Returning Warriors

In ancient Rome when warriors were returning after battle, it is said that they would stop first at the Goddess Temple on the edge of town to have the wounds of war washed away by the priestess, to be returned to their body and soul, before reuniting with their family and community

We live in a world that has been constructed and conditioned with the frequency of war and competition.

Man - your daily life is that of a warrior.

You have been conditioned to view life as a battle daily; To prove yourself strong, fearless, and brave in the face of challenge. You have been conditioned to be in competition. You have been taught to be a provider, a protector, and to put others first.

Thank you for your service. Thank you for all the ways you have shown up, even in your imperfections.

At the same time, the landscape is changing quickly as women are rapidly taking on roles of leadership, and positions of power. While I am sure you celebrate this, it can also be confusing to know your place as roles are shifting while the Goddess rises.

The patriarchal paradigm has been brutal to men as well as women, and goddess temple should not be reserved only for women.

Men also need a space to be nourished and nurtured by the divine feminine. To be honored, worshipped, seen, and met by the feminine heart with love and tender care.

You need a Goddess temple too.

This is the mission of Returning Warriors

Returning Warriors

A private one on one offering in person in Austin Texas or virtually through zoom. It is by invitation or application only. An experience reserved for men who have done the inner work to be able to receive deeply from the feminine while honoring her boundaries.

 

There are 3 Primary Faces of the Goddess

The Priestess serves the masculine through embodying her:

  • Sensual Goddess

  • Warrior Goddess

  • Mother Goddess

    The compassionate Mother Goddess brings her open loving heart to the space to hold the masculine within the womb of the divine mother to recode him with the pure mothers love.

    The Sensual Goddess brings the gift of the pure innocent eros that revivifies the masculine and calls forth his potent essence and life force without shame.

    & the Warrior Goddess holds the boundaries, and unflichingly calls the masculine to step up to the highest standards possible. Blazing through the false masks and internal misalignments. She commands his full power.

In Devotion to the Sacred Masculine

and Sacred Feminine Balance

A message from Amanda: 

My devotion to the masculine as a deep calling in the heart awakened in me while watching my father suffer the ravages of cancer in his body.

In 2009 6 months after my father retired from his corporate career he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. He had dedicated his life to everything that is expected of a “good man”. He had been loyal to his company and quietly negotiated large deals and contracts for the companies benefit while living a moderately prosperous life. He provided well for his family and was responsible in managing his finances. He was loyal, reliable, strong, and courageous. He was also emotionally distant, not very physically affectionate, and known to be hot headed, impatient, and have a temper at times. His retirement was supposed to be the time when he would finally live his life for himself, but it was brutally disrupted by his diagnosis.

During my fathers sickness I began to see other sides of him that I had never noticed before. I saw what a sensitive soul he actually was. I saw his artistic eye as a photographer, his talent at arranging flowers. His sweetness with his grandsons. I watched him slowly open up to yoga, to spirituality, and ultimately to a deep connection to God in the last few months and weeks of his life. As it neared his time to cross over, he became more emotionally expressive, and vulnerable. Seeing his vulnerability was heartbreaking and revolutionizing for me. The man that had represented to me all that was masculine, I discovered was actually vulnerable too.

This experience forever impacted how I see and relate to men.

I could now see how hard the expectations of society for men are, and how they prevent them from having the freedom to explore all of their colors and shades. I could see how the cancer that ravaged his body was a result in many ways of his not having access to express his true feelings, and to heal deep wounds.

From the time of my father’s death my relating with men has been transformed. I feel I am able to SEE them with fresh whole and pure eyes. To hold space with love, and honor and respect, in a way I simply couldn’t when I didn’t have the palpable experience of the true vulnerability of the Father.

I also took a new look at, and developed a new appreciation for some of the male oriented aspects of our culture that I had previously dismissed or had no interest in. My father was a bit obsessed with the military, although he was never able to enlist himself because of an injury he sustained in a car wreck while in college. He did participate in a rescue mission devised by Ross Perot in the eighties to free some EDS employees from a prison in Iran during the revolution which was captured in the book “On Wings Of Eagles” by Ken Follet. My Dad did get to be a real life Hero after all, and has a gun in a glass case from the CIA to prove it. I started to have an increasing interest in war stories and appreciation of soldiers, and the courage of risking one’s life for the sake of others. For the first time I could deeply connect with and feel reverence for the male experience and the beauty and glory of the male Warrior.

I truly believe it is some of the highest level of service and evolution of the divine feminine to hold space for our brothers. It requires deep inner work, and the cultivation of all 3 of the faces of the Goddess to be a strong space holder for men.