
Year One: Initiation into the Shamanic Dragon Priestess Path
A 13-Month Journey of Soul Remembrance, Sacred Rhythm, and Feminine Embodiment.
 Embark on a transformative journey that aligns with the natural rhythms of the Earth and the cosmos. Over 13 months, you'll delve into the foundational teachings of the Sophianic Spiral of the Dragon Rose, awakening your inner wisdom and reconnecting with your sacred essence.
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The Sophianic Spiral of The Dragon Rose
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This path isn’t about escaping your life—it’s about coming home to it.
It’s a gentle but powerful spiral of reconnection. To your energy. Your truth. Your gifts. Your inner cycles. Your sacred remembering.
In this first year, you’ll walk through five core spirals—the Lunar, Dragon, Alchemist, Empress, and Priestess Codes—designed to activate your intuition, deepen your healing, and ground your spirituality into everyday life.
We follow the rhythm of the Wheel of the Year, the phases of the moon, and the wisdom of your own body. Each spiral,  you receive core teachings, resources, guided journeys, energetic transmissions, seasonal rituals, and integration practices to help you live what you’re learning.
This isn’t about learning more. It’s about embodying what you already carry.
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Rooted in Earth & Ancestral Wisdom
For thousands of years, our ancestors honoured the land, the seasons, and the unseen. They knew how to listen to the whispers of the earth and the language of energy. They practiced healing, ritual, and community in tune with the rhythms of nature.
This spiral is part of the remembering. Not a recreation of the past, but a reweaving for now.
Through this work, you reconnect with earth-based wisdom, ancient feminine pathways, and your own intuitive knowing.
You’ll learn to bring sacredness into your daily life. - without overwhelm. Through simple rituals, shamanic practices, tree, plant, animal allies, ceremonial space, seasonal reflection, and energetic tools that support your modern life with ancient roots.
This Path is for You if…
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You feel spiritually curious but long for more depth and guidance
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You’ve gone through life changes and are asking, “Who am I now?”
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You feel drawn to dragons, the moon, energy work, or the priestess path - but don’t know where to start
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You want to live more cyclically, intuitively, and authentically
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You’re ready to reconnect to your gifts - not to perform, but to live with more meaning and presence
You don’t need to be “ready.”
You just need to feel the pull. This is the spiral home.

"To walk the Sophianic Spiral is to remember that your body, your voice, and your presence are sacred"
Why Walk the Priestess Path?
There is a rising happening in women around the world.
A remembering. A returning. A quiet, powerful pull to reconnect with something ancient and true.
The Priestess Path is not about perfection, performance, or becoming someone else.
It’s about coming home to your own inner wisdom, rhythm, and truth.
Long before religion or disconnection, our ancestors lived in tune with the land. They followed the cycles of the moon and the turning of the seasons. They honoured both the feminine and the masculine as sacred, and understood that real power comes through balance, presence, and connection to the earth.
The Sophianic Spiral of the Dragon Rose is part of that remembering.
It weaves together ancient feminine teachings, dragon wisdom, elemental healing, and ritual embodiment—brought into a form that supports your life now.
To walk this path is to:
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Reclaim your natural rhythm
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Live in alignment with the earth and your energy body
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Remember your intuitive gifts and actually use them
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Honour your emotions, your body, your voice and your timing
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Create ceremony, sacred space, and real connection with spirit in daily life
This isn’t about copying ancient priestesses - it’s about awakening the priestess within you.
You might walk this path as a healer, an artist, a mother, a writer, or a space holder.
You might walk it quietly, or share it widely.
But however you walk it, it will change how you relate to yourself, to others, and to the sacred.
The Priestess Path is a spiral - not a straight line.
It’s a path of healing, remembering, and reclaiming the sacred in your life.

"This is not about becoming a priestess. It is about remembering that you already are one."
About Your Guide Nicola Brettell-Smith
Nicola is a Shamanic Dragon Priestess, channel of the Sophianic Spiral of the Dragon Rose, and founder of Soulful Wisdom Academy, where she guides women through sacred remembrance, feminine embodiment, and multidimensional healing.
Her journey has been a spiral of her own - moving from community leader, home educator, and mother, into priestess, healer, and spiritual teacher. She brings years of lived experience walking between the everyday and the mystical, and now supports other women to do the same.
Nicola is a co-host and speaker of the Dragon Thunder Summit, a two-time bestselling co-author (She Is... Unleashing Divine Feminine Power and Goddess), and the creator of the Dragon Codes Wisdom Oracle Deck.
Her teachings are rooted in the living lineage of the Dragon Rose, drawing upon Celtic shamanism, feminine archetypes, elemental healing, dreamwork, and dragon medicine. She channels teachings from the Dragon Collective, the land, and the Sophia current - offering soul-led transmissions that support spiritual awakening and grounded embodiment.
Nicola’s mission is to help women reconnect with their gifts, walk in rhythm with the earth, and embody their truth - not through perfection, but through presence, permission, and deep remembrance.
Read Nicola's Story
"In this lineage, we do not rush the rose. We honour its unfolding."
How the Spiral Unfolds: Your 13-Month Journey
This sacred journey through Year One follows a 13-month spiral—a rhythm that mirrors the wisdom of the moon, the body, the feminine, and the earth.
We begin together with a Ceremony of Initiation, where you are welcomed into the temple and the spiral begins. From there, we move through five core spirals of remembrance:
The Lunar Codes
A continuous spiral of emotional healing, moon wisdom & inner rhythm
You’ll be guided by the moon’s phases over the entire year—working with the energies of manifestation, release, reflection, and integration. These codes are the thread that weave through everything.
The Dragon Codes (13 weeks)
Energy body activation, dragon consciousness, personal power
Meet 13 dragons that support you to awaken your gifts, strengthen your sovereignty, and reconnect to your inner fire and intuitive knowing.
The Alchemist Codes (13 weeks)
Elemental magic, Celtic shamanic tools, tree & animal wisdom
Journey with 13 Celtic trees and 13 animal allies to awaken your connection to the natural world, your guides, and the elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
The Empress Codes (13 weeks)
Feminine archetypes, embodiment, and inner healing
Explore 13 sacred feminine archetypes to reclaim lost parts of yourself, understand your cyclical nature, and express your truth through archetypal medicine.
The Priestess Codes (13 weeks)
Ceremony, plant allies, sacred space creation
Meet 13 plant allies, receive ritual teachings, and learn to tend your own altar and inner temple. This spiral activates your deep remembering of the sacred in everyday life.

"The codes you carry are not new. They are ancient, living in your bones, waiting to be awakened."
The Power of 13
A Sacred Number of the Feminine, the Moon, and the Spiral
In this Mystery School, we don’t rush from point A to point B.
We spiral. We cycle. We remember.
The number 13 holds deep significance within feminine wisdom traditions, long before it was misunderstood or feared.
In many ancient cultures, 13 was revered as a sacred number aligned with:
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13 lunar cycles in a true lunar year
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13 menstrual cycles for women per year, mirroring the moon
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Ovulation occurring around day 13 of the cycle
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Venus’ 8-year cycle, creating 13 full revolutions and a sacred rose pattern in the sky
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13 months in ancient lunar calendars, such as the Celtic and Mayan systems
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13 tones in the Mayan calendar, each one reflecting a cosmic step in creation
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13 cards per suit in a tarot or playing deck—symbolizing completion and rhythm
In patriarchal systems, the number 13 was labelled as unlucky.
But in priestess traditions, 13 is the number of inner power, cyclical wisdom, and the spiral of life itself.
In this Mystery School, each spiral: Dragon, Alchemist, Empress, Priestess, is 13 weeks long.
You’ll meet 13 dragons, 13 trees, 13 animal guides, 13 feminine archetypes, and 13 plant allies, over 13 moons - each one an aspect of your remembering.
The 13th step is the one beyond logic.
It is the place of mystery, integration, and becoming.
To walk the spiral is to reclaim your relationship with time, intuition, and the sacred.
This is the path of the Shamanic Dragon Priestess.
And 13 is your rhythm.

"13 is not a number to fear—it is a gateway to feminine power."
How We Gather
You are never walking this path alone.
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We begin with a Ceremony of Initiation to open the spiral
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We meet for 8 seasonal ceremonies throughout the year—aligned with the Celtic Wheel of the Year
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In each ceremony, we work with dragons of the directions, elements, and seasons
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You’ll receive teachings, resources and transmissions to guide you through each spiral
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You’ll be part of a private online sisterhood group, where you can ask questions, share your journey, and be supported in sacred space
This is not a course to rush through.
It’s a path to live, spiral through, and remember.

"You are not walking in circles. You are spiraling into your truth."
What’s Included in Year One
Your 13-Month Journey through the Sophianic Spiral of the Dragon Rose
This is not just a course—it’s a Mystery School.
A guided journey through remembrance, embodiment, and reconnection to the sacred feminine within you.
Throughout the 13 months, you will receive:
Core Teachings & Transmissions
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5 Core Spirals:
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Dragon Codes – Awaken your energy body through 13 dragon allies, each activating a unique aspect of your power, purpose, and inner fire. You’ll connect with ley lines, ignite each chakra, and embody the strength, sovereignty, and clarity of dragon consciousness through guided meditations, rituals, ceremonies and soul inquiry.
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 Alchemist Codes – Master the elements and reclaim your role as a co-creator with nature. You’ll journey with 13 sacred Celtic trees and 13 animal allies while working intimately with Earth, Fire, Water, and Air as living forces of healing, protection, and transformation. This spiral includes shamanic practices and teachings, ancestral healing, finding your own sacred drum, and meditations to meet your spirit team and allies. You’ll learn to walk the wheel of the year as a living ceremony and align your life with the deep rhythms of the earth.
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Empress Codes – Reclaim your inner feminine power through 13 sacred archetypes that reflect the many faces of the Divine Feminine—mystic, oracle, lover, mother, crone, and more. You’ll enter a priestess temple where one archetype will meet you as a guide, activating a deeper aspect of your soul. Rooted in Celtic goddess wisdom and seasonal flow, these teachings help you integrate your feminine lineages, balance maiden–mother–crone energies, and embrace self-love, embodiment, and sovereignty through rituals, soul inquiry, and guided practice.
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 Priestess Codes – Reclaim the sacred path of ceremony and intuitive connection. In this spiral, you’ll enter one Priestess Temple to meet 13 sacred plants—each paired with a global temple such as those of Isis or Magdalene—and receive their healing properties through guided journeys, tea ceremonies, oils and ritual practice. You’ll learn to create meaningful ceremonies, design altars, and work with plant spirits as allies of healing and transformation. These codes support you in weaving sacredness into everyday life and embodying the priestess within.
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Lunar Codes – Woven through the entire 13-month spiral, these codes guide you into deeper alignment with the moon’s cycles and your emotional body. As a Moon Priestess, you’ll work with 48 ready-to-use ceremonies for every new and full moon, each aligned with astrological insights to support manifestation, release, and emotional flow. You’ll learn to track your own rhythms, honour your intuition, and create rituals that ground your energy in sacred timing.
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52+ Video or Audio Teachings & Guided Practices to support your path
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Integration Materials & Embodiment Tools
Each spiral is supported by energetic and emotional practices to help you anchor the teachings in your body and field:
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Qi Gong, Breathwork & EFT for emotional release and energetic balance
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Transference Healing® Practices & Light Transmissions to support integration, healing, and recalibration
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Supporting workbooks, crystal grids,  journaling prompts, seasonal tools, soul inquiry prompts and ceremonial rituals to embody what you receive
- Channelled transmissions, guided meditations, and energetic activations woven throughout the year
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Shamanic Training & Earth Wisdom
Year One includes foundational training in Celtic and Earth-based shamanism, including:
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Core shamanic journeying techniques
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Work with the directions, elements, and the Celtic Medicine Wheel
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Connection with your power animal, gatekeeper, and shamanic team
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Sacred practices for soul retrieval, energy hygiene, space clearing and dimensional navigation
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Earth-based ritual and seasonal alignment
This is not theoretical—it’s experiential. You’ll learn to navigate the unseen, walk between worlds, and hold your own energy clearly and safely.
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Sacred Ceremonies & Community Support
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Opening Ceremony of Initiation to activate your spiral journey
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8 Seasonal Ceremonies throughout the year (Solstices, Equinoxes & Cross-Quarter Days)
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Private Online Sisterhood Space to share, reflect, and receive support
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Ongoing guidance from Nicola and access to a soul-aligned global community of women walking this path with you
Certification
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On completion, you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion for Year One
(Required for progression to Year Two: Priestess Practitioner Training & Dragon Rose Light Healing) - Pathway to join the Dragon Rose Light Healing™ Retreat and Earth Stewardship Legacy Work in future spirals





A Sacred Invitation.
This is not just another course. It is a return. If you’ve been quietly searching for something deeper... If you’ve felt the dragons stir, or the pull of the moon... If you’re yearning to walk in rhythm with your soul again... You’re not here by accident.
This spiral is for the ones who are done skimming the surface. For the women who want to live with intention, ceremony, and soul. For those who want to reconnect- not just with spirit and nature, but with themselves.
You don’t need to be perfect. Or confident. Or ready.
You just need to be willing to remember, to soften, to say yes to the spiral.
Because you were never lost.
You were simply being called home.