Classes & Events
The Unseen Threshold
Separation and Divorce as Sacred Passage
November 13–16, 2025
Earth Song Sanctuary
Western North Carolina, USA
A ritual immersion retreat for adult women navigating - or integrating - the transformational process of separation or divorce
The Unseen Threshold is a sacred space for women who are walking — or have walked — through the dissolution of marriage or an ending to a partnership. Divorce or separation is not only an ending, but also a profound initiation, a passage that reshapes identity, belonging, and the path ahead. This retreat offers a circle of nourishment, ritual, and recognition where women can be witnessed, held, and empowered to reap the profound benefits of this transformation.
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This is a rite of passage for women reclaiming themselves from the fires of separation. Through elemental ritual, body practice, grief ceremony, and creative expression, you will be met exactly where you are and supported in remembering who you are becoming.​
Program Highlights
• Art Therapy: Creative expression to give form to the unseen layers of this journey.
• Food as Medicine: Shared meals and teachings on nourishment as a way to restore body and spirit.
• Council & Story: Circles of truth-telling and deep listening, where each woman’s experience is honored.
• Nature Immersion: Practices of connection with the land to mirror and support inner renewal.
• Somatic Experiencing: Gentle body-based practices to shift energy and awareness.
​We recognize the ending of a relationship not as failure, but as initiation, a rite of passage into a deeper embodiment of truth, power, and soul, a passage that can feel like death and a rebirth, a rupture and a remembering.. Through ceremony, we speak to the wisdom of our body the way no words can. Together, we will tend the ashes of what has ended, and invoke the seeds of what is ready to be born.
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​Program Details
5 pm Thursday November 13th until 2 pm Sunday November 16th
Earthsong Sanctuary, 15 miles South West of Asheville, North Carolina
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Elemental Rituals & Ceremonial Arts
Work with the elements — fire, water, earth, and air — to honor endings, release old stories, and call back your life force. Among many other earth based practices- We will receive a Waterfall Purification Ritual, a full-body prayer for renewal.
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Grief Tending & Grief Ceremony
You will be held in a safe, sacred space to feel and express grief through ritual, sound, movement, and communal witness. Together we will honor loss as medicine and create beauty from the breaking of what was.
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Breathwork, Somatic Practice & Yoga
Daily practices to restore balance in the nervous system, ground the body, and help energy flow. You’ll leave with tools to soothe anxiety, regulate emotion, and come home to your body.​
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Art & Creativity as Healing
Guided creative sessions to alchemize pain into beauty with ritual art as doorway to integration, healing and re-membering who you are.
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Council & Deep Listening
Enter sacred council space where your story is heard, your voice matters, and your truth is honored. Receive the medicine of being deeply witnessed.
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Nourishment & Food as Medicine
Enjoy exquisite, healing meals prepared with love. Let yourself receive a multi course sensory feast to connect with the pleasure and participate in a cooking class to integrate kitchen skills and wisdom on nourishment as devotion.
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Fireside Evenings & Stargazing
Sing under the stars. Sit by the fire. Let the night hold what words cannot.
The Facilitators​​​
Lena Eastes
Lena Eastes is devoted to cultural renewal, Earth connection, and sacred rites of passage. With contagious joy and deep empathy, she inspires others to live in alignment with their inner wisdom, the rhythms of nature, and the call of justice and beauty.
For over 16 years, Lena has led transformational Rites of Passage for girls and women. As the founder of Earth Path Education, with a sacred calling as a thresHOLDER, she lovingly officiates life’s major thresholds.
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She is a singer for the Earth, a protector of childhood and human dignity, and a creative artist of community and ceremony. Whether she's playing flute to the sunrise, blessing waters, crafting herbal medicine, or hiding in a bush during a Deer & Coyote game, Lena brings fierce grace, presence, and a wild-hearted devotion to all she touches.
Lena walks as student, teacher, mother, mentor, divorcee and friend—with reverence for the plant world, the spirit world, and the deep intelligence of each being she meets, weaving sacred ceremony with the world around her.
Evelyn Irving
Evelyn Irving is an Ayurvedic practitioner, holistic chef, and above all, a guide into unknown territory. From horseback trail rides along the Pacific Crest Trail to leading bicycle tours through New England, she has long helped others find their way through both landscapes and life-scapes. Today, she brings that same spirit of guidance to the thresholds of healing and transformation.
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Her own divorce in 2017 deepened this calling, affirming that stepping into new chapters—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—requires perseverance and devotion to the path ahead, even when that path is unknown. With decades in the healing arts, a background in hospitality and nutrition, she bridges ancient wisdom with modern life, striving to make it both accessible and personally relevant.
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She is honored to be walking beside others as they reclaim vitality, rediscover nourishment, embrace their whole selves and step with courage into the next chapter of their becoming. Whether in the kitchen, the consultation room, or under open skies, Evelyn brings presence, intuition, and care, holding space for each person’s unique rhythm, resilience, and unfolding.
​​Accommodations
Hosted at Earth Song, a micro retreat center 25 minutes from Asheville Regional Airport, and nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina with flower gardens, long-distance mountain views, and a feeling of homecoming.
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Lodging Options:
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private bedroom
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indoor communal sleeping space
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camping under the stars
The land offers mountain views, gardens, walking trails, and fireside spaces for reflection and gathering.
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Cost
$680 - $880
Includes lodging, meals, and all program materials.
Payment plans and locals commuter option available upon request.
Limited spots available to keep an intimate circle. Please join us.
