Butterfly Women Retreat - Asheville, North Carolina

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Dec 1

Words will never, ever be able to do justice to how powerful and meaningful photographing this retreat was for me. The Butterfly Womxn Retreat was held over 7 days on a magickal property in Asheville, North Carolina and lead by the incredible Maya Night. This retreat was also where the Initiation experience was fully birthed.

I got to spend the week immersed in ceremony and community with these women, witnessing them doing deep personal work, and move through powerful experiences together. The day before we left, we finished our time together with a group photo Initiation.

I spent time with each womxn, creating space for her to embody different parts of herself. Then we ventured around the property as a group, with each womxn having the opportunity to take the spotlight and own her moment with the support of soul sisters cheering them on.

Wow! Having the opportunity to spend 5 days immersed in the powerful experience cultivated by Maya brought this Initiation experience to a whole new soul level.

Throughout the retreat, there was a deep focus on embodiment and being able to tune into and connect through movement and intention. If you’re not familiar with Maya’s work already, be sure to take a look. Her work in this world is so incredibly necessary and moving, and working with her and having her in my life has catalyzed so many incredible things for me, on so many levels. Because of the depth and potency of her work, I was able to go even deeper with each womxn in our time together, and really able to call forth their most embodied aspects and it’s reflected so powerfully in the images.

The property where we stayed had so many different spots for us to create and each space had a different energy that it held. It really allowed us to go deep together, and gave the womxn space to allow all sides of them to be seen. There was laughter, there were tears and everything in between, and I know I’m not alone when I say I can feel the magickal energy in every single one of these images.

I cannot think of a higher honor than to have been able to Initiate each of these women into this experience of witnessing themselves fully, purely, and in all of their magick.