THE MAGDALENE NETWORK
MARY MAGDALENE IS RISING.
NOT SO WE CAN WORSHIP HER...
SO WE CAN REMEMBER WHO WE ARE.
We believe we are the Magdalenes of modern times. Women who have heard her call, felt the pull, and are ready to follow the path she left behind.
Come into the Magdalene Network freely for community, conversation, connection and our open gatherings.
When you are ready to move from learning about the path to doing the work, we welcome you into the Magdalene Initiates, our $27/month Premium membership, where we walk the deeper path together through practice, study, integration and embodiment.
Community, connection & open gatherings
For women dedicated to do the deeper work
AWAKEN. UNBIND. EMBODY
Mary was the Apostle to the Apostles.
We see ourselves as apostles to that Apostle.
Women who have heard her call. Felt the pull. Followed the breadcrumbs. Women who know, sometimes without being able to explain how they know, that Mary Magdalene left us more than a story.
She left us a path.
Mary was called the Apostle to the Apostles, the woman who witnessed the risen Christ and was sent to carry the message forward. We see ourselves as apostles to that Apostle: women willing to pick up the thread she left behind, study her words, live what they reveal, and carry that wisdom into our own time.
The Magdalene Network grew from a calling to gather women in Mary's name and teach what has been hidden within her Gospel: teachings about awakening, inner authority, the forces that bind us, the voice of the soul, and the journey toward ascension and heaven on earth.
We do not claim to have all the answers. We are researchers, seekers, practitioners and women doing the work ourselves. We study the texts. We learn from scholars. We question inherited stories. We listen inward. And we bring what we discover back here to the women gathering with us.
In that sense, we are a conduit.
We have heard and felt Mary's call, and we are here to serve it. If you have found your way here, perhaps you have heard something too.
SIGNATURE OFFER
The Magdalene Method™
The Magdalene Method™ grew from years of following the thread Mary Magdalene placed before us: her Gospel, the teachings preserved in early Christian and Gnostic texts, the patterns we recognize through modern psychology, and the ancient understanding that transformation requires far more than intellectual knowledge.
The Method brings together theology, psychology, historical and textual research, disciplined intuitive inquiry, embodied practice, and sacred arts rooted in the traditions of the ancient mystery schools.
What emerged was not simply another collection of teachings about Mary. It became a practical path for understanding what awakening asks of us once the initial revelation has passed and we are left with the much more human question:
What do I do with what I can now see?
These are not three unrelated courses to choose between. The stages build upon one another and are meant to be taken in order. Awakening helps you recognize. Unbinding helps you release. Sacred Union teaches you to live from what remains.
Awakening
This is where the path begins.
Through six self-led modules, you are introduced to Mary Magdalene beyond the story most of us inherited. We explore her Gospel, early Christian teachings, gnosis, awakening, conditioning, inner authority, and the difference between the voice of the soul and the voices you have learned to obey.
Awakening gives you the framework for recognizing what is happening within you and begins the process of remembering who you were before the world told you who you had to become.
Begin With AwakeningUnbinding the Soul
Awakening allows you to see the pattern. Unbinding asks you to do something with what you can now see.
Using the Powers described in the Gospel of Mary as a map, we begin identifying the beliefs, wounds, protective responses, conditioning, attachments, and inherited stories that continue shaping our choices long after we understand them intellectually.
This stage moves beyond insight into practice. We learn to recognize what has been operating beneath the surface, understand what it has been protecting, and begin loosening its hold on the way we think, choose, relate, and live.
Join the October Unbinding Journey
Sacred Union of the Soul
Eventually the work stops being about what you know and becomes about how you live.
Sacred Union is the embodiment stage of the Magdalene Method: the reintegration of what has been divided within us and the practice of living from increasing coherence between soul, body, mind, intuition, relationship, and action.
Here we explore the deeper Magdalene mysteries of union, embodiment, the inner masculine and feminine, the bridal chamber, resurrection symbolism, and what it means to carry spiritual understanding out of the circle and into an ordinary human life.
Explore Sacred UnionThe deeper work is held inside the Magdalene Initiates.
The free Magdalene Network is our gathering place: community, connection, conversation, and open circles for women finding their way to Mary and to one another.
The Magdalene Initiates are where we do the work. Initiate membership gives you access to the deeper teachings, practices, study, integration, courses, and experiences that make up the Magdalene Method™.
You must be a Magdalene Initiate in the Magdalene Network to participate in the Method courses and live journeys.
Magdalene Initiates · $27/month
Become a Magdalene InitiateYou are not becoming someone new. You are remembering, unbinding, and learning to embody who you have always been.
Begin with Soul Remembrance to awaken the truth within. Continue through Unbinding the Soul to release the Powers and protections that obscure it. Then enter Sacred Union of the Soul, coming soon, where remembrance and freedom become an embodied way of life.
The Monthly Rhythm of the Magdalene Network
Free membership is where we gather in community. Magdalene Initiates is where we move more deeply into practice, study and the work of the Magdalene Method™.
Community is free.
Come meet the women, share your story, pray with us and experience what happens when we gather.
Red Thread Community Circle
Our monthly meet-and-greet where names become faces and individual stories become part of something larger. Share how Mary found you, hear what brought other women here, and tie the Red Thread as a symbol of connection to the Marys and to one another.
Sisterhood of the Marys
A monthly sacred circle for reflection, ritual and real conversation. Each gathering explores a different theme through practices such as meditation, journaling, prayer, movement and witnessing. There is nothing to prepare and nothing to prove. Come exactly as you are.
Sacred Petitions of the Rose
Gather with us in prayer each Saturday morning. Bring a petition for yourself, someone you love, our community or the world. Speak it aloud, offer it silently, or simply hold sacred space for the prayers of the women gathered beside you.
This is where we do the work.
Monthly and daily practices designed to help you listen inward, reclaim your voice and live the teachings.
Write Right Medicine
Your voice. Your story. Your medicine. Through guided prompts and shared reflection, we use writing to move beneath the thinking mind, uncover what wants to be heard and reclaim the voice women have so often learned to edit. No writing experience required.
Soul Voice Activation
Every Magdalene journey begins with Soul Voice. Through repeated practice, we strengthen the habit of moving beneath fear, conditioning and egoic distortion to listen for inner knowing. Use the practice daily, or whenever you need clarity, until consulting your own soul becomes familiar.
Daily Sacred Petitions
Initiates can begin every morning in prayer, intention and service. Bring your own petition or simply hold the prayers of another woman. This simple daily practice keeps us connected to one another and reminds us that spiritual work is both personal and communal.
Book Club Circle
We call them Book Circles because the book is only the doorway. We read slowly, question freely and explore what the words awaken in us through reflection, lived experience and sacred conversation. There are no experts at the center. We meet as equals in circle.
September's two 8-week circles begin September 10. Choose the book that calls to you.
The Magdalene Revolution
What changes when Mary Magdalene is restored to the center of the Christian story? Harvey explores sacred partnership, the return of the Divine Feminine, radical equality and the call to carry awakening beyond ourselves and into the way we live.
Begins September 10
Choose This Circle
The Way of the Rose
An unexpected rediscovery of the rosary as a living practice of prayer, Earth wisdom and devotion to the Divine Mother. Together we explore sacred symbolism, our relationship with Mary, and what it means to reclaim spiritual practice beyond religious boundaries.
Begins September 10
Choose This CircleWhat Women Are Saying Inside the Network
Sometimes the women inside the circle explain this work better than we ever could.
“This has been a long journey of trying to get out of self-judgment and turning off the exterior voices. Finally being able to say, ‘No, this is who I am. These are my beliefs,’ has been so freeing.”
“I realized how much I’ve allowed the expectations of others to dictate my humanity. This space has helped me peel back those layers and see that I am a divine being having my own experience.”
“This Book Circle has been so transformative. I feel like I’ve been able to shed layers of who I thought I needed to be and embrace the truth of who I am. It’s a process, but it’s been deeply healing.”
“When I hear these teachings and connect with this group, I feel undivided. This has reminded me of the power and wisdom that lives within me.”
“Feeling a part of a group and having this divine connection amongst us has really helped me through these last few weeks. So again, thank you.”
The Magdalene Rising Summit
There is an enormous difference between repeating what we have heard about Mary Magdalene and sitting down with the people who have spent decades studying the texts, history and traditions surrounding her.
Each Magdalene Rising Summit brings together leading scholars, authors, researchers, theologians and contemporary voices to explore Mary Magdalene, the Gnostic writings, early Christianity, the Marys, feminine spiritual history and the questions that continue to challenge the story we inherited.
We invite you to listen to the evidence, hear competing perspectives, question freely and decide for yourself what deserves another look.
Leading Voices
Attendees
Rising Summit
Voices from the Summit
"I feel like my voice is returning, and I am remembering and calling back parts of myself long forgotten."
STACEY
"The writing of Sandi Rufo lights every cell in my body... The voice is so true it pierces to the very essence of being."
BEVERLY
"Creating a place for conversations that haven't been allowed in the mainstream is critical right now."
MELISSA
"It's been lonely. Getting to know women who walk this path is a blessing. I feel humbly excited."
EMBER
Sacred Waters
There comes a point when the teachings need to leave the screen.
Sacred Waters is our intimate retreat for women ready to step away from ordinary life, gather in sacred circle, deepen the practices of the Magdalene Method™, rest, laugh, move, pray and listen for what becomes audible when the noise finally grows quiet.
Our days will weave Magdalene teachings with sacred circle, reflection, ritual, movement, time in nature, restorative mineral waters, sisterhood, beauty and spacious time simply to be.
Return to the Water
Carrie is deepening her study of the healing and spiritual traditions of sacred water, which will become part of our 2027 experience. Together, we will enter the healing mineral springs for a sacred self-baptism: releasing what we are ready to leave behind and baptizing ourselves in the living waters as witnesses to the women we are choosing to become.
Not because we were ever unclean.
Not because someone else must make us holy.
But because sometimes the soul wants a ritual worthy of the crossing.
Sacred Waters returns in 2027. Details will be shared first with women inside the Magdalene Network.
Join the 2027 Retreat Interest ListListen. Read. Question Everything.
Not ready for a course or circle? Start here. These are two of our favorite places to explore the ideas, research and conversations constantly moving through the Network.
The Magdalene Network
Come sit in on our conversations with authors, scholars, researchers and big thinkers exploring Mary Magdalene, Mother Mary, early Christianity, consciousness and the questions that tend to get a little uncomfortable in polite company.
Watch on YouTube
The Magdalene Heresies
Sandi follows the threads that refuse to leave her alone: Mary Magdalene, suppressed history, feminine spiritual authority, awakening, consciousness and the systems that taught women to distrust themselves. Occasionally Lolita Magdalena arrives and sets something on fire. Figuratively. Usually.
Read on SubstackPerhaps Mary Led You Here for a Reason.
You do not need to know exactly where this path will lead before you begin.
Come meet the women. Ask the questions. Read her words. Listen inward. Pay attention to what stirs.
We have heard and felt Mary's call, and we are here to serve it. If you found your way here, perhaps you have heard something too.
The Magdalene Network
Start here if you are looking for community, connection, conversation and a place to explore what Mary may be awakening in you.
- Red Thread Community Circle
- Sisterhood of the Marys
- Saturday Sacred Petitions
- Community conversations and Mary stories
- A place to explore before deciding what comes next
Magdalene Initiates
Become an Initiate when you are ready to move from gathering around the teachings into practicing and living them.
- Everything in the free Magdalene Network
- Soul Voice Activation
- Write Right Medicine
- Daily Sacred Petitions
- Guided Book Circles included
- Access to the Magdalene Method™ courses and deeper work
- Initiate teachings, research, recordings and resources
Mary does not need us simply to admire her story.
She left us a thread to follow.
The Magdalene Network
Magdalene Rising Collective
© 2024
“I’ve been on a path of spiritual discovery for so long, but this space, centered on Mary Magdalene’s teachings, has helped me feel wholly seen. I feel like I don’t have to hide any part of myself.”