Temple of the Sacred Feminine

Shamanic societies, past and present, not only recognize spiritual initiation as a community event, they also have a map of this mysterious territory conveyed to them through their traditions of story, dance, song, healing, and art. Tribal initiates have elders, teachers, medicine people, and a community in which to contain, affirm, and ground their spiritual experiences. Contemporary western women who are called to spiritual initiation have had no lineage of feminine spiritu

I have been thinking and writing a lot lately about ambiguous losses and the devastating circumstances surrounding such losses. Patricia Boss, the woman who coined the term, is author of Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief. I was so grateful to learn that this kind of grief has been recognized and named, as I have lived with numerous ambiguous losses and grief all through my life. I found that ambiguous losses often go unrecognized by family, friends, comm

There is no one way to describe Sacred Feminine Initiation. It is a very individualized yet archetypal, universal experience. What I say here is a finger pointing to the moon. In my nearly 40 years of working with it, I can never adequately name or describe it with a thousand left brain linear sentences. Women are often asking me this question and it came to me to simply share a dream that conveys what Sacred Feminine initiation is — or at least, part of it — by way of a drea

Namaste, I welcome you to my new Temple website. I am very happy to be offering my life’s work here in Boulder, as I have spent 21 years living here and commuting to work in Maryland where this body of work originally sprouted in 1980. Please take your time to peruse the site and I welcome your contact and your questions. Take a look at the Calendar tab to see that my new shared office space at the Boulder Healing Hub is having and opening reception and celebration October 2