INITIATION BY FIRE

A Sacred Descent Through the Gates of Inanna
Led by Sarah Giles & Catherine Polisi

Friday, May 29, 2026
7:00-9:00 pm

Location:
NAAD CENTER
62 Woodbine Way
Stamford, CT 06903

This is not simply a workshop, it is a threshold experience.

Rooted in the ancient myth of Goddess Inanna’s descent, this initiation guides you through the sacred passage of shedding, transformation, and return. Like Inanna at the gates, you are invited to release the identities, patterns, and protections that no longer hold truth, and step into the fire of alchemy.

This experience unfolds as a three-phase journey mirroring the path of transformation through descent, dissolution, and rebirth.

Through journaling, shadow work, meditation, somatic alignment and energetic activation, you will enter the inner fire…

where what is outdated begins to soften,

where what is false begins to fall away,

and where your deeper essence begins to rise.

This is the work of the initiate—to move beyond surface awareness and into embodied transformation.

As you cross this threshold, you are guided to:

• Illuminate unconscious patterns and inherited conditioning

• Release stored emotional and energetic tension within the body

• Dissolve outdated identities held in the mind and nervous system

• Reclaim your inner authority and embodied truth

Blending somatic practices with subtle energetic work, this journey supports both deep release and grounded integration, allowing transformation to be not only experienced, but anchored within the body.

In times of personal and collective change, we are called into the fire, not to be consumed, but to be refined.

Initiation by Fire is a modern rite of passage, a return through the underworld of the self, and a re-emergence into clarity, sovereignty and your radiant being.