AWAKEN TO YOUR SACRED FEMININE POWER
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DR. ANNALISA DERR
Goddess Scholar | Educator | Pilgrimage Guide | Ritual Theatre Creatrix
I’m Annalisa
My Journey to the Goddess began as a deep inner call to discover what it means to be a woman beyond my patriarchal conditioning.
Today, I guide women on an archetypal journey from patriarchal daughter to sovereign woman.
Through scholarship, ritual, and embodied experiences, I use goddess archetypes as myth models to help women heal internalized sexism and awakening to their sacred feminine power.
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Current Offerings:
MY BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!
SUMMARY FROM MY PUBLISHER - INNER TRADITIONS:
Inviting you to cast off internalized beliefs that menstruation is dirty or shameful, Annalisa Derr reveals how to reclaim the Sacred Feminine Power of your menstrual cycle and reawaken to the Goddess within.
The author shares her own journey to break free from the cultural stigmatization of menstruation and discover her empowering inner Goddess. She details how prehistoric matriarchal cultures revered women’s menstrual blood as an expression of the Great Goddess’s life-giving, life-sustaining, and life-taking powers.
Derr restores the ancient Mesopotamian Goddess Inanna to her original prehistoric, pre-patriarchal manifestation as a representation of Life Force Energy and reveals how Inanna can be experienced as a living, internal presence who can help us consciously embody our own erotic aliveness.
The author reimagines the myth of the Descent of Inanna as a ritual rite of passage that aligns with the four phases of the menstrual cycle: ovulation, luteal, menses, and follicular, each with its own powers to be celebrated. She provides writing prompts and original embodied practices such as womb visualizations and ritual enactments to help you attend to the different emotions and energies associated with each phase and honor the sacred spiral of death, rebirth, and regeneration in your monthly cycle.
Presenting an affirmative sacred menstrual narrative, this empowering guide will support you to heal your relationship with your period and reclaim the sovereign menstrual power that is your birthright as a woman.
PRE- ORDER LINKS:
PILGRIMAGE:
Journey to Mary Magdalene
May 20-25 2026
Journey with Annalisa to Mary Magdalene’s sacred sites in France. Unlock the sacred feminine power and potency that lies at the heart of her story.
WORKSHOP: Mystical Mary Magdalene
The Mystical Mary Magdalene is a DIY experiential workshop exploring Mary Magdalene as an archetype of the mystic and guide for the modern woman’s inner journey.
Journey to the Goddess TV
JOURNEY TO THE GODDESS TV is a YouTube channel that provides FREE information on goddesses meant to be a general overview (think Goddess Studies 101) on recent goddess scholarship, artistry, and feminine embodiment techniques that can help you on your journey.
Check out my latest collaboration, GODDESS MATTERS, with Dr. Andrea Slominski.
Latest Goddess News:
New YouTube Series: Goddess Matters
My new collabortaion with Dr. Andrea Slominski is a space for reflection, empowerment, and real talk relating timeless themes to contemporary topics and women’s lived experience.
Come be part of the conversation.
A New Workshop Now Available!
The Mystical Mary Magdalene workshop explores the archetype of the mystic. As a mythic figure, Mary Magdalene functions as a goddess guide who helps us reimagine devotion as the key to The Heroine's Journey. In this workshop, devotion is not about submission; it is a vital source of power.
Inanna Article
Read a modified excerpt from my book on Inanna hosted by my friends at the International Society of Mythology!
Newsletter:
Annalisa Featured On:
Guest on INNER LIFE radio show
Inner Life is a thoughtful conversation about what it means to be human from the inside of ourselves. On this show you will find a conversation about our intimate landscape—our thoughts, feelinListen Here.gs, intuition, sensations, dreams, revelations, insights and what brings meaning to life. It is an exploration about how people discovered this part of themselves, the when and how, and the way they now live it. I believe that it is through the sharing of these personal stories that we can discover more fully what unites us.
Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker on the Home to Her podcast. Listen our conversation on All-Things-Goddess!
