October 10 – 18, 2026 · France
Joy of Discovery
Sacred France Immersion
A Pilgrimage of Unity, Pleasure, Mysticism, and Homecoming
I am shaking as I write this.
Not from nerves. From realization.
So many of us have done the work. Studied the lineages, embodied the practices, held space for others — year after year. We've invested in therapy, sadhana, shadow work. We've taught, guided, led.
And now we're standing at a threshold "the work" alone can't cross.
This is the question I keep hearing in my own heart and from healers, teachers, coaches, artists who are more awake than they've ever been, and more quietly restless than they want to admit. As AI encroaches on real life more and more, this is the pushback: AH! Taking up space with Authentic Heart. Your gifts are real. The integration is real. But something is waiting that can only be activated in circle — not in a room where one person alone leads and the rest receive, but in genuine co-creation with others who have done the work, and are standing at the same edge.
This pilgrimage is my answer to that question. And I believe it's yours too.
We never really arrive at the full truth.
We only ever uncover it — moment to moment.
Sometimes alone, in the tumult of an inner storm or an a-ha moment that cracks something open in the middle of the night. Sometimes in the company of others — challenged, reflected, expanded by a perspective you didn't know you needed until it landed in your chest like a key.
Joy of Discovery is not a destination. It's an orientation. The willingness to remain a student of life even as you lead. To surrender not just your exhaustion, but your exhilaration too. To hold your knowing lightly. To let the next layer of truth find you rather than chase certainty.
To walk into an ancient grotto and let it teach you something no book ever could.
This is the spirit we carry into France — renewed inspiration, vision, and energy not as outcomes we manufacture, but as what happens naturally when we stop insisting we already know and open to the magic of the moment co-created in circle, in spaces where ceremony and prayer has been channeled for eons.
The Other Half
France doesn't just hold the sacred.
It holds the sensual. The delicious. The alive.
A pilgrimage without pleasure is just penance. And that is not what we are here for.
France is the land that gave the world joie de vivre — the joy of living — and it holds that thread just as fiercely as it holds its cathedrals and grottos. The same country that built Chartres also built the vineyard. The same culture that kept Mary Magdalene's story alive for a thousand years also perfected the long Sunday lunch, the afternoon that asks nothing of you, the dinner table that doesn't end.
This is the balance this immersion is built on. Sacred and sensual. Ceremony and celebration. The masculine architecture of pilgrimage and the feminine rapture of pleasure. Feeding the soul and the body. Both are holy. Both are necessary. And France — perhaps more than any land on earth — holds them both without apology.
The Four Pillars
The Purusharthas as Our Map
The ancient Vedic tradition offers four aims of a complete human life — the Purusharthas. Not a hierarchy, but a compass rose: four directions that, held together, orient every aspect of existence into wholeness. This retreat is structured around all four, across all four directions of the journey — so that no part of you is left behind, and no dimension of life is treated as separate from the sacred.
We will be visiting sacred sites which, as we know, are built on energy centers that have been used for millennia. They may appear as Roman Catholic or Druidic — but they transcend every label. We will work through the energy layer, not the dogma layer.
These sites are like outlets — designed, developed, and recognized for their spiritual power. They've been waiting to charge us to the next level. And to send our collective amplified charge through leylines already living beneath the land of France, quietly humming, waiting for awakened beings to plug in and direct the future we know is possible.
Not from voting and arguing and taking sides. From a sovereign, intentional heart-field that can only be accessed through channeled prayer, unity, and co-creation with pure source energy — God and Goddess, Mother and Father — harmonized in each of our hearts.
This experience is one of pilgrimage and exponential amplification — an application of everything we have been doing and being, directed into a laser beam, 12-unified-into-1, exponentially more potent than what any one of us can do alone.
Imagine waking to the hum of Paris outside your window, the heart-stirring notes of Vivaldi's Four Seasons still resonating through your body. The sublime carving of Mary Magdalene, lifted by angels toward the soaring ceiling of La Madeleine, lingers in your memory as your eyes flutter open. Gratitude swells, awakening a part of you that has been buried — a part of you longing to play and create, to breathe from the deep well of love, unhindered.
Now imagine carrying that love into a cathedral garden. Planting your feet into the earth, raising your heart to the sky — an offering of forgiveness, healing, celebration, poured into the veins of the trees and the mycelial web beneath them. Envisioning a world where harmony is restored, where children are cherished, women are safe and uplifted, men move from integrity and compassion — all of us collaborating in creative flow and courage, illuminated by our own powerful prayer.
The Path
Sacred Sites of France
Nine days. Ancient ground. Intentional presence.
The Sacred France Pilgrimage Route
Nine days · Nine sacred sites · One unbroken circle
A Day on Pilgrimage
The Daily Flow
A rhythm, not a rigid schedule. Expect this to breathe.
- 7:00 – 8:00Morning PracticeKundalini yoga, breathwork, meditation, nature walk — held as a group, calibrated to the energy of the day and the site we're moving toward.
- 8:00 – 9:00Breakfast TogetherUnhurried. French. The day begins at the table, not on a screen.
- 9:30 – 13:00Pilgrimage & Sacred Site VisitGuided immersion at the day's sacred site — history, energy layer work, ceremony, and personal time within the space. Each site gets the time it asks for.Travel between sites is part of the experience — not transit but transition.
- 13:00 – 15:00Lunch & The Long TableThe French midday is sacred in its own right. Local restaurants, local wine, unhurried conversation. No itinerary at the table.
- 15:00 – 17:30Free Time / Optional ExplorationMarkets, bookshops, walks, rest, journaling, or simply being somewhere beautiful, getting a little lost in the nooks and crannies with no particular purpose. Joie de vivre requires no agenda.
- 18:00 – 19:30Integration CircleA held space to process the day — what landed, what shifted, what the sites asked of each of us. Not processing for the sake of it, but because this is where the alchemy happens.
- 20:00 onwardsDinner & EveningLong meals, real conversation, laughter, candlelight. Some evenings have ceremony. Some have music. Some have nothing but good company and that je ne sais quoi.Certain evenings will feature guest speakers, live music, or fire ceremony — announced in advance.
What's Included
Everything Except the Flight
From the moment you arrive to the moment you depart.
Not included: international flights, personal shopping and souvenirs, spa treatments, gratuities.
Getting There
Fly Into Paris
We begin and end in Paris. Fly into either major Paris airport — both are served by major international carriers. Ground transportation from your arrival airport to our first property is included.
We recommend arriving October 9th to settle in before our opening circle on the evening of October 10th. Departure flights on October 18th or 19th.
Investment
Choose Your Sacred Space
All options include the full immersion experience. The difference is only in how you sleep.
Payment plans available. A deposit of $1,000 holds your spot. Remaining balance due 30 days before departure. Ask about payment schedules on the call — we want this to be accessible for the right people.
Where You'll Stay
A Glimpse of the Properties
Making It Accessible
Choose Your Payment Plan
However you book, your $1,000 deposit secures your spot today.
- One payment at booking
- Covers your full tier — Shared, Private, or Couples
- Nothing else to track between now and October
- $1,000 deposit at booking
- Remaining balance due 30 days before departure
- One clean split, no monthly tracking
- Payment 1: $1,000 deposit at booking
- Payments 2–4: remaining balance + $250 plan fee, split into 3 equal installments
- Spaced evenly from booking through 15 days before departure — final payment always lands before you leave
All plans available at registration — select the one that works for you.
The Practical
What You Need to Know
All accommodation, ground transportation, meals, ceremony facilitation, and sacred site access are included from arrival to departure. Your only logistical job is to get yourself to France — we handle the rest.
Who This Is For
You Know This Is You
- Truth seekers and truth speakers — humble enough to say "I don't know," confident enough to say "no," compassionate enough to hold themselves and others with grace
- Those who understand that discovery is never finished — who hold their knowing lightly, stay curious past certainty, and are ready to be genuinely changed by what they encounter
- Those unafraid of the full spectrum — light, dark, and everything between — ready to transmute, love, and uplift in service of collective evolution
- Coaches, healers, teachers, guides, artists, and spiritualists holding the codes of awakening — who have guided others and sacred space for years and are ready to step into the next level of their knowing and vision
- Those standing at the "what now?" threshold — equipped, embodied, integrated, and ready to amplify their gifts in circle rather than in isolation
- Those who know that pleasure is not the opposite of the sacred, and are done pretending otherwise
- Those more committed to walking the talk - as did Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Buddha, Kali, Radha — than believing theirs is the "only way" or fighting for dominance
- Those ready to step into a sacred circle as an integral piece — neither the martyr nor the hero, not the authority, but the courageously curious
- Those who know healing is not achieved in isolation, and are committed to growing and nourishing inter-dependant relationships
Voices From the Path
Those Who Have Walked With Me
Words from past pilgrims, students, and community members.
This retreat is a truly unforgettable and life-changing experience. We had breathwork and ceremony with Alexandra in a truly breathtaking place — a 600-year-old château, whose steward, Edoardo, welcomed us to the land with open arms. Grounding into the divine feminine and Mary Magdalene's story, walking her path in the south of France, changed my world fundamentally for the better. I could not recommend it more.
That journey was one of the most profound experiences of my life. Alexandra crafted an itinerary that offered the perfect balance — I felt utterly supported and safe, yet entirely free. Her loving presence, patience, and profound wisdom grounded our entire group. Alexandra is a rare and beautiful soul who genuinely sees and nurtures the light within everyone she meets. If your heart is whispering to join one of her future pilgrimages, please listen.
Breathwork with Alexandra is a truly profound experience. Her mastery of the breath paired with her incredible ability to create and hold space allows the body, mind, and spirit to fully drop in. I'm beyond grateful to sit in her offerings and always leave grounded and transformed.
Daily pranayama with Alexandra is the easiest, most accessible way to make room for the divine energy of the breath — our first medicine, to calm our hearts and minds, and to help us remember who we are. Showing up for me each day makes all the difference in my life. I can't recommend it more.
I have always experienced Alexandra as a kind of living compass rose, not because she offers a prescribed direction, but because she somehow helps us become quiet enough to remember our own, allowing the path to emerge from the depths of self-remembrance.
She has this rare gift of creating spaces where you can go incredibly deep spiritually while also embracing joy, beauty, laughter, and the fullness of being alive. If you're thinking about joining one of her retreats, GO! You'll come home with so much more than you expected.
Common Questions
Before You Ask
Your Guide
I've Been Preparing for This
Joyful discovery is the journey of life I have uncovered, and keep playing with. Since I left home and moved to Paris at 17, I’ve traveled around the world for most of my life. The road feels most like home. And it’s paved in prayer and transformation, surrender and joy. From all the corners of France and India, Romanian monasteries to secret Indonesian temples, Mali’s Dogon country, the Via Dolorosa in Palestine, the Scottish highlands to the absolutely charged up cliffs of Ibiza, and so on and on and on. I am a traveler, a LOVER, of the sacred and wild sites of this earth. And through 16 years of yoga & Kundalini teaching, breathwork facilitation, and deep, continual, study of art history, esoteric, mesoteric and exoteric wisdom traditions across the world, including the sacred feminine lineage — in France's history, in its stones, in its buried and recovered stories — I have been building toward a transformational container that synthesizes sacred knowledge, hidden history, present downloads, and future evoltion through co-creative experiences.
I'm not bringing you to France just to teach you. I'm bringing *us* to France to discover together — to let ancient sites, honest conversation, heart-based meditations, long meals, and the living frequency of pilgrimage do what a mystical curriculum does - alchemize the past and future through a deeply resonant, intentional and chosen present. This is the magic of sacred circle.
The Invitation
This Isn't a Trip.
It's a Return.
Ready to walk this path? Two ways in.
The full truth was never meant to be possessed.
Only uncovered — moment to moment, united in curiosity, empowered in personal courage.
Mary Magdalene didn't wait to be invited into the story.
She claimed her destiny as soul-bridge. Your destiny is there, in the choices you make and the steps you breathe life into. Walk with us.