-< About >-
“As an oracle, teacher, and practitioner, my forte is providing spiritual insight into who you are as an intuitive individual. With experience, discernment, trust, and sisterhood, I provide the stepping stones to walk into your unique power and enhance the latent gifts that already exist inside you.
The picture we are painting are brushstrokes of majick. It is our feminine nature to be connected and led by our ancestral roots. In a sense, an authentic majick practice is all that we have – and all that we will ever need – to create a significant shift
in reaching our highest potential.”
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-< Beginnings & Background >-
Iya RaVen was called to majick while she was still in the womb. She was born feet first — the path of the guru — and comes from a strong, spiritual Masonic and Crowley lineage. Her great-grandmother was the worthy matron of the eastern stars named The Cinderellas. As a child, the group would hold séances in her living room. Both sides of her family are gifted in majick.
At thirteen, she began practicing occultism, a study of the supernatural and its expression through willpower, ritual, divination, and ceremony. Her first space as a reader and healer was at the iconic Temple of Good Things in Westchester, California, a unique community that attracted candle burners, hippies, and celebrities alike. Known as the Witch of Westchester, Iya RaVen developed a reputation for reading people just by gazing into their eyes. It was at The Temple of Good Things where she gained a following and continued practicing, helping and healing others, and selling her majick candles, incense and potions until her late twenties. Feeling a strong calling to help others develop their own practice, she prayed for a space and was gifted a garage where she held her first Wednesday night Goddess Circles and taught classes on the weekends for six years. When Temple closed its doors, she moved her practice to the beloved Aura Shop on Main Street in Santa Monica selling her majick wares and building a devout clientele while offering readings, sessions, and circles at a private location.
Iya RaVen has devoted her life to cultivating a non-denominational practice of the Ancient Mysteries as a Center, Altar, Samhain and Godmother of The Sacred Sisterhood. Her practice as an Iya, or High Priestess, is built upon over twenty years of guidance and wisdom from her divine grandmothers and teachers. Childhood friend of Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), Professor Shashi and his wife Alexandra of The Healing Institute initiated Iya RaVen into the Hindu mysteries and gayeties. Ultimately, she is in service to walking others to their chosen path by embracing nature, wisdom, rituals, and her innate psychic abilities.
Iya is also a certified hypnotist from HMI College, a Berkeley Psychic Institute student, and a certified trainer from Trainer Designs Global, an adept, member and student of The Modern Mystery School of America and currently an apprentice of the conscious movement practice, Soul Motion. She has received a multitude of initiations and certifications from The Ancient Mysteries of the Goddess, Goetia, Shamanism, Hinduism, The Healing Arts Santaria , IFA, Vodoun Sorcery and The Left Hand Path.
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“Majick practitioners live far beyond everyday consumer programming — we are the ones protecting mother nature, dancing for our water, praying for the people, speaking on behalf of the imbalance in nature. We choose not to look the other way; we choose to stand for our causes for we fear nothing and no one.
We may be black sheep, misfits, weirdos. We choose to be free individuals. We are ALIVE in our nature, full of passion, thriving to lift each other up. I truly believe I have been chosen to be a beacon for the Goddess, our planet, a teacher for those who wish to develop their spiritual gifts.
When others choose to fight, argue, and cause unneeded chaos, I choose to pray. My prayer can be a song, dance, offering, even a ritual. I pray for my brothers, sisters, and planets every day. This is how I go about handling conflict and turmoil. Being an Iya is a risk worth taking. I see us no different than outlaws with a spiritual cause. ”
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