August 13, 2025
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in the Sacred Feminine Portal. Many of you joined us in person for the ceremonial opening of this community at the StarHouse last month with Myranda Pretty Owl and Lila Tresemer. Some of you also joined us this week in North Boulder when Katya Schmookler held space for us.
For the time being, we decided that this will be a community of reciprocity. Myranda, Lila, and Katya offered up their gifts to open our space in a good way and hold space for this group for the first two gatherings, and those who joined were blessed by their offerings. In turn, those who received are welcome to offer back to the collective in a future gathering, should they choose to. (There is no pressure at all to make a formal offering to the group, as attending and sharing your presence is more than gift enough, but for those who want that opportunity to share or test out their offerings, it is there.)
Rather than a Bcc email list where people have no real way of unsubscribing, we decided to invite you all to this newsletter. If it is no longer of interest for you, please feel free to unsubscribe. If you know others who might want to join, please feel free to send them the newsletter, or invite them to subscribe directly on the website:
https://sacredfeminineportal.com/
Those of you who joined in person this month or last month are already in contact with each other through an email list where we can communicate and share resources directly with each other. (If you joined in person and for some reason are not on that email list, please reach out and I can add you: danielapapi@gmail.com ) Anyone who joins in person for a future gathering and wants to be added to that direct communication email list will be invited to do so.
In the meantime, welcome to this newsletter where we are spotlighting the hosts of our last two sessions, and in the future, we’ll spotlight the upcoming hosts.
We hope to see you at our next gathering in September. We’ll announce the date ASAP in the coming days once we confirm the venue, as the venue we had booked for Sept now needs to cancel for that day. Stay tuned!
For those who are not in Boulder but want to stay connected, we hope to create pathways to connect online as well, soon, too!
May your day be blessed!
Spotlight
Myranda Pretty Owl
Myranda opened our first gathering in a good way, with a prayer, an opening of the directions, and a chance to connect with plant guides and allies.
She is the director, guide, and operator of a Colorado-based mystery school. She is accepting new clients and guideship students and is open to offering a Boulder-based learning cohort if there is interest.
Instagram: boundlesswarrior
Lila Tresemer
Lila held space for us at our first gathering and welcomed us into the StarHouse, a place she co-founded with her Beloved, David. Lila brings over 40 years of facilitation and practice related to the sacred feminine.
She is dedicated to the essence of the Sacred Union, personally, culturally and mythically. She continues to offer a range of offerings at the StarHouse and her books, courses, Goddesses of America trip to DC, and other resources related to the Sacred Feminine can be found in the link below.
Learn more on the Starhouse site
Katya Kuzmitskaya
Katya held space for our second gathering, offering a grounding practice and guided journey into the womb. Katya is a Certified Conscious Parenting Coach and a Feminine Energy Guide.
Her practice, Sacred Feminine Fire, exists to bring back feminine ways of life for our collective & personal healing and liberation. As a student of Myranda Pretty Owl, Katya has stepped into deeper knowledge and relationship with her own Slavic lineage of healing and ancestral knowledge of how to connect with the Sacred, helping women connect to their womb wisdom in her 1:1 coaching sessions and healing circles.
Katya leads bi-weekly online women’s circles on Fridays and in-person offerings as well.
Instagram: liberation.through.feminine
Daniela Papi
Daniela is holding the logistical container of this amorphous group as it takes shape. She began her learning about the Sacred Feminine through teachings of both Myranda Pretty Owl and Lila Tresemer and is delighted they both offered their gifts to open this container.
Daniela is a coach, educator, author, and facilitator who teachers at the intersection of systems change and innovation. She offers individual and group coaching packages, as well as workshops and courses related to systems understanding.
Instagram: danielapapithornton
Reflection
Last month, I was able to visit the sanctuary of Sainte-Baume also known as the Grotto of Mary Magdalene. As an example of the embodiment of the sacred feminine, Mary Magdalene was part of the course I took with Lila Tresemer, and I was delighted that we ended up a few hours away when visiting family in Europe this summer. I borrowed the car early in the morning and drove out, hiking up to the Grotto early enough that I was the only one in the space when I first arrived. I brought you all with me and prayed that whatever we each, and collectively, are creating through this sacred feminine portal be for the highest and greatest good of all concerned… may it be so!
Until Next Time,
Daniela, on behalf of the Sacred Feminine Portal