Goddess Temples
of Turkey
Tour 2006
For Women

Oct. 1- 14 2006 

Itinerary


Day1

Meet at San Francisco Airport for Goddess Departure
.
Arrive Istanbul, check-in

Walk around Sultanahmet (The Old City

Visit the Ancient Blue Mosque

Dinner

Group Circle – Setting our intentions for the trip.

Sharing about experiences in the Blue Mosque
and feelings around the place of women in Islamic Culture

Meditation

Day2

Estara introduces her Goddess Embodiment™ Principles & Techniques to prepare the body for the initiations to come with movement, sound and meditation.

Breakfast

Visit Haggia Sophia, originally a church, which was converted into a mosque and now is a museum. Haggia, in Greek, means Divine. Sophia, is the goddess of wisdom. This amazing structure was built to honor the feminine aspect of divine wisdom. This is one of the most extraordinary buildings in history

Lunch

Bazaars for Shopping

Dinner

Go see Whirling Dervishes
The Whirling Dervishes also called a “Sema” ceremony were inspired by the great sufi poet Rumi. They represent the spiritual journey of turning towards the truth, losing the self and returning with a maturity and greater perfection and growth through love.

Day3

Morning Movement & Meditation

Breakfast

Visit the great “Grand Bazaar” (Shopping!) Inner Turkey flight to begin the Goddess Temple journey Check into hotel Enjoy Natural Thermal Healing Waters, Swimming Pool Dinner Evening Sharing & Meditation

Day4

Drive to the Ancient city of Pergamon –
An Important center of the arts and healing during the 2nd Century A.D. Here we will be visiting the Temple of Isis. Isis – Great Mother and Restorer of life. This will be the first initiation opening up to the energies of the Divine Mother. We will use tuning forks to attune ourselves to the sound frequencies and vibration of Isis.

At the Acropolis of Pergamon we will visit the theatre, which is one of the steepest theaters in the world, having a capacity of 10,000 people.

We will also visit a Temple of Athena – the courageous, goal oriented warrior goddess and the Temple of Demeter. Demeter known for motherhood, goddess of vegetation and harvest, all caring, and her protective qualities, was credentialed in the Hymn to Demeter as the bringer of immortality to humankind. Demeter’s ancient Eleusian Mysteries were held annually in October. These rites, which were among the most sacred and revered, were celebrated by women only and were practiced here.

We will then drive into the old town of Bergama to visit Asklepion. Asklepion was one of the most important healing centers of the ancient world. This healing center incorporated sound healing as one of its primary healing modalities. Patients were cured by the sound of water and music among other sound healing methods. We will be sounding our intentions & prayers receiving the ancient healing vibrations of this powerful place.

Back to Hotel

Dinner

Thermal waters for integration

Day5

Morning Movement & Meditation

Tuning into the Archetypal qualities of Goddess Artemis

Breakfast

Drive to the Temple of Artemis

Movement Rituals & Meditations Spend the day at the temple site Dancing and anchoring Prayers for Peace for the planet Lunch at site Visit synagogue dating back to the 3rd Century A.D.

Back to Hotel

Dinner

Thermal Waters for integration

Day6

Morning Movement & Meditation

Breakfast

Drive to new hotel - Check In

Visit the Artemis Temple Site that was one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World and famous place for pilgrimage to worship the Goddess Artemis. The last of the great goddess temples to remain open for goddess worship well into the Christian era.

Lunch

Visit Ephesus – The greatest temple city in Asia Minor. The best preserved of the classical Roman cities on the Mediterranean. The best place in the world to get the feeling for what life was like in the times when the goddess was honored. The name of the city is derived from “apasas” meaning “City of the Mother Goddess”.

Back to hotel

Dinner

Evening Group Sharing & Meditation

Day7

Morning Movement & Meditation

Breakfast

Visit the mountaintop House of Mother Mary
This is the place she chose to live her last days. It was from this place that she ascended with her body to the higher dimensions. This place still retains the accelerated charged energy of that moment. Here you will feel the divine presence of Mother Mary

Lunch on the mountain by the house of Mary

Prayers & Meditations

Journal Writing

Special access to a private place of Mary for prayer.

Back to hotel

Dinner

Evening Group Sharing & Sound Meditation

Day8

Breakfast

Back to House of Mother Mary for Morning Prayers & Meditations

Visit Basilica of St. John the Divine

Lunch

Visit Sufi Mosque

Dinner

Group Sharing & Meditation

Day9

Morning Movement & Meditation

Breakfast

Drive to glorious Temple of Athena
Through a Movement & Sound ceremony we will Anchor in the Archetypal qualities of Athena and call forth her strength, courage and wisdom to achieve our personal and planetary goals.

Lunch

Dancing and anchoring

Prayers for Peace for the planet

Dinner

Evening Group Sharing

Day10

Morning Movement and Meditation

Breakfast

Drive to Pamukkale
Pamukkale is a magical and spectacular natural site, unique, world famous for its fascinating formation of white petrified cascades of stalactites, cataracts and basins. The hot springs here have been used since Roman times for their therapeutic healing powers.

Check into hotel

Lunch

Enjoy Rest & Rejuvenation in the amazing thermal baths in preparation for the embodying the qualities of Aphrodite (Venus) Also Swimming in huge refreshing pool Dinner Evening Group Sharing and Meditations Optional thermal baths – pools still open

Day11

Morning Thermal Baths & Meditations

Breakfast

Drive to Temple of Aphrodite (Venus)

Visit Museum
This Museum is one of the most outstanding museums of western Anatolia. Findings at the excavations here are of unsurpassed value.

Enter the city through the monumental Gateway of Venus
. This temple site is a major portal for the archetypal energies of divine love, beauty, and sensuality.

Lunch

Movement & Sound Meditations to receive and embody the pure feminine essence of the Venus energies.
Using tuning forks we will tone with the sound frequencies of Venus.

Dinner

Evening Group Sharing & Meditation

Day12

Breakfast

Back to the Temple of Aphrodite

Morning Dance Ritual to receive personal goddess activation and empowerment

Lunch at Site

“Dance Prayers for Peace” Sacred Dance Goddess Embodiment Ritual

Dinner

Evening Group Sharing
Note from Estara: It was here that I felt transported beyond earthly consciousness and experienced waves of celestial energies flowing through my body.

Day13

Leave to head back

Lunch

House of Mary for closing prayers of gratitude

Integration time

Dinner

Thermal Waters and Swimming Pool

Evening Group Sharing & Meditation

Day14

Fly back to Istanbul and connect with flight to US

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