Priestess gifts:
Sacred bodywork, holy anointer, healing touch, space holder, daughter of devotion, grief walker, maker of the blessing bowl, ceremonialist for mother earth, drummer and mantra chanter, ecstatic.
Temple keeper oil:
Lavender
This holy oil has been my ally for the past 8 years and she makes my heart sing. Lavender is an incredible healer in helping the body to move through sorrow, pain and long-standing grief, towards more peace and calmness. Lavender brings forth the healing rays of the violet flame and the embodiment of Mother Earth’s protective love and can help integrate the divine in its human form. She is also a powerful companion in my role as grief walker and a beautiful and serene oil to anoint the body during transition.
Mirjam Visser is a bodyworker, massage therapist, teacher, voice artist, sacred drummer, and priestess in a.o. the Indian tantric lineage of Sri Vidya. Mirjam studied theatre, acting, voice, emotional bodywork, bioenergetics, breathwork, different forms of massage (o.a. esalen, thai yoga, classic, joint movement, pulsing, trager, tantric kashmir) psychotherapy and the character structures (developed by Reich and Lowen), focusing (Gendlin), trauma therapy, yoga, western and eastern tantra, mantra’s, mudra’s, puja and homam (fire ceremony). She teaches students in bodywork the sacred art of touch and how to be an embodied massage therapist. She guides people in their personal processes, and works in her sessions always with the holy oils. She is an apprentice at Priestess Presence temple, studying to become a scent priestess.
Mirjam lives in the Netherlands and divides her time between living in Amsterdam and living in the countryside. She tends to her own private temple space and works as a volunteer in the food forest in Glimmen where she is part of a team that tends to a big organic vegetable garden. She is sacristan in a Dutch church and sings in the church choir.
My life’s journey so far has taken me on many different paths with unexpected turns, and every step of the way has somehow prepared me for what I feel my underlying calling is in this life: To walk in the footsteps of Mary Magdalene and to remember and embody the path of love as her emissary. For years and years I have been working with the human body, with my own body and the bodies of so many other beautiful people. I have come to understand the body as a sacred temple and vessel of conduct for the human/divine consciousness. Through the years I have developed a deep admiration and awe for our capacity to experience profound transformational processes through our feelings and emotions. After years of doing my own deep emotional work, one of my qualities has become to hold space for the body to move through pain, fear, anger and sorrow and in doing so to bring back the possibility of aliveness that is hidden underneath years of coping mechanisms concerning trauma within ourselves and our ancestral lineages.
The work that Kalila and Diana bring into the world is something that is not easy to describe in words. Their approach is one of a radical and fierce love for every human being. Their way of love is an invitation for you to reclaim and stand in your own true power and authenticity. From the moment I met them in Avalon, Glastonbury in 2017, it was clear to me that their way of working was powerful medicine for me and that this was where I belonged, this sisterhood and this priestess lineage is my home. Their retreats ooze an incredible unconditional love potion for everyone to be seen, felt, held and heard on a deep soul level and I have never felt the sisterhood so strong and supportive as in this container of vast love. Diana’s incredible and magical blend of oils to anoint the body enhance this process like nothing I have ever seen/felt before and they are my sacred tools now in my work to support the body to transform and come into deep alignment with who you are on a soul level and beyond.
To be in training as a scent priestess is a dream come true and it is so much in my joy to bring these gifts into the world.
Deep bow to all my soul sisters on the path.
Website: www.mirjamvisser.com