BAPTIZE: the retreat

Refresh & renew your soul under the full moon of September 2025! With a guided virtual retreat, you will be led to a body of water near you for a ritual of self-baptism.

Many are baptized as children or not at all, and do not have access to the power of God's presence through the ritual and sacrament of baptism.

In my life, God has come to me most powerfully through water. I was baptized full immersion as an adult into Christianity, but before then I was always asking, where do I belong, what is my spiritual home?

Baptism has been used as a tool of coercion and of colonization, but baptismal vows encourage us to the de-colonial work of resisting evil and following a path of radical love. By renewing our baptism and by regarding water as a sacred being rather than a resource, can we listen to God's voice and the spirit of water? Can self-(re)baptism be soul nurture for justice work?

This summer I am learning from Indigenous women about the way the waters of the earth are calling us and seeking us to heal.

The voice of 1st century Thecla is having a moment of resurrection; come to hear her story and lear the wisdom of early-christian sacred-feminine practice of Self-Baptism through the story of Thecla: of knowing your own voice as sacred.

First on Friday September 5, 2025 we gather from 5pm-6pm EST for a Ceremony & Ancient Story Telling about Thecla the sacred and lost art of Self-Baptism 

Then on your own time over the days of Sept 5-7 I will give you instructions to do a self-guided Full Moon Ritual of Self Baptism.

On Saturday September 6, 2025 11am- 1pm EST, I will share teaching on the Sacrament & Ritual of Baptism where you can renew your baptismal vows.

September 7th Closing Full Moon Ritual and Integration of the wisdom you learned from water.

Location: ZOOM & a body of water near you

Say no more, I am ready to renew my soul!

early bird price $370 until August 9

 



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 BAPTIZE: the retreat

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BAPTIZE:

1.Opening Virtual Ceremony & Ancient Story Telling Friday September 13, 2024 from 5-6pm EST ZOOM

 

2. Self-guided

Self-Baptism/ Water Blessing

Anytime over the weekend of Sept. 13th-17th in-person with a body of water near you!

 

3. Saturday September 14th 11am EST, Teaching on the Ritual of Baptism, ZOOM

 

4. Integration & Full Moon Closing Ceremony September 18th 7-8pm EST, ZOOM 

 

over ZOOM & with a body of water near you

 $444 

early bird price of $370 until May 10!

If finances are a barrier for you, please reach out to me. I want everyone to have access to this work who desires to be there.

Join me to learn the radical and lost art of self-baptism. You will be guided to explore the wild waters near you.

First we begin with an Opening  Ceremony on Friday Sept 13th where we will hear the ancient and empowering story of Thecla, the girl who Baptized herself.

I will give you a ritual script to perform your own Self-Baptism over the next few days on your own time.

On Saturday Sept 14th I will teach on the Ritual of Baptism 

Sunday night we will have a Closing Ceremony for integration

Full Moons help us feel the power of the waters and tune in to our inner wisdom and knowing. Eclipses hold the power of baptism, of death and rebirth. The sacrament of baptism is closely guarded by the church, but I believe it can become a ritual of empowerment used at anytime and place.

 

I will guide you into stillness, to listen for what dreams through you.

Each of us has a sacred call in life, and it changes season to season.

Who do you want to be in this season? How do you want to live differently? What do you truly desire? What kind of life are we ready to create? What is your soul calling you to?

 

Come to be held and supported by me with a circle of like-minded others to call in the version of yourself that is most empowered and connected and supported.

Come to be refreshed and nourished by divine love and by the waters. 

 

You will be guided in embodied meditation & invited into a ritual of healing and death and rebirth of baptism.

 

You will learn about the ancient practice of self-baptism, a ritual of empowerment and protection to connect to God anytime and anyplace.

 

 

You will experience fresh ways to approach this ancient ritual of renewal and access the power of God in water.

 

You will invite your soul to speak and learn tools to listen to the flow of God in your life.  

 

You will be invited to create sanctuary in your own home & set aside time to nourish your soul and your connection to source.

 

You will connect to a community of like-minded others, longing for life to drip with beauty and meaning.

 

You will be invited to learn about your local water-shed and a water source near you, and love God through loving the earth.

You will come away convicted of your own belovedness and empowered to step bravely into a new soul-sourced vision for your life.

 

The ancient art of self-baptism is a sacred-feminine practice, and by that I mean a practice that is honoring the body, the earth, and the innate sacred autonomy of each being. You need not identify as femme or a woman to attend. All people are welcome to this retreat in the fullness and beauty of your sexual orientation and gender identity. While this retreat will blend pagan and animist earth honoring traditions with early Christian spiritual practice, people of all spiritual practices are welcome. A warm and radical welcome to you, who ever you are and wherever you are on life's journey. We will draw on Christian themes and ancient texts in the Christian tradition that will come alive in new ways

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$370 early bird sign me up for BAPTIZE the retreat! 

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