THE GROUND FROM WHICH YOUR ESSENCE CAN BREATHE
Each of us carries an inherent medicine, a particular way of sensing, creating, relating and collaborating with life.
This year's container is about cultivating the conditions that allow that medicine to emerge: enough depth, enough listening, enough rootedness for your own nature to take form in the way you live, create, relate and serve.
THE WAY YOU INHABIT YOURSELF ENTERS THE SPACES YOU HOLD
The work of Inner Ground does not stay inside your personal life.
The way you relate to your body, boundaries, emotions, uncertainty, power and inner authority inevitably influences the way you meet other people.
For women whose work involves relationship, this can become a significant part of their professional development.
Year 1 Priestess Training can support women who already hold — or feel called to hold — women’s circles, dance and movement journeys, embodiment or somatic practices, retreats, coaching, mentoring, yoga, ritual spaces, social work, creative workshops, healing work, education, community spaces or leadership roles.
You are not simply learning more techniques.
You are developing the person who uses the techniques.
“The Year 1 training touched and shifted the foundations of my being in ways that were both powerful and subtle.
I entered with the intention of anchoring more deeply into my own truth and wisdom, and learning to show up from that place.
I now see myself and my gifts with much greater clarity. I feel more embodied and more devoted to sharing what is mine to offer—not through pushing or striving, but by resting more deeply into who I am.
I also feel far more confident stepping into leadership and speaking from my heart, with less mental filtering.”
— Hanna
How to become someone who can remain present, grounded and discerning while being informed by life?
This work is an experiential journey.
You learn to relate to the body from within, developing inner safety, reconnecting to your organic rhythm, softening into pleasure, working with the shadow, and exploring about different realms of consciousness.
EMBODIMENT · RITUAL · ARCHETYPES · SHADOW · RELATIONAL PRACTICE · CONSCIOUSNESS
APPLY FOR YEAR 1
THIS MAY BE YOUR YEAR IF…
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you long to feel more at home in your body and more able to trust your inner experience
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you want to cultivate greater inner safety, steadiness and capacity to remain present when life becomes intense
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you feel disconnected from pleasure, desire, creativity or your own natural rhythm, and want to restore relationship with these parts of yourself
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you want to deepen your inner authority while remaining open to relationship, feedback and the intelligence of life
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you are willing to meet shadow, conditioning and protective patterns with honesty, curiosity and compassion
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you feel drawn to embodiment, ritual, archetypal work, creativity and spiritual inquiry as living practices rather than ideas
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you long for a spirituality that remains rooted in the body, discernment and ordinary life
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you want the way you relate, communicate, choose, create and lead to arise from a deeper inner ground
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you already hold women’s circles, movement or dance journeys, coaching, healing, retreats, ritual, teaching or community spaces, and want a deeper embodied foundation beneath the work you offer
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you feel called to facilitate, teach or lead others in the future and want to build the inner ground before stepping more fully into that role
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you long for the depth of a year-long women’s container, where trust can deepen, nourishment can be received, and profound bonds can form over time
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you are willing to give yourself to a sustained process of practice, reflection, relationship and integration
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you value both sovereignty and belonging — the capacity to stand in your own authority while remaining deeply connected to others
You do not need to be a facilitator to enter this training. This work begins with your own life. And when your work involves other people, what you cultivate within yourself will inevitably enter the spaces you hold.
the journey
THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE YEAR
The training unfolds through interconnected layers of embodiment, archetypal exploration, ritual, relational practice and integration.
We begin by returning to the body and restoring relationship with sensation, rhythm, instinct and the living world.
From this ground, we move through the archetypal territories of Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone — living maps of psychological, somatic, creative and spiritual development.
The journey is not linear. We move through cycles of creation, dissolution, void and emergence, returning to what is alive with greater depth and capacity.
Throughout the year, the seven pillars of Inner Ground are woven through the work: embodied presence, inner safety, pleasure-centred orientation, inner authority, shadow work, sacredness and emergence.
the body
RETURNING TO THE BODY
The journey begins by restoring contact with the body as a subjective internal and direct experience of reality.
We explore how personal experience, family, culture, religion, education and wider social systems have shaped the ways we inhabit, or leave, ourselves.
We begin to recognise the internalised structures that organise life through urgency, productivity, control, external authority and separation.
Rather than treating the body as a machine that must perform consistently, we learn to listen to sensation, changing capacity, instinct, desire, limits and natural rhythm.
The intention is to become more able to recognise when contact has been interrupted, understand what supports return, and remain in relationship with the body from which we experience Life.
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the archetypes
THE ARCHETYPAL JOURNEY
The training is an internal reconnection and reclamation of the four organic movements of the feminine psyche: Maiden, Mother, Queen, and Crone.
These four thresholds are living inner maps through which we explore different dimensions of embodiment, relationship, creativity, power, descent, maturity and the sacred.
MAIDEN · MOTHER · QUEEN · CRONE
the pillars
THE SEVEN PILLARS OF INNER GROUND
These are foundational capacities woven throughout the body, archetypal, relational and ritual journey.
They support participants in orienting within their own experience and create the ground from which later facilitation, leadership, creativity and cultural contribution may grow.
EMBODIED PRESENCE
The capacity to remain connected to bodily experience while meeting oneself, another person, a group or the wider field.
Embodied presence includes recognising when contact with the body has been interrupted and learning how relationship may be restored.
INNER SAFETY
The capacity to recognise nervous-system state, limits, resources, consent and pacing.
Safety does not mean the complete absence of intensity or discomfort. It means developing enough support and choice to remain responsive without unnecessary overwhelm.
INNER AUTHORITY
The capacity to source from within, discern, choose and remain responsible without surrendering authority to a teacher, group, doctrine or archetype.
Inner authority is held with humility, relationship and openness to feedback.
SHADOW WORK
The willingness to meet disowned, defended and unconscious aspects of the self.
Shadow work is rooted in wholeness rather than moral perfection. It invites relationship with projection, protective strategies, repetition and exiled qualities without turning them into identity or justification for harmful behaviour.
PLEASURE-CENTRED ORIENTATION
An orientation that recognises pleasure as a resource for truth, regulation and creativity.
It invites us to move beyond a life organised only around pain, and to listen for the ways life is already seeking to move, nourish and create through us.
SACREDNESS
The capacity to slow down, listen, make meaning and meet life with reverence.
Sacredness is not owned by one spiritual doctrine. It is a quality of attention, relationship and depth that may enter the body, ritual, nature, creativity and ordinary life.
EMERGENCE
The capacity to listen beyond predetermined outcomes and respond to what is actually alive.
Emergence asks us not to manufacture catharsis, force insight or control what transformation should look like, creating space for Magick.
“My relationship with the feminine has changed. It has come back home to its sovereignty and also its softness.”
— Shanna
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WHEN YOU HAVE GROUND
Every woman enters with a different history, body, rhythm and life context.
But through a year of sustained practice, embodiment, reflection and integration, something begins to reorganise.
- a more intimate and trusting relationship with your body
- greater capacity to remain present with emotion, uncertainty and intensity
- clearer boundaries, choices and communication
- a deeper relationship with pleasure, desire and your natural rhythm
- greater confidence in your inner authority and discernment
- more awareness of shadow, projection and protective patterns
- a more direct relationship with creativity, ritual and the sacred
- greater capacity to stay connected to yourself while being in relationship with others
- more confidence in the way you lead, communicate, create and make decisions
- a stronger embodied foundation for holding groups, facilitating, teaching or working with people
The change is not only in how you feel.
It begins to affect how you relate, work, create, lead and participate in life.
“Finally, a spiritual container where my instincts were honoured as deeply as my divinity.”
— Amberlee
DATES & LIVE TRAINING
We begin on Tuesday, 26 January 2027
@10:00 am New Zealand time
Three live calls + 1 pod call each month
Inner Ground runs from January to December 2027.
The training includes three live online calls each month, generally held on Tuesdays at 10:00 am New Zealand time. Each session runs for approximately two to three hours.
There will also be two integration months during the year, during which live teaching pauses so participants have space to rest, revisit practices and allow the work to settle more deeply.
All live teachings are recorded.
PRACTICES & ONLINE ACADEMY
Throughout the year, participants receive weekly meditations, embodiment practices, rituals, journaling prompts and integration inquiries.
The training also includes seven required practices and one final integration protocol.
All recordings, resources and teaching materials are held within the Hathor Heka Online Academy, where participants can revisit the work in their own time.
The training is designed to move beyond intellectual understanding and become part of everyday life through regular practice, observation and integration.
PODS & BIG SISTERS
Participants are placed in smaller pods for monthly connection, witnessing and integration.
Pod calls are held by women from the Year 2 and Year 3 pathways, who serve as Big Sisters within the School.
This creates relationship across the different years of Hathor Heka and supports intimacy, continuity, mentorship and community.
The Big Sister role is part of the living culture of the School: women who have moved further through the pathway begin supporting those entering the foundational year.
RITES OF PASSAGE
Women who enrol in Inner Ground receive complimentary access to Rites of Passage, a self-paced online course offered as a gift.
It can be approached as preparation for the year ahead or completed later, at each participant’s own pace, whenever it feels supportive.
It offers an additional space for reflection, preparation and orientation before or during the training journey.
IN-PERSON GATHERINGS
Four optional in-person Hathor Heka gatherings will be offered during the year in the Auckland region.
These private gatherings are open only to women enrolled in Hathor Heka School and bring together participants from different training years.
They are distinct from Sia’s public workshops, temples and retreats.
They offer space for embodied practice, ritual, shared learning, relationship and connection with the wider School community.
Investment: NZD $300 per gathering
Attendance is optional and not required for completion of the online training.
INVESTMENT
"Inner Ground is where wholeness, authority and sacred relationship begin."
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW MUCH LIVE TEACHING IS INCLUDED?
HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD I ALLOW EACH WEEK?
CAN I JOIN FROM OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND?
WHAT HAPPENS IF I CANNOT ATTEND A LIVE CALL?
WHEN ARE THE IN-PERSON GATHERINGS?
WHAT WILL I RECEIVE EACH WEEK?
WHAT IS THE HATHOR HEKA ONLINE ACADEMY?
WHAT ARE THE POD CALLS?
WHO HOLDS THE POD CALLS?
WHAT ARE THE FOUR IN-PERSON HATHOR HEKA GATHERINGS?
ARE THE IN-PERSON SCHOOL GATHERINGS REQUIRED?
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCHOOL GATHERINGS AND PUBLIC TEMPLES OR WORKSHOPS?
WHAT IS THE RITES OF PASSAGE COURSE?
DO I NEED PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE?
IS INNER GROUND ONLY FOR WOMEN WHO WANT TO BECOME FACILITATORS?
IS THIS THERAPY?
WHAT ARE THE REQUIRED PRACTICES?
WILL I RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE?
HOW MUCH TIME SHOULD I ALLOW EACH WEEK?
WHAT SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT HATHOR HEKA IS A CULTURAL MOVEMENT?
WHAT IS THE INVESTMENT?
HOW DOES THE APPLICATION PROCESS WORK?
CAN I JOIN THE INTEREST LIST WITHOUT APPLYING YET?
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YEAR 1?
WHAT IF I NEED TO WITHDRAW DURING THE YEAR?
IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS?
"A cultural movement begins when transformation becomes shared practice."
Inner Ground begins in January 2027.
Applications are reviewed personally, and selected women will be invited to a discovery call with Sia as part of a mutual discernment process.
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