Mari Altar Ceremonial Yearlong

for Adults

Ready for Time for You?

It is essential that we female folk, as keepers of rhythm, tune back into the ancient source of wisdom and knowing.

You are a fountain.

How do you stay nourished and able to tend your creative projects?

Who are Your Allies and How do you Feed them?

What tools and resources do you have to naviage life’s twists and turns?

We are inviting you in to slow down, drop in, feel, listen, & pray.

We are inviting you to use the ancient technology of ceremony for healing and becoming whole.

Mari Altar Ceremonial Yearlong

for women* who are passed the adulthood initiation threshold**

August 2026 – June 2027

The Offering‍ ‍

We will gather as adult women* on the path of growth and transformation for four days each season.

Retreats include body & nature connection, ceremonial time with the elements, and time for integration, rest & rejuvenation.

We will take space for personal reflection & growth; to integrate, digest, nourish, and expand while being held and guided into ceremony.

Our ceremonial container is based in a Hebraic & Christian Lineage of The Mari Altar & The Kabbalistic Tree of Life & the 9 Points of the Queen’s Crown.

We will explore how to utilize ceremony as a technology for healing and how to use our whole beings as vessels for prayer.

We are given the Gift of Creation, the Gift of Heart, and the Gift of the Mind. As we align our Spirit with the Earth and these Gifts, incredible shifts happen in our lives.

Artwork by Elena Pinsky

What We Offer

  • Art Work by Elena Pensky

    This Container Is Designed for You to...

    Slow down, drop in, listen, feel, & pray

    deepen your relationship to the foundations of ceremony

    deepen your relationship with nature & the elemental world

    grow your capacity for being a vessel for prayer & co-creation

    form community with others on this journey

    Work with ancient and new Maps for Living Life Fully

  • This group is for you if you are...

    *In a female body & are comfortable identifying as a woman

    **walking as an adult in your life

    (mid 30's & up)

    comfortable exploring your female biology

    comfortable in nature & camping with compost toilet and an outdoor kitchen

    yearning for a place and way to listen, emote, feel, and pray

  • Course Format

    Ceremonial Retreats will be held in Occidental, California at a private home.

    We gather from Thursday 4pm through until Sunday 3pm.

    In between retreat weekends we gather once/month online for council & wisdom shares.

    Retreat Dates:

    2026

    1st retreat: Sept. 3 - 6

    2nd retreat: Nov 12 - 15

    2027

    3rd retreat: March 4 - 7

    4th retreat: June 3 -6

  • “Rachel Ruach Golden is bringing through ancient wisdom that our current times call for.

  • Her retreats have enough space for each person to engage the material at their deepest level so that they can connect with themselves, the natural world, their ancestry and the others in the circle.

  • I leave each retreat feeling refreshed, connected, and inspired."

    - Lauren Tolk, Mari Altar Ceremonial Group Participant

  • “It is a gift to work with Rachel! She is a gifted facilitator who brings a depth of experience and wisdom into how she teaches and guides.

  • “Working with Rachel has helped me to fortify and tend my relationship with the earth and spirit in ways I have been needing and longing for.

  • “I feel more connected and in tune with myself and life through the Mari Alter Ceremonial Group and through Rachel's steady, gentle, wise, and attuned presence as a guide."

    - Colette Virostko, Mari Altar Ceremonial Group Participant

The Mari Altar Yearlong includes:

  • Deep Nature Connection

  • Kabbalistic Tree of Life

    Kabbalistic Tree of Life

  • Rest & Rejuvenation

  • Ceremony Time

    Ceremony Time

  • Harvesting & Handcrafting Offerings

  • Way of Council

  • Solo Fire Ceremony

  • Personal Practices

  • Somatic Resiliency

*We are inviting female bodied folk (AFAB) who are comfortable with their female biology to join this group. We hold gender as a spectrum, as well as fluid in time. Wherever you fall on the gender spectrum right now, is fine for this container. And we support you, if you identify as and want to celebrate being a woman.

** By intention or through the path of walking on this planet and aging beyond mid 30’s, this offering is for those who are squarely sitting in their adult years. Our definition of adult is that you know, in essence, who you and what your gifts are and that you are ready and able to be in Service to something larger than yourself. This container is not for those looking to “find themselves” or “understand what I am here to do”. Please refer to the adulthood initiation journey for this stage. Rather, it is for folks who know what they are here to do ~ and want to drop into the inquiry of how to do it really well; how to harness and fine tune who they are and utilize one’s vessel as a vessel for prayer and manifestation.

Reciprocity

Sliding Scale

$3,600 - Full Tuition

$2,800 - Supported

$4,400 - Generosity; support someone else’s journey

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION

$2200 until May 31st

~ Payment in 4 installments is available ~

~ Space is limited to 13 participants ~

~ Register to secure your spot ~