Year Three Programme

The Practice of the Presence of the Lady of Avalon is the Third Spiral and final year of the Priest/ess of Avalon training. It consists of a nine month daily spiritual practice which is designed to give you a deeper, more profound experience of the Presence of the Lady of Avalon. The Third Spiral is taught over four weekends spread out over the nine months, the Practice expanding and intensifying every three months.

The Practice culminates in a special Ceremony in which students have the opportunity to Self-Initiate as Priestesses or Priests of Avalon. To be eligible to take part in this Self-Initiation Ceremony students must have completed the First and Second Spirals of the Priest/ess of Avalon training, taken part in all four weekends and performed the daily Practice for nine months.

The Practice of the Presence is also open to those who wish to deepen their relationship to the Lady of Avalon without becoming Her priestess.

The Third Spiral is taught by Kathy Jones. Kathy is the author of several groundbreaking books on the British Goddess, the sacred landscape and healing, and has an international reputation as an authority on the Goddess. She is a founder of the Isle of Avalon Foundation as well as Glastonbury’s Goddess Temple and the annual International Goddess Conference. Kathy teaches other advanced Priestess courses as well as a training in Esoteric Soul Healing.

On this course you will learn:

About the Energies, Powers and Presence of the Lady of Avalon

The Lady of Avalon is the Goddess who rules the Isle of Avalon. She is an emerging Goddess from the ancient past calling to us in the present and from future times. She is the feminine essence of the land and energies of the Isle of Avalon and is primarily imaged in the landscape and legends of Glastonbury Avalon. She reveals Herself in the shapes of the hills and valleys as a giant Maiden Swan, as the vibrant Lover, as the birth-giving Mother and as an ancient wise Crone. As we walk the sacred landscape She comes to us in visions through the Veil of Avalon appearing as a beautiful woman, young or mature, as a girl, as an old woman, as the Myst, and in her totem animal forms. During the Practice of Her Presence She appears to us in our imagination and in our dreams. She communicates with us as sound, in words, music and art. She is found wherever we walk on the sacred land and She also appears in other landscapes in England, Wales, Scotland and abroad, in cities and towns, wherever we call to Her from our hearts.

The basic Practice of the Presence using ritual, visualisation and spiritual empowerment

During the first weekend students learn the basic spiritual Practice of the Presence of the Lady of Avalon and you will be empowered to perform it for yourself. Students are given images of the Lady to work with in their visualisations as well as written and esoteric instructions on the Practice. The Practice begins with a once a day morning session which lasts between 25 and 45 minutes. After three months this expands to twice a day, morning and evening. For the final three months student s also perform an additional noonday practice. The practice of Her Presence brings the student into personal spiritual contact with the energies of the Lady of Avalon. It also gives access to personal healing and inspiration transmitted to you directly from Her.

How to journey to Avalon and meet the Lady on a daily basis

Throughout the course students learn how to journey daily to the Isle of Avalon to meet the lady and to experience Her amazing loving radiant energies. The Practice includes learning how to ground and centre in the energies of your own soul, the full invocation of the Goddesses on the Lady’s Wheel of the Year, plus how to journey safely to Avalon, using ritual forms, visualisation, sound, prayer, song and movement. You will learn to make your own journeys through the sacred landscape from this world into Avalon to receive the blessings of the holy beings who dwell there.

To develop visualisation skills and intuition

One of the ways in which we come closer to the Goddess is by recognising Her within Her nature, which is all around us and also by seeing/feeling/recognising Her with out inner vision. Through performing the Practice daily you will develop your own skills of visualisation. As you journey to Avalon daily the Lady begins to show Herself to you in the forms She chooses. Students also develop the skill of building specific etheric forms of the Lady, embuing them with Her radiant energies. Through performing a daily Practice you will naturally develop these skills for yourself. You will also develop the ability to hear and listen to your own intuition as Her words are received each day. You are encouraged to act on your intuition and experience for yourself the truth of your own inner teacher.

To develop self-discipline

Performing an ever-deepening spiritual practice on a daily basis quickly brings us face to face with our own personal resistances. These resistances manifest in many different ways that are appropriate to the individual. Determination, commitment and self-discipline are required for the student to continue with the Practice through the resistances that arise. There is a balance to be wrought between the obvious spiritual benefits of the Practice, which include increased communication and inspiration from the Lady, and the obstacles that the personality will throw into your pathway. As the Practice intensifies and expands every three months so resistance can also increase. In order to successfully complete the Practice students develop self-discipline and hone your spiritual will to accomplish what your heart desires.

How to embody the Lady in ceremony, as Oracle and for healing

Through performing the Practice of the Presence of the Lady of Avalon you will experience first of all receiving Her radiant loving energies into your body and being on a daily basis and the powerful transforming effect that this can have in your life. By the end of the course you will have also learned how to receive and transmit the Lady of Avalon’s energies yourself out into the world. This experience and knowledge acquired over a length of time, can then be applied in ceremonies which invoke the Presence of the Lady embodied in Her priest/ess, for the giving of Her Oracles and to offer healing in Her name.