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.
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For women dedicated to do the deeper work
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.
The Conversation Is Expanding
On October 14, 2026, Sandi LaTourette-Rufo will present Mary Magdalene and the Transformation of Consciousness to the Scientific & Medical Network, an international organization exploring science, consciousness, spirituality, health and human experience.
The presentation will bring the Gospel of Mary, spiritual authority, the Powers, inner knowing and the developing Magdalene Method™ into a wider conversation about consciousness and transformation. The Network also administers the Galileo Commission, which explores areas of human experience that conventional scientific models do not always easily address.
This is not a claim that science has proven the Magdalene Method. It is a sign that the questions at the heart of this work are beginning to reach beyond our own community.
Sandi’s forthcoming book will continue that conversation in 2027.
Learn About the PresentationThe Magdalene Method™
Women often come to us looking for the truth about Mary Magdalene. What they discover is a pathway into the truth about themselves.
The Magdalene Method™ is a modern framework for awakening, transformation and embodiment inspired by the transformational themes preserved in the Gospel of Mary. It helps us recognize what has shaped us, work consciously with what no longer serves us, and begin living from what we have remembered.
Stage I · Remembrance
Remember what you are.
Soul Remembrance is the foundational stage of The Magdalene Method™. Through six self-led modules, you explore awakening, Soul Voice, inherited conditioning, Mary Magdalene’s Gospel, gnosis and the recovery of spiritual authority.
This is where you begin separating what is truly yours from the beliefs, expectations and identities you learned to carry.
6 self-led modules
Begin anytime
$47 standalone
Included with Magdalene Initiate
Stage II · Unbinding
Release what you are not.
Unbinding is the deeper live-work stage of the Method. Using the Powers described in the Gospel of Mary as a contemplative map, we explore the fears, beliefs, identities, protective patterns and inherited conditioning that continue shaping our lives.
This is where insight becomes practice and we begin making more conscious choices instead of automatically living from old patterns.
Live guided experience
Next round begins November 3, 2026
Stage III · Embodiment
Embody what you have remembered.
Sacred Union is the embodiment stage of The Magdalene Method™. After awakening to who we are and unbinding what has shaped us unconsciously, the question becomes:
What do I live from now?
Through deeper study of gnosis, Sophia and Christ consciousness, sacred union, Anthropos and embodied humanity, we explore what it means to bring inner knowing into ordinary life.
Opening January 2027
Ongoing formation within the Magdalene Order
Remember what you are.
Release what you are not.
Become fully human again.
You 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.
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™.
Come meet the women, share your story, pray with us and experience what happens when we gather.
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.
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.
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.
Monthly and daily practices designed to help you listen inward, reclaim your voice and live the teachings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our next Book Circles begin November 5. Choose the time and book that calls to you.
An exploration of Divine Feminine wisdom, Sophia, sacred cosmology and the spiritual traditions that have carried feminine wisdom through history. We will use the text as a doorway into deeper conversation about what the return of the Divine Feminine may mean in our own lives and in the world around us.
Begins November 5 · Morning Circle with Carrie
Choose the Morning Circle
A journey into sacred feminine lineage, wisdom, devotion and the spiritual world surrounding Jesus, Mary and the women whose stories often remain at the edges of traditional narratives. Together we will read with curiosity and discernment, allowing the book to open deeper questions about feminine wisdom, remembrance and spiritual inheritance.
Begins November 5 · Evening Circle with Linda
Choose the Evening CircleSometimes 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.”
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.
"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
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.
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 ListNot 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.
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.
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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 SubstackYou 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.
Start here if you are looking for community, connection, conversation and a place to explore what Mary may be awakening in you.
Become an Initiate when you are ready to move from gathering around the teachings into practicing and living them.
Mary does not need us simply to admire her story.
She left us a thread to follow.
Our mission is to restore the feminine wisdom and spiritual authority that have been pushed to the margins for centuries, and to make this work available to as many women as possible. You do not have to be Christian or religious to belong here.
If this work matters to you, join us, share it, or invite a woman you love.
Mary Magdalene is rising. Not so we can worship her. So we can remember who we are.
The Magdalene Network
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SOMETHING IS HAPPENING!
Your life feels different. Your old beliefs may not fit anymore. You’re questioning things you once accepted, and something inside you is asking for more.
This free masterclass will help you understand what spiritual awakening can look like, why so many women are feeling this shift, and what Mary Magdalene’s teachings may have to do with it.
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Remember → Unbind → Embody
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