Mysteries of the Feminine
5 day retreat anD ceremonY
at a private property in Ibiza
with Rikke Brodin & guest facilitators
october 2024
We invite you to join us on this enchanted island for an initiatory journey exploring the vast landscape of the Feminine.
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She is calling you to return back home within yourself, to attune to her cycle of life/death/rebirth, to awaken to her dance and remember her whisperings of secrets long forgotten.
Join us in evoking that part of us that has been kept hidden for too long. She is ready to emerge, in her wildness, in her wholeness, in her untamed nature and in her freedom. She is soft, tender, fierce and powerful. She is walking barefooted and full breasted, in her flow and in her repose. Guided by her intuition and the unseen ones, her sensitivity is her superpower. She is both witch and virgin, crown and maiden, mother and lover. She is both the well and the spring, she births herself and all of life out of herself, she is infinite creativity, she is the deepest mystery.
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We will journey into the mystical realms of the Goddess as our body and as the earth. We will dance and move and let her express her deepest longings . We will explore our cyclical nature embracing all of our inner seasons, we will gather in ritual as the wise women of all ages have, attuning to the deep knowing of our wombs and hearts, tasting the nectar of her depth, and expanding our range to welcome all of what we are, holding more of her charge and potency. It will be a time for silence, for contemplation, for journeying into the hidden landscapes of our soul, for medicine making, for ecosomatic art, for celebration and for sharing.
Location:
After many years of holding this immersion in the Swedish forest, we are now taking the journey to the island of IBIZA!
The land of the Goddess Tanit have long magnetized spiritual seekers and devotees of the feminine mysteries. There is a unique energy vibrating through the crystalline rocks and waters here in Ibiza that can be met and harnessed for spiritual growth and revelation. She is so many faces of the feminine this island, soft and beauty-full, but also fierce and power-full, both solitary and wildly expressive, gentle and strong. There is a sense that you could conjure whatever you desire in the energetic field here, there is such a potency for grounded spaciousness when you sit in listening, but this potency can also be used outwardly in all kinds of directions.
The retreat will be based at Rikke’s beautiful home on the island, that will be activated into a retreat temple, between the 5 bedrooms of the two houses on the property and amongst the bell tents that will be set up for the occasion, with multiple pilgrimage outings to sacred wells and springs and secret walks and outings to the wild beaches, and of course to the cave of the Goddess Tanit herself.
The property is an old and rustic hundreds of year old finca that has been expanded and renovated over the years, on a beautiful piece of land in the middle of the north part of the island without a neighbour in sight.
Daily Schedule (roughly):
Tuesday: *Voluntary* arrival day. No program but a restaurant will be reserved for those who wish.
Wednesday: 8am Breakfast buffet for those who arrived on Tuesday.
Optional beach outing or walk.
2pm Last call for arrival & check-in
3:30pm Welcome practice & orientation
7pm Dinner
8pm Bonfire and ritual
Thursday - Saturday : 7am Deep morning elemental sadhana: meditation, visualisation, subtle-body practices, movement, journalling
10am Brunch
…followed by nature time & afternoon workshops
7pm Dinner
(*most days or evenings we will have extra offerings outside of these times. And one of the days will be a sacred day of birthing your own copalera out of clay that you will take home with you.)
Sunday: 7am Morning elemental sadhana
10am Brunch
12pm Closing ceremony
2pm THE END you can leave or choose to stay one more night for a slower transition back into your everyday life.
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Optional wild hike and celebratory closing dinner at a restaurant for anyone choosing to stay Sunday night.
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The epic morning practice will include meditation, subtle body practices, journalling, embodiment and free movement.
The afternoon sessions and other additional circles will dive into different topics and workshops exploring feminine mysticism.
*This schedule is only to give you a rough idea. More than a retreat you can consider this experience to be like a deep immersion or initiation.
The days will be full and the work will go deep.
The journey will be an elemental initiation and inquiry into our origin and birth mysteries, ancestral wounds and wisdom, the stories that have shaped us, the invisible forces that move us, and the eros and sensuality that is our aliveness and life-force as the embodied feminine. The work will include talks and explorations into blood mysteries, fire and ancestry rituals, grief tending, deep circle sharing, embodiment, free dance and celebration, herbal magic, art and medicine making to remember our wise woman ways.
It will be a time for you to let yourself be seen and held by the power of the Feminine within each Woman.
Investment & Accommodation Options
*Early Bird until April 30th 2024
In the house + guesthouse:
Twin room *£1,415 (£1,475) pp
Shared double bed with a girlfriend *£1,200 (£1,260) pp
(this could also be requested as a single room, but price would be double = *£2,400)
Glamping in shared large bell tent (single bed, double occupancy) *£1,370 (£1,430)
These bell tents come equipped with electricity, heating and furnishings.
*First come first serve for room allocations, be quick if you want to secure yourself in the house.
Camping (bring your own tent) *£1,000 (£1,060)
Non-residential (for anyone who already lives on the island and doesn’t need the held container of staying on the property) *£1,000 (£1,060)
*I have put all of these costs in £GBP as that is still my main bank, but €EUR payments can be done to a EUR bank upon request.
What’s Included?
Accommodation
All our practices, workshops and ceremonies
Cost to make your own sacred medicine woman incense burner including the clay material and burning
2 delicious healthy locally sourced vegan/vegetarian meals per day
Sauna and Kirtan and other sweet activities
What’s not?
Flights to Ibiza airport, Spain
(flight time suggestions will be sent in booking confirmation email)
Staying one night extra prior and/or post retreat will be a fee of £50 a night
*HIGHLY recommended*
Car rental share
(having a car is essential on this island, but the prices are ridiculously low off-season, and I will put you into groups of 4 to share)
1:1 session with our faculty’s very special energy healer and body worker
Any questions email rikke@rikkebrodin.com
Payment in installations can be arranged.
*Please note that all bookings are non-refundable.
**No previous experience is necessary, but an open and curious mind is.
By filling out this form you will be asked in the email confirmation to schedule a 15min consultation with Rikke where you can ask any questions and where it will be assessed if this experience is in resonance for both parties. This is really deep work so it is important that we are in alignment. Meaning that something deep in you deeply wants to say YES to this experience, even if on the surface you might not have a clue about what that means. Something deep in your body knows. So let’s talk to figure that out.
About the council (more faculty members tbc):
Meditation, embodiment, dance, ritual, talks and workshops
Rikke Brodin is a mystic, wonderer, guide on the spiritual path, a mover, dancer, ritualist, artist and writer, and above all in service to this path of devotion to the sacred and mystical orientations of reality that guided her from numbness and disassociation into aliveness, wakefulness and depth of presence.
Her teachings and experiential laboratories are invitations into unknowing, into holding the questions that move us as holy and whole, they are gateways into the sanctuary of the deepest place within us, that which is eternal and unbroken yet can hold all of our contradictions and brokenness and the paradox which divides us. For this is the way of feminine mysticism, the descent down into our body and deep into life itself to discover the source that births all of life, and to practise living in intimacy with this Mystery.
Sacred clay vessel workshop: Making of a Copalera incense burner.
Natalia Descalza is an artist and maker of ritual objects, from Argentina, who will guide us in the making of our sacred medicine tool. She works with the elements of earth, water and fire through clay to make ceramics of the heart.
1:1 massages, guidance, energy healing, womb healing
Beatriz M Pinet is a deep medicine woman, energy healer and intuitive guide. Like a true curandera she acts as a bridge between the realms, between the spirit world and the very embodied physical human felt experience. For decades she has lived amongst and been initiated by Mayan elders into their ancient healing modalities of Sobada Maya and other massage techniques, along with many other psychosomatic healing arts rooted in ancient indigenous earth based understandings.
TESTIMONIALS
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…an ancient knowing is stirred. Rikke and the other facilitators’ holding into the timeless mysteries of the Feminine is one of humility, fierce tenderness and grace. They create a safe and sacred space for women to delve into their inner realms. A space to be with our bodies and remember our sense of belonging to the Earth body and within the larger web of Life. A space to rekindle the Fire of our Ancestors and deepen our connection with the ancient wisdom of our Wombs. Rikke does not pretend to be more evolved, instead she sits on the Earth amongst women, reminding them that the wisdom she shares is already within each and every one of us.” - Charlotte J W
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…Rikke created a profound space that allowed me to reconnect with my nature, release old ancestral wounds and be open for a new connection with truth and life! This retreat was wild, soft, tender, and a space where a woman can get in touch with all the women inside of her! Thank you again for this experience… You created space inside of me to feel awakened and to create new tools for my path! I feel changed and truly connected to myself even if it is difficult sometimes..“ - Konstantina K
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…At Mysteries of the Feminine retreat, I experienced the kind of deep and present holding that really allowed me to slow down, listen to myself and my own truth, and to take in nourishment for the places within that needed it most. As a facilitator, Rikke brought grounded, tender, exquisite wisdom and attunement to the group, as well as so much permission to show up as ourselves, in our fullness. The impacts have been profound and have continued to trickle in even days, weeks, months after the retreat. I am beyond grateful to have shown up and received so much--thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm feeling the reverberations throughout much of Life. - Barbora D
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…that really encapsulate the full experience. It was raw, emotional, profound, joyous, exhausting, fun, warm... and so much more!! I feel reawakened - It was the reset button my soul was crying out for. There really is so much beauty in the world and I was reminded that again and again during our time together. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ❤ “ - Emma S