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The Woman the Earth needs Now

Self Directed or Guided by a Teacher

Who is she? Is it you?

Earth Woman is the long-awaited new offering from the School of Shamanic Womancraft, bringing together the richness and wisdom of our face-to-face program the Four Seasons Journey, and making it available to any woman, anywhere, via an online portal.

Take this immersive transformative program at your own pace, or be guided through the course by one of the School’s wise women teachers, in a fully supported year long mentoring experience.

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Why Earth Woman?

You may want to deepen your understanding of feminine wisdom, seeking rhythms and insights to hold you amidst your day-to-day experiences.  You may be searching for sisterhood and connection.

Or perhaps you hear a call for something more, an echo of ancient songs, a longing for what we once had.

We lost something precious

You know the answers won’t arrive via the status quo or social media, or even your friends.  Your own unique insights, your perplexing, embodied, misfit truths, are wilder than that.

And let’s face it, on this journey, rather than answers, you are just as likely to come face to face with your own abiding mysteries, often shrouded with pain and shame.  For this is where we find that which has been lost.

So let’s pick up the trail of bread crumbs together, sniffing out what we once knew, listening for the ancestors in our bones, trusting we are guided and held, and showing up ready to do the inner work of Knowing Thyself.

Your birthright, your ancient feminine wisdom, is not lost.  It is there, intact and whole within you.  It may feel hidden,

But it’s there to be reclaimed!

Together we will unravel the negative patterns and stories that have shaped our rites of passage through womanhood, and access the tools and resources we need to navigate our lives, our careers, our families and our place in the world in a healed and empowered way.

We are so excited to journey together!

“The courses have helped me to understand myself and the weaving and intricacies of connecting to self, others, the land and spirit”

RhondaApprentice

“It's changing me on a cellular level. I am remembering what I didn't even realise I'd forgotten.”

TahneeStudent

“It's completely changed how I see myself and what I can do and have done.”

CeilidhSSW Graduate

Who Can Become An Earth Woman?

This online course is focused on the women’s mysteries, the blood mysteries and is suitable for all women at any life stage, from menarche through to post-menopause.

What do I receive?

Lifetime Access

Becoming an Earth Woman gives you lifetime access to the School of Shamanic Womancraft Temple, our private online teaching and community space.

Community

Join a private online space where you can connect with like-minded women, support one another on your journey and share your experience in a safe and sacred space.

Deep Transformation

Journey through the Wisdom of the Cycles, exploring the feminine archetypes and undertaking deep processes that will help you unravel who you are and weave together who you want to be in this world.

Awareness

Focusing on the women’s mysteries and exploring your other significant rites of passage, you will have experiences that will help you reclaim lost pasts of yourself and emerge the woman the earth needs now.

What are Women Saying?

It's completely changed how I see myself and what I can do. It was a transformational paradigm shift in how I see the world, my place in it and the potential we all carry inside ourselves.

CeilidhStudent

It brought me so much joy during a really dark time in my life… it gave me a space to be vulnerable when I needed it the most... It was without a doubt one of the best experiences of my life.

HollyStudent

Deeply, healing, connecting and transformative. It's already changed my personal and professional life for the better. I feel more grounded in who I am and what I have to offer the world.

ToniStudent

Embodied Transformation

Become the woman the earth needs now – our planet and our communities need you!

We are so proud to be able to celebrate the Seventeenth year of the School by growing this cutting-edge program accessible to anyone anywhere.

Ancient re-membering and digital technologies, working together to help us be the women the earth needs now.  

Awake, aware, resilient,
resourced, strong,
soft, in our power

So, what is Earth Woman about?

Module 1

Welcome
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Be welcomed into the circle.

Join the temple, the SSW online teaching space.

Connect with the whole extended community of the School of Shamanic Womancraft.

Module 2

Introduction
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All your questions answered.

All details that you need to embark on this course.

Module 3

The Journey Begins
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Begin your Journey diving into the space of the Priestess.

Create sacred space.

Connect with the Animal Ally and Matron Goddess of Earth Woman.

Learn about Shamanic Journeying.

Prepare for the epic journey of Earth Woman.

Module 4

The Wheel
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Learn about the Wheel ~ the Wisdom of the Cycles.

Learn all about the interconnectedness of the diurnal, lunar, seasonal, womanhood and menstrual cycles.

Module 5

Spring Woman
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Focus on Spring and the maiden archetype.

Build a sacred altar, create ceremony and sacred craft.

Explore your early rites of passage.

Dive deeply into the spiritual practice of menstruation.

Module 6

Summer Woman
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Focus on Summer and the Mother archetype.

Build a sacred altar, create ceremony and sacred craft.

Explore your birth imprint and meet your animal ally.

Explore your early wounding and find the gold within.

Module 7

Autumn Woman
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Focus on Autumn and the Maga archetype.

Build a sacred altar, create ceremony and sacred craft.

Explore your imprint of menopause.

Explore and experience the descent as a soul process.

Module 8

Winter Woman
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Focus on Winter Season and the Crone archetype.

Build a sacred altar, create ceremony and sacred craft..

Explore your imprint of old age and death.

Explore and experience a Solo process.

Module 9

Earth Woman
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Build a sacred altar.

Meet and journey with the woman the earth needs now.

Journey to receive your mission and soul instructions on how to enact it.

Teacher Guidance, Or Self Paced Learning

Follow your own pace and work alone, or work 1:1 over 12 months, guided by an SSW teacher (limited spots available).

Work at your own pace in your own time

Connect with the wider School of Shamanic Womancraft community

Lifetime access to the temple online community

Seasonal webinar access with our Earth Woman Teachers

Access 1:1 support with an SSW teacher if you need more support

$1998.00
Earth Woman: Self Paced

$1,998.00Add to cart

Journey with an SSW teacher 1:1 over 12 months in a private mentoring process

Connect with the wider School of Shamanic Womancraft community

Lifetime access to the temple online community

Seasonal webinar access with our Earth Woman Teachers

12 x calls once per month for greater connection and accountability

$3990.00
Earth Woman: Guided by a Teacher

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Join a Powerful Lineage

The School of Shamanic Womancraft was founded Sixteen years ago by Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane’s work carries the lineages of Birthkeeper Jeannine Parvati Baker, Teacher,  Author and founder of  Right Use of Power™ Institute,  Cedar Barstow and Shamanic teacher James M Harvey, aka Blackbear.

Jane is joined by School of Shamanic Womancraft Teachers who now carry this lineage.

Bellingen, NSW

Joanna Dadd

Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Earthkeeper • Birthkeeper • Menstrual Educator • Mother • Facilitator of Rites of Passage & Women’s Circles

 

Joanna has held space for women from the cradle to the grave for four decades, honouring and lovingly supporting their transitions through menarche, birth, menopause and death.

Born and raised as a wild child on Dartmoor, UK & now living simply in the bush near Bellingen, NSW she is sustained and informed by our precious Mother Earth.

Listening through the soles of her feet & the ears of her heart.

Dharawal Country: NSW

Arahni Lion Taylor

Mother • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Priestess • Seer

 

Arahni walks her own shamanic path of healing and transformation and serves to re-awaken the innate healing wisdom and soul nature within others.

For 20 years Arahni worked in trauma responsive family support services, safe refuges, and schools. She supported young people and women and children in therapeutic work. She designed and facilitated peer prevention programs in sexual assault, domestic violence, alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.

For the last decade, Arahni studied intensively with School of Shamanic Womancraft, a Women’s Mysteries school, and is a graduate teacher of the Four Seasons Journey, guide on the Earth Woman online course and facilitator of Becoming A Woman workshops for mothers & daughters.

Practicing the healing arts of holistic counselling, shamanic womancrafting, intuitive body work and compassionate enquiry, she works alongside those who seek guidance to re-orient themselves through life’s challenges, transformations and transmutations, from the altar of birth to the final rite of death.

Arahni offers positive menstrual education, 1:1 private healing sessions, reclaiming ceremonies, healing rituals, sacred circles and coming of age year-long journeys for mothers & daughters in her community and beyond.

Arahni lives on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.

Anishanaabe Land: Manitoba, Canada

Grace Funk

Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess • Astrologer • Circle Facilitator • Creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal • Scrybe Witch

 

Grace is a priestess, ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft.  She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles.

Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies.  Each year, she and her husband host a Wilderness Solo, singing up transformation through relationship to self, others and nature.

She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust.

Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.

Cygnet, TAS

Kristan Lee Read

Born Kristan Lee Read in 1969 by the Brisbane River, Kristan spent her childhood travelling the globe.

Her early childhood years campervanning around Europe, her primary school years on Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) and adventures in boarding school on the Gold Coast. A move to the USA meant high school in both the Midwest, Indiana and Northwest of America, Seattle and University in the deep South, Atlanta!  In 1994, she wove her way home.

Kristan completed her training as a Steiner Teacher in 2000, her training as a Holistic Remedial Educator the following year and her Bachelor of Education in 2003.

In 2024, Kristan completed her Masters in Social Work.

In 2010, Kristan began her Four Seasons Journey with The School of Shamanic Womancraft and then went on to apprentice, intern and become a teacher of the program, graduating in 2016. In 2019 Kristan co-taught her first Four Seasons Journey in the Blue Mountains and is a Facilitator of the online course, Earth Woman, offered by the School.

Kristan has completed her training as a teacher and facilitator of the one day workshops offered by the school, Moonsong, Becoming a Woman, The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest Queen.

In 2013, in collaboration with Jane Hardwicke Collings, they developed Project Pomegranate, a project that began with the intention of reframing Eating Disorders as another symptom of the wounded Feminine of the Patriarchal Culture and offer a ceremony for healing.

Kristan has participated and presented at festivals and conferences within Australia and Internationally. Her work has been published in the Squat Birth Journal, BettyMag, Birth Matters and Midirs.

Kristan is a founding member of the Huon Women’s Health Collective, on mission to support the women of Southern Tasmania to thrive. She offers her support to the Cygnet community through regular Social Work Support Sessions and Women’s Circles.

Kristan shares her work in the wider community and globally, one-on-one, through the modality of Shamanic Womancraft, both in person and online.

Gumbaynggirr Country, NSW

Ishwari Catherine Shead

SSW teacher, Workshop Teacher, Earth Woman Mentor, NonLinear Movement and Wild Woman Facilitator, Astrologer, Transformational Coaching.

I am a Mother, Grandmother and a lover of the ocean and wild nature.

I facilitate rites of passage, circles, and workshops for women — weaving together archetype work, embodiment, somatic and shamanic practices into a living, breathing container for transformation. I also offer Soul Journeying with the Divine Feminine through astrology using the language of archetypes to illuminate your unique path.

My work is grounded in the wild, the sacred, and the cyclical — honouring the natural rhythms of a woman’s life and the deep wisdom that lives there. Whether you are in a season of transition, awakening, or simply longing to come home to yourself, this work meets you where you are.

I work with groups and privately in 1:1 sessions.

At the heart of my work is a passionate belief that every woman deserves to know her ecstatic birthright — and to live her fullest, most radiant potential.

Mid North Coast, NSW

Judy Mort

Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage

 

Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.

Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.

In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.

Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.

Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:

  • The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
  • Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
  • Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
  • Journey to Avalon Immersion
  • Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
  • Frame Drum journey work
  • Student Midwife Support Circles
  • Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.

Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.

Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.

FAQs

What does the course cover?

Earth Woman is a course that takes you on a journey around the Wheel, diving into the wisdom of the cycles and exploring each archetype of woman and the corresponding seasons and energies.  The course explores your story: your rites of passage and significant events, teaches you processes and takes you on different experiences to “know yourself”.

What is the right way to do this course?

There is no wrong way to do this course! There are 2 ways to complete it.  One is a self paced, work on your own course which you can do at your own time and pace, working through the questions and processes as you are comfortable.

The other is guided by a SSW teacher.  This option will meet each month over 12 months and be supported and guided through the processes by an SSW teacher.

How long do I have access to this course?

You have lifetime access to the course!  So you can do it again and go deeper if so desired.  However, if you have joined the teacher-led course, you only go through that process once, over 12 months.  You will have lifetime access to the materials.

So what do I get in the teacher led option?

The teacher led option gives you the opportunity to be in a 12 month held container held by a School of Shamanic Womancraft teacher.

1:1 mentoring and support over the year will come via email support and monthly zoom calls to support you through the processes in the course and give individualised mentoring.

Sessions are run via zoom and you meet once a month for a year, moving htrough all the seasons.

Zoom calls are approximately 1-2 hours.

Is there a possibility to meet other people studying EW in person?

Yes! Earth Woman give you access into the School of Shamanic Womancraft Temple, the online learning and meeting place!

You will connect with a global community of women and have space to meet each other online in the exclusive Earth Woman group.

The temple holds space for local region groups and you will be able to join these groups and connect with the women holding events and circle in your local area.

Is there a possibility to meet other people studying EW in person?

Yes! Earth Woman give you access into the School of Shamanic Womancraft Temple, the online learning and meeting place!

You will connect with a global community of women and have space to meet each other online in the exclusive Earth Woman group.

The temple holds space for local region groups and you will be able to join these groups and connect with the women holding events and circle in your local area.

When does it start?

Earth Woman is available to start at any time.

you will have instant access to the course to begin your explorations.

If you choose the teacher led option, you will be connected with the teacher of your choice and work out your call schedule together.  You will have instant access to the course.

I live in the Northern Hemisphere, how will that work?

Earth Woman is able to be done by women in either hemisphere.  The Wheel, and other components are taught in both the northern and southern hemisphere and the content is clearly labelled.

Teacher led Earth Woman call times are worked out together and should work for all timezones.

How many hours per week is the course?

We recommend that you give yourself approximately 5 hours per week to work through the content.

What if I bought the self paced and decided I want to have teacher support?

No problem! you can upgrade to the Teacher option.

What if I need emotional support?

If you are doing the Teacher supported course, you can email your teacher for support and also find support through the temple community group.  If you are doing the self directed option, you can access sessions with a 4SJ teacher.

There is also the Earth Woman group in the temple, which is like a big online circle, held and moderated by an SSW teacher and a space for all participants to chat and support each other.

Will you be offering more online courses?

Yes! we have our mini-course Elemental, which is a taster of the work of Earth Woman you can sign up for.  And more courses in the dreaming!

The teacher led is all sold out! what now?

We have limited places for our teacher led option for Earth Woman.  If you have missed out on a place, please purchase the self directed option and email [email protected] to be put on the waitlist.

That way you can begin you readings (or not! you can wait) and when the next intake happens, you will be contacted to pay the difference, fill in the registration form and wait for your group to start.

Do I receive a certification?

Completing Earth Woman will give you a certificate of completion.

If you complete Earth Woman with a Teacher, you are able to apply for our graduate programs of Praxis.

I have a group of friends who want to do this together. Can we?

Yes! please send us an email at [email protected] for info about this option.

We give thanks that the Earth Woman ecourse helps women everywhere to reclaim and remember feminine knowledge, wisdom and power and that we all take our very important and vital places as the women the earth needs now.

Blessed Be