​Each time women gather in circles together, the world heals a little more.

-Unknown

The Birth of Awakened Priestess

I was 8 years old when I remembered being a Priestess in the temples of Isis. In this memory, Priestesses lived amongst each other and performed sacred rituals using water and fire to bridge between the spiritual and physical realms. 

Yet, in my own reality, my shy and sensitive child self couldn’t be further from sacred priestess rituals. My father ruled over our household as the male patriarch, although my mother was the breadwinner and sacrificed her creative passion to sustain our family.

Influenced by the conservative culture around me, I began a corporate career which, after 5 years, left me feeling completely empty with no sense of purpose nor self. I decided to leave everything, to travel and started to listen to my intuition.

This led me to my first spiritual awakening in the Himalayan mountains. I felt home amongst Yogis, Hindu gods and goddesses, and the worship of the Ganga river. That same year, I moved to my current home base in Toronto, Canada where I found my spiritual family.

Amongst energy healers, psychic mediums, Elders and yogis, my spiritual awakening intensified which guided me to study Tantra, Thai Yoga Massage and archetypal initiatory journeys of the divine feminine.

I led my first women’s circle series in 2015 based on the book “Women Who Run with the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In our circles, I could finally explore what it meant to be me. Amongst my sisters, we co-created a culture of acceptance, authenticity and mutual respect which forever informed the quality of space that I was to offer to women.

As I listened to my sisters share their stories, our sacred spaces echoed with a heartfelt magick that we all somehow knew very well, and yet that seemed to have been taken away from us a long time ago. 

In 2020, Awakened Priestess was born with the mission to empower women to reclaim their divine feminine magick, to share their voice with confidence and to step deeper into their soul purpose as wisdom keepers, leaders, healers and teachers in their community.

My passion to bring back this lost feminine wisdom is still burning strong in my chest. I believe that we each hold a piece of this most valuable Truth within and that the world most desperately needs.

After having gone through the fire of countless trainings, trials, ceremonies, rituals, spiritual and psychic awakening, and initiations to embodying the ways of the Priestess, I humbly present myself as a servant, a guide, a sister, a mentor, a teacher, a friend to those who feel the call to walk the Priestess path and to belong to a heart-centered sisterhood. 

Together we sit in a circle that allows greater wisdom to come through. One that could not be without the coming together of each and everyone of us, for the greater good of all.

Thank you for walking this path with me.

Each woman who gathers with others in circles is a container of sacred fire, who brings her own being to the fire, who fans and ignites the flames of others.

-​Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Background

EDUCATION

• Spiritual Psychotherapy & Spiritual Direction Training from the Transformational Arts College, Toronto, Canada
• Sociology & Philosophy Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
• Associates Degree from Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada

EXPERIENCE

• Leading intentional women’s circles, ceremonies, workshops, classes and retreats since 2015
• Teaching Yoga in Canada & abroad since 2014
• Providing one-on-one Healing Sessions & Coaching since 2015​
• Faculty at The Toronto Yoga Conference since 2018
• Faculty at the Toronto Tantra Festival since 2023​

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YOGA TRAINING & TEACHERS

• 200hr Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, Rishikesh Yog Peeth, India
• 300hr Shamanic Yoga Teacher Training, Kula Collective, Guatemala
• Iyengar Yoga Training, Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Center, Goa, India
• The Tantric Way Course, Gaia Ma, Nicaragua
• Sivananda Yoga, Sivananda Ashram, Kerala, India
• Roshan Singh, Master Yoga Teacher, India
• Ananda Xenia Shakti, Master Yoga Teacher, Canada
• James Roland Jayānanda, Yoga Teacher & Sound Healer
• Hayley Saraswatī, Yoga Teacher & Sound Healer
• Randi Schiffman, Yoga Teacher & Thai Masseuse​

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HEALING TRAINING & TEACHERS

• Certified Level 2 Thai Masseuse 
• Certified Reiki Healer Level 1
• Lu Pancini & Joey Lungberg, The House of Yoga, Thai Massage School, Toronto 
• CJ Ananda Page (Shamanic Healer)
• Cee Al Lama (Thai Masseuse & Yogi)
• Mandika Divya (Reiki Master)

Teachers & Mentors

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SHAMANISM

• Colleen Ariel Linseman (Medicine Woman & Shamanic Practitioner, Canada)
• Leo Artese (International Shamanic Teacher, Brasil)
• Grandmother Kaarina Natalie Saarinen (Shamanic Teacher & Elder, Canada)
• AukRam Sapper (Shamanic Teacher & Elder, Guatemala)
• CJ Ananda Page (Shamanic Healer & co-founder of Present-Moment Retreat Center, Mexico)

TANTRA TEACHERS & SCHOOLS

• Gaia Ma, Tantra Teacher, Inanitah Fire Season, Nicaragua
• Daniel Odier, International Tantra Teacher, Switzerland
• Katrina Bos, Tantra Teacher, Canada & US
• Dawn Cartwright, International Tantra Teacher, California, US
• Tantric Kundalini Yoga at Kashi Ashram, Florida, US
• Zendrick Van Der Merwe, Tantra Teacher & Healer, Guatemala
• Sri Vidya Tantra Course at Devipuram Ashram, Andhra Pradesh, India
• Satyanada Traditional Tantra School, Goa, India
• Tantric Kriya Yoga, Private study group with Jesse Stewart, Toronto, Canada
• Halo Serenko, Taoist Tantra Teacher & Dancer, Shakti Temple Arts, US

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SPIRITUAL MENTORS

• Pauline O'Hanlon (Spiritual Psychotherapist)
• Darinka Blagaj (Spiritual Mentor & Artist)​
• Darren Austin Hall (Spiritual Teacher & Sound Healer)
• Jesse Stewart (Waldorf Teacher & Spiritual Scientist)​​

Inspirations & Influences

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INSPIRATIONS & INFLUENCES

• Marion Woodman (Divine Feminine, Jungian Psychoanalyst)
• Lucia Rene (Mystic & Seer)
• Teal Swan (International Spiritual Teacher)
• Daniel Odier (International Tantra Teacher)
• Shawn Corn (International Yoga Teacher & Social Activist)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Jewel in the Lotus: The Sexual Path to Higher Consciousness by Bodhi Auinasha and Sunyata Saraswati
• Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World by Vicki Nobles
• Unplugging from Patriarchy by Lucia Rene
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Douglas Gillette and Robert L. Moore
• The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock​

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