Flight of the Skydancer is the second year of the Priestess Training with the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple, led by Priestess Yeshe Meryemana Matthews Robles. In the first year, students build a set of personal skills and tools, make connections with allies and guides, and develop effective abilities to cleanse, purify, journey, and create meaningful personal ceremonies using the methods taught, as well as your own. The first year is all about releasing the past and envisioning a vivid plan for your life, your potential, and your service to the Goddess.
During the second year of training, Flight of the Skydancer, students refine the use of tools and gifts with earned confidence, expanded proficiency, and intuitive flow, developing workings and special projects, taking the next steps toward manifesting a vision for a path of personal and community service .
Flight of the Skydancer helps you build the Temple of your heart:
making deeper connections with goddesses, allies, ancestors, and honored heroines
learning to design and lead different types of personal and group ceremonies
expanding your repertoire of oracular and shamanic skills
achieving greater comfort and efficacy with tools
becoming more courageous in offering services and guidance to others
opening to the mysteries of the Goddess with greater trust
learning to see the world through the eyes of magic
Goddess and Ancestor Reverence
Having made a year of offerings and connections with various spirit beings, the second year lineage work is about deepening your connection with personal goddesses and holy women in the unseen world who help guide you in your calling. Each month, you will deepen your work with the Temple’s 13 Goddesses and with unique Ancestresses, until you feel confident to begin to develop your own personal Mandala of allies. You will create acts of reverence in honor of the women who represent a living or historical lineage of women’s magic, and who serve as special patrons for women’s needs. Through this work, your connections with the unseen world will grow stronger and more flavorful as you begin to identify the many ways that Goddesses and guides are communicating with you every day. By the end of the year, each Priestess will establish a strong, avowed relationship with the Goddesses, Ancestresses, and allies who will guide her in her spiritual service to her community.
Advanced tools
Students in the second year work with your existing first year tools in rituals and ceremonies, and new tools will be introduced into the program, including shamanic spoons, blessed blades, a staff, and a beeswax melting pot. Students will be invited to develop greater skill and familiarity with the tools you consecrated in the first year, cultivating relationships with the in-dwelling spirit of each tool you use and coming to adopt and adapt the basic practices you’ve been taught, making them more personal. The tool and the Priestess have a connection: in the Priestess’ hand, the tool gains power and life force to do its work. Students will learn to focus and channel universal light and life force so that you are not drawing on your personal life force to accomplish your activities, but are instead bringing sacred light through the vessel of your being.
Riftual Craft and Path of Service
In the Flight of the Skydancer Priestess training, second-year students are encouraged to design personal ceremonies you will offer at your own altar and for others, and learn more advanced shamanic techniques that you can use to help others find safety, guidance, healing, and relief. There will be projects that involve crafting with magical items such as poppets, holy waters, beeswax, blessed stones, and herbal potions for use in your personal and public work, and you will connect with plant and tree spirits as allies in your personal and community rituals. You will also develop a more detailed view of your personal service to the Goddess and the world. By the end of the year, you will commit to a self-designed project that you will launch upon your certification as a Priestess graduate of the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple’s training program. Thereafter, you will have the option of further support for your personal leadership in our Council of Wisewomen Alumnae program for graduates.
Flight of the Skydancer training is similar in structure to Woman Shaman Priestess training. It involves monthly Lessons, Dark and Full Moon ceremonies, daily divinations, and daily practice as part of this training. Students in the second year of the training also receive reminders of key messages from the first spiral in their lessons, to help them develop a layered sense of the lessons. The group involves one video class per month, as in the first year, and you will deepen your understanding of your tools, perform ceremonies, and connect with the course material with new perspectives. In addition to the coursework, second-year students will each be expected to design a personal project that will find expression during the 3rd year of Council membership, and beyond.
Prerequisites
To qualify for Flight of the Skydancer Training, you must have successfully completed the Woman Shaman Priestess year. This course is open to all who have made the first-year journey with the Temple, and who are ready to move on and take their practice to the next level. If you have any questions about this training, please discuss them with Priestess Yeshe.
Costs
To sign on for the second year of the training, you must be a Mandala Member of the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple.
Thereafter, the monthly fee for Flight of the Skydancer Training is $150, which includes all coursework, as well as a monthly one-on-one session with Yeshe which can be scheduled at your convenience.
Graduates of this program have published books, started Temples, founded organizations and women’s circles, improved their health, attracted positive relationships, and identified their personal gifts of healing with greater precision than ever before. This program is all about your magic, your power, and your ability to live a life of your own design as a unique embodiment of the Goddess on Earth.
Please send Priestess Yeshe a message if you would like to continue your Priestess Training in the coming year with the Flight of the Skydancer program. We look forward to watching you grow your wings!