The Invitation


Reader,

There is something my elders taught me that I’ve carried for a long time:

Find one story that helps weave you back into the fabric of life. Embody it deeply, and then walk it out into the world.

For years, I wondered what that story would be for me.

I followed many paths and studied many teachings, searching for something that could help me make sense of my own life and the larger world around me.

And somewhere along the way, I found her.

Inanna.

Her story has become much more than an ancient myth to me. It has become a companion, a mirror, and a map.

I’ve seen my own life inside her descent and return. I’ve experienced what it means to lose parts of who I thought I was and slowly remember something deeper.

And the more I’ve studied her, the more I’ve come to believe that her story carries something deeply relevant to the time we’re living through now.

This is why I want to share it with you—not simply as something to learn, but as something to experience.

After years of studying her story, researching the world she came from, and living and embodying her teachings, I feel ready to gather the pieces into an experience we can enter together.

A space to explore Inanna’s descent and return, the lineage of the Divine Feminine, the wisdom that has been buried and is now asking to be remembered, and what it might mean to participate in our own re-membering.

That is why I am offering

Inanna's Temple: Restoring the Divine Feminine for All Beings

A weekend devoted to exploring the medicine of Inanna through:

Story
Somatic practice
Movement
Ceremony
Council
Dreamwork
Relationship with the plant spirit realms
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This retreat is not just for women, everyone needs this wisdom, it is open to all.

You won’t simply leave knowing more about Inanna. You will encounter something in yourself that her story helps awaken—a part of you that has been waiting to be remembered, welcomed, and brought back into relationship.

I don’t believe we heal the larger wound of separation by waiting for someone else to do the work for us.

I believe it begins much closer to home—with our willingness to turn inward, listen deeply, reclaim what has been exiled, and find our way back into relationship with ourselves, one another, and the living world.

It would be an honor to walk this part of the journey with you.

Inanna’s Temple: Restoring the Divine Feminine for All Beings
​November 13–15, 2026
Twin Pond Sanctuary, Brookfield VT

This is, for me, a journey of returning home.

And perhaps the invitation is simply this: To walk together for a while, and see what we remember along the way.

With love,
Marie Rose 🌹

​TwinPondSanctuary.com​

2007 Twin Pond Road, Brookfield, VT 05036
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