Coming Home to the Great Mother

Beyond the Burden: A Soul Initiation for the Modern Mother.

Forget the sanitized version of motherhood. This is a 5-night descent into the red earth and wine-dark sea to reclaim the woman who lived before you were everyone else’s everything.

October 1-6 2026 | 5 nights Retreat.

Inclusive accomodation , food and drinks included in the package :

FREE pamper gifts

FREE wine from my family on one of our designated days.

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Beyond "Self-Care": A Sanctuary for the Whole Woman

The land is calling you back to your own origin. This is not your usual retreat and vacation; it is a descent into your soul.

Our retrieve...is an initiation on the wild, untamed coast of Preveli, designed for the woman who is ready to shed the "Martyr" and reclaim the Wild Woman to be initiated deeper in a safe container into a soul journey..

Sometimes even as Mothers we have to leave our familiar world to remember who we are before we become everyone else's everything. Drop the Guilt.

Crete holds the ancient frequency of a civilization that placed the Great Mother at the center of existence- as a sovereign force.

Below we share a spontaneous talk on what the FEEL of this Retreat will involve and what you will receive .

At Terra Preveli, we gather where the river meets the sea. It is a most wonderful serene quiet calm AND wild in one Breath. An alchemical vessel of red earth and "wine-dark" waters.

We will create a safe container that can hold the heat of transformation, so you can enter this portal in total trust and faith.

Surrounded by the bones of Minoan wisdom, you are invited to exhale your gracious burdens and be reminded and shown that your hardship is actually your medicine.

You can remember that taking care of yourself AND collapsing in the arms of the Great Mother isn't selfish OR weak: it's necessary reclamation.

Your repressed rage and resentment holds medicine. This isn't a cliche. It has birthed my body of work. Could it be yours awaits?

Your dreams matter.

This is our hand leaning in and stretching into you as an invitation to step away from the endless giving, the constant tending, the beautiful burden of holding everyone else's world together. Come home to yourself to the Ancient Mother Within ( free meditation for you) Come to remember what the true definition of mother is. You are a force of nature, a keeper of ancient wisdom, a woman with her own story to write. Mother IS Matter. Marion Woodman talked about the deep well of our Soul, when she begins to awaken in us. Clarissa Pinkola Estes talked on how our soul is the most endangered species and the discovery of the "joyous body". The Ancient Mother Spiral talks about the "Euphoric Body"

Held by clinically skilled psychotherapists and soul- guides, you don't have to worry about 'falling apart.' We have built the container; you just have to land in it.

LAND WITH US BY SECURING YOU PLACE HERE

This is NOT Another Sanitised Healing Retreat..it is more about Retrieve.

Retreat as a notion in itself feels old already, it implies "to hide" " to escape"...Our place of Retrieval....doesn't aim to to make you a "better" mother or a "calmer" wife.

We are here to witness your re-emergence. Forget the fancy models and the sanitized version of motherhood. This retreat isn't about becoming a "better" or "higher " version of you.

It is about coming back to the whole, messy, brilliant reality of who you already ARE. To Discover and Re-member the Undivided Heart as Clarissa Pinkola Estes says, the Honeyed Heart in the Ancient Mother Spiral.

We aim to create a space of BEING- where you relearn your own inner rhythms, and the freedom that you are. All offerings will be invitations and no demands for participations or sharing .you will be accepted as you ARE in each and given moment.

This is for you if :

• You're feeling a bodily restlessness that is not fixed with self care routines, or coffee!

  
  

• You want to re-connect with your erotic- sensual Life Force that will spark your creativity deeper
  

• You want to laugh with other mothers and women until your ribs hurt at your own beautiful chaos
  

• You want to explore the Wild Woman who lives underneath the demands of "Mom."

• You crave a "Tribe of Belonging" where your "Tiny Dictator" energy and your "Exhausted soul mystic" are both welcome.

  
  

• You need space to just BE without calling it "self-care work" or "healing" -though there ll be plenty of healing ( 2 experienced psychotherapists and well versed in initiations of the Soul after all)!
  

• Learn to receive - through love laughter being cooked for and cared for ( pamper session gifts!) AND un-learn on being default giver

• the Retreat will be held in the area of Preveli- see image below, in a stunning very earth bound venue, close to nature and simplicity yet convenience. It is not a luxury villa with a pool, its a wild untamed serene peaceful land full of magic .

  
  

• There’s also a river is flowing right next to Terra Preveli with waterfalls and secluded spots to swim, also providing beautiful natural settings for teachings.

• The beach is 45 minutes on feet, which we can arrange to travel as a group/tribe , and journey into walking through a gorge.

What we will actually co-create:

We use Somatic Poetic Inquiry and presence Circles to unlock the limiting beliefs that keep you small. Our days are a blend of the sacred and the "Mundane Magic, to unravel and drink from all the dimensions of the Archetype of the MOTHER.

🌱 Mundane Magic: We celebrate the ridiculous moments of shared mama's life- like looking for your phone while talking on it. Because that's where the real laughter lives. AND point to the deeply spiritual wisdom hidden in the very ordinary parts of our lives

🌱 Full Spectrum Welcome: Bring all of yourself - the loving parts AND the tiny dictator energy. The soprano screams and the whispered exhaustion. All of it belongs in our space. we want ALL of you here .

🌱 Creative Space Without Agenda: Write, create, or just exist. No transformation promised. No healing required. Just permission to land in whatever version of yourself shows up. Though we will have some sessions and deep attuned circles for sure ,and for these we would encourage as maximum participation so you benefit the most .

🌱 Unhinged Recognition: See yourself in other mothers who get it. Sometimes the most embodied thing you can do is simply exist fully in your own skin.

🌱 Embodied- somatic poetic inquiry and Satsang circles to unlock limiting beliefs AND free fall in the inner Great Mother Within. ( Live transmissions )

🌱 Working with Archetypes and the Ancient Mother Spiral on land and beach

🌱 Breathwork, dance, yoga . Myself and Anna have both done sound healing and this can too emerge as organic development as well as energy massages and singing mantras.

🌱 Ancestral Presence (If They Show Up): Maybe your grandmother lives in how you make tea. Maybe wisdom arrives in laughter, not ritual. We're not hunting - just welcoming what comes. Maria is trained in Thomas Hubhl Ancestral Healing Code and has been working with her ancestry for over 10 years. Our connection is always alive !

The Experience and the Methods- the craft-

• Comfortable spaces where you can sit on actual floors (Lego-free zones guaranteed)
  

• Good coffee and nourishing traditional Cretan meals because you deserve to be fed well. Cooked by our Great Mothers- for traditional experience!I will also bring our FREE home made Dionysian vino for those interested to taste local wine!
  

• Read TO, stories AND myths that reflect your healing journey to wholeness, because you too deserve to be read stories to!

• Archetypal Alchemy through the use of the Archetypes of the Mother as understood via the Spiral
  

• Drumming Journeys and circles-

• Walking Journeys through a gorge.. leading to the beach to be initiated to the language of the liminal through nature

• Working with your Dreams when they come
  

• Soul-writing for the words and poems that need to be shared in a place that can feel and SEE your POWER and poetry readings-transmissions.

• Intergenerational Healing based on Thomas Hubhl training and as Understood via the Ancient Mother Spiral and the years of embodied Experience Maria and Anna have cultivated
  

• Permission to be exactly as together or falling apart as you are in any given moment
  

• SPACE for you to BRING your own shared medicine to the world.

  
  

• Walking in nature , beach immersions and rejoice in solitude AND company.

Crete is opening HER arms

Bring this to Mind.

Mediterranean sunsets, ancient wisdom in the stones beneath your feet, and the sound of women laughing until our bellies hurt.

JOY is a political act in a world that is collapsing. We'll ensure it is the main frequency we will cultivate. The village to Raise the PARENT must RETURN! A place where you can remember who you were before you became everyone else's everything.

Maria's personal aspiration is that women will be inspired to follow and become visionaries of the Spiral in the Future times to come.

THE HOME OF BELONGING

You can visit your website here so you can take a detailed look at the rooms are on offer and secure your deposit here . We want to be inclusive and so we have come up with a plan for remainder balance which you can read here, and also pay attention to our Terms and conditions.

If you see this retreat and the deadlines has passed don't worry! Send us an email and we will arrange a plan for you!

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if you want a payment plan due to finances please get in touch with us at maria.kefalogianni@gmail.com

Your Mother- Facilitators

Anna Moraki

Anna Moraki is a mother to Alina, a transpersonal psychotherapist, breathwork and Kundalini Dance facilitator, certified Yoga teacher, a mother, a daughter and a modern mystic.

She has delved into Tantra and the path of the heart for many years and her work is all about embodying our souls true Essence. Through her own healing journey and her work as a therapist she invites you to embrace all parts of you and to unleash your authentic expression, to remember your sacred gifts and your true Self.

She works with the Kundalini life force energy, through dance, rituals, healing sessions and transpersonal tools to awaken your sometimes hidden potential.

She loves to create safe spaces in which you can experience your divinity and strengthen your connection to the Divine. She shares her passion and wisdom connecting Psychology and Spirituality in her year long Ecstatic Awakening Training, as well as in private sessions, workshops and retreats

Find more about Anna here www.ecstatic-awakening.com

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Maria Kefalogianni

These were the words I spoke as I prepared to leave patriarchal Crete for the UK, following a knowing in my gut : a compelling urge to flee because I could no longer bear the comfortable suppression of my soul.

Within three days, I left my ancestral Minoan homeland, beginning a deeply spiritual and alchemical journey that would birth my life's body of work, the Ancient Mother Spiral and eventually call me home to these sacred shores with deeper wiser understanding.

I am Maria Kefalogianni: a mother of three children ( Iosef, Yiannis and Iphianassa), a presence centered psychotherapist, and creator of the Ancient Mother Spiral Framework. AMS is an ontological framework of a revolutionary paradigm shift that addresses the shift of consciousness through the portal of the MOTHER. There will be more unfolding of the teachings of AMS on my Substack

This work was born and remembered, from my own spirallic spiritual journey , and descent, from exile to inner belonging, understanding intimately what it means to leave everything familiar in service of your soul's calling.

The inner union is here. What Ancient Greeks called "Ieros Gamos" Holy marriage ( of masculine-feminine).

As a mother, I know the alive tension of nurturing others while your own wild wisdom whispers to be reclaimed. I came from a lineage of strong matriarchs who also self abandoned. I understand the exhaustion of holding it all together, the guilt of dreaming beyond the daily demands, the fear that taking time for yourself might somehow break the delicate ecosystem you've worked so hard to maintain.

For over 16 years, I have guided and held groups, mothers and women through their own spirals of becoming. Author of Honey and Ash: Mothers' Alchemy of Burn and Bloom, a book channeled straight from the Great Mother, I understand how motherhood can be both the greatest catalyst for awakening and the place where we most lose ourselves.

Investment & Details

Interested? Join our waiting list below. There will be limited places to ensure intimacy of being and closeness and deep healing presence.

We plan for FREE spa gifts as well for YOU.

and we will also have FREE wine in one of our days

Questions?

Email me at maria.kefalogianni@gmail.com OR fill in our FORM to express your interest - chain free. Deadline for Deposit: 30th June

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If by now your heart calls in you strongly, you can land with us by securing your deposit here.

Our Wildest Dream and fantasy is that you will be so nourished from this Retreat that all seeking and grasping to "arrive" somewhere, will be fiercely compassionately loosened .

We are wanting to CO-create an atmosphere of true belonging. where ALL parts of us are welcome. AND more importantly, Maria and Anna hold a strong Vision for your Soul's deepest awakening to your own dharmic purpose, or the beginnings of this initiatiory Journey.

WILL YOU TAKE THE CHANCE?

WILL YOU JOIN US ?

Love

Maria & Anna, the Ancient Mother Spiral

and the Land.

TESTIMONIALS

It is my honor and a great privilege to offer these words of praise and recognition for this hard-won and unique gift to mothers. We are a vast part of the population, and yet often the least supported in ways that truly assist us in becoming fuller expressions of ourselves as women—through motherhood.

The generosity, acceptance, and openness that held this circle met each woman exactly as she was. That presence pierced me, helping me see the places where I am still holding, still judging myself, and still leaning too heavily into fixing rather than allowing understanding, patience, and compassion to emerge. In that mirror, openness revealed its counterpart ~ contraction ~ and that, too, was welcomed.

It was rare medicine to hear each woman’s voice echoed back to her in such a way that she could recognize her own expanded wisdom, truth, and beauty braided into her own words. No woman was diminished or ruled over by fixing or by the offering of answers. Instead, each was met with deep listening and respect.

This experience softened places in me that once, wisely chose to guard, to not trust.  The work offered here is profoundly needed in this world, and its impact reaches far beyond the circle itself.

With deep gratitude and respect, 

Lila"

Maria was an incredible, wise, accepting and compassionate therapist. She helped me to see my body and mind in a non-pathologising way, and to learn to trust my body as my truest guide in life. She taught me that I can listen to deepest thoughts and feelings and they can be messages of wisdom rather that something to fight. Her approach was really beautiful and nuturing.  Liane

There was absolutely no feelings of superiority within the group at all. Anything contributed was received with gratitude and grace. Each session followed its own path and was not strictly guided by anybody. I liked the live unfolding of the journey.

Maria’s facilitation always reinforces any doubt you have about what feels to you as inner-knowing; but perhaps has been dismissed or scoffed at previously by those around you that don’t understand or cannot relate. The spiral process; the sharing with others - all helped to increase my confidence in my inner source of knowledge.

Elle

Recognise our connectedness, our spirituality and innate wisdom that we’ve been taught to tune out. Reconnect with mothers in a way we were always meant to and share the journey of motherhood in safety, connection and authenticity of all aspects of being a mother, the fears, the chaos, the beauty, the doubt. It’s all welcome and powerful!

E.Z

Hey Mama,

You carry the beautiful but also crushing weight of motherhood, often feeling depleted, guilty, and perpetually searching for a place where you truly fit. This is a normal friction and NOT meant to be resolved.

This New Year, skip the surface resolutions. We're giving you the precision tools from the Ancient Mother Spiral to fundamentally change your nervous system, so that you organically move you from frantic survival to anchored presence.

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This page is not another yet coaching call but a genuine  gentle hand on your shoulder whispering " it is time to PAUSE". It is perhaps more of an invitation to stop the running, the chasing, the SEEKING, and enter the ancient intelligence of the Mother Spiral; a  sacred, cyclical wisdom held by Crete for millennia and passed through the veins of Maria( one of the facilitators)  as part of her  OWN Descent Journey during her crumbling - mending journey of Motherhood . The uniqueness of the Ancient Mother Spiral lies in its rare blend of Ancient Wisdom and Clinical Precision.

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In this free New Year series, we bypass the surface-level burnout fixes and go straight to the deep, alchemical remembering.

This is your permission slip to stop surviving and start receiving. Truly receiving. 

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Ready to meet the woman your children (and the world) truly needs?

1. SESSION ONE: Anchoring the Honey Drop THE HONEY DROP ANCHOR:

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​the Focus: You will install the Honey Drop Anchor—a core somatic skill to shift your nervous system from panic to presence instantly. This is functional anatomy for inner belonging."

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In this session, we will  move from emotional hijacking to sensing inherent presence (The Honey Drop Anchor) in less than 30 seconds. This is your foundation for all deeper work. Alongside Maria's and Anna's inner spaciousness , you will feel able to DROP INTO a quieter place , pretty quickly, and hopefully return to the somatic anchor you have established, until the following session. 

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2. SESSION TWO: Composting the Guilt (Ash) : DESCENT INTO POWER​

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The Focus: Turning Shame into Your Richest Fuel

This session gives you the process to transform chronic shame into empowered, controlled action. No platitudes, just the Ash Composting mechanism that re-routes old pain into future fuel.

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After grounding, we dive into the necessary work of the Dark Goddess stage. The Ash is all the heavy baggage: the guilt, the self-scrutiny, and the shame that keeps you frozen.

The Transformation: Instead of letting that waste poison you, this powerful stage teaches you how to perform Ash Composting—transforming that heavy material (your hardship) into powerful, rich soil that fuels your next growth. You stop being paralyzed by the mess and start using it to grow and take empowered action

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3. SESSION THREEE: The Skill of Surrender: Tracking Contradiction.

Learn how to hold tension and ease simultaneously. This is advanced self-regulation that allows you to move from fear-based control to functional flow without losing accountability. It's safety built into your system."​

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The Focus: Unconditional Safety and Effortless Flow

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This is the goal of the Spiral: Radical Joy and Embodied Oneness. Like letting go of the rope and floating perfectly safe in the ocean, you stop anxiously clinging to control because of the fear of loss.

The Transformation: You surrender into the Great Mother’s Tide, realizing the flow will always hold you. You move from possessive, fearful love to unconditional safety and effortless flow. This unlocks your Functional Core Capacities and sets the stage for a life of unified consciousness.

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