The Magdalene Retreat

Entering Her Healing Chamber
July 10 - 13, 2025

at Hawk Circle

The Magdalene Retreat
Entering her Healing Chamber
July 10-13, 2025

At the height of summer, we gather together to reunite and to re-enter the healing chambers of the Magdalene.

Your time here will truly be a "temple" experience where you'll be deeply nourished and profoundly enlightened as we enter into the Magdalene mysteries of Sacred Union, Rooted Spirituality, and the Path of Love.

Through ritual, and this year, the making of "medicine" that supports you in maintaining the frequencies of the New Earth will be a central focus.

This is the gift of the Magdalene. She awakens within us the frequencies of abundance, love, trust, embodied divinity and a life void of ongoing struggle.

Here's What to Expect

This retreat is designed to emulate a temple experience and monastic rhythm in alignment with the teachings of Mary Magdalene.

Daily morning prayer, meditation and song
Daily morning sacred movement
Daily evening healing circle with Earth Language
Visits to sacred sites on our land
Ceremony honoring our sacred spring
Distilling your own essential oil
Making herbal Sacred Womb Salve
Making Egyptian Hathor Incense/Perfume
Nutritious, soul quenching meals and specialty tonics and cordials made here

Our days will flow gently with grace as we intentionally slip into the 'in-between' places periodically throughout the day, while weaving in self-healing practices, creative arts and time spent in nature.

Coming into Resonance with the New Earth, with co-facilitator, Anne Marple

As we shift from the old paradigm to the New Earth, learning ways to support our body, specifically our nervous system becomes necessary. Trista will be joined by Anne Marple, mystic and massage therapist. Through sound, movement and awareness, we will open pathways for teh nectars of the heart to pour forth. A forest of ribs swaying in devotional breath. Your body becoming home to the songs of creation.

Through orienting to our bodies and the directions of our nervous system's tracks, we will explore front and back, left and right, as we feel into our brain patterning. This process will enable us to "map" new tracks onto our body working with the heart as the "compass rose". --Anne

Anne Marple

Anne Marple is a somanaut, a deeply curious and playful experiencer of her physical vessel. She is also an inner world traveler, and seer. She has gathered and shaped her skills over the years through experiential education in the arts, sciences, and earth mysteries. Currently, Anne works as a massage therapist and energy worker on the seacoast of New Hampshire where she and her family live.

Distill Your Own Magdalene Oil

Mary Magdalene is one of the more well-known scent priestesses. Her healing work with oils is documented in several texts as her main healing modality rooted in the Egyptian mystical practices.

Together, we'll collect plant material and through steam distillation, create our very own sacred oil to help you sustain the New Earth frequency.

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Womb Salve

The Path of the Magdalene involves healing and bringing your awareness to the three Chalices, and your Sacred Womb is one of the first Chalices you'll encounter. It's your creative center, your power center and the Chalice in resonance with the Moon. Working with specific herbs, you'll make your own Sacred Womb Salve that can be used for healing, deepening your womb meditation work and expanding your awareness.

Hathor's Temple Perfume

A few years ago, I worked with an Egyptologist from Berlin. She had translated the Egyptian hieroglyphs of various temple perfume remedies inscribed on the perfumery walls of various Egyptian temples.

While many of these recipes took an entire year to create, using the same materials, with the convenience of modern-day technology, we'll re-create Hathor's alluring perfume used to "wake up the temple" and to enhance the temple priests and priestesses connection with the Otherworld.

Our Sacred Land

When people inhabit an area for quite some time, and live with intention, the land becomes sacred and a pilgrimage site. Here, at Hawk Circle, we've lived and worked this land providing transformational experiences for over 25 years with the intention of helping those who visit, to heal, to transform, and to connect deeply with the life giving forces of nature. People come and wander the land and leave here changed. Before us, years ago, were the Mohawk people. On occasion we find one of their arrowheads, or see their spirits gathered around a fire at the edge of the forest. The faerie beings as well, reside in our forests near our glacier-made stone circle -a place you can enter, offer them a gift and receive in their blessing.

Fresh water springs flow down our hill, an abundance of song-birds nest in our hedgerows, and bald eagles, hawks, herons and owls are a common sight. The wild life is plentiful, as are a variety of herbs and berries.

We are also just 15 minutes from Otsego Lake and Council Rock where the tribes of the Iroquois gathered. On her western shores stands the King Fisher Tower with a plaque that reads, "Dedicated to the Lady of the Lake." Here, both the Native American culture and the Arthurian Legends merge. And it feels very much like Avalon to me.

Your Meals

Your meals will be specially prepared for you to support your time of rest and healing. Green smoothies, organic fruits and vegetables, fresh herbs, and healthy grains will be prepared for you each day.

Food is powerful medicine and during your personal retreat, both your body and soul will be nourished.

You'll have the opportunity to let us know about any special dietary requirements at the time of registration.

What to Bring

Comfortable clothes, weather appropriate. Yoga wear, layers for varying weather, hiking boots or sneakers, rain coat, sandals, journal and pen, toiletries, sun hat, water bottle, sunscreen and bathing suit.

Where will I sleep?

Keeping in alignment with the true pilgrim's experience from long ago, or the hermitages where seekers spent their time in solitude, we've maintained the same simplistic quality.

Our cabins are rustic, but cozy, with all cotton bedding, comforters and quilts. They have both heat and electricity, with bathrooms and showers close by in Eagle House.

Just a few steps away, down a wooded trail, is a fountain of fresh spring water that comes from the many springs on our hill. This is sacred water. It's vibrancy and freshness is palpable and you can fill your pitcher throughout the day.

More About our Accommodation

Registration

Residential Fee: $975 with lodging & all meals

Deposit: $300 (payment plan option)

Commuter Fee: $675 all meals, no lodging