Remembering is your birthright as a woman.

For thousands of years women have been programmed to fear the power of the Priestess within us.

This fear appears today through the ways women hold back and deny ourselves the very Goddess given gifts that we came here to deliver in this lifetime.

It’s time for you to stop playing small, pretending to be less powerful and spiritual than you really are, and to reclaim your throne as a Priestess of Gaia for the well being of all.

The world needs your medicine.

Return to your throne.

At one time, the Earth was our religion. The female body the animation of our Creatrix, The Mother of us all.

Many of us have lived lifetimes where we served as Priestesses in the temples of ancient cultures all across the world, both known and unknown within our modern understanding. We may also carry these memories through our DNA from the Priestess ancestors who were hidden and forgotten within our bloodlines.

Regardless of whether we served that role at one time in our soul or genetic journey, every single one of us holds the ancient revolutionary knowing that our body is the very temple of the sacred.

Every single one of us has the capacity to receive prophecy directly from the living body of Earth, our Mother Gaia, through the elemental magic of our own flesh and bone. 

Every single one of us is directly connected to the Source from which we all came: The Mother.

Rather than romanticize the past, Priestesses of Gaia is an invitation for women from ancestral lineages that span all across the world, to come together and rebirth a new culture. One that honors and recognizes the holy sovereignty within every-BODY, and the very visceral reality of the sacred within the form, beginning with your own.

Priestesses of Gaia is a healing, a reclamation, and a celebration, in honor of the Oracle, Shakti, within us all.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

YOur Invitation

Who is the Oracle within you? Who is the voice of Shakti, Goddess, Nature? What does it mean to you to be a voice, an artist, a creatrix, an emissary, a channel, a vessel, a Priestess of the living soul of Mother Earth?

Together for one week on the mystical Greek island of Paros, we will bow to the temples of our bodies to receive the direct wisdom, intuition, clarity, understanding, and profound knowing of nature that has always been within us. As we return to the female body, so do we resurrect the deep feminine soul.

While for thousands of years we have learned to turn away from the body in order to seek the divine, we come home to our body as the temple of the divine.

Through restoring reverence within the flesh, the blood, the bones, the pulsing desires, the emotional waves, and all that makes us human, we lift the veils and receive the nectar of the divine who has always been hidden within the sensual alive body of Gaia.

Restoring trust with our own nature, we allow the whole full dynamic range of life as nature to flow freely through our being, awakening our capacity to dance within the mystery, to cycle as the moon, to reclaim the powers that exist within the holy grail of the womb.

Through transcendental dance journeys, sacred womb healing, feminine embodiment arts, priestess rituals, nature reconnection ceremonies, and a hive of sacred sisterhood, we bring the Goddess back to her throne at the center of the temple, beginning with our own.

Each day we will enter into a powerful dimension of the feminine nature through the mysteries of the Greek Goddesses.

Unearthing her-stories, we illuminate our own. Rediscovering her from within our own lived, felt, visceral, sensual, elemental, emotional knowing, we move her-story through our morning dance temples, and weave our personal unique flavor of her expression and energy in our afternoon women’s temples.

We will be nourished and rejuvenated through abundant farm to table organic plant based Ayurvedic Mediterranean meals by our retreat center staff and between practices we have the crystalline waters of the Aegean to cleanse, purify, and receive simple pleasure. In the evenings we have sacred silence, and time and space for star gazing or a night swim in the dark sea.

If you feel a longing to deeply re-member the profound connection between your body and Mother Earth’s body…

…to rediscover vaster dimensions of your own ancient soul knowing, and to hear the voice of your inner oracle guiding you forward on your path in this lifetime, while held in a loving circle of powerful, compassionate, and multi-dimensional women, I warmly welcome you to join us for Priestesses of Gaia.

Together we will…

Recreate a living dynamic sisterhood of wild belonging that honors the individual expression and sovereignty of each woman as a unique embodiment of nature.

Liberate the elemental currents of creation that weave our bodies as divine and human beings, opening streams of emotion, sensation, and wisdom as we access a fuller range of our own wholeness.

Unravel our ancient feminine her-stories and shed layers of patriarchal conditioning, as we resurrect a deeper truth and wisdom from within our own soul body knowing.

Deeply receive the unconditional reverence of the women’s circle, as we witness, bless, honor, and celebrate one another as unique expressions of Goddess.

Reclaim our innate ability to directly receive prophecy from the temples of our bodies and from the elements of nature, as we commune with the wild diverse landscape of Mother Earth.

Cultivate sacred reciprocity and sustainability that the feminine inherently knows, through trusting our inner seasons and the many dimensions, facets, and faces of the wild feminine.

Summon our own feminine leadership, through trusting the river of power that flows through our body, and merging the inner world of soul into our living waking reality as an act of revolution and rebirth.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Beloved Woman,

For countless lifetimes, woven through our bloodlines and the memories of the stars, we have lived in holy communion with the natural and celestial worlds, as daughters, sisters, lovers, mothers, queens, priestesses, and wise women of both Heaven and of Earth.

We have danced, sang, drummed, howled, bled, birthed, grieved, lived, died, and been reborn through our bodies as the temples of Goddess, and delighted in the beauty of the Earth as the Queendom of God.

We have known the moon to be one with our womb and our emotions to be the elemental currents of creation. We have woven magic between the worlds as dancers of the alchemical mysteries of darkness and of light.

We are and have always been the Priestesses of Gaia.

But we live in a time when our world has forgotten.

When the rivers have gone dry, the springs no longer speak, the land is barren and on fire, the womb has been violated and demonized, the feminine and masculine have gone to war with one another, the prophecies have been defamed, and we have fallen into a dark state of disconnection from our Nature.

Gaia is calling her daughters to awaken and to re-member. To resanticfy the holy within the body, to reclaim the power within the womb, to revive the songlines of our soul’s ancient melody, and to midwife humanity across and through the threshold of our rebirth.

Together on the Cycladic Island of Paros, one of the lost fragments of Atlantis, the land whose marble stone built the ancient temples of Delphi, we gather together to pray to the temple of our own body, to commune with the body of Gaia Herself, and to ask Life to show us a new way.

Will you answer?

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Our Sacred Journey

Women once understood our spiraling physical, sensual, sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual development, within the natural wisdom of The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone, and the many transitions that bridge these seasons of The Triple Goddess in nature.

Offering a map to weave the worlds of the spiritual and the physical, mythologies, our ancient her-stories, were passed on through time, from hearth to hearth, grandmother to daughter, woman to woman, womb to womb, before they were burned, buried, forgotten, and made taboo.

While entering the wild unknown of our own spiritual and sexual awakening through menarche, pregnancy, birth, and menopause, these stories would have once offered us doorways into cultivating our power as a natural innate and simultaneously shamanic holy wisdom process of feminine maturity.

Our week together will be a journey of resurrecting this living wisdom through the ancient Goddess mythologies of Greece, rediscovering the purest source of truth within our alive pulsating bodies, and the library of wisdom that our Mother Earth has always contained.

This will be our journey together…

The Oracle
Day One

We begin our journey on the day of arrival with our Opening Ceremony traveling back in time to the ancient temples of Priestesses all across the world. In the image of the Oracle of Delphi, we open deeper into our personal and group inquiry surrounding who the Priestess was before the time of patriarchy.

Arriving to the temples of our own bodies, we place our intentions upon the altar of ourselves, asking a deeper wisdom and knowing within us to reveal her truth throughout the week. We will also lay the foundation for the many feminine dimensions we will be opening throughout the week, in a remembrance of the Priestess of Gaia within. These gateways will include: Wild Belonging, Blood Mysteries, Womb Sovereignty, Sacred Pleasure, Cronedom Come, and Death & Rebirth.

Wild Belonging
Day Two

There is a purity, an innocence, a raw primal freedom, that we come into this world with. For many of us, we learn to reject this authentic nature that flows within us as ecstasy, contorting ourselves into wooden dolls of who our family, our society, our culture tells us we are “supposed” to be as female.

While the word “virgin” has become synonymous with a woman who has never been vaginally entered by a man, the ancient definition of “virgin” is “sovereign.” A woman whole unto herself. We begin our journey together with the virginal Maiden goddesses who remind us of our own free wild spirit in sensual innocence with the natural world.

We will travel with the Goddess Artemis, she of the moon and the hunt, tracing back to her more ancient origins as the bear Goddess who protected all innocent creatures of the wild. Unhooking ourselves from the collective conditioning of our bodies and our souls belonging to another, we re-belong ourselves back to ourselves, and ultimately back to the wild pulse of Life.

Blood Mysteries
Day Three

The pure wild freedom of virginal sovereignty is an absolutely essential facet of our whole nature, one that we must return to again and again, to know the core of who we are beyond our roles and relationships. And… we are also designed to reach and stretch into new dimensions of our being… into our fertility and in turn into our sexuality.

This time happens naturally and organically within the female body and in the deep feminine psyche, through the journey of menarche, a Woman’s Coming of Age. Menarche is the time when our bodies begin ripening, our womb awakening, preparing us for the season of summer, meeting with desire, eros, and the dark side of our nature.

In a culture that has long buried this essential feminine wisdom, and framed the female body as an object for the pleasure, food, and production of others, many of us experience our Coming of Age into Womanhood, and a subsequent Descent to the Underworld as frightening, demonic, “bad” or “wrong”, and often traumatic.

Together we will return to this season within our own life journey, with the Maiden Goddess Persephone, accompanied by the Mother Goddess Demeter, and the Crone Goddess Hekate, initiating ourselves back into the deep feminine mysteries that live within our blood. We will receive and reclaim the power of menstruation, deep feminine desire, and the Underworld Queen, as hidden keys to discovering our power as seasonal cyclical beings who flow with the tides of nature.

Womb Sovereignty
Day Four

As we reawaken the womb and her long forgotten melodies, we return to the ancient memories of when the female body was revered as the Source of Life. In remembering this time of sacred recognition, we will also remember the time when she was dethroned and stripped of her innate power. In meeting these parts, we also meet with the profound depths of grief and rage that exist within the collective feminine emotional body.

All across the world exist stories of when the Priestesses were cast out of the temples to be exiled in the deep forests as the fearsome witch, to be sexually controlled as temple prostitutes or by taking chastity vows, and to be punished, burned, tortured, demonized, or imprisoned for honoring their own spiritual and sensual connection with the feminine pulse of Life.

In the mirror of the Temple Priestess and Snake Goddess Medusa, we heal the collective Priestess Wound through the demon gargoyle created by the Goddess of Wisdom Athena. We bring to life these two sisters within us: the one who was wounded for her feminine nature and the one who demonized her feminine nature for protection. Welcoming the fullness of grief and rage surrounding personal, ancestral, past lifetime, and collective womb violations, we restore wholeness to this split in the collective female psyche that has long distrusted the feminine wild.

Sacred Pleasure
Day Five

Blossoming into deeper maturity through the reclamation of our Wild Belonging, Blood Mysteries, and Womb Sovereignty, we reawaken the Mother Goddess as the Queen of Beauty, Fertility, Sensuality, and Sacred Pleasure.

Archaeological artifacts have been discovered in recent decades all across the world, revealing that our earliest human religions worshipped the female body as God. Birth was considered the holiest of the holies, for it was recognized that the ability of the female body to bring new life into the world was the very expression of Creation. Once upon a time the Mother was the Creatrix of All Life, and all was born in Her image, from her yoni.

In the aftermath of thousands of years of puritanical and patriarchal religions that have demonized and shamed the female body while simultaneously over-sexualizing it, it can feel challenging to truly access the pure, natural, and sacred rivers of pleasure that flow through the feminine form. For this reason, the resurrection of our Sacred Pleasure is an Ancient Revolution. Ancient because this was once what we knew to be true and we can remember it now. Revolution because for so long we have been taught to forget and it requires profound devotion to restore what has always been true within the body and the psyche.

Together we will summon the power of the Goddess Aphrodite, beloved across the world in her many forms also as Inanna, Astarte, Asherah, Oshun, Ixchel, Quan Yin, Lakshmi, and far more than even have names today. With Aphrodite we celebrate and cherish the Goddess given gifts of our womanhood, while being celebrated and cherished in a circle of women, recreating a Mother culture that honors the inherent divinity of Sexuality, Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth, Motherhood, Marriage, and Love.

Cronedom Come
Day Six

The full bloom of Motherhood is a beautiful season to cherish, and it also doesn’t last forever, nor is it designed that way. We are meant to also shed our leaves, to free ourselves once again from responsibilities, and to return to our virginal sovereignty as the one who has also been made wise. We are meant to not only be Maidens and Mothers but to also be Crones.

But for many of us, that can be a very fearsome transition, because deep in the bottom of our collective disconnection from the beauty and the power of the feminine, we discover the rejection, denial, and displacement of the Wise Woman. In Matriarchal tradition, the Crone, She Who No Longer Bleeds, the one who crossed the magical threshold of Menopause, is the initiatrix and the keeper of the deep feminine mysteries.

What have we lost in a culture that has dishonored the season of Cronedom among women, and coupled a woman’s value with how much her body produces in Motherhood through childbearing male heirs for her king, and how pleasing her body is to the eyes of men in Maidenhood through her virginal sexuality? As we discover… the loss is monumental.

Trusting into feminine power and resurrecting the knowing of the inner oracle, requires being refined by every season and cycle of nature through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, through menarche, motherhood, and menopause, life, death, and rebirth. Embracing the wild power of the Crone means also embracing the face of the Dark Goddess as Lady Death. With death on our side, we reclaim our ability to see in and through the dark, to dismantle distortion, and to no longer be victim or prey to falsity, shiny distractions, wolves in sheep clothing, and life entrapping lies.

Together we will summon the Wise Women across time and space, within our lineages, within our soul memories, within the memories of the land, within the faces and reflections of the Wise Women in our circle, and within the Crone Goddesses in our ancient mythologies, restoring reverence to the power of the feminine in this exalted season of life.

In doing so, we return to a far vaster landscape of the true beauty of the feminine in all of her expressions, also in the season of endings and death. We restore the inner and outer Protectress of both the Maiden and the Mother, as the Grandmother who lends us her perspective that enables to us be wise in every season of our lives.

Death & Rebirth
Day Seven

At the end of our journey we return back to our cyclical understanding of the endless ebbs and flows of life, death, and rebirth. Beyond the fear of a punishing wrathful creator, we restore our own rightful place in the heart womb of the unconditionally loving, all encompassing, mercilessly merciful wisdom body of Life.

The ancient Greeks had many Gods and Goddesses within their cosmology, but they believed that none of these deities were the Creatrix. Rather, the elementals were the forces that created all of existence. These elementals, in ancient feminine shamanic cultures, were mapped through seasonal wheels that offered a grounded and practical wisdom about the nature of life, as guiding forces on our path. Through aligning with these seasons and elementals, we align with the very forces of life that bestow us with wisdom.

Bringing our whole feminine journey to completion, with Gaia we dance the spiraling dance of creation, summoning all of the elementals as the paradoxical qualities of nature that weave us whole. Together we will retrace our journey, through the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone, within every season of our lives, bringing unity to the full tapestry of ourselves. We will integrate and celebrate the journey we have walked, reclaiming ourselves as Priestesses of Gaia, through the sacred path of living our lives as women here on Earth.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Practices & Methodology

Our bodies are our gateways to Goddess.

Everything that we are, have ever been, and are destined to become is woven within our flesh, our blood, our bones, ready to be awakened, remembered, and reclaimed as love.

Together, we step into the holy temples of our bodies as the incarnation of our souls, to realize a far greater, deeper, vaster, more authentic, liberating truth of life. We meet ourselves in reverence, allowing and inviting our own pure life force to show us who we really are and the medicine we came here to share.

This is a celebration. A sacred celebration of our life. In aching pain and orgasmic ecstasy. In the full spectrum of our humanity, we celebrate ourselves and one another as perfectly exquisite expressions of the wild divinity of life.

Transcendental Dance Meditations

Our dance meditations are a unique movement modality that Camille has been developing and facilitating over the past eight years, rooted in the technology of DANCEmandala, created by Areeradh K Trisiddha. DANCEmandala is a journey of tantric union through movement and stillness meditation. Camille has adapted this modality to reflect the wild feminine nature, the journey of womanhood, and the rebirthing nature of life.

In the dance we spiral through layers of expansion and contraction that follow the cyclical nature of life, rebirthing ourselves through the creative and destructive pulse of existence. These dance meditations offer profound release, clarity, realization, and intimacy with your body and soul, opening a greater freedom in movement, sensation, and emotional release, while also awakening visions, opening gateways to other dimensions, and providing portals into the ancient wisdom of your soul.

Mythological Herstory Transmissions

Our awakening happens not only through body, but in union with the deep feminine psyche. Ancient cultures have encoded the wisdom of existence within their stories and cosmologies. Mythology is the language of nature. It is the feminine mysterious voice that calls home the soul.

During our week together we journey with many different mythologies from the Goddesses of Greece, each as mirrors and doorways to awaken a fuller range of who we are, by embracing ourselves with the many reflections and facets of the wholeness of nature. Storytelling is one of Camille’s most cherished feminine arts, and she will bring the myths to life within the context of our modern experience as women today.

Sacred Somatic Womb Journeys

Through the mind body spirit connection we can reawaken parts of ourselves that have long been numb, frozen, or forgotten. For many women, the womb is the place within the body that we may have learned to avoid, abandon, distrust, or simply not acknowledge or feel. Ironically, this very place is also the seat of feminine power, creativity, passion, desire, love, beauty, and spirituality.

We will create space to slow way down, and arrive to our wombs with a profound depth of reverence, as we recreate the trust that allows our inner rose to bloom. Our womb journeys are fully clothed and do not involve sexual touch, but rather offer the innermost experience of reawakening consciousness from this sacred, sensual, creative, erotic, and also innocent place from within our own female body.

Feminine Embodiment Arts

When awakening the feminine, we are not trying to “get somewhere” or make something happen. We arrive to our bodies free from agenda, with an approach of curiosity and humility, allowing her to speak from within. Through creating the space to commune with this deeply sensitive part of ourselves, she begins to guide, inform, and reveal our hidden wisdom from our feeling nature beyond our thinking mind.

Through slow and sensitive movement arts, we create the space for this deep feminine sensory somatic reconnection, learning to let ourselves be undone, unraveled, and recreated from the inside out.

Priestess Temples

There is a deep longing for the feminine to be revered as the temple that she has always been. Rare in our modern world are the spaces where women can come together, set down the burdens we may be carrying, and allow ourselves to be held in our totality by a presence that welcomes all that we are as sacred and whole.

Together in the Priestess Temple we create exquisite and profound safety where we can soften, set down our armor, be seen, felt, heard, held, and supported as we integrate and unravel our journey and remember through one another’s reflections that we are never alone. Our temples include body blessings, heart sharing and compassionate listening, safe respectful non-sexual touch, shamanic dream vision quests, energy healing, womb healing, and sound healing through drumming, chants, and intuitive sounding.

All of our practices are designed to offer you an exquisitely safe space to explore, discover, and express your whole feminine nature.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

My Story as a Priestess of Gaia

Who are the Priestesses of Gaia?

Over two thousand years ago, in the birthplace of Greek civilization, on the land now called Delphi, pilgrims would travel from all across the ancient Mediterranean world to enter the temple of the God Apollo and receive the prophecy of the Oracle of Delphi.

The Oracle was not just one woman, but many women who served as Priestesses in the temple of Apollo across the span of hundreds (if not thousands) of years.

As the High Priestess, the Oracle was also known as the Pythia, the medium between the male God and the masses, who was the guardian of the wrath of the Python, the snake who Apollo slayed when he first arrived to Delphi from the womb of Mother Sea carried by dolphins.

This python was in fact Shakti, the primordial feminine mother of creation who at one time in all of our world religions and ancient civilizations was conquered by a masculine God, by product of patriarchy.

Apollo slaying the Python is the God conquering the Goddess. The masculine dominating the feminine. The Pythia, the Priestess, remained as the last of Her voice, employed in service (or enslavement) of a male dogmatic religion. The very name Delphi derives from the more ancient delphys which means womb.

When we journey deeper into our ancient feminine herstory, and the primordial wisdom of the body, we remember that at one time all women were Oracles of Shakti, as Priestesses of the very Source of Life within ourselves… from within our own womb.

Tracing deeper into our feminine origins, archeologists have discovered that before Apollo came to slay the Python, Delphi was inhabited by Goddess Cults who worshipped one deity they called Ge... Gaia… Mother Earth. Before the temples were erected in service of a masculine God, people of all genders bowed to the body of Nature.

At one time, the Earth was our religion. The female body the animation of our Creatrix, The Mother of us all.

Many of us have lived lifetimes where we served as Priestesses in the temples of ancient cultures all across the world, both known and unknown within our modern understanding. We may also carry these memories through our DNA from the Priestess ancestors who were hidden and forgotten within our bloodlines.

Regardless of whether we served that role at one time in our soul or genetic journey, every single one of us holds the ancient revolutionary knowing that our body is the very temple of the sacred.

Every single one of us has the capacity to receive prophecy directly from the living body of Earth, our Mother Gaia, through the elemental magic of our own flesh and bone. 

Every single one of us is directly connected to the Source from which we all came: The Mother.

Rather than romanticize the past, Priestesses of Gaia is an invitation for women from ancestral lineages that span all across the world, to come together and rebirth a new culture. One that honors and recognizes the holy sovereignty within every-BODY, and the very visceral reality of the sacred within the form, beginning with your own.

Priestesses of Gaia is a healing, a reclamation, and a celebration, in honor of the Oracle, Shakti, within us all.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

You Will Receive

This is a residential retreat and includes a full program for seven days and seven nights. Room and board is priced separately for transparency, but is included within your registration.

When you register to join us, you will receive…

Priestesses of Gaia Live Immersion

Seven days fully immersive in person Priestesses of Gaia program facilitated by Camille Willemain of Earth Daughters. Includes daily morning Transcendental Dance Temples (3+ hours) and daily afternoon Ceremonial Priestess Temples (3+ hours).

3 Months of Group Connection

Access to our private sisterhood group for connecting with one another, as well as logistical planning and integration. Camille will be available in the group to answer questions and offer support. Group will be open for August, September, and October.

7 Days Retreat Accommodation

Shared or private rooms at Okreblue beachfront eco-retreat center in Paros, Greece. Rooms include ensuite bathrooms, daily cleaning service, mini fridge, electric kettle, hot water showers, and outdoor patio.

Farm to Table Meals

Plant based Ayurvedic Mediterranean fusion meals, with most ingredients grown onsite at Okreblue, including dinner the day of arrival, light breakfast throughout the week, buffet lunch throughout the week, buffet dinner throughout the week, and a brunch the day of departure. There is also filtered water for drinking and tea infusions available all day.

Retreat Center Facilities & Staff

All week we will be able to enjoy the facilities at Okreblue including the large dining room and lounge, our dedicated practice space where all of our temples will commence, and the magical beach in front of Okreblue. The onsite reception staff will be available for any travel or logistics questions you may have about Greece, as well as for support with anything you may need regarding your room. The cleaning staff will service our rooms daily and the kitchen staff will provide us with beautiful meals.

Not included

Transportation to and from Okreblue retreat center

Flights to and from Greece

Optional massages at Okreblue

Additional snacks, drinks, and bottled water

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Sample Schedule

* Schedule is subject to change and is written in sand and not in stone.*

Rituals & Silent Breakfast
7am - 8am

Your sacred time and space to begin your day in silent meditation and reflection. There will be a light breakfast available for you in our communal dining area before practice. The sunrise is around 7:30am on the beach directly in front of our rooms. We begin mornings in silence until the end of our practice sessions.

Morning Dance Temple
8:30am - 12pm

We begin each day through arriving to the women’s temple in silence and entering into ceremonial space. Our morning journeys include altar connection, mythological storytelling, somatic explorations, transcendental dance meditations, grounding and integration.

Farm to Table Lunch & Free Time
12:30pm - 3pm

After our morning temple there will be a buffet lunch for us in the communal dining room followed by time and space for you to integrate and rest. There is a long stretch of beach where you can walk, swim, or sunbathe, and a lounge in the dining room for journaling or reading.

Afternoon Priestess Temple
3pm - 6pm

Our afternoons will offer us greater integration and grounding within what we activate and open in our morning sessions through women’s circles and ceremonies. We will journey through shamanic dream meditations, intimate heart sharing, healing touch, priestess rituals, feminine embodiment arts, vocalization and oracular sharing.

Farm to Table Dinner & Sunset
6:30pm

Following our afternoon temple we will nourish and ground ourselves through a hearty and healthy dinner buffet in our communal dining area. The sun sets on the opposite side of the island (we are the sunrise side) but we will still see the warm light and colors. It is also possible to watch the moonrise.

Quiet Time, Stargazing, Sleep
7:30pm - 9pm

You can see many stars on the beach in front of Okreblue and even take a swim in the sea at night if that calls to you. This is a winding down time, to ground our energy and prepare for deep rest and sleep.

We observe strict silent hours from 9pm to 9am daily. This is to ensure everyone receives deep rest and space to integrate.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Our Temple Sanctuary

At times, we need to touch bodies of land we are called to journey to, and remember her wisdom to reawaken and reclaim hidden facets of our souls.

There is no coincidence that many of the most potent stories of the human journey originate from Greece. It is the land of heroes and heroines, mermaids and monsters, legend and myth. Glittering with ethereal light across the crystalline sea and bathed in the scent of wild herbs scattered among the mountain trails, it is rich with the mysteries of the Goddesses and the long forgotten melodies of the Priestesses.

This year we will be gathering on the mystical island of Paros, in the Cycladic islands of the Aegean Sea, believed to be one of the lost fragments of Atlantis. In ancient times marble was sourced from Paros and was used to the construct the iconic temples at Delphi.

While Paros has become a popular island among tourism in the summer season, in October the island is blissfully quiet, with a warm sea for swimming and pleasant late summer weather.

Our retreat center, Okreblue, is on the far northern coast of Paros, just beside the famous Santa Maria beach, in the sand dunes of Filizi. Okreblue is directly beachfront, just steps from the calm Aegean waters, with long walking beaches and healing clay. Facing towards the east, it is possible to watch the sunrise each morning.

Okreblue is Greek owned and managed, and built with a high standard of sustainability. Rooms are simple, clean, rustic, and eco-lodge or “glamping” style, with hot water, fans, and ensuite bathrooms. Please note that there is no air conditioning, however October has much milder weather than in the peak summer months.

The onsite Okreblue restaurant has a large dining and lounge area, where farm to table Ayurvedic Mediterranean meals will be served, and it’s also open all day for snacks, smoothies, or just lounging and journaling.

We will have our own private dedicated enclosed practice space, our Priestesses of Gaia temple for the week, with wooden floors, lots of natural light, professional quality yoga mats, bolsters, cushions, and sound system.

Okreblue also has an onsite massage studio, where you can book (at an additional fee) massage and bodywork treatments.

Learn more about Okreblue here.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What do I need to do to book?

A: In order to reserve your space, you must first submit your application. Not all applications will be approved, so please thoughtfully respond to our questions. Upon approval, we will send you information for confirming your space with your nonrefundable $1000 deposit. By February 1st you will need to either pay the remaining balance or set up a payment plan.

Q: What is included in the price?

A: To offer transparency and clarity we have two separate costs. One is for the program facilitated by Earth Daughters while the other is for your room and meals through Okreblue. Our program cost includes the full retreat experience, all practices, and three months of online group support. The Okreblue room and board cost includes seven nights private or shared accomodation at Okreblue as well as three farm to table meals, filtered water, tea infusions, and use of the Okreblue facilities. These fees do not include transportation to the retreat center, optional massages, or additional smoothies, snacks, or meals.

Q: How is the weather in Greece in October?

A: October is considered one of the best months to travel in Greece. Temperatures have cooled off from the intense summer heat and are in the mid 70s. Crowds have mostly left and the islands are quiet. The sea is still warm from the long summer for swimming. Evenings can be cool and sometimes it can be very windy in the Greek islands. It’s a good idea to pack a combination of summer clothes and long layers.

Q: Where is the retreat center and how do I get there?

A: Our retreat center Okreblue is located on the island of Paros in Greece at Filizi beach. Paros can be reached by flights from Athens or by ferries from Athens or other nearby islands. You can find out more information about reaching Paros on the Okreblue website here. When in Paros, for an additional cost we can arrange a taxi to wait for you either at Paros port or Paros airport. Another option is to catch the bus from Parikia (port of Paros) to Naousa and then a taxi to Okreblue. We will have a pre-retreat online planning group where you can coordinate travel and shared transportation with other participants.

Q: When should I plan to arrive?

A: We recommend arriving at least a day early to give yourself time to settle in before the retreat begins and to allow for any travel delays. If you arrive the day of the retreat, please arrive to the airport no later than 1pm. Please wait to book your flights until your application has been approved and payment has been confirmed.

Q: Where can I stay before the retreat begins and after it ends?

A: Closer to the date of the retreat, we will send you our in-depth preparation guide with more details on travel recommendations and invite you to our private online group where you can coordinate travel plans and connect with other participants if you desire.

Q: Are there payment plans available?

A: Yes, we will have payment plans available. All payments must be fulfilled before September 1st. All payments must be fulfilled even if you decide to cancel your space. Payments will automatically be processed on the same date each month with your card on file. You are responsible for making sure that your payment method is current and that you have adequate funds in your account.

Q: Can I share a room if I book alone?

A: Yes. We will pair you with another participant. If you are booking with a friend and would like to be roomed together, please write a note for us on your application form. Please note that on shared rooms prices are per person and not per room. If you have sleep problems, are highly noise sensitive, or plan to make calls during the week, it is recommended that you book a private room.

Q: What is the refund policy?

A: All payments are nonrefundable and nontransferable and in order to continue operating these events we cannot make any exceptions. In the unlikely case that we are required to cancel or postpone the event due to a force majeure such as borders closing or prohibitive entry requirements, we will transfer your full balance to a future retreat or online event. If we choose to cancel the event due to low enrollment you will receive a full refund minus any payment processing fees or you can receive a full credit. We are unable to refund travel expenses for any reason, including if we cancel the event. Please purchase travel insurance that covers trip cancellation in case of emergencies or cancellations.

Q: Do you have scholarships or discounts available?

A: While we acknowledge financial and currency inequalities, and believe that every woman has a right to heal and receive what she needs to thrive, due to limited spaces, retreat center fees, and the nature of running such a small business, we do not offer scholarships or discounts at this time.

Q: Can I work online during the retreat?

A: Our program is fully immersive and energetically intense. There will not be space during the week to work. The internet in the Greek islands in general can also be quite spotty and we request that everyone limit online time in general during the retreat. You will receive the greatest benefits if you clear space fully during the week and allow yourself time before and after the retreat to deeply integrate and receive.

Q: Do I need previous experience in this kind of work?

A: We require that you have a foundational basis of embodiment work through yoga, tantra, dance, or other conscious movement modalities. We also require that you have a solid depth of self awareness and emotional maturity to be able to support yourself through potentially intense processes. We go deep both somatically and mentally, and this gathering is not for beginners. It is also not a replacement for therapy, and can bring up triggers. While you will be supported by the circle and our team, we are not qualified nor equipped to support individual trauma processing. Please be emotionally and mentally stable to hold yourself through our practices and consider being well resourced with private healing sessions or therapy sessions before and after the retreat.

Q: I have a lot of experience in or am a facilitator of women’s work, will I still receive benefits, or is this for beginners?

A: This is a personal healing and awakening journey, and it is not a facilitator or professional training. We will have women attending with a range of experience, but we do require foundational spiritual practice in order to join, and we frequently have women attend who are advanced practitioners, healers, and facilitators themselves. The self discovery you experience at the gathering can absolutely lend itself towards your capacity to hold space in the work you already offer. Only you know if the energy and transmission of this gathering resonates for you. Tune in and sense if you are called to this experience, to walk into the mystery, and see what new depths want to be revealed.

Please also note…

Participation is required for a powerful dynamic group experience. Please only apply if you agree to attend all of our group practices.

While our immersion can be deeply healing and restorative, it can also be emotionally, energetically, and physically intense and tiring. This is not a replacement for a vacation and it’s a good idea to plan rest time before and after the gathering.

This is not a yoga retreat. We will not be doing yoga asana practices. Our practices will include the feminine arts of dance meditation, womb journeying, and priestess temples.

Our retreat center is simple, rustic, comfortable, ecological, and sustainable, but it is not luxury. We do not have air conditioning in any of the rooms or common areas, but we do have ceiling fans.

You can read through all of our Terms & Conditions here.

Write to camille@earthdaughters.org if you have any other questions.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Who are the Priestesses of Gaia?

Over two thousand years ago, in the birthplace of Greek civilization, on the land now called Delphi, pilgrims would travel from all across the ancient Mediterranean world to enter the temple of the God Apollo and receive the prophecy of the Oracle of Delphi.

The Oracle was not just one woman, but many women who served as Priestesses in the temple of Apollo across the span of hundreds (if not thousands) of years.

As the High Priestess, the Oracle was also known as the Pythia, the medium between the male God and the masses, who was the guardian of the wrath of the Python, the snake who Apollo slayed when he first arrived to Delphi from the womb of Mother Sea carried by dolphins.

This python was in fact Shakti, the primordial feminine mother of creation who at one time in all of our world religions and ancient civilizations was conquered by a masculine God, by product of patriarchy.

Apollo slaying the Python is the God conquering the Goddess. The masculine dominating the feminine. The Pythia, the Priestess, remained as the last of Her voice, employed in service (or enslavement) of a male dogmatic religion. The very name Delphi derives from the more ancient delphys which means womb.

When we journey deeper into our ancient feminine herstory, and the primordial wisdom of the body, we remember that at one time all women were Oracles of Shakti, as Priestesses of the very Source of Life within ourselves… from within our own womb.

Tracing deeper into our feminine origins, archeologists have discovered that before Apollo came to slay the Python, Delphi was inhabited by Goddess Cults who worshipped one deity they called Ge... Gaia… Mother Earth. Before the temples were erected in service of a masculine God, people of all genders bowed to the body of Nature.

At one time, the Earth was our religion. The female body the animation of our Creatrix, The Mother of us all.

Many of us have lived lifetimes where we served as Priestesses in the temples of ancient cultures all across the world, both known and unknown within our modern understanding. We may also carry these memories through our DNA from the Priestess ancestors who were hidden and forgotten within our bloodlines.

Regardless of whether we served that role at one time in our soul or genetic journey, every single one of us holds the ancient revolutionary knowing that our body is the very temple of the sacred.

Every single one of us has the capacity to receive prophecy directly from the living body of Earth, our Mother Gaia, through the elemental magic of our own flesh and bone. 

Every single one of us is directly connected to the Source from which we all came: The Mother.

Rather than romanticize the past, Priestesses of Gaia is an invitation for women from ancestral lineages that span all across the world, to come together and rebirth a new culture. One that honors and recognizes the holy sovereignty within every-BODY, and the very visceral reality of the sacred within the form, beginning with your own.

Priestesses of Gaia is a healing, a reclamation, and a celebration, in honor of the Oracle, Shakti, within us all.

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: When does registration close?

A: Registration is open until Friday May 24th at 9pm EST and Awakening Aphrodite is open just once per year. If you desire to deepen your relationship with the feminine in our sacred sisterhood with my loving support, now is the time to say YES.

Q: How long do I have access?

A: You have LIFETIME access. All group ceremonies will be recorded in case you can’t join live.

Q: What if I don’t have time to do all of the practices or I can’t make it for the live sessions?

A: You have lifetime access to all course materials and all of our live sessions will be recorded for you to receive in your own timing. You have nothing to lose by taking your time and going at your own pace.

Q: Why Aren’t the Payment Plans Showing Up for Me at Checkout?

A: If our payment plans aren’t appearing for you at checkout, it’s because our payment processor will only display them for people who are in the United States. BUT there’s a workaround. Send us an email at camille@earthdaughters.org for help.

Q: Is it worth the cost?

A: Let me be clear… every woman has the inalienable birthright to reclaim the feminine as her own. She is already inside of you and no one can give this to you or take it from you.

That said… as you may have experienced feminine healing and awakening is profoundly complex, delicate, nuanced, and vast territory that can be greatly supported with wise, deep, compassionate, skillful guidance from a facilitator who knows the terrain well.

If there’s one thing I know… it’s the feminine.

You will receive the fruits of countless hours and dollars I have invested in deep feminine research, healing, and embodiment work for myself and over a decade of experience guiding thousands of women in our community. It’s a space where you get to be held and receive in a sanctuary of womanhood that meets you at the depths of your being.

If you crave a deeper connection to your body, your sensuality, your sexuality, and your power as a woman, Awakening Aphrodite is worth the investment.

Q: Can I just join next year?

A: You could. But as you may already know, life responds when we say yes to our desires. Waiting until next year could also mean waiting another year to embody the depths of pleasure and power that you know are possible for you as a woman. You could wait another year, or you could say yes to your deep feminine desire now.

Q: What makes this different from other women’s healing courses?

A: There’s a wide variety of women’s healing work available online these days. I feel this is such a blessing and a sign that the Feminine is reawakening more and more in the world. It can also be tricky to know where to invest your money and whether or not a space will resonate for you, and I get that.

This is why I always recommend exploring my free offerings first and seeing if you resonate.

Awakening Aphrodite is so unique because it merges revolutionary modern day feminism with embodied feminine healing arts, and synthesizes sexual empowerment with the spiritual priestess path. It’s rooted in the wisdom of your body and the wild truth of nature, while in full acknowledgement of the human culture in which we live.

It also includes immersive live group sessions on Zoom and a vibrant online women’s community to offer you much deeper support and belonging while doing this sensitive work.

For these reasons, Awakening Aphrodite is utterly magical and at the same time very practical for bringing into your daily life.

Again, come see how you resonate with my free offerings, then ask yourself if you want to go deeper together.

Q: What makes Awakening Aphrodite different from your other courses?

A: Great question! While all of my courses are designed to support women in reclaiming feminine power rooted in nature, Awakening Aphrodite focuses specifically on sensuality, pleasure, beauty, eroticism, love making, fertility, and creativity.

There’s a reason why we work with Aphrodite in the summer each year. The Earth and our bodies are in the midst of a profound erotic awakening, as the land and our sex become fertile for new creations. Harnessing this magical power inside of us rather than allowing it to be stifled or harvested for outside agendas, requires healing with these feminine aspects.

If you’ve been wanting to go deeper with me specifically within the realm of feminine pleasure, sacred sexuality, and creating from your soulful desires, this is the course.

Q: Do I need to have prior experience in this type of work?

A: Prior experience working with feminine spirituality and womb healing is not required, however we do go very deep. We’ve had women participate in our temples who are new to this kind of work and women who facilitate this kind of work. Please be open to home practice for sacred sexuality and self touch rituals.

Q: Will there be nudity or group sex practices?

A: No. Our nudity and self pleasure practices are audio and written for you to explore at home in your own private space. This is to ensure safety, deeper self intimacy, and clear boundaries for everyone participating.

All live group ceremonies are fully clothed and include somatic meditations, deeper teachings, dynamic group processes, and space to be witnessed through sharing.

Q: Is this course appropriate for women with trauma?

A: Our temple is trauma sensitive and trauma aware, however it is not a replacement for personal one to one therapy with a licensed professional. It is however an incredible compliment to working with a therapist or healer.

We journey in a way that’s slow, sensitive, and with space to sense what feels right for you, however I encourage you to deeply listen to yourself and to resource yourself in additional ways when/if it feels necessary and helpful.

It’s also an excellent resource if YOU are a therapist or healer, to be able to better support your clients with a deeper embodiment of your own feminine sensuality and to have a greater understanding of collective feminine trauma and how it shows up psychically and somatically in women.

While this temple journey can be deeply therapeutic, it is not a replacement for therapy. I am emphasizing this again, because as a trauma survivor myself it’s important to me that everyone receive the right support they need to heal.

Q: I have experience already in this kind of work, will I still receive benefits?

A: As you know, the path of feminine healing and awakening is an ongoing lifelong journey and there are always new treasures to discover.

Explore my free offerings, and if they resonate, you will most definitely receive so much more from Awakening Aphrodite.

Q: I facilitate women’s healing work, is this course appropriate for me?

A: If you resonate with the work that I share and the messaging on this page, then yes, absolutely.

As facilitators and healers we need to be held more than ever to have the capacity to the work that we do. Learning from different teachers also gives us a wider scope of creative potential, skill, and knowledge for what we are called to bring forward into the world.

Please note that this is not a facilitator training and does not qualify you to teach what is presented in the course. However you are of course welcome to share the fruits of your own embodiment and discoveries from this experience in the work you are already qualified to do.

Q: How is content delivered?

A: Once our temple begins, you’ll receive access to our Online Temple Portal where all of our course materials will be uploaded. I’ll also send you weekly emails opening the doorways for each module.

Our live group ceremonies will be held over Zoom video, and will be recorded and uploaded for you to revisit in your own timing. Pre-recorded content includes audio lessons, embodiment audios, movement playlists, and written pdf guides.

Q: Do you offer scholarships?

A: While I acknowledge that all women have the right to feminine healing work and to safe sacred female spaces, I do not have scholarships available at this time. I do have very flexible low monthly payment plans available to make it as accessible as possible for as many women are called to join. You can also come receive my many free offerings over at earthdaughters.org if you do not have the financial resources to join.

Q: Do you offer refunds?

A: Because there is so much energy that goes into this course, refunds are not available. If you aren’t sure if you’ll like the course, come receive a free taste first.

I can promise you I pour my heart, womb, body, and soul into this offering, and if you align with the work that I share, I have no doubt you’ll receive incredible blessings from this course.

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What’s included

This is a residential retreat and includes a full program for seven days and seven nights. Room and board is priced separately for transparency, but is included within your registration.

When you register to join us, you will receive…

Priestesses of Gaia Live Immersion

Seven days fully immersive in person Priestesses of Gaia program facilitated by Camille Willemain of Earth Daughters. Includes daily morning Transcendental Dance Temples (3+ hours) and daily afternoon Ceremonial Priestess Temples (3+ hours).

3 Months of Group Connection

Access to our private sisterhood group for connecting with one another, as well as logistical planning and integration. Camille will be available in the group to answer questions and offer support. Group will be open for August, September, and October.

7 Days Retreat Accommodation

Shared or private rooms at Okreblue beachfront eco-retreat center in Paros, Greece. Rooms include ensuite bathrooms, daily cleaning service, mini fridge, electric kettle, hot water showers, and outdoor patio.

Farm to Table Meals

Plant based Ayurvedic Mediterranean fusion meals, with most ingredients grown onsite at Okreblue, including dinner the day of arrival, light breakfast throughout the week, buffet lunch throughout the week, buffet dinner throughout the week, and a brunch the day of departure. There is also filtered water for drinking and tea infusions available all day.

Retreat Center Facilities & Staff

All week we will be able to enjoy the facilities at Okreblue including the large dining room and lounge, our dedicated practice space where all of our temples will commence, and the magical beach in front of Okreblue. The onsite reception staff will be available for any travel or logistics questions you may have about Greece, as well as for support with anything you may need regarding your room. The cleaning staff will service our rooms daily and the kitchen staff will provide us with beautiful meals.

Not included

Transportation to and from Okreblue retreat center

Flights to and from Greece

Optional massages at Okreblue

Additional snacks, drinks, and bottled water

* Priority registration open until January 31st.*