A Retreat on Desire, Self-Trust & Magic

For thousands of years, women have been trained to doubt or diminish their instincts. Yet in ancient Greece, empowered women often served as priestesses and advisors — guiding royalty, scientists, and diplomats to harness the force of creation.

These practices were not just mystical; they were embedded into the very foundations of civilization, politics, and art. But as power imbalances grew, these traditions faded, giving way to systems that replaced embodied wisdom with hierarchy, patriarchy, and doubt.

In Athens and Eleusis, we will visit sacred sites and reconnect with these forgotten lineages. These experiences will support you in:

• Reclaiming your relationship with desire.
• Trusting your inner wisdom, and connecting with its source.
• Understanding the role women played in the birthing of Western civilization.
• Developing rituals that honor your power and its impact on the community.

From start to finish, the journey is designed to create an energetic gateway that brings you closer to your next-level desires and creations — in life and in leadership. You will also be invited to celebrate, to self-nourish, to indulge in beauty and pleasure, and to let yourself be held by the land of Greece itself.

Crete is known today for its culture, food, beaches and beauty — but its historical significance runs deeper. 

The island was home to the ancient Minoan civilization, an advanced society where women were leaders, politicians, athletes, and priestesses. Here, both sexuality and sensuality were embraced rather than repressed, and the feminine was honored as an essential force in society.

Crete also holds great mystery. From the cave believed to be the birthplace of Zeus, to the ruins of Knossos and the infamous Labyrinth, it is a land charged with questions about power, harmony with nature, and the balance between human and divine.

If you are stepping into a new level of leadership while also longing to embrace the feminine, Crete offers a profound invitation to explore what’s possible. It is both a land of initiation and ease — equally calling you into ritual, beauty, pleasure, and grace.

Do you believe you are a mystic? Have you ever considered your oracle-like nature? While most women have access to these intuitive capacities naturally, many women have also been trained to hide, stifle, cover or even forget them in order to fit in at work.

Yet in ancient times, women were both revered and exalted as leaders for their ability to connect – intuitively and easily – with spirit.

The Oracle of Delphi was a position of power, elevated to a significant advisory status in connection with the worship of the God Apollo. These women trained in earth-based rituals that allowed them to receive information from nature and from spirit, through the vessel of their own bodies. 

As we journey to the UNESCO Heritage site of Delphi, you will be invited to consider the role of your mystical nature in relation to your impact as a modern-day woman leader. 
Through ritual, adventure and thoughtful dialog, we will begin building a new roadmap for your approach – and vision – of leadership. 

The daily agenda evolves to meet the group. We honor where each traveler is on her path, along with the broader ‘field’ of current events, to create a meaningful collective arc for the experience.You can expect moments of embodied practice, deep rest, cultural immersion, profound connection and joyful surprise.

Here’s how past travelers describe the shifts they carried home:

• Clarity of vision — seeing their desires and leadership path with fresh eyes.
• Renewed trust in themselves — feeling more confident in decision-making.
• Sisterhood — deep relationships with powerful peers who “get it.”
• Embodiment — experiencing leadership through the body, not just the mind.
• Ease & flow — discovering how leadership is fueled by intuition.
• Lasting impact — insights and practices that ripple for months and years.

Transformation like this awaits you, too.

LeeAnn Mallorie, founder of Guts & Grace, is a mystic and a leader who is committed to bridging worlds at this unique time for humanity. She began her journey as an executive coach in 2006, guiding women leaders and teams from around the globe. But she soon found something was missing – the body. Her work quickly expanded to include somatics, spirit, and feminine wisdom as she sought tools that would truly transform how we work.

Today, LeeAnn weaves together cutting-edge leadership tools with ancient ritual, embodiment, mindfulness and creativity. Her facilitation blends science and spirituality, logic and intuition, play and depth. She believes that for women to reclaim their full power and lead sustainably, they must embrace their whole selves — body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Her book Guts & Grace offers you a personalized roadmap to release internalized patriarchal programming and step into your best self at work. Her retreats provide an embodied, unforgettable way to bring your map to life.

Danielle Neils is an executive leader and soul purpose mentor bridging business strategy, transformation, and spiritual practice. From an early age, she learned to observe the world holistically and to solve complex problems from a multidimensional perspective. Her innate connection to the rhythms of nature profoundly influences her regenerative approach to business and personal development.

Within her corporate leadership role in the engineering sector, she is nurturing a culture of embodied wellness and nervous system resilience in a conventionally high-pressure, deadline-driven industry. Danielle’s championing of feminine wisdom and leadership opportunities for women has helped grow a dynamic, creative team that disrupts norms in STEM.

As a spiritual facilitator and teacher, Danielle uses subtle energy attunement, earth-based ritual, and intuition to navigate the threshold between the seen and unseen worlds. Drawing on her gifts in geomancy, the ancient practice of creating harmony between human communities and their environment, she listens deeply to the land to reveal stories hidden by history – reforging connection and renewing our participation in the more-than-human cosmos.