The Inner Depths: Shame, Power & Renewal

A 2-Month Online Journey for Soulful Teen Girls (Ages 15+)

When: Tuesdays | 11–12 PM EST
Length: 8 weeks (June–July 2026)
Format: Live Zoom • Small, supported circle
Facilitator: Amber Melendy

Course Overview 

The Inner Depths: Shame, Power & Renewal is an 8-week summer initiation for teens who are ready to explore the deeper layers of life: identity, power, shame, embodiment, loss, purpose, and truth.

This series is not about positivity or self-improvement. It is about learning how to be with intensity, how to listen to the body as an oracle, and how to meet life’s darker passages with awareness rather than fear.

Guided by Amber Melendy, this program draws from:

• somatic and body-based awareness

• ritual and earth-honoring practices

• psychology, symbolism, and ancestral wisdom

• astrology as a reflective language, not a belief system
  
  

This is initiatory work, held gently, clearly, and with strong boundaries. Teens are never forced to share and are taught discernment, consent, and self-sovereignty throughout.

 Container & Care (Implicit Safety)

• Small, facilitated circle

• Clear agreements around consent and sharing

• No graphic content

• Focus on symbolic, emotional, and embodied understanding, not explicit storytelling

• Teens may opt out of any exercise
  

This is education + initiation, not therapy.

 8-Week Session Breakdown

Week 1 — Entering the Underworld

Themes: Shadow, taboo, shame, inherited stories
Purpose: Create safety and curiosity around what we usually hide

• What do we mean by “shadow”?

• How shame lives in the body and nervous system

• Ancestral patterns we carry without choosing
  Practices:
  Guided inner journey • Family Constellations + reflective journaling • opening circle

Week 2 — The Body as Oracle

Themes: Embodied intelligence, boundaries, consent
Purpose: Reclaim the body as a source of truth

• Listening to body signals (yes/no/maybe)

• Boundaries as wisdom, not walls

• Separating sensation from shame
  Practices:
  Gentle movement • breathwork • body mapping

Week 3 — Sacred Sexuality (Reframed as Life Force)

Themes: Life energy, pleasure, creative power
Purpose: Normalize embodied aliveness without explicit sexuality

• Understanding life force and creative energy

• Pleasure as safety, not performance

• Releasing inherited guilt around the body
  Practices:
  Somatic awareness • guided visualization • reflective discussion
  

Week 4 — Death & Rebirth as a Life Practice

Themes: Letting go, endings, grief, ego death
Purpose: Teach transformation as a sacred, repeating process

• Naming endings: friendships, identities, phases
  Honoring grief without drowning in it

• Learning how to release with intention
  Practices:
  Ritual for endings • symbolic altar work • journaling
  

Week 5 — Money & Power as Mirrors

Themes: Worthiness, survival fear, control
Purpose: Decode unconscious power dynamics

• What money represents emotionally

• Power over vs. power with

• Recognizing fear-based patterns
  Practices:
  Money story mapping • nervous system grounding • reflection

Week 6 — Purification & the Inner Healer

Themes: Devotion, service, ritual, care
Purpose: Establish spiritual hygiene and self-responsibility

• What it means to tend your inner world

• Daily practices that clear emotional residue

• Service as alignment, not self-sacrifice
  Practices:
  Herbal wisdom • earth-based ritual • personal practice design

Week 7 — Living Your Truth

Themes: Purpose, authenticity, life design
Purpose: Help teens name who they are becoming

• Separating expectations from inner truth

• Using symbolic tools (including astrology) for reflection

• Aligning choices with values
  Practices:
  Life-path reflection • guided inquiry • vision journaling
  

Week 8 — Integration: Becoming the One Who Walks Between Worlds

Themes: Wholeness, maturity, initiation
Purpose: Close the circle with dignity and meaning

• Honoring what has changed

• Naming inner strength and discernment

• Carrying this work into daily life
  Practices:
  Closing ritual • spoken affirmation • threshold crossing

What This Series Is (and Is Not)

This IS:

• deep, symbolic, embodied education

• initiation into emotional and spiritual maturity

• preparation for rites-of-passage work

This is NOT:

• astrology certification

• explicit sexual education

• trauma processing therapy
  

Pricing

PEP accepted

8 Week Course: $240

Early Bird by April 15th: $180

Optional Summer Offering (Add-On)

Rites of Passage Retreat – August 2026
📍 Mountain Light Sanctuary, North Carolina
A 1 or 2 week immersive nature-based experience (additional fee)

More Information: ShineOnYoga@gmail.com