Initiation - the tremor of being no one and nothing

This podcast features conversations inspired by Joy Thunder’s upcoming book of poems, I Will come for you.

We talk of ritual, love, community, overcoming trauma, and the work of sacred s3xuality. We welcome you to an intimate peek behind the scenes, with guests who have inspired the poems and walk among their pages.

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“i am a lover to many-handed entities,
dream-spinners lion-hearts and whores,
(…)
and i write to proclaim
do not rest till you’ve found
the love that shatters reality”

In this episode we reflect on the chapter called  - Initiation - with Ashisha, who facilitates the Temple Initiations in Samothraki. We’ve supported many a season of temple together.  

We reflect on how initiation is an invitation of love to step into the unknown. Of the precious intimacy felt in these spaces of dissolving. We talk of the balance of discipline and wildness required to face initiation, and of our own explorations between the dervish life and structure.

“We need to reach the nothing to create something which is a true expression of our divinity”

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Ashisha

To support souls to awaken to their eternal core fire has become her primary calling in life. Her gaze is pointed towards the expression of the subtle essence we hold within, to unlock that unique gift and support it to manifest in life with love, power and grace, aligned with the greater whole of this planet.

Ashisha is cultivating and teaching ancient tools for awakening the imagination of the soul into sound, form and life force by using mythology and archetypal images, alchemical methods, meditation and embodiment for creative transformation. Her sessions, trainings and ceremonies support people worldwide in dreaming their future into existence. She attended the first ray of the Highden Temple training and has been on the teaching team of several trainings since.

Follow her website.

Song credits - Minor with Cricket by Audionautix.com CC BY 4.0