RITE de PASSAGE
A Living Initiation
There comes a moment when a life asks to be lived differently, with greater coherence, deeper truth, and an authority that arises from within. Rites of Passage exist for these moments, offering a deliberate crossing that allows change to be met with structure, witnessing, and meaning, so that transition strengthens rather than fragments the self.
The Offering
This is a private, ongoing mentorship designed for people standing at a genuine threshold. Some arrive during visible transitions such as a new personal or creative chapter, marriage or partnership, motherhood, a child growing up and leaving home, leadership or career change, relocation, or a shift in life stage. Others come during consequential passages of separation, trauma, or grief—moments when a former identity has completed and a more coherent way of living is ready to take form.
The work meets change as it is actually happening. Each session builds upon the last, forming a coherent arc that attends to what is completing, what is reorganizing, and what is ready to emerge. Timing is respected throughout the process, and integration remains central, allowing transformation to mature through presence, attention, and skilled guidance rather than force or urgency.
The Architecture of the Work
The mentorship is grounded in the architecture of the seven directions and draws from the full scope of my practice. Sessions are precise and responsive, and may include psycho-spiritual inquiry, somatic and body-based work, ritual design, eco-therapy, herbal wisdom, intuitive attunement, creative exploration, and cosmological frameworks that situate personal experience within larger patterns of meaning and becoming. Each element is chosen in response to what is most needed.
What Becomes Possible
As the experience unfolds, life begins to reorganize. Relationships recalibrate. Gifts find more accurate expression. Authority becomes embodied rather than asserted, creating a felt sense of coherence in how you move, choose, and participate in your life.
YOUR GUIDE | EVE GAINES
Eve Gaines has devoted her life to restoring the deliberate marking of life’s thresholds.
With academic training in medical and psychological anthropology, she studied how traditional cultures guide individuals through identity and life-stage transformation. Her honors thesis examined the absence of meaningful rites of passage in Western society, particularly in women’s lives—a question that continues to inform her work.
Over the past two decades, she has translated this scholarship into lived practice through intentionally designed rites of passage, psycho-spiritual coaching, integrative healing experiences, and traditional herbalism. Her work bridges eco-psychology, embodied leadership, yoga therapy, somatic integration, and apprenticeship with respected teachers and elders across diverse traditions.
Eve is the founder of RITUEL, a land-based sanctuary in the Santa Monica Mountains—an intentionally cultivated retreat environment where beauty, structure, land, and community support profound life transitions.
THEMED RITES de PASSAGE
Listed below are some themed Rites de Passage designed to support you through specific times of transition. Alternatively we can create a customized rite for you to honor any other threshold you or a loved one may be navigating. Click below for more information on each option.
