Bloodstone & Lime:
Training in Deathwork, Legacy, & Ancestor Reverence

New program begins January 2025.
To apply, please join the Goddess Temple as a Mandala Member,
then fill out the application at the bottom of this page.

Uncover the hidden treasures of your ancestral lineage and work with the spirits of the dead for healing, empowerment, justice, and joy. Bloodstone & Lime is the first year of the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple’s new two-year Soul Priestess, Psychopomp, and Death Midwife training program. This program is a sacred invitation to women who feel the stirring of ancestral love and wisdom within their hearts, who are eager to weave the tapestry of their spiritual heritage into the fabric of their modern lives, and who feel called to work with the dead, the dying, and the grieving.

Embark on a Transformational Journey:

• 12 Monthly Video Classes: To help you immerse in the currents of ancestral knowledge, guided by blood allies and ancestors of affinity who help you bring ancient practices to life.

• 12 Monthly Written Lessons: To help you delve deeper into your studies of personal ancestral wisdom, family legacies, and healing practices.

• Monthly One-on-One Encounters: To receive bespoke mentorship from your instructor, ensuring your personal growth, answering your questions, and supporting you in building confidence in your practices.

Year One: Sacred Ancestral Exploration

January: On Origins, Cosmology, and Beliefs
Journey to the dawn of your lineage, exploring the mythic origins, cosmological visions, and sacred beliefs of your ancestors. Unveil the primal stories that shape your heritage, and interrogate the aspects of your family history that have caused pain or suffering.

February: Compassion, Understanding, Forgiveness
Open your heart to the virtues of compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. Heal the wounds of the past and cultivate a loving connection with your ancestral roots by forging relationships with benevolent ancestors who want to help you facilitate deep healing in the family line.

March: Reckoning and Release
Embrace a sacred reckoning with your ancestral shadows. Release the burdens of bygone eras, liberating yourself and sending healing to both the past and the future. Say to the habits and tendencies that have caused harm, “This stops with me.”

April: Relationships & Family Matters
Examine the intricate web of familial ties. Understand how the relationships of your family’s past influence your present and create new habits, thought and behavior patterns, and possibilities for healthier relationships in and with your family line.

May: Divination with Ancestral Guides
Explore the mysteries of divination as a tool for communing with the ancestors. Learn to converse with your ancestral guides, receiving their timeless wisdom through sacred oracular practices. We will dedicate oracular tools and create rituals to establish lines of communication.

June: Old and New Family Traditions
Celebrate the rich traditions of your forebears while crafting new rituals that resonate with your contemporary spiritual path and beliefs. Honor the best parts of the past while embracing the creativity of the present. Learn how to exemplify suppleness and joyful co-creation by inviting your children or chosen family to participate in preserving and evolving your lineage traditions.

July: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, & Sorcery in the Bloodline
Dive into the magical practices that course naturally through your veins. Uncover the spells, charms, and sorcery that your ancestors wielded with reverence and power, and learn to invoke the magic of your own blood. Power and protection live in you, waiting to be invoked.

August: Transit Over Waters and Lost Legacies
Trace the migratory journeys of your ancestors. Discover the lost legacies carried across waters and continents, reclaiming the stories that have been forgotten, and filling in the spaces left empty by traumatic experiences or loss.

September: Ancestral Herbal Traditions
Reconnect with the verdant knowledge of your land legacy. Learn the herbal wisdom and healing practices that whispered to your ancestors from deep within the earth. Work with herbs and food to create incense, tinctures, talismans, and healing remedies.

October: Legacies of Light
Illuminate the noble legacies of your forebears. Embrace the teachings of light and wisdom that have been passed down through the ages within your family line and in the community of historical ancestors whose lives and legacies left a positive impact on us all.

November: Ancestor Guides & Reverence
Strengthen your bond with your benevolent ancestors in formal dedications, honoring their contributions, presence, and blessing. Develop rituals of reverence and gratitude to acknowledge the guides who walk with you.

December: Becoming an Ancestor
Prepare to leave your own luminous legacy. Reflect on your journey and envision your role as a cherished ancestor to future generations and consider how your will leave messages for those who come after you about your life and work.

Benefits of Soul Priestess Training

• Reveal Your Lineage Mysteries: Sink into the sacred well of ancestral knowledge, unveiling the mysteries that call out from your blood.

• Transform Your Spiritual Practice: Infuse your life path with the wisdom of your forebears and ancestral allies, enriching your practice with timeless, personally-relevant traditions.

• Experience Personal Metamorphosis: Create profound transformation as you heal ancestral wounds, reclaim lost legacies, and step into the spiritual power of your bloodlines and soul family.

• Join a Sacred Sisterhood: Connect with a community of kindred spirits, sharing support, inspiration, and wisdom on your shared journey.

• Guidance from the Wise: Benefit from the wisdom and mentorship of a seasoned instructor dedicated to your spiritual growth and fulfillment.

Who is this training designed for?

Bloodstone & Lime is a personal healing and empowerment journey ideal for individuals who want to know more about their own ancestral magic, who are willing to research, read, and study authentically-rooted spiritual and cultural practices, who care about the legacies they are leaving behind, and who feel the call to uncover and heal the issues that have quietly impacted their families for generations.

This training is also designed for those who, due to political strife, the transatlantic slave trade, adoption, colonization, forced religious conversion, immigration, loss of homeland, or family amnesia, feel disconnected from their lineage and legacy and want to reclaim and reconnect the missing threads in their lives. This path can help repair and restore what has been lost, forgotten, stolen, or left behind.

Our Soul Priestess path will take us deep into the heart of complicated personal topics in the first year, and students will develop a coherent, researched, and proven set of ancestral practices for healing, growth, and devotion. Then, in the second year of the training, Marigold & Pomegranate, we will advance our study by connecting with Goddesses of Death, the Underworld, and the Afterlife, funerary traditions, how to address legal and practical implications at the end of life, and techniques, philosophies, and approaches to becoming a Death Doula, Grief Priestess, and Psychopomp. At the end of your two-year study, you will have the tools, practices, information, and confidence to help yourself, your family, and others with issues and circumstances around death, ancestry, and legacy.

Begin Your Journey

The Ancients are beckoning. Step into the circle of Bloodstone & Lime and awaken the divine magic that is your birthright. This program is more than a Priestess training; it is a pilgrimage to the heart of your ancestral soul, a path of self-discovery, healing, and spiritual fulfillment.

Enroll now and invite your soul's magic and blood lineages to illuminate your journey.

Death Traditions of the World

Classes and written Lessons will offer a survey of the world’s beliefs, practices, prayers, and rituals around end of life, death, and grief. You will study your own cultural practices related to death and the afterlife, and develop a clear, coherent approach to working and walking between the worlds.

Connect with Benevolent Ancestors

Through divination, working with herbs, creating talismans, meditations, shamanic journeys, and ceremonies, you will establish loving, helpful relationships with the benevolent ancestors, guardians, and guides who remain active in this realm to support and protect you and your family.

Create Meaningful Rituals

There are as many approaches to honoring the dying and the dead as there are cultures and peoples on Earth. Your path is personal, unique, and magical. You will adopt and adapt your own traditional cultural practices and create a ritual framework that honors and celebrates your ancestors year-round.

Bloodstone & Lime Priestess Training features written lessons and individual experiences, as well as group conferences and gatherings:

• monthly written lessons and personal homework assignments to help you clarify your ancestral path

• monthly video conferences with the group to study topics and methods related to the course themes

• text support from Priestess Yeshe

• monthly sessions and divinations with Priestess Yeshe to discuss your progress, workings, and questions

• optional retreats in Mount Shasta, CA and abroad (separate fee)

Is it time to embrace this work, to transform your life and the lives of your descendants?

Join Bloodstone & Lime Soul Priestess Training Program:

If you'd like to sign on for Bloodstone & Lime starting in January 2025, please join the Goddess Temple as a Mandala Member ($99).

After that, please fill out the Training Application linked below.

Then, book your Slavic Beeswax Session ($165) with Priestess Yeshe to secure your place in the training and help you prepare.

Starting in August 2025, Yeshe will contact those interested in joining the program with details and next steps.

Please prepare to set aside time each week to read and digest the Lessons and try the practices offered in this course. You will move slowly and sustainably through subtle and effective techniques, building capacity, relationships with your guides, and respect for the practices and spirits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to be a woman to take this training?
Yes. Our Temple’s mission includes creating a specific type of learning environment rooted in longstanding practices of women’s wisdom-sharing, designed around the female body and the history of women practitioners.

I don’t know who my ancestors are, or much about them. Can I still take this course?
Yes. This course was created to help facilitate greater connection and understanding between the ancestral realm and the class participant. This training will help you fill in the blanks around your own ancestors of blood and affinity.

I have shame, fear, sorrow, or anger around my lineage. Will this class help?
Long before you or any of your immediate family were born, ancestors of your blood had experiences that have influenced your DNA. Bloodstone & Lime will help you take ethical responsibility for healing yourself and the world from the effects of these societal and personal pains. You can spiritually release, integrate, or correct these challenging aspects of your ancestry when you better understand why things are the way they are.

I am far from my ancestral home, living on lands stolen from or originally inhabited by others. Will this impact my work in the class?
Our Temple honors the Winnemem Wintu, Yurok, Karuk, Shasta, Okwanuchu, and other Indigenous tribes that have tended this land in Siskiyou County for many generations before colonizers arrived, who are integral to the health and sustainability of this region. We encourage all of our students to know, support, and honor the First Nations people of the land where they now live. Through meditation journeys, sacred pilgrimages, and other techniques, you will learn to connect to the lands of your family’s origins.

How much does the program cost?
To apply for Bloodstone & Lime, you must be a member of the Temple, which requires an initial commitment of $99 for a Lifetime membership. You are encouraged to join the Temple and participate in activities and programs for a few months to a year in advance of applying for Priestess Training with us to ensure that you are familiar with our Temple protocols. After you join the Temple and submit your Training Application, please schedule a Beeswax Divination ($165 fee) with Priestess Yeshe to secure your spot in the program.

Monthly dues for the program are $150, which includes

• written lessons and personal homework assignments to help you clarify your ancestral path

• video conferences with the group to study topics and methods related to the course themes

• text support from Priestess Yeshe

• one-on-one sessions and divinations with Priestess Yeshe to discuss your progress, workings, and questions

Are there refunds?
There is no refund for your Temple membership or the initial Beeswax Divination session. After that, each student pays month by month. You may stop at any time if the program doesn’t suit you.

Are the Classes and Retreats accessible?
Yes. All of our classes are online and recorded, accessible to all class members in perpetuity. In most cases, our retreats and pilgrimages are accessible to those who are blind, deaf, or have mobility issues. Particular activities may require modification, and alternate activities can also be arranged. The Temple will work with students to address individual needs to the best of our capacity.

If I take this training, will I be a legal Priestess?
If you complete this first year of training, you will make your commitments and begin to practice your year of focused ancestor veneration. If you complete the second year, Marigold and Pomegranate, you will be consecrated and recognized as one of the Priestesses of the Temple.

Is this course appropriating from any culture?
No. This course is designed to introduce you to the practices and practitioners of many cultures and to help you find your personal path. In this course, we acknowledge the difficult questions of lineage, de-colonizing the mind, and appreciation vs. appropriation. All spiritual methods shared in this class are from Priestess Yeshe’s experience or are self-guided according to your personal path.

I’m pretty shy. Will I have to talk a lot in the group, or will I be expected to share personal information with others?
You can communicate as much or as little as you feel comfortable. This is not a course about putting ourselves on display. It’s a course about becoming more magical and empowered in who we are. If you’re quiet and shy, you will likely find resonance in certain practices we do that are designed to cultivate introspection and gentleness. If you are introverted, extroverted, or a combination of both, you will likely find relief in the warm, supportive, non-performative community we’ve created in the Temple.