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The Amazonian Arts

Women's Mystery School

Empowering Women through Ancient Wisdom and Modern Spiritual Practices

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The Amazonian Arts is the writing of a New Story through the ancient arts of mythology, astrology, ritual and attending to the earthly elements. This work has been founded on the inner knowing that, to restore balance and beauty once again on the earth, we need to collectively re-member and bring forth the qualities of the healed feminine, which will raise consciousness (also healing the masculine) and shift the current paradigm.
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The Amazonian Way

Reclaiming
Ancient Wisdom

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Our approach is deeply rooted in ancient wisdom that honours the connection between women and the divine. We believe in harnessing the power of ancient practices to facilitate healing and personal growth.

Modern Spiritual Practices

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Embracing modern spiritual practices, we integrate mindfulness, meditation, and energy work to support women in their journey towards self-discovery and empowerment.

Empowerment through Connection

We foster a community of support and empowerment, encouraging women to embrace their unique strengths and abilities while connecting with like-minded individuals on a profound spiritual journey.

Meet the Vision Weavers

Our collective web of weavers bringing forth this new story. 

Akhalita Makoto

Amazonian Arts (AMA) Vision Mother & SSW Graduate

I am passionate about reclaiming the sacred depths of what it is to be human. I believe a profound shift in consciousness, and therefore healing, is possible in these times of great crisis. The Amazonian Arts offers us a New Story of renewal from the Ancient Ways.

I bring my background of aikido, writing, shiatsu, and shamanic practices as I walk side-by-side with the Leo Warrior Queen, ever asking: who is leading the leader? The answer keeps me questing for ever deeper levels of authenticity that require absolute vulnerability. This is the Way of the Warrior/ess.

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From Vision Quest to Living Vision

In my bones I know that the seeds of the vision that is the Amazonian Arts (AMA) were planted long ago, long before this time. Yet this story begins when I first became aware of these seeds… It was in a pivotal moment in my early twenties while contemplating the Blue Beard story from Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. In that moment it was as if the veil dropped, and I saw the patriarchy that I was enmeshed in with clear vision. However, it wasn’t until I undertook my 4 Seasons Journey with the School of Shamanic Womancraft (SSW) in my thirties that all the threads that I had been pulling together began to form the tapestry that is now the AMA…

​My Vision Quest took place in 2017 at Mt Seaview in southern NSW during a 10-day journey with the largest group of women the school had ever taken before. The elementals were intense. A fire that had just gone through the area meant that many of us, including myself, ended up doing our solo time on smoking ground, sitting in the ashes. An intensely powerful part of my journey was on the second night when by my fire in the tiniest of circles because of the slope of the land, I realised I was surrounded by a fierce army of bull-ants. They formed a perfect circle and came so close in that I too had to stand. Yet none harmed me, and none where to be found outside in the ash surrounding this little space. That Vision Quest I journeyed deep with Ant, whose medicine is 'Strength' and is perfectly embodied in the Leo Warrior Queen archetype I would later be aligned with as my Warrioress with the AMA.

​It wasn’t until many moons later, at another gathering with Jane called Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen that I heard the name Amazonian Arts. It was one of the streams that the Midwives back at basecamp during our solo time had received as a vision of second year for the SSW. There were other names too, but that name spoke to the earlier threads I had already gathered and when I enthusiastically asked Jane after the gathering what it was, she just met my question with a piercing intensity and said, ‘Exactly. What is it?’ While it wasn’t the answer that I expected nor had hoped for, I felt a responsibility to answer that question and began in earnest to uncover the depths of what lay in that name and what had been received by the Midwives at basecamp. Since that day I have presented twice at SSW MerConferences to share offerings to date including some witchy play with Broomstick Martial Arts and the online set of 13 Pathways to explore the Way of the Warrioress. While Jane endorsed this work to become a second year offering to the Mermaids (graduates) of the SSW in July 2021, Covid irrevocably changed our trajectories. So while we support each other's contributions to the new earth, my medicine was to step out from the umbrella of the SSW, heal my Chiron in the first house, and become the leader of this vision that is the Amazonian Arts.

The Vision Weavers

Meet the Clan Mothers

The Clan Mothers share their voices in their own Warrioress Pathway

The Greater Vision...

​The Amazonian Arts is the writing of a New Story through the ancient arts of mythology, astrology, ritual and attending to the earthly elements. This work has been founded on the inner knowing that, to restore balance and beauty once again on the earth, we need to collectively re-member and bring forth the qualities of the healed feminine, which will raise consciousness (also healing the masculine) and shift the current paradigm.

This New Story welcomes in all peoples of diverse backgrounds to join us on the journey through the doorway that speaks strongest to their own healing, for the Greater Vision takes us beyond labels and into a collective vision of the Beauty Way : the path of living in wholesome relationship with the earth and all her inhabitants once again.

Yet the story begins with women stepping up into positions of leadership as agents of the fierce feminine as is already taking place. For it has been foretold that the transformation of consciousness begins with the 13 Clan Mothers physically anchoring the ancient lineages of the Grandmothers on the earth (taking place now in Dorrigo, NSW Australia) before the greater body of work can be born.

This Greater Vision speaks to the creation of Pathways for Men (Vision Father), Boys (Father of the Shield Masters) and Girls (Mother of the Shield Maidens) and dances in and out of these labels to become the collective community that we are, deeply bowing to the diversity that we each bring because we see the strength in the difference. Meet the Vision Weavers and Clan Mothers above to begin to know those weaving this New Story as we journey beyond the polarity and into a new paradigm. 

The Vision Ahead for the Amazonian Arts into 2025 and beyond has blossomed into 3 Degrees, with each consecutive degree an 18 month Shamanic Journey ...

1st Degree: Journey-Woman; personal development; foundations.

Begin your journey with us by diving into the 13 archetypes of the fierce feminine and meeting your warrioress within. Discover your soul-song and re-member the somatic interconnection of the sisterhood as you deeply explore your own courage and creativity.

2nd Degree: Apprentice; interpersonal development; the deepening.

In this middle year we bridge between the personal and collective experience. We cultivate deep listening and develop facilitation skills as we attune to the group field. This is the year in which we more deeply embody and integrate the medicine of the 13 archetypes through shadow-work and the astrological lens with Black Moon Lilith.

3rd Degree: Guardian; transpersonal development; becoming the vision.

This is where we weave our soul-songs into the vision as together we create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible … It is in this degree that we take our practices 'off the mat' (as we would say in martial arts) and 'into the world'. We are creating conscious community and becoming the change we want to see in the world.

Ultimately this work speaks to the healing between us all that unfolds with raising consciousness and for us to walk and for our children to be raised in alignment with rich and ancient treasured ways as we return to sacred relationship with our greater than human family.

Will you join us?  

Meet the Midwives

Women supporting the birthing process of the Amazonian Arts

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