There is powerful magic here.

 Les Contes is the last property as you climb through the towering gorge toward the village and chateau of Montsegur, known as the last Cathar stronghold. Surrounded by the Pyrenees mountains of “Occitan” France. 

Situated at the confluence of two streams and beside La Source de Belisama, a holy spring, those who strongly resonate with the feminine, especially that of Mary Magdalene, will discover a place strongly rooted in her tradition.

Here is where you will find Notre Dame de Sophia, Our Lady of Wisdom, a chapel consecrated to the continuous lineage with the feminine principle, whom these mountains have known since the beginning of time.

About Aletheia Sophia 

Aletheia Sophia is a Writer, Minister, Somatic Practitioner and Whisperer of Sacred Wisdom. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, transmissions, retreats, and workshops focus on the unearthing of the sacred body, from within the light of the soul, and thereby embodying its somatic wisdom. Her way of ministering this supernal wisdom is through movement, prayer, and the conjuring of the mythic imagination from the depths of the past, in the present for the sake of the future. 

She has an intimate relationship with the land, especially the French Pyrenees, Egypt, and Ireland. All her work – writing, transmitting, somatic movement, storytelling, and teaching – springs from an irresistible communion with the land, and especially her goats. Every day without fail, she shepherds her goats into the mountains and valleys, which is rooted in as much as the myths and stories of the place as it is in a detailed knowledge of the physical and historical environment. She has just completed working on Mary Magdalene’s Audio Guide to the South of France, an evocative and expressive partnering with the mythic imagination and the land itself, and is currently finalising her latest book, The Grail King. 

Aletheia leads workshops and trainings in Sacred Body Awakening and Sacred Body Deepening throughout Europe and North America. Every morning she offers Somatic Body Wisdom, an hour-long movement-prayer into the Divine Depths. She is also an ordained minister thereby uses her chapel for Sacrements, Rites and Spiritual Service.

Over time she has developed an oral message that stirs the remembrance of a continuous lineage with the Feminine Principle that throughout the centuries, has preserved its spiritual dignity without the need for permission or recognition from any other source. She is here to deepen your spiritual journey and to offer you a safe space whilst doing so. If you feel a calling toward a tradition strongly rooted in the presence of Mary Magdalene, Gnostis and Christ’s early teachings, you will find a palpable vein of Truth surrounding her.