In The Writer’s Group, Katie has a way of mirroring your thoughts back to you, helping you find parts of yourself that you maybe didn’t acknowledge before. She’s a guide for inviting ritual into our daily lives as a most beautiful form of self care. The Writer’s Group is for the student of your own soul.
-LG, 2024
My year has been more attuned with the incorporation of The Darkwood Beat. Taking the time to sit within nature & feel my alignment with the moon & the seasons has deepened my relationship to self. Working with the archetypes & anointing oils and creating daily/weekly rituals have invited play & joy back into my life. Katie’s weekly audio recordings have been a welcome addition to helping me find my rhythm. -Michelle Chromey
“You see people and their gifts very clearly, and I think a lot of that is from your deep work in mysticism. You’re so tuned in to people, and that it carries over when you’re talking about business and aligning people with their business. I highly recommend you as a business coach (even though you don’t call yourself that). I cannot recommend you enough!
I feel incredibly lucky, blessed, and fortunate to have had your eyeballs on my business for the last 10 years. I cannot imagine doing what I’ve done without you. You really pushed me beyond what I thought I could do. You’re a huge gift, and I think anyone who gets to spend even five minutes with you is lucky beyond belief. But man, if they can really spend some one-on-one time with you and go deeper, there’s nothing they can’t do.
You have an incredible skill at hearing what’s said, zooming in on the parts that are getting lost or glossed over, and amplifying them. You also zoom out and get to the crux of the matter in a way that I’m not able to see. You do it with warmth, a lot of humor, and incredible clarity. You’re really able to see me and speak the truth.
I also love that you have a no-nonsense approach. You’ll show me a path to go down, which sometimes it’s just me getting out of my own way, and other times you offer a specific strategy that speaks to my aptitudes as strengths as a business owner, not just some general, trendy business advice. “
– Jane Carter, 2024
“Where would I be without The Darkwood Beat? I’m Just so deeply grateful for the support it has in my life. Better than any facial or any spa day, if you ask me. Its daily rhythm gives me time and space to tap into, for ritual, self-reflection and journaling. The self-reflection from the daily Journaling prompts is restorative as my life’s challenges arrive and the processing flows on paper. I love that I am able to listen to Katie’s weekly audios on my own time. It allows me the freedom to align with my own sacred timing and listen to Katie’s wisdom, sweetness and intentions aligned with nature and its eternal shifts. This daily beat of self-care is a gift I’ve given myself. It gives me the environment to grow, feel nourished and blossom! I feel that the more we give ourselves these reflective moments the better this world will be. Thank you, Katie, for your sacred work. “
-Shannon McLaughlin, 2024
“I am a big fan of maps, signs, tarot, and all the wayfaring tools that make moving through this world a little less crazy making. Katie Vie and The Darkwood Beat for each season have become my very favorite tools for staying grounded and connecting deeply with myself and the world around me. The wisdom, humor, and encouragement that I receive through Katie’s gorgeous voice, generous heart, and creative spirit inspire me to stay awake and stay engaged with all that life and Nature has to offer.” Big gratitude for all you do to bring this goodness forward,
– Jenny, 2024
Fun, Fresh and Creative. Always look forward to The Darkwood Beat and hearing the guidance for each Archetype’s wisdom. It helps me rethink & problem solve in a unique way, like calling on a friend.
-JC, 2024
Katie’s Darkwood Beat is like a women’s circle coming right to me, wrapping loving and grounding words of wisdom around my being, and sparking my spunk with her vulnerability, fearlessness and humor. Each weekly offering goes straight to my heart.
-Heather, 2024
The Darkwood Beat is the perfect-sized commitment, prodding me toward growth and self-refection while not being overwhelming. I really appreciate how Katie leaves plenty of space for whatever I need individually- no beating me over the head with any kind of dogma; I can come and go, ebb and flow. I’m grateful, too, for how she always facilitates my relationship with Nature. It’s so dang juicy!
-MY, 2024
The Darkwood Beat is the perfect rudder for navigating each season’s waters. The breakdown of the season into weekly snippets helped me slow down and notice the subtle energies at play with the complex cycles of the moon, season, and days. The archetypes helped identify the type of water we are sailing in and enabled me to traverse life with greater awareness and consciousness, connected with the universal flow.
-KR, 2024
My year has been more attuned with the incorporation of the The Darkwood Beat. Taking the time to sit within nature & feel my alignment with the moon & the seasons has deepened my relationship to self. Working with the archetypes & anointing oils – creating daily/weekly ritual has invited play & joy back in. Katie’s weekly audio recordings have been a welcome addition to helping me find my rhythm.
-Michelle Chromey, 2024
Being in one of KV’s Writers Groups is like opening a book about yourself. She can hold space and time like no other to give a totally immersive experience every time we are together be it on screens or in person. I have grown and learned so much about my magical nature, the seasons, and archetypes I now walk the wheel with. I am forever grateful for these offerings. They have opened my heart to more nectar from life. ✨
-CS, 2024
“Katie’s experience as an educator brings a grounded and openhearted vision to innovative curriculum design. Her courses are both practical and poetical as she puts imagination into action, giving voice and shape to the mystical in everyday living. Katie’s warmth and generosity of spirit create a spacious invitation to explore the inner realms and the healing wisdom of the natural world.”
— Carey Smith, Founder and Director of the Center for Embodied Education and Co-director of Body Therapy Institute, 2019
I know myself in a multifaceted way now. I can see these archetypes in myself and will look forward to
digging deeper with each of them every year. Katie has such a special way of helping us all see the archetypes in us. I absolutely love the magic mind sessions and I looked forward to the new poems we would create. I learned to know myself in 7 new lights, with 7 new dimensions. Katie is a master at holding space. I love when she gets into a channeling mode and just takes us down the path with her. It’s beautiful to witness. The content is unique, but feels so familiar. Like I’ve known these archetypes but they were hiding from me and Katie helped me find them. Her intuition is divine.
— Ally Karge, 2023 graduate of The Mystical Year & Awaken the Wheel
After studying with Katie for a year, I am more attuned to what is real, to nature, and to women. I have normalized a part of myself that’s been hiding for some time. These teachings are a heritage that Katie has eloquently put words to. Having words to describe our experiences is all-important. I would recommend Katie’s work to every 20 something year old girl ever. It’s natural, a coming-of-age ceremony. Katie’s a rockstar.
— Lily Ray, 2023 graduate of The Mystical Year & Awaken the Wheel
“In The Mystical Year, the archetypes really gave each season some character and additional medicine that I will take with me and make my own. The way in which Katie taught the archetypes and provided guidance on how to engage with their special magic was like being introduced to a wise being each season, allowing us to be with their wisdom and learn their song of the season. It felt poetic and personal and made a profound impact on me and my mystical practice. I cannot imagine the years of my life to come without the rhythm of the wheel of the year.”
— 2022 The Mystical Year graduate
” Katie Vie, is a wonderful guide for any woman who wants to be little more authentic and present in her life, is curious about the feminine divine, and wants to form a more loving relationship with herself. I feel immensely fortunate to know Katie, and to be part of the loving community she has created.”
— 2019 The Mystical Year graduate
“If I didn’t have Katie Vie and her Mystery School in my life (going on 5 years now!) there is no way I would have had the sanity, patience, and fortitude to stay committed to some very precious long-term goal. She has taught me about timing, seasons of change, and phases of being that help to sprinkle much needed magic into my everyday life. I’m so thankful to Katie and her endlessly approachable ways of unearthing deep meaning in all facets of my life. “
— CMH graduate of The Mystical Year and other graduate level mystery school programs.
“I now have such a powerful sense of being held in community. When I took the Awaken the Wheel class in 2020, I’d never seen women sitting with each other, holding and helping each other, working to integrate magic into their lives. I’d always wanted a community like that, and when I saw it happening first hand in Katie’s class I knew I was where I belonged. Now, all these years later, I’m like yeah, that’s what women fuckin’ DO!”
— 2020 Awaken the Wheel, The Mystical Year and graduate level mystery school student
“Katie freakin’ VIE!!!??? I LOVE the Awaken the Wheel, your space of channel, the way you’ve made accessible these archetypes…THE WHOLE THING! Thanks for sharing this beautiful channeling with us”.
–2021 Awaken the Wheel participant
“The Awaken the Wheel class is the bees’ knees! I was curious about your archetypes and teachings, and this class was the best way to get a taste for all of it. It opened my eyes to the ways these archetypes help and guide me.”
–2020 Awaken the Wheel, The Mystical Year, and graduate level mystery school student
“The Mystical Year started as a commitment to personal growth and exploration and, throughout the year, turned into a gift to Self. It has given me a touchstone to which to stay connected and look forward consistently—a year’s worth of reading and journaling in The Materia Mystica, my ever-deepening and ever-present relationships with the archetypes that have burst to life inside of me, and the bond of our recurring sisterhood circle for class and ritual. In showing up for a year, all of this is now in my body and part of who I am. The gift that keeps giving is finding a way to nourish the mystical nature woven in the fiber of my being so I can be evermore my full Self.”
–Courtney S., 2019 graduate of The Mystical Year and graduate level mystery school
“Awaken The Mystic is like accepting an invitation to come home to oneself. From the moment you enter Katie’s sacred space and land to the moment you conclude with yet another soul-stirring ritual, you are touching the Divine within while growing in your wisdom. Katie is brilliant; warm, grounded, courageous. A true master.”
–Laura Juarez, 2019 graduate
“Following Katie’s guidance through The Mystical Year has restored me to myself, and to my own rhythms that beat within the immense circular song of the natural world. Thanks, Katie, for your clarity, gentleness, humor, and generosity in sharing this wise path. A life’s gift.”
— Lorrie J., 2019 graduate
“I am so grateful to my wise self for enrolling in The Mystical Year even though it didn’t make “logical” sense at the time. In this “turn of the wheel,” in the comfortable container Katie creates, I gained deeper relationship—and a way of living in awareness and harmony–with all aspects of myself. I feel more whole and clear than I did a year ago.”
— Liz G, 2019 graduate
“I’ve been attending Katie’s rituals for almost one year now. I fell in love with the Queen archetype and came back to learn more! What I appreciate about all of Katie’s events is the level of care and detail that she puts into the process, both in terms of the rituals themselves and her unique oils. It is a joy to celebrate the seasonal shifts with Katie, the archetypes, and a supportive community of magical women.”
–Ellen P., ritual participant.
“Participating in The Mystical Year with Katie Vie helped me learn to listen to the flow of creativity that was knocking at my heart. This “course” taught me to experience different ways of listening to myself and the world around me. It helped me to forge and refine who I want to be, and most importantly got me out of the way of who I already am. The mystical education and sisterhood helped me to birth a completely new life for myself all while honoring every shift that happened along the way. These women helped me to see and feel my own bravery as I took leap after leap. I am incredibly grateful to Katie and all that she offers… she teaches birthright medicine in a way no one else does. She’s a gem, and what she brings to the heart is nothing short of spectacular and miraculous. Don’t miss the opportunity to know yourself through Katie’s eyes.”
— C.H., 2018 graduate
“Katie holds space in a truly artful and heartfelt way. Before beginning The Mystical Year, I had ideas of what the archetypes might look like—but she guided a sweetly embodied and magical exploration into how they showed up in my life. This was incredibly transformative. It is a gift how Katie seamlessly facilitates a deeply personal and utterly visceral relationship with the archetypes, and I am so grateful to carry the timeless treasure of this experience with me, always. It has enlivened me, down to my soul.”
— Sarah H, 2018 graduate
“The Mystical Year with Katie Vie was a beautiful soul journey for my spirit. She weaves the seasons and archetypes together, in an incredible tapestry of deep learning, and heart opening rituals. I loved the friendships and community formed by our joyful commitment to this program. Katie is a glowing candle, keeping the seasonal changes and our own archetypal patterns in an illuminating, soft focus. Our own strengths had a place at the table and our patterns that needed healing were deeply nourished. I love and cherish my time within this space, my time with the women and Katie. The manual, the supplies, and the rituals were beautifully designed and executed and of incredibly high quality. Highly recommend this course.”
–Sabrina L, 2018 graduate
“I can’t imagine my life without having the knowledge and tools I’ve gathered throughout The Mystical Year. Life feels so much easier when I’m in alignment with the archetypes and the wheel of the year. I also found myself spending a lot more time creating art, something that I never had time for before, but through the year I saw value in my own creations. Through Katie’s teaching and Materia Mystica I was handed a container to live a life of integration and consciousness. I now can recognize the archetypes within me and value their voice. I continue to work at my job and no longer have signs of burn out. She was an answer to my prayers and did not disappoint in her leadership to provide a platform for me to listen to my own soul’s calling. Through her channeling of ancient wisdom and rituals she provided a sacred space for us to gather, connect to our own ability to channel, and learn the craft of honing and improving our individual “super powers”. At the end of The Mystical Year, I am much more fluent in my ability to channel the divine that flows through me. “
–Kari T. E., 2018 graduate
“I enrolled in The Mystical Year when I felt I needed to gather myself back together after years of being flung out over space and time. The community it fostered gave me a sacred place for focus, reflection, and unconditional support and I am forever grateful to it. I can’t speak highly enough about this class and Katie’s leadership. The material was magical and the experience transformative.”
— Selinde, 2018 graduate
“My commitment to The Mystical Year was satiating. Belonging to a group centered around mystical experience was pretty much what I yearned for my whole life. Within each season of study, there was an honest lesson learned and a new perspective to integrate. My personal goals were not only supported and witnessed by a genuine circle of women, they were anchored and guided by Katie’s expertise in ritual facilitation. The accuracy of divinations turning with the wheel of the year and the new level of confidence and trust I have for myself exploded, and I found true purpose.”
— Rebecca Sterling, 2018 graduate
“I have spent the past year as a student with Katie Vie, in Awaken the Mystic and The Mystical Year. It has been a completely transformative experience that has connected me to a powerful sisterhood, a vast archive of traditional knowledge, and my own deep wells of intuition and perception. My teacher, Katie Vie, is a wonderful guide for any woman who wants to be little more authentic and present in her life, is curious about the feminine divine, and wants to form a more loving relationship with her self. I feel immensely fortunate to know Katie, and to be part of the loving community she has created.”
–Katherine D. 2018 graduate
“Before I signed up for Awaken the Mystic, I spoke with Katie to hear a bit of her own journey as a mystic. My own journey was leading me through my body and inner knowing, and I wanted someone who could inspire me in that process, not give me a set of rules to follow or a mere list of things to do. I found what I was looking for. Through Awaken the Mystic, Katie guided us deeply into our own body’s wisdom, encouraging us to dive deeper into the particular ways of knowing unique to each of us, and crafted a space that fostered a circle of sisters overflowing with laughter, tears and song. These three weeks nourished me as I embraced myself more fully, and opened the longing for more of the sisterhood and magic. The Mystical Year is most certainly beckoning me to dive deeper still!”
— Kristie Ihde , 2018 graduate
“I’ve had the deepest pleasure of sitting with Katie Vie for a few different incarnations of her magic…and magic it is. In Awaken the Mystic, Katie creates and provides a safe, rooted foundation that allows your soul and body to explore and experience the beautiful liminal space that comes with gently tuning out of the logic and tuning into the intuition thru our sense of smell. With experience, book knowledge, humor, sass and the deepest kindness, Katie helps you step into the mists of play that help you recognize your truest self. What a complete joy!”
— Cici K., 2019 graduate
“Normally when embarking on a new experience, it feels to me like there is a new body of knowledge somewhere outside of myself that I am trying to tap in to, understand, and become a part of. Spending time in the experiences Katie offers is the exact opposite for me. Awaken the Mystic is like being given a treasure map to my inner landscape, an invitation to explore my inner worlds. Having Katie and her River Island Apothecary creations as guides on the inner quest creates an experience that feels safe and exhilarating to me, a feeling of coming home to myself”.
–Jessica Sparks-Mussulin , 2019 graduate
“Awaken the Mystic is an excellent blend of divine direction, inspiration, and encouragement of free flow expression. It brings about a lovely circle.”
–Tara B., 2017 graduate
“I am a psychologist who is trained in multiple methods of healing. I sought out Katie Vie and her approach to mysticism; she provided the sacred space I was craving. I used this time to notice and nourish my unique gifts of knowing to better serve my community. Since Awaken the Mystic and The Mystical Year, I’ve incorporated more daily self-care rituals, feel more aligned with my path, and experience more magic in my daily life. I am grateful for Katie’s leadership in forming a community that met my needs so perfectly.”
–Kari T.E., 2018
“Katie Vie is both feisty and deeply tender. I have found her sincerity and honesty refreshing. She has an incredible ability to hold the seat of teacher. She embodies the 7 archetypes in her anointing oil collection in a way that gives a person permission to fully bloom into who they came to earth to become. I see Katie Vie as a healer, wise woman, guide, sister, and deeply inspiring being from another dimension. I am so grateful for Awaken the Mystic and continue to simmer in the teachings she has generously shared with me. I am grateful to know this gatekeeper of wisdom and knowing”.
–Maggie O., 2017 graduate
Awaken the Mystic is less like a class than consecrated gatherings. Her approach to imparting her vast knowledge of plant morphology and blending within an atmosphere invoking ancient symbolism of the natural world and inviting us to trust a deep, personal knowing feels like Asheville’s best-kept secret.”
–Selinde L., 2017 graduate
“Katie Vie has a special way of holding space. It is both gentle and heart felt as well as deep and introspective. Before Awaken the Mystic, my thoughts were super scattered, and I had a million ways I wanted to express myself and my calling. Sitting with Katie Vie and the 3 other women in circle with the oils and archetypes nourished my soul and offered a clarity I have been longing for! Thank you, Katie Vie! We have a saying in midwifery, if a woman says after birth ‘I did it!’ then midwife did her job. Holding that liminal space so that the woman can take credit for her own internal wisdom. It feels like Katie is a midwife to the Priestess archetype within us.”
–Sabrina L., 2017 graduate
“Awaken the Mystic taught me so much about creating a safe space for people to be. Her presence and example teach subconsciously by removing ego-based conditioning, and keeping a balance between being a nurturer and showing strength. The strong community feeling built in the intimate class setting is irreplaceable. I feel connected to these women forever. I would take any class Katie Vie offers.”
–Yaya D., 2017 graduate
“In the layers of my education, the Aromatherapy Class you led at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine (I was in the clinical program) a few years ago was and still is the clearest and most intimate expression of essential oil medicine I’ve encountered in the context of a class. “
— Graham Wesley Dwelling: Earth Medicine
“I had the lucky pleasure of attending a whole weekend retreat at Katie’s apothecary. I loved taking the time to get to know how each scent spoke to and resonated with me and using that information to craft blends to help nurture, refresh, and ground my spirit. I appreciated the ease I found in spending all that time with Katie. She’s gifted not only in her work with oils but also as an intuitive teacher and healer–not to mention divine cook! I walked away from that weekend with exactly what my spirit needed.”
–Katie R., 2015
“I am now deeply connected to the turning cycles of the wheel and how each one teaches me. I know when and how to be present with the magic of each season. Being supported by the 7 archetypes and finding that wisdom within myself has helped me set intentions and focus my awareness and presence. Because of The Mystical Year I am deeply grounded with a crystalline connection to earth, space, and time.”
— 2019 mystery school graduate
“I am so grateful to my wise self for enrolling in The Mystical Year even though it didn’t make “logical” sense at the time. In this “turn of the wheel,” in the comfortable container Katie creates, I gained deeper relationship—and a way of living in awareness and harmony–with all aspects of myself. I feel more whole and clear than I did a year ago.”
— 2019 mystery school graduate
“The journey of The Mystical Year enabled me to have a deeper trust and surrender. I have been held and loved and supported for a full year by dearest Katie, an amazing-beyond-words sacred guide and “nudger” dedicated and committed to Knowing the sacred self. She is a precious gift. The space and environment she calls in, manifested and held by her is where many blessings manifested for me in a challenging time for the planet, our country, and myself. Awesome! Thank you!!!”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“There is so much sacred noticing, so much learning about yourself, so much opportunity for growth in The Mystical Year! It blows my mind how grateful I feel EVERY SINGLE TIME I sit in circle with Katie Vie. This course is so perfect and so well thought out. I would recommend it to anyone curious about mystical work, nature, the unseen energy always at play. Anyone needing inspiration, divination, or space to be seen and heard. Katie is an epic channel, she holds safe space for you to walk into the cosmos of your soul. ”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“The Mystical Year program wakes up the witch, wise woman, and mystic within. Take this class, but only if you’re willing to put just as much of yourself into the process as Katie puts into it.”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“Because of The Mystical Year program, I know how to ground myself and be lead from the heart. I learned to have supportive boundaries that help me practice self care and let others take care of them selves; I’m clear about what is mine and what is theirs. I embrace the sacredness and importance of my “divine weird-o”, and I make space for ritual and connection with my ancestors.”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“Because I walked with these archetypes for a whole year, I understand how much I am impacted by the turning of the wheel and all the magic that accompanies me when I’m aware that I turn with it. I have received such a personal and intimate understanding of how much I can change and evolve from one year to the next, and how this is a dance between myself and the Universe.”
— 2020 The Mystical Year graduate
“My life will forever be more magical. The Mystical Year opened me up to my story and my inner truth. I reveled in the clarity of my purpose and my wisdom.”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“I wish I could find the words to describe how The Mystical Year program has changed my life! How much luck it has brought me, how I no longer suffer with depression, how I am quicker to understand things at play. How the moon is a reminder of the archetype. How Excited I get when I know it’s a mystical day with sisters. Sharing about things that matter to us woman and how magic works in our lives. Inspiring and encouraging each other is such a big part. It brings me to tears trying to explain how these offerings and anointing oils created and designed by Katie Vie has helped me to grow more in the last 2 years than the many decades before it. If you are ready to walk a path with yourself to the “knowing of self”…Go for it! The Mystical Year is truly a magical journey of discovery!”
— 2020 mystery school graduate
“Thanks so much for being part of mine and so many others, journeys, Katie! Even those of us who simply do the Materia Mysticas on our own, follow you on Instagram, and quietly attend your online events are profoundly impacted by your offerings.”
—Awaken the Wheel participant
“I learned to slow down and be present in each day and each passing cycle of the wheel, moon cycles, and seasonal changes. Knowing when to attract my desires, when to nurture them, when to slow down and when to rest…daily, monthly, yearly.”
— 2020 graduate of The Mystical Year
“Katie’s courses restore the soul with seasonality, a continuum of wisdom, and the magic of the subconscious. They are designed for those who are looking to develop a grounded relationship to a mystical life.”
— 2021 mystery school graduate