4 MONTHS ACCELERATED HYBRID TRAINING PROGRAM
JOURNEY BEGINS 13.01.2022 *with a welcoming-circle on 09.01.2022
sovereign is by-application-only to amplify the container with an intentional selection process. You will be taken to an Application Form which takes several minutes to complete. seats are limited & doors will close 01.01.2022
SOVEREIGN IS NOT A ‘SAFE’ SPACE.
I repeat. SOVEREIGN is not a ‘safe’ space. & it’s not even a ‘brave’ space; This is a space where we DARE TO IMAGINE a way of working with POWER, a way of LEADING through a terrain we don’t have the precise roadmaps for, yet;
SOVEREIGN IS A REFUGE FOR THE BRAVE & A DANGER ZONE FOR THE CRUEL
; the cruel parts of you that are tempted by the seductive lure of keeping yourself small. ;the cruel parts of you that call-out & blame rather than getting relentlessly curious about your own revolution ; the cruelty that runs in the fabric of the world that fears a woman in her full power.
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Are you ready to descend & re-emerge into your authentic power as a feminine leader?
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;why ‘feminine’ leadership now?
Our over-indulged, wounded masculine has been the only leader being fed at the table - the energy that cannot give a full days work without sucking our creative juices dry, the one that has the boss-bitch vibes down yet can’t feel the rich earth hold her strength - underneath there is a full blooded, medicine rich, soft stomached feminine ready to breath fire & generate radically soft change.
Sovereign. I see you.
I see you bursting through life hunting for a real challenge.
I see you empty handed for your sisters, surpassing all others around you.
I see you ready to descend into your natural purpose, to surrender to yourself.
I want you to know your ‘too much’ness is your perfection.
Your frustration to be held in trust by a power greater than yourself is your gift.
Your pleasure is the medicine that cannot be matched.
I want you to know that, this, is a place for you to rest
& perhaps,
find the true freedom in your authentic power.
Here.
The pillars of the work:
Sovereign is an embodied Inquiry & Intervention into Integrated pathways of Leading { and loving }.
NERVOUS-SYSTEM RESILIENCE & REGENERATIVE SOMATICS FOR PLEASURE-BASED LEADERSHIP.
SHADOW-WORK & RE-BIRTH PRACTICES.
POLARITY INTEGRATION & INNER-UNION WORK.
EMOTIONAL ALCHEMY & THE YOGA OF INTIMACY
EMBODIMENT & BIO-HACKING TECHNOLOGY FOR LEADERSHIP
SOUL-CENTRIC LEADERSHIP & PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY WEAVING.
DEATH & GRIEF TENDING.
Part Therapeutic Group-Coaching Process & Part Accelerated Training Program.
With a combination of embodiment coaching calls, along with alchemical self-paced journaling exercises & group processes, we will do some important radical self inquiry together so that we can come into contact with our authentic expression of integrated Leadership - before we take this work into the wider-world.
We will transform our nervous systems, our imagination and learn how we can conspire to co-inspire a feminine-fuelled revolution of courage, clarity & compassion together.
Let us - against all odds - embody the truth & love that we are longing to see more of in the world. & Let us learn how to sustainably serve the great change - without compromising our tender integrity.
My own process with this
I have held this course three times now & every time I have, it’s created tectonic shifts in my business & relationships. It's been the most perfect intervention for me, every time…For those of you reading this, who assume I am a super shiny powerful human - I’m more than ready to share the reality:- I have my own personal lineage of not-so-sovereignty.
I've certainly swam deep in the depths of victimhood, I've known true loneliness, I've spent hours comparing myself to other 'powerful' women & I never thought in a million years I'd be holding transformative spaces for groups of over 100 people both online and in person. I suffered with a severe stammer as a teenager & found public speaking terrifying. Yet, I stand here - in service to the healing of all women who are told they are ‘too much’, I find myself attracting clients who are told that theyre ‘too complicated’ & I adore supporting women in becoming obedient to nothing else other than their true nature - and, from that place, being in service to something greater than themselves. 
This course is a culmination of the work that I needed for my own healing journey into feminine, integrated leadership; and with each round that I offer this container, I am reminded that - no matter how much experience you have - this container is so necessary for every woman on their own personal path of emergent leadership & re-imagining new, radical ways of understanding power, polarity& influence…& meet the team….
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Meri Karhu
CO-FACILITATOR WITH MELISSA MAYA
Sovereign Graduate
Artist, Guide, Writer & Punk Priestess
Serving soulful depth explorers with:
Embodied Relating & Conscious Communication, Shadow Integration & Self-Leadership, Re-Wilding Embodiment & Untaming Creativity
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Anna Peer
CLIMATE JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT MENTOR
Sovereign Graduate.
I identify as – Activist (for many things, including earth & climate, feminism, equality, sex positivity) Visionary ; Space holder ; Embodied being.
My lineage of learning includes – Various trainings on leadership and feminine leadership & Wisdom from the Wilderness Schools that emerged around Tom Brown and Jon Young
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Miriam Kronestar
SOVEREIGN CARE & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Sovereign Graduate
Wildly devoted women's rights & love advocate; My main interest lies in finding possibilities to create decolonized, decommodified and non-hierarchical spaces humans can turn to in order to creatively and collectively establish secure attachment - within themselves as well as in their communities. For me, the power of intuition, energies of the womb and heart space as well as sensual self touch have been some of the most efficient tools to do that.
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Stevie Aluna
TRAUMA-AWARE SOMATIC MENTOR
Sovereign Graduate
Stevie Aluna is a trauma-aware somatic coach, specialising in Mind Body Therapy.
Qualification & experience:
Sex, Love & Relationship Coaching Certificate, The Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, 2017 - 2019. Mind Body Therapy, Embodied Philosophy, 2020-2021. over 100 hours of journeying with clients in 1;1 & group containers online & in person.
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Theresa Fend
HEART & EARTH POLITICS MENTOR
Sovereign Graduate
facilitator, community builder & activist.
;committed to fostering regenerative cultures through collaboration, care and play. In my work I am exploring the intersections of collective trauma, somatics, creativity and social change.
I am interested in the often messy, slow, discomfort of unlearning, slowing down, understanding nervous systems, inner work, prioritising pleasure, making art, dreaming, collaborating, listening, grief, transformative justice and anti-oppression work.
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Mahe Hardev
TRAUMA-INFORMED SPACES MENTOR
Sovereign Graduate.
Mahe’s body of work weaves together somatic trauma healing & emotional alchemy in a unique, body-based approach;
Mahé´s tools could be described as de-armouring of the heart: unearthing the neglected, soothing the rejected and awakening the unconditional care of your inner mother.
She, who can hold ALL OF YOU and calls you in for love.
This course is for you if…
You’re an emergent Leader in your field of living art
You’re ready to go from accumulation to actualisation; from healing to leading.
You wish to step into your full breadth of power as a leader.
You are turned-on to be in service to the great' ‘shift’ that you can feel is happening in the collective.
You want to find more emergent ways of yielding power.
You have an insatiable appetite for fierce love & truth.
You’re afraid of seeming ‘selfish’ when you are self-loving.
You find yourself getting burnt-out easily.
You love holding space for real intimacy & ferocious truth.
You have a history of powerlessness and are ready to transform it into personal and communal power.
You are an intuitive leader who craves eye-to-eye peers.
You’re ready to become more self-attuned & responsive to pleasure.
You want to inhabit a space that’s both a sanctuary and a crucible for your growth.
This course is not for you if…
You are not open and available for risky conversations and taboo questions.
You prefer cancel-culture and calling people out over conflict transformation, nuanced dialogue and inspiring accountability.
You are not ready for whatever reason to look deep into the shadows you bring into your business and intimate relationships with yourself and other people.
You are in a fragile place in your mental heath & without a therapist – this work is intense at times and requires your ability to self-soothe as well as a healthy dose of humour and energy to participate.
You’ve never done any kind of empowerment & embodiment work before - we will go right into the heart of deep layers of somatic & psychological re-programming, moreover this is not an entry-level introduction to being-in-the-body for someone who is very new to this work.
Reflections from the graduates of 2021
"Being a part of Sovereign gave me a community of women where I could be loud, be too much, a place to feel my fears and shame. A container in which I learned from others, leaned on others, danced, cried, wrote and woke up. Sovereign is both a personal and group experience, for me an awakening or rebirth of my strength and worth. The teaching can be intensely personal and also be leveraged for Femme folks seeking to be leaders or entrepreneurs in their chosen fields. Sovereign gave me back the key to saying no so that I could truly have access to my authentic Fuck YES!”
— Sara Switzman
In this course, you’ll learn
How to go from accumulating & consuming, to creating & actualising.
How to fearlessly show-up & be seen as a Steward of the new way.
How to yield Power as an emergent Leader & Sovereign Space-Holder.
How to train your nervous system to hold more TRUTH.
How to assert your skills of feminine, Integrated leadership.
How to become seriously obedient to your true nature & embrace your inherent wildness.
How to cultivate your own inner healthy masculine in holding you in your relationship to family, friendships, sex & money.
How to artfully craft & communicate boundaries in a way that inspires & serves a greater purpose.
How to transform your trauma into personal & collective power.
How to create spaces of depth & intimacy for yourself and others.
How to be influential-as-fuck from a place of ease.
How to decolonise your mindset in relation to power,sexuality & influence.
You’ll learn Practical Tools for…
holding transformative 1-1’s, group spaces & powerful intimate relationships.
direction attention regeneratively & imaginatively as a space-holder.
responding wisely & artfully instead of reacting unconsciously to tension & challenge.
noticing, releasing & transforming trauma.
conscious communication & conflict transformation in relationships.
cultivating a resilient nervous system.
attuning to your dharma - your bigger ‘why’.
tapping into your own authentic code of authority & calling others into their natural power,too.
integrating your shadows & alchemising them into spiritual gold.
embodiment practices for deeply anchoring transformation in your body & the group-body.
bringing home disowned parts of yourself & others too.
de-armouring the womb & throat to support a pleasure-based leadership principle.
What’s included?
SOVEREIGN Space-Holder Training & Healing Journey in one,
this journey will contain the following:
3 months of Accelerated Process guided by the core mentors Melissa Maya & Meri Karhu + 1 month of Symposium style Integration guided by the co-teachers & support team.
CONSISTING OF
6 x 2.5 hour LIVE transmission & dojo-style sessions *that will be recorded & available for re-watch.- these are the CORE modules.
with Melissa Maya & Meri Karhu followed by 30 minutes of aftercare integration with a trauma-informed mentor to ensure a tightly held, integrated space.
6 x 1.5 hour LIVE *unrecorded sharing circle sessions & Q+A with Melissa Maya & the sovereign support team.
3 x 1.5 hour LIVE *unrecorded group Practice sessions with the Sovereign Team.
6+ LIVE sessions in the bonus* month : a de-centralised Leadership Symposium style schedule with topics/dates/times as voted for by the participants.
Additional sessions depending on the needs of the group - conspired accordingly by the sovereign team.
{Over 36+ hours of live session hours available}
The SOVEREIGN Handbook
*will be available to purchase in print-copy for those who love analogue books.
{an intricately designed workbook with curated resources & exercises to have FOREVER & support you in your own sovereign spaces}
6 high quality studio-recorded guided embodiment meditations.
*in collaboration with Kat Polar.
Homework Journalling prompts.
Private SOVEREIGN Learning Portal for accessing all LIVE & recorded content - available for 12 months after the course has finished.
Access to a private SOVEREIGN ethical social media platform & community forum for mutual-mentorship throughout. *we’re really excited to create our own system outside of fb/ig/whatsapp capitalist hell.
12 months+ access to all recorded materials & resources.
IN PERSON STUDY GROUPS led by members of the support team in different locations throughout the course:
current cities holding-sovereign-space is;
BERLIN | VIENNA | HELSINKI | LAGOS & more tbc soon…
1 LIVE immersive co-created Graduation Retreat exclusively available only to the participants of SOVEREIGN in Europe: June 2022.
OUR 6 CORE BI-WEEKLY LIVE CALLS WILL BE EVERY OTHER THURSDAY AT 8PM CET. (20:00-22:00)
OUR BI-WEEKLY SHARING CIRCLES WILL BE EVERY OTHER SUNDAY AT 11AM CET.
(11:00-12:00)
HYBRID PROGRAM
Make Sovereign real; in-person study groups & Retreat in June.
In the following locations {and potentially more tbc} there will be in-person meet-ups to embody the practices being taught in the online space. dates & times tbc depending on the needs of the group.
LONDON, BERLIN, VIENNA, HELSINKI , LAGOS, BARCELONA.
RESIDENTIAL RETREAT
17-21st June 2022, you will have the chance to join an exclusive 5 DAY Residential Retreat in the midst of the german countryside in a luxurious manor-house with plenty of space to dance & lab the content. The Retreat will be co-held by the SOVEREIGN team, and there will be a chance to practice holding-space & embodying what we’ve learnt.
more information to follow for the RSVP’d participants…
SOVEREIGN MODULES
The CORE Curriculum will consist of SIX Modules spread over 3 months : Followed by an Additional integration & co-lead month in April-
There will be an optional in-person Graduation Retreat for Graduates in JUNE 2022 in Berlin
The first part of the Course is an experiential, embodied Process & The final part of the Course is specifically designed to Integrate all aspects into an expression that supports you in your own emergence in Leadership.
1—I RISE
RELEASING SHAME & RECLAIMING YOUR SANCTUARY
An embodied journey into the archaeology of shame & powerlessness.
Un-learning the negative mind-patterns that inhibit inner-power.
An embodied excavation to uncover the ways in which we keep ourselves small.
Learning how to re-own fragmented parts.
Re-attuning to your inner resources of power.
2—I DEFY
BRINGING SHADOW PARTS OF YOURSELF TO THE LIGHT
Taking taboo parts of yourself out of the darkness & into a safe practice field.
Cutting through self-deception & re-sensitising to your empowered being.
Embodied coaching & shadow-work.
Cultivating self-responsibility & taking back ownership.
Authentic relating & sovereign communication.
Training the nervous system to hold space for TRUTH.
3—I EVOKE
RE-ATTUNING TO YOUR FEMININE MAGNETISM
Embodiment for self-sourcing your sexuality & harnessing it.
Going from effort to ease.
Embodied emotional clearing & self-regulation.
The yoga of feminine seduction.
Learn the feminine art of surrender, satiation, magnetism and staying connected.
Practice how to artfully craft requests & tap into your deep well of feminine authority.
4—I REVEAL
THE YOGA OF INTIMACY & REVEALING YOURSELF.
Learn how to effortlessly conduct love through your body.
Embodiment coaching for revealing your desires.
Transforming complaints into gorgeous, magnetic invitations.
Agility in polarity : surrender the lead & still get what you want.
Feminine assertive relational skils.
5—I TRUST
THE AGILE ART OF SURRENDERED & ASSERTIVE LEADERSHIP
Learn how to call others into their bigger power.
Nervous system resilience training for sovereignty & leadership.
Creating climates of trust on the inner + outer.
Self-Sourcing tools for deeper pleasure & power.
Solar-powered masculine & feminine integration.
6—I LEAD
PLANTING SEEDS & MANIFESTING YOUR SOVEREIGN EMPIRE.
Embodied integration work. & alchemical re-orientation. Applied tangible tools for self-initiation into emergent forms of leadership.
Anchoring self-worth & readiness into the body.
Attune to your unique expression of power.
Create actionable steps for your sovereignty & sacred leadership.
The Actualisation & Integration Module
I LEAVE A LEGACY
Go from Accumulation to Actualisation;
the work has been woven-through your being & is ready to be precisely expressed through-you.
Learn how to hold SOVEREIGN spaces, Practice important Living-Art skills for a new way of working & loving, build confidence in your own unique Leadership & hone your own skills. Apply them in a way that is towards something bigger than yourself. 4 Optional* co-created sessions to learn emergent applications of leadership & integrate, alongside recordings specifically designed for the emergent leader in today's climate of healing & empowerment.a Sovereign story
the journey as a poem;
the quest dawns with the sanctuary of radical hospitality for your unearthed shame. Identify the life you have & un-cover these old patterns. they will not serve you in this path. You will leave your space of safety. Re-habituating yourself to the life of your wildest dreams now. GO.
You have to RISE.
Tread out of your inner mother country. DEFY the threshold of your understanding & all former gnosis of power. There is an edge to the way you’ve seen the world, a hole in the story you’ve woven around yourself. To step into your underworld you call upon your sisters-in-arms. Your fellow Sovereigns. Your refuge of refuges is here. Finally. Feel.it.ALL.
Meet the shadows, all of them. releasing the tired patterns you’ve known so long, can you take responsibility for the hungry seductress within? Can you yield your fire without an agenda? Can you equip your system to hold all of this TRUTH? You know now how to EVOKE & magnetise, no longer needing to perform or manipulate…
From the ashes of your past life comes the solar connection to the heart’s fertile garden. The terrain is unpredictable yet the destination is worthy every stumble along the way. REVEAL the essential love of your soul — separate from the suffering you’ve known & incomparable to the love you’re about to allow yourself to BE.
There is an incredible power being born through you. The gift of unknowable, unshakeable TRUST in the mystery. You lead from this seat of the holy-fucking-no-clue what comes next. Your leadership simply surrenders itself in the arms of safety, as the poles are artfully mastered with tender agility - weaving the joy-thread of your solar & your lunar, we invite you now to go call others in. Their seat of power awaits.
The shadows of former & future Self are fiercely loved- with tender and unstoppable resilience.
& finally, LEAD these treasures back home, back to the village - integrating the seeds of your Healing Journey into the soil of your new Sovereign empire. STAY AWAKE. BUILD THINGS. KEEP GIVING. DON’T BE AFRAID TO LOVE MORE.
Are you ready to join the Revolution of Sovereign women?
Payment Options
€3333
or €577 p/month on payment plan
1-1 HIGH-TOUCH PACKAGE
*an option to join the group program & be supported with five individual sessions - in person or online - along with support via voice notes in telegram.
Please email us for more information on this option as we only have two seats available for this journey…
€999
PAYMENT IN FULL
In exchange for paying in full - you receive instant access to the private portal to SOVEREIGN, along with the printed sovereign user manual & handbook before everyone else.
The first 5 women who sign up and pay in full will receive a free 1-1 drop-in call with Melissa Maya…
€188 each month
6 MONTH PAYMENT PLAN
There is a limited number of payment plans available, upon purchase you will receive a brief version of the pre-course-kit & the following kit will find its way to you in January.
Testimonials
“An empowered & embodied woman is an active revolution in and of themself; when we support those women to direct their cardinal power towards a greater good - the whole world changes.
A sovereign woman is a steward for the new way of leading & loving.”
— Melissa Maya.
FAQs
When do we begin & when exactly are all the LIVE classes?
Our first LIVE call together is Thursday 13th January at 20:00 CET
( 19:00 UTC / 11:00 PST / 05:00 AEST )
Twice a month we will meet on a THURSDAY at 20:00 CET for 2 hours - these calls will cover the core curriculum featured in your Sovereign Handbook, transmissionas along with dojo-style partner embodiment exercises to practice the teachings. These sessions will be held by Melissa Maya & supported by Meri Karhu & there will be 30 minutes bonus+ time at the end of each core call, held by our trauma-aware mentors to ground each session together. This bonus+ time is optional to join.
Twice a month we will meet on a SUNDAY at 11:00 CET
( 10:00 UTC / 02:00 PST / 20:00 AEST) for an unrecorded Sharing-circle session where you can ask Questions & Share with the community any personal processes that may arise...
Is it essential that I show up-to the sessions LIVE or can I watch the replay and attend that way?
YES! All LIVE sessions will be available for replay for 12 months after the course & although it can be strong to be there in the session whilst its happening, I truly believe you can receive just as much by knowing you’re in the same process as other women. We will have our own MIGHTY NETWORKS network additionally - where you'll be able to connect with the other Sovereigns, ask Questions & organize your own sharing-circles & study groups to practice the tools provided & seek further support. We will also have a whole team of previous Sovereign graduates, a trauma-informed therapeutic mentor to support the container, and a Sovereign Spaces guide who will guide addtional sessions depending on the needs of the group.
And what about refunds?
In general, there are no refunds available - if a true & real emergency arises, please reach out to us via email to speak to us about refunds. Otherwise, once the course has started there will be no refunds available.
Are there payment plans available? I’m short on cash now, but I’d love to attend!
Yes! I want you to be able to attend without it over-stretching you. We have a 7 month payment plan available on the grduate referral shceme *for people joining through a sovereign graduate. Otherwise we have a 6 month payment plan available.
I’m worried the workload will be too much, How much time should I make for this course?
I would recommend putting 1 hour to the side each week for homework & integration with your sovereign community alongside the bi-weekly group calls that are 2.5 hours long. I do personally feel this is a good training to do on its own - without any other distractions, so as to honour it as both a training AND a personal process. So my personal opinion, is; let sovereign be your THING from JAN-MARCH but know that its not a full-time course. The reason why the class calls are only every two weeks is so that you can go out and EMBODY the teachings in your daily life. This is when the work becomes sustainable & embodied.
Does my sexual identity and relationship style affect my ability to attend this course?
This course is aimed at all beings who identify as a woman - trans, cisgender, intersex - all of you are welcome. However - I invite you to join us with the following humble & honest disclaimer - I will refer to the group as “women” & 'femmes' & so i encourage you to practice your own sovereignty as to whether that feels good/not for you to join us. We will speak about masculinity and femininity throughout the course - & I may refer to heterosexual relational dynamics, However - as a pansexual & polyamorous woman myself - I fully welcome every relationship style and sexual oriententation here in this course where many people will come together from different walks in life.
How much time & support will I actually get to have with Melissa Maya or her team?
Melissa Maya will host every LIVE Thursday call & some of the sharing-circle sessions - those who purchase the ‘personalized’ coaching package will get to have 1-1 support with Melissa. Melissa & the team will be holding-space in the MIGHTY NETWORKS group, addtionally, to respond to any questions throughout. The in-person residential retreat in SPRING 2022 will be held mostly by Melissa Maya & the sovereign co-teachers team. The in-person study groups will be Held & Organised by the Sovereign support team in the following locations: London, Vienna, Helsinki, Lagos, Berlin.
A sovereign woman is a steward of divine & neccessary wisdom that is so powerful it’s changing the world on a molecular level without you even noticing it.
A great change is coming.
It's happening right now.
We are in the birth canal of a new way of being.
The old way is crumbling.
Can you feel it?
& are you ready to BE the change?
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