devoted to the dark feminine; the witch that was burnt, but still roars within you. The unquenchable one. Breathing fire with an open heart.
Imagine this… an intimate gathering of women burning the script of what it means to be a woman. embodying their own authority. not a reinvention but a remembering. women healing women. dragon mother, priestess, witch, Inanna.
this is an incantation to bring she who has been exiled within you, home. to fall ever more deeply in love with what it means to be a wild, embodied, wide open woman. a return to your true essence. can you feel her reincarnating into your flesh and breath?
The dark feminine lies within all of us; she is the undomesticated erotic aspect of you, fully embodied & dripping with self-worth.
She is woman rising from the soil. reincarnating her fecundity and freedom. Savouring darkness, drinking every last drop of shadow like a mad devotee. Attuned to meaning, she’s an artist at core, weaving dreams and destiny into a life of living art.
She’s also the part of you who controls and manipulates - when she is not fully integrated she’s your most dangerous inner saboteur. When she’s welcomed, she is your greatest advocate for the life you are longing for. She will guide you into the deep descending path of Mystery and fortify you as you rise.
This one day Samhain immersion is an ode to all the women who have been vilified, cancelled, silenced and suppressed. For the wise women who are hunted simply for being connected to the earth and unafraid of the power that lies between their legs.
Incantations is an embodied prayer to root into the instinctive wild animal of your body. To alchemise old hexes of self-silencing, dissociation, sensual empoverishment, invisibility and choicelessness.
LOCATION:
THE SPACE | SW4.
a day of poetry, breathwork, ceremony, sex witchery and Love.
THE PROGRAM:-
13:00 -15:30: melissa maya; activating Her | body-poetry & frequency.
;a sought-after psychotherapist specialising in sex, embodiment, rites of passage and relationships. A seasoned women’s initiatory guide, yoga teacher, breathworker and writer, her work has evolved over twenty years of sacred mythopoetic practice. She is author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters - all witches.
MELISSA MAYA
Melisa Maya is a poetess, mentor & facilitator whose work bridges the spiritual with the sexual. Infusing her history as a bodyworker & tantric dominatrix, she creates intimate experiences & trainings for women in the art of embodied, feminine power & Love.
Born and based in England, with Scandinavian ancestry - she is first and foremost a heretic
& always, a witch.
“If women trusted and claimed their desires, the world as we know it would crumble. Perhaps that is precisely what needs to happen so we can rebuild truer, more beautiful lives, relationships, families, and nations in their place. Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. Maybe she was meant to be our model. Own your wanting. Eat the apple. Let it burn.”
This work is about the disruption of old habits, defences and patterns that no longer serve us. To work with this we need to be in a stable and safe enough place to be vulnerable. Therefore this work is not suitable for anyone who is currently dealing with acute mental and/or physical health issues and/or anxiety. Please ensure you are in a safe enough place in your life to work with the material. If in doubt please email us directly to check in.
