Priestess College
April 26 – May 8, 2025
Priestess College explores the Wheel of the Year through a cyclical dance that weaves the
magical into the practical.
Together we cultivate a collective mythos that braids
our new story into a holy remembering.
Sacred Arts
We begin our Priestess College with a curiosity of what a Priestess actually means to us. Are you a frontliner, nurturer, or mystic? Do you yearn to serve the Goddess by tending to her thresholds, or are you a natural builder, ceremonialist, or plant pixie?
Together in honor of Beltane, we will experience… Spiritual Intimacy Practices, Processional Temple Dance, Crafting your Toolbelt, Ceremonial Sword Wielding, Regalia Crafting, Song catching, Folk dancing, Faery Ring Altar Dressing, Honeybee Communion, Garden Magick, Ritual Theater, & Required Group Camping with an optional extended stay Natural Building Course.
Rituality
Our versatile Goddess Temple Community holds many talents, levels of experience, and a profound desire to grow. These tenants of truth have been gestating for over two decades, and we welcome you to begin your Priestess Path with us.
Learn to guide heart-opening & honoring rituals that bring community & families closer together whilst bridging modernity with the ancient. Immerse within an environment that pushes the edges necessary to have the essential tools for authentic chop-wood carry-water Priestessing.
Beltane Community Gathering
At Beltane, we celebrate the Divine Union of the Oak & the Rose, the blossoming of spring into its full fecundity & the start of Summer. It is during this season that we honor the sacredness of Spiritual Intimacy & Fertility.
This is a time of celebration & reverence of Love & the pulse of Life. Learn more below.
Your Guide
Graellyn has been a practicing Priestess since 1991, leading circles, retreats, classes, workshops, camps, and immersions. She is accomplished as an: International Workshop Guide, Performance Artist, Midwife of the Veils, Creatrix of the AvaSha Goddess Temple of Mt. Shasta, Annual Priestess College Director, Goddess Temple Consultant, Mother of Tempio della Grande Dea in Rome, and Founder of the Goddess Temple of Ashland.
Your Journey Awaits
Beyond your experiential training, we’ll bring to life the ancient holy day of Beltane. This 3-day community celebration includes one full day of ceremonial preparation, another full day of an elemental spiral dance, sacred chase, crowning of the royal family, ritual theater, the raising of the Maypole, renewal of vows, sacred fire ceremony, & fairy folk dance. On our third day, we give educational transmissions on the energies present at Beltane & enjoy local & visiting musicians.
Beltane Session Bonus
ARC11 Natural Building Workshops
Full Workshop Details
This workshop series hosted by ARC11 may be included in your Priestess College tuition, or omitted if you cannot join us for these bonus training dates.
Learn more about the workshops via this video and the following workshop descriptions:
Investment
This year, we have a very special opportunity to offer a bonus 3-day Women’s Carpentry workshop included within the Priestess College Training at a discount.
We highly encourage women signing up for Priestess College to join us for this additional workshop, held May 16-18, 2025. These workshops are currently planned to take place at The Jackson Wellsprings Goddess Temple in the back meadow, to create a Bee Hive inspired hexagonal shaped outbuilding. You could be a part of that! Learn more details in the “Schedule” section.
& As always, you can receive a discount on this Beltane session when you register for the entire Wheel of the Year Priestess College series, including the Imbolc, Lammas & Samhain sessions.
Send a message to Lady Graellyn for details & full-year registration.
Option 1
13-day Priestess Training + 3-day Women’s Carpentry Workshop
Total: $2300
Option 2
13-day Priestess Training only
Total: $2300
Deposit Required:
$555 non-refundable deposit to hold your spot, due by April 5, 2025.
Alternative Investment Options:
- (2) BIPOC Scholarships, discounted at $1,745 each
- (1) Kitchyn Wytch Partial Work Trade
- Custom Payment Plans welcome
- Discount for registering for the entire “Wheel of the Year” Priestess College Sessions: Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas, Samhain; total at $6,000.
- Text Lady Graellyn at 541-601-8983 to register under any one of these alternative options.
Not included: Food, Lodging, Travel
Included:
- Ebooks: Beltane and Guidebook to the Path of Sacred Living
- Life-time Memories
- Increased Faery Sight
- Empowered Sisterhood Connection
- Remembered Ritual: Shared Elemental Activations
- Magickal Fay Guidance by Priestess of the Goddess and Devotional Dance Ceremonialist- Lady Graellyn, serving She since 1991.
Submit your payment via:
Venmo: @priestess-graell
Cash: Delivered to Lady Graellyn
Zelle: 541-601-8983
Location
Priestess College is hosted at the Goddess Temple of Ashland.
Address
Located in the Sacred Back Meadow
Behind the Jackson Wellsprings off West Jackson Road
2253 Highway 99 N
Ashland, OR 97520
Car Parking
Loading and unloading in the back meadow are for first and last day of training ONLY.
At the PC Welcome Table you will sign in and receive your car pass.
Your car will remain parked on Lithia Road (horizontal to our Back Meadow)
You will park head in and you must keep the parking pass on the dash board at all times.
Parking- All parking for the Goddess Temple is on West Jackson Road behind the Jackson Wellsprings. Loading and Unloading of heavy supplies is welcome in the back meadow.
Alter-abled parking is located next to the back meadow recycling center.
Lodging
Priestess College students must arrange their own lodging. The Beltane session requires group camping at our Temple Sanctuary or
glamping at the Jackson Wellsprings. See below for instructions.
Camping
Please bring your SMALL personal tent, tarp and warm sleeping gear.
During our Beltane sesh offsite lodging is discouraged, but understood if you have children and/or pets.
Please communicate with Graellyn ASAP on your choice of lodging.
Glamping
Glamping options are booked through the Jackson Wellsprings campground only.
RV Site and Glamping are NOT included in your tuition. Car/Van camping is welcome on Lithia Road near the WellSprings Back Meadow and is a $25 fee.
To book your Car Camping, RV space or a WellSprings Dome, Tipi, Cabin, or Bell Tent, you must book through: www.jacksonwellsprings.com
Car/Van camping is welcome on Lithia Road near the WellSprings Back Meadow.
Hotels
Please consider lodging together for Lammas, Samhain, and Imbolc next door at Lithia Springs Resort.
Food
We are able to keep PC tuition low because we have the Goddess Temple on site and no fancy caterer. We have a community kitchen that is co-created by ALL of us, with a Work Trade Kytchen Wytch Moonager and other’s assisting.
Each night 3 people are required to prepare a nourishing meal for the group during Beltane session only. There will be NO pre-set up kitchen for Lammas, Samhain or Imbolc.
Dishwashing is extremely helpful and highly encouraged for ALL to help on.
Please bring your OWN bowl, plate, mug, cutlery AND there will be extra if needed.
✨Please begin collecting bulk food to share. Look on your shelves and bring all those random things you never get around to cooking and add them to our Kitchen Community Shelf.
We are here to nourish each other. Please do your best to find creative ways to support each other thru the whole training.
Please think about what spices and condiments you love and bring them.
If you have specific personal food you need labeled, please label with your name on masking tape BEFORE arrival.
We DO have a refrigerator, but perhaps you want your own clearly labelled bin or cooler??? We have BEARS, and they LOVE to steal coolers…so fairwarning.
We have NO freezer or oven.
If you have spare camp stoves, propane, favorite pots, pans, cookware, please bring for your personal meals. If you are willing to share, the more we have, the easier prep will be for our EPIC group meals too!
THINK about what YOU love to prepare and what you need to make that happen.
Water
Drinking Water is provided at the WellSprings Community Room. The filtered spring water spigot is at the Front Meadow Parking lot. Our water is sulfur, and sometimes tastes intense. If you have the ability to bring fresh Spring Water to share or for yourself, please do.
Please help keep kitchen and personal water bottles FULL.
Outdoor Kitchen sink water is for washing ONLY.
WellSprings sauna, steam and pools are not included in your tuition. They are entered by reservation ONLY: http://www.jacksonwellsprings.com
A Mikvah, Ceremonial Immersion pool will be entered by us during the Samhain sesh.
The flush toilet is at the WellSprings Casbah.The Shower and Laundry facilities can be accessed at the WellSprings front meadow Campground.
We are responsible for keeping area of flushing toilets, compost toilets, and showers clean.
Suggested Packing List
Weather: The weather is mild during the day, sometimes with rain and mud, and it’s usually quite cool at night.
Ceremonial Dresses
Beltane: Green for Beltane Gathering
Lammas: Gold for Lammas Feast
Samhain: Black for Samhain Ritual
Imbolc: White for Imbolc Ceremony
Create ease for yourself and bring one piece outfits, in one solid color. Remember it may be cold, be prepared to layer under your dresses.
Visit thrift stores for upcycling and great buys. We also highly recommend purchasing your dresses from Holy Clothing.
Altar Offerings & Gifts for Teachers
Stones, feathers, sacred water from your homeland, herbs from your garden, beeswax candles to offer to Temple Altars, the Goddess in the Landscape, and to special Soul Family you recognize on your pilgrimage.
Prepare Medicine Bundle Gifts for your Teachers (13 small natural, handmade, honoring gifts for your Guest Instructors or ceremonial honorees)
Healthy Snacks
Drink Coconut Water and Spring Water as much as you can, to properly hydrate you and replace lost electrolytes.
You also want to be prepared for our days discovering the Goddess in the Landscape… always a high energy snack in your bag and a water bottle to grab if you feel the need.
Outdoor & Craft Supplies
- Garden Work Gloves and personal favorite Hand Tool
- Pocket Knife/Priestess Knife
- Lighters
- First Aid Kit
- Rain gear
- Tarp
- Rope
- Harvesting Basket
- Headlamp
- Craft supplies: sewing kit/leather needles/leather hole punch/leather scissors
Journal & Pen
You will want to have a place to record all the magykal, transformative, and creative juice flowing through you at any moment.
Highly recommended: Black, 8.5×11 drawing book found at Arts Stores with colored, fine-line markers. Make your journal a family heirloom!
Day Pack
An easy Day Back Pack will hold your journal, offerings, items purchased, snacks, water bottle etc.
Immune Boosters & Toiletries
Bring your Toiletries
*IMMUNE BOOSTERS.. bring your herbs, tinctures, homeopathic, and superfoods to keep up your health.
Any specific supplements, medicines, immune support herbs, superfoods, special dietary needs, etc that you may require for the duration of the training.
Bring your MEDICINE: grapefruit seed extract, oregano oil, peppermint oil, Thieves or do-Terra On Guard essential oil in your water.
Clothing Suggestions
- SHAWL.. perfect for warmth, beauty, and feeling holy
- ADORNMENTS there are so many opportunities to arrive anywhere, anytime, decorated.
- EASY SLIP OFF SHOES
- WARM CLOTHING for outdoors at night. Some of the Rituals are at nighttime and cold and wet. Be prepared.
- Rain gear if needed
- Comfy Walking Shoes
- Sarong
- Long sleeves
- Hoodie
- Leggings
- Long Skirt
- Swimwear
- Panties/Knickers
- Socks
- Warm Pajamas
- Hiking boots
- Belt
Sleep & Camping gear
✨A warm Sleeping Bag is absolutely necessary for those camping. There are some really amazing super small stuff sac bags to purchase online. Bring a mat, blanket, pillow, small tent & tarp.
Bonuses
- Drinking water bottle
- Lip Salve
- Instruments
- Hot water bottle to keep you warm at night
- Earplugs for sleeping
- Flashlight
- Towel
- Mug, bowl, & plate
What to NOT Bring
Leave all valuables at home. You will be in a camping area at the Goddess Temple that has no human security guards.
Required Reading
It is highly encouraged that Priestesses come prepared already being familiar with the works of “Womb Awakening” & “Lineage of the Codes of Light.”
We invite you to be guided by intuition, and balance this with your common sense on what to pack.
You will receive lovely gifts from Lady Graellyn to add to your regalia and Priestess Tool Belt.
Welcome to Ashland, Oregon
Ashland, Oregon is nestled about 30-minutes north from the California border, about an hour from Mt. Shasta.
Downtown Ashland is very walkable, though a car is encouraged for traveling beyond downtown, including to the Goddess Temple.
Recommended Bonuses
Tattoo
Optional Traditional Stick and Poke Sacred Ink symbol given at the end of the training.
Natural / Organic Restaurants & Groceries
The Ashland Co-op and Shop’N Kart in Oregon carry many organic necessities, but preference is you remain on site as much as possible.
Schedule
Your journey begins…
Entire schedule may shift due to various reasons, with a lot of wonderful spontaneity and magick interwoven.
When you register, you will receive all updates from a group Telegram thread.
Arrival | April 26
Please always check our communication thread for scheduling details.
If you will be arriving earlier than our first day, or staying later then our last day together, you are required to pay the WellSprings Camping fee of $25 per night. Kytchen Wytches ONLY are comped by Lady Graellyn.
Please check in at Welcome Table.
Please drive in and unload and your belongings, settle into your lodging, and bring all kitchen offerings to Kytchen Wytches. Dinner & night ceremonies times will announced in the group chat.
Priestess College Training | April 27 – May 8
Please expect to begin every day 9:00 am and complete around 10:00 pm, with the exception of evening ceremonies as scheduled.
Public Beltane Ceremony | April 30 – May 2
Please invite your loved ones for our 3-day Celebration!
Women’s Carpentry Workshop | May 16-18
This workshop series hosted by ARC11 may be included in your Priestess College tuition, or omitted if you cannot join us for these bonus training dates.
Learn more about the workshops via this video and the following workshop descriptions:
We are people converging to stir the cauldron.
Unyielding trust is the only key to unlock our Myst-story.
Please remember:
this is Priestess College, NOT Princess College
Part your veils of fear.
Lift your veils of limitation.
Pierce your veils of doubt.
You have waited.
You have wondered.
You have arrived.
Welcome to the Path of Sacred Living.
Raw. Brave. Legendary.
Goddess Temple of Ashland 