Golden Mother Collective presents…
INTO THE LIGHT
A Transformational Women’s Retreat & Initiation Into the Solar Feminine
June 4-7, 2026
Wheel of Bliss Retreat Center
Hot Springs, NC
Sisters, it’s time to rise together.
To gather at the threshold of summer and turn gently toward the light. To remember the radiant intelligence that lives not only in the sun above us, but in the bright, beating heart within us.
As the earth stretches toward her fullest expression, we too are called to expand—to strengthen our roots, open our hearts, and tend the inner flame as it grows steady and strong, preparing to meet the fullness of the coming Solstice.
If you have been feeling this stirring—this desire to step forward, to be seen, to rise into your fullest, most radiant expression and SHINE unapologetically—we invite you to join our circle of women as we gather in the forest, ally with the plants and honor the luminous power awakening in our bodies and in the land.
This initiation is about building your capacity to hold your own light.
Strengthening your nervous system. Clarifying your boundaries. Learning to listen deeply to your “sacred no” and “hell yes.” Reclaiming sacred anger as a force that protects life.
In deep relationship with the land and the wisdom of the plants, we will root before we rise, learning how to receive solar energy with ease and how to grow toward fullness in right timing. It’s an invitation to heal your relationship to power—within yourself and with the masculine—so your radiance can move through you cleanly, coherently and in devotion to life.
Gather with us at Wheel of Bliss, a secluded 63-acre retreat center and forest sanctuary nestled deep in the ancient Blue Ridge Mountains of Southern Appalachia.
This region is among the most biodiverse in North America. Ferns and mosses soften the forest floor while old-growth hardwoods rise overhead. Crystal-clear streams wind through rhododendron thickets. Salamanders, songbirds, pollinators and medicinal plants flourish in the cool, humid air. At dusk, fireflies lift from the grasses like living embers.
Here, the waters, stones, plants and unseen worlds have been in intimate relationship for millions of years. There is a steadiness here. A quiet, watchful presence. The kind of place that invites you to slow down and listen. This is the ground that will hold our work.
Embody Your Solar Feminine
& Align with the Alchemy of Gold
The Solar Feminine is radiant presence—power and love moving as one.
She is the heart made visible—illuminating truth, warming what has gone cold, holding boundaries without closing, leading without abandoning love. She has worn many faces—priestess, flame-keeper, sovereign queen. Fierce. Tender. Luminous.
In the current of the Christ Light, she is compassion that does not waver in the presence of power. In the lineage of Mary Magdalene, she is the woman who stands. Who anoints. Who witnesses resurrection without turning away. Devotion made courageous. Tenderness made sovereign.
This is the alchemy of gold.
Gold does not tarnish. It does not react. It remains itself. Formed in the heart of stars, it is both enduring and soft—the most ductile of metals, able to bend without breaking. In mystical tradition, gold has symbolized incorruptible love: radiance that holds steady under pressure.
In the body, this is nervous system resilience. The capacity to stay open without collapse. To remain soft without losing strength. To hold intensity without becoming reactive.
Together, we will remember how the sun lives through us as visibility. As sacred leadership. As truth spoken clearly. As warmth that nurtures. As holy anger that protects. As boundaries that make love safe.
Through ritual, somatic practice, plant communion, and sacred witnessing, we will refine what is reactive into what is radiant. We will strengthen our capacity to carry more light — without burning out or shrinking. Rooted deeply, we rise — anchoring that light in our bodies, our relationships, and our sacred work on Earth.
Learn Radical Practices for Listening to &
Honoring the Wisdom of the Body
Explore Sacred Rage as a Clarifying, Protective Force
The light of the Summer Solstice reveals what has been hidden.
Here, anger becomes information—not volatility or reactivity, but intelligent heat that shows us where we override ourselves.
Where we say yes when we mean no. Where we soften when we long to stand. Where we shape ourselves around fear.
Through ritual, embodied movement, and somatic inquiry, anger becomes boundary. Boundary becomes sovereignty, and sovereignty becomes coherence.
Radiance is not the absence of anger. It is what becomes possible when anger is integrated.
Sacred rage is welcomed here—not amplified into chaos, but tended as fire that clarifies, protects and restores truth.
Cultivate Nervous System Resilience & Heart Coherence
True radiance requires resilience.
When the body feels supported, truth can surface without overwhelm. When the heart is coherent, power does not destabilize us. When the spine is strong from within, boundaries arise naturally—not defensively.
We will build spaciousness in to our time together—time to rest, to connect with the land, to let the forest regulate your nervous system. Streams, soil, trees and sky become part of the work. Integration is not an afterthought; it is the foundation.
Through breath, somatic practice, plant communion, and relational attunement, you will expand your capacity to hold intensity—anger, desire, grief, joy—without losing yourself.
Sustainable radiance is built on inner steadiness. Rooted resilience makes luminous leadership possible.
Connect with the Earth & the Wisdom of the Plants
In the ancient forest, we enter into conscious relationship with plants as living intelligences.
Through native medicinal plant identification and guided plant spirit journeys, we rekindle our ancestral connection to the green world as healer, protector and mirror. You will deepen your ability to listen and sense the subtle language of the plants.
We will work in reverent relationship with tobacco and yarrow as allies in illumination.
Tobacco strengthens intention and the inner spine, refining your relationship to power — personal and relational.
Yarrow supports energetic boundaries, encouraging openness without depletion and discernment without hardening.
Learn the Vibrational Art of Flower Essences
In alignment with the rising solar field, you will also learn the art of crafting flower essences — subtle plant medicines infused with sunlight, prayer and intention.
Just as the sun draws the imprint of the blossom into water, this initiation draws forth the medicine already within you. Flower essence work becomes both ritual and metaphor: illumination without force. Revelation without overwhelm.
You will leave with a living ally — a tangible reminder that your medicine does not need to be acquired, only clarified and embodied.
Where We’ll Stay
Wheel of Bliss is 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, a spacious dining hall, and a comfortable retreat house complete with 16 beds, six bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a meditation room anchored by a beautiful Tibetan Buddhist altar.
This retreat is for you if…
✨ You are ready to be more visible—not louder, but truer.
✨ You feel called into embodied leadership rooted in love.
✨ You sense there is more light within you, and you want the steadiness to hold it.
✨ You are done shrinking, saying yes when you mean no, or shaping yourself around fear.
✨ You are ready to transform anger into clarity and clarity into clean, sovereign boundaries.
✨ You are tending family, community, land, creative work or sacred service and long to move from overwhelm into coherent, sustainable radiance.
✨ You feel called to heal your relationship with power—within yourself and with the masculine—so your devotion has structure and support.
✨ You crave time in wild beauty to regulate, remember and root before you rise.
✨ You are ready to refine what is reactive into what is radiant, anchoring your light as presence in your body, your relationships and your sacred work on Earth.
Here’s some of what we have planned for our time together…
Itinerary Coming Soon!
Clean, High-Vibe Nourishment for Body & Soul
Throughout our time together, we will enjoy clean, high-vibrational meals made with in-season, local and organic ingredients by beloved kitchen witch and chef Madeline Morgan. Chef Madi is highly skilled at crafting delicious, nutrient-dense, easy-to-digest meals, drawing inspiration from Ayurveda and Sally Fallon Morell’s Nourishing Traditions.
We believe that high-quality nourishment is important for sustaining energy as we move through practice and ceremony. Vegan and gluten-free options will be available, and we will make every effort to accommodate dietary restrictions and preferences.
Meet Your Guides
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Mina Isabel Shahriary
Mina walks a devotional path in service to the living Earth and the Great Cosmic Mother. As a homesteading mama of two, animist herbalist, medicine maker, women’s wellness guide, birthkeeper, community weaver, ritualist, mystic, E-RYT 500 Yoga Alliance certified yoga teacher and student of classical Tantra, she lives and creates in rhythm with the cycles of nature and the wisdom of the body.
Her work is devoted to guiding women back into relationship—with their bodies, intuition, ancestry and the living world. Through somatic practices, plant medicine, rewilding and sacred circle, Mina creates gentle yet powerful spaces where women are invited to soften, unravel old conditioning and remember the radiance that lives within.
At Golden Mother Collective retreats, Mina holds space for the reclamation of feminine vitality and sovereignty. She invites women to release the inherited story of separation and step into a new story of embodied wholeness and interconnection.
Her facilitation style is grounded, reverent and deeply connective. She trusts in the intelligence of nature, the healing power of community, and the innate capacity within every woman to rise rooted and radiant—supported by the wisdom of those who came before, and empowered to become the ancestors future generations will thank.
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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
Early Bird Pricing Through April 1st—
Payment Plans Available!
See all registration options.
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.
Queen Sanctuary (Private)
$1,777
This semi-private 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.
Twin Sanctuary (Semi-Private)
$1,333 per person
Sister Sanctuary (Shared)
$999-$1,111
Enjoy resting in a comfortable bed on the first floor of the retreat house. You’ll share a room with 2-4 other sisters.
Camping
$777
Enjoy sleeping closer to the earth. Choose a spot nestled in the forest or in the meadow adjacent to the yurt and dining hall. Indoor restrooms and showers are available. You must provide all your own camping gear. If you are local or wish to find a rental nearby and commute in, you are welcome to register at the camping rate.
Space is limited. Register early to secure your spot! Questions? On the fence? Please send a message!
Your investment includes:
3 nights of comfortable overnight accommodations in the retreat house (or camping if you choose that option)
All retreat circles, ceremonies and experiences, including medicine-making supplies for flower essence that you’ll take home with you
Sacred rage release ritual and integration
Tobacco (hape) ceremony
Breathwork session
Morning yoga sessions
Nourishing, high-vibe meals made with in-season, local, organic ingredients
Access to hiking trails and rushing creeks on 67 acres of private forested land surrounded by National Forest
Printed handouts and practice suggestions
Opportunity for deep connection with like-hearted women
Logistical Details
🗓️ Date: Thursday, June 4th - Sunday, June 7th, 2026
🕛 Time: 4 pm arrival on Thursday. Retreat programming runs from 6 pm on Thursday 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
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