Ancient Egypt left its memory in the land, the temples, the pyramids, and it calls you to remember your ancient history. Join us for a spiritual retreat to awaken your memories as we tour the amazing Sacred Sites and gather in retreat to process your experiences.
Each day will offer morning yoga and we’ll close the day with sacred dance. Seminars include in-depth explanation of the sites and sessions to process your experiences through meditation, discussion, and bodywork.
Your tour includes
Exploring and experiencing ancient Egyptian Temples and Museums, The Great Pyramids, Valley of Kings and Queens, and much more described in the itinerary.
Spiritual retreat which includes in-depth explanation of the sites and sessions to process your experiences. Including ceremony, meditation, yoga, and Sacred Circle Dance
Accommodations in locally owned lodges with hosts who welcome us to their culture and share their stories
All meals and bottled water
Transportation throughout Egypt in air-conditioned coaches and includes domestic flights within Egypt
Entrance fees for the sites
Your hosts: Peggy Moore and Truth Wingfield
This mother and daughter team will lead you into the heart of Ancient Egypt
Peggy Reeder Moore, Tour Leader, Meditation Guide
Peggy is a life-long student of spiritual and metaphysical studies and has followed her heart to make spiritual journeys to sacred sites, mounds, standing stones in several countries. She has coordinated and led tours to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, and Egypt. She teaches courses in Egyptian Spirituality, Egyptian Goddesses, Celtic Spirituality, Ireland’s Sacred Sites, Spiritual Development, and Meditation. She has practiced and taught meditation most of her life. Her energy work involves holding space for people to heal and is a practitioner of Timeline Healing Therapy. She leads ceremony for the Eightfold Celtic Holy Days and the Irish Spirit Wheel.
Truth Wingfield, Logistics Coordinator
Truth, growing up in a spiritual home with Peggy, learned to meditate as a child and always felt Egypt calling her “home”. Her first trip to Egypt in 2020 awoke that calling and deepened her connection to ancient Egypt. She is a world traveler and has coordinated international group travel in Costa Rica, Mexico, Portugal, Greece. Her heart leads her toward volunteer and non-profit work. With a degree in communications, she has coordinated event logistics for 20 years in the music industry. As our Logistics Coordinator, her solution-oriented approach will keep us flowing with the River Nile.
OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR DYNAMIC TEAM
Sacred Circle Dance Leader, Maggie Moon Our Egyptian Guides: Mahgoub and Auf
Maggie Moon O’Neill, Sacred Circle Dance Leader
Maggie has offered Sacred Dance, both Belly Dance and Sacred Circle Dance, for most of her adult life, in order to facilitate participants’ direct experience of the Divine. Maggie has led Sacred Dance for groups large and small all over the USA and in several other countries. She has also led and participated in pilgrimages to other parts of the world to dance on the Sacred Earth and experience Her Mysteries. During her first pilgrimage to sacred sites in Egypt, she felt a deep connection to Isis, the Great Mother. Maggie’s life calling is to share Sacred Dance as embodied spirituality, and as a way to directly experience the Divine Feminine within us all, both male and female.
Mahgoub guides spiritual seekers and tourists through the ancient sites of Egypt. He lives in Luxor, Egypt, the heart of ancient Thebes, with hundreds of ancient sites. Mahgoub studied at Minia University in the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels Guidance Department. As Mahgoub leads people to these ancient sites he reads and interprets Hieroglyphics from the walls of the Temples. His words and stories echo the long-ago times of Ancient Egypt. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, German, and of course, Egyptian Arabic.
Abulauf (Auf) attended Minia University for his guide training. He, too, lives in Luxor, Egypt, and has been sharing his deep understanding of the ancient Egyptian wisdom, beliefs and customs with visitors from around the world for twenty years. He reads and interprets Hieroglyphics from the walls of the Temples and fluently speaks English, Spanish, Japanese, and Egyptian Arabic. One of his many talents includes Reading the Stars, and amazingly, belly dancing!. Auf also works the ancient fields of Egypt on his family farm.
Itinerary Outline
In addition to our daily tour schedule, our offerings include daily yoga, meditation, and sacred dance. At our spiritual center, Hathor House, we’ll gather in retreat for seminars to help prepare you for the sacred sites and to process your experiences and interactions with the land, the temples, and Egypt’s energy. AND there are more surprises along our journey, like sunset on the Nile.
Day 1: Meet and Greet at airport in Cairo where a guide and driver will transport you to our hotel. In the afternoon will have an introductory meeting and welcome dinner, followed by Sacred Circle Dance.
Day 2: Giza Plateau pyramids including Great Pyramid & Sphinx. Egyptian Museum. Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the Citadel of Cairo
Day 3: Red Pyramid, Perfect and Imperfect Pyramids in Dahshur & Saqqara. Tour of the Blue Lotus Water Gardens. Lunch with Bakr and his family.
Day 4: Transition Day via flight to Luxor. Seminar at Hathor House Spiritual Center.
Day5: Valley of the Kings in the heart of the Theban Necropolis. Numerous tombs decorated with reliefs, hieroglyphs: Ramses III & IV, Merneptah, Tutankhamun and others. Visit local artisans, such as papyrus furniture makers, weavers, potters. Seminar to prepare for Abydos and Dendera.
Day 6: Travel by luxury bus to Dendera Temple of Hathor, goddess of love, music, and art. Temple contains early astrological signs carved on its ceiling. Visit its underground crypts where strange reliefs indicate the use by ancient Egyptians of advanced technologies. See light bulbs carved in the hieroglyphs. Zodiac on ceiling. Travel to Abydos where the first Pharaohs were buried, a place of sacred pilgrimage for 6000 years and honors Osiris. Extraordinary colors and hieroglyphs carved on the temple ceiling.
Day 7: Morning seminar—process Dendera & Abydos. Tour Carter House, a historic “museum home” which takes you back to the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Dinner & maybe belly dancing with local Egyptian musicians.
Day 8: Visit 2 temple complexes. Karnak Temple Complex including the private Sekhmet Temple. Luxor Temple, dedicated to God Amen and Goddess Mut. We’ll spend time at the temple complex, then go next door to visit the Abou al-Haggag Mosque. We’ll have free time at the Souk (souq or bazaar) and gather for tea or coffee at Kasoum Café (dedicated to one of Egypt’s famous singers of the 1920s to 1970s). Have an essential oil presentation and opportunity to purchase oils and spices. Evening seminar, dinner, dancing.
Day 9: This morning there is the optional opportunity to go ballooning over West Luxor. Departure for the lift off site is around 4 am. It is an add-on, optional event with a separate fee. (Not so early in the morning,) we’ll visit Valley of the Queens and Hatshepsut's Temple (temple of Deir al-Bahri). Later we’ll float down the river on a Felucca Boat & experience sunset on the Nile.
Day 10: Ramesseum Complex with its astronomical ceiling and colossal statue of Rameses II. Visit Luxor Museum, then visit a small Coptic Church in the countryside. Nuns there will share stories of harboring Mary, Joseph & Jesus as they traveled through.
Day 11: We’ll visit the amazing Habu Temple, dedicated to the god Amon, built around 2081 BCE and later enlarged by Hatshepsut and Thutmose III. Ramses III (1156 BCE) fortified the site with his mortuary temple and it offered security to the village and served as the administrative center for the women’s village during times of military conflict. Lunch & tour at the historic Marsam Hotel. Neighborhood Walking Tour including sanctuary farm and shops where pottery and stonework are made.
Day12: Visit Tombs of Nobles. Explore the ancient village of Dier el Medina with its extraordinary tombs of the ordinary workers who built the temples(Valley of Artisans). Similar to Valley of Queens, but tombs smaller less ornate. Lunch at the Queens Restaurant and afterwards go across the street for self-guided tour of Colossi of Memnon, gigantic statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III dating to circa 1375 BCE. Visit palm furniture and basket making shops
TONIGHT IS A FULL MOON AND LUNAR ECLIPSE—We’ll celebrate the Eclipse Portal
Day 13: Farewell breakfast. Final seminar at Hathor House. Fly to Cairo to stay overnight.
Day 14—In Cairo for flights home. Or continue with us for Phase II, an additional week-long tour in Aswan. We can also make recommendations if you want an additional tour to another location such as Alexandria or the Red Sea.
Pricing choices for 13 night/14 days October 18 to October 31, 2023
Price includes: lodging, all meals, bottled water, entrance fees to sites, all transportation within Egypt (bus, airplane from Cairo to Luxor, river boat transportation, etc), tips (drivers, restaurant servers, guards in sacred sites)
Price per person based on double occupancy: $4500. through April 15. After April 15 prices increases to $5000. There is a single room supplement of US $800.00 if you wish to have your own room for the entire journey.
Does not include: your International travel expenses, travel insurance, or your Visa to enter Egypt. Be sure to purchase travel insurance. Egypt requires that you travel with insurance. Your Visa can be purchased immediately upon arrival. Our guide will meet you at the plane and direct you to the Visa booth. You will need your passport and cash $25 USD (approximately €23 euros).
TOUR DEPOSIT $1000 PER PERSON
A deposit of $1000 per person is required to secure immediate booking.
Information about the deposit can be found at the button below. The remainder of the payment will be required by August 23, which is 8 weeks before the start date of the tour. We can schedule a private phone call or zoom call to discuss deposit, payment plan and questions or details about clothing, money exchange rate, etc.
Additional items, added services that you choose, which are not included in basic fee:
Examples: Hot air balloon ride, admission to additional tombs not listed above, gifts and souvenirs. Purchase of your personal cartouche with your name engraved in hieroglyphs. Scheduled appointments such as card readings, reading of your star, herbal/ essential oil private appointments, shopping.
To register and be added to the Egypt mailing list click the button. At this link you will see details about paying the deposit, setting up payment plan, and filling out the application.
For more information or questions, email Peggy Moore Peggy@MotherEarthSacredTours.net
We can also arrange a phone call or Zoom call
