Daughters of Ishtar embodies a feminine stream of blessing which honours and holds the whole of women's lived experience as sacred - the luminous moments of love, joy and self-transcendence as well as the dark and potent places of despair, rage and birthing power.

Catherine Ishara de Garis is a skilled facilitator and gifted healer with a proven ability to open and hold sacred space for healing and transformation. Daughters of Ishtar is a practical expression of her personal vocation as a priestess of the Great Mother.

" My dream, the theme that recurs again and again in my life, is to recreate sacred Goddess space. To dream new forms for ancient roots, ancient energies, and give them new life for the times ahead. My creative work as a community facilitator, a healer and a priestess is a constant process of dreaming, gestating and birthing, a constant practice in opening, surrender and letting go. "

"My hope is that, in its own small way, Daughters of Ishtar can make a positive contribution to the evolution of sustainable local culture and a peaceful world. Pregnancy and childbirth are a special focus of my work, because they touch on a central mystery of our humanity, and because of their double potential - both for realising our personal power as women, and for literally changing the world, one birth, one human beginning, at a time."

The work is informed by a strong belief in the value and power of life-affirming, grounded spirituality, emotional authenticity, and the sisterhood of women. Daughters of Ishtar strives to uphold these beliefs and values in all the services we deliver.

Blessings, Ishara.

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