INSTRUCTIONS R the
UNDERWLD
INSTRUCTIONS R THE UNDERWLD
Begins 25 September | Thursdays 5pm UK Time
A 6 Month Embodied Dream Weaving Immersion in remembering how to dream, somatic storytelling, mythopoetics, Depth Psychology and animism. You will be initiated into a community of souls devoted to the depths. descent and dream. Together, you will co-create the Underworld through shared embodied practice, ritual and circle.
There are accessible payment tiers and plans to suit your needs
It’s time to descend and remember the old dreaming ways
Learning to see in the Dark
“Today, we need heroes of descent not masters of denial. We need mentors of maturity who can carry sadness, who give love to ageing, who show soul without irony or embarrassment… The legendary heroes of the ancient world — Odysseus, Psyche, Persephone, Orpheus, Dionysus and even Heracles — all descended into the Underworld to learn other values than those that rule the daily business of sunlit life.
They came back with a darker eye that can see in a dark time.”
James Hillman
INSTRUCTIONS R the
UNDERWLD
This is for the beings who are ready to reclaim the ancient dreaming ways. The ways that the world has forgotten, but that our souls still remember. The ways of descent, reverence and transformation. The imaginal path, the embodied terrain, the devotional trust that what descends will also ascend. That life emerges from death.
Throughout this six-month immersion in the Underworld, we will dream weave with myth, ritual, animism, creativity, embodied practice and depth psychology to create a communal testament to life, to love and the mystery at the heart of it all.
The great myths don’t ask to be studied, dissected and analysed. They want to be re-animated, embodied and given the chance to guide you to the heart of your own myth. To the heart of your longing, desire and dharma.
This is for the artist longing to incubate their creativity through the dark season, the seeker on the edge of transformation, the space holder who needs a place to be held, the therapist or guide who longs to deepen into their own mythic life. The Mother who deserves tenderness. The devotee who is ready to offer devotion to themselves.
Together, we will reimagine the mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, co-create the Underworld in community and remember how to dream. We will answer the call of Hades and follow him down to his kingdom in search of eros, soul and belonging.
Who is this for?
The artist in you who longs for a container to nourish their creativity in the dark season, so that you ascend in spring astonished and brimming with inspiration.
The one standing at the threshold of loss, grief, or transformation who longs to trust the descent and listen for what truly wants to emerge.
The student of life who yearns for both depth and embodiment: a rich curriculum of myth and psychology alongside ritual, movement and community.
The space holder, therapist or guide who gives so much and needs a place to be held — to let die what is ready to die and to prepare for what is longing to be reborn.
The Mothers who hold, love and tend tirelessly, who also need to be tended and return to the great capacity of their own strength, support and soul.
The devotees to life, to the mystery and to our bleeding world. This is an invitation to also devote yourself to yourself.
And more than anything, this is for the Dreamer in us all.
This is for the Dreams.
The Dreams which know, which endlessly create masterpieces to guide us.
The Dreams which long to be offered, honoured and dreamt.
This immersion is both ancient and modern: a remembering of the old ways of soul-making and a living, breathing response to what we most need now.
To remember that your pleasure, creativity and dreams are the greatest revolutionary power you hold to resist the agony of the times we are living through.
Whilst what we uncover will undoubtedly inspire your work and your offerings, ultimately this immersion is for you. For you to incubate your dreams and your capacity to dream down in the fertile ground of the Underworld.
For you to step into your own myth and live your life fully, freely and wildly.
With trust, devotion and an expanded capacity to feel, create and dream.
What You Will Receive
Over our six months together, you will be held in a deep circle of myth, ritual, dream and embodied practice. This is does not mean learning about the mysteries but entering them, reimagining them, so that they transform you.
Reclaim your dreaming — Learn practices to remember, honour and live from your dreams, so they become guides for your creativity, your healing, and your soul’s unfolding.
Trust the descent — Instead of resisting life’s inevitable losses and thresholds, discover how to meet them as initiations that reveal hidden richness and prepare the ground for rebirth.
Reclaim eros and soul — Awaken to the deep pulse of vitality, creativity and love that arises when we allow ourselves to surrender, to soften and to listen to what is truly longing to emerge.
Embodied transformation — Through movement, ritual and somatic practices, ground the mythic into your body so that change becomes not just an idea, but a lived reality.
Community & belonging — Enter a circle where space-holders, artists, seekers and guides are also being held. A rare opportunity to walk this path together, witnessing and being witnessed.
Depth & soul nourishment — Lectures, readings, and conversations that weave depth psychology, animism and mythology, giving you rich ground to study and live from. As well as weekly calls you will be given monthly recorded Nidras and resources to support your process.
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PAYMENT PLANS & TIERS
Perspephone Tier
Medium to High Income
Pay upfront or by instalment
Bonus: 2 x Free Dream Mapping Sessions (£280) to support your experience throughout the immersion and 3 x Free Embodied Myth Offerings (£60)
£1200
Hades Tier
Medium to Low Income
10 x spots available
Pay upfront or by instalment
Bonus: 50% off A Dream Mapping Session
£888
Demeter Tier
Low Income or Unwaged
6 x spots available
Payment Plan: spread over 5 or 10 months
£666
Instructions for the Underworld offers flexible and tiered pricing. If you are able to pay the higher tier, know that you are creating the means for someone else to access a lower tier. And, know that you are supporting me and my work as well as my capacity to offer discounts. In this way, we support and honour one another and help make this work accessible to more and more people.
If you can pay more, thank you for your support. Payment plans are available and you can choose to spread these over 6 or 10 months. Please get in touch if you would like to create a bespoke payment plan.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR the UNDERWLD Includes
The Descent as Devotion:
The Underworld will not devour you but awaken your magnificence. See what is waiting to be birthed from the fertile dark.
Dream & Eros:
Reclaim the erotic pull of dream through movement, story and attunement. Let dream animate your longing.
Myth & Mystery:
Hades’ dominion, Persephone’s descent and the guardianship of Demeter.
Step into the centre of your own myth.
Embodied Ritual:
Animist, embodied and somatic practices to co-create the Underworld in community.
“Scent is the ancient movement existence itself, where the fall into shadow and depth is not a mere cline but the hidn opening fm which new life and meaning n arise.”
EM OWEN
Why this will be extraordinary
Because we will not simply study the myths. We will embody them. We will honour them.
We will let Persephone’s descent mirror your own, let Demeter’s guardianship teach us how to be held and reimagine the Eleusinian Mysteries. This doesn’t mean ‘knowing’ so much as trusting, as the great mysteries reanimate in your dreams, through embodied imaginal practices and through the group mind of the community of souls who gather to descend together.
You will find and follow your own longing in Hades insatiable love for Persephone. Hades does not long to devour Persephone but to awaken her to her magnificence.
What parts of you are ready to awaken in the depths of his kingdom?
The stories are not there to dictate your own life, your own descent, but to invite you to step right into the centre of your own myth.
You will ascend not only with practices and teachings, but with a somatic knowing:
How to trust the descent.
How to listen to your dreams as messages from soul, soil and the stars.
How to co-create the imaginal, embodied and infinitely beautiful terrain of the Underworld within a creative community of like minded beings.
How to find abundance even in seasons of loss.
How to rebirth yourself — and your work — whilst remaining rooted in love, soul and imagination.
This is an invitation to gather in mystery, to be nourished in community and to remember the old dreaming ways.
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25 September, Equinox Opening Circle
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DESCENT AND DEVOTION
Thursdays 5pm throughout October
Week 1: Eleusinian Mysteries & The Imaginal Realm
Week 2: Seeing in the Dark: Introduction to Depth Psychology
Week 3: The Creative Spark
Week 4: Dream Descent
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EMBODIED DREAM WEAVING AND SOUL TENDING
Thursdays 5pm throughout November
Week 1: Coming into Relationship with Dream
Week 2: Dream Embodiment
Week 3: Dream Circle
Week 4: The Gallery of Psyche -
MYTHOPOETICS & EMBODIMENT
First three Thursdays in December, 5pm
Week 1: Myth
Week 2: Embodied Myth
Week 3: Circle and Solstice Ritual
Week 4: Winter Break -
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
Four Thursdays in January, 5pm
Week 1: Winter Break
Week 2: The Spirit of the Depths
Week 3: The Spirit of the Times
Week 4: Dream Circle
Week 5: The Ancient Pathway -
DREAM WEAVING & ANIMISM
Thursdays 5pm throughout February
Week 1: Circle and Imbolc Offering
Week 2: The Underworld
Week 3: Animism
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REBIRTH, INTEGRATION & CLOSING
Thursdays 5pm throughout March
Week 1: Group Process
Week 2: Dream Circle
Week 3: The Return
Week 4: Closing Circle
We meet online every Thursday at 5pm UK time for two hours. I am considering opening a second sphere at 10am Thursday if there are enough people. Please message me if this works for you.
Each week will be an offering of ritual, embodied practice, dream circle, group process, storytelling and/or collective seminar.
Curriculum
“While you are here, you will be queen of everything that lives and moves and will have the greatest honours along with the immortals”
Meet Your Guide
I’m Libby Rose Waite, creator of Embodied Dream Weaving and steward of Instructions for the Underworld. I’m a psychotherapist, somatic storyteller and Dream Witch. I’m devoted to the great stories, to inviting beings deep into the fertile recesses of body and to helping the world remember how to dream. You can read more about me and my work here.
The Underworld is not a place of punishment — it is the place beneath the surface.
In the deeper recesses of body, earth and the animate.
The place where seeds dream and souls remember who they are.
Why Descend, Why Dream?
In every descent, something calls us down. It might be a loss, a longing, a season of transition, or the quiet ache that there is more to this life than what resides on the surface. The ancients knew this as the Underworld. Not a place of punishment and decay, but of fertility, creativity and soul-making.
In this immersion, you will follow the throb of Persephone’s longing to slip down into the Underworld; which is to say, into land, earth, body. This is a journey of dream, embodiment and meeting what is longing for you, down in the depths.
Through devotion, descent and dream you will learn to soften into the dark, to listen for what is ready to be shed and to nurture what is calling to be birthed.
This is the path of eros: not simply desire, but the deep pulse of life-force that animates us, connects us and insists on our becoming. When you reclaim eros, you reclaim your capacity to create, to love, to live from soul and to fully taste the pleasure of life. Not as an escape from the agony of it, but in defiance to the forces of empire which seek to devour us.
You are being invited to come and create your own empire down in the Underworld, one that is carved by dream, embodied insight and creative inspiration.
Instructions for the Underworld is not about bypassing the dark. It’s about meeting it with reverence, curiosity and in community — so that the descent itself becomes the initiation and what returns is a life more whole, more rooted, more alive.
TESTIMONIAL
Libby takes us by the hand, walks us through and intimately guides us into the realm of psyche, the realm of soul, that liminal space where we can connect into a deeper and broader sense of who we are and where we come from.
She speaks to the poet and the mystic in each of us, the one that dares to descend, the one that yearns for connection, but ultimately the one that knows.
As she threads in wisdom from both the imaginal and the embodied realms, she helps us to remember. To re-member. She helps us to become reacquainted with the magical, with the mystical, but also with the darkness, the mystery, the shadow.
With Libby we remember that we are everything, that we are intimately intertwined with the entirety of existence, with the aching reality of the exquisite agony of being here, where poetry and magic inevitably coexist with brutality and despair.
Libby holds this. She holds this line from a place of embodied acceptation, from an inner knowing that she must, because it matters. Because it matters for us to be able to turn to darkness and uphold the glimmer, because it matters that we can still encounter joy amidst a world that is in calamity.
Because she cares. And this is the essential thing. It hurts to care so much. And what do we do with that? Do we turn away and blind ourselves in a falsity of beauty and loveliness or do we turn towards the sacred ache and bear witness to it to such a degree that it becomes a thing of real beauty. Of service. Of belonging.
Thank you Libby for holding this degree of entirety in you and for showing us the way. Through your storytelling, your guardianship and your showing up, again and again and again.
Alexandra
Look for the caper berries at the mouth of the cave - and beware. They will cut those who approach without caution.
Softly softly surrender and they will show you the way through, inside, under.
The optimum time to descend is in the pregnant pause before the blossoming, so that they may outstretch their blank canvas petals whilst you are down, down here. So that you may paint your dreams across them upon awakening.
There are eyes reaching for you from beneath the depths: reach back reach back reach back.
Place your pomegranate at the perceived opening and wait to be claimed.
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How much does it cost?
There are three tiers available, depending on your personal circumstances:
Demeter — Supported Tier: £666 (spread over 5 or 10 months). 6 places available at this rate.
Hades — Supporter Tier: £888 (payable up front over 5 or 10 months). 10 places available at this rate. Includes 50% off an Embodied Dream Weaving Mapping Session.
Persephone — Full Price Tier: £1200 (payable up front over 5 or 10 months). Includes two free Embodied Dream Weaving Mapping Sessions (value £240).
Choose the tier that feels most aligned with your current resources.
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We meet online via Zoom at 5pm UK time. Please check your local timezone here.
Note: the clocks change in the UK on the last weekend of October, so your local time may shift.
I am open to offering a second time slot at 10am on Thursdays. Please message me if this works for you. -
This immersion is open to seekers, space-holders, therapists, facilitators, artists and guides who are ready to enter the mysteries with devotion. To support your journey, you’ll need:
Some experience with somatic practices or body-based awareness.
To feel psychologically resourced, with the capacity to meet deep material in community.
A willingness to engage with myth, dream and ritual as living presences.
Curiosity, devotion and openness to being surprised by what the descent will reveal.
This work is not about mastering content, but about surrendering to process. The more you bring your longing, the more the Underworld will offer its gifts.
I will send out a form once you sign up to get more details about you, what you’re longing for and what’s happening in your life, so I know how best to support you. -
The course is led by me, Libby Rose Waite. I’m a BACP-licensed psychotherapist, somatic storyteller, embodiment guide and Jungian researcher. I have a Masters in Psychology and years of devotion to depth work, ritual and the body. I hope to bring devotion and heart, academic rigour and soulful imagination to all my offerings. I am also a tantrika, weaving eros and soul into my work with myth, dream and ritual.
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It is recommended that you join as many live calls as possible to receive the fullness of the container and community. However, all sessions will be recorded and uploaded to a private platform, so if you can’t attend live, you’ll be able to catch up in your own time.
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Places are non-refundable.
Spaces are limited — if you take a place, you are committing to pay for it.
If something arises and you need to defer, you are welcome to join future immersions on arrangement but payments must still be honoured.
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This immersion is for you if…
You are an artist, guide, space-holder or seeker longing to be nourished by myth, dream and community.
You want to reclaim eros and soul through devotion, descent and dream.
You feel yourself in a season of change or loss, and you want to learn to trust the descent, the death, and the eventual rebirth.
You are dreaming vividly (or want to begin), and are ready to honour, embody and work with those images.
You love depth psychology, animism and mythology, and want to feel them not just as ideas but as lived experience.
You hold space for others, and are yearning for a place where you can be held.
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This immersion is likely not for you if…
You are looking for quick fixes or surface-level inspiration.
You prefer to stay in the head and are not ready to engage with the body, ritual and the imaginal.
You are currently in a psychological crisis or need more acute, individual support (this is not a substitute for personal therapy).
You are not open to engaging in community or collective ritual.