Our mission is to restore the Sacred Feminine to the planet. That is the whole of it. We mean it as a real force returning to the center of how we live, lead, relate, and build.
The sacred feminine was deliberately and violently erased from culture, and its absence is responsible for nearly everything that isn't working right now.
The Living Temple exists to bring it back.
Our particular role in that larger mission is this: we initiate women onto their soul's path, and we keep them on it, so they can build what comes next.
Who we gather
The sacred feminine isn't a gender. It's a force that lives in everyone, and everyone has been wounded by its erasure, men included. Its full restoration will take all of us, and everyone who feels the call of this work is welcome here, whether you're a woman, trans or cis, or a nonbinary person.
Our deepest expertise is in the work of women's sovereignty, and that's the work we've spent years learning how to hold. You'll notice we speak to and about women throughout, because that's where our mastery lives and where the lineage we carry runs deepest.
There's also a particular safety that becomes possible in a space gathered this way, a trust that lets people unguard, go deep, and reach what's hard to reach anywhere else.
If this work is calling you, that call is the only credential you need.
The world this points toward has a name
We are living through the death throes of a dying patriarchy, and what replaces it will not be an accident of history. It will be the choices we make every day.
The world our values point toward is a matriarchy.
We mean a civilization organized around the values patriarchy has always suppressed: bodily sovereignty, ecological reciprocity, collective care, and the dignity of every person.
A matriarchy heals the split that the last several thousand years drove between the masculine and the feminine, in our institutions, our relationships, and our own bodies. It restores the balance between them, so that strength serves care, action serves wisdom, and structure serves life. That's what we're building here, and the inner work and the outer work are both in service of it.
The restoration of the sacred feminine in you and the restoration of a balanced world are deeply connected, the same pattern moving at different scales.
The inner and the outer are woven together
We said the inner work and the outer work are both in service of that world, and here's what we mean by it, because it's the engine underneath everything we do.
We do fractal work. What lives inside a person, their wounds, their shadow, their conditioning, their brilliance, their power, is woven into the larger field, and what we see breaking in the world is reflected in what's breaking in us. The patriarchy lives in our bodies, our marriages, our relationships, and our own sense of worth and our own voices. The work of healing happens at every level at once, and quantum physics has been pointing at this for a century, that reality is interconnected and participatory all the way down, that the observer shapes the field, that separation was always the illusion.
We believe there is also real, concrete work to be done on the human plane, systems to disrupt, structures to dismantle, new things to build. The inner work is what makes us capable of the outer work. A person who is nourished, alive, connected to their own knowing, and operating from real capacity is the one who can actually disrupt what needs disrupting and build what needs building. The inner work doesn't replace the outer work. It produces the people who can do it.
This is why ceremony matters, and why the inner work is the most consequential outer work there is. When a woman is initiated onto her soul's path and stays on it, she stops reproducing the patterns she inherited and starts creating from somewhere truer. She builds new things. She makes different choices. She shapes what comes next, in her own home and her own sphere and, woman by woman, in the world.
We keep returning to this phrase, the sacred feminine, as though everyone already knows what it means. It's worth slowing down to say what we actually mean by it, because she is older and wiser than any single tradition that tried to name her.
Across cultures and centuries, people have honored the feminine face of the divine.
Across cultures and centuries, people have honored the feminine face of the divine.
She has always been here...
In the temples of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and India, she was invoked through many names and forms, Inanna, Isis, Lakshmi, Coatlicue, Artemis, beings who carried the force of life itself.
Creation and destruction, sovereignty and surrender, sensuality and wisdom, death and rebirth. She was a living field, reflected through countless mirrors.
With the rise of the monotheistic traditions, the sacred feminine became veiled, but she didn't disappear. She lived as Sophia, divine wisdom in early Christianity.
She dwelled in the Shekhinah, the indwelling feminine presence of God in Jewish mysticism.
She radiated through Mary, vessel of holiness and tender witness at the thresholds of life and death. In many Indigenous and earth-based traditions she never left the center at all.
She is Pachamama, Grandmother, the living Earth herself, carrying an unbroken thread of reciprocity and reverence through centuries of colonization and attempted erasure.
The sacred feminine has always been multiplicity itself, many things, many stories, many faces. She is wild and infinite and unbound. For millennia her presence shaped how we lived and belonged, and much of that wisdom was nearly lost. It lives within us still, calling us to bring it forward in these times.
how she was erased
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For thousands of years, across continents and cultures, humanity lived inside a different frequency, one where the sacred feminine was honored as essential to life itself. Her wisdom shaped how we related to the Earth, to each other, and to the divine, and we understood ourselves as part of the web of life, belonging to something vast and interdependent.
That balance was dismantled, and it was dismantled on purpose. The sacred feminine was deliberately erased as a strategy of control. As her presence faded from stories, ceremonies, and structures of power, the systems that had sustained reciprocity and wholeness were replaced with hierarchy, extraction, and domination. Temples were destroyed. Wisdom keepers were silenced.
Women who carried knowledge of the body, the plants, and the stars were hunted and killed, partly out of fear and superstition, and largely because they held land, resources, and influence that threatened centralized control. Communities rooted in shared stewardship were broken apart, and entire economies were reorganized around profit rather than care.
In the stories that survived, women were split into archetypes of purity or danger, virgin or whore, saint or witch. Generation after generation inherited those narratives, and they shaped how we see ourselves, how we see one another, and how we understand power itself. Men were taught to separate from tenderness and grief. Women were taught to mistrust their bodies, their knowing, and their authority. A culture of separation replaced a culture of belonging.
This was always about power, about who controls resources, who decides value, who gets to speak for God, and whose lives are centered or erased. And we are still living inside the architecture it built, the extractive economies, the political polarization, the endless war, the climate collapse, the systems designed to keep us disconnected from one another and from the Earth.
And yet what was hidden is still alive.
The memory of another way lives in us, in our bones, in our dreams, in the deep longing so many of us feel, the knowing that we're meant to belong, to be in right relationship with each other, with the Earth, and with what's sacred. Restoring the sacred feminine means remembering the wholeness we came from, returning to reciprocity, and choosing a different future, one where care and interconnection guide how we live, lead, and create together.
About The Founders
is an ordained priestess and co-founder of the Living Temple. For over a decade she has guided women into a deeper relationship with the sacred feminine, helping them weave ceremony into their daily lives, awaken to their innate power, and remember the truth of who they are.
She wasn't always a priestess. She built a life that checked every box, Williams College, an advertising career, a successful emotional eating company. From the outside it looked complete. From the inside, something was missing.
Everything changed when she found herself in a sacred feminine ceremony for the first time. Something cracked open, and she couldn't unknow it. What followed was years of training to become an ordained priestess in the 13 Moon Mystery School, immersing herself in ceremony, the Avalon mysteries, the feminine path of Mary Magdalene, and the ancient Egyptian art of anointing.
Today her work reaches a global community of over 100,000 people, holding space for women from every walk of life to come home to themselves through the power of ceremony.
sarah jenks
never imagined she'd end up here. She spent over a decade in communications and policy advocacy, earning a master's in sustainable development, serving as VP of Communications for the Organic Trade Association, and lobbying for sustainable food systems on Capitol Hill. It was a good life. A predictable one. One she thought she wanted.
Then, six months after the birth of her third child, she wandered into a winter solstice ceremony at Sarah's home. She walked in uncertain. She walked out forever changed.
Six months later she left her career behind and stepped into an entirely different way of working, leading, and living. Now, as CEO and co-founder of the Living Temple, Kelly stewards a global community devoted to the restoration of the sacred feminine, building something that holds both spirit and strategy, devotion and the gritty work of making it real. She's also a trained JourneyDance facilitator.
Together, Sarah and Kelly lead the Living Temple as an experiment in what becomes possible when women stop performing the lives they were handed and start building the ones they came here for.
