A Blood Moon Retreat

CRAFT YOUR CROWN

OJO SANTA FE: A LUSH OASIS IN THE HIGH DESERT

The thermal waters of Ojo have a way of softening what has been held tightly for too long. You may arrive simply wanting rest. Many women leave carrying something quieter and more long-lasting — a renewed sense of sovereignty and the felt knowledge that beauty does return.

This isn't simply where you'll stay. It's part of the experience.

Tucked into 77 acres of gardens, cottonwoods and high-desert landscape, Ojo Santa Fe feels like discovering an oasis where you didn't expect one.

For generations, people have been drawn to the natural spring-fed waters here to rest, soak and reconnect. During Desert Bloom, this becomes our home for four days — a place intentionally chosen to give you space to soften, exhale and step outside the noise of your everyday life.

Wake slowly and wander to morning yoga. Wrap yourself in a robe and slip into the warm thermal pools beneath the open New Mexico sky. Walk the trails. Linger over a farm-fresh meal. Find a hammock and do absolutely nothing for a while (we know…sigh of relief, right?)

And when you retreat to your casita at the end of the day, you're still held inside the quiet of Ojo.

There is something beautifully fitting about gathering here for Desert Bloom: a lush, living sanctuary fed by water in the middle of an arid landscape.

Proof that the desert was never empty.
Something (or maybe someone) that was simply waiting for the right conditions to come alive.

Desert Bloom is for the women standing at a crossroad between an old life doesn’t quite fit anymore and the next one that hasn’t been named yet. 

You may be leaving a role, a relationship, a career, a version of yourself that kept everyone around you comfortable. 

You may be childfree, a late bloomer, newly parentless, newly visible, or newly invisible. 

You don’t need another retreat that promises you’ll come home “fixed.”

You want to be witnessed.

You want ceremony that uses your hands, not just your journal. You want desert, water, quiet, and a small circle of women who will not flinch if your story is messy. You are done performing the good girl, the responsible one, the woman who waits until she’s healed enough to take up space.

Desert Bloom is for the woman who still has a wild streak and a tired nervous system. Who loves beauty but isn’t tied to the expected version of “wellness.” Who is ready to mark this chapter on purpose — crown, threshold, body, truth — and go home different, not decorated.

It’s a good fit if you:

• Are roughly 40–70 and feel the identity shift of aging in your bones

• Want intimacy (about 10–12 women), not a conference

• Can travel to Santa Fe and invest in a private, held experience

• Are stable enough for group work — curious, not in acute crisis

• If you’ve been waiting for someone to say this counts as a rite of passage — that’s who Desert Bloom is for.

Optional daily morning yoga

Unlimited access to the spring-fed thermal pools

One private evening group soak

Opening intention and Fire ceremony 

Blood Moon Eclipse viewing and release ritual 

Craft Your Crown ritual + ceremonial portrait

Cacao ceremony

Group Sound bath 

Private Sacred Bath with Reiki 

EFT tapping sessions

Farm-fresh meals

Private massage 

Closing Ecstatic Dance Party

Kate Higgins is a licensed therapist with 25 years of clinical experience who left the traditional medical model to coach unconventional midlife women through the real emotional and spiritual shifts that no one talks about. 

A chronic late bloomer, she brings both deep therapeutic insight and a rebellious, creative spirit shaped by her years as a touring burlesque performer. She is deeply committed to sacred silliness and believes that fun is the medicine.

Through her work, Kate helps midlife women let go of expectations: the good girl, the people pleaser, the version that made sense to their mother or their old life — so they can finally become who they truly are. 

Using the four archetypes of Maiden, Mother, Empress, and Crone, creative ritual, and a healthy dose of irreverence, she guides women through her signature workshop Craft Your Crown. Whether a woman is grieving what used to be, craving more joy, or simply ready to stop shrinking, Kate holds space for the messy, tender, and sacred parts of midlife becoming.