Metamorphosis Retreat
A 5-Day Rite of Passage Retreat
in the Highland Desert | Taos, NM
April 30th - May 4th
Metamorphosis Retreat
A 5-day Rite of Passage retreat to hold you through a true metamorphosis — a sacred ending, a transformative threshold, and the birth of who you are meant to become.
A conscious severing from what is complete, outdated, or dissolving. A descent into the liminal space of becoming. A life-altering transformation at the core of your being. A powerful emergence into a new internal embodiment, chapter, and season in your life…
❋ Ceremony, Rituals + Intentional WritingThrough intentional ritual, ceremony, and guided writing practices, you will be supported to release the identities, patterns, and stories that no longer hold truth, so you can cross the threshold and rise into deeper alignment with who you are becoming.
❋ Nature ImmersionMetamorphosis invites you to attune to the rhythms of the land and the seasonal energetics of Beltane. Time in nature becomes a mirror and catalyst, supporting grounding, nervous system regulation, wisdom beyond the mind, and a felt sense of renewal as you move through change.
❋ Expert FacilitationYou will be held in a carefully curated container guided by experienced facilitation rooted in ceremonial leadership, rite of passage support, and deep respect for the initiatory process. Every element of the retreat is intentionally woven to support depth, integrity, and true transformation, allowing you to surrender into the process while being skillfully guided through each stage of the journey.
❋ Subconscious Alchemy + Rite of Passage GuidanceThis retreat is held as a true rite of passage. You will be guided through subconscious and somatic processes that support severance, rebirth, and integration, working beneath the surface to transform what has been shaping your choices, relationships, self-expression, and daily life.
Metamorphosis is a 5-day retreat held at Beltane, a time traditionally associated with transition, growth, and new beginnings.
This retreat is a sacred rite of passage.
An invitation to shed the skin of who you have been, enter the cocoon of the unknown, and emerge renewed, clarified, and alive in who you’re becoming.
Over five days, you are guided through Severance, Rebirth, and the Return:
⟡ Releasing what’s no longer true — previous chapters, identities, ways of being, patterns, stories, and what’s been subconsciously holding you back.
⟡ Enter the threshold transformation — not who you were, yet not who you’re becoming — in the sacred liminal of transformation.
⟡ Stepping boldly into your next chapter — and who you are, now — with clarity, coherence, confidence, and inner embodiment.
Metamorphosis honors the natural cycles of death, change, and rebirth within you.
This is a space to pause, to unwind, to feel, to listen, to surrender — and to allow life itself to reshape you — from the inside, out.
So that your next beginning is rooted in truth rather than the patterns of who you’ve been.
This is not a retreat you attend.
This is a threshold you cross.
This is a rite of passage that you undergo.
You will not be the same woman you arrived as.
You will leave having stepped fully into a new chapter and new version of yourself — transformed, integrated, and anchored in someone you have never quite experienced before.
Metamorphosis is here to usher you into the woman you’re desiring to become.
She requires space. She requires pattern disruption from her daily life. She requires land-based wisdom, ceremony, ritual, and the opportunity to hear the wisdom of her Soul. She requires you to step beyond who you’ve known yourself to be… so you can blossom into something entirely new.
This is the rite of passage.
The power of Retreat
There are certain transformations that can only take place when you leave the routine and ecosystem of your ordinary life.
When you are held within community, the natural world, and clear guidance… something begins to soften. The identities you’ve been carrying loosen their grip. The life, beliefs, stories, and patterns you’ve been upholding can be gently unraveled. You are able to slowly drop beneath the surface and listen… to your inner wisdom, your truth, and what is ready to be laid down and born.
In Metamorphosis, you are given the time, space, and intentional containment to slow down and listen beneath the noise of everyday life. This is a place to release what is complete, to lay down identities and ways of being that no longer reflect your truth, and to meet yourself in the threshold of change.
As you cross this threshold, a new chapter begins to take shape… one rooted in deeper clarity, embodied truth, and a more honest alignment with who you are becoming.
This is not mindset work, a yoga retreat, or a vacation from your reality. Metamorphosis is a rite of passage, designed to support profound inner transformation that reverberates outward, altering how you live, relate, and embody who you are in the world.
Ceremony, Rite of Passage, & Subconscious Alchemy
The work held within Metamorphosis is ceremonial by nature, guided by the understanding that true transformation unfolds through initiation, not information. This is a container that will hold you through a process of death and rebirth, not just teach you about it.
Through ritual, ceremony,rite of passage frameworks, and practices that illuminate the subconscious, we create the conditions for what has been held beneath the surface, sometimes for years, sometimes for a lifetime… to gently come into awareness.
This work illuminates the unseen patterns, beliefs, stories, and identities that have been shaping your life from behind the scenes, so they can be released, alchemized, reoriented, and integrated with clarity and care.
When this level of inner alchemy occurs, change is no longer effort-based. The direction of your life begins to shift organically, because you are moving from a deeper truth within yourself. Metamorphosis is designed to support this kind of transformation.
One that alters how you experience life and yourself long after the retreat has ended. This is the work of life-altering, identity-based change, that brings long-lasting sustainable transformation in your life.
Metamorphosis is here to bring you through a rite of passage — From the woman you were before this retreat… into the unrecognizable woman on the other side of this threshold.
This is for you if…
You’re in a period of a life transition: an ending, beginning, an in-between or unknown and you’re desiring a retreat that will hold you in who you were, the in-between, and who you’re becoming.
You’ve gone through a life-altering transition — and you’re ready for a container that can hold you as you compost what was, metabolize who you were, and rise into the woman you are becoming — with clarity, coherence, and deep integration.
You’re craving a new beginning in your life — you know you’ve outgrown the current life and you’re craving the time, space, and ability to actually transform at the root — so you can rise into a new life and version of yourself.
You’re craving a space that goes deeper than the healing you’ve already experienced — beyond therapy, beyond healing modalities, beyond trying to fit transformation into a few hours of your day… and into something that actually meets you at the root.
You are ready to release identities, patterns, or ways of being that have been holding you back and no longer reflect your truth, and rise into the next version of yourself — empowered, anchored in your truth, and able to create the life you deeply desire.
You feel called to step away from your daily routines and responsibilities to listen more deeply, slow down, hear the wisdom of your own Soul, connect with the wild landscape of Northern New Mexico, and allow a more true, empowered, and honest version of yourself to emerge.
You are desiring to rise into greater personal power and alignment, and to expand into who your life is asking you to become — no longer living from old conditioning, but rather from a deeper sense of truth, agency, and self-trust.
You sense that this next chapter calls for your full presence, your full attention, and your willingness to become who you’ve been waiting for.
Retreat Details
Metamorphosis is an intentionally crafted 5-day retreat designed to support your rebirth through a container that holds both depth and spaciousness.
Over five days, you will be guided through:
⟡ Daily rite-of-passage rituals and ceremonies
⟡ Earth-based rituals
⟡ Daily Tea Ceremonies
⟡ Guided meditations
⟡ Intentional writing practices
⟡ Somatic movement
⟡ Subconscious coaching support
⟡ Periods of sacred solitude
⟡ Option for river nudity on retreat property
⟡ Immersive connection with the natural world
⟡ Local land excursions, allowing the landscape of Taos to become an active participant in your initiatory journey
Throughout the retreat, we move through the three stages of a rite of passage, allowing you to experience the full spectrum of alchemy:
⟡ Release and Severance
⟡ Liminality, Transformation, and Alchemy
⟡ Integration and Reclamation
This container provides both spacious encouragement to turn inward and intentional opportunities for connection, reflection, and shared presence within community.
Day OneArrival & Drop-in
Arrive and settle into the retreat space, leaving behind the rhythms of everyday life. A shuttle will pick participants up from Santa Fe earlier in the day, supporting a smooth arrival by 4 PM. For those local or traveling by their own vehicle, you’re welcome to arrive at 4PM.
We begin together with an opening ceremony, marking the threshold of this container.
Check-In4pm mst
Dinner 5pm
Evening Ceremony6:30pm — 9pm
Day 2Severance: Beltane
On the second day, we step fully into the Severance stage of the rite of passage, aligned with the potent fire and vitality of Beltane. This is a day dedicated to illuminating and beginning to release what has completed its cycle… patterns, identities, relationships, and stories that have quietly shaped your life but no longer serve your growth.
BreakfastIn Silence
Tea CeremonyLunchLand-based ritualSolitude & Land-ConnectionEvening RitualDinner
Day ThreeThreshold: The In-Between
Day three brings us into the Threshold, the liminal space between what has ended and what is emerging. This is a day for slowing down, listening deeply, and sitting in the “in-between” of transformation.
BreakfastIn Silence
Tea Ceremony under the WillowsSacred Solitude in the Natural WorldLunchWriting Practice & RitualDinnerSomatic Dance Journey
Day FourDay four guides us into Reclamation, where emergence begins. After the deep liminality of the Threshold, this is a day for reclaiming your power, truth, newfound clarity, and embodiment in your life. Anchoring new identities, beliefs, stories, and patterns.
Reclamation & Return - River Day
BreakfastIn silence
Tea CeremonyLocal nature excursion for river day + hike + nature-based practicesLunchRestClosing CeremonyDinner
Day FiveIntegration & Departure
The final day holds a gentle, reflective energy. It is a time to absorb and integrate the shifts of the retreat, honoring the thresholds crossed and the transformations that have taken place. With a quiet sunrise tea ceremony and shared breakfast, you are invited to hold space for gratitude, presence, and embodied reflection, carrying the clarity, insight, and renewed vitality of your journey into the life that awaits beyond the retreat.
A shuttle will pick up participants from the retreat to depart for Santa Fe at 9 am. The shuttle will arrive in Santa Fe at 10:30am. Please plan any flights or onward travel accordingly to take the shuttle.
Sunrise Tea Ceremony6:00am - 7:30am
Breakfast9:00am
Departure7:30am - 8:30am
The land & retreat space
Many Feathers Ranch is nestled on the West facing slope of the quiet canyon at the base of Taos Ski Valley. With wonderful views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and wide open countryside. The five acre property is surrounded by moving water on its north and south edges. Ponds throughout the property, reflecting the sky and inviting a wide range of wildlife.
This 8,000 square foot retreat home, nestled within the ancient Willow trees, gives you ample space to tune into your own process, unwind in your own energy, and enjoy the vast and wild surrounding landscape.
This retreat takes place on the ancestral lands of the Tiwa Peoples in what is now known as Taos, New Mexico. We gather with deep respect for the land, its original stewards, and the wisdom carried through generations. The natural landscape of Taos is not merely a backdrop. It is an active presence — holding, reflecting, and supporting the initiatory work of Metamorphosis. We approach this land with humility, gratitude, and reverence, honoring its rhythms as part of the container that makes this work possible.
Meet Your Retreat Facilitators
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Mandalynn is a Rite of Passage Guide, Subconscious Coach, and Life Doula, who supports women to undergo profound transitions of death and rebirth, navigate life thresholds, and rise into greater personal power, agency to create their dream lives, and expansion into who they are being asked to become.
Her work is rooted in the modern-day rite of passage, offering women the opportunity to descend into the underworld of their inner life —releasing what no longer serves them, confronting limiting stories, and reclaiming the truth of their soul. Beyond societal and familial conditioning, beyond the “shoulds,” this work allows women to access their innate medicine, power, creativity, and wildness.
Mandalynn has held dozens of women through rite of passage and rewilding retreats, witnessing the profound transformation that unfolds when one steps away from the familiar rhythms of life and engages fully in the initiatory process. She understands how essential it is to create a container where women can surrender, reflect, alchemize, and emerge renewed.
Her approach weaves together rite of passage frameworks, subconscious coaching, ecopsychology, ritual, and ceremonial practices, enriched by her background in permaculture and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She supports women in embodying the alchemical process of death and rebirth, holding tender, real, and raw space for each step of the journey.
Throughout the retreat, she holds tender, real, and raw space — offering guidance through ritual, ceremony, subconscious alchemy, tea practices, and somatic work — supporting women as they navigate the profound death and rebirth that Metamorphosis invites.
Mandalynn’s medicine is fierce, bold, and loving. She is a tender of the underworld, guiding women through the descent and ascent of transformation with clarity, care, and devotion. Through her own embodiment of death and rebirth, she demonstrates the power of integration, the harvesting of gold from shadow, and the emergence into full, wild expression.
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Lexi is a grief-tender, poet, and nourishment-centered chef whose work is anchored in the terrain of loss, motherhood, and ritual. She guides others through the meeting place of grief and healing - where nourishment becomes ceremony, writing becomes a compass, and community becomes a gathered place of support.
Her work is rooted in the belief that transformation unfolds when we slow down enough to listen to the body, the land, and the internal stories asking to be told. Through writing circles, retreats, and seasonal rituals, Lexi creates containers that are both gentle and grounded, offering space for women to be witnessed in their truth and held in moments of transition.
Having walked through the profound grief of losing her daughter, Lexi brings a depth of presence and steadiness to the spaces she holds. She offers safety for others to meet their own edges with honesty and care creating an environment of trust where release, reflection, and integration can unfold in naturally.
At this retreat, Lexi will walk alongside participants through each phase of the rite of passage, using guided writing, visualization, and reflective practices to help them go deeper within their own process and transformation.
Reserve Your Spot-
On our Registration page, you’ll find varying accommodations for the retreat alongside price points. Once you figure out which room option you would prefer, you can submit your application.
Note: There are limited spots available for this retreat.
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Sign up and pay all required fees to reserve your spot.
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After booking, we'll send you a Welcome Packet with everything you need to know — detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, shuttle times to coordinate booking your flights, and more.
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We'd recommend booking your transportation to and from the event as soon as possible, to ensure you can arrive without any complications or delays.
We encourage flights to and from the Santa Fe airport — as the shuttle will be picking up and dropping off participants from this airport.
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Set your intentions for this retreat and honor it as the rite of passage it truly is. Join us in the highland desert of Northern New Mexico!
