2025 Dark Apprenticeship is by application.

Dark Apprenticeship is an intimate nine month journey into the primordial dark with a small group of around 6 people.

The primordial dark is different to the light/dark in polarity. It is the essence behind both. It is the source of creation and infinite potential, where everything is birthed from and goes back to. It is where the ecstatic, life arise from. It is where love in its pure undifferentiated completeness rests as nothingness and everything. The energy that spins atoms, the world and galaxies on the axis of love.

During this 9 month experiential journey we will open deeper access points and pathways to the primordial dark through awareness, heart and matter, through three spirals of 3 months. There will be a monthly online call together and we will complete with a 10 day live in intensive at Red Earth Temple. 

The Dark Apprenticeship will be offered through transmission, shamanic journeys, circle work, creative assignments, daily practices, land and cosmic journeys and marinating in the dark body of the apprenticeship field for 9 months. But the deepest potency of the apprenticeship is what moves between us in the subtle, inner worlds and shared dark body and vibrational field.

SPIRAL 1 – Awakening to the pure dark and loving gaze of awareness through consciousness.

SPIRAL 2- Opening to the pure frequency of love and primordial dark through the heart 

SPIRAL 3 – Attuning with the primordial dark through the vibrational portal  in matter. 

10 DAY LIVE IN INTENSIVE – we will gather at Red Earth Temple for 10 days, to deepen and ground the journey through the three centres. Each day we will spend time as a group field in a purpose built activated darkroom to immerse, marinate and open into the mysteries of the dark. We will have a rhythm of dark immersion and then exploration, harvest, birth, creation, and integration.

Each person will have a day and night of extended solo time in the dark room and a solo night out on the land with the wild, the cosmos and the dark of the night. 

There will be guided shamanic journeys, rituals with the land and the elements, activated land altars, ritual saunas and hot tub under the stars.

The difference between an apprenticeship journey and a workshop is the depth of transmission in the field between us at the energetic level and the dark. The way this apprenticeship is held is from the primordial dark. Holding the dark point available and accessible to you all in the inner realms and thru the practices.

This offering is for people who have a level of embodiment, presence and experience in spiritual, shamanic and dark fields, and transformational spaces.

This offering is for people who have a level of embodiment, presence and experience in spiritual, shamanic and dark fields, and transformational spaces. Helpful pre requisites: ISTA L1 and L2, Dark Immersion, The Temple Training       

“I felt called to learn how to attune to my new land, and found that the listening went much deeper than anything I have experienced before.

Janine transmissions were natural and organic. Its just who she is.

We were drinking them in throughout the 9 months. We completed with a 10 day immersion at Red Earth, where lightening and kundalini meet, where fire, flood and drought has endarkened the land. It holds the frequency of every group that has been there before, and all of Janine’s potent intentions. Every rock, crystal and altar vibrates with the mystery. You can almost hear the land sing back to you.

I’ll always remember group gazing up at star constellations, Terrys amazing camp oven dinners around the fire, solo dark room immersions, sauna / plunge pool rituals, swimming in the lake, sharing circles, solo nights in the wild, reflecting, dancing, journaling, creating, collaborating, dissolving and re-emerging.

Janine brings a unique quality you wont find anywhere else. She unlocks the dark, the sacred, and holds each and every being with unconditional love. She models all that the apprenticeship is about. We pierced through the layers of ego and personality and dropped through the core to the galactic centre.

Every experience is gentle, yet intensely beautiful.

We learned how a group body moves, a true collaboration with attunement, letting go of any agenda or power-over and genuinely merging with the mystery moving through us.

This has been a gift that has moved my very atoms, re-arranging and re-assembling from the inside out, and now with a greater capacity for love.

There was nothing to do, but be in it.

There was so much ease. It was a journey of resting back, feeling nourished and yet the commitment to the journey has been reflected in my 3d reality. There’s been a current moving through me, subtle and deep.

If you are called to even some of this, then do it.”

Stephanie Phillips

“For me this journey was one of the most powerful yet gentle medicines.

The Dark Apprenticeship IS a cosmic medicine journey.

The words that come to me are ‘the subtle is not so subtle’.

Throughout the 9 months of attunement to the dark there was a simultaneous expansion, clarity, internal (and external) ‘clean up’ and a softening into trust and surrender to what is. So grateful to have had the 10 days of group immersion where we collectively spiralled, in person, creating and exploring. Being with the Red Earth supported us in integrating, consolidating and deepening- a true communion! These 9 months have been pure, real life magic”

Mariann Ka