Imagine yourself coming into pregnancy & postpartum feeling well supported by Spirit, art, nature and community.
Coming into motherhood is a remarkable Rite of Passage.
Life altering. Identity morphing. Sacred.
You may be feeling a mix of profound inspiration, excitement, fear, loneliness and energized.
Most often in this culture, the focus is put on preparing for the arrival of the baby while your inner journey is left behind.
We forget that this birth is a strong portal of re-birth for you; an opportunity to honor where you come from, who you really are and who you’re called to become.
And we forget that we, new mamas, need one another. We need each other to be loving allies, and generous friends. We need each other to feel whole, capable, abundant, and resilient. We need each other to express and celebrate each other’s creative spirit. We need each other be clear mirrors. We need each other to honor the power and vulnerability that we all feel. We need each other to help us get back on our feet and in our heart when we are falling. We need each other to stand by our sides when we are stepping up. We need each other to heal, transmute old stories and reveal parts of ourselves we don’t know existed.
We need each other to protect and serve life in ways that we can only do together. So let’s honor this rite of passage in the most creative, supportive and embodied ways.
During these day long retreats, we will step out of the day-to-day demands, investing in our bodies, hearts, and souls.
We will dance, create art & sit in ceremony into the warmth of our hearts, weaving the fabric of new mamas as allies.
We will tune into our truth until our most authentic selves show her faces within our sisterhood.
Let’s gather. Find our ground. Open our hearts. Be in our truths.
Everyone who identify as female and expect a new born is welcome.
Mamas, let’s gather.
Pregnant mamas, let’s gather.
Coming into motherhood is a remarkable Rite of Passage.
Life altering. Identity morphing. Sacred.
You may be feeling a mix of profound inspiration, excitement, fear, loneliness and energized.
Most often in this culture, the focus is put on preparing for the arrival of the baby while your inner journey is left behind.
We forget that this birth is a strong portal of re-birth for you; an opportunity to honor where you come from, who you really are and who you’re called to become.
And we forget that we, new mamas, need one another. We need each other to be loving allies, and generous friends. We need each other to feel whole, capable, abundant, and resilient. We need each other to express and celebrate each other’s creative spirit. We need each other be clear mirrors. We need each other to honor the power and vulnerability that we all feel. We need each other to help us get back on our feet and in our heart when we are falling. We need each other to stand by our sides when we are stepping up. We need each other to heal, transmute old stories and reveal parts of ourselves we don’t know existed.
We need each other to protect and serve life in ways that we can only do together. So let’s honor this rite of passage in the most creative, supportive and embodied ways.
During these day long retreats, we will step out of the day-to-day demands, investing in our bodies, hearts, and souls.
We will dance, create art & sit in ceremony into the warmth of our hearts, weaving the fabric of new mamas as allies.
We will tune into our truth until our most authentic selves show her faces within our sisterhood.
Let’s gather. Find our ground. Open our hearts. Be in our truths.
Everyone who identify as female and expect a new born is welcome.
3 day long retreats coming up in Topanga Canyon
Each of these day-long retreat is the foundation of creating the community and soulful exploration
expecting mothers and new mamas deserve and often long for during this vulnerable and powerful time of transformation.
Pregnancy as portal for Rebirth
Friday March 27th, 10-5:30pm
This retreat is designed to unlock the beauty and feminine power within you. Your connection to your source will deepen as you delve into where you’re at. Fear, excitement, tenderness and courage will arise, be held and supported - allowing you to not only to prepare for birth but support your rebirth as the woman you are and called to be. This retreat offers an opportunity to delve into a profound place within yourself. Through embodied practices, creative rituals, resource sharing, & circle, you’ll receive and the opportunity to reconnect to your feminine power and surrender to your natural creative essence.
Photography as Rite of Passage
Friday April 18th, 10-5:30pm
Your essence is becoming clearer as life is growing in your womb. A new You is emerging! Your body is shapeshifting. Your beauty is ripening. Capturing your authentic essence in this sacred phase of life can elevate your path and mark one of the most powerful times of your life. Transform old stories and identities into new ones, more authentic. Being witnessed in one’s truth and beauty is medicine. Consider joining a powerful day of rituals and photography, held in the heart of nature. The mama you’re calling to embody will be invited to reveal herself, guide the way and play.
Calling in the Queen
Friday April 24th, 10-5:30pm
Athena is a force of nature. She holds ideals and masters the Art of Intention. She stands in her power with dignity, integrity and reverence. She is resilient, she knows her limits and embody a visionary spirit. She nurtures and protects life. During this day, expect to explore the light and the shadow of becoming a mother, from Athena’s perspective. Through rituals, councils and inner reflection, you’ll walk away feeling better prepared to embrace mentally, spiritually and emotionally what’s to come. The retreat will culminate into a Mother Blessing & Self-Marriage Ceremony.
Is this for me?
Each retreat will bring an intimate circle of pregnant mamas and mamas with new young ones under a year old who each value the power of sisterhood, ceremony, deep listening, celebration and creative expression as medicine.
Each offering is spacious, integrative, nourishing and rooted in stillness, allowing each participant the space to deepen relationship with their soul and the soul that’s growing inside their womb. While the retreat will last a full day, it is designed to accommodate the needs of each woman present given the energy level you come with.
About us
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Your Facilitator & Guest teachers
Magalie Bonneau - Rite of Passage Guide
Magalie’s life is a dedication to authentic truth, fostering feminine intelligence, celebrating the human spirit and guiding Rites of Passage for women. Magalie is committed to offer pregnant women the tools and community to live this Rite of Passage gracefully. Since 2011, she has led retreats and large scale ritual events internationally. As the founder of Dancing Without Borders, she has developed a body of work rooted in the power of community, rituals, art and sacred activism as a mean to support our collective liberation. In the Spring of 2020, she will become the mama of a little boy. This sacred Pregnancy has inspired this new offering. While her life experience and spiritual path has been her greatest teacher, she is also certified as a professional Coach with CTI (2005), a Vision Quest Guide with Wilderness Reflection, a movement facilitator with Dancing Freedom (2013) and been walking the medicine path since 2002. Originally from Quebec, she currently calls Topanga Canyon her home.
Aleks Evanguelidi - Midwife
Aleks has been working in birth for 15 years. She began her work in birth while maintaining her presence as a nutritionist and as an herbalist and educator for Gaia Herbs. A firm believer and proponent in living a sustainable lifestyle, she utilizes her years of experience in nutrition to support her clients in having an extraordinary sense of wellness while preparing for conception or to experience the healthiest pregnancy possible. Having studied pre and perinatal psychology and birth, Aleks brings to her clients a profound sense of trust in their own bodies while supporting them in this tremendous period of transformation. Over the years Aleks has worked with over 3000 clients, opened and operated as Clinical Director at The Sanctuary Birth & Family Wellness Center, trained 25 student midwives, and has contributed to several documentaries and publications on birth related topics.