MAVE | A six-month mentorship with Desirée Dunbar

A six-month mentorship with Desirée Dunbar

Deepen your self-love, awaken your intuition, and bring more of your creativity and magick into your life—with a circle of women beside you.

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You want to feel more fully yourself

The woman who loves to move and loves her body. Who feels a whisper and wants to follow it. Who has desires, ideas, and gifts she’s ready to give more room.

In Enchant, we’ve begun listening to her.

We’ve danced the directions, worked with the elements, and explored what happens when you bring your body, your intuition, and your desires into the same conversation.

You may have felt a moment of recognition. Pleasure in moving. The freedom to speak openly about your magick. The relief of being with women who welcome that part of you.

You want more of that in your life.

More trust in what you feel. More freedom to express yourself. A loving relationship with your body. Time to create, enjoy, and follow what calls you.

And when following it brings you into unfamiliar territory, you want practices that help you find your way—and women beside you as you do.

MAVE is an invitation to give yourself six months of that devotion.

Through embodied movement, ritual, intuitive development, and creative practice, we’ll deepen the relationship you have with yourself and bring what you discover into how you live.

I’ll guide you, and we’ll practice together.

Your voice. Your desires. Your creativity. Your magick.

All of you is welcome here.

An inner compass for the life you choose

Creative Crossing: a seven-point golden compass with a central spiral. Its phases are The Whisper, Circling, The Mirror, The Edge, The Crossing, Expression, and Creatress.

Creative Crossing™ is my method for navigating change through embodied self-love, intuition, magick, and creative expression.

Inside MAVE, you’ll practice listening through your body, giving your desires attention, and staying loving toward yourself as you try something new.

When taking a chance on yourself brings uncertainty, this compass helps you recognise where you are and explore your next step.

The Whisper

Hear what’s quietly calling for your attention.

Circling

Notice what keeps returning, and give yourself room to explore.

The Mirror

Recognise the patterns and expectations shaping your choices.

The Edge

Meet the place where you usually hesitate, with curiosity and care.

The Crossing

Take a small, brave step toward what matters.

Expression

Give what’s inside you a voice, a shape, a place in the world.

Creatress

Begin shaping your time, relationships, and everyday life around what you choose.

You’ll return to these phases as new desires and questions emerge. You might be finding your voice in one part of your life while hearing a new whisper in another.

Through movement, ritual, creative practice, and reflection, we’ll bring this exploration into your life: speaking openly, making art, asking for what you need, or sharing a gift you’ve kept quiet.

MAVE gives us six months to take this journey together—with my guidance, a circle beside you, and a deepening relationship with yourself.

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Teresa Passmore Sacred Sorceress Circle participant, 2023 · Testimonial excerpt

After participating in Sacred Sorceress Circle, Teresa began offering free Reiki sessions to cancer patients at a hospital and sharing her work with clients.

Your next six months inside MAVE

Sixteen live online sessions in all, with recordings included.

A regular place where your body, your desires, and your magick receive your full attention—with my guidance and women who welcome this part of you.

We’ll gather to move, explore, create, and bring what you’re discovering into your everyday life.

Desirée dancing on a woodland bridge, her arms extended in a flowing cobalt kimono.

Live mentorship and shared experiences

Eleven MAVE gatherings with me

Bring what’s unfolding: a desire you’re following, a conversation you’re preparing for, uncertainty you’re meeting, or something you’re ready to express.

You’ll have opportunities to bring your questions and discoveries into the group, receive my guidance, and reflect on what you’re trying between gatherings. Through movement, ritual, and intuitive exploration, we’ll practice listening to yourself and choosing what comes next.

We begin with our first Founding Circle Meet & Greet on November 4, followed by our Opening Circle on November 18.

Wednesday gatherings take place from 11:11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Vancouver time.

Two three-hour seasonal immersions

Time to settle into your body, follow the creative process, and let a ritual unfold. Through movement, making, and reflection, we’ll honour the season and reconnect with what you’re choosing.

Sunday, December 20, 2026
Saturday, May 1, 2027 — Beltane

Both from 10 a.m.–1 p.m., Vancouver time

Three guest experiences to open new possibilities

Danielle Williams

Creativity meets AI

Explore ethical, imaginative ways to bring AI into your work and life with an AI Priestess and marketing expert.

Jana Kunzler

The pleasure of making

Reconnect with your hands and your creative curiosity through slow art and handmade paper.

Faures Rathbone

Seeing yourself with love

Explore self-love portraiture as a way to express and appreciate yourself.

Explore the MAVE Gatherings & Rituals Calendar →

Browse the gathering titles, dates, and details.

Your embodied practice

GushDance Level 1

Deepen your relationship with your body through my signature movement practice, exploring intuition, creativity, and expression through dance.

Your Level 1 training will be added to your member library throughout our journey, with a certificate of completion when you finish. No dance experience is needed; you’re invited to explore at your own pace.

Connection and continuity

Your private WhatsApp circle

Share discoveries, ask questions, celebrate a brave step, and stay connected with the women in your circle between gatherings.

Your MAVE recording library

Revisit a practice or catch a gathering you missed through the Secret Garden Society member portal and app. Recordings remain available throughout MAVE and for six months after the programme ends.

Six months of Charmed included

Charmed’s moon gatherings, ritual, and sisterhood support your ongoing practice throughout MAVE.

Already a Charmed member? We pause your Charmed payments for six months while you participate in MAVE.

Resources to explore in your own time

Your Gift Collection is ready when you join, with ongoing access:

Deep RestSpace to unwind.
Five ElementsElemental practices to return to.
Know ThyselfExploration of your desires and inner wisdom.
Pilates replaysMovement when it fits your day.
Express YourselfA 30-day plan and marketing masterclasses for women with a business or offering to share.

What we practice together comes with you into your life.

Into the moment you speak up. The time you make for your creativity. The conversation where you ask for what you need. The decision to share something you love.

You’ll have practices to return to, my guidance in our gatherings, and a circle beside you as you keep choosing.

Meet Desirée

You can bring your crystals and your career questions. There is room for all of you here.

I’m Desirée Dunbar, founder of the Secret Garden Society and creator of Creative Crossing™.

I help women bring their intuitive, creative, magickal selves more fully into everyday life—into what they make, how they speak, and what they choose.

As a professional dancer, choreographer, and former university dance professor with an MFA in Choreography, I’ve spent decades working with the intelligence of the body. Movement gives us a way to explore a feeling, recognise a desire, and find expression when words are hard to reach.

My own journey through grief and intuitive development brought ritual, energy work, and magick into that foundation.

At the heart of my work is embodied self-love: listening to yourself, taking your desires seriously, and staying on your own side as you try something new.

Inside MAVE, that might mean moving with a question you haven’t found an answer to. Exploring an intuitive impression. Giving yourself permission to make art again. Or bringing a conversation you’re afraid to have into our circle, so we can explore what you want to say.

We’ll make room for your spiritual gifts and the practical steps that help you share them. For your uncertainty and your delight. For the parts of you that have been waiting for a little more space.

Over these six months, we’ll practice turning that relationship with yourself into choices you can see and feel: speaking up, protecting time for your creativity, asking for what you need, and sharing something you love.

“I consciously trust Desirée with my evolution and would choose her again and again.”

Nikkole On working with Desirée · Testimonial excerpt

Your in-person retreat programme is included

Move together. Share a meal. Let the conversation continue after the ritual ends.

I’m planning an optional MAVE retreat for February 5–7, 2027, with Vancouver or Tucson as the possible location.

My vision is a few days of movement, ritual, creative exploration, and unhurried time together—a chance to meet the women you’ve been sharing this journey with, beyond our screens.

Your scheduled retreat activities, my facilitation, and our gathering space are included in MAVE.

Attendance is optional. Travel, accommodation, and meals are arranged and paid for separately. The location and programme are still being confirmed. I’ll share the full details before you make travel arrangements.

For those who join us, I look forward to bringing our circle into a shared space—and getting to know one another in a whole new way.

Your gift: six months of unlimited Pilates with Desirée

A regular appointment to care for the body you’re learning to listen to.

Join MAVE by November 1, 2026, at 11:59 p.m., Vancouver time , and receive six months of unlimited Pilates with me at no additional cost.

Alongside the Pilates replays in your Gift Collection, this gift gives you access to my live Zoom classes for six months, with class replays for flexibility.

We’ll work with strength, mobility, and mindful movement—a chance to step out of your busy day and into your body.

Come live for the shared rhythm, or practice with a replay when it suits you. Let this be time you’ve already set aside for yourself.

Join the MAVE Founding Circle

Give what’s calling you six months of attention, practice, and support.

Join the first MAVE circle for sixteen live online sessions, GushDance Level 1, our private WhatsApp circle, the MAVE recording library, six months of Charmed, and your Gift Collection.

Your in-person retreat programme is also included: scheduled activities, my facilitation, and our gathering space. Attendance is optional; travel, accommodation, and meals are additional. The retreat location and programme are still being confirmed.

Both payment options include the same MAVE experience. All prices are in USD.

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Monthly payment plan

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Your Witches’ New Year gift codes expire November 1, 2026, at 11:59 p.m., Vancouver time. Join by then and receive six months of unlimited Pilates with me at no additional cost.

Your two-week money-back guarantee

You have 14 days from your purchase date to request a refund. Within that window, we’ll refund your MAVE payments and cancel any remaining instalments.

To request your refund, email info@secretgardensociety.com within 14 days of your purchase.

After 14 days, payments are non-refundable and any remaining instalments on your six-payment plan remain due.

We begin November 4 with our Founding Circle Meet & Greet. I would love to welcome you into the circle.

A few things you may be wondering

How is MAVE different from Charmed?

Charmed offers an ongoing rhythm of moon gatherings, ritual, and sisterhood.

MAVE is a focused six-month mentorship: time to explore a personal direction, receive my guidance, and bring your discoveries into everyday life through Creative Crossing™, movement, intuition, and creative practice.

Six months of Charmed are included to support you along the way.

Do I need to know what I want to create or change?

You can arrive with a clear desire or a quiet feeling that something wants your attention.

Whether you’re finding your voice, making room for creativity, exploring your spiritual gifts, or considering a life change, we’ll begin where you are. You don’t need a finished plan.

Do I need dance experience or developed intuitive abilities?

No. Curiosity is enough to begin.

You’ll be invited to explore movement at your own pace, honour your body’s needs, and deepen your relationship with your intuition through practice.

How much time should I set aside?

Our eleven MAVE gatherings run from 11:11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Vancouver time—79 minutes each. The two seasonal immersions are three hours each, and there are three additional guest experiences.

Practice between gatherings is self-paced. Your library and Gift Collection are there to support you; you don’t need to work through everything at once.

Browse the MAVE Gatherings & Rituals Calendar →

What if I can’t attend every gathering live?

All sixteen live online sessions include recordings in the Secret Garden Society member portal and app. They remain available throughout MAVE and for six months after the programme ends.

Come live when you can, and use the recordings to revisit or catch up with the practices.

What if I’m already a Charmed member?

We pause your Charmed payments for six months while you participate in MAVE. You’ll continue to enjoy Charmed during that time.

Is this a business programme?

MAVE supports personal, creative, and spiritual exploration, including sharing your gifts through your work. You don’t need a business to participate.

For women with an offering to share, the Gift Collection includes Express Yourself, a 30-day plan and marketing masterclasses.

Does MAVE include private sessions with Desirée?

Your mentorship takes place within our group gatherings, with connection between sessions through our private WhatsApp circle. One-on-one sessions are not included.

What does the GushDance Level 1 certificate mean?

You’ll receive a certificate of completion when you finish the Level 1 training, which is added to your library throughout MAVE. It recognises your completion and is not a qualification to teach GushDance.

Is the retreat included?

Yes. Your in-person retreat programme is included in MAVE: the scheduled activities, my facilitation, and our gathering space.

We’re planning for February 5–7, 2027, with Vancouver or Tucson as the possible location. The location and programme are still being confirmed.

Attendance is optional. Travel, accommodation, and meals are arranged and paid for separately. You can participate fully in the six-month MAVE mentorship without attending the retreat.

Can I ask a question before joining?

Of course. Email info@secretgardensociety.com, and we’ll help you clarify anything you need to know.

Desirée reaching toward the light among golden ferns and tall forest trees.

Let’s keep exploring together

Perhaps something in Enchant reminded you how much you love to move. How good it feels to listen to your intuition. How much you want space for your creativity and magick.

MAVE is my invitation to follow what stirred.

For six months, we’ll give it attention through movement, ritual, creative practice, and choices in your everyday life—with my guidance and a circle of women beside you.

You can begin with what you know today. I would love to welcome you.

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With love, Desirée