In the midst of the jewel bright Aegean Sea, where the veil between the ancient world and the present moment is thin, we gather on the island of Paros to reclaim the time-honored craft of mediumship.

In the context of our retreat, mediumship means giving voice to the wisdom of divine beings, nature spirits, personal guides, and ancestral spirits and allowing their blessing power to flow into our daily reality. Through a structured approach—including safe protocols, boundary setting, and refining our sensitivity and awareness—we build reliable pathways for receiving profound insights. To ground these transmissions, we employ “creative rituals,” utilizing journaling and art-making to concretize the ethereal into clear, lucid, and tangible forms. This immersive retreat is designed for artists, healers, shamanic practitioners, or anyone wishing to learn about building beneficial, sovereign relationships that bridge the mundane and spirit worlds. All are welcome from beginners to advanced skill levels.

Together we will:

• Set the Oracular Structure: Cultivate desirable settings for successful reception of the Otherworld and define intentions to ensure respectful interactions with ease.

• Deepen Divine Relationships: Engage in numinous rituals to access a wide array of knowledge and inspiration. Meet with personal allies and deities, drawing on their immense wisdom to increase your personal resilience.

• Bridge Myth & Contemporary Practice: Explore the ancient lore of spirit communion, history of Greek deities including Persephone and the Nymphs, and relate it to the needs of our modern world.

• Concretize the Craft: Use art-making and writing to ground spiritual insights, turning ephemeral impressions into life-enhancing personal resources.

• Refine the Voice: Develop the skill of articulating your experience with clarity whether through spoken word, writing, or creative expression.

• Day trips: Practice connecting to spirit through on-site explorations on Paros and Naxos. Weather permitting, sites will include wild groves, meadows, and coves; ancient temple ruins, and archaeological museums

Enrich your soul and refine your craft in the cradle of Aegean. By the journey’s end, you will have developed a grounded, personal spiritual practice that honors both the spirits of the land and the creative fire within.

Logistics: Our five day retreat begins on June 8th and concludes on June 12th, 2026 at The Aegean Center. We will meet each day from 10AM to 3PM at our home base in the charming and ancient village of Paroikia, Paros (continuously inhabited since 4500 BCE). 

Tuition: $1200. Early bird rate is $1100 until April 1st. This includes teacher’s salaries, tickets and transportation to sites and museums, and a final feast together. Housing, all other meals, and transportation to Paros is not included. Payment plan available upon request.

Day 1: What is consciousness? What is mediumship? The history of the oracles of Delphi. Explore the Second Sight, meet personal allies. Learn Monoprints to put into art.

Day 2: Deities of the collective and local landscape. Including myths of Apollo, Hecate, Persephone, Gaia, Demeter. Create our own magical journals/grimoires in book binding.

Day 3: Nature spirits such as the nymphs, dryads, genius loci, etc. A trip to Antiparos cave.

Day 4: Fate, destiny weaving, and the Morirai. A trip to the Archeology Museum. Dinner feast.

Day 5: Ritual Theatre as we bring the Delphic oracle to life with our own queries. Each participant takes a seat on the tripod.

Keziah Baltz is an artist, mythology and art teacher, and bodyworker based in Paros, Greece. Her educational background encompasses mythology, psychology (University of Redlands, 2015), massage and energy work (Santa Fe School of Massage, 2016), wilderness ceremony facilitation (School of Lost Borders, 2019), and the arts (Aegean Center for Fine Arts, 2021). She designs and leads retreats in New Mexico and Greece focusing on mutual wellbeing of self and Earth, mythology, imaginal work, feminism, and creativity. For more information, visit her website: www.keziahgracebaltz.com

Katherine Rita is a full-time Spirit Worker, artist and practitioner of folk magic. She specializes in Compassionate Depossession, Curse Unraveling, and Norse shamanism. She has trained in mediumship and energy medicine since an early age, now weaving together ancient perspectives to support modern times. Her private practice conducted in Santa Fe, New Mexico and online encompasses a range of healing arts inspired from the wellspring of ancestral traditions.