First Moontime Reclaiming Ceremony

There is a Sacred Rite that, once upon a time ~ the world over ~ Grandmothers and Aunties held for the girls in their communities & villages who were stretching out of the innocence of childhood and into the beauty of their fuller, blossoming, cycling bodies. This rite was honored by the whole village because the very ability for the people to survive was in the hands of the next generation budding forward.

We ALL yearn for this rite ~ consciously or unconsciously.

It is incumbent upon us to Reclaim this Rite. Yes, you and I and the older female folk around us.

Where there is dreaming still happening, and freedom to come together in ritual, we can reclaim this Rite.

Here, at Tree of Life Initiation, we work with a template that has been handed to us by Spirit, through dream time and dirt time, as we breathe life back into a 1st Moontime Rite. For those who have passed their 1st menarche time, it is not too late, to reclaim this experience. In the reclaiming is the remembering and is the experience needed to then hold the upcoming young ones who need this rite that are in our midsts.

If you feel the Call

~ Reach out ~

We can set up a personalized 1st Moontime Reclaiming Ceremony for you and those around you.

Or

Join us for our open scheduled Rite below:

Reclaiming First Moontime Rites of Passage

Aug 31–4, 2026 • Occidental, CA

Honoring Ceremony Utilizing the Five-Pointed Star Template

Join an earth-based, multi-day, in-person ceremony for adult women*

to receive the experience of being honored for Cycling with the Moon.

Reclaiming these rites bring us into a deeper sense of Belonging, Worth, and Wholeness.

*This ceremony is for female identifying as women and nonbinary AFAB folks who can be in mixed identified groups and are comfortable talking about and exploring their biology
AND

are comfortable camping in nature without creature comforts (such as showers and flush toilets).

If this is YOU, read on! 

  • What You Receive

    A roadmap and ceremony for adolescent Menarche ~ retroactive reclaiming this rite of passage.

    Being guided and held in an overnight solo with individual time around a sacred fire

    Deepening relationship to Self, Spirit, and Nature

    Nourishing your teenage self with what she needs

  • This is For You if you....

    Long for more wholeness inside for your walk on this earth

    Are longing for a ceremony that honors your unique gifts and ways

    Are comfortable exploring your female biology.*

    Are comfortable in nature & camping without the creature comforts of home.

    * NOTE: This work is designed for people who identify as women and non-binary folk assigned female at birth (AFAB)

  • Course Format

    In-person Retreat
    Aug 31 – 4, 2025

    Camping on beautifully forested land with communal kitchen during at a
    Private home in Occidental, CA

    Plus…

    • 2 virtual group pre-meetings

    • 1 virtual group post-meeting

Reciprocity

Sliding Scale

Full tuition: $2,300

Supported tuition: $1,500

Generosity Tuition: $3,600

Payment plans of Quarterly Payments are available

*Space is limited to 10 participants

REGISTER TODAY

Your Guides…

Rachel Ruach Golden is a cultural midwife, helping us individually and collectively come back into remembrance and alignment with the earth and spirit around us. She has worked in the ceremonial arts and with rites of passage for the past 20 years, training in wilderness survival skills, deep nature connection, ancestral skills, and cultural regeneration. Through her own Spirit-led, multi-year initiation, Rachel founded and runs the Tree of Life Adulthood Initiation.

Currently, she is raising her three children in the forests of Occidental, California, working with groups and individuals as a spiritual mentor, running earth-based ceremonies, holding first moontime and adulthood initiation rites alongside other ceremonies, while training to be a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.

Read about her initiation into initiatory rites here.

Johannah Reimer is a soulcentric educator, ceremonialist, teen mentor, artist of many trades, and mama to Haven.

Trained as a Waldorf teacher, Johannah has been working with children of all ages for over 23 years and holds a particular passion for tweens/teens striving to meet their developmental needs for mentorship and initiation in a culture that has forgotten how to do so. An apprentice of visionaries: Sage Hamilton at Sage Programs, and Melissa Michaels of SOMA Source, Johannah has worked for many years as a Waldorf teacher under the guidance of her elder Sage, and as an embodied leader for international youth in movement based Rites of Passage with Golden Bridge & Golden Girls Global.