MODERN-DAY HIGH PRIESTESS:
Reclaiming our Ancient Authority as Spiritual Leaders in Today’s World
Living in a time that is still spiritually asleep, distracted, dormant, or dead the Modern-day High Priestess continuously awakens ancient wisdom into the collective consciousness.
From the moment she could walk and talk she knew she was different. Growing up was confusing and disorienting because people never could acknowledge what made her different and special. She has not been seen or heard and has felt almost invisible in her inner-most power.
All of this caused her to have doubts, listen to the naysayers, and even believe them, while at her core knowing they were wrong. Ignoring her intuition took her down winding paths until she realized, her intuition was the only way.
But for each of these influential women, a pivotal moment comes as we recognize the whole journey has had a purpose and it has been the right path, no matter how messy. It has fortified us and made us into the powerful priestesses that we now are.
We carry our influential role with mastery and responsibility knowing we are one of the many here to facilitate the transformation of paradigms from competitive to collaborative and from scarcity to prosperity.
We know that it is the reclamation of our ancient authority and instilling that into the generations that come after us that will change the paradigm of the planet.
This book is for all individuals who have identified themselves as a high priestess, not discriminating or excluding any gender or identity. Although the feminine gender pronouns are used for description, all are welcome. Blessed Be.
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Jennifer Sifert
Jennifer Sifert is a Leadership Mentor, Energy Strategist, and Modern-Day Shaman Priestess who guides visionary leaders and worldbuilders into their full public power. Raised in a professional horse racing family, she learned early the discipline, commitment, and devotion required to pursue purpose with precision; qualities that now shape the sacred containers she holds for her clients.
After nearly two decades as a Chartered Professional Accountant, Jennifer left her six-figure career to follow her soul’s call. Today, through her signature programs Finding the Source™ and the Life Force Activation™ membership, she supports “Hidden Titans:” high-capacity leaders who have done the inner work yet hesitate to be fully seen.
Jennifer is known for her ability to unravel scarcity, stabilize frequency, and catalyze sovereignty. Her work activates prosperity consciousness, embodied leadership, and the divine fire that calls leaders out of hiding and into their true power.
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Meet our Authors
Melonie Cannon, Ph.D., D.D.
Melonie Cannon P.h.D., D.D., is the creative force behind Moonstone Drums, where rhythm becomes ritual and healing begins with breath and sound. A former English teacher with an M.Ed., she now serves as a sacred sound practitioner with a Doctorate of Divinity and Ph.D. in Metaphysics, specializing in sound and vibrational healing. Her work weaves drum, breath, voice, and ceremony to help others reconnect to the Divine within. She’s certified in sound healing, hypnotherapy, somatics, and breathwork. You can find her drumming music under Melonie Moon on streaming channels. Connect with her for retreats, drum-making workshops, healing circles, and immersive sound baths.
Welcome to a new rhythm.
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Melisa Keenan
Melisa Keenan is a seven-time international and USA Today bestselling author and the founder of HOPE, The Heart Open Publishing Enterprise, where she helps leaders transform their lived wisdom into stories that heal, liberate, and awaken. As an intimacy expert and sacred storyteller, she bridges the spiritual and the practical, guiding people to reclaim their truth, their pleasure, and their ancient authority.
The story you’ve just read is part of Melisa’s own remembering; a return to the body, to the divine within, and to the kind of sovereignty no system can give or take away. She believes our choices are holy, our desires are guidance, and our lives become magical when we dare to trust our inner voice over every external rule.
If this chapter stirred something in you, consider it a calling. In 2026, Melisa will lead a sacred retreat in the South of France for women ready to remember their ancient wisdom on those shores. If your soul whispers yes… follow it.
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Vehllia Tranne
Vehllia Tranne is a movement facilitator, space-holder, and modern-day high priestess. Born in Indonesia to a Chinese–Indonesian family shaped by colonization, migration, and resilience, she has spent her life navigating questions of belonging, identity, and embodiment across cultures and continents.
A Certified 5Rhythms® Teacher and Founder of The City Waves™, she offers dynamic movement spaces grounded in somatic awareness and spiritual depth. Rooted in her Sundanese and Chinese ancestral lineages, she blends modern embodiment with ancient healing in a way that is accessible, potent, and alive.
Now based in San Francisco, Vehllia works with visionary women and leaders who are ready to lead from their bodies, not just their minds. Through retreats, workshops, and containers, she creates spaces where ancestral trauma can unwind, leadership becomes embodied, and the body’s truth is felt, trusted, and set free. She believes our bodies remember the way home before we do.
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Gina {GG} Garris
Gina {GG} Garris (they/them or she/her) is a Mystic, High Priestess, Threshold Witch, Shadow Walker, and Erotic Guide. A genderqueer woman and devoted student of the erotic and the divine, GG weaves shadow, pleasure, and ritual into portals of remembrance—inviting you to taste the holiness of your own aliveness.GG mentors in the realms of Erotic Blueprints™, holistic sexual health and the sacred ceremony of life.
She guides clients back to their unapologetic aliveness. “Wholeness, juiciness and life without shame” are a few ways Gina’s clients describe the results of their work. GG also adores making beautiful messes, blowing bubbles, eating cake for breakfast, and living outrageously.
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Rachel Pinkerton
Rachel Pinkerton is an initiated high priestess and Keeper of the Rose, an attuned Reiki Master, and a formally trained birth doula and soul midwife. She combines these unique skills to create personalized rituals, ceremonies, and spiritual guidance for those navigating the most profound rites of passage, including birth, grief, and transformational life transitions.
Rachel is the founder of Ancient Mother Wellness and the host of the Ancient Mother Podcast, where she shares insights on spiritual growth, death and rebirth, and sacred feminine wisdom. Her work is informed by formal training, years of personal practice, and the initiating force of lived experience as both a mother and widow.
Rachel draws on the universal principles of death and rebirth to guide her clients in releasing attachment, transmuting trauma, and embracing new cycles of growth. Her mission is to help shift the cultural narrative around death and help others to step fully into their power, reclaim sacred rites of passage, and align with their soul purpose.
When she is not guiding clients or recording her podcast, Rachel enjoys spending time with her beautiful daughters, observing the signs of Spirit in everyday life, and traveling to connect with nature and explore ancient sites.
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Michelle Silva
Michelle Silva is a classically trained pianist, devoted spiritual seeker, and Keeper of the Sacred Feminine. With nearly thirty years of experience inspiring creativity and self-expression in her students, she holds an ARCT in Piano Performance and Teaching from the Royal Conservatory of Music and a degree in Psychology from the University of Winnipeg.
A breast cancer survivor, Michelle’s life and work have been profoundly shaped by her journey through healing, transformation, and devotion. Guided by the divine presence of Amma and Mary Magdalene, she explores the alchemy of spirit through music, meditation, sacred pilgrimage, and the use of anointing oils. Her personal experiences of surrender, shadow work, and rebirth inform her approach to empowering women to connect with their inner strength and wisdom.
Michelle now creates global retreats designed to awaken the divine feminine, offering sacred spaces for renewal, remembrance, and radiant love. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, bringing her knowledge and devotion to communities seeking transformation, presence, and spiritual embodiment.
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Anke Randegger
Dr. Anke Randegger is a compassionate guide into feminine embodiment and presence. She is on a mission to restore the long-suppressed feminine to its rightful place, supporting women to remember their sacred feminine spirituality—a path of love, presence, and magic.
Alongside her academic path as a pharmacist, Anke brings over thirty years of experience in holistic training and women’s healing. She creates spaces of trust and transformation where women feel safe, seen, and deeply supported, allowing them to reclaim their strength, radiance, and joy.
She invites women to join her retreats in Provence, where the sacred presence of Mary Magdalene awakens what their hearts long for most: deep connection, authentic sisterhood, and nurturing of the soul.
As a gift, she offers Sacred Questions: a gateway to instant love and presence - a free guide inviting you to explore the wisdom of the feminine and weave it into everyday life.
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Tiara B.A.
Tiara B.A. is a multidisciplinary artist, beauty business consultant, and community leader devoted to helping others heal from the inside out. As the founder of Esthi Queen, EQ Skincare and Esthi & Co, she blends ritual, artistry, and holistic care to teach self-healing as a daily practice of divine remembrance. She transforms the beauty of experience into curated storytelling and visual arts.
Through her personal story of transformation, Tiara guides women to reclaim their confidence, nurture their inner child, and embrace their authentic power. Her work bridges beauty and spirituality, reminding others that forgiveness and self-care are sacred acts of becoming.
When she’s not just creating and consulting, she’s serving in her community as an advocate and commissioner for fair rights for underserved minority businesses. Her peace is at home with her dear husband and sweet doggy. She embodies what it means to bloom after the wound.
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Aliyah Hamilton
Aliyah Hamilton is a mystic mother, somatic guide, and keeper of the golden thread. Her work weaves deep sensitivity, devotional practice, and grounded presence. Rooted in the Kootenay mountains of British Columbia, she walks as both child and priestess of the land, guiding others into the sanctuary of their own becoming.
Her gifts live in her ability to feel deeply, soften where others brace, and listen where others rush to speak. As a Relational Somatic Therapist, play therapist for both children and adults, parent coach, and ceremonial guide, she invites others to access the wisdom written in their bodies and the innocence that still lives beneath their survival.
Whether tending children, holding ceremony, or sitting in circle with women reclaiming their truth, Aliyah lives her prayer: to walk softly, love fiercely, and midwife the sacred in all things.
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Ber-Henda Williams
Ber-Henda Williams is a bilingual poet, empathic leadership coach, and culture-maker whose work sits at the intersection of womanist theology, ancestral wisdom, and creative justice. The Year My Altar Became My Body reflects her conviction that the sacred is lived through flesh, language, and community—that healing is both personal and collective. Rooted in Detroit and guided by the Holy Spirit, Williams uses storytelling, art, and spiritual praxis to help women reclaim softness as power and leadership as ministry.
Featured in Thrive Global, Fast Company, and Madam Noir, she bridges creativity, spirituality, and activism to ignite purpose-driven change in women and youth.
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Carina Jackson
Carina Jackson is the Chief Operations Officer for Mariners Inn, a human services organisation serving men and their families in Detroit. She has a diverse background in nonprofit management, program development, staff wellness, and entrepreneurship.
Over the years, Carina has participated in prestigious fellowships, including the WK Kellogg Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Detroit Class XXXVII, 92Y Ford Foundation, and the German Marshall Memorial Fellowship.
Drawing on her personal journey of overcoming profound physical and mental challenges while maintaining wellness, Carina became a Certified Wellness Coach through NASM. She now guides others in achieving balance, health, and personal empowerment without depleting their energy or spirit.
Carina shares her insights and experiences through speaking, coaching, and her online presence.
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Valerie Kobberø
Valerie is an intuitive healer whose gift lies in her hands and her connection to the invisible world. Guided by spirit, she helps her clients release stored pain and return to balance through deeply transformative massage and energy healing. Her travels across the globe have shaped her understanding of the body, energy, and the power of presence. Each session is uniquely guided by the energies she feels and sees. With reverence, compassion, and intuition, Valerie holds space for others to reclaim their well-being—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Connect with her on Facebook or Instagram to learn more.
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Lisa Bartosiewicz
Lisa Bartosiewicz is a lineage holder, practitioner, and teacher of Hoshindo, a Japanese meridian-based form of apitherapy that honors the honeybee as both healer and guide. One of only two recognized teachers of this lineage in the United States, she has spent over a decade as a guardian of the bees, cultivating a practice rooted in listening, precision, and reverence.
Through Hoshindo, Lisa supports clients and students in working with pain, fear, trauma, and disconnection at both physiological and energetic levels. Her work is grounded, relational, and exacting, shaped by years of hands-on experience and deep respect for the intelligence of the hive. As the founder of Hoshindo Hive Holistics, she teaches the ethical, technical, and spiritual dimensions of bee medicine, emphasizing responsibility to the bees, the land, and the lineage itself.
Lisa’s work with the bees is a devotional path and a remembering that healing is something we return to through presence, care, and deep respect.
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Kelsay Elizabeth Myers
Kelsay Elizabeth Myers is a published author, Certified Transformational Coach, Expressive Arts Practitioner and Registered Somatic Movement Educator who works along the edges of the mythic self. She offers integrative trauma resolution, compassionate change, and personal empowerment programs for bold hearts on the road to transformation, embodiment and self-expression.
Her work focuses on unraveling inner stories, redefining the roots and foundation of self-identity, and recapturing creative life force energy to help people live a passionate and fully connected life, so they can experience more safety, trust, confidence and ease.
With dual MFA degrees in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and certification as an Awakened Life Coach and a Tamalpa Institute Life/Art Process® Practitioner, she has over 14 years of experience in integrative somatic trauma therapy modalities, identity and ways of understanding the self, what makes a meaningful life and using the arts for healing.
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Lauren Dickinson
Lauren Dickinson is the visionary Founder and CEO of Orion Retreats, where she designs conscious travel experiences, retreats, and transformative events. With over twenty years in the healing arts, Lauren blends her roles as a coach, artist, retreat facilitator, and consciousness thought leader to create transformative programs that empower clients and guests from across the globe to awaken to their divinity.
With a well-rounded and practical knowledge base, Lauren skillfully and co-actively facilitates expanded life energy, healing, and personal growth with her clients. Her unique approach is informed by her deep connection to sacred energy centers around the world, including time spent living in Sedona, Arizona and learning from Aboriginal tribes in Uluru, Australia. Now based in Mount Shasta, California, she brings this profound spiritual awareness to her signature retreats and transformational programs, awakening participants to live as channels for universal wisdom.
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Trish Meekins
Trish Nadjiwon Meekins is an Indigenous woman, grandmother, healer, channel, and teacher. She has dedicated her life to guiding others through their walk in life. Through her experiences, education and deep connection to Creator, Trish has triumphed over life’s challenges and welcomes the opportunity to meet people who may need assistance along the way. She continues to practice the many modalities she has been taught, some since childhood. Together with her husband, she is committed to creating a healing retreat centre in Neyaashiinigmiing, the traditional lands of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, while travelling and speaking to others about culture, healing, and unity.
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Melody Jaine
Melody Jaine is a Sacred Sound Alchemist, Creative, Ceremonialist, and Shamanic Priestess devoted to guiding others through their spiritual awakening. She is passionate about igniting the fire and light within you, helping you access your power and Divinity. Her soul’s purpose is to heal through song. Blending sound, mantra, frequency, and intentional medicine music, she weaves advanced meditation and vibrational tuning therapies with intuitive harmonics. Melody creates space for deep reconnection—mind, body, and spirit attuned in harmony.
Receive her free Energy Hygiene Protocol and explore her offerings at MedicineCave.com.
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Jennine Spencer-Gilbert
Born and raised in Detroit, Jennine Spencer-Gilbert has spent her life turning her love for the city into action. A licensed cosmetologist since 1989, she ran a thriving salon for more than two decades, mentoring young women and creating a space of care, growth, and empowerment. Returning to her childhood neighbourhood of Islandview to raise her family, Jennine repurchased her family home and later acquired the adjacent property to create multigenerational housing—an act that sparked her fight against displacement and deepened her commitment to keeping her community whole.
Over the years, she has partnered with hundreds of Detroit organisations, coached volleyball for bilingual schools, and championed youth development, community safety, and access to essential resources. She has served as a block club leader, nonprofit project manager, Youth Director, and community engagement specialist with Genesis HOPE CDC, Field Street Block Club president, and now Digital Tech Supervisor with the Equitable Internet Initiative out of Church of the Messiah and community engagement Director for Directorspecialist for Planted Detroit, expanding digital access where it’s needed most.
A devoted wife and mother, Jennine continues to nurture connection, resilience, and hope across Detroit, carrying forward a legacy of service that is both personal and transformative.
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Corinna Bachmann
Corinna Bachmann is the creator of Leading by Presence, a transformational approach that bridges the mystical and the corporate worlds. Rooted in her lifelong spiritual practice and experience as a CEO, Corinna guides leaders to embody deeper presence—one that steadies the nervous system, harmonizes energy, and inspires authentic action.
Her work integrates the science of regulation with the art of energy: teaching leaders how to return to calm, centered, grounded states even in moments of pressure, while expanding their energetic field of influence. By aligning body, mind, and spirit, Corinna shows that true leadership is not a performance, but a frequency you carry.
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Jennifer Amaral
I am deeply honored to guide individuals on transformative journeys, helping them reconnect with their true essence and embody their fullest potential. My work integrates somatic therapy, ancient shamanic wisdom, and holistic practices to facilitate profound healing and alignment of mind, body, and spirit.
Having trained with shamans in Peru, I bring the sacred traditions of the Andes into my teachings, ceremonies, and retreats. Combined with expertise in PSYCH-K, NLP, and somatic movement, I offer a unique approach to personal and collective transformation, holding a safe space for shedding old patterns and awakening innate wisdom.
As a Medicine Woman, Shaman, and transformational coach, I have dedicated over 24 years to this work. My journey includes a background as a professional athlete, which informs my understanding of body, mind, and spirit. Through establishing three successful companies, I’ve empowered leaders and individuals globally, led women’s retreats, and facilitated transformative group intensives.
Through Insumataq Studio, a sacred container for growth and healing, I offer classes, ceremonies, and retreats that foster alignment, connection, and inner peace. Outside of leading workshops, I enjoy exploring new cultures, spending time with family, and deepening my spiritual practices in nature.
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Caroline Brock
Caroline Brock is a modern-day mystic, embodiment guide, and soul alchemist devoted to helping others reclaim their wholeness. Bridging spiritual awakening and grounded leadership, she serves as a breathwork facilitator, speaker, and wellness entrepreneur who has guided hundreds through transformational experiences rooted in truth, presence, and sacred union.
A mother of four daughters and a steward of conscious marriage, Caroline teaches the sacred path of true soul union alongside her beloved husband, Aaron. Together, they offer a living example of holy partnership—anchored in attunement, devotion, and energetic mastery.
Caroline lives at the intersection of embodiment and Divine remembrance. Through retreats, classes, and sacred writing, she midwives the awakening of men and women across the globe. She believes that the rising of embodied souls will transpose this world into the next octave of truth, beauty, and sacred possibility.
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