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Illustrated fire on the hearth.

Gather at the Hearth

Myth is the map. The land is where the body finally tells the truth.

These retreats are held at the edge of things — ocean cliffs, volcanic fire, sacred mountains, the thinning of the veil. They are not workshops. They are thresholds. You cross one and something in you quietly shifts that cannot be unshifted. The land holds what the mind has been carrying alone. All genders welcome.

An ancient Irish poem tells us we are each born with three cauldrons in the body. Seven days on a sacred mountain at the Lion’s Gate is what it takes to begin righting the one that was turned at birth.

 

Earth ceremony, somatic healing, myth-tending. The Dagda’s medicine: nourishment so deep it reaches the places that have been rationing for years.

2-8pm
Tuition & ceremony supplies included


investment: $TBA

Payment / Cancellation

No application required · register directly · Full refund if cancelled 14 or more days before · no refund within 2 weeks (recording still sent, if applicable)

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Half Day Retreat
Lion's Gate & the three cauldrons

Summer · August 8, 2026
Private Residence
Sebastopol, California


Eight people maximum

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HALF DAY RETREAT
THE MORRÍGAN: A SAMHAIN GATHERING

Samhain · October 3, 2026
Private Residence
Sebastopol, California
Eight people maximum

She is not the goddess of death. She is the goddess of sovereignty — and she arrives at the threshold of what is ending to ask the one question you have been avoiding. At Samhain, when the veil is thin and your ancestors are close, she asks it out loud.

 

Myth-telling, somatic practice, ritual, sacred council in small groups, and writing toward the thing you are ready to stop managing.

2-8pm
ritual, breakout circles, journal prompts

investment: $TBA

Payment / Cancellation

No application required · register directly · Full refund if cancelled 14 or more days before · no refund within 2 weeks (recording still sent, if applicable.)

Brigid’s three fires — forge, hearth, inspiration — meet Pele’s volcanic earth, building new land from fire beneath the sea right now, underfoot. You arrive carrying winter. You leave carrying the seed that has already begun to move.

 

Seven days of somatic healing, fire ceremony, whale migration ritual, and an afternoon walk through Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park where fire has built new earth from nothing.

lodging, meals, Tuition, ceremony supplies & Hawai'i volcanoes nat'l. park excursion included

free afternoons for solo time, rest, journaling, personal ritual, yoga, swimming, hiking
Additional excursions or private sessions with Elle available to book separately​

investment: $2900

Payment / Cancellation

$500 deposit holds your spot · 50% of remaining balance due 60 days before · final 50% due 30 days before

 

Cancellation: full refund if cancelled 30 or more days before the retreat · within 30 days, the $500 deposit is retained · no refund within 2 weeks

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Retreat 3
The Quickening Hearth

Imbolc · January 31-February 6, 2027
Hestia Retreat center
Big Island, Hawaii


Eight people maximum

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Elle Saunders, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #40992

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