Chrysalis
a three Night, three day in person Midlife ceremony
on the island of martha’s vineyard.
in the woods and by a private beach.
THURSDAY june 11- sunday june 14, 2026
Nine spaces available
chrysalis is a deep dive 3 day, 3 night, ceremony For Women
at Midlife In Between Lives.
This Curated experience is held on a private patch of land + sea on the island of martha’s vineyard.
CHRYSALIS also includes aftercare. 3 One Hour AFTER CARE COVENS with Sarah and the women from your ceremonies, the intention of this time is to Process our Passage and Stay in the Medicine
+ accountable to our second act dreams.
CHRYSALIS does not include travel but includes accommodations and food and also includes 3 Months Access to our Midlife Membership, HER SECOND ACT.
HER SECOND ACT is a wild and loving coven of Midlife women + femmes getting free of patriarchy individually & collectively and leaning into their Second Act Dreams. Every week you receive 2-3 Fresh Midlife Audio Teachings made for the midlife woman on the move and in the movement. Every Friday at Noon EST we gather for teachings and integration of our Midlife Processes. All calls are recorded and kept in the vault. We open the conscious + focused space for the Midlife Teachings, women’s stories, rage, grief and questions.
HER SECOND ACT also includes a vault that holds over 200 Midlife Medicine Drips from Sarah, each 10- 30 minute teaching is packed with Midlife Stories and Medicine.
lay down your first half of life with honor in community.
the chrysalis experience is for midlife women who
are ready to let go + leave the liminal limbo
+ live their second act from soul.
This is for women who: are ready to leave
their first act life + masks behind.
Who are tired of feeling on autopilot.
Who are unraveling from patriarchy.
Who have been called crazy but know
they are actually touching sanity
for the first time in their lives.
Who are coming undone.
who have been feeling like their first half of life is over,
+ their second half has not yet begun.
Who have been grieving the spring and summer of their first act
and not yet emerged into their Second Half.
You are not alone.
Far too many midlife women spend their lives in limbo.
Many women at midlife feel they are longer who they were, and not yet who they could be.
I want you to know: you are not alone in your Unraveling, your questioning of Everything:
of this world’s— and your life’s— meaning. This is actually exactly what you’re supposed to be doing.
Right here — as disorienting and confusing as it is- is right where you are meant to be.
IN THE QUESTIONING. IN THE UNRAVELING. IN THE IN BETWEEN.
You were not meant to rebirth yourself on your own all alone,
in between school drop offs and bill paying and meetings.
You were meant to Move through the Midlife Rite of Passage in Community.
You were meant to have Midwives at Midlife,
assisting you in honoring who you were and laying her gently in the earth
so you can begin again.
This is the Missing Piece: Before you can begin again,
the First Act must ceremonially end.
In this Chrysalis, Every woman designs her own First Act Funeral.
And we hold and witness you through it. On a private beach in an honoring ceremony.
This is where you slow down to go a different way.
Don’t stay stuck in limbo any longer.
Take the time to transform.
Take the time to be reborn.
The caterpillar has to die for the butterfly to fly.
Come ceremonially lay down the First Act Life with other Midlife Women by your side.
get off zoom + out of your living room.
return to the great mother’s womb.
hear yourself to heal yourself.
LEAVE THE NORM + CREATE SPACE TO TRANSFORM.
chrysalis is FOR midlife women
who have been on autopilot, who have been burned out
+ haven’t been able to carve out
space to LET THEIR FIRST ACT DIE + hear those crucial voices
with crucial messages inside.
come leave the patriarchal pace + enter this slow, protected healing space.
in the woods, by the beach, come home to your inner throne and wise body.
Slow Pace
As soon as you arrive you will be invited and supported to put your patriarchal mind aside and leave the patriarchal pace behind.
Sacred Woods and Beach Sanctuary
Truly a magical little acre of land, where we step back in time with rustic wood cabins, surrounded by Grandmother Trees, less than a sandy mile walk to the beach.
A Seasoned Teacher
You’re in Sage Hands. Sarah has been leading women and femmes through ceremony and teachings for 15 years with a focus on Rites of Passage.
Other Midlife Women
Commune with other Midlife Femmes who are unraveling from their First Act Lives to find the Soul Life Inside.
In the words of the great mystic poet Rumi:
IT IS TIME TO ASK FOR WHAT YOU REALLY WANT.
And This Temenos IS
designed to Help you Find It.
it is much easier
to change your life
when you step out
and look at it from the outside
THURSDAY
Arrive & Meet
Arrive and Connect with the Land. Have a mocktail and snack and walk barefoot and slow in greeting the earth and others. Begin to set make connections and set intentions.
Check-In
3 PM EST
Opening Circle
& Unmasking Ceremony
4 PM
Dinner
6 PM
Gentle Night Movement
7:00pm
Bed
8:30/9 PM
FRIDAY : CATERPILLAR
FIRST ACT FUNERALS
a Day at the Private Beach for First Act Release
Morning Movement Walk or Bike to the beach, porch yoga and dancing.
Breakfast
8 am
Morning Circle
9 am
Designing our First Act Funerals
10 am
Silent Walk to Beach
1 pm
First Act Funerals
2 pm - 5 pm
Dinner By the Water
6 pm
7 pm
Yin Yoga
SATURDAY: COCOON
BEING IN THE VOID OF POSSIBILITY
On the Midlife Darkness: The Grief the Rage the Invisibility and Ever- Threatening Mortality. (Midlife women are different, they move like they’ve got death’s breath on their neck).
The Midlife Rites are that Box of Darkness Mary Oliver was talking about, when she
learned to alchemize the dark into light.
The destruction into medicine.
The end into a beginning.
Morning Movement Walk or Bike to the beach, porch yoga and dancing.
Morning Circle
Guided Journaling: “We’ve Been Stopped in our Tracks with Monumental Questions to Ask.”
11:00am
Lunch Break
12:30pm
Invisibility + The Inner Teen + Raging + Release
1:00pm
7 am
9 am
Dinner
6:30pm
ENVISIONING THE SECOND ACT DREAM
SUNDAY: butterfly: fly free
Begin the Step by Step but Non-Linear Process (we return to the Cocoon Again and Again) of Embodying the Second Act Archetype with proven transformative practices to rewire your journey toward liberation and full self individuation.
7 am
Morning Movement Walk or Bike to the beach, porch yoga and dancing.
8 am
breakfast
Morning Circle: Embodying the Second Act You
9:00 – 9:30am
Bearing Witness and Being Witnessed in our Second Act Visions and Dreams. Being Held Accountable to Our Birthings.
11:00am
Last Lunch
12:30pm
Depart
2:00pm
chrysalis ACCOMoDATIONS + HOUSE KEEPING
What to Know: The Chrysalis Transformative Temenos Site is on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off of Cape Cod. It can be reached by ferry or flight. This is the Ferry Information and this is the Airport Link. Upon registration, you will receive the address where we are meeting. If you are traveling in mass transportation, due to Covid, we ask that you mask on the plane and test on arrival. All ceremonies and gatherings will be held outside.
PLEASE KNOW: this is a very private place that’s been in the family for over half a century that we refer to as our Grandmother’s Land. (I don’t even show pictures of the cabins!) But there are 3 cabins on the property, and the property is roughly one sandy mile from a private beach. Must love rustic. MUST LOVE DOGS. Sarah’s two dogs will be on the property, and they are family members. We ask that you if you are coming to this land, you are in your Midlife Crisis/ Awakening, that you are Matriarchal in consciousness, that means you center Mothers, Earth, and Children. We ask that you treat this private place as sacred for your work, that you have read the rules of engagement, that you come prepared for a deep ceremonial weekend (with pleasure and fun too).
FOOD: Kitchen is communal. Your Vegetarian Meals are Included. We will Make Meals Together ( and do the dishes together too!) But if you want to buy food and bring, that’s fine! Just keep it in the fridge. If you have special food needs, tell us! We will work it out.
MAIN CABIN: The Main Cabin with Five Beds: Cabin One is where the kitchen, living room, bathroom, outdoor shower and gathering porch are. In the Main Cabin is One Private back bedroom with a queen bed, a desk, and a bureau. There is also the Trundle Room, which has four twin beds, think, cozy sleepaway camp vibe.
PRIVATE CABIN: A private screened in cabin with a king bed, writing desk and lounging bench.
CAMPING: Three tent spots available behind the Main Cabin. Sleep out under the stars (with your own gear!) But have access to all the main cabin amenities.
THE SARAHS CABIN: I will be over in the Blue Cabin with the Dogs and my Friend Sarah who is helping me with this deep experience! You can call on us for anything you need.
CHRYSALIS also includes aftercare. 3 One Hour AFTER CARE COVENS with Sarah and the women from your ceremonies, the intention of this time is to Process our Passage and Stay in the Medicine
+ accountable to our second act dreams.
CHRYSALIS does not include travel but includes all the teachings and ceremonies and accommodations and food and also includes 3 Months Access to our Midlife Membership, HER SECOND ACT.
HER SECOND ACT is a wild and loving coven of Midlife women + femmes getting free of patriarchy individually & collectively and leaning into their Second Act Dreams. Every week you receive 2-3 Fresh Midlife Audio Teachings made for the midlife woman on the move and in the movement. Every Friday at Noon EST we gather for teachings and integration of our Midlife Processes. All calls are recorded and kept in the vault. We open the conscious + focused space for the Midlife Teachings, women’s stories, rage, grief and questions.
HER SECOND ACT also includes a vault that holds over 200 Midlife Medicine Drips from Sarah, each 10- 30 minute teaching is packed with Midlife Stories and Medicine.
The PURCHASE BUTTONS ARE ALL FULL PAY out of SIMPLICITY.
BUT IF YOU NEED A PAYMENT PLAN,
email us at hello@sarahofmagdalene.com and we are happy to help.
There are Nine Spaces Available and this TEMENOS is First Come First Serve.
Like the Bikes we have waiting for you to peddle down to the private beach.
WHO YOU ARE WORKING WITH
Hello, my name is Sarah Durham Wilson, otherwise known as Sarah of Magdalene. I have led women Back to the Goddess and through their Rites of Passage + Massive Life Transitions + Transformations for 15 years. For 8 years I guided women across the threshold of Maiden to Mother, and I also wrote the book Maiden to Mother .
My current work is on the women’s Midlife Rites of Passage and Liberation from Patriarchy. I am utterly devoted to women at their Midlife Crossroads, who are In the InBetween, amid the chaos and reorientation of the Midlife Metamorphosis.
I am 47 now and slowly and gently on the other side of a 5 Year Identity and Mortality Midlife Crisis. My own Mother died in hers Midlife Passage at 45. It is in a huge part to her that I now so deeply desire to
Serve women at Midlife in getting across the dark divide to the Second Act of Life.
I truly believe with every bone in my body that when women liberate at midlife, they liberate the world.
It is an honor to have you in this Temenos: This will not be a weekend for small talk, but of deep sacred intention, ceremony, and also beautiful sandy beach walks.
Temenos: a delineated sacred space, symbolizing a container for sanctuary, ritual healing + transformation. Also known as “A Sacred Circle Where One Can Reveal Oneself Without Fear.” To create a Temenos, we must create boundaries and rules with which to engage. An online version of mine is here. Boundaries make the Temenos a safe place to unravel and also play.