Do you wish you could peek inside a modern mystery school?
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to dip your toes into the deep waters of the priestess—without delving straight into becoming a mystery school initiate—this self-paced program is just for you.
I’ve curated the best meditations, teachings, practices, skills, workbooks, and journals so that you can explore the foundations of priestess training, preparing you for initiate studies…
Because enrollment to our 12-month/multi-year priestess training is only open once a year, this is a profound opportunity to access all the materials you’d ever need to ready yourself for initiatory temple work.
In ancient times, our temples were in every corner of the earth, built in every form imaginable—from crystal, to open desert mesa, to the sacred springs that erupted in life from the depths of the Great Mother.
Our mothers and grandmothers took us to the temple as mystery school initiates to become adept in the rituals, arts, and ceremonies of the Goddess.
We lay in dream temples, dreaming our world into being.
With the rhythm of the waxing-waning of the moon, we bled together, speaking in languages of light and vibrational beauty.
We trained in astrology, magic, alchemy, divination, oracle, prophecy, second sight, energy, dreamwork, healing, herbal medicine, the blood mysteries, sacred sound, crystals, and sacred theater.
We sat with the scorned.
We aided the ill.
With embodied grace, we held the Mystery in our hearts and wombs.
All of us—men, women, two-spirits, every being—bowed to the Goddess.
We loved Her, honored Her.
The winds bit like the sting of a scorpion.
You could taste the bitter air, ripe with blood and fire.
Iron and ash were on the edge of the horizon.
There was an infiltration of fear, swift and sly as a trained intruder.
Eeriness spread, dense as a poisonous fog.
Our sacred spaces became vacant, mired with hostility.
Our music dimmed to hushed chanting prayers.
Fear howled on the ethers, ricocheting across the plains.
We recognized the chill in our bones…
It became the deepest winter of winters.
With the rise of the patriarchy and their solar gods, our goddess temples were destroyed.
We were punished, maimed, tortured, killed.
In the last 2,000-4,000 years, all forms of priestess arts and folk medicine became outlawed and banished…
The Goddess and Her priestesses went underground for thousands of years.
Without our sisterhood and temples, it became easy to believe lies the toxic patriarchy told us to stifle our freedom and feminine power.
We’ve been conditioned to distrust our intuition and our innate wisdom.
We still feel the repercussions of this today.
These stories keep you shackled to a lie, shielding the undeniable truth of your beauty, essence, power, and magic.
These stories keep you shackled to a lie, shielding the undeniable truth of your beauty, essence, power, and magic.
Perhaps you’re magnetized to this word…
Maybe it arouses a deep fear within you.
Priestess can evoke ancient memories of joy, devotion, and even painful wounds surrounding sisterhood, your gifts and magic, your freedom of expression, and your purpose.
If you feel a wave of grief or fear, you may hold somatic and epigenetic scars—an imprinted memory because of being ripped from our temples and each other.
With the Goddess seemingly forgotten by much of the world, it makes sense that you
may be confused or unsure of where to begin…
This is the homecoming you’ve been yearning for.
–The Sacred Call of the Ancient Priestess, Elayne Kalila & Rebecca Cavender
During this self-study, you have the opportunity to:
I am here to share with you how profoundly my life has been changed by working
with Elayne Kalila.
I started working with Elayne about seven years ago, and I’ve been steadfast and consistent in my devotion to sitting with her as a teacher and mentor.
I have been touched deeply. My heart has been touched deeply. My life has been touched deeply. The way I do my work in the world has been influenced so deeply by Elayne. The way I’m a mother has been so deeply influenced , and so it’s in my deepest joy to share with you, if you’re considering studying with Elayne, to join, to say yes, to heed the call. Anytime time with Elayne is time well spent.
So much of who I am today is because I had the wonderful opportunity of working
with Elayne Kalila.
She has been my mentor and teacher for the past 10 years, and she’s really helped me step into my power. She’s helped accelerate my evolutionary growth and she’s helped me discover who I am and dare to share my love and shine my light out into the world. She helped me come from a place of feeling powerless, hopeless, and really unsure about my purpose to now standing as a feminine leader of my own sacred work in the world. And it’s through her presence, through her love, through her wisdom that this has been possible. I’m so grateful for all that she’s done in my life. And if you ever have the chance to work with her in any capacity, I highly recommend it. Elayne is a gift.
When I first discovered Elayne online years ago, I knew I had met my mentor. She embodies everything I aspire to be as a sacred feminine leader.
Her work is rich and relevant for our times, while also being steeped in ancient wisdom. The love you feel from her is genuine, and she is an incredible teacher and mentor for those looking to deepen their own sacred leadership, understand feminine archetypes, and walk the path of the Priestess.
My business has grown and deepened so much since working with her 1:1 and being in the temple’s group programs.
I am eternally grateful for her guidance.
I’ve had the great honor of being mentored by Elayne Kalila Doughty over the last eight plus years. I have been supported to deepen my capacity and presence and my skills as a transformational guide in every part of my life. I have been able to shift the way that I carry myself in the world; the way that I hold space for others in my wellness center and my community; the work that I do personally; and in the way that I raise my children.
Elayne Kalila is the real deal. If you’re contemplating stepping into any one of her programs, I highly recommend it. There’s just such a beautiful unfolding that happens through each one of them.
Elayne Kalila she has helped me to soften, connect to my heart, become more loving of myself and others in my world. As a physician and a surgeon, that’s my original training. I really came of age in a world where I had to act like a man in order to get anywhere. What I’ve learned working with Kalila, is how to be a leader from the perspective of being a strong, powerful, and sovereign woman, and that is priceless.
This Temple was a lifeline that kept me moving forward into a full recovery.
Doing this work is life changing and allows the Divine Feminine presence to flourish in all aspects of my life.
My love for the goddess has grown to infinite depths, my trust in my own journey has grown, and my commitment to the priestess path has been solidified. Infinitely (bold the infinitely!!!) grateful for this work.
Through this work, I have found a deeper respect, enjoyment and community of other women on the same path. Words can not express how powerful my work Kalila has been,”
I started working with Kalila because I desire to be of service in this world in a bigger way. I want to be a woman who can handle the hearts, emotions and fears of mass quantities of people, to be able to make an abundant income in my business while living a life that feels at peace, in flow, and in alignment with my unique offering to the world.
I want to feel my feet upon the ground with a sense of my own power and a clear vision of what is best for the greater good in selflessness.
Learning to embody the Priestess Path has offered me the rituals, insights, conversations and sisterhood I need to experience my full potential in this life. It’s a fun and beautiful way for me to heal and release the wounds and patterns that innately hold me back with conscious choice.
Kalila is a beauty and genius to work with and her delivery is nothing less than a sparkly golden light that beams from her heart to yours to the goddess. And so your Path is the one less traveled but, with Kalila and this goddesshood, you are never alone.
Through this Priestess Presence Path – the temple, the sisterhood, and Elayne Kalila’s beautiful, bad-ass spiritual mentorship – I have re-membered who and what I have always been.
For the first time in my 55 years I feel real and unwavering connection to Her, to my body, to the sacred alchemical mysteries – wombyn’s mysteries of re-member-ance and fierce love.
I have learned that when you walk as love, your hands and womb are love creating; your mouth is love speaking truth; your hips are love, built for intoxication and built as well for holding worlds and babies.
Your heart is the chalice which creates it all, radiates it all. This path is not for the faint of heart. But it is for the beautiful and the brave. And when you take your first steps upon this path, sister, you’ll realize that you are that. You are radiant, beautiful and brave and always have been.
I first met Elayne Kalila in 2016. It was transformative. Her energy just blasted me. And I felt hot. I was sweating. I was like, “Wow, something’s really happening here.” And so I stepped into her training program and it was life-transforming. It really took my understanding of the material that I was teaching and the space that I was holding to a whole new level.
Kalila holds just impeccable space. And I have so much trust in her because her background really supports this deep level of mystical work and training that she provides as a psychotherapist, but also as someone who has been in deep service to women in particular, but also to all humanity.
I am so grateful to call her my mentor.
This Temple was a lifeline that kept me moving forward into a full recovery.
Doing this work is life changing and allows the Divine Feminine presence to flourish in all aspects of my life.
It is with great joy and great heart that I enter into my 5th year as an elder in the 13 Moon Mystery School; tho’ I consider myself forever young, I am, we are, eternal, after all.
What holds me to the practices and vast amount of Spirit wisdom that I receive and share every month for a year, is the community, the SisterHood of us.
There is not one sister in the deeper community that I do not trust to hold me in Love No Matter What.
I feel heard, held, witnessed, and reminded of my ‘Enoughness’, my wonderfulness, my challenges, and that I/we are here to hold Love in all its tenderness and fierceness.
In these times of great shifts, to know that I am in a community of women that hold radiance in the shadows, and hold that devotion with heartfelt clarity and love, well, I am all in.
The very first time I stumbled upon Priestess Presence and heard Elayne Doughty speak about what it means to walk the priestess path, goosebumps ran up and down both my arms and
I had a visceral feeling that shook my body from the inside out. I have to say that I have never before noticed or experienced anything like this feeling.
I knew at that moment that I had to follow that part of me that lit up and said Yes! Yes! Yes! I recognized the part of my essence that was yearning to be revealed and treasured.
Choosing to walk the priestess path through Enter the Mystery has helped me to alchemize the old parts of me that no longer serve, and to transform them into my own liberation and soul purpose.
background on mystery school work
dedicated to each of the 13 Divine Feminine archetypes
alchemy, divine feminine embodiment, shadow work
meditations, activations, and transmissions
trainings & practices
on specific priestess skills
study guides, mini eBooks, altar cards, and journals on each of the archetypes
spoken word transmissions, QiGong archetypal practices, archetypal art
The temple’s #1 best-selling book is an offering of deep, loving devotion from the Goddess to you. It was written for you. It belongs to you.
Co-authored by Elayne Kalila & Rebecca Cavender
Enjoy this powerful series of videos of Elayne Kalila reading the Alchemical Priestess myth—a new myth for our modern times (from the book above)
Explore this potent mini-course with 3 altar cards, 2 guides (PDFs) and a liberatory meditation
Per Month
As soon as you register, you’ll have immediate access to all of the content and begin feeling the power of this work.
Study in whatever way fits within your life and at your own pace.
Jump around spontaneously to the archetypes that magnetize you the most, or go in order.
You choose!
Take all the time you need (we recommend spreading it out across a year).
I’m Elayne Kalila, Gatekeeper of the Priestess Presence Temple, and Focalizer of the Enter the Mystery Priestess Initiate Training, a dedicated temple of the 13 Moon Mystery School.™
Your arrival here is not by mistake.
You must feel a resonant call. Many are called, but in my experience, it’s a rare few who dare to answer.
What has called you here?
Priestessing is for those who dare to remember their Bigger Self and enter a state of transformation.
I’m passionate about opening the ancient mysteries of the Divine Feminine into our modern lives so we can all step more fully into serving from a place of love, presence, and purpose.
If you know this is your path, welcome. Become part of a potent, living temple, devoted to awakening and embodying the vow of love within the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth,
Join Elayne Kalila as she guides you through the foundational principles of alchemy & shadow work within 13 Divine Feminine archetypes, awakening greater-than-imagined soul awareness.
We encourage you to spend about a month on each archetype, but you’re free to be as spontaneous as you wish and study whenever and however you like.
Surrender
Forgiveness
Remembrance
Liberation
Intention & Empower
Play & Inspiration
Unconditional Love & Intimacy
Passion
Integrity & Alignment
Simplicity
Vision
Trust
Trust
Per Month
This depends on you and how much time you choose to spend.
Everything is housed in our private members’ only area, our Mothership. You’ll find the whole course there.
Everything will be open to you on the members’-only site immediately. Including all of your bonuses.
Here are my tips for you to deeply benefit from this rich program:
You’ll be given access to a private Facebook group only for those who are currently taking our self-study courses or are alumna of any of our programs. There’s weekly support and you’ll be able to post any of your questions or comments there for witnessing.
Your sense of value in this beautiful course is very important to us. If you find it doesn’t align with you, then we welcome your feedback and ask that you reach out to us directly so we can address your concerns.
We offer a complete refund within the first 7 days of purchase. No refund is issued after day 8.
Simply submit refund requests at support@priestesspresence.com with the subject line “Refund Request.”
We offer a complete refund within the first 7 days of purchase. No refund is issued after day 8.
Simply submit refund requests at support@priestesspresence.com with the subject line “Refund Request.”
Per Month
The Priestess Presence LLC “Path of the Alchemical Priestess: Enter the Mystery Foundation Program ” is an initiatory process for spiritual training. This program is not designed to treat or diagnose any psychological disorders. If you have any mental health issues please consult with your medical practitioner before joining the program. It requires breaking through old patterns and ways of being – an initiatory process that can feel uncomfortable. Our work affects many levels (mental and emotional), is rigorous and not for those who suffer from mental disabilities, depression, have suicidal episodes or are presently in therapy.
The Priestess Presence LLC “Path of the Alchemical Priestess: Enter the Mystery Foundation Program ”/ The 13 Moon Mystery School and its founder, Ariel Spilsbury, and Focalizer Elayne Kalila Doughty, are not, and will not, be held liable for any assumed damage that is deemed to occur at any time. Initiates must accept that all knowledge is given in good faith. Initiates must understand that they are entering into training in a pioneer field and all such training is given in good faith to the highest known safety standards or perceived practices within this discipline.
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