The Avalon Rose Chapel® Priestess Training consists of two courses  – The Path of the Gnostic Goddess & The Path of the Rose Lineage.

Each 5-part course is inspired by the 5-pointed Star, which the planet Venus creates 5 times inside the Celestial Rose she traces in the heavens during her 8 year cycle, as seen in the logo of The Avalon Rose Chapel®.

This 5-pointed Star is also found in the centre of the Apple, the Fruit of Wisdom and Love in the Avalon Rose Lineage, the energies of which are anchored here in The Avalon Rose Chapel® and the ancient Isle of Avalon, Isle of Apples.

6500 years ago, our Neolithic ancestors of the British Isles and Western Europe began building their megalithic monuments, some aligned to the heliacal rising of Venus and Sirius, 1000 years before the Sumerians in Ancient Mesopotamia, who were the first culture to write down the foundation mythos inspired by the Cycle of Venus.

It is from these ancestral roots of honouring Venus, Sirius, the Rose, the 5-pointed Star and the Apple of Wisdom in these sacred lands of the British Isles that the branches of the Rose and Celtic Lineages have blossomed here in Avalon upon their singular Tree of Life, which I call The Avalon Rose Lineage.

It is this Lineage that I look forward to facilitating your own knowledge and experience of through The Avalon Rose Chapel® Priestess Training, grounded in the tenemos of The Avalon Rose Chapel®, Glastonbury-Avalon and the Summerlands, which some believe once leant their name to Sumer in Ancient Sumeria.

• The Path of the Gnostic Goddess

5 workshops (Aug-Dec) exploring the herstories and healing energies of the Gnostic Rose Goddesses Eve, Magdalene, Mary, Lilith and Sophia in relation to your own Maiden, Lover, Mother, Crone and Wisdom Archetypes.

• The Path of the Rose Lineage

5 workshops (Jan-May) exploring the cultural, spiritual and mythic timeline of the Avalon Rose Lineage from the Megalithic British Isles to Ancient Mesopotamia, Judaism, Egypt, Greece-Rome and back to the Celtic-Druidic British Isles and the Early Christian Gnostics in Glastonbury-Avalon.

You can take the training as part of your own Path of Gnosis (self-knowledge), or dedicate as a Priestess either online or in The Avalon Rose Chapel® at our Community Day held each June on the day after the optional Mary & Michael Pilgrimage to Glastonbury-Avalon & the Summerlands completes.

• You feel drawn to one or more of the Gnostic Rose Goddesses Eve, Magdalene, Mary, Lilith and Sophia, and want to learn more about the origins of their stories, teachings, rituals and relevance for your life today
• You are open to experiencing their love, compassion, healing and guidance in order to shine your and their light in the world
• You are interested in the Avalon Rose Lineage and its origins in our Neolithic ancestors’ worship of Venus and Sirius in the British Isles and Western Europe, the Ancient Mesopotamian myths of Inanna-Ishtar, the Ancient Judaic teachings, the Ancient Egyptian Mysteries, the Greco-Roman pantheon, and the Celtic-Druidic culture and Early Christian Gnostics of Glastonbury-Avalon
• You feel a calling to the ancient Isle of Avalon with its weaving of Avalonian, Rose and Celtic-Druidic lineages, which all have their roots in the Neolithic ancestral culture of the British Isles and Western Europe
• You would like to explore what it means to you to be an Avalon Rose Priestess in this lifetime, and perhaps connect to this part of you from past-lives
• You enjoy courses that combine both left-brain intellectual and right-brain experiential learning, including academic seminars, text analysis, guided visualisations, drum journeys, creative expression, rituals and ceremonies
• You love the idea of sharing a 10 month online journey with an international circle of Sisters through live webinars from The Avalon Rose Chapel® and within a private Facebook Group
• You feel inspired to dedicate as an Avalon Rose Priestess with The Avalon Rose Chapel® and to become part of our international community, or you simply desire to follow the training as part of your own Path of Gnosis or self-knowledge

In your private online Member’s Area of my website, you will receive content equivalent to 10 weekend workshops (120 hours), all filmed and recorded live during the in-person Priestess Trainings held at the original Chapel in Glastonbury, so that the online material is completely grounded in the mythos and tenemos of the Rose-Celtic Holy Isle of Avalon, with footage of all the sacred sites that we pilgrimage to.

Every 4 weeks, from August through to May, you will receive the following:

• A 1.5 hour live group webinar with Annabel, consisting of an opening prayer, sharing circle and Q&A on the previous month’s workshop followed by a guided journey to lead you into the next workshop, with the first webinar being our opening ceremony
• A 2 hour live group creative webinar with Emma-Rose, held half-way through each 4 week workshop, where you will be led on a guided journey and through the creative process whilst sharing your experiences in circle
• A recording of a live webinar with Annabel where she shares her relevant altar with you, the first part of the academic teaching and a guided journey
• Videos of Annabel delivering all the academic teachings live to the in-person trainees with Q&As
• Guidance for performing your own ceremonies including an Initiation ceremony, a Fire ceremony, an Anointing ceremony, a Sacred Marriage ceremony, a Water blessing, a Reclaiming ceremony, a Soul ceremony, a Divination ritual and a Labyrinth ceremony
• Guidance for journeying on sacred pilgrimages with guided visualisations and footage from the in-person training pilgrimages to all the sacred Rose-Celtic sites on the Isle of Avalon and in the Summerlands
• Guided Visualisation and Drum Journey MP3s (also recorded live during the in-person training)
• Soul-Development Exercises to enable you to work transpersonally with the academic teachings
• Suggestions for creative projects as a further source of transpersonal expression with footage from the in-person training, including vision boards, weaving, painting, crafting, storytelling, myth-making, poetry, carving and willow weaving
• Recordings of or links to relevant songs, chants, prayers, sacred texts and pilgrimage sites
• Membership of a private Facebook Group where you will be able to share your experiences, support each other and receive feedback on your journey from Annabel and Emma-Rose, who will be holding you through the process

You can choose to dedicate as a Priestess either online or in The Avalon Rose Chapel® at our Community Day held each June on the day after the optional Mary & Michael Pilgrimage to Glastonbury-Avalon & the Summerlands completes.

Following the training, you are invited to become a member of The Avalon Rose Chapel® Community of Priestesses and Practitioners, who host monthly lives in our private Facebook Group, co-create online events to raise funds for charity, and contribute blogs and social media posts.

Cost

The cost of this 10-month (120 hour) academic and experiential Priestess Training is £2499 in full with 2 options to pay via payment plan (£525 x 5 months or £275 x 10 months) for those of you who would prefer to spread the cost.

Scholarships

There are also scholarships available for the disabled, carers, single parents and BIPOC on low-income who might otherwise not be able to attend the training – please email us if you would like to apply for a scholarship.

Refund Policy

Due to high demand for places and it being an online digital product, I’m afraid we do not offer refunds as per our terms except under exceptional circumstances.

Start Date

The doors are open to join us until Monday 25 September 2023

Questions

If you have any further questions, please email us with them. Or, if you would prefer to have a free 15 min call with Annabel to discuss the training, please book this via the link below. If there are no available appointments on the booking calendar in your time zone, please email us to arrange a call.

Please note that this training is:

• only suitable for people over the age of 25 who have already processed their emotional wounding to the point where they are able to self-manage if anything comes up for them or have a therapist in place to support them
• partly transpersonal and therefore not appropriate for anyone coping with mental health difficulties as it wouldn’t be safe
• partly academic and therefore requires previous experience of and interest in academic learning

If you are also interested in joining the 7-day Mary & Michael Pilgrimage to Glastonbury-Avalon and the Summerlands from 8-14 June 2024, where we visit all the sacred sites we work with during the Priestess Training, please click the link below.

Spaces are limited so please apply for your place at the same time as you book onto the Priestess Training.

If you are also interested in joining the 7 module, self-paced online Practitioner Training and/or the Rose Goddess Pilgrimage to Sicily (9-16 August 2024), please click the links below.

For further information, please scroll down to:

• Read a detailed description of the ten Priestess Training workshops
• Meet your Priestess Training Assistants
• Read about our commitment to Sacred Service
• Read testimonials about the Priestess Training by Avalon Rose Chapel® Priestesses

We begin with five workshops journeying with the Gnostic Rose Goddesses Eve (August), Magdalene (September), Mary (October), Lilith (November) and Sophia (December), aligned energetically with Annabel’s Philosophia Wheel of the Year, beginning with Eve at the Lammas Apple Harvest, moving through the Sacred Marriage of Magdalene and Yeshua embodied in the Autumn Equinox, to Mary in her dual aspect as the Madonna and Black Madonna, as we descend into Samhain with Lilith and our rebirth at the Winter Solstice with Sophia.

These five embodiments of the Feminine Divine are some of the most well-known and most manipulated by patriarchal religion. Rediscover the fascinating pagan origins of their stories, receive their deep healing, love and guidance, and rebirth yourself onto their ancient path of the Rose Lineage in Avalon.

After journeying with the Gnostic Rose Goddesses, we turn our attention to the Avalon Rose Lineage with five workshops exploring the historical, cultural, spiritual, philosophical and mythic timeline that weaves its way from the Megalithic British Isles to Ancient Mesopotamia, through Ancient Judaism, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Greco-Roman culture, back to the Celtic-Druidic British Isles and the Early Christian Gnostics in Glastonbury-Avalon, working with all their herstories, teachings, writings, myths, deities, archetypes, symbols, totem animals and rituals.

During this course, you will not only become an expert in the Avalon Rose Lineage, both academically and experientially, but you will reconnect with your Priestess Self from these ancient cultures and re-member why you are drawn to the Avalon Rose Path in this lifetime.