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This immersion is led by Eve Gaines—founder of RITUEL, ceremonialist, and threshold guide. Her degree in medical and psychological anthropology and decades of experience designing rites of passage, ceremonial spaces, and transformational journeys have distinguished her as a pioneer in this field, Eve brings a rare blend of academic insight, ritual integrity, and embodied wisdom. A Rhythm of Her Own carries this lineage forward into a tender, potent container designed to help you loosen old patterns, strengthen inner orientation, and step into a clearer, truer chapter of your life.
Across seven sessions, we will move through an arc inspired by the Seven Sacred Directions—a framework Eve has honed over decades of rites of passage work. Together, we’ll orient toward beginnings, explore what is ripening, release what is complete, return to what strengthens you, and integrate the shifts unfolding in your life. Each gathering becomes a meaningful point of contact—clarifying, deepening, and helping you attune to a rhythm that resonates with who you are becoming.
Through decades of guiding women, cross-cultural study, somatic and psycho-spiritual practice, herbal ritual work, and the relational field of women’s circles, Eve has learned that true change takes root when a woman is met at the level of her becoming. In spaces of attuned witnessing, honest reflection, rhythmic pacing, and unforced unfolding, clarity rises naturally. Old patterns soften. Internal coherence forms. And over time, a woman’s way of inhabiting her life shifts—with alignment, courage, and unmistakable self-trust.
A Rhythm of Her Own is crafted to nurture exactly this.
The immersion includes seven in-person sessions and seven personal 1:1 virtual check-ins with Eve Gaines. Because we know life is full, any missed sessions can be made up through a private session covering the material.
Enrollment is limited to an intimate cohort of women. Early-bird pricing is available through December 10th.
This program is held and guided by RITUEL founder Eve Gaines
About Eve:
My work is rooted in a lifelong devotion to understanding how women navigate change, healing, and becoming. Academically, I studied medical and psychological anthropology, with a concentrated focus on cross-cultural rites and rituals and their impact on identity, belonging, and transformation. My thesis explored women’s experiences of ritual and transition—how meaning is shaped through embodied practice, how thresholds create openings for psychological and spiritual evolution, and how women carry the weight of change in cultures that offer them little guidance.
This research illuminated a truth I have seen again and again: In Western culture, women are asked to cross their thresholds without rituals, without markers, and often without support.
We live inside a society that does not acknowledge our initiations—birth, loss, partnerships, endings, creativity, vocation, motherhood, the wisdom years—and the absence of meaningful rites leaves many women navigating profound transitions alone. This lack of witnessing and structure creates disconnection, disorientation, and a chronic sense of having to “hold it all” without relief. Much of my work is a response to this void: rebuilding ritual frameworks that restore rhythm, belonging, and coherence to a woman’s inner life.
Professionally, I have spent decades guiding women through these initiatory seasons—supporting transformation through psycho-spiritual coaching, somatic attunement, herbal ritualism, movement practice, and rites-of-passage frameworks shaped by both scholarship and lived experience. My circles, immersions, and 1:1 work are grounded in relational presence: listening for what is emerging, honoring what is shifting, and helping each woman attune to the rhythm that is truly hers.
My path is also deeply personal. I’ve walked through my own thresholds—raising and homeschooling my children, tending the land that holds my retreat space in Topanga, and navigating seasons of loss, renewal, and reclamation that have shaped the way I guide others. I come from a lineage of women who held communities, tended healing traditions, and carried quiet strengths; their presence lives in the way I hold space today.
Across all of this—academic, professional, and personal—my devotion remains constant: to help women return to their own rhythm, reconnect with the truth of who they are, and cross their thresholds with clarity, coherence, and deep self-trust.
A Season of Generosity
This season has reminded us just how generous and interconnected our community truly is. Many of you have reached out with open hearts, asking how you can support Rituel as we rebuild, reimagine, and grow.
In response, we’ve opened a Benefactor Tier. If it’s within your means, this is a way to contribute directly to the sustainment of Rituel—supporting the land, the spaces we tend, and the offerings we’re devoted to sharing. Your generosity helps us continue this work in integrity and expansion. Please reach out to learn more.
In the same spirit, we’re also holding 1–2 scholarship spaces for each of our offerings. We believe deeply in access, and these spaces are available to those who feel called to the work but may need financial support to participate.
Whether you are giving, receiving, or somewhere in between—thank you for being part of this living, evolving community.
