Join Miriam Ropschitz on a 7-week journey through the fertile darkness of the underworld, passing through 7 gates of initiation, guided by the dark goddess. 250+ women have passed through the transformational gates of DFM over the last 4 years. This year, you are invited to be part of the magick.
Through the deep waters of the dark feminine, moving through 7 initiations guided by 7 dark goddesses, we descend to reclaim what has been lost, hidden and forgotten, passing through gates of initiation in the form of dark goddess wisdom, embodiment practices and ritual.
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The Feminine has a special relationship with darkness: the dark of the moon; the dark of the womb, the life-giving, generative powers of the fertile soil.
Our ancestors worshipped a primary dark feminine deity. And yet we have been entrained to disconnect from our own darkness at great cost to our wellbeing, our eros & our creative lives.
Our culture is yang-dominant & solar-oriented. We are a people afraid of the dark. Encouraged to shy away from all that dwells in the shadows.
Why? Because the dark feminine is where we women find a power & wisdom so profound, it threatens the fabric of the over-culture.
A 60-minute video guides you through each week's initiation and corresponding goddess. Each week for 7 weeks, a new video lands in your online portal at 6pm on Saturday.
Each week has a pre-recorded video or audio practice which takes you deeper into the medicine of the week's dark feminine initiation, bringing the work to a somatic level.
Hearing other women's experiences is key to the power of DFM. You'll join an online group designed for sharing and connection on Telegram called the Cauldron.
Some weeks there are ritual practices to commit to as homework. Every week you'll be provided with book recommendations and links to support you to go deeper into each initiatory gate.
To embrace the raw power of your sexuality and menstrual cycle.
To compost limiting beliefs that have kept you holding back your magick from the world.
While the world around us drops into winter, we'll descend to the underworld to find the treasures that only the Dark Feminine knows.
We were sold a lie... They told us: Sex is sinful. Our blood is shameful. Rest is lazy.
Your feelings are too much.
The Dark Feminine teaches us: Sex is sacred. Your blood is powerful. Rest brings rebirth. Your feelings are messengers.
Her wisdom leads us back to the women we were born to be... sacred, sexual, wild and free.
You are hungry for more Dark Goddess Wisdom in your life.
You are at a crossroads in your life or undergoing a major transformation.
You are curious about mythology, ancient lore and feminine wisdom.
You feel you've absorbed cultural pressure to cultivate light feminine qualities and bypass the Dark Feminine.
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You want to expand your potential to hold more: More energy, more money, more power, more eros.
You have a profound interest in shadow work, sacred sexuality, magick and embodiment.
You understand that winter is a time to rest, nourish and deepen into the wisdom of the sacred dark.
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This line is from the 5000-year-old poem 'The Descent of Inanna', detailing the goddess's journey through the underworld.
On her visit to the underworld, Goddess Inanna passed through seven gates.
At each gate, she was asked to shed a sacred object.
At Gate One, we work with Sumerian Goddess Inanna, learning how her heroine's journey of descent into the underworld can teach us to descend willingly into our own darkness to gather the treasures of the great below. What triggers you? Which parts of yourself do you find hard to face? How can we bring our disowned – or shadow – parts back up to the world of the living? We also understand descent as a re-orientation away from the masculine centres of the body's upper-world (head, brain, mind) to the feminine centres of the body's underworld (womb, pelvis, root).
GATE TWO
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
Our embodiment practice explores descent by descending to our own bodily underworld – the land of the lower body: the guts, the anus, the womb, the pussy – through breath, sound and movement, to bring us into healthy relationship with the lower body, creating a foundation of grounding, self-holding and nourishment for the weeks ahead.
At Gate Two, we work with the Dark Feminine through her earthly expression. Think rotting leaves; dark, rich soil; poison berries; mists and fog: howling gales; insects, crows, wolves, foxes. We work with the Cailleach whose name in Gaelic, means ‘old woman’ or ‘hag’. Cailleach was derived from 'Caillech' , a term meaning ‘veiled one’ in old Gaelic. Her most prominent title was 'Cailleach Bhéara': Master of Winter. Her magick is deeply rooted into earth, place and time. She is the wise old crone of the ancient Isles who throws her plaid across the hills, blanketing them in snow.
GATE Three
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
At Gate Two our practices takes us out into the wild. We explore the world around us as the organic extension of our own bodily form: the earth body. You'll be guided on an audio journey which brings you into communion with the more-than-human world. Let yourself experience the dark feminine on the somatic level.
At Gate Three, we enter the Womb: the centre of gravity in woman's body and the somatic home of the Dark Feminine. Our guiding goddess for the womb gate is Isis. One of the earth's most ancient dark goddesses, Isis is a mother goddess who presides over fertility. She is both a goddess of maternal love and powerful magick. Under her wise gaze we learn what it means to be embodied in the womb and to life a womb-led life, guided by the creative pulse of our deepest energetic centre.
GATE four
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
Our practice for Gate Three is both energetic and physical. A powerful seated practice combining breath, visualisation and movement drops us deep into the womb space. Next, we move into self-massage for the abdomen, focusing on specific healing touch points which nourish the womb. This is a practice you can return to time and time again as a way to develop your loving relationship with your womb space.
One of the most obvious ways the Dark Feminine has been hidden from us is in the exiling of sexual innocence and sensual expression. Inside every woman there lives a unique pulse of eros. Very often this pulse has been clouded over by social and cultural sexual dysfunction. In Gate Four of DFM, we call on Lilith to guide us as we unearth our sexual innocence. Lilith is the archetype of the woman punished for her sexual expression. medieval Jewish lore, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, who left Eden of her own choice because she would not submit sexually to her husband.
GATE Five
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
In our Gate Four practice we combine sensuality with healing touch. First we massage the breasts with oil in a specific sequence designed to stimulate lymphatic movement, disperse stagnation and stimulate arousal. Then we move through a pelvic mapping practice where we work internally with our intravaginal tissues, using breath, touch and sound to release energetic blockages so that our sexual energy can flow freely throughout the pelvic bowl and pussy.
If the female root (pussy, anus, womb, cervix) is the somatic centre of the Dark Feminine, then the voice is perhaps her second home in the body. Sitting on the central channel, connected by the Vagus nerve our throat and vocal chords are fundamental to our authentic expression. Many women have yet to locate their authentic voice, which is an essential part of dark feminine embodiment. In this week we'll call upon Goddess Cerridwen and her cauldron of Awen to support us discovering our creative expression and allowing it move through us and into the world.
GATE six
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
In our Gate Five practice we move through a sequence of self-massage, gentle, lower-body-based movement before working with our voice. We play with sounding from different parts of our bodies, singing to a drumbeat and then speaking with intention. The intention behind this practice is for you to locate your authentic voice and from here on, speak with it.
In Gate Six, we've reached a key point in our journey and can begin to work with the more subtle realms. Here we work with magick, specifically, feminine magick, under the guidance of Hekate, an ancient goddess who predates the written mythology of ancient Greece and is known as the Queen of Witches. We learn how to bring simple spell work into our lives, weaving the threads of reality with intention and direction. Each woman has within her a wellspring of magick, encoded with her medicine. This week you'll be guided to unearth (or deepen) yours.
GATE seven
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
Sometimes spells are elaborate. And sometimes they are words whispered with clarity over a candle or into a simmering pot of herbs. This week you'll be guided to practise spells each night for five days as a nighttime potion ritual. This is a simple and effective way to bring the magick of kitchen witchcraft into your life.
As we move deeper into the subtle realms, we meet the void: the limitless expanse of pure potentiality with a specifically feminine feel. Women are natural dwellers in liminal spaces. They are where we birth and bleed and orgasm. Built into our anatomy are doors into the void and Ma Kali is the perfect guide for us in this place.
GATE one
EMBODIMENT PRACTICE
There is no better practice to be suspended inside the void in than Yoga Nidra. Enjoy a long, deep, nourishing guided practice where imagery of fertile darkness lulls you into profound relaxation. You might even find yourself in the liminal space of Yoga Nidra - between worlds.
Accessed through your online portal
Each week you have a pre-recorded 60-minute video, an embodiment practice, recommended reading and a special space to share insights with the other women taking the course. We also recommend you give yourself time for integration.
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And it is my absolute honour to be here sharing this work with you. DFM is not for everyone. It's for women who are at the level of awareness where the subtle energies of the sacred dark are calling their name.
This works asks us to go inside. It is deep, profound and will ask for your devotion. Over the last four years I've been moved and profoundly touched by the effect DFM has on the women who walk through its gates.
It is healing magick. It is transformative and empowering. It is priceless. If it calls to you, you are warmly welcome here.
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Dark Feminine Consciousness begins to enter your field through our online classes, sharing space and practices. You start to shift the way you relate to the feminine.
Our weekly embodiment practices start to sink into your soma. You feel the palpable reconnection to your root and womb. You feel in touch with your lower body.
Your root and lower body. Dream and sleep. The earth. The womb space. The sacred dark becomes your teacher. Your wisest guide.
DFM offers participants a subtle yet powerful shift in consciousness as they welcome the Dark Feminine into their lives.
Miriam led us through resistance, anger, the perversion of our female sexuality, our witch wounds. She led us through alchemical transitions, as we let our old stories burn to ashes and Kali danced alongside the flames.
I believed in my power and for the first time I felt the strength of women and support. Miriam instilled in me a lot of confidence that a woman can be both gentle and strong at the same time.
If you're feeling called to embrace work with the Feminine, the Goddess, the shadow, all with the support of a community of incredible sisters, I cannot recommend DFM highly enough.
She delivered on time and the photos look amazing. We doubled our sales in one month! I couldn't believe it. Have even more to say? OK but keep it short though!
She delivered on time and the photos look amazing. We doubled our sales in one month! I couldn't believe it. Have even more to say? OK but keep it short though!
She delivered on time and the photos look amazing. We doubled our sales in one month! I couldn't believe it. Have even more to say? OK but keep it short though!
Calls drop Saturdays at 6pm GMT
7 Week Underworld Journey for Women
BEGINS 21/12
Call One Saturday December 21st
Call Two Saturday December 28th
Call Three Saturday January 4th
Call Four Saturday January 11th
Call Five Saturday January 18th
Call Six Saturday January 25th
Call Seven Saturday Feb 1st
Embodying the lost wisdom of the dark feminine is absolutely priceless.
Anyone who isn't joining with good intentions. Other than that everyone is welcome. I hold impeccable spaces of safety and healing.
Yes, absolutely. It's created in a way that is both accessible for women new to this work and engaging for those who are more experienced.
You have lifetime access to your DFM course. Plenty of time to re-watch the videos and re-do the practices.
My very first episode of the Oracle Podcast is all about the Dark Feminine. Listen along to hear me talk about some of the themes I'll be touching on in DFM 4.0. You'll hear me speak on: the history of Dark Feminine suppression; who and what the Dark Feminine is and why She is so very needed on the planet and in the libes of women today.
THE ORACLE PODCAST
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