RETURNING TO EROTIC REVERENCE
THE ARTEMIS PROJECT
We are living through a collective reckoning.
Stories that were buried for generations are surfacing. Structures of exploitation (and those who profited) that were shielded by power and wealth are being revealed. The machinery of silence — the systems that protected perpetrators and discarded their victims — is being exposed in ways many of us never thought we would see in our lifetimes.
And for many women, this is opening up a lot.
It feels like a key is turning in a locked door we have kept shut for years. The confirmation of what our bodies have always known but the culture refused to validate, is deeply felt. The grief, rage and exhaustion of having been right all along about how unsafe the world has been for women and girls needs somewhere to go. It needs to be transformed through art.
That is why I created The Artemis Project. As survivors of sexual abuse, our bodies are responding to what is being revealed right now. Old traumas are surfacing. In this activation, we are raw, we are shedding, we are transforming.
Artemis is the goddess of the wild, the huntress, the untamed protector. She is one of the only figures in greek myth who was never subject to male dominion. She had sovereignty over her own body. She is the protector of young women at the threshold of womanhood, the guardian of erotic innocence, the one who lives in the forest with the animals and the elements, ungoverned and whole. She carries rage and tenderness in equal measure. She does not forgive violation. And she never stops protecting what is sacred.
She is the mythic spirit guide of this work and the guardian of the creative power we are reclaiming as women.
The Artemis Project exists for women who are ready to reclaim erotic reverence after violation.
Artemis is one of the oldest goddesses in the Greek pantheon — and one of the most misunderstood.
She is commonly reduced to the virgin huntress, the moon goddess, the twin sister of Apollo. And while all of this is mythologically true, her deeper truth, and what she represents for women is often missing. Artemis was not chaste because she was cold, repressed, or afraid of desire. She claimed sovereignty over her body. There is a profound difference.
Before she could speak in full sentences, the infant Artemis turned to her father Zeus and made a list of requests. She asked for a bow and arrows. She asked for hounds to hunt with. She asked for the mountains and wild places as her domain. And she asked for eternal partheneia — a Greek word often translated as virginity, but whose truer meaning is something closer to the power of belonging to oneself. Untouched not by sexuality, but by ownership. Ungoverned. Complete.
Zeus granted her everything she asked for. And Artemis spent her existence in the wild — in the forests, on the mountains, at the edges of rivers — free, fierce, and entirely her own.
She is the goddess of erotic innocence.
Not innocence as naivety. Not innocence as the absence of experience. But innocence as the state of a woman whose erotic nature has never been colonized or exploited — whose body is hers, whose pleasure is hers, whose wildness has never been disciplined into submission.
This is the innocence that sexual trauma steals. Not sexuality itself — but sovereignty over it. The capacity to inhabit desire, sensation, and the body's aliveness without fear, without bracing, without the learned reflex of making oneself small or absent.
The Artemis Project is built on the belief that this innocence can be restored. That the body, given the right conditions, remembers its original freedom.
She belongs to the wild.
Artemis lives where the land is undomesticated — in the mountains, the old forests, the places where human control has not yet reached. She is accompanied by nymphs, by hounds, by the creatures of the wild. She moves with the moon.
This is why the land is not a backdrop in this work. It is a co-creator, a witness, a keeper. The wild places hold what the ‘civilized’ world has tried to erase. They remember a time before the wound. And when a woman brings her healing body into relationship with the earth and the elements, she is entering Artemis's domain.
She is the protector of young women.
One of Artemis's most ancient roles was as the guardian of girls at the threshold of womanhood — the liminal passage between girlhood and adult feminine power. Young girls were brought to her temples. They danced for her. They were held under her protection during the most vulnerable crossing of their lives.
This project was born, in part, from the recognition of how catastrophically that protection has failed in our culture. The organized exploitation of girls and young women — by powerful men, shielded by wealth and silence and complicity — is not a new wound. It is an ancient one. What is new is that we are, finally, beginning to acknowledge the damage it has done on generations of young women.
Artemis does not look away. She never has. She is the one who says not here. Not her. Not on my watch.
To make this project in her name is to invoke that fierce protection — not only for the women who participate, but for all the girls who were not protected when they needed to be. It is an act of reparative guardianship.
She carries and transmutes rage.
This is perhaps the most important thing to say about Artemis in this moment.
She is not a gentle goddess. She is not forgiving of violation. When Actaeon stumbled upon her bathing — when her sovereignty was breached without consent — she did not weep, or forgive, or minimize what had happened. She transformed him into a stag and his own hounds tore him apart.
There is rage in Artemis. There is a fierce, clear, unapologetic insistence that the feminine body is sacred and that violation has consequences. She does not tone down her response to make others comfortable. She does not ask whether she is overreacting.
This project holds space for that rage. Not as an end point, but as a necessary part of the return. The women who come to this work are not asked to arrive healed, or peaceful, or forgiving. They are asked to arrive as they are — with everything the wound has left in them — and to let the ceremony hold all of it.
Artemis can hold rage. She was built for it.
If this resonates, you are guided and guarded by Artemis and this project may be for you.
The Artemis Project is a mytho-somatic storytelling initiative that offers women who have experienced sexual abuse and violation a ceremonial space to return to erotic reverence. It incorporates feminine myth making, ritual, and embodiment photography. We live in a culture that has long tried to heal trauma through understanding it — naming it, narrating it, analyzing it. And while this has its place, for many women who have experienced sexual assault, something essential remains untouched by words alone.
Because sexual trauma is not only an individual story we carry, often alone, it is a cultural and social pattern that we are all impacted by. The mythopoetic approach to healing understands that ceremonial art is the way to make contact with a deeper story. When we engage the body, the image, the land, and the witnessed presence of another through intentional ritual photography, we are working at the level of soul, the Anima Mundi. We are not just processing the past. We are initiating a new chapter in our collective story.
What is The Artemis Project?
THE DETAILS
This is not a photoshoot. It is a ceremonial container — carefully built, somatically held, and guided by what arises in relationship between the mythic body and the animate land.
I- Somatic Preparation Session
We meet virtually before the ceremony to resource your nervous system, establish trust, and clarify your intentions. This is where your story begins to find its form — and where I learn how to hold you well. We explore what your body needs, what edges you are ready to meet, and how to create the conditions for genuine arrival.
II- The Photography Ceremony
We meet in relationship with the land. What unfolds is not scripted or constructed from the mind — it emerges from the body in relationship with the elements, with my witnessing presence, and with the ritual intention we have set together. The camera follows the ceremony, not the other way around.
III- Your Wild, Mythic Healing Images
Your images are carefully curated and returned to you as a record of your return — your homecoming. With your full consent and collaboration, selected images become part of the visual archive of The Artemis Project.
“My ceremonial photoshoot came at such a transformative time in my life. It was important for me to embody the depth of grief I was experiencing through artistry. Jenny was very supportive and trusting of my journey, while also using her gifts of attunement, facilitation and sight to encourage me throughout the shoot. When Jenny and I reconnected for the photo gallery reveal, we both cried. The photos truly capture the depth and power of my story. Jenny curated a gallery that will forever be part of my soul initiation.
Paige
Why Embodiment Photography?
Six reasons the image does what words cannot.
It returns you to your body as home
Trauma creates dissociation and fragmentation— the body becomes unsafe to inhabit fully. Embodiment photography guides you back into your body. To feel your feet on the earth, your skin and air meeting, your breath moving through you. This gentle, witnessed re-entry begins to re-pattern the nervous system's relationship to being present in your own body while being seen.
It creates a new story in the body
The nervous system learns through experience, not instruction. Being held, witnessed, and seen as sacred — as opposed to threat, in your body, on your terms — is a direct reparative experience to violation. Each moment of the ceremony writes a new story into the body's memory: I am safe. I am sovereign. My body and its aliveness is mine.
The land helps hold what we cannot yet hold alone
Nature is a co-regulator. The nervous system responds to the earth, the elements, the non-human world in ways that are older than language. When a woman brings her healing into relationship with land and river and elements, she is held by something vast enough to contain her full story — including the parts that have not yet found words.
It uses the image as a mirror of truth
Trauma distorts self-perception. Many survivors carry a deeply wounded image of themselves — their body as shameful, broken, other. Seeing yourself through a lens held with reverence can shatter that distortion. The image reflects back what the wound convinced you was dangerous to own: your power, your beauty, your wholeness.
It restores erotic innocence
Sexual trauma often colonizes the erotic — leaving shame, numbness, or fear where aliveness once lived. Mythopoetic embodiment photography approaches the erotic not as sexuality but as life force: the capacity to feel, to be moved, to be fully present in one's own skin. Reclaiming this is not indulgence. It is return to wholeness.
Ritual transforms what analysis only describes
The mythopoetic approach understands that healing is not only psychological — it is ceremonial. When we engage the body, the image, the land, and the witnessed presence of another through intentional ritual, we are working at the level of soul. We are not just processing the past. We are initiating a new chapter of the self.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
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Deep listening, invocation, and preparation for your ceremonial journey
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Sacred container based on ceremonial intentions, nature-based body practices, and ceremonial image creation in nature. Approximately 1.5 hours in length
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our images are treated as sacred art—edited with reverence for the mythic realm you accessed
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You receive an edited gallery of at least 200 images. You select 25 high-resolution images from the gallery. Additional images available for purchase.
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We meet again to witness what emerged and support you in integrating your images.
INVESTMENT
Your ceremony includes
somatic preparation + photography
Everything described above, held with full care and presence.
$700 – $900
Sliding scale · Payment plans available upon request
Disclaimer
Embodiment photography is not a substitute for therapy. I am a certified integrative somatic trauma practitioner but there are limits to what I can hold. This project may be for you if:
Have lived experience of sexual assault or sexual trauma
Are actively engaged in your healing journey
Feel a pull toward embodied, somatic, or expressive approaches
Are curious about what it means to be truly witnessed
Feel some connection to the land as a place of belonging
Are ready to reclaim your body, your story, your erotic innocence
It is not for you, if you...
Are in acute crisis or the very early stages of trauma processing
Do not yet have capacity to be present in the body
Are not ready to be seen or witnessed at this time
This is not a closed door — only a matter of timing. I am happy to speak with you about what support might help you get there.
Meet Your Guide
I’m Jenny.
Like so many women that I know and work with, I am sexual assault survivor. I have struggled with feeling safe in my body for most of my life. As I began my healing journey, I discovered just how disembodied I was as a result of sexual trauma.
I committed to coming home to my body. I discovered eco-erotic ritual, somatic practice and embodiment photography and brought them together on pure intuitive instinct. The rest is herstory.
For the last 8 years I have devoted my life to developing this body of work. Therapeutic, embodiment and ceremonial photography was the primary tool that guided me- not just back into my body but into a reverential relationship with my erotic power as a woman.
I have held well over two hundred photography ceremonies for women seeking a deeper connection to their body, soul, and the earth. The eco-erotic practices that I have developed through my creative practice has not only healed my relationship to my body and sexuality, but to a wider sense of purpose.
This project emerged from a lifetime of experience and from the embodied capacity sourced from my erotic power. I want all women to know that they can arrive at this place.
Some frequently asked questions
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Absolutely not. Many of my clients choose this and I support them over the course of the ceremony to feel safe being seen in this way. It can be an empowering and healing choice but one that you get to make.
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This is a common experience and many of my clients come into working with me feeling this way. In fact, sometimes it is a major motivator. There are valid reasons for not liking the experience of having your photo taken and I honour, respect and seek to learn about that experience. I offer a variety of eco-somatic techniques that greatly diminishes the dis-ease that is very normal when being photographed. Most of my clients report moments of discomfort and anxiety becoming doorways of liberation into authentic expression.
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This happens and I am here to support you in seeing and embracing the authentic beauty that is YOU! I only share images that I feel your essence shining through. Sometimes this can be uncomfortable and challenge some of the narratives we have about what we think we should look like. I can offer support in the integration process if you find it difficult to receive the images.
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Once your application is received and approved You will either need to pay a 50% deposit or your first payment if you need a payment plan. We will then select a date.
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The base package includes 10 images. You will be able to view the entire gallery and make your selection and purchase additional images.
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Your fee includes professional licensing. However that license is for you alone. Additional license will need to be purchased for images to be used elsewhere
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Yes. My preference is to work on the lands that I am most connected to in the Cowichan Valley or Salt Spring Island. A travel fee applies to over 25 km from Cowichan/ Salt Spring Island.
