dark feminine medicine
REST IN THE FERTILE
DEPTHS of winter with DARK FEMININE Medicine®
Dark Feminine Medicine is a 7-week mythosomatic journey through the fertile darkness of the underworld, passing through 7 gates of initiation, guided by 7 dark goddesses. 300+ women have passed through the transformational gates of DFM over the last 6 years. This year, you are invited to be part of the magick.
With the Winter Solstice on December 21st, we descend on a 7-week underworld voyage.
While the world around us drops into winter... We'll descend to the underworld to find the treasures of the sacred dark.
This is a pilgrimage of the body, womb & soul.
Through the deep waters of the dark feminine we descend to reclaim what has been lost, hidden and forgotten, passing through gates of initiation in the form of dark goddess wisdom, mythosomatic embodiment practices and ritual.
7 Weeks
7 Initiations
7 goddesses
Weekly DFM Transmissions
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 Sunday.
Embodiment Practice
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.
Recommended Reading
Receive a list of recommended books, essays, articles and podcasts to support you at each gate of the journey.
Private Podcast
Each week Miriam records a special podcast episode on the week's themes – for students of DFM only.
The FEMININE IS DARK
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.
the testimonials
Taught to fear the healing power of the sacred dark, we've overlooked the role of darkness in feminine wisdom.
Principles of DFM
“FROM THE GREAT ABOVE, SHE OPENED HER EAR TO THE GREAT BELOW."
The Descent of Inanna
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This course will ask you to shed things too... it will ask you to shed what isn't you.
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.
GATE ONE PRACTICE
What triggers you? Which parts of yourself do you find hard to face? How can we bring our disowned 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 One
Initiation: Descent
Goddess Inanna
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 yoni – through breath and awareness, we explore 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.
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 Two
Initiation: Earth
An Cailleach
GATE TWO PRACTICE
At Gate Two our practice 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.
GATE three PRACTICE
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 live a womb-led life, guided by the creative pulse of our deepest energetic centre.
Gate Three
Initiation: Womb
Goddess Isis
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. In 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 Four
Initiation: Sexuality
Lilith
GATE four 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.
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.
GATE three PRACTICE
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 Five
Initiation: Voice
Goddess Cerridwen
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.
At 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 Six
Initiation: Magick
Goddess Hekate
GATE six 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 three PRACTICE
Gate Seven
Initiation: The Void
Kali Ma
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.
LISTEN TO 'THE Dark Feminine' PODCAST EPISODE
Episode 16 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. 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 lives of women today.
THE ORACLE PODCAST
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Signs that Dark Feminine Medicine® is for you...
You are hungry for more Dark Goddess Wisdom.
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.
Embodying the Dark Feminine
Opening Your Awareness
Dark Feminine Consciousness begins to enter your field through our online classes, and practices. You start to shift the way you relate to the feminine.
Centreing the Sacred Dark
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.
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DFM offers participants a subtle yet powerful shift in consciousness as they welcome the Dark Feminine into their lives.
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how the medicine works
I'm your DFM Guide, Miriam Ropschitz
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 work invites us to go inside. It is deep, profound and will ask for your devotion. Over the last six years I've been 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.
DFM RECONNECTS WOMEN WITH THE SACRED DARK
This is the sixth year that I'll be offering this transformational course.
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If you’re standing on the threshold of this work - step forward. Step in.
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.
Jen WHaley,
WELLNESS GUIDE
As the weeks passed, I started to feel so strong, aware and stable.
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.
SRNA DJENADIĆ,
Actress
Dark Feminine Medicine was completely transformative for me.
If you are feeling called to embrace work with the Feminine, the Goddess and the shadow, then I cannot recommend Dark Feminine Medicine highly enough to you!
Jillian Clare,
music therapist
Camilla did an amazing job on our photo product shoot.
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!
katie jenkins
ceo of lively
Camilla did an amazing job on our photo product shoot.
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!
katie jenkins
ceo of lively
Camilla did an amazing job on our photo product shoot.
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!
katie jenkins
ceo of lively
Embodying the lost wisdom of the dark feminine is absolutely priceless.
what is the value of this course?
Anyone who isn't joining with good intentions. Other than that everyone is welcome. I hold impeccable spaces of safety and healing.
is there anyone the course isn't for?
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.
is this course suitable for beginners?
You have 1 year of access to your DFM course. Plenty of time to re-watch the videos and re-do the practices.