The Empath & The Warrior
Illumination, Evolution, & Integration Alchemizing the Power of the Heart
You feel everything.
You care deeply, hold space for others, and carry a sensitivity that is your greatest gift — and sometimes your greatest burden. You are an Empath.
Yet you also know there’s fire inside.
A part of you that wants to stand tall, speak truth, hold boundaries, and protect what matters. This is your Warrior.
But what happens when these two forces seem at odds? When compassion pulls you to absorb, and the warrior calls you to resist? For many spiritual seekers, the empathic path can become unbalanced — absorbing energy that isn’t ours, saying yes when our soul whispers no, mistaking collapse for compassion. Yet the Warrior, when awakened in service to the heart, becomes a force of divine protection — not just for others, but for the Self.
This is the path of integrated power.
A return to the harmony of the sacred inner union that your Spirit has always known.
You were never meant to choose between your sensitivity and your strength.
You came here to embody both.
This workshop is about becoming whole. In this soul-aligned journey, we invite you to explore and integrate two powerful archetypes that live within you:
💧The Empath — attuned, open-hearted, deeply feeling, a vessel of compassion and connection, way-shower of ascending consciousness.
🔥 The Warrior — grounded, clear, fiercely present, protector of truth and sacred boundaries, the one who holds space for the creative feminine expression in all her forms.
Join us for a powerful journey where the gentle heart and the fierce protector no longer compete — they collaborate.
In this workshop, you’ll be held in sacred space as we explore:
Your personal relationship between the inner empath and warrior
How each archetype expresses when it is out of balance
Setting energetic and spiritual boundaries without closing the heart
Reclaiming your inner authority while staying rooted in love
Honoring the soul contracts of both peacekeeping and truth-speaking
Embodied practices that anchor both tenderness and strength in your energy field
How to take action with integrity and heart
Through guided practices, deep inquiry, shamanic breathwork, and embodied rituals, you’ll learn to alchemize these two aspects as a creative source of heart power to support you in right action. The workshop will culminate in a potent integration ceremony, leaving you with a clear, somatic knowingness in your being of what it is for the empath and warrior to walk in conscious equal partnership.
This circle is for empaths who are tired of being overwhelmed.
For warriors who are weary from fighting alone.
For anyone ready to live from centered strength and compassionate power.
This is a deep remembering. A recalibration. A homecoming. Because your sensitivity is not your weakness — and your fire is not your flaw. Your empathy is a gift — and your fire is holy. It’s time to become the sacred guardian your soul came here to be. The one who can hold both the sword and the chalice.
Are you ready to enter the temple?
September 5-6, 2025
Friday evening and Saturday
In Person: Location TBA in Springfield, IL
$299 ($277 Early Bird)
Carley Mattimore, MS, creator of The Shamanic Warriorship Path and author of Shamanic Warrior: Seeder of Light, Hope & Heart and Dr. Stephanie Red Feather, author of Evolutionary Empath join forces to alchemize the empath and warrior energies within you. Read more about them below.
Carley Mattimore is a psycho-spiritual midwife dedicated to personal and collective healing and transformation. Her mission is to act as an agent of change, supporting the Earth’s evolutionary shift toward higher consciousness —helping individuals by transforming codependency into fostering an awareness of our interdependence with the natural world.
Carley is the co-author of Sacred Messengers of Shamanic Africa: Land of Zep Tepi. She has appeared in interviews, podcasts, online summits, and book signings to discuss the paradigm shift in consciousness happening on the planet. As a Shamanic Psychotherapist with over 35 years of experience working with adults and families, she uses her expertise as an energy healer and shamanic practitioner to uniquely support her clients and students. She is also a shamanic minister and a master Shamanic Breathwork facilitator through Venus Rising Association.
Carley’s second book, Shamanic Warrior: Seeder of Hope, Light, and Heart, is expected to be published in Fall 2025.
Carley is the co-founder of Aahara Spiritual Community of Venus Rising, alongside her husband, John Malan, to help others discover their inner authority and become conscious contributors to the web of life. She has been offering psycho-spiritual workshops since 2011, including a signature program called the Shamanic Warriorship Path, which introduces a new paradigm for warrior energy. Additionally, she co-facilitates an annual Shamanic Healing Initiatory Process, a series of five initiations spread over a year. These psycho-spiritual workshops have transformed many participants’ lives.
In 2016, Carley attended the White Lion Leadership Academy, a month-long intensive program sponsored by the Global White Lion Protection Trust, and completed the Lion-Hearted Leadership Practitioner Training. These life-changing experiences shifted the course of her sacred work, and she and her husband now co-facilitate transformational journeys to South Africa and Zimbabwe. Since 2012, she has traveled to numerous countries, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Thailand, China, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tonga, Colombia, Mexico, and Egypt.
Find Carley’s books, workshops, and offerings at CarleyMattimore.com and AaharaSpiritualCommunity.org.
Rev. Dr. Stephanie Red Feather is a divine feminine change agent and champion of empaths. A multi-award-winning author of the international best-seller The Evolutionary Empath and Empath Activation Cards, her passion is to help fellow sensitive souls break out of energetic jail and become co-creators of new earth consciousness. As a shamanic minister, workshop facilitator, telesummit producer, and prolific creator of spiritual tools, Stephanie has helped thousands to connect with their sacred self and heal their human wounds.
As a shamanic minister and prolific creator of spiritual tools, Stephanie founded Blues Star Temple, an online resource for spiritual seekers to learn energetic skills, hone empathic abilities, access spiritual knowledge, and connect with cosmic consciousness. Her specialties include masculine-feminine balance, establishing boundaries, energy hygiene, shamanic consciousness, embodiment, and celestial mysteries.
Stephanie’s life has been an unusual fusion of creativity, spirituality and hard science. First earning a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and serving as an Air Force officer, she holds a master’s and doctorate in shamanic studies and is a mesa carrier in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Peru. Stephanie is an award-winning artist and contributing author to four other best-selling books.
Find her books, spiritual tools, and workshops at BlueStarTemple.org.