The Descent And Return With Inanna - by Lindsey Simmonds

COURSE

The Descent And Return With Inanna

With Lindsey Simmonds

Shadow work is the practice of gently meeting the emotions, identities, desires, and truths you may have learned to hide, silence, or disown. There are seasons in life when something begins to fall away. A role, an identity, a pattern, or a version of yourself that once worked but no longer fits. Inspired by the ancient story of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, this four part course offers a grounded and soulful introduction to shadow work. You will be guided through the sacred pattern of descent, surrender, meeting your shadow, integration, and return. Your final integration practice will help you understand what arose, begin owning the disowned, and welcome these hidden parts back into wholeness. This course is especially supportive for beginners to shadow work and for anyone moving through change, grief, uncertainty, burnout, identity shifts, or inner transformation. No previous experience is needed. You will be guided gently as you release what no longer belongs and return to yourself with greater honesty, compassion, and embodied power.


Meet your Teacher

Lindsey Simmonds is an energy practitioner, meditation guide, Reiki Master, and intuitive teacher whose work explores the relationship between the body, intuition, emotional healing, and spiritual growth. She has extensive experience guiding individuals and groups through reflective practices, energy healing, sound meditation, and embodied inner work. Her teachings are rooted in nervous system awareness, intuitive guidance, feminine wisdom, and the process of moving from fragmentation toward wholeness. In this course, Lindsey offers the story of Inanna as a supportive archetypal pathway for descent, shadow integration, and returning to the self with greater compassion and inner steadiness.

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4 Days

8 students

5.0 stars

10 min / day

Acceptance

English


Lesson 1

The Descent Begins

In this opening track, you will be introduced to the ancient story of Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and her courageous descent into the underworld. This session explores the moment when something in life begins to fall away, such as an old role, identity, relationship, or way of being that no longer fits. You will begin to see descent not as failure, but as an initiation into deeper truth, self honesty, and wholeness.

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Lesson 2

The Sacred Descent

This track explores why Inanna’s story still matters for modern healing and inner transformation. Through reflections on surrender, shadow, emotional depth, and the parts of ourselves we often hide, you will be invited to understand the descent as a sacred process of release. This session offers a grounded way to meet grief, anger, exhaustion, longing, and truth with compassion rather than shame.

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Lesson 3

Through The Seven Gates

This guided meditation takes you through Inanna’s Seven Gates as a symbolic journey of release, surrender, and return. You will be invited to gently let go of roles, identities, protection patterns, control, comparison, and performance, while meeting hidden parts of yourself with compassion. This is the deepest experiential track in the course and is designed to support shadow integration, embodied release, and a felt sense of wholeness.

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Lesson 4

From Awareness To Wholeness

This integration track helps you gently witness and process what arose during the Seven Gates meditation. Rooted in the movement from awareness to wholeness, this session supports you in naming what surfaced without rushing to analyze or fix it. You will be guided to meet shadowed parts of yourself with compassion, honor what your body revealed, and carry one small thread of integration forward into your life.

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