WElcome to
the MOTHER WORLD.
this is the GREAT MOTHER WORK.
this is where we
DISSENT FROM PATRIARCHAL WASTELAND,
DESCEND TO THE 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 + Revamped
for the MOTHERS to THis WORLD TO RISE
IN THE Polycrisis of Genocide, Ecocide, Fascism + Femicide.
FRIDAYS May 16 th - August 15th 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:
a world that puts life, children, and the earth, first.
ANSWErinG THE CALLING
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.
There is a sense of being sick of ourselves— like water that stopped flowing, that has gotten stuck. There is no outer place to get to— listening to the voice inside is actually the way through. The work is to cultivate an Inner Voice inside and let it Rise: So that it becomes louder than all the terrifying noise outside. We need to listen to the Mother within, and drown out the outer patriarchy din. To Hear ourselves is to Heal Ourselves. The tools of this work also give us the ability to hear the cries of the world and to rise to them.
First we descend into our own body, then we return to serve the body of the world.
Inside is the Maiden, the Mother, and countless other archetypes waiting to relay their wisdom to us an navigate us through these times in which we were intentionally born.
“We don’t come from a place, we come from a childhood” And until we reMother the child inside, she is who leads, unconsciously.
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.
Now we see why they raised us
to be so pretty and polite.
So when they came for our lives,
we wouldn’t know how to fight.
Before you ask out: have you asked in?
it’s time to let your Maiden rest.
and remember that
THE INNER MOTHER KNOWS BEST:
When the Inner Maiden Rests, the Great Mother in us Rises.
For women & femmes remembering the Great Mother within them / realizing the deep harm & betrayal patriarchy has done to all life plus them.
For women & femmes who are ready to Rise to the Cries of a World Crying out for the Mothers.
Payment Plans available & 20% off for SOLO MAMAS & WOMEN & FEMMES OF THE GLOBAL MAJORITY use code “MOTHER” at checkout.
Sarah Durham Wilson
women & femmes rites of passage guide, teacher, AUTHOR & ACTIVIST.
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!
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.
Move from Reactive, to Responsive.
From bud to bloom.
FROM UPHOLDING EMPIRE, TO BEING ITS DOOM.
— Sarah of Magdalene —
WELCOME to
THE MOTHER WORLD
This 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 before the truth was buried in you.
Where we wake from the spell of the patriarchal maiden & shake back awake as the powerful PRIMORDIAL Mother to ourselves & Mother to the world.
For women & femmes ready to Grieve their Eve & Set their Wild Lilith FreE.
For recovering Daughters of Patriarchy who are ready to learn how to Mother Themselves & Mother this UNMOTHERED World.
WE DEMAND A WORLD
THAT CENTERS THE SACRED
ONE THAT PUTS LIFE
CHILDREN, AND THE EARTH- FIRST
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, Your resurrection 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.
MOTHER WORLD CURRICULUM
SCHEDULE: (curriculum flows and can always change but here it is, for the page)
all calls occur
FRIDAYS at NOON EST
beginning May 16th
60 minute calls
all calls will be recorded
BONUSES:
CALL 1. MAY 16TH: OPENING CALL w/ Sarah Durham Wilson
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 buried the rites and the Inner Mother inside that served as the bridge from the helpless Maiden to the helper Mother. We will touch on some of the main practices from her book Maiden to Mother published on Sounds True in 2022. Plus: why the archetypal Mother was buried, why we must move from Motherless daughters in a direly unMothered world— to Mothers of self & Mother of the world.
RITUAL: SAYING YES TO THE IN-ITIATION to rise as the Great Mother within.
CALL 2. MAY 30TH: THE MAIDEN PART 1 (Identifying the Patriarchal Feminine)
Meeting the Wounded Maiden: TEACHINGS with Sarah Durham Wilson.
Teaching Topics Include: Who is the patriarchal feminine? What are her attributes? How does she present in the collective modern feminine? How does she present in you? How did she present in your mother or your care guardians too? How does the infantilized patriarchal feminine serve empire? How does the mature primordial feminine shatter it?
HOMEPLAY: TRACKING YOUR WOUNDED MAIDEN TRAITS and understanding their polarity.
CALL 3. JUNE 6th: More Maiden TEACHINGS with Sarah Durham Wilson
Meeting the inner wounded Maiden — possibly for the first time. Finding the hidden healthy maiden waiting inside. Sarah guides the group through her Meeting the Inner Maiden Meditation, with time for sharing and reflecting afterwards.
HOMEPLAY: Getting to know the wounded Maiden down below by working with the Meet Your Maiden Meditation on Your own.
CALL 4. JUNE 13th: Resting the Maiden. Teachings with Sarah Durham Wilson.
MEDITATION: We continue to rest and release the patriarchal maiden who was a construct of the white man’s mind. We allow the Good Girl Mask to crack & we grieve “Good Eve” in the ways we thought staying small + denying our truth would save us. We continue to identify the our own patriarchal feminine / infantilized/ wounded maiden traits in the collective & in us & how she presents. Sarah tells the story of the Handless Maiden / Her own Wounded Maiden Stories, and students share their Wounded Maiden Archetypes with the group. .
Homeplay: Releasing + Resting the Wounded Maiden Rituals.
CALL 5. JUNE 20TH: THE CHERISHING MOTHER ARCHETYPE
Meeting the Great Mother, and releasing projections on her from our own “small m” patriarchal mother or caregiver. We journey to meet the Archetype of the buried Cherishing Mother, Mother to us all, the archetype of life Herself. Her voice and attributes will serve us as Guide from the patriarchal wasteland to the Mother side. We also meet The Cherishing Mother’s Shadow Archetype: The Death Mother, or Patriarchal Mother, and work with ways to release her inside so the Cherishing Mother can rise.
Sarah leads us through the MEET THE CHERISHING MOTHER MEDITATION, with time to reflect and share afterwards.
Homeplay: listening to the Cherishing Mother Meditation and allowing / journaling what needs to arise.
CALL 6. JUNE 27TH CLOSING MAIDEN WITH KAMYA O’KEEFFE. Sarah’s RITES OF PASSAGE Guide and Mentor, Kamya O’Keeffe
CALL 7. JULY 4th: SOMATIC INTEGRATION WITH Lulu Zadoyan.
CALL 8. JULY 11. THE UNDERWORLD PART 1
TEACHINGS w/ Sarah Durham Wilson
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.
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.
CALL 9. JULY 18TH: THE UNDERWORLD PART II
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.
CALL 10. JULY 25TH: In order for the Maiden’s Pain to have not been in Vain: Alchemizing our greatest lessons that we burned and learned through our Underworld Process into Mother Wisdom and walking forward. Sealing the door of the Underworld, for now (only to soon return).
TEACHINGS w/ Sarah Durham Wilson
CALL 11. JULY 18TH: CLOSING THE UNDERWORLD INTEGRATION WITH KAMYA O’KEEFFE.
CALL 12. JULY 25: UNDERWORLD SOMATIC INTEGRATION with LULU.
CALL 13. AUGUST 1. MOTHER WORLD. TEACHINGS w/ Sarah Durham Wilson
We’ve crossed 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. Students will identify their Mother traits & meet their Archetypal Mother & share her with others.
MOTHER WORK: Building the Inner Mother Archetype. The Mother Tree Meditations. TEACHINGS w/ Sarah Durham Wilson. Sarah guides us through embodying
CALL 14. AUG 8. MOTHER PART ||
This world is over, this world is done. We know we need a new one. Who is the new world asking you to become?
Sarah guides us through the 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: Drawing the Inner Mother.
CALL 13. AUG 15TH: MOTHER LOVER
TEACHINGS w/ Sarah Durham Wilson
In the patriarchal culture The Maiden is centered, sexualized & objectified. The Mother is decentered, desexualized & exiled. Yet: on the teachings of Mother Nature & in the passages of the Primordial Feminine, Midlife is when we become most ripe & alive.
WE NEED OUR EROS , and THE JOY, CREATIVITY, SENSUALITY AND EMBODIMENT OF THE SECOND CHAKRA TO SURVIVE THESE TIMES.
Join Sarah to learn how to bloom into the Mother Lover: Woven with teachings from Audre Lorde, Anais Nin & Margot Anand, plus meditation. ceremony & ritual.
Homeplay: Margot Anand Meditation to awaken the EROTIC FIRE within.
CALL 14. AUGUST 22nd: CLOSING CEREMONY & ‘MOTHERING THE WORLD’
with Sarah Durham Wilson
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 on the outside in these Polycrisis times. We will hold each other lovingly accountable to walking as her in the 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 time in the polycrisis of genocide, ecocide, fascism and femicide.
MEET THE OTHER MOTHER GUIDES!
As a women's rites of passage guide and mentor to coaches and leaders, I know that it has taken the my 6 decades of living and learning to create inclusive and diverse journeys that support our life's transitions.
With 20+ years experience as a pioneering arts & cultural leader and strategic head of programming I have honed my approach to creating collective transformational experiences. Through my work in sustainability education projects and my experience living in a community dedicated to rainforest restoration and wildlife sanctuary on the lands of the Widjabul-Wiabul people of the Bundalung nation, I am brought closer to the beauty and magic of being in relationship with our more than human kin.
My journey now is to relearn the craft of elder as one who humbly stands on the shoulders of the fire keepers, healers and foremothers that came before me. I am the mother of grown daughters who are my joy and inspiration.
MEET LULU ZADOYAN
As a Divine Mother Channel and High Priestess offering reflections and tools for all Divine Femmes Theys and Thems, my lived experience as a sustained trauma survivor was the initiation onto this path as a seer, truth sayer and way-shower
Beginning my journey as a student of Buddhism, Jungian theory and the teachings of Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Thich Nhat Han and Ram Dass… over the last three decades beginning by training as an Usui Reiki [Master] Teacher, I have become certified in over 555 hours of meditation, pranayama, kundalini and yin yogas and somatic experiencing techniques
The ignition point for waking to my highest purpose was Remembering and Integrating my purpose as an Aquarian Teacher; knowing there is no separation of our spiritual path from our complicity and accountability to those most oppressed in this world. Truth and Justice are my drivers.
My work and offerings center those of The Global Majority, Black, Brown, Indigenous and all Nonbinary expressions, and my humble bow is to all indigenous earth keepers in all forms; ancestor, animal, fungi and stardusts
As a Nonbinary Mother of two young adult lioness daughters, my channeled guidance is for all Divine Femmes Theys and Thems, mammas, caregivers, community organizers, space holders, healers, teachers, wellness practitioners, intuitive diviners and high empath seers
Using somatic modalities; Earthing, grounding, witnessing, communing, subtle breath, chanting/humming (vocal toning) moving, dancing, releasing, transmuting, with and thru the body.
My goal is to help you remember that you are all of the elements of nature, energy, chi, prana, and that when we REMEMBER that we are not separate from each other, or any living microb or atom… not separate from The Mamma Gaia Portal (Earth) from which we were all born, then the river from which all Divine Maa, Maa Durga Wisdom flows, flows thru us and propels us onward to the Great Ocean of Universal Consciousness, who’s ocean floor holds our most cosmic ancestral archives… it is here buoyant underwater or swimming in the light beams of Venus that we learn to clear our head and heart of the patriarchal, yt supremacist colonizer programming. And then the keys to our unique purposes here start dropping at our feet, nonstop. I am so grateful to have met my baby soul sister of many lifetimes, Sarah on this path and I am honored to witness this rite of passage with you all.
We will release who we were before our revolutionary awakenings and move forward as revolutionary teachers & guides in this fraught & fragile time in the polycrisis of genocide & ecocide.
Work for women & femmeS THROUGH A POLYCRISIS LENS
rising to the cries of the world crying out for the mother.
FOR the recovering daughters of the patriarchy
who are ready to become mothers to themselves & mothers to the world & MOVE FROM
THE PATRIARCHAL TO THE PRIMORDIAL
We BegiN
MAY 16th, 2025
There comes a time to Mother the Maiden within and stand as Mother to the World.
That time is now.
Use code ‘MOTHER’ at check out for 20% off for woman & femmes of the global majority & solo mamas.