A three day retreat exploring feminine deities & archetypes.
We will explore Atua wāhine (Māori Goddesses) and deities from ancient civilisations.
Step forward and remember the stories of powerful feminine Goddesses, a soft unfolding into the ancient and the forgotten. Over three days, we’ll weave the stories of feminine deities into our own, drawing on myth and magic to awaken the goddess within.
Through sacred ceremony, embodiment practices and storytelling, we’ll honor the cycles of light and dark that live in each of us.
We will explore Atua wāhine (Māori Goddesses) and deities from ancient civilisations.
This is a time to remember, to reclaim, to rest deeply in your feminine essence.
When we embody the many faces of the Goddess, we awaken the freedom to meet life with creativity and grace, rather than through limits and habituated patterns.
Leave feeling nourished, inspired, and woven into a tapestry of women walking this path alongside you.
Through sacred ceremony, somatic practices, and storytelling, we’ll honor Atua Wāhine (Māori Goddesses) alongside deities and archetypes from ancient cultures and civilisations around the world.
This retreat is a reclamation of the wisdom, rituals, and practices that were hidden or lost through colonization and patriarchal systems.
Together, we will rise, share sacred knowledge, and embody the divine feminine in all her forms.
As women and womb-bearers, we are the ones who birth humanity and weave realities. By remembering and recreating these ancient myths and practices, we reclaim our collective power.
Together, we birth the world we long to see—one rooted in wisdom, connection, and the divine feminine.
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Meet Sarsha
Sarsha Hope has a gift for creating potent, shamanic, transformative, and inclusive heart-centered spaces for our soul’s remembering. Fondly known as embodiment portals, these spaces bring people into deeper connection with themselves, each other, and the living, breathing felt sense of the Earth.
Sarsha is the visionary and founder of Somatic Dance International Teacher Trainings, a groundbreaking program that trains highly skilled dance space holders and DJs. Her unique methodology seamlessly integrates somatic facilitation, DJ skills, ritual, energetics, and ecosomatics—all viewed through a trauma-informed lens—to create potent, finely tuned dance containers.
Sarsha’s work is infused with her passion for feminine archetypes, embodiment practices, and eco-somatics (the relationship between our own bodies and the body of the Earth). A devoted midwife of the soul, she guides others to honor cycles, seasons, and the wisdom of the sacred feminine. Through her offerings, including the Scarlet Codes, she shares powerful teachings that weave prayer, ceremony and transmission.
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Meet Tarikura
Tarikura hails from the sacred waters of the Whanganui River, with ancestral ties to Te Āti Awa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, and Ngāti Apa. With foundations in kōhanga reo (Māori pre-schooling) and kura kaupapa (Māori primary school), her consciousness was shaped through the lens of Te Ao Māori.
Te Ao Māori is intrinsically woven with te ao wairua (the spirit world), Tarikura creates deep and grounding spaces for women to explore the richness of ceremonial spaces, through sisterhood, ancestral teachings and her innate gift of storytelling.
As the guardian and host of Āio the podcast, she amplifies holistic healing and indigenous wisdom, believing that the future of medicine is ancient. Her mission is to rekindle ancestral knowledge and shift the way we understand vitality and well-being.
Tarikura works intimately with wāhine, supporting the process of reindigenisation through deep reconnection with Atua Wāhine—Māori Goddesses. She brings forth elemental wisdom, awakening the divine feminine current that flows through us all. Her teachings weave seamlessly with the rhythms of the four inner seasons—the menstrual cycle—and the sacred traditions of ikura (menstruation), restoring the mana of these ancient practices.
This is for you if -
You want to learn about Māori Goddesses and deities from around the world.
You feel drawn to explore Māori Goddesses and ancient deities from cultures across the world.
Have a desire to reconnect to your feminine essence.
Want to be surrounded by like-minded women and create intimate relationships.
Eager to feel nourished and held in sacred ceremony and ritual.
Want to activate and integrate the different aspects of feminine cyclical nature
Have a wish to reconnect to ancient hidden stories of powerful deities and archetypes.
Want to tune into elemental magic and wisdom.
You are in the sacred process of reconnecting to your indigeneity.
What to expect -
We are crafting an unforgettable experience where storytelling meets somatic practices.
We will uncover stories lost through the colonisation of the church and patriarchal systems that endeavored to suppress divine feminine knowledge, rituals and practices.
But alas, sister - we will not cower, we will rise, we will share sacred knowledge, we will bask in the glory of these teachings and embody them to propel our lives and the collective forward into a world where once a gain women's voices are heard and acknowledged.
We will step into ceremony, prayer and incantations with morning and evening devotional practices.
Our days will be spent receiving stories of Atua wāhine and other ancient cultural deities, we will learn their whakapapa (lineage), hear their stories and surely find visceral connections.
We will draw on their teachings and learn how to implement them in our modern world.
through myth and ritual We will sing, dance, pray, connect and align to the authenticity of our own feminine expression.
The venue
Set amidst the tranquil beauty of New Zealand's Whangaruru, The Farm offers the most delicious backdrop for our transformative experience. This 1,000-acre sanctuary is a haven of natural serenity, where rolling hills, lush greenery, and calm surroundings invite you to pause, reflect, and reconnect.
We have accommodations to suit all needs from camping, dorms to cozy cabins.
Kai/food is super important to us, we will be serving nutritionally dense, colorful, locally sourced food - building mauri/life force in our bodies to support our practices.
Your booking includes -
Three nights accommodations
Three meals a day
Daily workshops
Guided practices
Sauna Access
Payment Details
Investment:
Early bird till 3rd March 2025 (must pay in full to receive the early bird cost) - $455.00 NZD This is the investment for facilitation.
You will then need to add your accommodation choice which includes your meals and catering costs (So add the course fee, with your desired room choice below to come to your total cost).
Normal price after early bird is $605 NZD. This is the investment for facilitation.
You will then need to add your accommodation choice which includes your meals and catering costs (So add the course fee, with your desired room choice below to find your final cost).
Payment plans available.
Payment Plans
Deposit: $300 NZD
Partial Pay $50 per week until paid in full. Please note you will need to have your accommodation costs paid before the start date of the retreat.
Partial Pay: 3 x monthly payments over 3 months Camping - $287 NZD
Dorm Room - $412 NZD
Private Hut - $456 NZD
How To Pay:
Press the join us button below, and let us know what room and payment options you have chosen.
Camping - $1,011 Earlybird, $1,161 - Standard
Dorm Room - $1,088 Earlybird, $1,238 - Standard
Private Hut -$1,220 Earlybird, $1,370 - Standard
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We will then send you an email with the different ways you can pay:
A deposit of $300 NZD is required to hold your place. This will then be deducted from the remaining amount.
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Camping/Van Life
3 nights accommodation and meals
$556 NZD
(Plus course fees below)
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Dorm Room
3 nights accommodation and Meals
$631 NZD
(Plus course fees below)
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Private Hut
3 nights accommodation and MEals
$764 NZD
(Plus course fees below)
