Welcome
Hi I’m Carly. I am a writer, psychotherapist and initiatory guide. I facilitate women and the people who love them, to remember, reclaim and reconnect with their sensual, emotional, embodied aliveness and instinctual knowing that is rooted in the earth. I draw on twenty years of embodied practice, training and space holding and have a trauma informed approach.
Please note: Unfortunately, I am not currently taking on any new clients and my waiting list is closed for the forseeable future. However, I have many resources here to explore.
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NEW ONLINE & IN PERSON COURSE FOR 2025
Join Carly, in collaboration with Berlin-based ritual photographer Jaqueline Louan, for the next evolution of the Descent & Rising Work – Naked Power. A course for women who are ready to reveal and embrace their power.
The first circle sold out in a matter of hours. There are a few places left on the second circle. Is one of them yours? Click the button to find out more. Starts March 2025.
out now in paperback & audiobook narrated by carly mountain
When our lives fall apart we often feel broken, ashamed and deeply alone. But what if you knew, as you experienced this descent, that it was mapped out in a myth thousands of years old? What if, despite the uniqueness of your own life and experiences, each stage of the process was universal? The journey of descent and rising is the core initiation of the feminine – the heroine’s journey – one travelled by billions of women before you.
“The heroine’s journey is an erotic, mystical initiation that revivifies our place in the shape of things…The fodder of our descents provides the compost from which the richest fruits of our lives can grow. If only we can turn towards our pain and let it work in us.”
Descent & Rising Online Retreat
The Descent & Rising Online Retreat happened in April 2023 as a part of the launch of the book. It remains live as a free resource to accompany the book. Click the link below to sign up to access all retreat material and recording of the live call Invoking Inanna with Carly that closed the retreat. These conversations are an invitation to find solidarity in your experiences, tend to your longing and unveil the wisdom inside of you.
Together we can honour our descents and dare to RISE.
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Delve into the Descent & Rising 4 Part On-Demand Online Course
PRAISE FOR DESCENT & RISING
Descent & Rising is a summons, a companion and a map to the deep self that is essential in this perilous moment of our personal and planetary history. Carly Mountain has created a masterpiece, seamlessly and sensitively weaving threads of intimate personal narrative with ancient myth, modern science, psychology, poetry, spirituality and more. Perhaps the greatest gift that Mountain transmits is an uncanny intimacy with Inanna herself. Here is the companion many of us have longed for as we feel our way through the darkest moments of our lives. I enter these pages alone and emerge rooted in a community of wisdom that not only spans the globe but reaches back in time to the ancestors and forward to those who will come after us, carrying the medicine of these teachings in their cells.
Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words
Reading Descent & Rising is to be invited into an ancient lineage of feminine wisdom, which for many of us perhaps was forgotten, but as we discover through this rich and insightful book, was never lost. Carly weaves magic as she illuminates the timeless intelligence of one of our oldest goddess myths through the lens of real-life underworld experiences. The result is a wise, warm and engaging companion for those of us who have been through a painfully deep ‘underworld’ experience, and a sanctuary for those who are being stripped to their core. Let Carly, Inanna and Ereshkigal guide you, step by step, gate by gate, as you descend and discover your very own heroine’s journey.
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, authors of Wise Power: discovering the liberating power of menopause to awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging.
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