SEPTEMBER 4 through 7, 2025
This is a weekend for women 60 years of age and older who want to honour their elderhood in a ceremonial way and consciously take on the role of community elder.
An overview of the weekend:
Thursday: Arrival, dinner, fire ceremony
Friday: Movement, opening circle, small group sharing, group activity, sweat lodge
Saturday: Movement, sharing circle, group activity, medicine ceremony
Sunday: Movement, sharing circle, nutrition & herbs class, group activity,
Initiation ceremony and reception.
We will send out more specific information including what you need to bring with you, once your registration is complete.
REGISTRATION:
Please cut and paste the following questions and answers into a new document.
Name:
Phone:
Address:
Email:
Age
What is your living situation?
Do you have experience with plant spirit medicine? Specify
Have you participated in a sweat lodge?
Do you have dietary restrictions? Specify
Health Challenges? Specify
We are asking a collaboration of $500 to $700. Amount you can contribute:
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Please send a $50 deposit (refundable) and your registration answers to:
Luzia, 831 Brookside Drive, Felton, CA 95018
Bring balance in cash to the event
For more information, call Luzia at (831) 335-7977
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Luzia Embodying Womanhood is the newest expression of my life’s work as a medicine woman. Through my clinical practice, formerly Psycho-Spiritual Integration, now called Integrating Spirit. My eyes and heart were opened to the sincere yearning and necessity my female clients expressed for Rites of Passage. As a pastoral counselor and an initiated woman, I realized that this is not an event, it is a process that merits deep consideration and guidance on all levels. Within my reflections, a form began to emerge, a journey around the medicine wheel and the recreating of ourselves in each direction. The ideas for this program have been percolating in my consciousness for a few years. Suddenly, six months after my 60th birthday, the spirit of Embodying Womanhood took me over and moved me into action. I feel blessed that so many wonderful, talented and accomplished women, friends, colleagues, and God-daughters have joined me and are bringing their gifts to this program. I believe the process of Self Realization, through Initiation, provides us with the mental, emotional, and spiritual resources we need to become well balanced, productive and creative members of the society we live in; and enables us to serve more fully our Mother Earth and the Creator we pray to.
My Integrating Spirit work includes Pastoral Counseling, Bio-energetic Analysis, Amazonian Flower Remedies and B.R.E.T.H work for individuals, including children, adolescents, and couples. I offer personal retreats at my home and temple in Felton, California, for individuals, couples and small groups. These retreats are self-designed and reflect the needs and desires of the participants.
I also offer “Encounters with the Divine”, a 2-4 day residential workshop that includes plant spirit medicine rituals, B.R.E.T.H work, bodywork and group sharing. I am co-creator of “Circles of Light, Self-realization Work,” a ritual based in the Santo Daime tradition and “Daime Therapy” which are individual Diame sessions combining medicine work, intention, and prayer. For more information on my life and work, please visit my website: www.integrating-spirit.com.
Kristen Joy Galbraith lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally from California, her life journey has brought her through 27 countries so far. She is a student midwife, medical assistant, and student working towards eventually becoming an integrative nurse practitioner. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, basic Navajo, and sees cultural and traditional knowledge as being important parts of medicine. Her time spent living and traveling in Latin America exposed her to working with plant medicines and traditional healing practices.
When she isn’t studying or working, Kristen performs semi-professionally in the circus arts as an aerialist, clown, and stilt-walker. She sees circus and physical theater as opportunities to convey powerful messages in a way that is meaningful to the audience and performer. It is also a place where complex stories can be told, difficult topics can be addressed, and healing can happen through movement. She is currently working on a one-woman show about modern womanhood.
