"Women in High Places!" 

This is a women-only 4 day, USA-based sacred yoga pilgrimage into the heart of the North Cascades Range of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest. 

This year we'll be exploring the topic of "Women's Transformational Thresholds" with a focus on menstration and menopause. Women's shifting of life cycles. Self-inqury is intergal to this retreat. 

Inquries we'll explore: 

What now? The empty nest and the next phase of life. 

What lifestyle shifts could be benefical now? How to support physiological changes.

Where can a person access assistance? Exploring self-care options and recomended reads. 

This retreat is open to all women. 

- Step into the healing rhythm of nature and unplug from fast-paced, technology centered modern lifestyle

- Practice healing & expanding goddess-based yoga informed by nondual Shakti/Shiva Tantra

- Connect to physical strength & intuitive wisdom

- Learn the fundamentals of backpacking & how to set up a backcountry camp

- Explore Sacred Activism & “Artivism” for supporting women and the environment

- 3 Nights & 4 Day Yoga Backpacking Pilgrimage

- Daily Devi-Inspired Hatha Yoga 

- Goddesses of Yoga Studies in Nature: Annapurna "Goddess of Nourishment", Matangi " Matriarchal  Mother", Parvati "The Supreme Yogini"

- Backpacking Into Goddess-Infused Nature

- Sacred Circle Practices with Glacier Vistas 

- Guided creative expression & self-inquiry journaling

- Mantra, Mudra, Meditation

- Meditation & Devotional Dance & Poetry 

- Learn Backpacking Skills

- Sacred Activism & Artivism Brainstorming 

- Daily breakfasts and dinners  

Description

Day 1: Welcoming Shakti Ceremony

We will meet up at a designated spot and caravan to the trailhead. Beforehand, by email, you will receive information on the following:

• Backpacking gear checklist
• Wilderness safety guidelines
• Leave no trace backpacking

Also, before the pilgrimage, there will be a group Zoom to go over your gear and to field any questions.

Our first night together we will:

• Come together in a 'Welcome Shakti Ceremony'
• Go over and get our gear together
• Enjoy dinner in the wilds
• Moon and stargaze
• Celebrate and rejoice, coming together in Sisterhood!

Day 2: Goddess Annapurna - Spiritual Nourishment

On our first full day in the mountains, we will enjoy breakfast and practice Devi Yoga flow before panoramic views of Mt. Baker.

Afterward, we will trek through an open landscape of meadows to tarn lakes and an old fire outlook, ascending up to truly expansive and awe-inspiring views of this Mother mountain.

Here we will explore and practice the teachings of Goddess Annapurna and what she has to teach us about being lovingly held through the Mother of nourishing transformation.

You will learn:

• How to invoke and algin with Annapurna's healing and nourishing qualities
• Her symbolism and mythology and how to align with Her
• Color your own sacred art of Annapurna for your altar and meditation back at home

Day 3: Goddess Matangi - Wild Matriarchal Mother of the Forest

Day three, after morning Devi Yoga flow and a chai masala tea breakfast before the majestic mountain we will break camp and hike to our next camp, home of multiple tarn lakes shores where we will meditate, eat, swim, write and sunbathe.

This is a day for feeling our innate creativity and inward introspection. A time to just "be" with free time on your own to explore the magic of the mountains.

You will learn:

• How to invoke Goddess Matangi
• Learn about Her revolutionary teachings taking us beyond conventional thinking and societal acceptance, to discover the power found in the periphery places of life
• We'll explore Her mythology, symbolism, mantra, and investigative journal inquiry questions

Day 4: Goddess Parvati - The Supreme Yogini

Day four, we will practice Devi Yoga flow with the rising sun in a high mountain abode supported below our feet by majestic Mother Earth.

After breakfast, we will hike back, nourished by abundant beauty of high ridge views and rocky meadows, along with drinking from the many streams of snowfield water along the way.

Experiencing firsthand what it means to be nourished and empowered by the natural elements, beginning our journey back towards home, refreshed and renewed.

You’ll learn:

• How to embody the qualities of Goddess Parvati to empower your personal practice once back at home
• How she physically expresses herself in nature
• Her mythology and teachings

- Airfare

- Airport bus or car rental

- Pre or after pilgrimage accommodations

- Each person provides their own backpacking gear (exclusive of stove, cook pots, group water filter system which I provide. A detailed "Backpacking Gear Check List" is provided when you sign up)

- Everyone will bring your own lunches

- Once you've signed up you'll be sent an "Acknowledgment of Risk Form" and "Terms and Conditions" documents for your review. At our meet up spot everyone will sign this before heading out to the trailhead. 

- Before the journey by email you'll receive a "Backpacking Gear Check List", "Wilderness Safety Guidelines" and "Leave-No-Trace-Backpacking" information. 

- Also, we'll connect in July via a group Zoom to go over your gear and to field any questions prior to our time in the mountains.

- The first day of the journey we'll meet up at a designated spot and caravan to the trailhead together.