May 1st from 11:00am-1:00pm PDT

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This depth immersion with Jumana and Sumaya will weave together wisdom teachings and practices from HER Mystery School, Tao Medicine, and the Sufi path to restore the fullness, freedom, clarity and sanctity of your erotic nature.  

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This is less a class and more of a gently ritualized consecration of your sacred nature, your beautiful body, and your sanctity as a woman. Without pride or judgment, together we will acknowledge places where our sexual energy may be scattered, where we have become dispersed and lost potency or a sense of value. This will be an opportunity for you to restore an authentic sacred context around the freedom and potency of your erotic nature. You will consolidate your personal power in to your center, gathering it in from all of your relationships, your past, your present, and the overculture.

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You will do this by freeing your erotic potency, however it is most true for you, into the protection of your own sacred regard.

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Gather. Contain. Cultivate. Consecrate.

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During our time together you will be invited into a deeper consideration and clarification around what part of your sexual energy is actually your wild, free, beautiful, passionate energy, and what has been linked or bound to outside influences. Is your sexual energy truly yours or is it being informed, hijacked by the outside world?  

 

And how does that then influence your movements, desire, thoughts, pleasure, and emotions? How does it define the fulfillment of your relationships, your vitality, and your strength of spirit?

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Where is your power, and are you protecting it?

 

Woman is an expression of the holy untamed. 

Join us to fortify and more deeply orient to that which is true in your secret heart, your most sacred nature. Return again to be protected by divine law and therefore consecrated in the name of divine love.  

 

What is your vow, and are you keeping it?

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In devotion to truth and the deep nature of womanhood, we will circle the sacred. We will heal and awaken from any creeping amnesias that have occlude the light in our lives.  We will join ourselves with the seasonal healing power of the spring, the realm of new life, purification and the ancient beauty of the sacred marriage.

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We will consecrate.

September 11 - September 15 in Asheville, North Carolina

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FIVE DAYS AND FOUR NIGHTS

TOGETHER IN TEMPLE

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WITHIN THE SHELTER OF SACRED SPACE, WE WILL CULTIVATE POWER, HEAL AND REMEMBER.

 

This will be a very special and rare opportunity to gather in person within the deep feminine wisdom stream of HER Mystery School. We will live a form of temple life together, sharing the nourishment of cultivation practices, temple dance, evening rituals, enchanted nature and gorgeous food.

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This will be spacious, potent and restorative. There will be plenty of time for the moment to unfold, but below is a basic schedule for our days.

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Mornings will be open, then we will gather in circle 10 - 1. Afternoons will be open for integration, more informal connection or whatever arises. Dinner is served at 5, then we will gather for ritual from 6 - 9. Circle time will be devoted to cultivation practices and other applied practices from the body of HER Mystery School. This time will be focalized but I will be choosing the focus each morning relative to what's in the field as we gather.

June 25th, July 2nd, and July 9th 11:00am-12:30pm PDT

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The myths of ancient Greece offer us so much more than just fantastical stories of mythical creatures and larger than life Gods and Goddesses… they offer us templates of archetypal journeys represented through each of the stories of those deities. The Greek pantheon were the first Gods and Goddesses of the polytheistic world to be portrayed as fully human beings. Others are all part animal, part human. The Greek Gods and Goddesses, therefore, hold a specific and highly developed place in the human psyche. 

 

For this reason, we can look to those myths and find deeper understanding about our life experiences. We can look to them, too, for how to grow through our experiences and become more whole and centered and clear in who we are… and free to live the life we long for.

 

So… Who is the Persephone Woman? 

 

How does living out this archetypal story play out in a woman’s day to day life? First and foremost, for a woman to have been pitched into a Persephone journey, there has to have been a Hades. Yeah, read that again…

 

To have become a woman with a Persephone archetype, you had to have had a Hades.

 

For many of us that showed up in our early childhood years through a father, a stepfather, an uncle or a family friend. And for others, it came through a cousin, a boy at school, a date with someone we knew… the list goes on and on. Regardless of what form he appeared in, that male figure “abducted” us from our innocence and took us captive into an underworld journey where he ruled over us. And he has continued to rule over us in our psyche, keeping us locked in internal states of freeze and fawn - if not outright terror - and behaviors of people-pleasing, dimming our light and overriding our instincts and perceptions.

 

Many women living in this journey find themselves cut off from clear connection with their intuition, their voice and their sense of self-worth. They lack a sense of ownership of their own bodies and their sexual pleasure. 

 

In Persephone’s Journey: From Victimized Maiden to Empowered Queen, we will fully explore the ways in which a woman comes to be ruled by this archetype, and how she can take the path of growth to clear her psyche and reclaim lost aspects of herself. Through teachings, guided practices and instructed personal rituals, this class will guide you along the path to ascend from the underworld and live fully in your adult woman self.

October 14th - October 24th​

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WALK THE PATH OF POWERFUL WOMAN THROUGH 10 DAYS IN GREECE EXPLORING THE ANCIENT CITY OF ATHENS, AND THE STUNNING BEAUTY OF CRETE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN.​

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"Pilgrimage" is defined as a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life transformed.

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In these times of tremendous societal and social change on our planet, we need women standing in their true power now more than ever. This kind of personal empowerment journey is exactly what you'll experience through this destination retreat.

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When powerful women of ancient times visited holy places for prayer and divination, they engaged in very specific rituals to prepare themselves to receive messages and direction - both for themselves personally and for their loved ones or community. They began at the sacred springs to cleanse and anoint themselves, then fed themselves from the sacred plants of the land, before making their way to the temples or power spots to commune with the divine.

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This pilgrimage will begin in the city of Athens where, like the powerful women of ancient times, we will bathe and anoint ourselves in the waters of the hammam and imbibe the ambrosia of the land through culinary delights, preparing ourselves to make our way to the Parthenon, Temple of Athena, the patron Goddess for whom Athens was named. As we take this pilgrimage for tapping into our personal power we turn to the goddess Athena as the goddess of justice and strategy and wisdom to help us get in touch with our own personal power and garner wisdom for how to more fully live from it in our lives. From Athens we will journey to the island of Crete, where we'll immerse ourselves in the gifts of the Minoan society. We'll journey to Knossos, the Palace of the Snake Goddess, to deepen our pilgrimage into our individual power by finding an embodied expression of what we learned through communing with Athena. From there, we will join a convocation of Priestesses - both women and men - for a week of rituals, ceremonies and celebrations to fully claim and anchor your ability to have command and influence in your life.

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The temples, palaces, land and sea of Greece hold a deep spiritual heritage from which you can gather strength, energy and vitality. This retreat is an opportunity to experience yourself outside of your day to day life... to feel yourself returned to essence.