16 women from around the world for 9 nights in France, near Toulouse.
The ancient lands of the Cathars and Mary Magdalene.
September 29th – October 8th 2026
Together, We Live the True Fairytale.
The Legacy of Mary Magdalene Lives on in the South of France.
So much more than one woman.
A lineage of men and women who walked the way of love through time.
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Enchanted, Rapturous, Spiritual Truth sings remembrance to our Hearts from wild waters and mystic caves. From ashes of bones that still speak, those who died for the Truth of the Lineage of Love strengthened it for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
A living scripture that can never be captured with the written word.
For it lives in the light dancing upon water.
So come and drink from the wellsprings that never run dry. Come laugh, cry, sing, dance and remember that you are a “light of the world”.
This pilgrimage is the continuation of a lineage.
There is a 5 month online journey required to prepare you for our time together.
Thy Will Be Done
On Earth as it is in HeavenRomantic, Rapturous, Real and Rooted.
A time for deep spiritual practice and living the beauty way in sisterhood.
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This journey is designed to be nourishing and magical. For us to let our souls rest in the solace of true sanctuary. Staying in a gorgeous pink castle, eating the most exquisite food, remembering the truth that our bodies are designed as living temples to experience the beauty of Mother/Father God’s creation. This is a break from the normal day to day world, and an invitation to step into the living fairytale dimensions of consciousness. However, this is not a surface level experience. It is not a “retreat”. It is a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is walked to access experiences and states of being that one could not have at home. By connecting with different powerful places upon the Earth, we allow our bodies, which are made of Mother Earth to be transformed. Our soul’s awaken and our light can shine even brighter, illuminating our highest destiny path.
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I have been going on pilgrimage to the Magdalene sites in the south of France for seven years now and it has completely changed my life. I would not be who I am today if it weren’t for my journeys to these incredible places. It is my honor and highest joy in this life to bring together incredible groups of women to walk these lands together. It is a remembrance that never ends.
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Calling in Mermaids of the Magdalene to let the seeds of love planted in the soil long ago to bloom within our cells.
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Our focus will be journeying to sacred caves, churches on powerful dragon ley lines, and bodies of water to make offerings and receive whatever we are ordained to. The mission is Union with the Beloved within and in sisterhood to anchor heaven on earth dimensions for the stabilization of the Christos/Sophia song in our bodies and Gaia. Each day we will have a plan, but also be open to the present plan of the moment as She moves through us. We will ask to be guided, and we will listen so the highest destiny of our time together can bloom. We will embrace heaven on earth together through meeting each moment in the ecstatic fullness of what is True.
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If blessed by Her, we will allow the dragon mother’s energy to weave and illuminate the grid lines of our bodies and the key ley lines of the earth. Letting the seeds of love planted by the Cathar’s great offering bloom in our wombs.
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I call this a Pilgrimage for a reason.
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It is not a gentle vacation or about checking Magdalene sites off a list.
It is not only rose petals and divine oils.
It is whatever the moment calls for us to meet.
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“Initiation is not a degree of knowledge, but a state.”
– Louis Charpentier
A state of Being.
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It is to more deeply understand what it means to embrace Magdalene not as a human in the past, but as a living stream of gnosis within our own hearts.
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It is for those who are available to be catalyzed in the cathartic seeds of cathar love that are ready to bloom in ready wombs. It’s for those who want to go beyond the “self” to marry the beloved within.
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It is for the Daughters of the Dragon and the Dove.
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This is an invitation to embrace the mythic dimensions of reality.
To live the continuation of the miraculous story of the book of love.
Together. In sisterhood. Devoted to the heartbeat of the holy grail within.
For the resurrection of Heaven on Earth.
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This is for women who desire to be in a roundtable council of equality where each woman is honored for the unique gifts and embodiments of her soul. You will be asked to be fully responsible for yourself and the thoughts and emotions you bring to the sacred circle, knowing that they impact the waters of our bodies & group field.
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May the Blue Rose Bloom in the Waters of our Wombs,
awakening sleeping beauty and kissing the beast to marry the treasure that can never be bought or sold.
Honoring the Blue Pearl Lineage of Love
Restoring the Head of the Dragon Mother
Releasing the Grief of Separation
Resting into the Ecstasy of Revelation
Singing the Song Lines Illumined
Unveiling the Bride of God
Divine Mother, Water Goddess of Love in her many Forms
Mary Magdalene is documented as the apostle of apostle in the gnostic gospels who received the highest level initiations. A high priestess and royal queen of the serpentine anointing mysteries of the mother goddess. She did not walk alone but with many incredible, miraculous women by her side. Each playing their perfect role in the great story. Just as YOU have a unique role to play in the story of our great remembering.
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After the crucifixion, she traveled to Gaul, the south of France, and evangelized with her heart of love. Temples to the Goddess abounded in Gaul and Iberia, from Isis to Diana, Minerva and Aphrodite. It was a place that honored the primordial mother goddess. A natural land for her teachings to flourish.
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Magdalene’s legacy lived on and grew, equality of women, women inheriting property, women ruling, women becoming priestesses, believing in reincarnation, teaching a legacy of love.
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Her lineage of blood and spirit flourished becoming a certain kind of catharism. The cathars (the pure ones) were named such from others, but they called themselves the bon hommes, good people.
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In the 1200’s the catholic church launched a crusade against the cathars, who were considered a threat to the pope’s rule. They lived in the Languedoc which was separate from France and the kings of France wanted their land and wealth for himself. But deeper than that, I believe that they wanted control of one of the most powerful womb stargate’s on earth. So he supported the pope and killed over 200,000 people in what is known as the Albigensian Crusade mostly in the south of France and northern Italy. The largest mass killing of Christians against Christians ever recorded. Their teachings of love were such a threat to the catholic church that they were hunted and burned en-mass.
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The first mass burning of their people in the town of Bezier was on July 22nd, Magdalene’s feast day. Then a year later, the next massacre in Minerve was also on her feast day. In Bezier, it is documented that the Cathars believed Magdalene was married to Yeshua. A belief they died for.
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Guilhem Belibaste, the last known cathar parfait (priest) to be caught and burned alive, shared a prophecy that in 700 years, the laurel would turn green again, meaning that the way of the cathars and teachings of love would return.
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Now we are now in the time of the fulfillment of the prophecy.
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We can learn much about original teachings of Christ and Magdalene by diving into the mysteries in Occitania.
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A way of love that includes and exalts the feminine, and the union of man and woman as sacred.
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Much of what you find about the Cathars was written and propagated by the same people that persecuted them as almost all their original sacred documents were either destroyed or hidden.
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Through our communion with the land and the waters, we can remember the living scripture of the shining realms that the Cathars & Magdalene anchored. Bridging heaven & earth within our bodies.
In the middle of the 12th century, a grail princess descended from Mary Magdalene was born in a fairytale castle. She would grow up to become a high priestess and initiate who also founded schools and hospitals. A woman who teaches us of the true way of the shining path of the feminine Christ. Esclarmonde, whose name means light of the world. In 2021, I had a dream that changed my life where I was told to connect with the spirit of Esclarmonde. At that point, I’d only heard of her briefly and knew that she was a Cathar leader. Over the past four years, she has been my guide as I have remembered the magnitude of what was anchored in her lands. It is a treasure beyond treasures. She told me that she wants to be named as a main guide for this pilgrimage. Of course, we are connecting with Magdalene, but deeper than that, we are connecting to the lineage of which Magdalene belonged to. We also don’t have documentable exact proof of where Magdalene lived and taught. We have educated guesses, legends, channelings, paintings and some records. We will go to where I believe she lived. But we know so much more historic fact about Esclarmonde’s life,. She is a 1/2 way bridge point in time between Magdalene and our generation. We will journey to many places she cherished.
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The Holy Grail
A love letter of the soul
Scribed in water’s eternal pages
Passed through the spiral of time
Into the dream of feminine ascension
On the wings of dragons we rise
To ignite the jewel within
The pearl forged with patience
Perfection laced with anguish
Mermaid mother’s milk us home on tides of hide and seek
Calling from the deep to see what we are destined to be
Home in the holy tree of the trinity, birthing ecstatically
Ecstasy is meeting and greeting with true presence breathing and believing
In the heaven on earth we are dreaming
Already existing
Kissing
The dragon and the dove
Unveiling this ancient love
Overview
My intention is for us to partake in all the experiences shared below. However, because this is a pilgrimage and we are opening up to be available for the highest plan that can’t be planned for, we may not be able to get to every experience listed below. Also, we must always have permission from the land to enter the sacred sites. Most of the time, we receive a yes, but on rare occassions, we do not. (This has only happened to me twice in 9 years of teaching) Therefore, we are flexible and trusting in the flow of the present moment.
The southwest of France is absolutely enchanting, gorgeous and romantic. The land is rich and soaked in a lineage of love from Mary Magdalene and the Cathars. The land looks similar to Tuscany with rolling green and golden hills, yet there are also gorgeous dramatic mountains. It is a terrain that is abundant in natural beauty and sacred water sites. Endless churches and castles.
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As a little girl, I wanted to go to France more than anywhere in the world. It called my heart and beaconed me. The first time I went 7 years ago was life changing for me. Then, in 2021, I had a powerful dream telling me to travel to a specific place in France I’d never heard of and connect with the spirit of a Cathar priestess. I traveled there in 2022 for a self guided Cathar & Mary Magdalene pilgrimage and finally found the places in France that I’d been waiting to discover since I was a child. I walked those lands and felt them not only in my blood as ancestry, but in my spirit. Finally remembering the fragrance as wet candle lit caves, wild blooming rosemary, and golden love. I discovered places without proper directions off the tourist trail that are some of my favorite places ever. I’ve guided four pilgrimages and over 60 women to these lands in the past three years.
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PLACES WE IDEALLY WILL GO:
Arrival day, our last full day, and one other day, we will won’t drive anywhere.
All the other days, we will drive to many sacred sites.
Cathar Castles
Lombrives Cave & Secret Caves
Montsegur Mountain
Magdalene Churches
Miraculous Spring Water Sites
Fountain of Love
Rennes le Chateau
Bugarach
The most magical pink castle awaits us. In 8 years of teaching retreats and being an avid traveler, this is the most exquisite property I’ve ever had the joy of teaching at. Originally built upon much older structures dating from the time of the Cathars, the current design built in the late 1800’s in the troubadour style, and recently completely restored & renovated in 2021, this is an ancient gem with a modern, clean interior.
We have the blessing of staying in a glorious castle with all modern conveniences, wonderful energy, and an incredible staff.
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The chateau and surrounding buildings for additional accomodation rest upon over 37 acres. It is an exquisite English style park of romantic inspiration, with species from all over the world, a private chapel grotto, Egyptian obelisk, lake, 5 man made grottos, columns, bees and rose garden. There are exquisite trees including a cypress tree from Bhutan, cedars from Lebanon and Himalaya and over 50 different oaks.
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Many layers of history and mystery live here that you will learn more about during our stay. The wonderful owner will share the history of the place on our arrival evening.
Two separate buildings flank the castle that we will also use. One of them contains our temple room for indoor workshops. There are private rooms in the castle and shared apartments of various styles in the other buildings. Some accomodations also have their own kitchens and living rooms. Everyone has access to the castle living room, library, and dining room where we will have all of our meals.
The chateau comes with an incredibly talented chef who uses ingredients from the castle’s garden and from producers within a distance of 50 km. There is a wine list that offers a wide selection of organic and natural wines. Eggs come from chickens kept at the house. Breakfast is homemade sourdough, crossants, eggs, cheese, yogurt, granola, jams and juice. Dinner is a three course gourmet meal. Lunch will be eaten out either as a picnic or at a local restaurant.
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This is a feasting celebration retreat when it comes to food. A nourishment of our taste buds and bodies in a rich and ancient way. The theme of our nourishment for the week is organic and as local as possible. This is not a vegan or gluten free retreat, but can accommodate some dietary needs if notified in advance.
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The dining room is gorgeous with restored murals from the 1800’s and a spectacular fireplace.
Caves are the womb of the mother. This area of France is overflowing with sacred caves and underground tunnels. Many were used as places of ceremony by the Cathars. Some are secret and off the tourist trail and others well known. We will journey to two caves. One is said to be the most sacred to the Cathars and connected to Venus. The other is one of the largest caves in Europe. This place in very special. We will have a private many hour walking tour and learn the fascinating history of the place before dropping into a singing activation in the huge cathedral room with incredible acoustics. A special surprise awaits.
Beautiful churches abound in almost every village! It is rare to enter a church that doesn’t have at least a statue, symbol, or stained glass window honoring Magdalene. On this pilgrimage, we will go off the tourist trail to a church with the most exquisite Magdalene statue I’ve ever seen as well as the most famous Magdalene church in the world at Rennes Le Chateau.
On this journey, we honor the water deeply. You will experience many kinds of unique water experiences. There will be opening and closing water rituals, libations, ritual washing & water blessings for the land. We will be keeping a water altar for the duration of the retreat and visit many sacred water sites.
Baptism is ceremonial immersion into the essence of the divine mother; the water, who loves us unconditionally. It brings us under the surface into the mysterious depth of the symbolic womb space where we can’t breath the air, and be brought up again like a baby taking it’s first breath, reborn in the waters of love. Baptism is unifying the physical purification of water with the spiritual purification of the soul through intention & ceremony. It is a symbolic rebirth in the womb of the divine mother’s waters of life. Purification is often a first step in any ceremonial process.
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Baptism in the early church and especially from the gnostic view point was much different than today. It was an initiatory right of welcoming, but only the first stage, not as the completion. As it says in the Gospel of Philip,
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Philip 89 “ Christ immerses them in water to purify them and leads them to their fulfillment in his Name”
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Philip 68 “The teacher performed all his works mysteriously: immersing us in water, anointing us with oil, making us capable of acts of grace [eukharistia]. He freed us and brought us into the bridal chamber.”
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I will share in depth teachings on the history of baptism including the four aspects of baptism in the early church, as well as pre-christian baptism.
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We will have the great blessing of doing a group baptism ceremony at the river some say Magdalene may have baptized people, but the story mainly comes from one woman’s claim. However, I believe Magdalene lived in this area and immersed in the waters. I will share more details in person.
Christ’s very name, Christos in Greek, means “anointed one”. Yeshua is called the one who baptizes by fire, who anoints with christ light. Who anoints Christ? Mary Magdalene. Anointing is at the heart of Magdalene remembrance. The physical act of anointing with oil is a ritual symbolizing the deeper internal alchemy of baptism by fire.
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I will share in depth in our online course about the mysteries of anointing. When we are in person, we will commune with high quality precious essential oils in ceremony to call forth the light of anointment.
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Philip 95 “To be anointed with oil is higher than being immersed in water. It is when we are anointed , not when we are immersed in water, that we become Christians. Christ was called the Messiah because of this: he is “the anointed one.”
Body temple tending softens us into presence and love through the gateway of the 5 senses. The room becomes magnetic with heavenly love. We drop into the space of honoring the body as sacred. We focus on the meditative healing power of magnetic sensual energy, not sexual energy. This is also a very integrative practice to tend and honor the nervous system through calling forth the Venusian frequencies of the divine mother. My highest priority is creating a field of purity and safety. I used to call this ceremony a Sensorium, but I no longer do as many now use that word for ceremonies that are very different from what I offer. This practice can be done fully clothed if desired.
I will bring my traveling harp to share music in various churches and sacred sites. We will learn some songs to sing together along the journey.
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One evening after dinner, we will gather in the spirit of the Troubadors to learn about their tradition regarding the courts of love and how it relates to Mary Magdalene.
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Then we will each share either a poem or a song that you have written and prepared for this night. Ideally it will about something to do with love, whether divine or personal, but can also be about a topic you feel relates to our pilgrimage.
In France, the word for spring is source. I can’t think of a more perfect name than to call this water flowing from the womb of the earth what she is…living pulsing liquid source of us all. The mother. The womb. France, especially the Languedoc, is overflowing with spring water. It seems like every town has a sacred spring or well.
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I will bring you to around 4 different springs revered for their healing/miraculous powers. We will not go to Lourdes, as it’s a long drive, incredibly touristy and not a favorite of mine. But we will go to another miracle spring that features a white lady visitation and was almost made the “Lourdes” of France.
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We will journey to the springs off the tourist trail to commune with the sacred waters, the white ladies, and make many offerings & prayers. By connecting to these miracle water springs, we connect with the depth of the womb of the earth.
Elisabet Alfstad has been my main ceremonial and sisterhood support the past two years of teaching in France. We have done many different pilgrimages to sacred lands together, and she used to live in France for years. She is one of my dearest friends and a true Magdalene with a heart of gold. This year, we have the blessing of receiving two workshops from her.
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Qoya Dance
Elisabet teaches QOYA, an inspired movement and dance practice that gently reminds you of what already lives within you: that you are wise, wild, and free. Elisabet creates a safe, welcoming and nourishing space where you are invited to soften, open and return home to your body. This is a space to move without judgment, to listen inwardly, to express what words cannot hold, and to reconnect with both yourself and the collective field of women moving together. Through heart-opening practices, music, breath, and intuitive movement, QOYA becomes a doorway into the subtle layers of your being. It is an invitation to remember your sacred essence – not as something to achieve, but as something to allow. A remembering that happens through sensation, emotion, rhythm, and presence. QOYA is a journey into your inner landscape. It honors the full spectrum of emotion; joy, grief, tenderness, fire, softness and gives your body permission to express itself through movement. In this practice, you honor yourself, your body, your community, and all of life as you move and dance in reverence. Movement here is medicine. Gentle. Nourishing. Alive. There is no way to do QOYA wrong. The way you know you are doing it right is simple: it feels so, so good. Come exactly as you are. Leave as more of who you truly are.
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Sacred Scrolls
Elisabet created the Sacred Scrolls practice during one of the most challenging initiatory periods of her life. In that threshold where old identities were dissolving and truth yearned for embodiment, a deeper remembering emerged: the ancient, original power of the word as a sacred instrument of divine creation. Sacred Scrolls arose as a remembrance of an ancient practice carried through humanity across time, the art of the scribe, where language is not decorative, but alive. This practice feels like a deep remembering, as though a long-held truth within the collective memory is being restored. A gift from Heaven, where word, intention, and truth move as one. At its core, Sacred Scrolls is a sacred practice of writing the truth of the Heart. When the Heart’s truth is written with presence, devotion and clarity, something profound occurs: life begins to reorganize around that truth. Through this act, your divine destiny is not assigned or imagined – it unfolds. The handwritten scroll becomes a living altar. This is ancient scribe magic remembered; the ability to shape life through conscious language written in resonance with your heart and universal law. Elisabet shares:
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Heart-centered practices that open the body and emotions to authentic expression
- Deepening self-love through conscious language and presence
- Awakening the creative and manifesting power held within words
- Reviving the lost art of handwritten scrolls as a sacred ritual of transformation
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Writing your dreams into form by aligning with truth rather than effort
Elisabet’s intention with the Sacred Scrolls Course is to support a profound ancient remembering: that you are a co-creator of your life, and that your words, when written from truth and your heart – carry the power to open pathways, dissolve limitations, and call forth your divine destiny.
The Mermaid’s of the Magdalene pilgrimage is the journey of a lifetime. Pure fairytale bliss. The love and devotion poured into every detail was truly exquisite from the breathtaking portal hopping, the enchanting ceremonies, the dream retreat castle and the most delicious food was pure ecstasy. My heart was completely elated. The group and I jokingly renamed the retreat “bonjour rapture” as Magdalena wanted her daughters in rapture, but it is also a reflection of the rapture that was felt on this journey from day one.
The magic I experienced is beyond time and space, and I would honestly love to come back year after year. The incredible beauty of these lands, Dakota’s knowledge and wisdom around the teachings of the holy family and the way she transmits them are truly a gift. I could soak up these teachings and the magic I felt in this retreat forever. I felt like I never wanted it to end. This journey has really set the tone for the next chapter in my life and how I want live, love, share my gifts and serve. So much inspiration was born from music to art, it is just endless. The bonds I have created with the women on the retreat and what I have received on a soul level is beyond words. The Magdalene lives on because of women like Dakota and journeys like this. I will forever be grateful to her for this retreat. It has been an absolute dream come true
The Mermaids of the Magdalene Pilgrimage was nothing short of miraculous. It was a soul deep journey into the heart of the land and her stories, the Beloved, and our own belonging.
If you feel called to the ancient magik, mystery and mythos of another way of loving… if you feel drawn to the life ways of the Cathars and their rites, rituals and roots… if you know, deep in your bones, that you are here to guide in the light of love, to anchor codes of the Great Mother, and to remember those that came before — this pilgrimage is truly created and held for you.
It will awaken and alchemize threads of your great work at this time, offering illumination into your unique soul gifts and memories, and tracing lineages of love that can only be re-woven by you, and yet, are all in service to the same force of unity and Love.
It will restructure the timelines of your life, in the most brilliant and beautiful way possible. It will stun you and bring you to your knees. And if you are anything like me, it will make sense of the sacred path you have always been walking.
So much love and gratitude to Dakota for sharing her mature relationship with the sites, guides and stories of these lands, and for her tender, heart-led, strong leadership. She created a field that welcomed both remembrance and reclamation, and that honoured the truth of gnosis that lives within all.
If you find yourself here, know that it was written lifetimes ago!
The inspiration I have received from the Mermaids of the Magdalene Pilgrimage, heals and fills my heart. It was food for my soul, that I have been deeply craving and have been drawn to for a long time.
The activations that occurred, and continue to occur have enriched my life in so many ways. The peace and grace Dakota held in our group was so healing and nurturing. We were gently guided, & deeply respectful to our sovereignty.
The 5 month online pilgrimage beforehand was the perfect preparation, ensuring opportunity to get as much out of the Pilgrimage as possible.
The online content held incredible teachings delivered with so much love and pure intentions. Dakota is always so generous in everything she offers, and her teachings always hold so much intrigue, they are like doorways into activations and wisdom.
The Pilgrimage itself was incredible. A perfect blend of exploring & luxury. The accommodation and food was generous and exquisite. We stayed in a pink castle, with tapestries in the dining room, on beautiful grounds with incredible scenery. The perfect place to rest, integrate and share dinners & breakfasts with incredible like minded people from all parts of the world.
The places we visited included Churches, Castles, Caves, Ancient Stone sites & more. We enjoyed private concerts and shared experiences and group circles in our Temple Room. Kundalini energy was present and circling around as was the presence of The Dragon Mother. So incredible. The places we visited were enchanted and exceeded my expectations.
The South of France is an incredible place, and I am so blessed to be introduced to it by the wisdom and guidance Dakota brings.
Thank you so much, Dakota, for this whole experience — your gentle encouragement and guidance, offered with no pressure and always so much grace.
Enchanted forests give way to cool springs. Light dancing over the water in the rhythm with the angels. Pearls offered to Her in ecstasy. Harps bring sweet messages of return. A dark cave beckons you into the Mother’s womb as the Dragon awakens. Sisters’ voices rise up in harmony as we dance upon the elemental mountain. Healing, weaving, becoming. Reawakening the frequency of the Cathars – the laurel. Mary Magdalene smiles upon us as we bring Heaven here to Earth with our rapturous beauty.
It is hard to put into words my experience with Mermaids of the Magdalene because it is a felt sense, a gnosis. This pilgrimage was a coming home to the root for me. It has been transformative in bringing me back to my true essence and union with myself and my priestess path. The caves we sang in, the ancient stones we walked over, the springs we bathed in all were guiding me back to The Truth. Through it all beaming with radiance and a sacred knowing is Dakota. She is at her nexus of genius in these lands, weaving her vast knowledge of the various sites and stories with the deep and pure intention to honor Mary Magdalene, the Cathars, and the Waters. I am in awe of the guidance and grace in which she held the space for our unfolding. Even months later I can still feel the magic that was created under her guardianship. I am forever changed and eternally grateful to walk the path with her by my side.
The Mermaids of the Mother Pilgrimage in the South of France was a life changing journey. It was a last minute alignment for me to join and Dakota welcomed me with such grace. She was so kind and accommodating and I could feel from the very beginning her deep trust in the mystery. A week before I had no idea who the Cathar’s even were and had never felt called to France… but it was beyond clear that I was meant to be there. Flash forward a week later — I’m in France experiencing full bodied visceral remembrances of walking those lands and who the Cathar’s were.
Dakota’s leadership, space holding, and wealth of information from her devotion to her own studies, embodiment, and experience created such a profound container for deep mysticism and beauty. There was so much magic throughout and I felt such safety and resonance with how deeply Dakota trusts the mystery and what’s being called for within the group from moment to moment – which can be a really tricky thing to navigate with so many women! Her allegiance to love and trust in life is felt throughout the container she creates and leads.
It was truly one of the most profound activations I’ve ever experienced without taking any plant medicine. This pilgrimage returned a piece of my soul that I didn’t even know was missing. It fortified and amplified my relationship with Christ, Mother Mary, and Mary Magdalene. It brought me into a deeper relationship and communion with my spirit babies and what their mission is on earth. It activated more of my soul gifts and provided clarity on my own mission. It was truly a life changing pilgrimage of the soul and I cannot recommend it enough. If it’s calling I trust so deeply it’s meant for you and that you’re in the best hands with Dakota as your guide.
I’ve been on 2 Pilgrimages with Dakota in France and they were exquisite, life changing events, and I don’t say that lightly. On the first retreat, I felt an ancient knowing arise within my being as a powerful sisterhood was forged within our group and with the lineage of the Magdalene. It truly felt like a destiny meeting of souls, land and water. The second pilgrimage was even more profound on a personal soul level as I got to go deeper with the land and waters and uncover more mysteries of my soul’s purpose and family destiny. The castle felt nourishing and modern yet ancient and coded. The food was incredible, the room was spacious and comfortable, and I really felt taken care of and catered to.
The Lombrives cave ceremony and song sharing was so profound and supportive in my connection with my womb and listening to my womb’s direction about where to take my life. We also visited a secret cave that held angelic frequencies, and as a group we anchored in something new and profound while also resurrecting forgotten frequencies of the rose path and the Cathar wisdom. During the pilgrimage, I moved through fear that I didn’t know I was carrying and with Dakota’s help I truly gave those fears to God, and welcomed God/Goddess as the highest most benevolent force in my life. I was filled with a profound lightness and knowing. Dakota took us to meet some elders whose lives are centered around the Magdalene, and meeting them and connecting to their sacred spaces have a role model to my bigger life and hope for what the future holds. On one elders land was the most potent fresh water spring that I’ve ever experienced, and I found myself in trance by the spring, cared for and fed by sisters in the group, and underwent a spontaneous baptism, which sealed in my next level connection with Spirit.
Within a month of that pilgrimage I was blessed with child, and made some big decisions to change my life in accordance with divine will. I am due in a month and I feel a deep connection to this spirit baby thanks to this journey and Dakotas guidance. I have received so many messages from my baby of hope, trust and beauty in the future of humanity. I’m forever grateful for her unwavering devotion to the Waters, and to the Christ and Cathar paths and consciousness.
“When I first read about Dakota’s Magdalene pilgrimage in the South of France, I felt an immediate “YES” resonating in my body. I had seen many offerings & retreats but nothing was fully calling to me. I’m so grateful I listened to my intuition and heeded the call, for as soon as I said yes to the journey I felt an expansive, transformational container begin to envelop me. I felt like I was stepping into something huge, & indeed it was one of the most transformational pilgrimages yet!
Dakota is an incredibly humble yet powerful embodiment of the Divine Feminine, walking in deep integrity and alignment with the teachings of Magdalene and Christ. She is so deeply steeped in the living mystery & well aware of intricate layers of history that most people don’t know of through her extensive research & firsthand experiences on these ancient lands. It was a true joy & homecoming to reunite with Dakota and the group of potent women that came together for this journey. Not only did we visit the most magical places & connect with local healers, we also stayed at an unbelievably enchanted true castle! If your heart is calling you, don’t hesitate to take the leap. It’s worth every moment!”
Mermaids of the Magdalene was my very first initiation into water priestess arts, and it transformed me beyond anything I could have ever imagined or dreamed of. I joined on pure intuition and it was hands down one of the best decisions I have ever made..
Dakota practices what she preaches and more importantly: she embodies every piece of wisdom she shares. She holds such a pure, innocent, powerful and clear frequency that is profoundly magnetic. I know I will carry the wisdom, remembrance and clarity I received at this retreat for the rest of my life, into my next lifetimes and beyond.
This retreat not only changed me as a person, it also helped me get clear on my own mission on this Earth, and it made me come home to myself in ways I could have never imagined. A week before the retreat I was diagnosed with ADHD and it shook me a lot. During the retreat, I noticed that all of my intense symptoms that I experience “out in the world” faded like rain before a blazing sun. I felt safe in a way I have never experienced in my life. I felt held and supported, and I feel we unlocked the codes of what true sisterhood means. I literally feel I have made new neural pathways in my brain that are connected to the deepest sense of safety. And I am forever beyond grateful for this!!
I will cherish all experiences, ceremonies, activations, hugs, giggles and profoundly transformative rituals for the rest of my life. I love Dakota’s work, her soul, her presence, and the way she embodies her mission. I hold her and her work in highest regard.
I absolutely LOVED every aspect of this entire retreat. And I recommend everyone to give themselves the gift of learning from Dakota, and bathe in the profound primordial water wisdom she holds.
Mermaids of the Magdalene pilgrimage to the south of France with Dakota was deeply magical and sacred immersion in the holy energy of the south of France, of Mary Magdalene and her teachings, and into us as her by connecting to our own holiness.
Dakota’s love and respect for Mary Magdalena, who she really is, was evident and the basis of drawing each of us together. It felt like this pilgrimage was a legacy of love Dakota had returned to and was now inviting others to return to too. Every moment of it was a dream. Dakota held a container of sisterhood, relaxation, ease, feminine energy, transformation, delight, & peace. Her embodiment of these things made the container natural & supportive. Dakota’s astute professional leadership was wonderful to witness. As a teacher and creator of retreats myself I hold so much appreciation of her work.
All the ceremonies & activities had a beautiful cohesive flow. By the end of the week, I realized we had co-created heaven on earth & it’s that simple to do. Each ceremony, sacred spring, and chapel Dakota had found on her travels and brought us to was a transmission & reminder of this, a calling to step into creating heaven on earth now that we’d remembered we can. This was my most profound realization and became my most profound transformation.
Journeying to the south of France with Dakota was an incredibly transformative experience. There is a certain magic about honoring all that radiates through Dakota—a true Magdalene in every sense of the word, a Water Priestess, and basically Aphrodite incarnate, embodying all aspects of the Divine Feminine in ways that I have never before witnessed in this lifetime until I met her in France. It was evident in the words that she spoke, actions that she took, and pathways that she illuminated for others. The fact that she radiated the beauty of all life in this way, on the sacred lands of the South of France made my pilgrimage that much more potent.
It was nourishing on so many levels—through the historical and spiritual wisdom that Dakota shared of the land, through the ceremony and rituals that we collectively wove, and of course the delicious water that we sourced from sacred springs. The attention and intention to the variety of experiences that Dakota facilitated was so evident as an expression of devotion to her work. In her doing so, it surfaced so much within me—all of which I am looking forward to further exploring, transmuting, and developing. It was an honor to share in this journey with Dakota and to be a part of her work. I come away with more inspiration and devotion to the waters that exist on this Earth and within us, and highly recommend journeying with Dakota to anyone who is called to any or all expressions of her work. In deep gratitude.
The Mermaids of the Magdalene retreat was a highlight of my year and maybe even my life, to be honest! We had the most magical, divine, powerful, and sweet week staying in a castle in the South of France, going to sacred wells and churches, and being in community with other beautiful sisters! Dakota’s transmissions are so pure and grounded in the Earth and herstory. The Christ, Magdalene, Cathar, and Water Priestess codes that she carries and shares are truly transformative. It was a sacred remembering of true community, mystic wisdom, and divine love. This retreat activated something deep within me and I’m forever grateful to Dakota for this one-of-a-kind experience. Only she could create something so pure, so powerful, and so alive with magic!! I feel deeply connected to my lineage, my path as a priestess, my prayers to become a wife and a mother, and the divine. Thanks again for everything and I’m looking forward to the next retreat.
Video from 2024 Pilgrimage
Investment
Castle or Large Private Room w/ Private Bathroom
$6,495
Smaller Private Rooms w/ Shared Bathrooms
$5,959
Shared Room w/ Shared Bathroom
$5,495
The price has increased from last year because I added an extra night, so we have 9 nights together.
PRICE INCLUDES:
5 Month Live Course Valued at $1555
One Integration Zoom Call After the Pilgrimage
3 Meals a Day & Accommodation
All Entrance Fees, Transportation, Ceremonies, Special Gifts & Adventures
DOES NOT COVER AIRFARE OR TRANSPORT TO/FROM AIRPORT
$1000 non refundable deposit to reserve your space.
3 or 6 month Payment Plans Available with Interest. Must be paid in full 30 days before start date.
*Please only apply if you are a yes to the financial commitment.
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QUESTIONS?
Email Aloha@DakotaChanel.com
Dakota Chanel has had the honor of journeying to the south of France for extensive pilgrimage five times over the past 7 years to commune with the land, do research for her upcoming book, and remember the magic of Occitania. Each time she goes, more is revealed. The land is an ancient manuscript that unveils new meaning the more you read it. Dakota has been learning about Mary Magdalene since she was 18, water priestess arts since she was 21 and leading retreats around the world for 9 years. It is her highest joy to share these teachings of love and union to co-create heaven on earth. She can’t wait to share this beautiful journey with you.
SISTERHOOD SUPPORT STAFF
To make sure you feel properly supported during this journey, there will be two amazing women available to offer any additional attention you may require during our time together.
Photography: Sophie Bachere