Coming Home to the Great Mother Within

October 1-6 2026 | 5 nights Retreat. Accomodation , food and drinks included in the package and we're preparing FREE pamper gifts too for you as well as FREE wine from my family on one of our designated days. More surprises to be announced ! Fill in the form to be kept up to date

Why Come to Crete as a Mother?

Because sometimes you have to leave your familiar world to remember who you were before you became everyone else's everything. Below we share a spontaneous talk on what the FEEL of this Retreat will involve and what you will receive .

Crete holds ancient memory of a civilization that honored the Great Mother at the centre of spiritual life- not as martyr or servant, but as the creative force from which all life springs. This island is itself an alchemical vessel where thousands of mothers before you have shed old skins and remembered their power.

Here, surrounded by the wine-dark sea that has witnessed countless transformations, you can exhale the weight you've been carrying.

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

Your hardship holds your medicine.

Your dreams matter.

That the wild woman you were before motherhood isn't lost, she's simply waiting to be integrated with who you've become.

This is your 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. 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.

LAND WITH US BY SECURING YOU PLACE HERE

This is NOT Another Healing Retreat

Forget the fancy models and the sanitized version of motherhood. This isn't about becoming a "better" mother or finding your "higher self."

Our retreat is about coming back to the whole, messy, brilliant reality of who you already ARE.

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 tired of having to justify existing as more than just "mom"
  

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

• You're ready to remember the woman who lives underneath demands and reignite her passions - the wild one within

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

  
  

• You need space to just BE without calling it "self-care work" or "healing" -though there ll be plenty of easeful healing ( 2 experienced psychotherapists after all)!
  

• Enjoy and learn to receive - through love laughter being cooked for and cared for ( pamper session gifts! more to follow...) Also to un-learn on being default giver and learn how to ask so you RECEIVE..

• 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:

🌱 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

🌱 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

• 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 home made Dionysian vino for those interested to taste local wine!
  

• Deep, attuned circles with other mothers who understand the beautiful madness
  

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

• Drumming Circles - Walking Journeys through a gorge..leading to the beach
  

• 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. Bring your own!
  

• 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

This is work in progress but 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. A place where you can remember who you were before you became everyone else's everything.

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!

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

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 work 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.

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 15 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.

Questions?

Email me at maria.kefalogianni@gmail.com OR fill in our FORM to express your interest - chain free. Deadline for Deposit: 31st January

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.

WILL YOU JOIN US ?

Love

Maria & Anna, the Ancient Mother Spiral

and the Land.