Alliance Avalonia

Founder and Head of School

Holly Raphaella

Holly is the Founder and Head of Alliance Avalonia, a vibrant global community dedicated to restoring the Avalonian, Arthurian and Grail Mysteries. Holly believes deeply in the potency of engaged spirituality to change the world, and followed a vision to create the temple in 1999. She is a devoted mother and mystic who works globally with many of the top teachers, mystics and guides in the Feminine Leadership Community.

The Isle of Avalon

The Isle of Avalon summoned me home three decades ago and what a ride it has been to have this Landscape of Love awakened and pulsing within me every day since. Avalon took me apart and put me together. Morgana pushed me relentlessly to find my dragon heart courage and turn my shadow-self and monsters within into my greatest allies. Merlin descended into my crown on the Starfire of Awen and rearranged my mind and sense of self. The Lady of the Lake drowned me in my/Her emotions and restored the Holy Grail power in my blood. Arthur, Gwyn ap Nudd, Lancelot and Joseph of Arimathea partnered me within and taught me to surrender and trust the King in men.

Along the way as I walked my personal path of devotion, in 1999, the Lady of Avalon gave me a vision and a mission - to bring back a Dragon Lineage of Avalon. This lineage is a lineage not of priestesses, but of High Priestesses of Avalon. Ancient Grail-Keepers, these modern women have gathered from
around the planet, from many diverse circumstances and backgrounds. We have all been High Priestesses of Avalon in other timelines. But in this one, we have incarnated together, because there is work to do that can only be done as a collective, as a council, as a circle of equals.

-Holly Raphaella

Program Director and Lead Faculty

Erin Guinevere

Erin Guinevere Chalfant is a Alliance Avalonia’s Program Director, Core Faculty, a Published Author, and Initiated High Priestess walking this path since 2013. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Psychology and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and is completing a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her areas of expertise include Somatics, Depth, Psychedelic and Plant Medicines and Eco-psychology.

Erin specializes in helping individuals find the root of their soul’s longing and purpose through practices of remembering and reconnecting with desire as a path of service.

She has worked in ceremonial spaces with plant medicines and facilitated the integration process for a variety of journeys, for more of her story visit her website.

  • Abby Tamar

    CORE FACULTY/APPROVED MENTOR

    Abby Tamar describes herself as a Guardian of the Grail, a Teacher of the Way, and a Walker of the Ancient Song Lines.

    Abby emanates a deeply embodied presence as part of her magick as a woman and an avowed priestess and invites others to fully embody and inhabit their own divine and magical nature.

    As the founder of The Sovereign Path, a devotional Grail Mystery Path, Abby leads a variety immersive programs in earth wisdom; stepping into the role of Dame and Elder; and a formal priestess training in the traditions of the Gnostic Grail and of Avalon. This three-spiral, initiatory path is known as Labyrinth

    Visit her at The Sovereign Path

  • Charlene Elspeth

    CORE FACULTY/APPROVED MENTOR

    Charlene Elspeth is a Canadian with deep, ancestral Celtic roots. She is a translator of the subtle languages of dreams and liminal spaces, synthesizer of the ancient wisdom of Awen, and sherpa of the mists. She holds a degree in Sociology, a TESOL diploma, and an IASD Dreamshare Facilitator certificate.

    Charlene’s approach to mentoring is collaborative and resourceful. She will help you unravel the diverse ways in which communication flows: the transmissions of the unseen, the meaning behind dreamscapes, the fertile silence between words, and the sense of longing for a place we have never been but where our ancestors walked. These spaces are where your trust begins, your intuition originates, and your faith can be lovingly restored. It is simultaneously a path that moves backwards and forwards.

    Currently, she creates Integrated Wellness programs for elders, helping them to discover their own unique language and wisdom, whilst cultivating cognitive harmony, physical strength, balance, and agency.

    Visit her at Earth Wisdom Yoga