A Women’s Gathering & Womb Keeper Initiation
Into Winter’s Womb
December 6-7, 2025
Hot Springs, NC.
Sisters, it’s time to come together. To slow down, turn inward and reconnect to the still, dark, quiet, womb-like rhythms of the season. To remember the sacred intelligence that pulses in the womb of creation herself.
As the earth draws energy toward her center, we too are called to soften into the fertile, regenerative darkness—to tend to our creational centers as we prepare to receive the returning light at the Winter Solstice.
If you have been feeling this call, we invite you to join our circle of women as we rest, pray and dream together, and honor the cyclic wisdom that lives in our bodies and in the land.
We’ll gather at Wheel of Bliss, a secluded 63-acre retreat center and forest sanctuary nestled deep in the ancient mountains of Southern Appalachia (about an hour from Asheville). There is a large ceremonial yurt, beautiful dining hall, and comfortable retreat house for us to stay in, complete with 16 beds, six bathrooms, a kitchen, living room, and meditation room anchored by a Tibetan Buddhist altar.
Here’s what we have planned for our time together…
SATURDAY (arrival is at 10 am)
🌹Heart connection circles & dyads
🌹Cyclic wisdom & feminine medicine wheel study
🌹 Exploration of dream tending & divination practices
🌹 Herbal medicine for deep rest & lucid dreaming (You’ll craft a dream elixir that you’ll take home with you!)
🌹 Yoga & somatic movement for nervous system self-care
🌹 Exploration of Rosicrucian teachings on the Winter Solstice
🌹 13th Rite of the Munay-Ki Womb Keeper Initiation
🌹 Nourishing local, organic seasonal feast (with vegan and gluten-free options)
🌹 Sacred fire
🌹 Blue lotus tea ceremony & medicine song circle
🌹 Slumber party in the retreat house!
SUNDAY (departure is at noon)
🌹 Breakfast bar (with vegan and gluten-free options)
🌹 Dream sharing circle
🌹 Tantric elemental flow yoga practice
🌹 Cacao circle & Mayan cosmovision
🌹 Forest hike
🌹 Land offering ceremony & closing circle
🌹 Time to explore the land and connect
Simple, High-Vibe Nourishment
for Body & Soul
Snacking boards and herbal elixirs will be available throughout the day on Saturday, to help us sustain energy as we move through practice and ceremony. That evening, we’ll gather in the Celestial Hall for a seasonal feast featuring local and organic ingredients—with vegan and gluten-free options..
On Sunday, a breakfast bar with coffee and tea will be open from 8 to 9:30 am.
The 13th Rite of the Munay-Ki:
The Rite of the Womb
The 13th Rite of the Munay-Ki, also known as the Rite of the Womb, is a sacred energetic transmission that was given to Marcela Lobos in 2013 by a lineage of Shipibo women in the Peruvian Amazon. It’s a ritual of healing, release and empowerment that returns the womb to its original state as a source of wisdom, creation and life.
Receiving the Rite can help you to:
Release residual fear, trauma and grief held in the womb or creative center
Restore a felt sense of safety, receptivity and creative flow
Connect to a lineage of womb keepers who carry this medicine around the world
Reawaken the natural cyclical intelligence of your body and its connection to the Earth and Moon
Once received, the Rite continues to deepen through self-practice. The woman becomes both the keeper and transmitter of the energy, able to share it forward in her own time and way, keeping alive the chain of remembrance that the womb is sacred, whole and free.
We will receive the 13th Rite of the Munay-Ki in a supportive circle, guided by Havalyn, who has tended and transmitted this lineage for many years. During the ceremony, she will gently guide us through a cleansing and blessing of the womb space—physically, energetically and spiritually. Through breath, touch, visualization and sacred words, the womb is honored as a living altar that can hold not only personal healing, but the healing of ancestral and collective feminine memory.
About Your Hosts
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Mina Isabel
Mina walks a path of devotion to the living earth through her roles of community herbalist, plant spirit medicine practitioner, yoga teacher, women’s wellness guide and homesteading mama of two. Her work is rooted in deep reverence for the intelligence of nature and the innate wisdom of the human body. She believes we can all access profound healing and remembrance through attunement to the rhythms and cycles of body, earth and sky.
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Havalyn Irene Raeuber
Havalyn is an initiated folk healer, breathwork facilitator, somatic practitioner, womb keeper, artist, earth ritualist, earth guardian and cacao ceremonialist. She studies under the tutelage of Tata Izaias and Nana Isabel, indigenous Mayan medicine carriers, in Guatemala. Havalyn is dedicated to being in service to the Great Healing and Great Re-membering of humanity, to the restoration of health and balance to the earth.
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Allison Welder
Allison blends mindful movement, breath awareness and myofascial release into heart-centered yoga offerings that invite deep embodiment, reflection and spiritual connection. A student of Andean nature mysticism, stone medicine, Polyvagal Theory and fascial science, she brings a rich interdisciplinary lens to her work. As a mother of three, she draws wisdom from nature’s rhythms and celebrates embodiment in all its forms.
Join Us
Space is limited. Register early to secure your spot! Questions? On the fence? Please send a message!
Payment plans and a limited number of sliding scale, partial scholarship and work-trade spaces are available. Please reach out to explore alternate pathways of access.
This gathering is open to all women and femme-identifying people.
Overnight Retreat
Sister Sanctuary
$333
Join us for the full gathering and enjoy resting in a comfortable bed on the first floor of the retreat house. You’ll share a room with 2-4 other sisters. Beds are first-come, first-served.
Full Retreat
Twin Sanctuary
$377 per person
This room offers two twin beds on the second floor alongside the altar room and kitchen, with a large balcony that overlooks the forest. This room shares a bathroom with the Queen Sanctuary.
Overnight Retreat
Queen Sanctuary
$399
This private room has a queen bed on the second floor alongside the altar room and kitchen, with a large balcony that overlooks the forest. This room shares a bathroom with the Twin Sanctuary.
SATURDAY ONLY
Day Retreat
$222
If you live locally, consider the option of joining us for just the Saturday gathering, including all circles, ceremonies and activities, seasonal feast, sacred fire and integration Zoom call.
Your investment includes:
Saturday Day Retreat Option
Full day retreat (11 am - 9 pm)
All circles, ceremonies and experiences, including medicine-making supplies for an herbal dream elixir that you’ll take home with you and a bundle of herbs for dreaming
13th Rite of the Munay-Ki Womb Keeper Initiation — You will receive the rite and be initiated as a womb keeper so that you may share it with other women.
Nourishing seasonal feast (vegan-friendly with gluten-free options) — We’ll share a dinner made with local, organic ingredients in the Celestial Hall.
Herbal elixirs and healthy snacks throughout the day
Access to hiking trails and rushing creeks on 67 acres of private forested land surrounded by National Forest
Preparatory Zoom call on Monday, 11/24 at 7 pm — It will be recorded so you can watch the replay if you can’t make it.
Integration Zoom call to be scheduled after the retreat
Printed handouts and practice suggestions for the winter season
Opportunity for deep connection with like-hearted women
Overnight Retreat
Includes everything listed above PLUS:
Comfortable shared overnight accommodations in the retreat house
(A limited number of private rooms are available—see above.)Morning yoga practice
A nourishing breakfast (vegan-friendly with gluten-free options)
Cacao ceremony
Hike, land offering ceremony and closing circle
Logistical Details
🗓️ Date: Saturday, December 6th - Sunday, December 7th, 2025
🕛 Time: 10 am arrival on Saturday. Retreat programming runs from 11 am to 9 pm on Saturday and from 8 to 10 am on Sunday. Departure is by noon on Sunday.
📍 Location: Wheel of Bliss Retreat Center in Hot Springs, NC
Space is limited—register early to save your spot!
Questions? On the fence? Please send a message!
We look forward to gathering with you soon!
Love,
Mina, Havalyn & Allison
