About

Hi, I'm Briaa.

I'm a mother, hairstylist, entrepreneur and intuitive practitioner based in Ottawa.

My spirituality doesn't live in a dedicated room with an altar you never touch. It lives on the kitchen counter with herbs drying beside the kettle. It's tarot cards left out on the table, sound bowls played barefoot in the forest, things made with my hands, children raised, businesses built, and meals cooked for people I love. It's getting things wrong, questioning what I've been taught and beginning again and again.

Practice
Over a decade of tarot, energy work, ritual and sound
Training
Witch School · Sacred Pathways Shamanic Apprenticeship · Shamanic Reiki 1 & 2 · BioTuning & Sound
Based in
Ottawa, Ontario · sessions online everywhere
Briaa

The story

I came to this work the way most people do: through life.

Briaa playing a crystal singing bowl in the forest
Sound bowls played barefoot in the forest.

How I found my way here.

Through the parts that didn't make sense, the things I couldn't logic my way through, and a growing need to trust something deeper than what I'd been given permission to trust. I found my way through practice, through training, through mentorship, through discernment, and through learning what it actually means to have a relationship with spirit that belongs to me.

What Ascending Priestess is.

Ascending Priestess grew from a belief that spirituality should be something you can actually live. Not something that exists only in ceremony, in readings, in retreats, or in the beautiful moments. What matters is how you carry what you discover into your relationships, your choices, your home, your everyday life.

That's the thread through everything I offer. Whether we're sitting together in a private session, gathering in circle, or sharing space at a workshop or retreat, the question underneath it all is always the same: what are you learning, and how will you bring it home?

How I work.

My practice draws from tarot and intuitive guidance, Reiki and energy work, sound, ritual, plant and earth-connected practices, and shared ceremonial space. These aren't separate tools I pull from a kit. They're a living practice I work with myself, and they inform how I hold space for the people I work with.

I'm not here to tell you what your experience means, hand you a formula, or position myself as someone above the work. I'm here to create space that's grounded enough to hold what's real, and open enough to let you find what's actually true for you.

The four pillars · Everything here moves through four orientations

RememberDiscernTrustEmbody

Remember what you already carry. Discern what is actually yours. Trust your relationship with your own knowing. Embody it in real life, not just in ceremony.

The method

Four orientations, lived.

Not just something you experience in ceremony. Something you practice when you go home.

Four orientations, <em>lived</em>.
01

Remember

Come back into relationship with yourself beneath the noise, roles, expectations, conditioning, responsibilities, survival patterns, and outside voices. Remember what you want. Remember what matters. Remember what it feels like to actually hear yourself.

02

Discern

Learn to recognize what is actually yours: intuition vs. fear, desire vs. obligation, a full-body yes vs. people-pleasing, your beliefs vs. inherited beliefs, your knowing vs. someone else's interpretation of you. Discernment isn't about always being right. It's about being able to examine what you're experiencing without immediately handing authority to someone else.

03

Trust

Practice believing yourself without requiring endless external validation. Self-trust doesn't mean "I'm always right." It means "Even when I don't know, I won't abandon myself."

04

Embody

Knowing something intellectually isn't the same as living it. Embodiment is where inner knowing becomes visible through actual choices like boundaries, relationships, money, receiving, work, rest, creativity, saying yes, saying no, changing direction, how you choose to live.

In their own words

What people say after sitting in this work.

“The energy work and intuitive readings were incredibly insightful. I felt truly heard and supported throughout the experience, and left with a deeper connection to myself.”

— Jennifer Private work

“I had such an incredible experience during my intuitive tarot reading. I was emotionally moved in the best kind of way. By the end of my reading I felt my bright light come back to me and just so inspired.”

— Melissa Intuitive tarot reading
Hands laying tarot cards across a table beside a singing bowl

If something here resonates, I'd love to connect. Have a look at the work and see where you feel called to start.

Ready to begin?