Mother & Child Pilgrimage
A shared journey into beauty, story, and sacred landscape. Creating a bond you’ll carry for life.
April 24th - May 4th 2027
You want a pilgrimage that honors your child’s coming of age and deepens your bond.
A sacred journey that moves beyond sightseeing. One that shapes memory and relationship.
You want your child to feel rooted and seen but daily life feels rushed and fragmented.
You sense their transition into adolescence and want a meaningful way to honor it, yet the modern world offers few true rites of passage.
You want to feel connected to a line of your ancestry.
I understand how precious and fleeting this stage of childhood feels because I’ve watched my own children begin to move from dependency toward independence. So I create journeys that give space for presence, reflection, and deepened parent-child connection.
A pilgrimage is a journey toward something sacred. It’s stepping out of the ordinary and into a slower rhythm shaped by intention, reflection, and the land. Bringing a child makes it even more meaningful. It becomes a shared rite of passage: wonder, reverence, and deep connection.
What is included?
This pilgrimage blends slow, contemplative days with shared creative practices that invite both mother and child into presence and connection:
10 nights Accomodations
Daily shared meals (unless we eat out on travel days)
Simple ancestral crafts to learn together — weaving, candle making, bread & butter making, nature art, land based medicine, and other hands-on work that invites curiosity and memory.
Historic and Sacred Sites — an Iron Age village, ancient trees, churches filled with symbolism and mystery, standing stones, castles, the magical Isle of Staffa’s puffin colony, the sacred Isle of Iona, and more.
Story and play built into each day
Mom + child conversation prompts & journaling invitations
Photography that captures your shared experience
This pilgrimage is not a tour. It’s a rite of passage.
For children between ages 9-12 (but contact me if you have an older child)
Late childhood/early adolescence is a threshold. A crossing between dependence and independence. In many cultures, this stage was marked intentionally. Today, it often passes unnoticed.
A pilgrimage with a parent offers a way to honor this transition.
Walking side by side through meaningful landscape creates space for connection, reflection, and trust without pressure or instruction.
The journey becomes a shared memory, a marker in time, and a gentle rite of passage for both.
“The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer journey. One can have one without the other. It is better to have both.”
— Thomas Merton
Our Path Together
Days will be shaped by exploration, shared creative work, play, rest, storytelling by the fire, and connecting to the land and traditions.
This is a journey of remembering: who you are, who your child is, and how your hearts can walk together toward sacredness, curiosity, and rooted belonging. This is a special rite of passage between the two of you as you both grow.
For The Child
A pilgrimage is not a lesson or a program. It is something the body understands before the mind does.
Walking side by side changes the dynamic between mother and child. Being in a landscape that carries age, story, and beauty does something important at this stage:
it gives the child a sense of scale beyond themselves
it offers belonging that doesn’t depend on performance
it introduces reverence without pressure or belief
This kind of journey communicates:
You are old enough to walk beside me.
You are becoming.
Children don’t remember lectures. They remember experiences.
Years later, they may not recall every place you visited, but they will remember:
that they were invited into something meaningful
that their presence mattered
that their parent chose time, effort, and attention for just them
A pilgrimage becomes a marker in time. A before and after. That is what a rite of passage does.
For The Mother
Something is loosening. Your child is beginning to turn outward, and the relationship is changing.
Stepping away from daily roles and responsibilities means you can witness your child in a different way.
This journey marks the beginning of a new phase grounded in trust, presence, and shared memory.
Pilgrimage creates space to:
honor what has been
witness who the child is becoming away from daily life
witness how you are transforming as a mother
It creates room to honor the years of closeness that shaped your bond, and to gently begin the shift from protector to guide. Not by letting go, but by learning how to walk alongside them.
Choose to mark this moment in your child’s life with intention.
Apply to join the pilgrimage.
Prepare for the journey ahead.
Investment: $4400 (mother+child)
payment plans available
What You Will Bring Home
A sense of kinship that doesn’t fade with the return to routine.
Memories that shift how you see things.
A commencement into a new phase of your relationship.
Knowing you have nurtured their inner landscape.
Don’t let this stage drift by unmarked. Missing the chance for a shared experience that literally changes your bond and connection to self, each other, and the world.
