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Allow Your Inner Medicine Woman to Fully Emerge!

As Women who hold ourselves as divine expressions of creative power and beauty, we gather in a good way to celebrate, play, restore, learn, expand and support.

A Woman’s Rite Retreat is a unique opportunity to explore in depth both the ancient and contemporary teachings of the sacred feminine.

The essence of these teachings are found throughout all cultures, traditions and time.

The common thread is that these are the teachings of and for women.

A Woman’s Rite Retreat offers the opportunity to engage in ritual, sharing, ceremony, revitalization, knowledge, play and authentic expression.

We will open our hearts, our minds and our inner eye and we will truly see one another; allowing each woman to see herself as the Sacred Medicine that she is and that she carries.

As our collective sight expands in power, focus and appreciation, your personal Medicine will reveal itself in ways previously unknown to you.

You will walk as your Medicine in confidence, clarity and joy.

Join us on dates: 2026 for our next Woman’s Rite Retreat.

Click Here to Register and to Reserve Your Place in the Sacred Circle of Medicine Women!

*Vegetarian Meals

*Art Studio

*Wood Fired Sauna

*Gorgeous Walking Trails

*Camp, Cabin or Hermitage

2026

Retreat Schedule

Dates: TBA

Location: Christine Center, W8303 Mann Road, Willard WI 544493

FRIDAY

3:00 PM ~ Arrival: Guest Check In
5:00 PM ~ Meditation in the Chapel: Transition into Sacred Space
5:30 PM ~ Dinner: Dining Hall
7:00 PM ~ Welcome Circle: The Medicine of the Moonlodge

SATURDAY

8:00 AM ~ Breakfast: Dining Hall
10:00 AM ~ Qigong: Prepare Your Medicine Altar
11:00 AM ~ Sacred Walkabout: The Inner & Outer Temple of Medicine
12:30 PM ~ Lunch: Dining Hall
2:00 PM ~ Good Medicine: Your Choice; Art, Sauna, Rest, Create, Meditate
5:30 PM ~ Dinner: Dining Hall
7:00 PM ~ Fire, Medicine & Prayer Ceremony

SUNDAY

7:00 AM ~ *Check-out is at Noon today, consider this time to vacate your housing.
8:00 AM ~ Breakfast: Dining Hall
9:00 AM ~ MoonLodge Ceremony: Be The Medicine
12:30 PM – Lunch: Dining Hall

5 TRANSFORMATIONS I WANT WOMEN TO RECEIVE THROUGH MY MEDICINE

Dianné Jean Aldrich: Your Medicine Keeper:

To intimately know their own Medicine and Power and how to wield it for good.
To deeply comprehend and embody their responsibility as Women and as Water Carriers; to take full responsibility for their feminine power and sexuality.
To carry a recognition of the masculine and of their interdependence with men; to carry a profound respect for the Men in their lives as partners, sons, fathers, uncles, grandfathers, friends, teachers.
To nurture the children in their lives with healthy sacred space as they grow, learn, question, fall down, get up, evolve and then take their place within the sacred circle of life as compassionate, loving and awakened leaders of their generation.
To remember that the essence of all spiritual paths is the same; to practice the three keys of self realization; 1. The Death of the Personality 2. The Rebirth of the Creative Life Force 3. The Ascension of the Soul.

Samantha Olson: Your Beauty Keeper:

Inspiration to explore their creative power
Inner knowing of the profound Beauty of their unique voice
A curiosity/connection to dance with Spirit
Attention to detail
To remember their deep connection with the Great Mystery

Danielle Jefko: Your Door Keeper:

May all beings feel loved and accepted when in space with me.
May all beings feel safe to express their hearts and whole selves when in space with me.
May all beings feel peaceful and recharged when in space with me.
May all beings feel empowered to be strong in themselves and their bodies and in their spirits after being in space with me.
May all beings discover Spirit when in space with me.

Lindsay Mason: Your Fire Keeper:

That we are here to work together, that our projections are parts of ourselves calling out to be loved, seen, and transformed.
For God, the Great Spirit, the All That IS to be remembered as the Source and Center, the place to which we all journey.
To love one another, to delight in Sisterhood, to cast off shame and judgment and be free to open to the flow of Connection by embracing ourselves and each other.
The power of sacred ritual to bring us to our edge and guide us into new Being.
That this is the work to be done, here and now, TOGETHER, and that together we Rise. Thank you God for the opportunity to do so!

Carolyn Carter: Your Assistant:

The transformation for the individual to come home to themselves; Personal Truth/Authentic Self!
To have a Healing Being; Lighter/Light in their bodies and souls.
To see how it is when Powerful women Collaborate to be More than!!; To feel that Love and Support!
To bring my Energy of Truth, Love, Fun, Ease, Magic, and Flow to each Lodge – then others will know how to bring their own Medicine into the circle and then into their own lives!
Being Present to receive Magic and Flow.

Lauranne Bailey: Your Keeper of the Grandmother’s Drum:

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Dianné Jean Aldrich

Dianné Jean Aldrich is recognized as a Medicine Keeper within the ceremonial moon lodge. Raised in Wisconsin, praising God with love and joy within the Pentecostal Charismatic Church, gateways opened and she found her way to the sacred heritage of her ancestors. Her matrilineal line is of the Santee, Dakota tribe and her father’s line is a mix of Erie, Cherokee and Celtic descent. In 1997, her Elders gave her the responsibility to walk as a Pipe Carrier and Water Pourer, to pray on behalf of the people, in the tradition of the Lakota. In 2001, on Vision Quest in the Andean Mountains of Peru, she was given the directive to awaken the Teachings and Ceremony of the Women’s Moon Lodge and has been facilitating Rite of Passage Ceremonies and Moon Lodge Circles ever since. The Ancient Mother MoonLodge has been meeting monthly since 2003.

Samantha Olson

Spirit led me to the Ancient Mother MoonLodge as an answered prayer in 2013 at a pivotal time in my life. Through divine synchronicity my two worlds connected after having lived for years in the Andes Mountains of southern Ecuador, where my spiritual journey became conscious, and I stepped onto the Red Road to be forever forged anew.

This began the infinite spiral into the great unknown and simultaneously the life of my dreams. In ceremony I am Home. This life is a mystery school of Sacred Love, a divine dance, a series of seasons full of songs that soothe and invigorate the soul. To serve as Beauty Keeper in the Ancient Mother MoonLodge with my Sistars is one of the greatest honors in this life. To serve and sing and vibrate Love at the highest possible level is my prayer.

I am a water carrier and a woman of the Earth. I am an artist, a teacher, a steward of the land and a keeper of song and music medicine. As Beauty Keeper, I sit in the West, the direction that holds the essence and teachings of the void out of which ALL things come to BE. The Grandmothers of the West are guides to the Great Mystery. Black is the color of the West and from this darkness comes the Light. The West holds balanced life force energy and teachings of sincerity and connection.

Carolyn Carter

Carolyn graduated from UW Madison with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She has been practicing as a Registered Nurse for over 36 years. Carolyn is the Founder and Director of Emerald Heart Center, a nonprofit committed to Uniting Body, Mind, and Spirit though education and agriculture with its focus on sustainability!

Carolyn is a certified Yoga Teacher and has practiced yoga for over 30 years. She is a Reiki Master and also practices Jin Shin Do Acupressure. She uses and shares her extensive knowledge of essential oils daily.

Carolyn has been married for 38 years to Craig Carter and they have 3 adult children. They have been stewarding their land in the rolling hills of Argyle, WI for 27 years. They love the outdoors and all of its beauty and wonder. She has been attending MoonLodge with Dianné Jean Aldrich for 19 years!

Kathryn Jaliman

Kathryn (Carolyn Carter’s sister) is an artist and workshop facilitator who has been leading transformational courses for over two decades. She has studied with spiritual teachers from many traditions, and lived and practiced meditation in India, Nepal, Thailand and Taiwan.

Her compassion for each participant’s unique journey empowers them to discover the tools that will best serve them in their own lives and in their relationships. She is passionate about creating sacred space and a sense of community in a retreat setting. Kathryn is committed to empowering women to express and experience their own radiance and power, while honoring these qualities in others, too.

For our moon lodge retreat, Kathryn will share some practices for becoming aware of some of the ways our feminine power is blocked, and how to establish a new way to be an empowered version of what we most value. She will guide us on a journey of becoming more of our True Selves, and clarify some methods for having more collaborative partnerships with the people in our lives.

The Topics she will share are:
Ideal Woman(Inner Critic)/Disempowerment of Self and Others
Center of the Universe
Noble Qualities ~ My personal Expression of Greatness
Getting My Needs Met
Who is in My Realm?
Boundaries ~ How to set, enforce and respect them gracefully
Feminine Forms Power: Compassion, Generosity, Receiving, Serenity
Our Beauty as a Life-giving Force