A MYTHOPOETIC REBIRTH:
The Heroine's Journey
A 9-month Mythopoetic Rebirth into your Archetypal Feminine Ground through:
storytelling ✹ postfeminism ✹ somatic eros-liberation practices
in community
For the woman who is ready to step off the traditional “Hero’s journey,” revive your soul-life, and re-member your archetypal feminine ground as you define and realize it through the power of the mythopoetic imagination, postfeminist perspectives, and somatic practice.
When shown the model of the Heroine’s journey, mythologist Joseph Campbell said:
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“Women don’t need to make the [hero’s] journey. In the whole mythological journey, the woman is there. All she has to do is realize that she’s the place that people are trying to get to.”
What is The Heroine's Journey?
The Heroine’s Journey is the archetypal journey of women’s initiation. Unlike the Hero’s Journey, it is a deliberate move away from the external pursuit of worldly challenge and success, and instead involves a descent down and in to the mysteries of your archetypal feminine ground and creative, embodied soul-life — the feral soul-creature who you believed you had to starve, repress, or entirely abandon in order to be “good enough” in an overly-masculine world.
This initiation journey is the modern-day rite of passage for the modern woman because it involves the ‘dying’ of your false-masculine ego — letting go of the power, fame, fortune, and approval that you depended on (till now) for a false sense of self-worth — so that you can do the hard but life-giving work of discovering who you truly are and what you genuinely value so that your true nature can flower into birth.
Like all life-death-life cycles, Life is on the other side — aligned, meaningful work, life-giving relationships, and a fulfilling lifestyle that reflects who you truly are. But first it requires your courageous tolerance for the mysterious “descent” — an initiatory trail of the unknown; a period of sacred “unknowing”, “unlearning” and “unwinding” all that is not truly you, which forges you into the powerfully strong, deeply intuitive and trusting woman you are:
the woman who has died in the underworld and has lived to tell about it.
"Let there be no mistake, when a woman makes efforts to intervene and fight her demon, whatever that demon may be, it is one of the most worthy battles known…. Even though she might, as in the tale, hit ground-zero-minus-five bottom… remember, at bottom is where the living roots of psyche are.
It is there that a woman's wild underpinnings are. At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground." - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
This journey is for you if...
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You are a very capable woman but want to slow down your life and put down the over-functioning shell that you (intelligently) built to feel safe in a man’s world, and uncover the deeper parts of you that you suppressed in order to achieve.
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You feel uncertain about the path ahead and feel like something is “wrong” and pressured to “figure it out.”
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You love myths, stories, and symbols and want to open to their medicine to help you “see in the dark” and reveal your creative path forward
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You are ready to put down the myth of female inferiority that has led you to believe that your value is in your doing, and discover the un-striving value and bliss of your female energy or being-ness.
You are tired of the narrative that you are “not feminine enough,” yet you feel a genuine desire to return to your more feminine side and demystify what “the feminine” truly is beyond outdated stereotypes. -
You feel called to connect with the primordial Great Mother and fill your psyche with multidimensional faces of the feminine
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You want to heal your deeply embedded mistrust in the Masculine as God/Life/mortal man, so that you can feel safe to relax into the exhale of masculine provision and sacred union.
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You feel caught in a frustrating purgatory of desiring-and-avoiding a creative calling; you want to untangle the blockages, discover your distinct contribution to life, and birth your creative-child into the world
THE HEROINE'S JOURNEY
CURRICULUM
A Weaving of Mythos, Postfeminist Logos, and Somatic Eros-Liberation Practices
Each month includes two storytellings and two group meetings. The storytellings are stand-alone, intentionally separated from group calls to give room for your own interpretation of the story to guide you in your life. Group calls will include a combination of postfeminist transmissions, facilitation for self-inquiry, working with feminine archetypes and symbols, and somatic practice. Meetings will alternate weekly between storytellings and group calls. All calls have time for live sharing. Stories and curriculum are subject to change at any point along the journey.
Join me for a mythopoetic descent into the multidimensional faces, stories, and mysteries of the primordial feminine…
Month 1 & 2. Void
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Into the Womb: Putting Down “The Show” & Embracing the Mystery
1. “The Red Shoes” of Modern Feminism: Confronting the “Poor Bargain” and Embracing Your “No"
Archetype: The Modern Woman | Goddess: Matter
Symbol: Black Hole
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2. “Inanna’s Descent”: The Initiation of the Unknown and Learning to See in the Dark
Archetype: The Medial Woman | Goddess: Ereshkigal/The Black Madonna | Symbol: Womb
Month 3 & 4. Inhale
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Rematriation: Recentering the Mother & Bringing the Feminine Back to Life.
3. “The Skeleton Woman” & “La Loba”: Singing over the Bones of the Feminine & the Soul-Life.
Archetype: The Medicine Woman/The Bone-Mother | Goddess: Paleolithic Goddess of Old Europe | Symbol: Earth, Bone
4. “Oshun & the Gods”: The Mysterium Magnum Paradox of the Feminine Principle
Archetype: Queen of Life/Mother/Creatrix | Goddess: Oshun | Symbol: Water
Month 5 & 6. Exhale
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Restoring the True Masculine: De-Armoring & Opening to Receive
5. “The Madness Of Mis”: De-Armoring the Armored Amazon & Embracing the Sacred Archetype
Archetype: The Innocent/The Sacred | Goddess: Persephone as Kore | Symbol: New Moon or White circle
6. “Amor & Psyche”: Opening to Receive from the Masculine as God/Life/Mortal man
Archetype: The Lover | Goddess: Psyche | Symbol: Bow and arrow
Month 7 & 8. Bliss
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Reclaiming the Wild Woman: Liberating Your “Yes” & Vital Life-Force Energy
7. “What Hera Knows”: Feminine Fullness through Desire, Sexuality and Healing Shame.
Archetype: The Pregnant Virgin/Wild Woman | Goddess: Artemis | Symbol: Full Moon
8. “Demeter, Persephone & Baubo”: Liberating Vital Life Force Energy through Taboo, Play & Permission to be “Bad”
Archetype: Trickster/Madwoman/The Dark Feminine | Goddess: Baubo | Symbol: The staff, the dancing pole
Month 9 & 1o. Ascent
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Sacred Marriage of the Ego and the Deep-Self: Returning to the Aboveworld as a Water-Bearer of the Aquarian Age
9. “Amaterasu”: Embracing the Service of Being Seen. Closing Ceremony Part 1
Archetype: The Wounded Healer/The Alchemist | Goddess: Amaterasu | Symbol: Sun
10. “Parsifal & The Search for the Holy Grail”: The Role Of The Feminine in the Aquarian Age.
Closing Ceremony Part 2.
Archetype: Crone/Oracle | Goddess: Cundrie/Baba Yaga/ Sophia | Symbol: The Holy Grail/The Vessel/The Cauldron
Transformation Along The Journey
This journey does not promise you 10k months, marriage, finding a life-partner, or discovering your career. In fact, this journey might incline you to step off the traditional path for a period of time to the disapproval of family or friends and let go of things no longer aligned for you. You might quit your job, leave an unaligned relationship, temporarily decrease your wealth, or change your career path entirely. This is the life-death-life cycle of the Heroine’s Journey and I take no responsibility for these changes in your life.
However what this journey does promise you is a profoundly meaningful descent into the salt and grit of your true ground of being — a mythopoetic confrontation with yourself, the false-conditioning and self-limiting beliefs that have led you to deny yourself for so long so that you can ascend on the other end with the hard-won strength of reunion with your true nature — your archetypal feminine ground (as you define and realize it) and the fertile soil of your soul-life.
This is an encounter with your soul, your female body and psyche, and your own well of images — filling the void in the female psychic landscape with the multidimensional faces of the deep feminine through myths, archetypes, symbols, and somatic practice. This is designed to be a mythic return to your female body, creative psyche, and undefended heart, so that you can make aligned decisions about your work, life, and love from the deep intuitive wisdom and vital life-force energy of who you truly are.
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR
Brielle Elise, MA — Scholar of Myth (MA in Poetics of Imagination), Transformational Coach for women (PCC, ICF), Storyteller, Writer
Through a combination of storytelling, somatic practice, and transformational coaching, I midwife women along their Heroine's Quest: the archetypal journey of women's initiation into their archetypal feminine ground and true nature as they define & realize it. I draw from 8+ years and 32000+ hours of 1:1 transformative coaching and seminar-experience, post-graduate education in the mythopoetic imagination, 10 years of study in Vedic spirituality, and the salt and grit of my own Heroine’s Quest into the paradoxical mysteries of the deep feminine. The inspiration of all my work is to advance women's evolution into what I see as the third stage of collective feminine consciousness: sacred interdependence, the holy union of opposites — masculine & feminine, this world and otherworld, ego and soul — so that we can be water-bearing women of the Aquarian Age, carrying water into a thirsty world through our work, play, and love.
Join me for a mythopoetic descent into the multidimensional faces, stories, and mysteries of the primordial feminine…
THE JOURNEY INCLUDES...
10 Live Storytellings
(Includes story, post-story reflections & sharing)
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10 Live Group Calls
(Transmissions, archetypal/symbolic exploration, sharing, somatic practices)
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Post-meeting integration exercises
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Community chat via Discord
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6-month access to recordings​​
“If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.” — Gabrielle Roth
THE HEROINE'S JOURNEY
INVESTMENT (USD)
$3000
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Early-bird, beta-version investment:
This will increase by 50% in 2025.
Standard rate: Save $400 when you enroll before October 24th, after which investment will increase to $1975.
1:1 transformative coaching available alongside, please email me to inquire.
“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling…
As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and non-rational knowledge....the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.” — Audre Lorde
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