


Mount Shasta Retreat
Tending the inner flame
SEPTEMBER 26-30, 2025
$33/person
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Embodying our Sacred Sensual Self with
Danielle Elle Saunders, LMFT
Relaxed and reverent, we will use the sacred outdoor labyrinth
as a tool to receive divine wisdom for the upcoming year.

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us.
We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
Embody more of your sacred self
Ritual, simple creative arts practices, a protected group container of fierce and gentle love, expanded states of awareness, a sacred Earth location, and communing with nature
Heaven on Earth, right here, right now
Releasing shame and guilt
Reclaiming your pleasure body
An innocent and pure sexuality is your birthright
A healthy relationship to our bodies and our sexuality is ageless
Communing with the world, joining in intimacy through self-love, simple sensual practices, interacting with the plant, animal, and elemental realms, both physical and subtle, and making love to a partner are all part of enjoying our humanity. We can release the false overlay of shame and guilt to enjoy a simpler, pure connection to our Vital Life Force Energy. Reclaim your inherent power through the grace of the sacred energies of Mount Shasta and your own intentions to heal, awaken, strengthen your joy, pleasure, companionship, and availability to yourself and to the world around you.
We will begin our retreat by choosing a false-harming belief from childhood or our family/ancestor lineage to release through ritual, arts practices, and sacred elemental land energies.
After the release, we activate and amplify our sensual bodies through simple (clothes on) self-practices using solo nature walks, sacred swimming/water plunging, sound, mindfulness movement, holy oils, and prayer. These activations are personal, and each person will be able to discern what is the best practice for themselves. With intention, only a little is needed; anointing one's feet, for example, with great tenderness and love, will activate a tremendous energy, uplifting the entire body system.

Details:
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Small, intimate, gentle group always tending to self-care, limited to 8
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Morning & evening circle with daily trips in nature to walk, swim and meditate
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Cost: $1600 includes tuition & housing (sliding scale available $1600-$1200)
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$600 due by 6/25/25 to save your spot, remainder due by 7/25/25
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Hosted at Hestia Retreat Center, a glamping/yurt sacred activated center
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Rooming doubles in beautiful yurts or single in a lovely canvas tent
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Food we create communally & you pack your own picnic lunch
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Add-ons: $540 Bundle of 3 private coaching sessions, use anytime
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Holy oils available to purchase on-site
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All humans welcome

Danielle Saunders is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a practice specializing in Spiritual Awakening and Sacred Relationship. She is an initiated Priestess in the Avalonian Tradition from the 13 Moons Mystery School and a Lineage Carrier of the Holy Womb Chakra. She has extensive training in Expressive Arts, Tantra, Energy Medicine and leading Ceremonial Rituals.

The Rise of the Divine Feminine
Be a part of the Balance Movement
The Divine Feminine is the Feminine-aspect of God. She is known throughout time and spans all cultures as the Universal Great Mother. Many revere her in her form as Mother Mary, Quan Yin, Isis, Ishtar, Brigit, Cosmic Sophia and Shekhinah.
In a time of non-binary thinking and exploration, we invite you to expand your understanding of “feminine” and “ masculine” to include duality energies to explore and not limited whatsoever to an assigned gender or sexual-orientation expression or preference. Each human being has aspects of both feminine and masculine. Similar to Yin/Yang, Rest/Active, we explore these dualities within ourselves and as we relate to others.
Divine Feminine Energies are not just for women--Men need regular infusions of receptive gentleness to resource their own internal feminine-aspect, which strengthens their masculine. As men are developing this capacity, spending time with embodied women can support and speed up this process. Men and women are meant to be in harmony, working in union, sharing strengths, approaches and wisdom.
The rise of the Divine Feminine is a new activation of an ancient Cosmic-Earth Spirituality where we honor Mother Earth and Cosmic Sophia, the Divine Mother-Creatrix. This is not the same as the Goddess work of the 1990’s which was a wonderful psychological and self-empowerment movement focusing primarily on women. This present day movement is about activating the innate feminine qualities within ALL genders: females and female-identified AND male and male-identified humans. It is about balancing both the feminine and masculine energies within each of us, in a unique and individual way that supports us in our divine path as both expansive with spirit and grounded with our physical bodies.
Now is the time to come out--speak up--in our Feminine Warrior Softness--like a steady stream of water cutting through a canyon wall, we are making an impact while staying true to our innate natures--fiercely loyal and unwaveringly loving. Activating the Yin, the rest and receptive aspect in our society-out-of-balance, from this position of embodied presence, we are able to listen and take action when called to in a non-anxious, connected manner. We learn how to heal Mother Earth and steady our world’s economics and politics from a loving, nurturing, Unified Field of Consciousness. This is the place of true planetary healing, where all humans, of all genders, identities, ages and cultures, all creatures and all elements are celebrated and revered as Holy. Aho.
Labyrinth walk
Receiving Grace from the Deep Well Within
A Wisdom Ritual
An in-person class with Diana Melchizedek & Danielle Saunders, MFT
(wearing masks & maintaining social distance)
Date TBA
Location TBA
$33/person
We invite you to experience the Divine Mother with us and feel her unconditional love and wisdom. She is always there, ready for us to ask.
