First Moontime

Rites of Passage Training

&
5 Pointed Star Map

Sept 1 -4, Occidental, CA

Join us for a multi day in-person training giving you the materials, experience, and tools to lead folks through a ceremonial process honoring the passage from childhood to adolescence.  This process is effective both for adolescents and women wanting to reclaim their first moon time rite.

Honoring Ceremony Certification

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
$2,000
until May 31st

in this container you will…

  • be given a road map & ceremony for adolescent Menarche rites of passage and retroactive claiming of adolescent menarche rite of passage.

  • be trained in how to hold a group through a process of claiming 5 key points of selfhood - including the pre group work and culminating ceremony

  • experience an overnight ceremony with solo time & sacred fire

  • deepen your relationship to the foundations of ceremony

this group is for you if you…

  • want to hold &/or are already holding groups

  • have basic grounding and experience with nature-based mentorship

  • are comfortable exploring our female biology*

  • are comfortable in nature & camping without the creature comforts of home

*this work is designed for girls, women, and non-binary folk assigned female at birth (AFAB)

Format

In-person Retreat
Sept 1-4, 2025
Private home in Occidental, CA

In addition…

  • 2 virtual group pre-meetings

  • 4 virtual group post-meetings

  • one 1:1 consultation with Rachel or Sarai

Camping with communal kitchen will be available on-site for the retreat

Reciprocity

sliding scale

$2,800 - full tuition

$2,200 - supported tuition

$3,600 - generosity - I can support someone else’s participation

**space is limited to 12 participants

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION

$2,000 UNTIL May 31

Your Guides…

  • Rachel Ruach Golden is a cultural midwife; helping us individually and collectively come back into remembrance and alignment with the earth and spirit around us. She has been working in the ceremonial arts and rites of passage field for the last 20 years. Training in wilderness survival skills, deep nature connection, ancestral skills, cultural regeneration, and rites of passage. Then put through her own Spirit led, multi-year initiation, Rachel, founded and runs the Tree of Life Adulthood Initiation for the last 15 years. www.treeoflifeinitiation.org

    Currently, she is raising her 3 children in the forests of Occidental, California, working with groups and individuals as a spiritual mentor, running earth based ceremonies, holding first moon & adulthood initiation rites alongside other ceremonies, while training to be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

  • Sarai Nicolina is a spiritual counselor & life-coach, guide, mentor, ceremonialist, artist, and earth-lover. She has spent her life dedicated to the weaving of personal and collective transformation and liberation and supported hundreds of people from youth through adulthood, through transformational experiences that invoke a heart-full connection to self, community, earth, and spirit.

    She co-create and direct Wilderness Torah's Rite of Passage program (B'naiture) and then founded the organization Gaia Passages in Berkeley. She spent many years on the ground mentoring youth, developing curriculum and training mentors.

    Currently she holds women's and all gender adult retreats and ceremonial group containers for healing and transformation from her landbase in Sebastopol with her sweetie and other amazing collaborators. www.sarainicolina.com