March 19-21 | fennville michiganCrossing the Threshold: The Return of Persephone
A Spring Equinox Rite of Passage
Beneath the frozen ground, roots are reaching.
Seeds are softening in the dark.
The world is preparing to become something new.
And so are we.
There are seasons in a woman’s life when the familiar begins to fall away.
When an old identity no longer fits.
When something has ended,
something is changing,
and the woman we are becoming is new to us.
The myth of Persephone and Demeter has lived within these cycles for thousands of years.
It is a story of descent and return, of a mother’s grief and a daughter’s becoming, of the ache of holding on and the necessity of change.
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It reminds us that we can love what we are leaving and still choose to move forward.
That grief and growth can exist together.
That the darkness is not always an ending, but the place where transformation begins.
Crossing The Threshold
This Spring Equinox, we gather at the threshold between what has been and what is becoming.
To honor the woman we have been.
To meet the woman emerging beneath the surface.
To welcome the return of the light without forgetting what the darkness has taught us.
This is not simply another women’s wellness retreat.
It is a Crossing.
A descent into the self. A reclamation of our own power.
A return to the world carrying the wisdom of the seasons we have survived.
THE MYTHIC THREAD
Throughout the weekend, you will not simply hear this ancient story.
You will be invited to live it.
We journey alongside Persephone, Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld, and her mother Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest.
We meet Persephone in the parts of ourselves longing to change, descend into the unknown, and discover who we are beyond the identities we have known. She invites us to reclaim our desires, trust our becoming, and step into our own sovereignty.
We meet Demeter in the parts of ourselves that love deeply, grieve what has changed, long for what once was, and struggle to release what we have held close.
Both live within us.
The part ready to become, and the part still mourning what must be left behind.
The one who longs for freedom, and the one who longs for home.
Through their story, we explore the seasons of our own lives: the endings we have endured, the changes we have resisted, the parts of ourselves waiting beneath the surface, and the possibilities that begin to emerge when we make room for both grief and growth.
“Take the leap. You’ll be held, seen, and heard the entire way through. You’ll meet parts of yourself that are ready to be welcomed. And somewhere along the way, you’ll realize you can be that support for yourself too. It’s the embodiment of what you’ve been seeking.”
— lisa, crossing the threshold retreat
Friday ⟡ I Release
I cross the threshold.
Saturday ⟡ I Descend
I meet myself in the dark.
Saturday Afternoon ⟡ I Remember
Beneath the surface, something is stirring.
Saturday Night ⟡ I Reclaim
I gather my power. I claim my becoming.
Sunday ⟡ I Return.
I carry the wisdom of the dark into the light.
“You’re never too old or too far along in your life’s journey to invest in yourself and to embrace new ideas and patterns. Being able to rediscover yourself and what you are called to be at any stage of life can be so enlightening and powerful. This retreat could be just what your soul has been longing for, it was for me.”
Donna, Crossing the threshold retreatWhat to Expect
We blend guided moments, deep exploration, and space to reflect, so the experience feels both focused and fluid.
❋ Intentional StructureConnection is a core part of the process. We honor each woman’s unique medicine and encourage participation. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the experience itself.
❋ Collaborative EnergyLed by experienced guides who not only know how to hold space but have walked through our own thresholds as well. This means meeting you where you are at and cultivating a container that leads to lasting transformation isn’t just a playbook, but a lived experience that leaves you transformed.
❋ Transformative Facilitation❋ A Supportive SpaceOur retreat prioritizes comfort, safety, and respect, so you can show up as you are and fully engage in the process.
This is more than just a retreat…
It is a rite of passage
A stepping away from the familiar
To reclaim the Queen that lives within you
Retreat Details
March 19th to 21st, 2026
Friday 3 pm through Sunday 3 pm
Fennville, Michigan
Retreat Includes:
⟡ 3 days, 2 nights cozy lux lodging
⟡ All inclusive: once you arrive everything is taken care of
⟡ Private chef created delicious organic plant-forward meals, tea, coffee, and snacks
⟡ 3 facilitators/ guides/ healers for the entire weekend
⟡ Meditation
⟡ Healing sound baths
⟡ Gentle yoga
⟡ Walking trails and guided hikes
⟡ Ceremonial circles with drumming, fire, water rituals
⟡ Peace Labyrinth and Zen Garden
⟡ Beach walks
⟡ Integration coaching session within 14 days post-retreat
EARLY BRID PRICING NOW LIVE
Bring a friend and you both get $100 off
About the space:
Nestled amongst 50+ acres of pristine forest, sits the cozy luxury private oasis where our experience will unfold. Just a short walk from lake Michigan, the land here whispers a special kind of peace. Together we will enjoy over 2 miles of curated trails, a beautiful labyrinth, zen garden, and outdoor fire pit alongside our indoor oasis complete with a sauna. The space is ideal for nature lovers and homebodies alike as the beautiful home has plenty of space to curl up with your journal, tea, or book by the fire. Each room is well appointed, spacious, and well lit to help you feel at home during your stay.
The land here is uniquely suited to this experience. She sings with the most vibrant energy, amplifying our experience together.
Room Style Options
Ensuite: private room with private bathroom
Private: private room with shared hallway bathroom
Bunk room: top & bottom bunk to yourself with shared hallway bathroom
Wanting to attend with a friend, sister, or family? Reach out for special shared room rates.
Enjoy Cozy Luxury
Descend
Remember
Rise“Do it for yourself! This experience was so nourishing and wholesome. It was everything I’ve been missing and didn’t know I needed. I am so grateful that I did this for me. It feels like I have opened a new chapter of self care that is able to coexist in the chaos of life.”
— Liz, Crossing the Threshold Retreat
THIS CROSSING MAY BE FOR YOU IF…
You are standing between who you have been and who you are becoming.
You are navigating an ending, an awakening, or a season of profound change.
You know the ache of letting go of a person, a former life, an identity, or a future you once imagined.
You have spent years tending to others, holding things together, and being who you needed to be.
You feel the tension between the life you know and the life calling you forward.
You recognize something of Persephone in your longing to change, explore the unknown, and reclaim your sovereignty.
You recognize something of Demeter in your devotion, your grief, your longing, and your struggle to release what you love.
You are learning that you can grieve what has been and still make room for what is becoming.
You are learning to let go without forgetting.
You are ready to embrace change without abandoning yourself.
You are ready to discover who you are becoming in the space between loss and rebirth.
You are a woman learning to honor what you have loved, what you have lost, and what is still becoming possible.
You are a woman surrendering to the cyclical nature of the feminine.
You are craving space to honor the endings, inhabit the in-between, reclaim your inner authority, and cross into the next season of your life with greater clarity and intention.
YOU WILL LEAVE WITH…
A deeper relationship with your own intuition and inner authority.
A clearer sense of what you are ready to release, reclaim, and carry forward.
Space to honor an ending without needing to have all the answers.
A renewed relationship with your own desires, boundaries, and becoming.
A ritual object created with your hands to mark this season of transformation.
Somatic and spiritual practices to carry into the season ahead.
A personal Spring Equinox ritual to honor the cycles of your own life.
The collective Crossing the Threshold Recipe & Medicine Book.
You can welcome the woman you are becoming without needing to know her completely.
You are allowed to carry both the darkness and the bloom.
THE INVITATION…
The light is returning, sister.
We invite you to honor the winter you have lived, listen to what is awakening within you, and make room for the next season of your life.
Come as the woman who is grieving.
Come as the woman who is changing.
Come as the woman who can feel something new beginning, even if she cannot yet name it.
There is room here for the one who holds on and the one who is ready to let go.
For the daughter becoming Queen. For the mother learning to release. For every woman standing somewhere between the life she has known and the life she is beginning to imagine.
Whatever season you find yourself in, you are welcome at the threshold.
A woman arrives → crosses → descends → remembers → rises → returns
Meet Your Guides
Rachel Kathryn Weber
Rachel Kathryn Weber is a Chicago-based energy healer, sound healer, and mentor who facilitates women’s courses, retreats, and transformational experiences across the Midwest and the world.
Through her brand Earthed Empress, Rachel creates transformative, life changing experiences that help women activate their power, purpose, and confidence.
Rachel has trained in multiple healing lineages, including becoming a Usui Reiki Master, receiving the Munay Ki Rites (Andean shamanic teachings from the Q’ero peoples in Peru), and learning earth-based wisdom with Shipibo Konibo and Anishinaabe elders. Rachel weaves together embodiment and feminine wisdom through all of her work to help women reconnect to their intuition, heal their lineage, and step into their unique leadership.
Instagram: @earthedempress
Website: earthedempress.com
Anna Lee Jackson
Anna Lee Jackson will be creating in the kitchen, serving delicious meals for the entire retreat! Anna is a holistic nutrition coach passionate about using food as medicine to help women feel their best. After spending decades struggling with her own health — including hormonal imbalances, cystic acne, and weight challenges — she discovered that healing truly begins in the kitchen. Anna believes that nourishing the body with clean, whole foods is one of the most powerful tools for restoring balance and vitality. Her approach centers on practical, plant-forward cooking that supports hormonal health, sustained energy, and overall wellbeing. Through her coaching, she empowers women to transform their relationship with food and build healthy, vibrant bodies from the inside out.
Jacqueline Marie
Jacqueline Marie is a womb-wise guide, Reiki practitioner, and doula for life’s great thresholds—birth, death, motherhood, and rebirth. Her work is rooted in the understanding that the feminine body holds memory, medicine, and profound spiritual intelligence.
Through ritual, presence, and heart-centered care, Jacqueline invites women into deeper intimacy with themselves and the cycles that shape their lives. She holds space not to fix or rush transformation, but to honor it—trusting the wisdom that unfolds when women are truly seen.
Instagram: @earthwombheart
Danielle Loevy
Danielle Loevy is a Chicago-based ICF-certified executive leadership coach and facilitator with a Juris Doctor and a Master's in Learning and Organizational Change. She works with people, teams, and organizations ready to do the deeper work of transformation.
Danielle’s coaching and facilitation is influenced by multiple disciplines, including presence, somatic embodiment, IFS parts work, restorative justice circle-keeping, dream-tending, Shamanic Reiki, and soul craft immersion in nature. She weaves together nervous system healing, body wisdom, and soul inquiry to help people reconnect to their deepest alignment.
Danielle creates retreats because she believes the most important journey any person can take is the one back to the wholeness of themself.
Website: loevyleadership.com
All times are in Eastern Standard Time *preliminary schedule - subject to changeFriday · The Arrival
I. LEAVEI leave the ordinary world.
Arrival3 to 4:30pm
Crossing the physical threshold onto the land: Opening Circle + Tea ceremony Nourishing chef created dinner + desertFireside storytellingyoga nidrasound healing + reikiWe leave the ordinary world and enter a more feminine, instinctual, inward dimension.
Saturday Morning· Entering the Dark
II. DESCENDI enter the dark.
Morning: candlelit awakening with coffee + tea + breakfastbrunch Silent nature walkShamanic journey: Meeting the parts of ourselves we have banishedlunch + rest & digestWhat does my body know that my mind has been trying to override?
9:00am
gentle yogasomatic practice
Saturday Afternoon· Remembering Your Wisdom
III. RemeberBeneath the surface, something is stirring.
We listen for what is asking to be reclaimed. We explore the wisdom held within our seasons of change and create something tangible to mark the passage we are making.
remembering ritual
Saturday Night · Crowning the Queen
IV. ReclaimI gather my power. I claim my becoming.
Through ritual and shared witnessing, we honor the woman we have been and make space for the woman emerging. We explore sovereignty.
Song.
Sound.
Movement.
Drumming.
Words.
Silence.INTEGRATION TIMECELEBRATORY DINNERDRUM CIRCLE + ECSTATIC DANCE AT THE FIRE
Sunday · Carrying Your Medicine Home
V. RETURNI carry the wisdom of the dark into the light.
As the Spring Equinox brings us to the balance of darkness and light, we turn toward the season ahead. We gather what we have learned, name what we are ready to nourish, and cross back into our lives with intention.
Morning: candlelit awakening with coffee + teamorning Medicine-making9:00am
brunchLand + lake closing ritualgoodbyes + departures2:00pm
This is what I am leaving. This is what I am reclaiming. This is what I will bring into Spring.
So are you ready to Cross the Threshold?
Here are your next steps
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If you’d like to speak directly to Rachel, schedule your discovery call. Otherwise, invest your deposit to reserve your spot. Rooms will be assigned on a first come first serve basis.
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⟡ ensuite bedroom with private bathroom
⟡ private bedroom with shared hallway bathroom
⟡ bunk room with shared hallway bathroom
if you’d like to share a room with someone reach out to Rachel for special rates
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As the retreat draws near we will send you everything you need to know- detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, and more.
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Fennville, located in beautiful Southwest Michigan, is a 2.5 hour drive from Chicago and from Detroit. The closest airport is Grand Rapids International, which is 50 minutes away from the house. Once you arrive at the house, there will be no need for a car for the rest of the weekend. We are happy to help answer questions about transportation
This retreat will run with a minimum of 6 participants and maximum of 13. If the minimum is not reached, retreat fee refunds will be issued, but not travel expenses.
IMPORTANT: Please hold off on booking travel until we’ve communicated that the minimum has been reached.
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Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and get excited for your Crossing.