WElcome to
the Maiden to mother
rite of passage
this is the GREAT MOTHER WORK.
this is where we
DISSENT FROM PATRIARCHAL WASTELAND,
DESCEND TO THE INNER GREAT MOTHER
TO resurrect and BEGIN AGAIN.
this is the work of moving
From THE Patriarchal Feminine
to the Primordial Great Mother again
This is the Maiden to Mother rite of passage Work:
Re-envisioned + ReWRitten
for the Archetyal MOTHERS to THis WORLD TO RISE
IN THE Polycrisis of Genocide, Ecocide, Fascism + Femicide.
WEDNESDAYS JULY 16th - SEPT 10th 2025
We have no time left
TO WAIT FOR THE GOOD TO COME.
THE TIME HAS COME
TO BE THE GOOD THAT COMES.
— Sarah of Magdalene —
THIS IS THE RITE OF PASSAGE
where we break the patriarchal
curse AND
put children,life, & earth firsT.
this world is over, this world is done.
and we know we need a new one.
but we don’t just need another world.
WE NEED A MOTHER WORLD
Where Life, Children, and Mothers, and Earth Come First.
Sarah Durham Wilson
women & femmes rites of passage guide, teacher, AUTHOR & ACTIVIST.
SARAH been guiding women + femmes through the resurrection of the Goddess in their bodies and the Earth for 14 years: and for the last 8 she’s been leading them through the seasonal Rites of Passage of the Feminine Wheel of Life to come home to the powerful primordial Great Mother inside.
The archetypal Inner Mother in us all has been buried so that the sacred feminine lost her will to fight for life: but we need her desperately at these times to return to the front lines in the polycrisis of genocide, ecocide, fascism and femicide.
Sarah teaches through meditation, journeying. storytelling, song, spell & ceremony in a non hierarchal, non linear way that brings women & femmes back to the power of the Mother waiting inside of them.
In 2022, Sarah published her book ‘Maiden to Mother’ with SoundsTrue.
photo by Brandy Cunningham
Journey through the exercises of the book Maiden to Mother, by Sarah Durham Wilson,
plus experience brand new exercises, rituals and meditations that she teaches in her Annual Teacher Trainings!
MAIDEN to MOTHER is the bedrock of my work: where women & femmes who have been severed from each other & the Great Mother come back together to remember who they are & what they came to do.
Where we wake from the spell of the patriarchal maiden & shake back awake as the powerful PRIMORDIAL Mother to ourselves & Mother to the world.
ANSWErinG THE CALL
The world is crying out for the Great Mother in all of us to rise to the cries —of the children and the earth in the Polycrisis of genocide and ecocide.
We are being asked to leave our fragile and hyper individual inner patriarchy behind, and remember the wild communal primordial feminine inside.
We are individually and collectively at the crossroads of the new world and the old. We are tired of patriarchy’s lies, we’re clear now that all that glitters is not gold. All the shiny things we have tried on the outside have lead to dead end roads. The bridge behind us is burning and the path ahead is uncertain. But one thing is for sure- in the patriarchal world, we have lost all trust. There is one path left, and that inside, that’s finding the voice of our Inner Mother as guide.
Inside there is a Mother waiting to guide, and there is an Inner Maiden longing for comfort and rest, exhausted from a fearful, reactive, and terrifying life with no one to save her despite whatever she was promised in the patriarchal propaganda known as fairytales. It went something like this; “Stay pretty, polite, and nice, and someone will come save you.” But now we know: no one is coming to save us, except our own inner Goddess.
When the Inner Maiden Rests,
the Great Mother in us Rises.
ARE YOU READY TO MOVE FROM REACTIVE TO RESPONSIVE?
TO MOVE FROM BUD TO BLOOM, FROM UPHOLDING EMPIRE, TO BEING ITS DOOM?
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When the Goddess & Her cultures were shattered & vilified, so too were women’s Rites of Passage into our wild, intuitive femininity , maturity & power.
This is Your descenT to the goddess within, Yourresurrection and remembering Of all that was stolen from you
When they severed you from the Great Mother they severed you from yourself, the Earth, and each other - too
MAIDEN TO MOTHER
CURRICULUM
There are 4 modules paced over 12 weeks.
Each module Takes 3 weeks and includes:
a pre-recorded teaching session (wk 1)
Followed by a 60 minute live group call (wk 2)
Followed by a 60 minute integration call (wk 3)
All calls are recorded and available to watch afterward.
You can go at your own pace and join the live calls as often as you wish.
OPENING CALL: CROSSING THE THRESHOLD with Sarah Durham Wilson + Kamya O’Keeffe
An introduction to the Maiden to Mother Rite of Passage. Sarah shares her story of being a Motherless Daughter in the Patriarchy, and waking to the infantilization of colonization.
In this call we will begin to unearth the buried rites and speak to life the Inner Mother. We will touch on some of the beginning practices from her book Maiden to Mother published on Sounds True in 2022.
Plus We explore why the archetypal Mother was buried, why we must move from Motherless daughters in a direly unMothered world— to Mother ourselves & Mother the world.
RITUAL: Saying Yes to the INITIATION to the Great Mother within.
Module 1: The Wounded Maiden
Recorded teaching with Sarah
Meeting the Wounded Maiden and Identifying the Patriarchal Feminine
with Meditation: Meeting the inner wounded Maiden and Homeplay: An exercise in tracking your Wounded Maiden traits.
Module One Group Call with Sarah and Kamya: Resting the Maiden
Naming the Patriarchal feminine / wounded maiden traits in the collective & internalised in us. Sarah tells the story of the Handless Maiden and participants have the opportunity to share their experiences.
Homeplay: Releasing + Resting the Wounded Maiden Rituals.
Module One Group Integration Call: Women’s Rites of Passage Thresholds and Transitions and the Integration of the Maiden with Kamya O’Keeffe (Sarah’s RITES OF PASSAGE Guide and Mentor)
Module 2: The Cherishing Mother Archetype
Recorded teaching from Sarah on Meeting the Archetypal Great Mother. Distinguishing the Great Mother from the patriarchal mother. Understanding the difference between the patriarchal mother & the Death Mother. We journey to meet the Archetype of the buried Cherishing Mother, Mother to us all, the Mother of Life Herself.
+ Meditation: Meet the Cherishing Mother
Group Call with Sarah and Kamya: Exploring the ways in which we know the Great Mother through Myth and Story. + Homeplay: Building a rapport with the Inner Cherishing Mother.
Integration Call: Understanding the keys for this journey with Kamya.
Module 3: The Underworld
Recorded Teaching from Sarah: Welcome to the Underworld
An intimate deep dive into the belly of your darkly beautiful InnerWorld. We will walk in the footsteps of Goddess Inanna & Sarah will journey you through the timeless tale of the Descent of Goddess Inanna to meet her Dark Sister Ereshkigal.
Here we dissent and descend from Patriarchy and meet our buried, primal & primordial Dark Feminine in the form of Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld. We call all the exiled parts of us back to our own lap. We allow the return of all the parts of us the patriarchy would burn, all the parts of the feminine that were too powerful or primal for the patriarchal upperworld. We will do the work of the Wounded Maiden Life release & the honoring of grief to rise with daimonic- Soul Guided- Black Wings.
Module 3 Group Call: What are we called to grieve and to know?
What are we grieving and what is leaving in the Underworld? What have we been stopped in our tracks to hear? What are we leaving behind, and who is birthing inside? What is our soul and this Earth calling us to know? Meditation: Meeting Ereshkigal. What have been the darkest parts of our lives, and what is the wisdom and gold in them to mine?
Homeplay: Honoring your darkness as wisdom, protection, and your necessary dark Feminine.
c. Module 3 Group Integration Call: Alchemy of the Underworld
Alchemizing our greatest lessons that we learned through our Underworld Process into Mother Wisdom.
Module 4: The Mother World
a. Recorded Teaching: We cross the threshold into Mother. Welcome to those who rose from the ashes of the Underworld. This is where we bloom into the wild potent rose with a sword made of thorns: into who we came to be. Where we pollinate the wasteland with the Primordial Feminine. Where we root deep into our communities of Mother Trees, where we Mother ourselves & Mother the world that is crying out for the Great Mother in you.
Meditation: Meet Your Mother Meditation, Here is where we meet the wisest most ancient part of us, the wise wild feminine we came to be, and who the world in Polycrisis times needs us to be. With time to share and reflect afterwards.
Homeplay: Expressive art of the Inner Mother.
Module 4 Group Call: Mother Lover
In the patriarchal culture The Maiden is centered, sexualized & objectified. The Mother is decentered, desexualized & exiled. Learn how to bloom into the Mother Lover: Woven with teachings from Audre Lorde, Anais Nin & Margot Anand, plus meditation. ceremony & ritual.
Homeplay Meditation
Module 4 Integration and Closing Group Call: ‘MOTHERING THE WORLD’ with Sarah and Kamya
In this Maiden to Mother Rites of Passage closing ceremony, we will arrive embodied as the Inner Mother - birthed from the mystical to the material to walk as Mother on the outside in these Polycrisis times. We will hold each other lovingly accountable to walking as our Inner Mother in the Outer world. The times have changed & so must we. Together we will set the intentions to walk our work from the individual to collective work. We mother-lovingly release who we were before our revolutionary awakenings and move forward as revolutionary humans, teachers & guides in this raw & fragile & fertile times of the polycrisis of genocide, ecocide, fascism and femicide.
The World is On Fire and We are All Fighting for Our Lives.
The Feminine Needs to Reclaim Her True Nature in this polycrisis of Ecocide, Genocide, Fascism and Femicide. It’s time the Recovering Patriarchal Feminine be honest. We are not pretty, we are not nice, we are not polite. We howl, we growl we hiss, we bite, and we fight. And we are going to need all those attributes of the Dark Feminine, If we want to survive.
program Schedule.
August 27th
Module One
Recorded Teaching available from 12 pm EDT
September 03
Module One
Group Call @ 7 pm EDT
September 10
Module One
Integration Call @ 7 pm EDT
September 17
Module Two
Recorded Teaching available from 12 pm EDT
September 24
Module Two
Group Call @ 7 pm EDT
October 01
Module Two
Integration Call @ 7 pm EDT
October 08
Module Three
Recorded Teaching available from 12 pm EDT
October 29
Module Four
Recorded Teaching available from 12 pm EDT
August 20th
Opening Call @ 7 pm EDT
October 15
Module Three
Group Call @ 7 pm EDT
NOVEMber 05
Module Four
Group Call @ 7 pm EST
October 22
Module Three
Integration Call @ 7 pm EDT
November 12
Module Four
Integration & Closing Call @ 7 pm EST
MEET Kamya O’Keeffe
Kamya is a Women's Rites of Passage guide who creates journeys that honour our life's transitions based on animist, ecofeminist earth honouring ways of seeing, being and creating in the world. She joins Sarah in guiding this Maiden to Mother program. She is a certified Motherhood Studies and Maternal Ecopsychology practitioner.
“Today women and mothers are navigating our rites of passages through the cultural loss of living in colonial late stage capitalist patriarchy. So with each transition we have the opportunity to unlearn what was never ours, to be seen in community, meet the challenges of complex change and find out about more of who we truly are. We align with our values and bring our unique contributions into the next stage of our life.”