives of the soul.

Pillar Seven: Ceremonial Arts & Sacred Leadership

A Guide is an alchemist — tending the conditions for transformation.

You learn:

The architecture of ceremony

Fire, water, earth & air rituals

Sacred tools & ritual arts

Energetic stewardship

Ethical leadership

Inside–out leadership (the drum teaching)

Ceremony becomes devotion — not performance.

Pillar Eight: The Village Auntie Path & Young Women’s Mentorship

Everything leads here.

Village Aunties:

Anchor the circle of initiation

Mirror truth, beauty & gifts

Protect the ceremonial container

Hold devotion & presence

Bridge initiates into relationship with the Earth

Stand with elders, grandmothers & Indigenous teachers

Carry cultural memory & vision

This is where your inner work becomes outer service.

You become a guardian of becoming, a protector of the watershed, a carrier of culture, and a threshold keeper for future generations.

BEGIN YOUR INITIATION

Rise up, Village Auntie. Plant the soul work you came here to grow.

This path awakens what has always lived inside you.

You already carry:

• the instinct to mentor and protect

• the gift of deep listening

• the desire to rebuild cultural topsoil

• connection to earth and spirit

• devotion to young women

• the archetype of the threshold keeper

This initiatory framework offers the structure, community, skill, and ceremonial grounding to rise in confidence, integrity, and clarity.

Your soul work is ready to grow.

This is the place to plant it.

Your initiation begins the moment you say yes.

NEXT STEPS

A clear, empowered pathway into the Guide Certification

To honor container integrity, every woman follows this simple, relational process.

1. Apply for the Guide Certification Pathway

Complete the brief Google Form:

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Apply for the Guide Certification Pathway

As soon as you submit, move to Step 2.

2. Text to Schedule Your 30-Minute Interview

(No need to wait for a response.)

Text 828–775–7174 with:

• your full name

• three different 30-minute windows you’re available

I will confirm one.

I will read your application before our meeting.

3. Acceptance & Enrollment

If we feel aligned, you may:

• pay the $1,600 deposit, or

• pay in full

Once your deposit is received, you’ll receive:

• your Welcome Letter

• the 2026 program calendar

• preparation guidance

• the Maloca Pillars overview

• your first steps in the initiatory framework

This is where your journey begins.

4. RISE UP, VILLAGE AUNTIE — BEGIN YOUR INITIATION

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Rise Up, Village Auntie — Begin Your Initiation

Your gifts are needed.

Your presence matters.

Your soul work is ready to take root.