Malta & Gozo · October 18–26, 2027
Come Home
To Yourself
A Journey to Malta: Sacred Islands of the Goddess
The first time this retreat has ever been held in Malta, intentionally limited to a small number of women.
An Invitation
Return to Your Essence
Come home to yourself on an island so old and so quietly persistent that the Mother was carved into her stone before the pyramids of Egypt, before the standing stones of Britain, before recorded history as we know it.
This immersive retreat with Dr. Gertrude Lyons is a sacred pause from the noise of life, created for women ready to mother themselves with tenderness, courage, and presence. Here, you’re not just resting, you’re rewriting how you relate to yourself, your needs, and your life.
Guided by
Dr. Gertrude Lyons
Held across the island of Malta and neighboring Gozo, the newest home of Dr. Gertrude Lyons and her family, and the ground where some of the oldest known temples on Earth still stand.
The Self-Mothering Experience is an 8-night immersive retreat designed to restore your relationship with rest, intuition, and inner safety. Through ceremony, temple immersion, water, and community, you’ll be guided from deep immersion into spacious integration, so the work doesn’t end when you leave. This is the Founding Circle: the first time this retreat has ever been held in Malta, intentionally limited to a small number of women.
The land
Why Malta?
Carved into caves shaped like a woman’s body. You have to look for her.
You may be wondering why this retreat is somewhere less familiar. That question is exactly the point.
Malta holds temples considered among the second-oldest free-standing structures ever discovered on Earth, older than the pyramids of Egypt, older than Stonehenge. They weren’t built to track the stars or mark the solstice. They were built in the shape of a woman’s body, oriented toward the sea, in honor of a matrilineal culture where birth, death, and the cycles of a woman’s life were treated as sacred, not silenced.
Very few living women have ever stood inside them.
This Retreat Is for Women Who Feel the Call of the Original Feminine
to slow down, to search, and to remember what was here before it was ever silenced.
Here, the feminine has been built over, conquered, and quieted for thousands of years. And still, she stands. Carved into caves shaped like a woman’s body. Hidden in the courtyard of a busy resort, beside the pool and the music. Waiting in temples built not to the stars, but to the shape of the Mother herself. You have to look for her. And when you find her, you understand something no book can teach you: nothing sacred is ever truly erased. It only waits to be remembered.
You’re not stepping away from life here. You’re re-entering it, rooted in a lineage of women far older than the one you were ever handed.
Sample Itinerary
Nine days across two islands
This is a sample itinerary as this retreat comes together. Experiences, timing, and offerings may evolve, with new elements added to support the group and the land.
The sites
Sacred sites we may visit together
As the group and land call for it.
- 01 Għar Dalam Cave Ancient prehistoric cave site
- 02 Ħaġar Qim & Mnajdra Temples An altar to the sun goddess
- 03 The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni An underground womb and initiation cave
- 04 The Blue Grotto A sea cave of reflection and prayer
Your guide
Dr. Gertrude Lyons
Dr. Gertrude Lyons is a master coach, thought leader, and author with over 20 years of experience guiding women back to their inner wisdom beyond narratives of self-sacrifice and overgiving.
Her work blends deep intuition, research, and lived experience to create spaces that are safe, honest, and transformative, where women remember they are already whole, worthy, and deeply supported.
The Investment
9 Days, 8 Nights
Founding Circle
$7,750
Malta Retreat · October 18–26, 2027
As the first Malta gathering, this circle is intentionally small, smaller than Mexico or Ireland, so seats are genuinely limited and will be confirmed on a first-commitment basis.
Begin the JourneyWhat’s Included
- 014 nights on the island of Malta, 4 nights on the island of Gozo at Samadra Retreats
- 02All programmed ceremonies, guided experiences, and daily facilitated conversations
- 03All meals
- 04Guided temple and cave ceremonies with a guide steeped in the island’s ancient feminine history
- 05Embodied movement, meditation, and ritual
- 06Spacious time for solitude, journaling, and integration
- 07Closing celebration and ceremony
Flights and travel to and from the airport are not included.
This Isn’t a Getaway.
It’s a Coming Home.
The Founding Circle is intentionally small. If something in you is already saying yes, let’s talk.
Begin the JourneyMalta & Gozo · October 18–26, 2027