Coming Home to the Ancient Mother: A Soul Initiation for Mothers October 1–6, 2026 | In Terra Preveli, Crete
Being as a decolonial act to constant striving.
Coming Home to the Ancient Mother
Beyond the Burden: A Soul Initiation for the Modern Mother.
1a 5 day-night Retreat into the Heart of the Great Mother,
secure your place here https://buy.stripe.com/fZu5kC82pg78f5cf2F57W00
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.
Our Retreat is designed holding in mind MOTHERS - WOMEN ready to reclaim their full selves by moving beyond the restricting archetype of the "Good Mother".
October 1-6 2026 | 5 nights Retreat. What's Included
The Offering | The Detail |
Sacred Space | 5 Nights shared accommodation in the Land of Crete, The Ancient Mother Land. Terra Preveli |
Full Nourishment | All Meals included: organic, locally sourced, and traditionally cooked by our mothers |
The Work | All Workshops, Sacred Circles, and 1:1 support during the days if needed |
Celebration | A curated evening of local Cretan wine (my family's wine) and connection, AND Honey for our arrival Ritual. |
The Gift | A FREE Mother Pamper gift waiting for you ( nails or face massage, your choice) |
Not Included | Flights, airport transfers, and mandatory travel insurance. |
Express your Interest
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.
This is not a vacation. This is a sensory reset.
We are heading to the rugged heart of the Cretan mountains to find the Great Mother Within. This is a space designed for the weary nervous system; the empath Mother- Woman , a place where the air is thin and clean, the ground is ancient stone, and the only "social battery" you need to charge is your own.
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 your inner 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"
Your children do not need a mother who is a ghost of herself. They need an initiated woman who knows her own power. Power that is emergent from the depths of Soul so it becomes your legacy, not a luxury
Held by clinically skilled transpersonal, humanistic psychotherapists and soul- guides/ midwives, 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
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Coming Home to the Ancient Mother
Beyond the Burden: A Soul Initiation for the Modern Mother.
1a 5 day-night Retreat into the Heart of the Great Mother,
secure your place here https://buy.stripe.com/fZu5kC82pg78f5cf2F57W00
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.
Our Retreat is designed holding in mind MOTHERS - WOMEN ready to reclaim their full selves by moving beyond the restricting archetype of the "Good Mother".
October 1-6 2026 | 5 nights Retreat. What's Included
shared accomodation | 5 nights at a stunning, "earth-bound" venue in the Preveli area. This is a wild, untamed land full of magic, offering a serene and peaceful environment. check the venue below. |
meals | Nourishing traditional Cretan meals prepared for you. Experience authentic cooking by local "Great Mothers". |
drinks | All drinks included. This includes good coffee and local Dionysian wine from the facilitators' family vineyards. |
activities | Mindful sessions including Breathwork, Dance, Yoga, and Drumming Circles. Walking journeys , poetry, meditations ceremony and deep witnessing presence |
wellness gift | FREE "pamper gift" provided as part of the package. |
creative expression | Soul-writing workshops and poetry readings where your own "medicine" and words are welcomed- bring your creative genius |
Express your Interest
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.
This is not a vacation. This is a sensory reset.
We are heading to the rugged heart of the Cretan mountains to find the Great Mother Within. This is a space designed for the weary nervous system; the empath Mother- Woman , a place where the air is thin and clean, the ground is ancient stone, and the only "social battery" you need to charge is your own.
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 your inner 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"
Your children do not need a mother who is a ghost of herself. They need an initiated woman who knows her own power. Power that is emergent from the depths of Soul so it becomes your legacy, not a luxury
Held by clinically skilled transpersonal, humanistic psychotherapists and soul- guides/ midwives, 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 outdated, 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 crave the deep, heavy silence that only comes from being high in the mountains, far away from the flicker of screens and the "ping" of demands.
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 "Mum."
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 and spaces to collapse and/or celebrate and Receive love and care ( 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- 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 . And the Sea is with us.
There is a river is flowing right next to Terra Preveli with waterfalls and secluded spots to swim, also providing beautiful natural settings for our immersions
The beach is 45 minutes on feet, which we can arrange to travel as a group/tribe , and journey into walking through a gorge- Kourtaliotis Gorge SO we Begin to USE consciuosly and actively Nature in our walking as the liminal space. we CAN be rooted in Two worlds in our Mothering so we learn to Mother with and FROM Soul
OUR RETRIEVE’S PROGRAMME | ||||
Day 1 morning lunch evening | ||||
Thursday 1st october arrival any time in the day - our initial gathering will begin after 5pm | Dinner meal and firs gathering/ ritual | |||
Friday 2nd October | Breakfast 7-9 warming up- Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Saturday 3rd | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Sunday 4th October | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second 5session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Monday 5th | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Tuesday 6th Departure by 11: 00 am | Morning gathering if time allows, and good byes | |||
this is a rough estimate of our days | ||||
in one of our days we will make space for your little pamper gift from us ,and also a trip to the sea as a group.
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 & Low-Demand Laughter: We celebrate the "ridiculous" reality of a mother’s life—like searching for your phone while you’re talking on it. We find the spiritual wisdom hidden in the ordinary, allowing for shared laughter that requires zero "performance."
🌱 The Full-Spectrum Unmask: Bring the loving parts and the "tiny dictator" energy. The soprano screams of frustration and the whispered exhaustion of the long-term caregiver. In this space, your "unmasked" self isn't just tolerated—it is the guest of honor.
🌱 Creative Space Without the "Healing" Tax: Permission to write, create, or just exist in parallel play with others. There is no transformation promised and no "healing" required. We provide the container; you decide if you want to dive deep or simply lie on the earth. While we offer attuned circles and transmissions, your participation is always a sovereign choice based on your energy levels. Bring your Knitting and art/craft to share!
🌱 Unhinged Recognition: The relief of being seen by other mothers who "get it." Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is exist fully in your own skin, stimming, rocking, or sitting in silence, without needing to explain your rhythm to anyone.
🌱 Somatic Poetic Inquiry & Live Transmissions: We use presence circles and somatic inquiry to move past the "internal noise" of limiting beliefs. This is a visceral experience—feeling the Ancient Mother not as a concept, but as a steady pulse in your own bones.
🌱 The Ancient Mother Spiral: We work directly with the land and the sea, using the Archetypes of Crete to anchor our descent. Expect to feel the literal weight of the stone and the snap of the salt air as we move through the Ancestral Spiral. IT will hold us.
🌱 Sensory-Safe Modalities: Organic developments of breathwork, dance, and yoga. Both Anna and I are trained in sound healing and mantras; these emerge as "nervous system medicine"—gentle, resonant, and deeply grounding.
🌱 Ancestral Whispers (Not Hunts): We don’t hunt for trauma or Resolution of it;Soul has her pace. We welcome what arrives. We make space. Maria is trained in Thomas Hübl’s Ancestral Healing Code and has walked with her own ancestry for over a 12 years. Whether your grandmother lives in the way you make tea or in a sudden burst of laughter, we honor the connection that is already alive.
The Sensory Sanctuary :Our Container
Tactile Sovereignty: Comfortable, uncluttered spaces where you are invited to sit on the floor, lean against stone, or stretch out. We guarantee Lego-free zones—a literal and metaphorical break from the "stepping on sharp edges" of daily motherhood.
The Mother’s Kitchen: You deserve to be fed without being the one to provide. Enjoy nourishing, traditional Cretan meals prepared by local "Great Mothers." This is deep, ancestral nourishment.
Dionysian Delights: For those who wish to taste the land, I will be bringing my own homemade Dionysian vino—a wild, local vintage to toast our shared journey.
The Nurtured Ear: You deserve to be read to. We use the Art of Storytelling and Myth as a form of nervous system co-regulation. Lie back and let the ancient stories reflect your own journey back to wholeness.
The Alchemical Methods (The Craft we have Experience in)
Archetypal Alchemy & The Spiral: We work with the Archetype of the Mother as understood through the Ancient Mother Spiral. This is not just theory; it is a physical map we use to navigate your internal landscape... enriched further by the writings from eco-psychology, transpersonal psychotherapy ( Marion Woodman's work), matrescence studies, and the divine feminine ... predominantly by embodied direct expeirence
The Gorge /River Descent- Immersion : A guided walking journey through the Cretan gorge, ending at the sea. ( 45 mins walk) and our 1minute walk to our personal River. This is a liminal initiation—using the movement of your body through nature to translate the language of your soul.
Drumming & Dream-Work: We use rhythmic drumming journeys to access the subconscious. When dreams arrive in the night, we work with them as living transmissions, weaving them into the light of the circle. Embodying and Enfleshing them , using Jungian Depth Psychology principles.
Maria's Drum is made of the Skin of Goat from her Lineage family ,hercousin and sheperd Yiannis. The wood is "immortal" wood from Crete. This is a sovereign Drum into the Timeless Age- less Mother...
Soul-Writing & Presence: A space for the poems and words that have been trapped in your throat. We facilitate soul-writing and "Power Readings" where you can be seen and heard in your full, unedited poetic authority. Maria is a published poet and Author to Honey & Ash :Mother's Alchemy of Burn and Bloom and longs to unearth your inner poetress
Intergenerational Healing: Using my training in Thomas Hübl’s Ancestral Healing Code, we look at the Mother Line. We address the "Ancient Spiral" of your ancestry with ten years of embodied experience, clearing the path for the version of you that is arriving. We will offer input from psychodrama, ancestral healing ,constellation work with safety and containement and conscious integration
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
OUR RETRIEVE’S PROGRAMME | ||||
Day 1 morning lunch evening | ||||
Thursday 1st october arrival 4-onwards -people are welcome to arrive any time in the day | 6pm pm : Dinner meal and firs gathering | |||
Friday 2nd October | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second 5session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Saturday 3rd | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Sunday 4th October | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second 5session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Monday 5th | Breakfast 7-9
Morning session 1 | Break for lunch | Second session | 6pm Integration- followed by Dinner |
Tuesday 6th Departure by 11: 00 am | Morning gathering if time allows, and good byes | |||
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! Subscribers will receive 20% Discount on our Retreat! To be Announced SOON!!!
Payment | Amount Due | Deadline | Note |
Deposit | £300 | At Booking, deadline 29th May | Secures your place (non-refundable). |
Installment 1 | £450 | June 30th, 2026 | Installment 1 |
Option A (Final Balance) | £450 | August 31st, 2026 | Pay the balance 3 months before the retreat. |
Option B (Monthly Plan) | 4 x £112.50 | Aug 31st to Oct 31st, 2026 | Includes payments that finish AFTER the retreat. You must authorize us to charge your card automatically. |
Read our T&C
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
Insta: Anna Moraki
Maria Kefalogianni
"I must leave to meet myself"
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
READ OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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
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This is NOT Another Sanitised Healing Retreat..it is more about Retrieve.
Retreat as a notion in itself feels outdated, 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 crave the deep, heavy silence that only comes from being high in the mountains, far away from the flicker of screens and the "ping" of demands.
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 "Mum."
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 and spaces to collapse and/or celebrate and Receive love and care ( 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- 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 . And the Sea is with us.
There is a river is flowing right next to Terra Preveli with waterfalls and secluded spots to swim, also providing beautiful natural settings for our immersions
The beach is 45 minutes on feet, which we can arrange to travel as a group/tribe , and journey into walking through a gorge- Kourtaliotis Gorge SO we Begin to USE consciuosly and actively Nature in our walking as the liminal space. we CAN be rooted in Two worlds in our Mothering so we learn to Mother with and FROM Soul
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 & Low-Demand Laughter: We celebrate the "ridiculous" reality of a mother’s life—like searching for your phone while you’re talking on it. We find the spiritual wisdom hidden in the ordinary, allowing for shared laughter that requires zero "performance."
🌱 The Full-Spectrum Unmask: Bring the loving parts and the "tiny dictator" energy. The soprano screams of frustration and the whispered exhaustion of the long-term caregiver. In this space, your "unmasked" self isn't just tolerated—it is the guest of honor.
🌱 Creative Space Without the "Healing" Tax: Permission to write, create, or just exist in parallel play with others. There is no transformation promised and no "healing" required. We provide the container; you decide if you want to dive deep or simply lie on the earth. While we offer attuned circles and transmissions, your participation is always a sovereign choice based on your energy levels. Bring your Knitting and art/craft to share!
🌱 Unhinged Recognition: The relief of being seen by other mothers who "get it." Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is exist fully in your own skin, stimming, rocking, or sitting in silence, without needing to explain your rhythm to anyone.
🌱 Somatic Poetic Inquiry & Live Transmissions: We use presence circles and somatic inquiry to move past the "internal noise" of limiting beliefs. This is a visceral experience—feeling the Ancient Mother not as a concept, but as a steady pulse in your own bones.
🌱 The Ancient Mother Spiral: We work directly with the land and the sea, using the Archetypes of Crete to anchor our descent. Expect to feel the literal weight of the stone and the snap of the salt air as we move through the Ancestral Spiral. IT will hold us.
🌱 Sensory-Safe Modalities: Organic developments of breathwork, dance, and yoga. Both Anna and I are trained in sound healing and mantras; these emerge as "nervous system medicine"—gentle, resonant, and deeply grounding.
🌱 Ancestral Whispers (Not Hunts): We don’t hunt for trauma or Resolution of it;Soul has her pace. We welcome what arrives. We make space. Maria is trained in Thomas Hübl’s Ancestral Healing Code and has walked with her own ancestry for over a 12 years. Whether your grandmother lives in the way you make tea or in a sudden burst of laughter, we honor the connection that is already alive.
The Sensory Sanctuary :Our Container
Tactile Sovereignty: Comfortable, uncluttered spaces where you are invited to sit on the floor, lean against stone, or stretch out. We guarantee Lego-free zones—a literal and metaphorical break from the "stepping on sharp edges" of daily motherhood.
The Mother’s Kitchen: You deserve to be fed without being the one to provide. Enjoy nourishing, traditional Cretan meals prepared by local "Great Mothers." This is deep, ancestral nourishment.
Dionysian Delights: For those who wish to taste the land, I will be bringing my own homemade Dionysian vino—a wild, local vintage to toast our shared journey.
The Nurtured Ear: You deserve to be read to. We use the Art of Storytelling and Myth as a form of nervous system co-regulation. Lie back and let the ancient stories reflect your own journey back to wholeness.
The Alchemical Methods (The Craft we have Experience in)
Archetypal Alchemy & The Spiral: We work with the Archetype of the Mother as understood through the Ancient Mother Spiral. This is not just theory; it is a physical map we use to navigate your internal landscape... enriched further by the writings from eco-psychology, transpersonal psychotherapy ( Marion Woodman's work), matrescence studies, and the divine feminine ... predominantly by embodied direct expeirence
The Gorge /River Descent- Immersion : A guided walking journey through the Cretan gorge, ending at the sea. ( 45 mins walk) and our 1minute walk to our personal River. This is a liminal initiation—using the movement of your body through nature to translate the language of your soul.
Drumming & Dream-Work: We use rhythmic drumming journeys to access the subconscious. When dreams arrive in the night, we work with them as living transmissions, weaving them into the light of the circle. Embodying and Enfleshing them , using Jungian Depth Psychology principles.
Maria's Drum is made of the Skin of Goat from her Lineage family ,hercousin and sheperd Yiannis. The wood is "immortal" wood from Crete. This is a sovereign Drum into the Timeless Age- less Mother...
Ancient Mother's Drum for all Mothers
Soul-Writing & Presence: A space for the poems and words that have been trapped in your throat. We facilitate soul-writing and "Power Readings" where you can be seen and heard in your full, unedited poetic authority. Maria is a published poet and Author to Honey & Ash :Mother's Alchemy of Burn and Bloom and longs to unearth your inner poetress
Intergenerational Healing: Using my training in Thomas Hübl’s Ancestral Healing Code, we look at the Mother Line. We address the "Ancient Spiral" of your ancestry with ten years of embodied experience, clearing the path for the version of you that is arriving. We will offer input from psychodrama, ancestral healing ,constellation work with safety and containement and conscious integration
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! Subscribers will receive 20% Discount on our Retreat! To be Announced SOON!!!
Payment | Amount Due | Deadline | Note |
Deposit | £300 | At Booking, deadline 29th May | Secures your place (non-refundable). |
Installment 1 | £450 | June 30th, 2026 | Installment 1 |
Option A (Final Balance) | £450 | August 31st, 2026 | Pay the balance 3 months before the retreat. |
Option B (Monthly Plan) | 4 x £112.50 | Aug 31st to Oct 31st, 2026 | Includes payments that finish AFTER the retreat. You must authorize us to charge your card automatically. |
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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
Insta: Anna Moraki
Maria Kefalogianni
"I must leave to meet myself"
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
The Mother Spiral Series 2025
A 4 Hour Experiential Workshop for Facilitators and Therapists
STOP POURING FROM A CRACKED VESSEL. START RECEIVING THE HONEY DROP
OUR ZOOM SERIES GOAL :
To give you the exact tools to move from feeling "depleted and alone" to feeling "deeply anchored and powerful" OVER 4 weeks of the New Year for FREE
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.
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.
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.
Ready to meet the woman your children (and the world) truly needs?
1. SESSION ONE: Anchoring the Honey Drop THE HONEY DROP ANCHOR:
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."
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.
2. SESSION TWO: Composting the Guilt (Ash) : DESCENT INTO POWER
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.
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
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."
The Focus: Unconditional Safety and Effortless Flow
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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