Meet Joanne
Joanne in the heart of Avalon
Joanne Foucher is a Priestess of Avalon, a Moon Mother®, massage therapist, author and artist. Born in the South of France but originally based in Germany, she has been living in Glastonbury with her Beloved and their two magical children since December 2018.
The Goddess has called Joanne since she first read The Mists of Avalon aged 13, and has led her to travel and find the Lady in the land and the old stories. Joanne has a deep love for the standing stones and legends of the ocean in Brittany (where she spent all her summers as a child and teen at her grandparents', and where she still spends time every year), as well as for the myths of ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt and of the western European Celts. Beside many other things, this love has led her to living in Ireland from 2000-2001, training with Kathy Jones in Glastonbury from 2004-2007and dedicating as a Priestess of Avalon, excarvating in the Theban necropolis in Egypt in 2009, earning a master's degree from the university of Bonn in Prehistorical Archaeology and Comparative Religions in 2010 and to visit sacred sites all over Europe through the years, including palaeolithic caves and mesolithic temples in Germany as well as megalithic tombs, alignments and stone circles in France, Ireland and the UK and the beautiful Goddess temples and temple-palaces in Greece, Crete and Malta.
To Joanne, archaeology is an opportunity to look through a window into the past and let those old ways of worshipping Goddess inspire how we live our lives with Goddess now.
The Goddess has called Joanne since she first read The Mists of Avalon aged 13, and has led her to travel and find the Lady in the land and the old stories. Joanne has a deep love for the standing stones and legends of the ocean in Brittany (where she spent all her summers as a child and teen at her grandparents', and where she still spends time every year), as well as for the myths of ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt and of the western European Celts. Beside many other things, this love has led her to living in Ireland from 2000-2001, training with Kathy Jones in Glastonbury from 2004-2007and dedicating as a Priestess of Avalon, excarvating in the Theban necropolis in Egypt in 2009, earning a master's degree from the university of Bonn in Prehistorical Archaeology and Comparative Religions in 2010 and to visit sacred sites all over Europe through the years, including palaeolithic caves and mesolithic temples in Germany as well as megalithic tombs, alignments and stone circles in France, Ireland and the UK and the beautiful Goddess temples and temple-palaces in Greece, Crete and Malta.
To Joanne, archaeology is an opportunity to look through a window into the past and let those old ways of worshipping Goddess inspire how we live our lives with Goddess now.
Joanne has walked a spiritual path for over 25 years and has especially lived the the embodied practice of the priestess for over fifteen years. She is delighted to be passing on her academical and practical knowledge in the Priestess Training, in tours and retreats and in her book, Unsere heimischen Göttinnen neu entdecken.
As a priestess, Joanne loves creating sacred space and helping women embody their feminine spirituality. Over the years she has been lucky enough to learn from some amazing trail blazing women in the world wide community of women's spirituality. She has attended several retreats with Chameli Ardagh of Awakening Women Institute and has been studying with Katinka Soetens, founder of the Magdalen Mystery School since 2013, to reclaim the ways of the Sacred Sexual Priestess. Joanne's healing work is centred in honouring and strengthening women's sacred womb centre: In 2015 Joanne received the Moon Mother® initiation by Miranda Gray, founder of the World Wide Womb Blessing®, and in 2017 she earned her qualification to give Fertility Massage / Women's Massage after Birgit Zart. In her Red Tents, individual women's moon mysteries rite of passage ceremonies, workshops and retreats, Joanne combines what she's learned from all her Elders.
As a priestess, Joanne loves creating sacred space and helping women embody their feminine spirituality. Over the years she has been lucky enough to learn from some amazing trail blazing women in the world wide community of women's spirituality. She has attended several retreats with Chameli Ardagh of Awakening Women Institute and has been studying with Katinka Soetens, founder of the Magdalen Mystery School since 2013, to reclaim the ways of the Sacred Sexual Priestess. Joanne's healing work is centred in honouring and strengthening women's sacred womb centre: In 2015 Joanne received the Moon Mother® initiation by Miranda Gray, founder of the World Wide Womb Blessing®, and in 2017 she earned her qualification to give Fertility Massage / Women's Massage after Birgit Zart. In her Red Tents, individual women's moon mysteries rite of passage ceremonies, workshops and retreats, Joanne combines what she's learned from all her Elders.
Joanne at the 2019 Sun Lover Goddess Conference
Joanne is very excited to be in the Ceremonial Group of the Glastonbury Goddess Conference. In this role she is part of a circle of nine priestesses who together vision and manifest the energies of the Earth Mother Goddess in the 2020 Conference through ceremony, new mythology and embodied presence.
She also assists in the Priestess of Avalon training over the next two years, as well as ccontinues to teach the german priestess training following the german wheel of the Goddess. She helps with the monthly Oracle of Avalon and serves as temple melissa. Joanne embodies in the seasonal temple ceremonies and temple embodiment evenings whenever she can.
Joanne is very passionate about the vision of the MotherWorld and is part of the Mothers Collective, a group of mothers in and around Glastonbury actively looking to put the structures in place so that mothers receive the holding and support they need, in order to be able to hold and support their children and families.
She also assists in the Priestess of Avalon training over the next two years, as well as ccontinues to teach the german priestess training following the german wheel of the Goddess. She helps with the monthly Oracle of Avalon and serves as temple melissa. Joanne embodies in the seasonal temple ceremonies and temple embodiment evenings whenever she can.
Joanne is very passionate about the vision of the MotherWorld and is part of the Mothers Collective, a group of mothers in and around Glastonbury actively looking to put the structures in place so that mothers receive the holding and support they need, in order to be able to hold and support their children and families.
