Soul Camp
Soul Camp
A spiritual summer camp experience and wild soul reunion.
October 15–17, 2021
Madre Grande Monastery
Dulzura, California
Soul Camp
Soul Camp
A spiritual summer camp experience and wild soul reunion.
October 15–17, 2021
Madre Grande Monastery
Dulzura, California
Welcome Home,
Soul Sister.
Come home to the Earth.
Come home to the stars.
Come home to your wild heart.
Come home to wholeness.
To interconnectedness. The one.
The one that’s been there all along.
We invite you to Madre Grande for the summer camp experience you’ve always dreamed of. You can look forward to 3 days of intimate connection with Mother Earth and other soulful womxn, deep heart shares, nourishing food, mountain-top adventures, and magical ceremonies. Releasing through dance and healing through yoga, this experience is integrative medicine for your heart and soul.
Our Sanctuary
Our Sanctuary
Our sanctuary
Wrapped in the loving embrace of Mother Earth, Madre Grande Monastery is a sacred site for healing located on traditional Kumeyaay land, one hour east of San Diego.
This land is held sacred to the feminine principle of the divine, Madre Grande, the Great Mother, Gaia, Pachamama, Mother Earth. Kuan Yin and Mother Mary statues welcome you to the monastery, reminders everywhere to have Compassion Always.
The monastery is a community of hippies, philosophers and seekers all on the path of spiritual evolution. All traditions and beliefs are welcome. The purpose of Madre Grande Monastery is to “heal ourselves, heal each other, and heal the Earth.”
Our sanctuary offers a nurturing Mother Tree where we will gather for ceremonies, a labyrinth, hiking trails, an outdoor shower, a library full of books on spirituality, and plenty of wide-open space out in nature.
We can’t wait for you to join us here.
What to Expect
What to Expect
What to Expect
This is a sample itinerary for our time together. Daily activities are subject to change based on inspiration, group desires, and flow.
Friday October 15, 2021
Arrival
Arrive to our sacred site. Greet and reunite with your soul sisters in this lifetime.
Set up your tent and explore the land.
Opening Ceremony
We’ll gather in Circle, as women have done for centuries. We’ll open our sacred journey with dance, sisterhood, and magic led by Amanda and Mona.
Dinner + Campfire
Delight in a loving meal with our soul family and reflect on the day. We’ll get wild around the fire, release what no longer serves in the burning flames, and howl at the moon like the wild womxn we are.
Saturday October 16, 2021
Sunrise, Silence, Solo Time
Watch the sunrise in silent introspection. This is a time for morning ritual, journaling, reading, coffee, tea.
Embodiment Movement Practice (Dance or Yoga)
We join together for an ecstatic dance meditation led by Amanda or juicy yoga class led by Mona to anchor into your body.
Brunch + Oracle Cards
Nourish our bodies with a meal made with love. While we eat, we’ll pull oracle cards to connect even deeper with our higher selves.
Play Time
Walk the labyrinth, hike the sacred land, take a nap in a hammock, create art, dance, move, play!
Temple Space
Gather for a magical ceremony and circle led by Mona and Amanda.
Dinner + Campfire
Delight in a loving meal with our soul family and reflect on the day. We’ll slow down to stargaze, tell stories, and listen to the sounds of nature.
Sunday October 17, 2021
Sunrise, Silence, Solo Time
Watch the sunrise in silent introspection. This is a time for morning ritual, journaling, reading, coffee, tea.
Closing Ceremony
We’ll gather to reflect on our transformation and set intentions for our road back home to ourselves.
Brunch + Oracle Cards
Nourish our bodies with a meal made with love. While we eat, we’ll pull oracle cards to connect even deeper with our higher selves.
Departure
It’s just see you later, sayonara, until we meet again – in this lifetime or the next.
What’s Included
2 Nights Accommodation
Return to your wild nature and commune with Mother Earth with 2 nights of camping on sacred land. Tents, sleeping pads, and sleeping bags will be provided as needed.
Nourishing Meals
You’ll be able to dive deep into our practices knowing that your body and soul are taken care of with creative, colorful, and health-conscious vegan food full of flavor and made with love by our private chef.
Soul Embodiment
We practice the art of presence through our bodies. Amanda will guide us through ecstatic and meditative dance journeys, and Mona will lead us through a constellation of healing yoga practices that range from relaxing to activating.
ceremonies + circles
We gather together in the starlight consciousness beyond time and space to build energy, set intentions, celebrate love and life, release what no longer serves and manifest our dreams into reality. In ceremony, we access mystical states by bringing our energy together for a sacred purpose. In circle, we connect deeply and create space for one another to be fully seen and heard.
Pure Love and Sisterhood
After meeting on retreat in Greece in 2019, Mona and Amanda are a testament to the true friendship that can be formed during this type of experience. The container we co-create invites us to get to know each other far below the surface, and can even be described as a soul reunion.
Reconnect To Nature
Find expansiveness at the hills of Madre Grande - land of the Kumeyaay peoples. The austere beauty of the desert offers the sweetness of solitude, though we’ll be sure to go exploring the trails together as well!
Our practices are the bedrock of our retreat, creating the foundation for us to expand spiritually, physically, emotionally and beyond.
Please be prepared to show up every day for our sessions and ceremonies with a willingness to dive deep, ride the waves of emotions, and be with any discomfort that may arise. When we commit to healing ourselves, we create a ripple effect that reaches out to heal the collective.
This is for you if…
You’re longing to feel connected back to nature and your soul family.
You are adventurous and curious with an unquenchable thirst to bring more love into the world.
You want a soul-level connection with other womxn who are on a healing journey.
You know you are here to support the rise of the divine feminine and create greater harmony in the world.
You are ready to integrate your own lunar and solar qualities and come home to oneness.
About Your Guides
About Your Guides
About your Guides
Amanda Marie
Amanda Marie is an embodiment priestess and cosmic dancer sent to Earth to awaken you to your true divine nature. Through conscious movement and transcendent dance experiences, she guides you home to the innate wisdom of the body, providing space to explore, express, and embody the wholeness of all that you are.
She is passionate about serving her communities, leading magical ceremonies and moon circles that honor the cycles of nature and take participants beyond time and space. Her spiritual seeking has taken her all over the world to study ancient wisdom traditions and various healing modalities, including Tantra, Witchcraft, Ayurveda, Mystical Dance, meditation, and Pilates.
Dancing since the age of 5, Amanda also performs acts of devotion to the divine as her alter ego Blue Lightning. A beam of brilliant light, she is lightning personified.
Mona Luna
Mona Luna is a priestess, coach, and yoga teacher. With love and playfulness, she takes you to the depths of your soul and inner being where you can find the courage, confidence, and freedom within to create your own wild path. She creates sacred spaces that bring you home to your body and your inner wisdom. She connects powerful, loving, and supportive women to each other in sisterhood.
Through magical women’s circles, peaceful yoga classes, meditation, and coaching, Mona brings her whole self and all the knowledge she has gathered. She is a lifelong student, seeker of knowledge and truth, and loves studying topics including yoga, spirituality, psychology, business, coaching, branding, energy healing, and trauma.
Mona is devoted in service to you as an individual so that we may all rise as a collective.
Benefits of Our Journey
Benefits of Our Journey
Benefits of our journey
Create space to heal + integrate
Surrender in self trust, compassion, and forgiveness
Be held in the nurturing embrace of Mother Earth
Feel more connected to your body and inner wisdom, knowing that the answers are all already within
Connect with your soul family and build lasting friendships
Stop yo-yo-ing from one extreme to another and find greater balance + wholeness
Reflect on where you’ve been and how to move forward
Celebrate how far you’ve come and cultivate self-love
Release what you no longer need to carry
Claim your sovereignty and decide what to bring with you into the next phase of your life
Anchor in your next aligned action
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of being a part of the moon circles that Mona facilitated at Inner Sense Healing Arts in Chicago. I had never been to a moon circle before, but Mona created such a therapeutic environment that I immediately opened my heart to the process. These circles became a second home and a refuge for me. Mona is truly gifted. She is able to create a loving container each time she facilitates, and that can be hard to do. Mona listens to the trends of the room and moves with us. She brings all her light to this process. Real connections are often developed from these circles, and that’s living proof of Mona’s gift of bringing women together. If you found your way here...go. Go to anything and everything she is offering.
~ Lauren C.
Amanda creates a magical, safe container for women to be vulnerable and boldly speak their truth. Her circles are a safe haven, a place where sisters are given the opportunity to come as they are and just BE. Through the power and rawness of circles, I have been able to experience true transformation. Amanda facilitates such a warm, beautiful, compassionate, loving and supporting space for exploring the Self. She always brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the group and leads with such grace and humility. I highly recommend her circles to any sister looking to connect, dance wildly on the breath of creation and awaken her Highest Self.
~ Candice S.
I've been in a bunch of circle spaces with Mona and her energy is one of my favorites to be around. Whether in person or online, the potency of her magic is palpable. She brings so much intention, love and light to her work. Every time she has led a meditation or vision quest I receive so much wisdom, healing and empowerment that I know was already within me, but she created the container for it to be revealed. If you have not experienced a circle or service of hers before, do yourself a favor and make that a sacred goal for 2020. Your heart and soul will thank you for it.
~ Alessandra F.
Amanda has helped me heal some very deep wounds stemming from losing my mother when I was young. Through her monthly circles, I was able to dive inward and breakdown blockages that were built up from years of repression. When I first began working with Amanda, I could barely talk about my mother without crying. Though, through sharing, community, and life-changing embodiment practices - all led by Amanda - I have never felt more connected to her spirit and myself in general. I feel loved, held, and seen when Amanda holds space for me and others. She cares so genuinely for her participants and their journey. She has deep roots and experience in her craft and is committed to honoring the traditions that have come before her. She is a wealth of knowledge, wisdom, and light in this world and I could not recommend her more.
~ Polly C.
Mona has an exceptional gift creating healing spaces. I consistently left every new Moon Circle feeling grounded, connected and empowered. Mona brings her warm and energetic spirit to her work — it’s contagious and recharging. Because she’s in tune with her intuition and spiritual gifts, she’s able to gently guide others to their inner wisdom. What’s stood out most to me is Mona’s ability to create a safe container for folks to be really seen, heard and acknowledged. If you’re looking to connect your wild self with your conscious self, Mona is your person!
~ Gabrielle V.
You come to return to your body, to honor your senses. You come to let your spirit soar and sparkle and burn its (sometimes fearsome) brilliance without judgement. To be held, to be seen and heard, to be felt by your sisters. You come for the magic—for the permission to take up space, wholly (and holy) as you are.
Amanda has an undeniable talent for creating and holding safe sacred space for all our bigness—our wildness and vulnerability, our fears, our hurts, our chaos and our Love. Actually coaxes it all out! Through soul-nourishing embodiment practices, spirited invocations and powerful rituals, she is a reverent and playful guide to the Divine within. Sun or moon, shadows or light, there is space to truly connect. Amanda can show you there is space for it all!
~ Dinavie S.
Cost + FAQs
Cost + FAQs
$555
Soul Camp cost
The angel number 555 signals that positive change is on the horizon. It is a reminder that divine guidance is on your side the whole way. Trust where your intuition is leading you.
FAQ
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A: With ample open space for camping, we are calling in up to 20 sisters to join us.
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A: Yes! If this feels like a resonant YES and you need an alternative payment plan, please email us at mona@monalunalove.com.
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A: No experience is necessary. All of our movement practices will be guided with plenty of instruction and be focused on embodying our soul, in other words, bringing our awareness into our body. This is a divine feminine soul retreat where we will be journeying into the depths of our inner world while connecting in sisterhood. While no experience is required for our movement practices, this is for women who have begun a spiritual journey and are committed to their personal and spiritual growth.
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A: Our campground is located at Madre Grande Monastery in Dulzura, CA, one hour east of San Diego.
The nearest airports:
San Diego, CA (SAN) – 1 hour
Orange County, CA (JWA) – 2 hours 15 mins
Long Beach, CA (LGB) – 2 hours 45 mins
Los Angeles, CA (LAX) – 3 hours
When we have gathered our sisters, we will make arrangements for transportation from airports to the campsite. Options may include carpooling and an additional shuttle.
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A: Yes, there will be ample free time in between Brunch and our evening Temple Ceremony and Circles. Our free time invites you to journal, nap, hike, and connect with yourself and each other.
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A: Please arrive on Friday, October 15 between 1-3pm. Our opening ceremony will start at 4pm. If you need to arrive earlier, please let us know so we can make arrangements.
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A: Check-out is Sunday, October 17 at noon. We will have a morning practice and a send-off brunch!
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A: Transportation to and from the monastery is not included in the cost. However, we will help you arrange a car and/or shuttle from the airport to the retreat campground.
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A: Due to limited space and booking fees, all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable. In cases of emergency, a partial balance may be transferred to a future retreat on a case by case basis. We want to ensure this is a full body YES for you before signing up in order to gather the women who are ready for this level of transformation.
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A: This is your opportunity to unplug and disconnect from the mundane and day-to-day and enter the magical portal of retreat space. Internet will be available only in case of emergency.
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A: Yes! We will ensure everyone has a tent, sleeping pad, and sleeping bag for the weekend. Please bring your favorite pillow or request to us if you will need one (particularly if you’re traveling from out of state). If you are local and have extra camping equipment, please bring it to share with other sisters.
Please email us at mona@monalunalove.com with any additional questions.