Featured Authors

Carly Mountain is a women’s initiatory guide, a psychotherapist, a psychosexual somatic therapist, yoga teacher, breathworker and writer. For the last twenty years she has worked with sacred embodied practices. Carly stumbled across the Inanna story during her own descent to the underworld and was astonished by the symmetry it held with her own lived experience. Since then she has devoted to working with the myth and specialises in beholding others as they traverse the depths of initiation; both in therapy, breathwork and within courses that support women’s awakening and unfolding.

In 2019 Carly self-published her first poetry pamphlet Jouissance: Poetry of the Deep Feminine. Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories and the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth is Carly’s debut non-fiction book. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.

Sarah Robinson is a yoga teacher and author based in in Bath, UK (once named after a goddess: the ancient Roman town of Aquae Sulis). Her background is in science; she holds an MSc Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities. She loves exploring the power of myth, magic and story in both her writing and yoga teaching, and is passionate about helping everyone connect to their own special magic and inner power.

Author of four much-loved Womancraft titles: Yoga for Witches, Yin Magic, Kitchen Witch and her new release, Enchanted Journeys.

Find Sarah online: sentiayoga.com/yogaforwitches
Instagram: @Yogaforwitches

Featured Artist

Arla Patch

Womancraft Publishing is proud to celebrate not just the words, but the images of talented women too.

ARLA PATCH, creator of “Please Abide with Me” on the cover of Home to Her, is an artist, writer, teacher and “creativity midwife,” using art as a tool for healing. Her own challenging history provided the source material for using creativity for personal transformation. Making art has offered a powerful opportunity for her and those with whom she has facilitated artmarking: breast cancer survivors, incarcerated women, at risk teens, and survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence.

Arla is the author of A Body Story and Finding Ground: Girls and Women in Recovery, each of which won IPPY Awards. She also wrote A Heart Story and A Heart Story Coloring Book. 

Healing continues to be a central interest in her life as well as nurturing her spirituality. She is also an activist in the area of Indigenous Justice and a co-founding member of the Coalition of Natives and Allies. Arla is a member of Doylestown Friends Meeting (Quakers) and has a BFA, Ed and an MFA.

This piece is polymer clay; a technique she calls “coil drawing.” Her greatest joy is her grandson Anders.

arlapatch.com