Awaken Your Inner Wisdom with Cissi Williams

Meet Helena Montelius, who’s a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, as well as a meditation teacher and certified Life-Cycle Celebrant.Helena shares how we can move through a radical love shift by dissolving our underlying beliefs about love, romantic relationships, our partners and sex, and how this can help us to move through a radical inner shift, where we begin to find peace within, so we can experience joy and fulfilment in our relationships.To read a transcript from the interview, click here.  For more information about Helena and her work, such as her latest offerings and courses, visit www.lookwithininstitute.com

Meet the amazing Sophie Bashford, who is the author of You Are a Goddess, and the creator of the Goddesses, Gods and Guardians Oracle Cards.Sophie introduces us to the Greek Dark Goddess Hecate, and how she can help us heal the witch wound. She also explains why it is that so many who carry goddess wisdom can feel ‘blocked’ or resistant to revealing their true self and true spiritual gifts – and how Hecate can help us heal our deep inner fears so we can share our gifts and wisdom with the world.At the end of this episode she takes us on a magical and very healing journey where we meet Hecate (at 38.56). To read a transcript from the interview, click here.To find out more about Sophie visit sophiebashford.com 

Meet Chameli Ardagh, who is a yogini, mystic and a goddess wisdom keeper. Chameli is a master in decoding the goddess myths and in this interview she shares how Freya came knocking on her heart, guiding her into the wisdom of her own roots (Chameli is Norwegian).  She introduces us to the Norse Goddess Freya - and her interpretation of Freya is absolutely amazing! She also takes us on a journey to meet Freya (at 41.46). This is an amazing conversation, and if you want to dive deeper into exploring goddess wisdom with Chameli, I recommend you visit awakeningwomen.com. There you also find her online course on Freya.If you want to read the transcript from this interview, then click here.

Release the old you, so the new you can be reborn 💛We're in a very powerful rebirth portal right now, and this healing and restorative shamanic journey with the Norse Goddess Freya is then perfect to do, as it fills you up with so much light, that it's easier to have the energy needed to move through this rebirth.Freya embodies the golden light of the feminine found in your ancestral lineage. For you, she may of course manifest as Freya, but she might also show up as Brigid, or Mary Magdalene, or in whichever way this radiant, magical, golden feminine energy appears to you.This deeply healing journey allows you to shed the old you, so the new you can be reborn. At the end, you’ll spend a few minutes writing a letter to yourself, from this golden light of the feminine, which is found within your heart (and in your core).Trust this golden light of the feminine to be the midwife, guiding you through this rebirth 💛

Dear Divine Mothers Thank you for guiding me, holding me, supporting me, and awakening me, to the truth of who I am.The truth that I’m a daughter of the universe, a shining star in an earthly body, a miracle of love in human form, with an ancient wisdom living inside my bones, coursing through my veins – the ancient wisdom and magic of the Wise Woman, who’s meant to rise once more.And as she rises within me, I can feel her guiding me, showing me how I can weave more light and love and wisdom and feminine magic into our world, so I can help to birth a new consciousness into being.And so it is. And so it is. And so it is.Blessed be. Blessed be. Blessed be.Prayer by Cissi Williams

This is a very powerful prayer to the Divine Mothers of Darkness and Light,  which moves you through your own rebirth, awakening an ancient wisdom that lives inside of you.You'll surrender to the Divine Mothers all that which you are meant to let go of, so you can let the Wise Woman within you RISE once more, helping to birth a new consciousness into being.This prayer emerged through me when I was sitting in Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury, the sacred well of the Divine Feminine, and I could feel Her presence within me.

Go on a shamanic journey into the wisdom of your womb, being guided by the amazing Deborah Stanley. This journey was part of the interview with Debs, in the episode called Meet the Womb Shaman and Spirit Keeper of the Wild Feminine. But it's such a fabulous journey that I wanted to feature it also as a standalone, so you can listen to it at any time you'd like to go deeper into the wisdom of your womb.To find out more about Debs and her work, visit devapathways.com

Meet  Deborah Stanley, Womb Shaman and Spirit Keeper of the Wild Feminine.  Debs shares how her journey into the feminine path began, what the Queen Codes are, and how we can journey with the Celtic Wheel to tune into the wisdom of our womb.She also takes you on an incredible shamanic journey into your womb, where you begin to tune into the Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone energies within you (the journey begins at 47.45).If you want to find out more about Debs, and her courses, then visit devapathways.com

Go on a magical journey with Seren Bertrand. This journey was part of her interview on Feminine Magic and Wisdom, but I felt it would be so helpful to also feature it here, as a standalone, so you can listen to it at any time you want to dive deeper into the magic of the feminine.If you want to find out more about Seren, then visit serenbertrand.com

Meet the amazing Seren Bertrand, who’s an award-winning author on feminine magic and wisdom. She’s written ‘Spirit Weaver: Wisdom Teachings from the Feminine Path of Magic’, ‘Womb Awakening’ and ‘Magdalene Mysteries’.In this interview she shares teachings from the path of Feminine Magic, such as the difference between Grief and Trauma, what it means that Feminine Magic is gated, and why wisdom always comes with a price.She also takes you on a magical journey where you start to connect more deeply with the feminine wisdom found in your roots (starts at 01:04:25).If you want to find out more about Seren, then visit serenbertrand.comAnd to discover more about her Feminine Magic School, which starts in January, visit serenbertrand.com/feminine-magic-school

In this gentle, healing and cleansing shamanic journey, that has been inspired by the holy wells found in Glastonbury - the heart chakra of the world - you’ll meet the Dark Mother and her daughters, the Dark Goddesses. You’ll also connect with the Tree of Life, which represents the different worlds of reality, with the trunk being our connection with the middle world, the branches connecting us with the upper world, so with the cosmos and that which we are becoming, and with the roots connecting us with the lower world, and our past, so our roots are connecting us with our ancestors.You’ll also be connecting with the sacred wells of Glastonbury, the White Spring, which is the sacred well of the Divine Masculine, and the Red Spring which is the sacred well of the Divine Feminine, and the Dark Well, which is the sacred well of the Dark Mother, so you can come home to her love for you.At the end of the journey you’ll receive messages from the Divine Mother on how you may serve the Divine Feminine, so you can share Her healing wisdom with others, as it is this wise, loving, compassionate and fierce wisdom the world needs right now.This was recorded live on the first module of the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training.

This shamanic journey, where we journey through our sacred womb space (normally we journey through our mystical heart) into the World of Spirit, meeting the Dark Goddesses, was born in the Black Madonna Chapel, on the Glastonbury & Stonehenge shamanic retreats.This is a very healing journey, into the sacred darkness, where you'll meet the dark goddess Kali, who'll help you release various limiting thought patterns and false beliefs; the Norse dark goddess Hel, who will help you release toxins, old ancestral programming and heavy energy; the Black Madonna, who will help you forgive yourself and others, so your love can reach deep into your very being, and the Celtic dark goddess Cerridwen who will help you find the medicine you need.You'll also journey to the Land of Ice to melt what's frozen in your nervous system, in your psyche, so you can reconnect with your life force and divine light.You can read more about the shamanic trainings here.

This is a very shamanic and deeply healing journey that was born on one of the  Glastonbury shamanic trainings, when we were in the underground chapel of the Black Madonna. The energy there is AMAZING - and I could feel her come through so strongly also when I recorded this journey for you.Please use your breath and your body to help you release heavy energies, so feel free to move your body during the journey, and use your hands to move the energy into the 'fire' - the divine fire of the Black Madonna. Only do this journey when you are AWAKE, and I would recommend sitting up (although you may want to lie down for parts of it - so trust your intuition - but do sit up for most of it if you can).Enjoy this very healing journey with the loving and compassionate Black Madonna.You can read more about the shamanic practitioner trainings here.

In this episode you’ll meet Freya, the Norse goddess of healing, magic, wisdom, love, fertility, war, death and rebirth. She will take you on a very healing journey where you start to awaken your inner magic.Freya has sometimes been called the Queen of Witches and the Queen of the Valkyries – and she represents the wild feminine presence within our core, the golden light of our feminine magic and wisdom. Freya is a teacher of Seidr - a very powerful form of Norse magic and shamanic healing, which was practised by völvas (female shamanic priestesses in the Norse tradition), and Freya was their teacher. They are called völvas because they had a staff – völva means staff carrier – and this staff is a representation of the Tree of Life, which helps us journey into the different domains of reality.Freya is the goddess of the Vanir tribe, which is a tribe closely connected with nature, magic and witchcraft, so with the heart, the feminine and the magic of our soul. The Aesir tribe, on the other hand – is a tribe connected with the mind and the masculine (the sky gods, such as Odin and Thor). In the Norse Sagas, they talk about the First War – which is a war between the Aesir and the Vanirs, so a war between the heart and the mind - and as peace finally is found, Freya goes to live with the Aesir tribe, teaching them the art of Seidr. This can be seen as the heart teaching the mind about the magic of the feminine and the soul.And this is key - you can’t learn this ancient feminine magic through your mind, you can only learn it through the heart – and Freya is a teacher of this ancient feminine magic. She is the light in your heart and in your soul. In this episode I first go through a talk about Freya, which will give you the map for our shamanic journey (so make sure you listen to this talk first).  And then, in our shamanic journey, you’ll step onboard Freya’s ship, Sessrumnir, and she’ll journey with you into the World of Spirit, helping you to connect with your inner feminine light, magic and wisdom. The journey starts at 15.58.If you want to journey more with Freya, then why not join me on my new online course Shamanic Journey with the Divine Mothers of Darkness & Light. You can read more about it here.To learn more about the Norse Myths, I recommend Norse scholar Maria Kvilhaug's book The Seed of Yggdrasil. It is amazing! 

This episode is from the interview Michael Stone did with me for the Shaman Wisdom Summit with The Shift Network in 2022.In this interview I'll take you on a healing shamanic journey to meet the Dark Goddess, who will help you transform old wounds, so you can awaken your inner magic, power, and ancient wisdom, and discover the soul gifts you are meant to share with others.In this session, you’ll discover:The Dark Divine Feminine is the source of all life, as she is the one who births the lightAs you start your healing journey you realize you're the light, but then you're called to go deeper into the sacred darkness As you journey into the sacred darkness, you heal deeply by birthing the golden medicine of your own inner sun This interview is part of the Shamanic Wisdom Summit a free online event. For more information, please visit https://shamanismsummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.You can also find more information about the Shaman Wisdom Summit of 2022 here. 

On this very healing shamanic journey you'll first cleanse and heal your roots, so you can strengthen your connection with your Ancient Mother.You'll then journey to the sacred womb of the Dark Mother, where you'll go through a deep healing process, extracting and releasing from you that which is no longer serving you.You'll receive the medicine from the Dark Mothers (Norse goddess Hel, the Celtic goddess Cerridwen and others who are working with you) drinking from their magical cauldron. They also initiate you into their teachings for you.And you'll meet the Light Mothers, solar goddesses, such as Freya, Idun, Brigid and Isis, who will give you their medicine for you, and initiate you into the path you’ll be walking as you follow their guidance, their love, their wisdom.By doing this journey you'll tune into the sacred medicine from the Divine Mothers of Darkness & Light, helping you to dance with the seasons.PS. This journey was recorded on the live shamanic energy medicine training (on the first module of the practitioner training). I often take the students through a shamanic journey at the end of a very intense practice day.

This episode is from a recent journey I did with my shamanic energy medicine students, where you meet the Norse Dark Goddess Ran.Ran will guide you on a very healing journey, and she also takes you through a soul retrieval process, where you connect with the light-filled essence of who you truly are.You will also meet the Norse Dark Goddess Hel, who helps you to become more whole, as she is a portal of life, death and rebirth. You’ll also meet the Norse goddess Freya, who is a powerful healer, witch, high priestess and the First Völva, which is a female shaman in the Norse tradition. Freya represents the light in our soul – so she is the essence of our light-filled magic, feminine wisdom and power.I first go through a talk, which gives you the map of the journey (please make sure you listen to the talk first, it is only 9 minutes long). And then the journey is around 50 minutes – and it is a very deep shamanic journey, deep into the landscape of your soul.PS. If you want to journey more with the powerful Norse goddesses, then why not join me on my new online course Shamanic Journey with the Divine Mothers of Darkness & Light. You can read more about it here.PPS. The Norse scholar Maria Kvilhaug has written an amazing book called The Seed of Yggdrasil, and she is a master in decoding the Norse myths, so I warmly recommend you get her book.

In this journey you'll meet the Norse Dark Goddess Hel, and Her Sisters, the other Dark Goddesses, such as Cerridwen, Hecate, Persephone, Kali, Isis and the Black Madonna. They will help you step into your power, your truth, and your light, so you can awaken the ancient wisdom that is in your bones - the wisdom of the wise woman - so you can let her healing medicine be expressed through you, and out into the world.Hel is an awesome goddess - and her name, in Swedish, means 'heal', 'whole' and 'holy' (helig).She is a portal of death and rebirth, and an amazing healer. TRUST HER!She helped me enormously to heal deep layers of grief, sadness and ancestral wounding.Hel is one of the Dark Goddesses we work with during the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training. You can read more about this traininghere.PS. If you want to journey more with the powerful Norse goddesses, then why not join me on the new online course Shamanic Journey with the Divine Mothers of Darkness & Light. You can read more about it here.

This is a very powerful shamanic journey where you awaken the kundalini energy - the goddess energy - within you.The very first time I met this powerful kundalini energy it took me by surprise. I was doing an inner journey on myself, working on releasing the wounded energy around a problem I had in my life, where I noticed that in certain situations, I kept giving my energy away, and this was now draining me.As I journeyed into the mythical landscape of my soul, I was being taken down into the lower world, where I was being led deeper into the core of Mother Earth, until reached an underground cave. And in here was a huge serpent tied up. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and telepathically she was pleading with me to help free her. I realised intuitively that she was an aspect of my kundalini energy, showing me how she was being held prisoner inside this cave. As I started to look around in this cave, I noticed that men were here, and they were abusing the serpent. They had ropes around her, and heavy chains, trying to suppress her power and life force, whilst at the same time, they were using her body as an energy source, as if they were feeding off her, taking what they wanted, draining her completely.I could feel this power surge through me, and within me I roared: “NO MORE! STOP! GET OUT!” And I started to free this serpent. I cut the ropes around her, and loosened the chains, and as she started to be freed, she came to life. She wriggled herself loose, and for each wriggle she grew and grew and grew. And she started to rise, and as she was rising, all those old ways of trying to hold her down and keep her suppressed just fell off her. She grew even more, becoming like a giant serpent rising from deep within this cave, up through the layers of the earth, up into the freedom of the fresh air. She continued to rise, up towards the sky, up to the sun and the moon and the stars, and she was dancing and singing, whilst she continued to expand. She became one with the universe, totally liberated. And then she started to slowly come back down from the stars, down to the earth, where she greeted me again. She and I stood there, being present with each other. Then it was as if we became one, and I could feel her energy rise within me, in through my root chakra and into my spine, slowly rising up towards my brain, and then out through my crown to the sun, the moon and the stars, connecting me with the heavens.I have, since that journey, been completely different. This was the first time I met the kundalini energy. Before that I thought it was just a concept, but from this experience I realised that she truly exists, as a metaphor in the mythical and energetic domain of my soul. She helped me restore my life energy, freeing me from the old ways where I had allowed myself to constantly give my energy away. In this journey you'll first shed the past, and then you'll meet this powerful divine feminine energy so she can rise within you, connecting you with this ancient healing wisdom that is longing to be awakened within you.This journey was recorded live during the first module of the Shamanic Energy Medicine  Practitioner Training. You can read more about this training here.

Go on a shamanic journey through your chakras and also into your ancestral roots, where you'll meet the ancient witch from your own ancestral lineage - the wise woman within who is filled with feminine power and magic.This is a VERY powerful journey where you start to awaken an ancient wisdom within you - your inner mystic, healer and wise woman - who is like an inner shaman that can guide you on your own healing journey.The talk (32 minutes) is from a webinar I did some months ago, and the journey (60 minutes) is from a live recording during the initial module of the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training. The talk gives you the MAP of the journey, which allows you to go much deeper. And then you can show up for the journey the way you would show up for a shamanic healing session - fully present, filled with energy and with no distractions. By doing this you create sacred space around your own healing, so you can journey deep into the landscape of your soul.If you want to dive deeper into each chakra, then I recommend the online course Shamanic Journeys through the Chakras. You can read more about it here.And if you want to find out more about the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training, then you can find more information here.