A Medicine Portal in the North Carolina Mountains
August 14-18th
You are invited to join a group of magical women in the mountains for a medicine portal of profound restoration and powerful, potent and playful remembrance.
Together, we will enter an entrainment field of Earth, Elements and Divine Simplicity that guides us home to the embodied experience of our radiant Essence.
This transformational immersion is an invitation to awaken your vibrant aliveness, embody your wild authenticity and deepen your devotion to loving, embracing and celebrating all that you are through a profound journey of practice, play, pleasure and presence.
For three days and four nights, we will journey with a daily blueprint of morning tea ceremony, gentle practices to cultivate flowing life-force vitality (yoga, qi gong, movement, etc.), a waterfall excursion or overlook hike, a restorative temple journey of sensual, sweet self-tending in the evenings, and an abundance of high-vibrational food, elevated connection, sacred sisterhood and spaciousness for rest, integration and self-reflection in a luxurious home setting through the journey.
Our days are intentionally designed to harmonize our inner landscape and offer a balance between yang and yin energetics:
Yang practices that activate and enliven our energy…
Energizing Qi Gong and yoga flow, invigorating hikes that activate our power, will, confidence, focus and strength
Yin practices that nourish and replenish our energy…
Daily tea ceremonies, evening yin yoga, intentional self-care sessions and spaciousness in the schedule to cultivate deep relaxation, receptivity and restoration
THIS IMMERSION IS FOR THE WOMAN WHO…
Desires to be deeply nourished and resourced in a container that prioritizes spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and energetic health, vitality, clarity, and devotion to creating a thriving, soul-aligned life from the inside-out
Hears the call to adventure and is excited to move, hike, dance, and journey inwardly and outwardly while immersed in gorgeous, wild landscapes
Is a practitioner, priestess, space-holder, medicine woman or mother desiring to be held in a clear, crystalline temple space to deeply engage with her personal process, to fill up her inner well, to cultivate her own medicinal embodiment and tend to the dream-seeds, visions and intentions within her
Feels called to receive the frequency activations, energetic upgrades and sacred commuion with the codes of these ancient lands and waters, and within the ceremonial nature of this container
Is ready to engage in a transformational process to shed old stories and limitations, liberate the power within her, experience more of who she truly is and grow in profound, meaningful and life-affirming ways in the embrace of safe, sacred space
Desires an open-hearted space of beauty that creates safety for honesty, vulnerability, authenticity and holds vast, loving, empowering field for the full-spectrum of expression, emotions and inner and outer experiences that may arise during energetic, alchemical and transformational processes
Knows how powerful it is to invest in herself, her wellbeing and her own soul’s evolutionary journey and is excited to experience the fruits of devotion to filling her own cup, deeply receiving and tending her essence frequency
The woman who just knows she is aligned with this experience
RETREAT REFLECTIONS
“Christina holds some of the most present, sincere space I’ve ever experienced... a sage beyond her years who does not hold back affirmations or visions she has of your potential. It is incredibly powerful to receive your codes, your activations, and your boundless belief in the women you champion.
And the practice of tea has changed my life and taught me so much. It has unlocked so much that has been locked up inside of me. Inner child healing, shadow work, deep presence I could only ever access through deep uninterrupted mediation- now I find perfection in every moment I sit with tea, despite interruptions. I learned through this medicine that there is something valuable to be learned in all moments. Miracles are constantly afoot.
It is remarkable how less than a week reminds me to see God light all around me. On a busy street, I notice the sounds of wind, the smell of flowers, the souls of trees... You allowed me to step out of the loop of dissatisfaction with my day to day and find the divinity in every moment that I had let elude me under life’s stressors.
I am renewed, dealing with stress so much better than before our retreat and processing emotions much more intentionally.
I am reminded of all that I am, all that I’ve been, and all that I can become thanks to your nurturing space holding. I have cleared so much from my throat chakra, found a new level of safety in expression and trust. My heart has cracked open and grown to allow immense love in through the deep container we cultivated as a group. Receiving was such a gift. I now feel strengthened and ready to lead in a way I was too fearful to before our time together.
Supremely grateful for the experience and the beautiful web of love that we created together- I now feel ready to rise and release all that holds me back from my highest timeline.”
OUR FOREST TEMPLE
We will be living a lucious temple lifestyle in a modern, beautifully furnished home in North Georgia, a short drive from our hiking and waterfall excursions. The home features abundant natural light, large decks, a hot and cold tub, and a simple, clear aesthetic to promote deep peace, clarity and restfulness throughout the stay.
About the Land
Cherokee and Catawba Land
We will be staying in the North Georgia mountains and traveling a short distance to nearby Highlands, NC for our daily nature excursions.
Highlands is a quiet, remote town in Southwest North Carolina nestled in the ancient mountains of the Nantahala National Forest at 4,117 foot elevation. This unique temperate rainforest environment is pulsing with pristine life force, stunning biodiversity, and an abundance of Elemental medicine to heal and harmonize body, mind and spirit.
She holds frequencies of gentle sweetness, stunning strength and wild beauty that nurture our souls, inspire our essence and awaken our hearts.
Christina has been tending relationship with this powerful land and the beings there for the last decade after spending a season of life working and living on an organic farm in these mountains. She is honored to guide you into her crystalline waterfalls, vibrant forests, gorgeous hiking paths, breathtaking views and powerful rock faces full of primordial wisdom.
Highlands is a 1.5 hour drive from the Asheville airport, a 2 hour drive from the Atlanta airport, and about and 8.5 hour drive from Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fl.
YOUR GUIDES FOR THE JOURNEY
Christina Marie
Christina is an Earth Priestess, Soul Alchemist, Essence Artist and Elemental Ceremonialist, creating sacred space, anchoring the temple and curating portals for profound embodied transformation wherever she goes.
She weaves transformation through Tea Ceremony, Breathwork, Movement Medicine and Somatic Land Journeying, holds lion-hearted space for raw vulnerability, courageous expression and embodied expansion of full-spectrum soul essence.
She walks in devotion to seeing, celebrating and reflecting the unique, potent and miraculous medicine that you are
She is passionate about bridging women with the Earth to experience the healing, remembrance, magic and miracles that organically unfold when we immerse ourselves in the pure medicine of nature and in the reflection of sisterhood.
Through her background and training in Ecopsychology, Tea Ceremony, Breathwork, as well as her embodied priestess path and shamanic initiations directly with God and Gaia, Christina offers space to re-wild our essence, fall in love with our full-spectrum human-ness and step into the radiant authenticity, awareness and aliveness of the soul’s essence.
More Guest Co-Facilitators to be Announced Soon!
RETREAT REFLECTIONS
“After our first morning of tea ceremony, Christina explained that once the ceremony starts, everything is perfect. No matter what that looks like. Even if it means forgetting a bowl. It is perfect.”
I think about this often now. Because it’s so much of a metaphor for life.
Once life starts, everything that happens thereafter is perfect. Even if we are unable to see the perfection in the messy, in the unplanned, and in the stumbling.
Three weeks after the retreat and I am still integrating hard into what I want my life to look like.
I believe with all of my heart that I was brought to this place to remind myself of my strength, as well as to remind myself that it’s okay to be human, in every imperfect way.”
IMMERSION DETAILS
We will gather the late afternoon of August 14th in our shared home located in Rabun Gap, Georgia and journey for three full days together, completing in the late morning of August 18th.
Includes:
3 full days of immersive retreat journeying…morning Tea Ceremony, afternoon land activations, evening Yin ceremonies
Shared room with King bed
Three daily meals and snacks
Option to add-on a Soul Essence Photography Shoot
Does Not Include:
Travel to and from the retreat. Asheville airport pickup can be arranged for a small additional cost.