sacred ceremony
to nourish the soul
Where traditional psychotherapy addresses the mind, somatic practices include the body, and reiki works with the energy field, a priestess meets you at a spiritual level. Our certified scent priestess and temple guide is trained in the sacred arts of divine feminine archetype, embodiment, and transmission, devotional and ceremonial ritual, holy oil anointing, and temple guidance for lasting transformation.
If you're searching for a more spiritual approach to healing, releasing pain, shadow integration, or connecting with your deeper self, Arise Counseling & Healing Arts can help. We offer non-denominational, non-religious experiences rooted in divine feminine teachings connected to season and cycle, egalitarianism and shared power, and open-hearted love. Access our in-person temple offerings in Toms River, NJ. Some temple offerings, rites of passage, and individually designed rites are available online.
Reach out to us today to learn more about our priestess and sacred ceremonialist services. We'll be happy to answer your questions.
Full-body Anointing Session
Anointing is an ancient art of ceremony and ritual, but it is also an invitation - to be heard and held, to release, to remember, and to deeply receive.
Working alongside the sacred technologies of sound healing, energy work, crystal amplification, olfactory activation, and the timeless medicine of plant essences, the application of strategically blended holy oils on the body opens a multi-sensory portal to deep memory, to release tension, trauma, and somatic memory, and to receive not just the luxury of the oils but also their medicine - the gifts of insight, awareness, and the lightness of release.
This anointing ceremony rooted in ancient pre-Christian temple practices awakens the spirit and accelerates the healing process. Traditionally, holy oils were used by scent priestesses in ceremonies for birthing, dying, grieving, rites of passage, fertility, and the blessing of sacred unions. As a scent priestess in the modern age, I perform sacred anointings for milestones, spiritual preparation and release, the healing of emotional, spiritual, and ancestral wounds, and more.
The experience is different for each person, even in subsequent sessions. Some experience deep relaxation, some connect with themselves, their guides, or their ancestors, some release stored body memory, some experience emotional release, some experience the depth of being regarded by another as sacred and unconditionally loved - perhaps for the first time
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Sacred Ceremony
A ceremony is a powerful sacred event that observes a life passage. Ceremonies honor the important transitions, changes, and events in a person’s life, both the beautiful and the difficult, because all of life is sacred. In ceremony, a priestess will create and facilitate a ritual for you that transforms, honors, and deeply witnesses the special moments of your life – a sacred place for you to anchor into the changes that are happening, perhaps to embrace a new beginning, or to powerfully let go of something old.
We live in a world where we do not mark the passage of change in our lives – in fact, the only ceremonies most of us will attend are graduations, weddings, and funerals. Yet, so many important, life-altering things happen to us and our hearts through our lifetimes: We grow into adults, we find love, we may buy houses and start families, we mourn lost loved ones, we have babies, or we don’t have babies, or we can’t have babies, or we lose them, maybe we divorce or live through betrayal, maybe natural disaster or a personal one -- whatever life throws at us, we recalibrate or rejoice, grieve what's lost, process what's present, and keep living until the next big event, until we don't - and that is a Big Event. All these things can be marked with Ceremony - a moment in time in which to honor the feelings, emotions, and transformations at hand, in witness and recognition of the flow from one part of life to another.
As a priestess, I hold space, witness the nuance, and weave devotion into every transitional moment of your life. All are sacred. All are important. All are worthy.
In every case, as a priestess I work with you to create the right ceremony for your situation and preferences, and it can be as Goddessy or as low-key as you need.
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."
