Magdalena Initiations Retreat. June 2024, southern Spain

I got called to Magdalena purely by chance, a friend had told me about it in Australia and I guess I ‘bookmarked’ it somewhere in my subconscious. Fast forward a few months, and I received an email advertising about the retreat in Spain. I had completely forgotten that I had signed up to the mailing list and it came at the perfect time as I had just finalised my travel plans to Spain at the same time! It was an absolute full ‘Fuck yes’ in my body to attend.

2 weeks leading up to Magdalena, I could feel that something BIG was going to take place there. I started receiving intuitive nudges, messages and remained open to the experience. As I was making my way there on the bus, my intention dropped in ‘be open to receiving’, receiving is the feminine, and what perfect timing than to go be with women for a whole week diving into the feminine mysteries and attuning to Magdalene frequency.

For the 6 days, we laughed, we cried, we sang, we swam naked feeling the sun on our bare skin. We ate delicious home cooked foods and moved our bodies into all sorts of shapes. We were held in deep ritual, in the void, for 6 days as we morphed and transmuted stagnant energies, feelings, emotions, old, outdated beliefs and stories. We held each other as we released shame, judgement, grief, resentment, anger, sadness, longing. We held each other as we let the most vulnerable pieces of ourselves out to be witnessed, seen, heard and loved.

We harnessed our psychic powers, our intuitive knowing’s, our ability to truly see. We embodied the energies of the sacred feminine archetypes- maiden, mother, crone, seductress. We gave thanks to our maternal and paternal ancestral lineage, thanking them for all they have done for us and coming into deep forgiveness and gratitude. We claimed our pu$$ies, our womb’s, our blood, our ability to see beyond the veil. We even had a ‘death ritual’, a deeply moving experience where we lived out our final night on earth in this body, as a way of truly valuing this life. But most of all, we communed with our Soul and with the pure Magdalene frequency of unconditional love, finally baptising ourselves onto the path of Gnosis- inner spiritual wisdom.

The experience I had at Magdalena was indeed a deep soul initiation, nothing like I had ever done before. The deepest of deepest shadow work, yet held in a soft and loving embrace. It was a lot for my nervous system to cope with at times, but I trusted in the journey of it all. I know now that all of my ‘training’ in other self-development journeys I’ve done over the years has prepared me for this.

Since leaving the bubble of the retreat, I’ve been volunteering in the mountains near Orgiva and working on the land, in the gardens and being in Nature. The integration process hasn’t been easy at times as there’s been more depth revealing itself to me, often painful realisations, however, I’m experiencing it more with so much more grace and softness than before. I’m finally letting my inner feminine lead, with the support of my inner masculine behind her, the way that I want to be in the world. I’m leading with my heart and less with my mind and I’m feeling so much more grounded in love!

Forever grateful to all of the beautiful sisters that I journeyed with over those 6 days and those of who I continue with. Thank you for witnessing me, being the mirror to my inner healing and for the love and support. And forever grateful for finding the path of Gnosis, the feminine mysteries and the love of Magdalena xx