1:1 Mentorship with Madeline
THE HOLY WELL
Receive Soul-Centered Somatic Care
submerge into these ancient springs and rise renewed for what life brings
If your world is coming undone, there is a place you can go where nothing within you is turned away.
When the dreams you once held with such hope have faded beyond recognition
and you’re longing for a place to begin anew,
The Holy Well awaits.
When what once felt certain no longer fits
and you’re finding your way through the unknown-
The Holy Well awaits.
When you’ve created a life you once longed for,
yet sense something entirely different calling you onward -
The Holy Well awaits.
Find your way to this place between worlds-
where the life you’ve lived meets the one that’s waiting.
Find your way to the Well and submerge into these waters that know your name.
About mentorship
Sometimes what you’re holding asks to be laid down at the well.
If you’re here, you likely already know how to listen. You’ve done the work of turning inward, of paying attention, of learning your patterns.
And still - there are seasons where what you’re holding seeks the refuge of a sacred spring. A space where you can lay it all down, where what lives within you can be met and moved through with both grounded and mystical care.
For millennia, people have journeyed to holy wells seeking renewal - to cleanse what’s grown heavy, to listen for guidance, to welcome healing, to begin again.
1:1 Mentorship carries this forward: where you are supported in meeting what’s here, working with it somatically, and allowing what’s asking to be heard to be received at the Well within.
Our Sessions Together May Include
Practices and areas of focus in The Holy Well:
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Somatic attunement is body-based listening - and it's something you already know how to do. Noticing hunger and choosing to eat. Feeling fatigue and allowing rest. Sensing what your body needs and responding.
In our sessions, we deepen this kind of listening - turning toward the more subtle language of the body. Sensations, impulses, tension, longing - these become a doorway. A way of listening not only to the body, but to the inner terrain it reveals.
Somatic attunement is an attunement to your inner world - the landscape of your experience, the terrain of your soul. A place where body and soul meet.
Here, the body is not something to fix, it becomes something to listen to. The body is a meeting place between the physical and the imaginal, the known and the mystery.
Together, we stay close to what is arising - allowing the body’s signals to guide clearer choices, boundaries, and a deeper sense of coherence in daily life.
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Many of us were never taught how to recognize or honor our limits. Over time, this can create inner tension - places where we feel pulled between competing needs, expectations, or loyalties. In our work together, we gently explore the places where your natural boundaries may have been overridden, blurred, or difficult to access.
Through somatic awareness, reflection, and compassionate inquiry, our sessions may include practices for untangling these inner knots so that your Yes, No, Maybes, and Not Yets can arise with greater clarity, integrity, and self-trust.
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Magic is that inimitable, true-to-you expression - something no one else carries in quite the same way. Just as an orchid cannot become a dandelion - and someone who longs for depth cannot feel at home in surface-level spaces - there may be places where you’ve tried to fit yourself into something or someone you’re not.
Over time, this can look like dimming, diluting, editing, masking yourself until it becomes harder to feel where your gifts even live.
Unmasking your magic is a process of remembering who you are. It’s a returning to what has always been there, even if it’s gone temporarily dormant or been set aside.
This is not about becoming perfected version of You™ all the time. You are human, and in my experience, all magic carries a bit of mess - that is part of its beauty!
Our sessions together make space for that - through grounded, somatic listening and soul-centered care, you are invited to re-commune with the magic that is inherent within you. To receive it, to let it nourish you, inspire you - and guide your way forward.
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In a world increasingly shaped by AI imagery and expression, what is true? When everyone has a formula or an answer on social media, what is the right path for you? How do you discern what is yours - what is actually aligned, rather than what simply looks or sounds convincing?
Strengthening inner knowing becomes one of the most empowering gifts we can offer ourselves - the capacity to listen inward and discern what is needed. Mentorship assists with growing trust in the signals of your body and experience. When you orient from this place of knowing, you are less susceptible to external influence, distortion, and the pull to override your gut feelings. -
This is a non-denominational space where your beliefs, questions, and lived experiences are respected. Spiritual discernment is less about adopting a set of teachings and more about learning to recognize what feels true and alive within your own experience.
At times, this may include addressing beliefs or spiritual frameworks you have inherited from communities, traditions, or teachers. For some, healing or disentangling from certain group beliefs can take time and care. I bring both personal and professional experience in navigating these kinds of transitions, and our work honors your pace as you cultivate a deeper sense of trust in your inner knowing and relationship with what the sacred means to you.
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Your Inner Mystic is the part of you that has lived through many lifetimes of experience. No matter your physical age, this presence within you is a wayshower, a way-knower - one who may reveal, yet rarely instructs. Your Inner Mystic is a loving (and sometimes salty!) wise guide who is waiting for you to listen.
To come into relationship with your Inner Mystic is to begin trusting a deeper kind of knowing - one that does not arrive as certainty or quick answers. It’s a felt sense - a subtle orientation, a tug toward what is true.
This is not something to force or figure out, it is a presence to sit beside, to return to, to listen for again and again.
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Some are called to Mentorship while in the midst of bringing something meaningful into the world - a book, a body of writing, a business, a creative offering, or a new direction in life.
Creation can be both exhilarating and vulnerable, often stirring uncertainty, self-doubt, or periods of feeling lost along the way. In our work together, we create space to listen for what is wanting to take form through you. Through reflection, somatic awareness, and steady encouragement, I support you in tending the creative process with patience and integrity as your vision gradually finds its way into the world.
If you bring forth what’s within you,
what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
-Gospel of Thomas
Where do you go when the path you’ve so faithfully followed can no longer hold the weight of what you're living through?
Where do you turn when you’ve done everything you thought was right, and it still falls short of what you hoped for or expected?
And perhaps this is how you arrive - in a place that cannot be planned for,
where something in you begins to feel for another way.
This is where the Well meets you.
This is where the Well calls.
The Holy Well is a pilgrimage that asks no movement across land - only a turning toward what is here. This is a place to lay it all down. To step out of the pressure to hold it together, to loosen the grip on what you’ve been trying so hard to hold in place.
Here in these waters,
the noise fades and what is yours remains.
Here in these waters,
something within begins to show the way.
Two Ways to Gather at
THE HOLY WELL
Below are two options for 1:1 Mentorship, with sessions held on Zoom.
The Wellpath
Meeting once a month over 7 months
For those seeking a monthly rhythm, The Wellpath offers a place to meet what’s emerging in body & life.
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The Holy Well begins with a complimentary connection call - a space to meet on Zoom and attune to whether this mentorship is a resonant fit.
If we both decide it’s a yes, Mentorship begins with an Intake Process - an arrival to the Well, an orienting to this space for the months and moons ahead.
From this first session, I create a personalized, multi-page Mentorship Map - a kind of treasure map that clarifies your intentions and reflects a grounded path forward. From there, we meet once each month for 90-minute sessions.
Mentorship is not limited to these sessions. You’ll have access to a private portal where detailed notes and integration practices are shared- a place you can return to again and again.
Between sessions, you’ll receive practices, reflections, and accountability where appropriate. At times, I may also offer specific rituals or ceremonies - attuned to what you are moving through - so the Well remains present as a tangible guide within your day-to-day life.
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The Holy Well is a transformational process - a 7-month pilgrimage you enter without leaving your life. You do not step away from your world to do this work; you lean more deeply into it. What unfolds in our sessions continues to move, breathe and take root in your day-to-day life.
On a logistical level, this includes:
90-minute Intake Session to clarify your intentions and begin orienting the path ahead - an arrival to the Well, where we listen for what is ready to be named and tended.
Personalized Written Mentorship Map created from your intake session- a multi-page guide outlining key themes, intentions, and supportive practices for our time together. We will meet for an additional brief session to walk through your Map and attune to the path ahead.
Six Monthly 90-minute Somatic Sessions offering body-based listening, nervous system support, and compassionate witnessing as you navigate what is unfolding. Each session is a return to the Well - a place to pause, listen, and be met within the deeper currents of your experience.
Completion Session to reflect on the work we’ve done, integrate what has shifted, and honor the path forward - gathering what has been revealed and carrying it with you beyond the Well.
Private Mentorship Portal with session notes, reflections, and suggested integration practices you can return to between sessions - a steady thread of support as the work continues to live and unfold in your day-to-day life.
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$3,500 with monthly payment plans available
Called to the wellpath?
Currently accepting applications for September 2026 start
Complete the application to begin. Once received, a complimentary 60-minute connection call will be scheduled to ensure mentorship is a good fit.
The Deeper Well
Meeting every other week over 7 months
For those in seasons of deep transformation, The Deeper Well offers steady somatic care that meets every other week.
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The Holy Well begins with a complimentary connection call - a space to meet on Zoom and attune to whether this mentorship is a resonant fit.
If we both decide it’s a yes, Mentorship begins with an Intake Process - an arrival to the Well, an orienting to this space for the months and moons ahead.
From this first session, I create a personalized, multi-page Mentorship Map - a kind of treasure map that clarifies your intentions and reflects a grounded path forward. From there, we will meet every other week for 90-minute sessions.
Mentorship is not limited to these sessions. You’ll have access to a private portal where detailed notes and integration practices are shared- a place you can return to again and again.
Between sessions, you’ll receive practices, reflections, and accountability where appropriate. At times, I may also offer specific rituals or ceremonies - attuned to what you are moving through - so the Well remains present as a tangible guide within your day-to-day life.
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The Holy Well is a transformational process - a 7-month pilgrimage you enter without leaving your life. You do not step away from your world to do this work; you lean more deeply into it. What unfolds in our sessions continues to move, breathe and take root in your day-to-day life.
On a logistical level, this includes:
90-minute Intake Session to clarify your intentions and begin orienting the path ahead - an arrival to the Well, where we listen for what is ready to be named and tended.
Personalized Written Mentorship Map created from your intake session- a multi-page guide outlining key themes, intentions, and supportive practices for our time together. We will meet for an additional brief session to walk through your Map and attune to the path ahead.
Twelve 90-minute Somatic Sessions meeting every other week - offering body-based listening, nervous system support, and compassionate witnessing as you navigate what is unfolding. Each session is a return to the Well - a place to pause, listen, and be met within the deeper currents of your experience.
Completion Session to reflect on the work we’ve done, integrate what has shifted, and honor the path forward - gathering what has been revealed and carrying it with you beyond the Well.
Private Mentorship Portal with session notes, reflections, and suggested integration practices you can return to between sessions - a steady thread of support as the work continues to live and unfold in your day-to-day life.
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$7,000 total, with monthly payment plans available for up to 10 months
Called to the deeper well?
Currently accepting applications for September 2026 start
Complete the application to begin. Once received, a complimentary 60-minute connection call will be scheduled to ensure mentorship is a good fit.
Scope of Practice & Approach
You can read about my training and background here.
For over a decade, I have facilitated long-form mentorships grounded in spiritual psychology and somatic care. While the modalities matter, the essence of this work is not technique alone - it is a way of listening and living in deeper integrity with body, heart, and soul.
This kind of listening often invites change. Not always in dramatic or immediate ways, though sometimes it can be. More often, sessions together calls for an honest meeting with what is already here - one that when listened to over time, reshapes how you relate and move through your life.
My scope of practice is rooted in a relational, intuitive, and somatic approach to inner listening. Sessions are 90-minutes, allowing for a depth of presence that extends beyond the constraints of a traditional 50-minute model. There is time to arrive, to listen, to stay with what unfolds, and to integrate what is being met. I also offer detailed follow-up notes and suggested practices between sessions so that what opens in our time together can continue to be met and further metabolized.
While our work may touch places that are tender and layered, it is not oriented toward trauma processing in a clinical sense. I do not diagnose, treat, or work within a clinical framework and this mentorship is not a substitute for therapy, trauma treatment, medical care, or mental health services.
Many people experience this work as deeply impactful - sometimes in ways they have not found elsewhere. And still: this space is not for everyone, it is for those who feel resourced enough to listen inward and remain in relationship with what they find.
If you feel unsure whether Mentorship is the right fit for what you’re navigating and needing, you are welcome to reach out and and I can assess whether it’s within my scope of support. If I sense this may not be a resonant space for you, I’ll happily offer other recommendations for support.
All are welcome at The Well
The Holy Well is an homage to the sacred springs revered in early Celtic traditions - places where people gathered to listen, welcome healing, and receive guidance from the natural world.
While inspired by this tradition, Mentorship is not tied to any one path.
This is a space where people of all beliefs are welcome, and where your lived experience and inner knowing are honored.
Frequently Asked Questions
Reflections to assist your way to the Well:
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Mentorship is for those who feel a distinct inner call toward this experience. It is less about what your life looks like on the outside, and more about a soul resonance - something inside that says: this is for me.
Mentorship has called forth guides, coaches, facilitators, and space-holders. It has called forth artists, mothers, mystics in disguise, as well as nurses, musicians, social workers, leaders, actors, caregivers and those walking paths that don’t quite have a name. It has called forth people in seasons of transition - those who feel on the precipice of something they cannot yet fully see and those who sense there is more to listen to within their lives.
Often, it meets those who feel a dissonance between how they are living and what they sense more deeply within.
What matters is not what you do - or even how your life appears. What matters is your willingness to turn towards what is within you.
If you feel unsure if this is for you, the initial connection call together helps to clarify that.
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You may read about the Well Maidens (so beautifully articulated in Sharon Blackie’s book If Women Rose Rooted). You may look to the pilgrimages to Brigid’s well, to Saint Gobnait - to the barefoot devotion of those who have come to the waters seeking healing, guidance, remembrance.
You may notice the wishes still cast into fountains and wells across time and place - offerings of longing, of hope, of prayer entrusted to something deeper - to something listening.
In Celtic mythology, Wells were openings to the Otherworld. Places where the visible and invisible met - where life, guidance, and renewal flowed through.
And it was often women who tended them - women who listened, who carried, who offered the life-giving currents of that deeper world back to the land. This speaks to a way of being, a mode of listening, tending, and relating that is available to all, regardless of gender.
The Holy Well resides between worlds - the seen and the unseen, the inner and the outer, nature and the sacred. It is a threshold space, where what is held within can be offered to the waters, and where something older, something wiser, something closer than we realize can be received.
To come to the Well is to remember this relationship. To return to a way of listening that restores connection between body and soul, self and Source, human and Earth. And in that remembering, we come back to life.
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The connection call is a 45-60 minute space for us to meet and feel into whether Mentorship is a resonant fit. This is not a session - and it’s not a sales call or an interview. I will never put pressure on you to move forward with Mentorship, as I care deeply that those who immerse into this experience are resourced and ready to go through it.
This call is a space for us to connect - to meet and feel into the the possibility of working together in the months ahead. You’re welcome to share what’s bringing you here, what it’s like to be you, what’s calling you to this space. You’re welcome to not exactly know what’s calling you into the space and just speak what’s present. There is no need to have it all figured out or perfectly articulated.
If you have questions about Mentorship, this is a space to ask them - I am also happy to share more about what sessions and this whole process looks like.
At the end of our call, I’ll invite you to take a minimum of 24 hours to feel into how you’d like to move forward, and we’ll go from there. You can schedule a connection call by applying here.
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Yes. There are a range of payment options we can discuss.
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Over more than a decade of working with 1:1 Mentorship clients, I’ve found that the most meaningful and lasting shifts unfold over time.
Seven months allows for depth, integration, and real change to take root. It creates space for layers to reveal themselves, for what emerges in our time together to be practiced and embodied, and for change to ground in a way that lasts beyond a temporary quick fix.
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Email me at madeline@madelinegiles.com and I will get back to you soon.
Apply for Mentorship
Begin by completing the application below
Once received, we’ll schedule a complimentary 45-60 minute connection call to ensure The Holy Well is a resonant fit.
Bring what is heavy, bring what is worn.
Bring what feels fractured, weathered & torn.
Arrive as you are ~ be here, stay true.
The deeper waters are waiting for you.
The Holy Well awaits!