Upcoming Programs
Seasons of Womanhood - The Archetypes Session 1
Mondays 6-7:30 p.m. EST: March 18, 25 & April 1, 8,15, 22 - Online
Sometimes we need a map to better navigate the terrain in which we find ourselves. A map can help us not only get to where we want to go but give us the freedom to step off the trail, follow our hearts and explore places not marked on the map because we trust we will find our way home.
Archetypes are patterns of energy, ways of being in the world that we can choose to embody or ignore. Embodying those we resonate with can help us explore previously unacknowledged parts of ourselves or honor more fully the known parts of ourselves.
The thirteen women’s archetypes we work with are arranged developmentally, they suggest a journey of womanhood from birth to death and back to birth.
We offer this archetypal map to help us each identify ways of holding womanhood that
We may not yet have given ourselves permission to explore
Are nourishing for us individually and allow us to freely offer our gifts to our communities
May be held in Shadow and causing harm in our lives
May be over-expressed or dominating our daily experience, not giving space for new ways of being
Need to be ceremonially honored
The sessions will be held on Zoom and recorded for those who can’t make the live session. When registering please tell us if you do not plan to join the live sessions so we can open that seat up for another woman.
Rites of Passage Council Guides: Kat, Elizabeth, Teresa and Kallie
Vision Quest Ceremony ~ Spain
March 18-29, 2024
Southern Spain
Deep within your soul lies a fire that directs your passion and purpose. Often this flame lies quiet like the ancient whispers of smoldering embers; sometimes directed by those internal voices, not belonging to you, that came from another time and place. You reach out to your brothers and sisters and echo these words: WHO AM I?
Guides: Our Founder, Kedar Brown and other ROPC Staff TBA
Vision Quest Ceremony
April 30 to May 10, 2024
Asheville, NC - GET ON WAITLIST
Deep within your soul lies a fire that directs your passion and purpose. Often this flame lies quiet like the ancient whispers of smoldering embers; sometimes directed by those internal voices, not belonging to you, that came from another time and place. You reach out to your brothers and sisters and echo these words: WHO AM I?
Guides: Our Founder Kedar Brown & other ROPC Staff
Vision Quest Ceremony
May 28 to June 7, 2024
Asheville, NC - GET ON WAITLIST
Deep within your soul lies a fire that directs your passion and purpose. Often this flame lies quiet like the ancient whispers of smoldering embers; sometimes directed by those internal voices, not belonging to you, that came from another time and place. You reach out to your brothers and sisters and echo these words: WHO AM I?
Guides: Our Founder, Kedar Brown and other ROPC Staff
Dancing the Wheel: Women’s 5-day Ritual Immersion
July 17 - July 21, 2024 on sacred land in The Blue Ridge Mountains
We see ritual as a technology to help us embody new ways of being we are calling in on our path of ever expanding wholeness. We send out a call to Spirit for support from the Otherworld.
Our ancestors have been doing ritual since the beginning of time to mark the cycles of the sun, moon and stars, the cycles of life-death-life and life passages.
We gather on sacred land as a group of sisters to hold ritual for each other, to support each other in becoming the fullest, brightest, most life-affirming version of ourselves we can be.
The specific rituals we co-create during this time remain in the Mystery. We will guide ritual processes that allow us all to move through the women’s wheel offering healing where needed for each woman. Our rituals will be grounded in the four elements - earth, air, fire and water and will be performed only with your full consent.
We incorporate a diverse range of healing modalities including breath-work, eco-psychology, dance, song, art, ancestral healing, personal myth making, music and storytelling.
This is an encampment, we will be camping for 4 nights, eating our meals outside and not doing much showering! If lack of camping gear is a barrier to you joining us for this program please let us know and we will help you get here.
You must have participated in Part 1 The Archetypes in order to join this program.
Recovery as Medicine: The Next Threshold
July 24-28, 2024
Asheville, NC
Recovery as Medicine is a 5-day retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina steeped in ancient practices that will help enhance your recovery. Through teachings, lectures, ceremonies, and ritual practices, you’ll be guided to rediscover the strengths you have within. You’ll learn to use a Medicine Wheel to guide you to find balance, an essential concept to maintain and deepen your recovery.
We will spend the retreat tent camping on private land bordering the Ivy River near Asheville, North Carolina.
What will this program offer me?
Experiential group ritual facilitated by guides who are also in active recovery.
Tools to deepen your relationship with the natural world and Spirit/Higher Power/Great Mystery.
Program facilitators who were once where you are today and have used these concepts to create meaningful change.
A transformative guided day spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, meditating, fasting, and connecting with the visible and invisible worlds.
Fundamental understanding of how to utilize ritual and ceremony in your life of recovery.
An understanding of how your recovery story can be used as a powerful medicine to guide you to continued recovery and service to others.
A deeper connection to self through connection with the natural world.
And more!
Ancestral Grief Ritual
July 25-28, 2024
Ontario, Canada
We are not designed to experience our grief alone, however personal it might feel. Since the beginning of time humans have come together to share their grief and help move it though so it doesn’t get stuck in the body and psyche causing lingering sadness, physical pain and disease or disruptive behavior patterns passed down through generations.
In indigenous cultures grief rituals are held for the health and wellbeing of the individuals and the community. It is our collective responsibility to hold each other through the most challenging times in life. Indigenous cultures have always known this. It is only in modern times that we have banished our grief and so we turn to cultures with intact rites and rituals for dealing with grief in community.
Our version is a closed container that brings 20-40 people together for four days in a beautiful natural setting. Here we create our own village, build community and learn to trust each other. On the last day we collaborate to create a ceremonial space, gather our bundles of grief, and set up the drums. That evening, and often late into the night, we grieve together, as a village, as a people who share a common life experience.
Vision Quest Ceremony
August 6-16, 2024
Asheville, NC
Deep within your soul lies a fire that directs your passion and purpose. Often this flame lies quiet like the ancient whispers of smoldering embers; sometimes directed by those internal voices, not belonging to you, that came from another time and place. You reach out to your brothers and sisters and echo these words: WHO AM I?
Guides: Kallie Brown and other ROPC Staff TBA
Elemental Ritual Immersion
August 21-25, 2024 ~ Asheville, NC
In the old stories and old ways it was understood that the power of participation in community elemental ritual and ceremony offered a way of weaving together, like braids of sweetgrass, our disconnected strands of memory, healing and belonging.
It could be said that if ritual is the choreography of communication between ourselves and the Great Mystery, then the elements themselves (Fire, Water, Earth & Air) serve as the active ingredients of that medicine.
Join us for this powerful deep dive into radical elemental rituals of Fire, Water, Earth and Air. We will begin each morning with elemental teachings around the medicine wheel as a way of deepening our personal relationship and understanding of the elemental ancestors and their various uses in ritual prescriptions.
Women’s Forest Prayer Fast Ceremony
September 26- October 4, 2024 deep in the forest of Western North Carolina
Once we have done the emotional and intellectual work of finding the aspects of our womanhood we want to expand into or re-balance, and have then called in support from the Spirit world it is time to offer ourselves in prayer to receive guidance.
Fasting and praying alone in the natural world is an ancient way for humans to be in touch with the Otherworld. We tend to hear about the men who have done it - Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha - but we have no doubt that our pre-Christian great-grandmothers knew how to do this too. The specific prayer or ceremonies performed by our ancestors may have been buried under the layers of invasions and colonizations but we can access their wisdom by clearing our bodies of food and being still in the forest.
The heart of this 9-day program is the 4-day, 4-night prayer fast when you will journey into the forest alone without food (you will have drinking water) to talk with Spirit about whatever you need to. The two previous programs, and additional time we will have spent together will have prepared you for this Rite of Passage. The four of us will keep vigil at the fire while you are out, praying for you and available to respond should you be in need of anything.
When you return we will have time together to help you integrate this experience and be ready to step into your new life.
This is the third part of the Seasons of Womanhood program; the Archetypes Program and Women’s 5-Day Immersion are prerequisites.
Rites of Passage Ceremonial Guide Training
Are you clear that we are all here on the planet with a purpose? And that part of your purpose is helping others discover and live their purpose. Have you faced your own initiations and emerged out the other side with a deeper knowing of who you are and why you are here, with a greater love for humanity and our planet?
Learning how to guide fellow humans through wilderness rites of passage (otherwise know as the initiatory decent of soul) may be for you. This 16-month training program will help you unlock a deeper expression of the medicine you carry so you can be part of the transformation process for others (a ceremonial midwife) and and be part of the cultural change happening now.
2024 Dates:
Session 1: October 2-6, 2024
Session 2: November 6-10, 2024
Session 3: April 23-27, 2025
Session 4: June 25-29, 2025
Session 5: September 4-12, 2025
(Training Quest - Rocky Mountains near Estes Park, CO)
Session 6: November 5-9, 2025
Guides: Our Founder, Kedar Brown & other ROPC Staff
Deposit $500
Pay in full by Aug 7 - $5,500
After Aug 7 - $5,800
Installment Payment Plans Available