walking the spiral path
of the Goddess:
Ostara: Reawakening Retreat
March 22,2025
Registration Opens on February 3
A Seasonal Mystery School
with Ancient Rituals, Ceremonies, and Practices
for the Modern Priestess.
Have you ever walked barefoot on a mossy path, feeling the cool, spongy earth beneath your feet, noticing the vibrant green hues as the sunlight beams through the trees creating a collage of shadows on the forest floor?
Have you stepped outside on the first day of Spring and listened to the birds, felt the warm sun on your face and noticed each tiny bud slowly opening as it welcomes the season of light once more?
If you ARE LIKE ME, YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE.
BECAUSE OF THIS, I INVITE YOU TO WALK THE SPIRAL PATH OF THE GODDESS WITH ME.
The Spiral Path of the Goddess is one that recognizes our deepest connection to Mother Earth and sees the magick in Nature beyond the mundane world. By connecting with her through seasonal ceremonies, rituals, and creative processes, we grow and expand on the path.
our journey begins at 1pm on March 22 with an invitation to the elementals to join us!
1:00 PM: Opening Ritual & Shamanic Journey into the Underworld with the Goddess Persephone to leave what no longer serves us behind. Reemerge with the hope and newness of Spring.
1:50PM: Snack & Bathroom Break
2:00PM: Leah Benjamin will lead us in a Plant Medicine workshop + Spacious movement & womb tending.
3:20PM: Egg Divination & Seed Planting Ritual with Jennifer
4:30PM: Closing Ceremony and offering to the Goddess in honor of the Equinox.
5:30PM: Merry Part.
Egg Magick: Divination & Seed Planting Ritual.
Trust your intuition and learn the ancient art of Egg Divination & Magick.
Following this hands on Ritual, we will use the shells to plant our seeds of intention.
We honor this day of balance while also preparing for the longer days. So we ask, what is ready to Spring forth? What is blooming in you?
egg Divination & Seed Planting
magick for ostara
with Jennifer
At this time of ultimate potential, we will explore the deep medicine of the Smilax plant and its ruby seeds, tendrils, thorns, and possibilities of cycles that stem, or gem, in relationship with nurturing and being nurtured. We will explore movement in the body and womb tending in to deeply feel and learn what our body can hold, release, and move with in season. We will embody and move practicing our ability to change stories and hold multiple stories at the same time, in agency and collaboration are practiced, exploring more dimensional maps of narrative and resonant plant alliances.
Tending & Tended by
rubies & Tendrils
with Leah
"IN 2016 I BEGAN BRINGING WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY TO THE GREATER COMMUNITY WITH MY FIRST WISE WOMEN FULL MOON RETREAT.
Soon thereafter I expanded into New and Full Moon events and then introduced my own work with the Celtic Wheel of the Year to the community. This series is an extension of this work and each part will allow us to dig deeper and connect more with the Goddess and the Celtic Wheel of the Year."
walk the spiral path of the goddess!
This Series includes an Optional Spiral Path Priestess Training & Certification. Dive more deeply into the Elements, the directions, your power animals, the sacred grove, & The goddesses associated with each turn in the wheel of the year. Learn to Create your own Rituals and Ceremonies as a solo Practitioner or create &
lead your own events.
Date:
March 22, 2025
1:00pm to 5:30pm
Location:
Elevation Central
11465 Central Pk.
Mt. Juliet, TN 37122
Cost: Three Options!
$133.00 for this Ostara event
$480.00 for the entire 4 event series
$880.00 Entire Series plus weekend Certification Retreat
Half-Day Event, Snacks, Supplies
Save the Dates: June 7, September 13, November 22, Weekend Retreat: January 2025
"All that I have studied and practiced on my own and in the 100s of Circles I have created is coming into focus. My deeply rooted practice in the Celtic Wheel of the year along with my Goddess and Druid studies is coming together to form a sacred offering for those called to honor Nature and the Divine Feminine more deeply. I hope you will join me."
-Jennnifer
the spiral path of the goddess will be lead by Priestess jennifer harvard with special guest leah benjamin
Priestess Guide: Jennifer Harvard
Jennifer Harvard is the visionary behind Gaia Sisterhood which was founded in 2016. Jennifer has spent a lifetime educating herself on the principles of natural health and healing. Founder of Gaia Sisterhood, The Wise Women Full Moon Retreat, and The Goddess Craft Market, she has cast a wide net of openness and inclusivity, welcoming as many women as possible into her Divine Feminine work. Jennifer is trained in the following modalities including:
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Licensed Massage Therapist specializing in Ayurvedic Massage
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Certified Conscious Breathwork Coach
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Aromatherapist
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Reiki Healer
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Priestess of the Sacred Grove
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Ayurvedic Student Practitioner
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Shamanic Journey Practitioner
"It is with great humility and honor that I devote my energy to creating a safe space for women to come together and heal themselves, each other and the world."
Special Guest: Leah Benjamin
Leah Benjamin, LMT is fortunate to live intimately with a body of land that has her floored and consumed. Held in the Sequatchie Valley by the most wondrous caves, falls, and bluffs that, if you follow the sounds of, all the way up the plateau a thousand miles, you’ll find her home sand.
Raised on the salty shores of the North Fork of Eastern Long Island, falling off the end, she heard mostly waves and the calls of seagull flocks. She still won’t do her hair.
She lives rather feral, crawling out of the forest to visit Marrowbone and community farmers’ markets she is honored to run in Nashville. Please engage in your local food networks!
Enthralled by ferments for ages and the sacred honor of food play and offering, she invites you to please play with your food and please feed the spirits.
She is a voice of Amanita Muscaria and tangled in smilax. She is a devout hiker and ecstatic dancer, building paths and story with the land.
Leah is a multi-medium artist giving bodies to that which want them. This includes adornments, paths, myths, words, sounds, plant medicine, food, community and culture, and her favorite—her son Jonah. She works with copper electro-forming to compose amulets of whispered stories of plants and stones, as well as kaleidoscopes.
She’s a skilled bodyworker, listening intently and deeply to languages your body and subtle bodies share, honored to be in the space with whatever change is ready to take place during integrative sessions.
Bodywork and land experiences are shared in The Valley.
She travels for retreats, sacred gatherings, transformational festivals, and music venues to share bodywork, art, food, and workshops.
You can find her at Ritualridge.com
Upcoming Special Guests Include:
Georgia Copeland Bromehead of Forest Therapy Nashville,
Dasha Bond of Aluna Bridge,
& Maria Brannon of Iridescent Knowing
Gaia Sisterhood Cancellation Policy:
Life happens and occasionally attendees find themselves needing to cancel. While I will make every attempt to fill your space, my retreats have moving parts that require advance investment from me such as the purchase of food or deposits on space. Due to these things I have adopted the following policy for clarity on cancellations. All events are fully refundable up to 30 days in advance. Any cancellations under 30 days prior to the event are eligible for a credit toward another Gaia Sisterhood event. Cancellations within 7 days prior to any event forfeit all payments.