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

In the beauty and terror of this world, in the grace and fear we hold in our human hearts... I have been enjoying the sunshine and weeping at the destruction of my body, my earth, my mother.

We are being strongly called to answer a primal question: How do we hold paradox?

How do we free-fall in the gap of the inner knowing that we are infinite love, while our slow humanity plays catch-up with the truth of things?

Retreat as a notion in itself feels outdated, it implies "to hide" " to escape"...Our place of Retrieval....doesn't aim to to make you a "better" mother or a "calmer" wife.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. Marion Woodman spoke extensively about what it means to move through life from this "Virgin Territory"—a consciousness with clear values, enfleshed directly in our bodies, inviting us to move from a deeper place of entanglement, communion, and reciprocity.

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 wonderful Island of Crete in a stunning very earth bound venue, close to nature and simplicity yet convenience.

  
  
  
  

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( the most catalytic portal of holding paradox) We will orient our mindset and attention in finding the spiritual wisdom hidden in the ordinary. We will create this field from the get go! Shared laughter triggers an immediate endorphin surge and resets the ventral vagal system, dropping your body out of high-alert survival tracking into effortless, zero-performance connection

• 🌱 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 is Honoured deeply. In this space, your Shadow is the guest of honor. We stop burning through your vital energy to keep these messy parts repressed; instead, we welcome them back into your total Self and Body. we yield their power...discover their gold.

  
  

• 🌱 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!For an AuDHD or hyper-vigilant nervous system, forced processing triggers demand avoidance. You are sovereign with us and allowing yourself to RECEIVE .

  
  

• 🌱 Unhinged Recognition: You are free to exist fully in your own skin—stimming, rocking, or sitting in absolute silence—without needing to explain your rhythm to anyone. We bypass the cognitive load of neurotypical masking, allowing your brainwaves to entrain with a safe, unregulated-by-rules collective.

  
  

• 🌱 Somatic Poetic Inquiry & Live Transmissions: We use presence circles and somatic tracking to move past the intellectual "noise" of limiting beliefs. This is a visceral slow or deep, descent ,out of the analytical ego-mind and into somatized archetypal intelligence; feeling the Ancient Mother as a steady, biological pulse in your own bones. it is already in YOU

  
  

• 🌱 The Ancient Mother Spiral: (Eco Psychology)

  We work directly with the land and the sea, using the ancient archetypes of Crete to anchor our descent. Expect to feel the literal weight of the stone and the snap of the salt air. We leverage eco-somatic regulation—using the sensory, raw inputs of nature to anchor and ground an overloaded nervous system when human structures feel like too much.

  
  

• 🌱 Sensory-Safe Modalities: Organic progressions of breathwork, somatic movement, sound healing, and ancestral healing, mantra singing. Both Anna and I treat these as precise nervous system medicine. We offer gentle, resonant, and deeply sound vibrations that calm the amygdala and soothe auditory over-stimulation. There is plenty to drink from within and without.

  
  

• 🌱 Ancestral Whispers (Not Hunts): We don’t hunt for trauma or aggressively force a resolution; the soul and the body move at their own organic pace. Combining Jung's collective unconscious with Thomas Hübl’s ancestral healing frameworks, we simply make space for what is already present in your biology. Whether your ancestry lives in the way you hold your tea or in a sudden burst of laughter, we honor the epigenetic codes already alive within you, allowing them to unwind safely

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 somatic map used to navigate your internal landscape. We synthesize Matrescence studies (the profound neurological and hormonal rewiring of becoming a mother) with Marion Woodman’s transpersonal psychology. By mapping your current somatic thresholds against the divine feminine archetypes, we translate abstract psychological "stuckness" into a tangible, embodied physical path. We move out of the analytical ego and ground your transformation in direct, unmasked experience.

• The Descent- Immersion : A guided walking journey . Check (floor map below). This is a liminal initiation—using the movement of your body through nature to translate the language of your soul.This is a literal and mythic liminal initiation. In eco-psychology, moving the physical body through raw, unyielding terrain forces the nervous system out of "hyper-vigilant scanning" and into bilateral stimulation. As your feet hit the Cretan earth, your brain synchronizes its left and right hemispheres, processing unexpressed trauma and translating the silent, symbolic language of your soul into physical, muscular release.

  
  

• 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. Rhythmic acoustic drumming at specific frequencies induces Brainwave Entrainment, shifting your brain state from anxious Beta waves into deep Alpha and Theta territories.

  • 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. By moving raw emotional shadow into written and spoken words within a safe collective, and creative ways you stimulate the vagal vocal pathways, completing stalled emotional stress cycles and turning ancestral pain into personal art. Your inner wild creatrix s waiting to be SEEN and discovered

• Intergenerational Healing: We consciously address the "Ancient Spiral" of your maternal line, drawing on over ten years of embodied holding and training in Thomas Hübl’s Ancestral Healing Code. Using a safe, deeply contained blend of group sculpt, ancestral healing, and systemic constellation work, we look at the Mother Line. The Science: We are working directly with epigenetic residue; the inherited stress responses stored in your DNA. Instead of an aggressive "trauma hunt" that re-traumatizes the brain, we follow the pacing of your autonomic nervous system. We clear the somatic debris of old ancestral promises, creating a spacious internal architecture for the version of you that is ready to emerge

OUR PROGRAMME ROUGHLY

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!!!

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 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