Guardians of Water Initiation for Women
A rite of passage for women ready to tend to the waters within & without
Water Guardians Training
13–18 October | Portugal
You are invited to enter the living waters.
To remember your relationship with the element that holds life, memory, emotion, intuition, and creation itself.
This six-day immersive training is a journey into the sacred wisdom of water—within your body, within the Earth, and within the collective field of our time. It is an invitation for women who feel called to deepen their connection with water, reclaim their innate wisdom, and step into a more conscious relationship with the source of all life.
As women, we are water. We move in cycles, tides, seasons, and rhythms. Our bodies are vessels of flow, feeling, creation, and transformation. Yet many of us have become disconnected from our inner waters through the demands of modern life, inherited conditioning, and the forgetting of ancient ways.
This training offers a space to gently clear what has become stagnant, to listen deeply, and to reconnect with the intelligence that flows beneath the surface.
Together, we will explore water as a pathway of healing, remembrance, prayer, and stewardship.
Through ritual, ceremony, somatic practices, meditation, ancient teachings, and direct relationship with natural waters, you will be guided to cleanse and nourish your own inner waters while developing the skills, confidence, and embodied understanding to facilitate water offerings and sacred water-based practices within your communities.
This is not only a personal journey - it is a call to service.
A call to become a guardian of water.
A woman who understands that caring for water is caring for life itself.
A woman who can hold space for others to reconnect with the rivers within and around them.
A woman who remembers that water is not merely a resource, but a living ally, teacher, and sacred relative.
In a nurturing and supportive environment, we will weave together ancient wisdom, earth-based ritual, feminine embodiment, prayer, community, and practical facilitation tools to restore our relationship with water and awaken a deeper sense of belonging to the living world.
This training may be for you if you feel called to:
• Deepen your connection with water as a spiritual, emotional, and living presence
• Cleanse and heal your inner waters through embodied practice and ritual
• Learn to facilitate water ceremonies, blessings, and offerings for others
• Reclaim ancestral and earth-based wisdom traditions
• Develop a more intimate relationship with nature and the elements
• Become a steward and advocate for water in your personal life and community
• Gather with like-hearted women in a field of remembrance, healing, and shared purpose
What May Open For You
Each woman's journey is unique, yet again and again we witness:
• A profound reconnection to intuition, feeling, and inner knowing
• Greater emotional flow, resilience, and trust in life's natural rhythms
• A renewed sense of reverence for water and the living Earth
• Practical skills and confidence to facilitate meaningful water rituals and ceremonies
• A deeper understanding of your role as a guardian and steward of life
• Increased clarity, presence, and connection to purpose
• A sense of belonging within a community of women devoted to healing, remembrance, and service
As we tend to the waters within, we naturally begin to tend to the waters around us.
This is a journey of remembrance.
A journey of reverence.
A journey of returning to the source.
The waters are calling.
Water is more than just a resource, it is a bridge between our inner and outer worlds.
What’s been said…
“Powerful, transformational, beautifully connected & flow!”
“The best, I felt so cared for, held, supported, loved and seen”
“The retreat was the best thing I could gift myself”
“I feel so grateful to have been here! I can’t express enough how important this work is and how needed in the world.”
“Such a potent and powerful experience. I leave feeling empowered.”
“I feel like we all created a bond with each woman. A connection, almost an invisible line.
It became like an alchemical sacred bond”
“Priceless”
“Deeply grateful for the space held. It‘s been a magic space of softness, empowerment, deep dive and playfulness. The workshop and experiences have been really beyond words. Just pure love for the strength and truth that can unfold when wild sisters come together in a safe space. Would always say yes again!”
“The environment felt safe & peaceful. It is a carnival of naked souls! Love it”
“So grateful for you and this amazing space”
“Wow, magical. Loved the program, the journey and the release that happened through the guidance”
“Blew my mind. So much knowledge passed on, such amazing connections.”
“This retreat was perfect in every way. Jess is so beautiful and created a safe space for us to express ourselves fully. I came away feeling light and truly present.”
“Wow. A dream come true!”
Water Weaving
Across six days, we weave together a rich tapestry of embodied and water ritual practice:
✧ Deep somatic healing and embodiment practices
✧Tantric Taoist transmissions rooted in the ancient wisdom of water
✧ Water knowledge transmissions and teachings
✧ Sacred water ceremonies and offerings
✧ Water tasting practices
✧ Guided water fasting
✧ Learning to facilitate water rituals and ceremonies
✧ Body as Altar embodiment practice
✧ Yoni Steam Ceremony
✧ Embodiment & Water Rituals
✧ Womb Blessing Ceremony
✧ Flower Water Bath Baptism
✧ Pleasure Transmission and Embodiment Workshop
✧ Currency and Abundance Codes
✧ Sacred Fire Ceremony with songs to Water and the Divine Feminine
✧ Voice activation and prayer practices
✧ Modern Priestess codes for sovereignty and discernment
✧ Ways to serve your community through water stewardship
✧ Creating and participating in a living Water Guardians Network
✧ Ancient rituals, feminine wisdom, and Earth-based practices
✧ Community connection, sisterhood, and collective remembrance
✧ Gastronomic Delights
Nourishing pleasurable meals bring us the opportunity to reclaim & relish in the ritual of eating in a community of women. Honouring the elements & the lands from which they came, while awakening all the senses with lovingly prepared food for body, heart & soul. Let yourself be held, nourished & receive.
✧Example Program
TBD
8am Silence, tea & light bite
9am Consecration & Heart Expansive Kundalini & Breathwork
11am Brunch
2pm Embodied Feminine Workshop
4pm Snacks
5pm Sacred Cacao Self-Intimacy Ritual
7pm Dinner
8.30pm Temple Night
✧ A DEEP CONTAINER FOR TRANSFORMATION
Find yourself held in the arms of nature; amongst native corks and abundant fruit trees, swept up in the enchantment of a forest filled Portuguese valley as you go on a journey of deep healing and transformation meeting the parts of you that have been withheld, silenced, or unseen.
During this retreat you will venture through the sacred lands of the wild feminine. With a collection of practices designed especially for modern women to transform and alchemise the dense into divine.
Raise your vibration, soothe your nervous system, heal, empower and rebirth yourself with deep processes that empower you to connect, awaken & embody your wild, wise & creative spirit.
More than a retreat, this is an invitation to listen to the call of your inner wild woman & step into the power of your divine feminine energy & transmit her love.
✧ Non-linear Feminine Expression Practice
Free flow non-linear movement in a safe space, taking time to connect with your bodily sensations & erotic energy with full permission as you allow yourself to express & unwind through the practice of sensorial awareness.
✧ Sister Circles
Become familiar with the compassion, deep understanding and acceptance of sisterhood in circle to experience reflections. Allow yourself to be held & seen in your honest expression by those familiar with the path of the feminine. Transform & transmute sister wounds & come into mature, respectful sisterhood.
✧Mantra & Song
Devotional song to rediscover our inner voice. Your voice is an amazing resource!
Explore vibration and resonance to connect with your energy body & open your heart.
✧ Kundalini & YinYoga & Breath-work
Life Force Energy, known as Shakti, moves through to nourish all of your being, while creating new patterns in your nervous system, releasing tension from body and mind. Breathing practices support somatic release of stress, trauma & patterns held within the body whilst grounding into the resources available within & without.
✧ Womb Yoga
This journey facilitates the reconnecting with the deep blood wisdom of cycles throughout the whole of a woman's life, from pre-menarche to post-menopause. It is for all women, with or without wombs, menstruating or not menstruating. We explore archetypal feminine energies & nourish our relationship with the divine.
✧ Dynamic Emotional Release Exercises
Deep soul medicine to mobilise unprocessed emotions, to bring awareness & release energy patterns that create shutdown, closure or disconnect. Dynamic meditation practices to express ourselves authentically & let go of charge held in our bodies.
✧Womb Rite & Sacred Bath
The 13th Rite of the Munay Ki is a transmission to intentional clear away energies held in the womb space to bring about more power, creative energy and grounding followed by a beautifully soothing sacred bath.
“The way you feel, the way you think, the way you move depends on the water quality intake”
LOCATION: The Shanti Space
Shanti, Sanskrit for Peace or to T. S. Eliot “The Peace which passeth understanding.”
The Shanti Space is a sanctuary for personal development & empowerment; a space to rest and restore well-being whilst bathed in abundant nature.
The venue, an old Quinta set in a national park endowed with beautiful fruit trees, giant oak corks, grape vines, vistas and a stream at the end of the garden where we often encounter our neighbours; deer and wild boar.
✧ TRANSPORT
The nearest airport is Lisbon only 25 minutes away.
✧ The easiest way is to come in Uber / transfer. It will cost you about 30€ and 25-30 minutes of travel.
We can put you in touch with other participants to share the ride.
✧ DATES
8 - 12 July 2026
5 Days / 4 nights
Arrival: 4pm
Checkout: 1pm
✧ WILDRATES
Earlybird by 1 May
Single Shared Twin - €999
Spacious Dormitory - €899
Private room with ensuite - €1222
After 1 May
Dormitory - €999
Single Shared Twin - €1111
Glamping Private – €1222
Private room with ensuite - €1333
RESERVATION
booking@theshantispace.com
An Intimate Container
Spaces are limited to honour the depth, safety, and intimacy of this work.
✧ SPONSORSHIP
I am offering one sponsored space for this retreat at a discount rate for those unemployed / financial difficulties.
APPLICATIONS OPEN
Included:-
Four nights accommodation, organic plant-based meals, snacks & teas, full program
Not included:-
Flights, transfers, treatments & insurance
✧ YOUR FACILITATORS ✧
LAURA DETAILS…
Remembrance Guide: Jessica Maria Weaver
Founder of The Shanti Space, Jessica began exploring non-dual Tantra, Yoga & Meditation 20 years ago & has touched the lives of many with her work & spaces dedicated to healing & transformation.
She’s taken groups on immersive awakening journeys through the Himalayas of Nepal, hosted retreats & workshops all over the world, she featured at Om Yoga Show London & shared her practices at one of the world's leading restorative wellness programmes which welcomed celebrities & royalty, while featuring in publications such as The Telegraph, Elephant Journal & The Yoga Mag.
Now with over 750 hours' yoga teacher training specialising in disciplines such as Yin, Kundalini & Tantra, she is a certified Meditation & Breathwork facilitator with a somatic & nervous system-informed approach. Embodiment, her lived experience & initiation into Motherhood along with her love for Nature are integral to her grounded approach to spirituality.
In 2011 she bowed out of a successful career in creative advertising, burnt out & seeking inspiration she travelled the world to deepen her practice, explore cultures & ways to bring depth & expansion to her creativity & life view.
Passionate about rekindling women’s connection with their cyclical nature, the seasons & tending to the unmothered parts within, she brings a trauma-informed & grounded approach, compassionate, fluid & intuitively inviting greater awareness to the teachings of the breath, resourcing & resilience to retrain the nervous system & rekindle trapped energy to support people in reaching the highest potential of their hearts.
Her practices are carefully selected to gently unravel & release the blockages women face in a culture that has oppressed us for generations, to empower women to live beautiful abundant & fulfilling lives.
She holds a container for emotional release while offering tools to cultivate more expansive awareness, connection & integration.
More: www.embodiedremembrance.com/about
“Jessica held the space with such grace. Boundaried but soft and loving. felt safe and secure.”
“Jessica has such a wild, uplifting, explore out of your comfort zone side, it’s so authentic and attractive that we all open up as well.”
“Jessica has an incredible presence and calm. She resonated a confidence in herself and the program which truly permeated through all of us.”
“Available, supportive, friendly, such a goddess!”
“What a blessing to experience these days with Jess - she really knows how to hold space and guide everyone into their heart and release deep emotions. To feel alive!”
“Jessica is a master facilitator who holds the most beautiful, loving, feminine, & transformative space. As soon as you arrive you can feel the warm hug from the sacred lands of the Shanti Space, from everything & everyone. Your nervous system can relax knowing you will be well cared for the entire week. The best retreat I’ve been to. A truly magical experience.”