Discover a radically creative journey into the deep, instinctual love of the "Ennobling Mothers" to heal, nurture and catalyze your magnificent self!
I know you aspire to step into your true feminine courage.
To embody the extraordinary depth and breadth of who you are. You have a deep desire to take effective, meaningful actions in the world.
You long to be a fully realized person capable of making a difference and receiving the respect you deserve.
You want to occupy your soul’s intrinsic richness.
To express your unique gifts to better your life and the lives of those you love.
The problem is that growing up in our culture, you received conflicting messages about feminine energy.
This left you with nagging feelings of uncertainty and confusion.
As a result, you feel that no matter what you do that you are somehow incapable or ill-equipped to have the life you want. In your work life, you struggled to be seen or valued.
And even when you’ve dared to take steps to change your situation, you felt overwhelmed, afraid that you would fail, paralyzed with doubt, or worse yet, that you weren’t good enough to make it happen.
Deep inside, you had the feeling that your biggest dreams would always remain just beyond your reach.
It's not your fault.
You inherited a subconscious, “negative blueprint” from your ancestors that programmed you to believe that you were somehow lacking or not as good as your male counterparts.
Unwittingly, your mother and grandmothers passed you an incomplete, imbalanced and wounded model of the feminine that they received through their lineage.
You didn’t get the “right instructions” or the nurturing support you required to realize your potential.
The good news is that the painful effects of your diminished feminine energy can be healed.
You see, in shamanic terms, energetic imbalances like this are addressed by healing trauma – in this case through the restorative, life-giving energies of the Divine Feminine.
Thankfully, the ancient Norse preserved vibrant, fiercely enlivened goddesses that embody the energy of the primordial, wild feminine. As giantesses, they are the beings who were here before the gods and have preserved the keys of activating your feminine energy.
They are nurturing feminine archetypes that are unfettered, fruitfully creative and essential to nature’s living cycle of creation, destruction, and regeneration.
This wild, wise energy fuels confidence, courage and the ability to live life with authentic passion.
This is at the core of your healing.
This is what your soul aches for and that’s why I created:
Embodying Your Sacred Feminine
Activate the Wild, Mother-Goddess Archetypes in You
Our journey together will be a series of encounters with the wise, “Ennobling Mothers” – nine spirits who will take you on a powerful journey of healing and initiation.
From Urð, the mistress of cosmic patterns; to indestructible Gullveig, who the gods could not kill; to Angrboða, the unconditional, loving mother of those others fear; to radiant Freyja, embodiment of the first shaman; the Maidens who guard the Mead of Inspiration, and much, much more.
Through this course you will:
- Understand true power as a renewable energy instead of force
- Release negative ancestral patterns that have limited your life
- Rebuild and strengthen your inner core
- Shape-shift those things you think of as your “flaws”
- Become more genuinely self-assured and secure
- Experience an increase in your natural confidence
- Meet nurturing mother archetypes who can become life-long guides
- Become part of a community of support and inspire each other
...and so much more!
This course will ignite and revitalize your spirit so you can embody a more dynamic, emboldened you!
My Personal Message and Transformative Journey
In early 1990, I was a successful illustrator and art director in New York. Due to the recessions of the 80’s and the one that followed at the turn of the decade, my work had become much less rewarding. Economic condition had once again generated anxiety in my industry and, in turn, ratcheted up yet another angry peak of workplace misogyny.
In this environment, growing feelings of dissatisfaction and gnawing worry pervaded my thinking until I fell into a soul-sucking depression.
During this dark time, I stepped through the only doorway that promised a glimmer of light.
Accompanied by my power animal, I began diving deeply into shamanic journeying where I was met by powerful feminine spirits.
First, was the spirit of my Great, great Grandmother. While she lived, she was a healer. In spirit, she became my teacher, a powerfully fierce mentor, and a guide who introduced me to a long line of primordial female entities stretching back through time.
The healing, teaching and nurturing interactions I experienced with these spirits supported fresh energy, vision and vigor to flow back into my life.
With these spirits’ support, I awakened from my depression into an expanded landscape of possibilities that had once been beyond my imagination’s horizon. I became a more deeply authentic, effective and empowered version of myself.
It became incredibly clear how necessary the power and majesty of the Sacred Feminine is for living a truly whole, healthy and fulfilling life.
Once obscured by patriarchal culture, these ancient spirits are returning to support our individual healing, and to play a critical role in generating a renewal of our planet.
The Norse giantess/goddesses you will encounter in this course are powerful transmitters of the energy of healing, nurturing, transformation and change.
Embark with me to meet, learn and receive healing from these Wild Mother Goddesses!
Join hearts with other like-minded people from around the world and be initiated into a more vibrant, courageous and radiant version of you!
What Graduates of Evelyn’s Courses Are Saying…
– Liz Alton
– Kathleen Mary
– Kathy McDonough, licensed clinical social worker, MDiv, shamanic practitioner
Evelyn is genuine, deeply grounded, humorous and kind, without pretense. She is deeply connected with spirit and brings people into that field with her. She has the capacity to share her expansive experiences and set the container for deep work on the part of her students.
– Joanna Leary
– Christine Prunier
Here's What You’ll Discover in These 9 Weeks!
In this 9-week transformational intensive, I will guide you through an initiatory journey that will give you the fundamental body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to heal outmoded perceptions and step into a newly restored and more securely powerful version of yourself!
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive training sessions, and experiential practices. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to restore the Sacred Feminine within – to have the emotional and physical wellbeing and harmony for a full, rich life!
You’ll connect with me and experience powerful teachings through live streaming video. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of the work. Or you can easily connect just via audio if you choose — through your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.
(Can’t make it live? No worries! Video and audio recordings will be available for download or streaming in high-quality format at your convenience.)
Week 1: Sacred Center: Gathering at the Regenerating Altar
In this our first session, we will come together at Yggdrasil, the Great Tree that holds everything that ever was and will be in its branches, trunk and roots. From its unifying center, you will meet its guardian, the giantess/goddess, Urð and be guided on how to access all the worlds of matter, time and spirit; as well as meeting your fylgja/protector. We will also create a community altar by the Great Tree.
You’ll discover:
- How to access the world tree Yggdrasil to travel between the worlds of spirit
- The identity of your fylgja, a protective spirit who will be your protector and guide
- The giantess/goddess, Urð, who guards the Well of Cosmic Memory,
Knowledge, and Healing - Guided Practice: Creating our community altar
Week 2: Toxic Patterns: Excising the Poisonous Root
In this session, you’ll be supported to travel through the World Tree to the mountain where the silver-haired, giantess-goddess, Hyndla resides. This shaman-genealogist holds all memories of the beginning and knows all of your ancestors. She will assist in locating the original source of the negative programming you received from your ancestors so it may be disempowered in ceremony.
You’ll discover:
- The ancient goddess Hyndla, the one who holds memories from the beginning of Time
- A journey to the one in your lineage who began the negative “programming” of the feminine
- How the poisonous root took hold in subsequent generations
- Guided Practice: A ceremony to participate in healing your ancestors – and you!
Week 3: A Burial Ceremony: Laying the Pattern to Rest
In this time together, you will be traveling on a journey to the edge of the Death Lands, to surrender the negative ancestral pattern for burial. There you will meet Møðguðr, the guardian of the bridge that separates our world from the land of the dead. Using the power of ceremony, you will also be supported to take your deepest fears and render them harmless.
You’ll discover:
- The bridge, Gjallarbrú, that connects the lands of the living from the underworld realm of the dead and its guardian, the giantess-goddess, Møðguðr.
- A way to negate “dead, ancestral patterns” and the fears they created so that they can no longer trouble the living
- How even the dead may be healed of their wounds
- Guided Practice: A practical ceremony to release any limiting belief or fear
Week 4: Ritual of Renewal: Becoming Indestructible
In this session, you will meet the giantess-goddess, Gullveig who was speared three times and burned three times by the gods. Each time she stepped from the flames, unscathed-becoming a powerful shaman (völva) named Heiðr- “The Gleaming One.”
She will be an ally in your own transformational regeneration.
You’ll discover:
- How shamans regularly renew themselves and support health
- How the elements of nature can be engaged to unweave outmoded beliefs and reweave a new you
- A short journey to receive a spirit name that reflects your new courage
- Guided Practice: An empowering shamanic ceremony of release and regeneration with Gullveig
Week 5: Your Reservoir of Inner Strength: Turning Impossible to Possible
In this time together, you will journey to the goddess-giant, Hyrrokkin, who is strong enough to do tasks that none of the mightiest gods and goddesses could accomplish. Living a courageous life, you need to have the inner strength to say “no” to those people/things that would try to diminish you, as well as the strength to follow you own dreams.
You’ll discover:
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The goddess-giant who is the epitome of the Divine Feminine’s strength
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A place inside of your own body that will signal you when someone or something is not beneficial
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How to compassionately say “no” to that which doesn’t serve you
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Guided Practice: How to access the reservoir of your inner strength
Week 6: Forgotten Gifts: Shapeshifting Your “Flaws”
In this session, you will meet Angrboða, the unconditional, loving mother of those children who are perceived as “monstrous.” To live a fully empowered life, it is necessary to honor and learn to love all that makes you uniquely splendid. Your sacred, spirit-gifted self was meant to laugh loudly, to dance wildly, and love fiercely!
You will learn:
- How the “differences” others shamed you for having are actually sources of your power
- How to embody Angrboða’s fierce love to bring your hidden strengths out of the shadows
- To practice the joy of being unapologetically your full self
- Guided Practice: How to shapeshift lingering negative attitudes about yourself.
Week 7: Freyja’s Empowerment: Radiating Your Light
In this time together, you will be meeting the goddess-giantess, Freyja in her radiant form. This Golden Goddess is the epitome of power! During the journey, you will experience your own radiance and Freyja will empower a garment and staff for you.
You’ll discover:
- The radiant being that is at the core of who you are
- The effects making grateful offerings have on you and your reality
- How your radiant being is actually a healing balm for your world
- Guided Practice with Freyja to empower a garment and staff
Week 8: The Nine Maidens: Initiating Renewal
In this session, you will meet and receive healing from the Nine Maidens who are Initiation Goddesses. These nine maidens protect the precious, and transformative Mead of Inspiration, Initiation and Soul Renewal. This is the sacred water that nurtures the World Tree and pools in the well – watched over by Urð. This mead is said to call the soul back from the realm of darkness and return its true radiance- healing the wounded feminine.
You’ll discover:
- The “Mountain of Medicine” that can be climbed for healing from life-long sorrows.
- How to enter the Golden Hall ringed by fire where the Entranced Goddess, Menglöð and the Nine Maidens reside
- The source of renewal that continues to nurture all realities
- Guided Practice: A ceremony to Drink the Mead of Initiation to fully embody your power
Week 9: Nurture Your Power: Continuing Renewal
In this final time together, you learn how to continue nurturing your renewed, authentic self by visiting the maiden-goddess, Iðunn who will teach you how to tend the Garden of your Soul.
You’ll discover:
- The goddess that understood “eternal life”
- How your own emergence into your full self, benefits all beings
- Guided Practice: To the Garden of your Soul where Iðunn can support its tending.
- Closing Ceremony
What Others are Saying About Evelyn Rysdyk . . .
– Tom Cowan, author, Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit and Yearning for the Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul.
It’s more than just a course...
It’s a Community!
To support you to continue internalizing the teachings you receive, you’ll have a community to support you!
You’ll join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices I will share in this powerful training. In a private social network that is exclusive to this course, you’ll be able to converse with people around the world who are learning along with you!
Here's What You Get:
9 weekly LIVE, 90-minute course teaching sessions
Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored by me from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to awaken your spiritual potential.
Deepening Practices for each course session
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools and performing simple ceremonies to accelerate your learning and integrate each session.
Private custom-designed, interactive course website
All sessions and materials will be yours forever so that you can experience the teachings again and again!
Private Online Discussion Group for course participants only
Be part of a supportive community on the leading edge of a global movement of people manifesting their fullness.
+ PLUS:
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9 weekly LIVE, interactive Q&A with me in the online discussion group
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Downloadable PDF documents to help you to prepare for each session
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Audio AND Video recordings of all sessions
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Special Bonuses to enhance your course experience
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And more...
COURSE BONUSES
Ancient Memories Audio
by Evelyn Rysdyk
This evocative one-hour musical recording by Evelyn is an evocative voyage through mists into a landscape of otherworldly calm. The sounds of a storm with distant raven’s calling, a slow drone and a haunting vocal sound flowing in and out making a perfect soundscape for meditation or to settle you in for deep creativity or spiritual expansion.
Re-membering Our Inter-connections
Video presentation and exercise for you by Evelyn Rysdyk
Evelyn’s video presentation at the 2021 Earthkeepers Summit, a global gathering of thought leaders, teachers and medicine people. Her presentation includes a powerful guided journey for healing your weaving into Nature, All of Mother Earth's lifeforms and the Cosmos.
First Grandmother Poem Reading
Contemplative audio written, narrated by Evelyn Rysdyk
Before the advent of patriarchal culture, our ancestors believed that all of nature was enlivened, nurtured and guarded by a Great Mother Goddess... You may use this short reading by Evelyn of her poem, First Grandmother surrounded by the sounds of nature as a meditative contemplation. It is unavailable anywhere else.
Shamanic Journey Album
Audio by Shamanic Passages
This recording has four tracks. The first is a short rattling and whistling track to center yourself. The second track is a full hour of shamanic journey drumming being played by six drummers in perfect unison. Track three is the callback signal. The last bonus track is a stand-alone recording that includes a short journey with callback signal.
REGISTER NOW
Course begins Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 for 9 weeks
11:00 am Pacific / 2:00 pm Eastern
Can’t make it live? No worries!
Video and audio recordings of all sessions will be available for download and streaming .
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Evelyn C. Rysdyk
Evelyn C. Rysdyk is the author of several noted books on shamanism including, The Norse Shaman, Spirit Walking: A Course in Shamanic Power, A Spirit Walker’s Guide to Shamanic Tools and The Nepalese Shamanic Path (with Bhola Banstola.)
Along with her writings, Evelyn is an impassioned shamanic teacher and storyteller with over thirty years of experience working with people who are eager to grow and experience their true power. She is a featured instructor for The Shift Network, and for Sounds True and other online international programs.
Whether through face-to-face contact with individual clients, workshop groups, and online participants, or through the printed word, Evelyn uses her loving humor and passion to open people’s hearts, expand their awareness and inspire them to live more joyful, fulfilling, and purposeful lives.
She acknowledges that as people awaken their full selves, they are much more likely and able to make their unique contributions toward transforming our world.
