SOUL TATTOO CEREMONY

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A Soul Tattoo® ceremony is an initiation into your soul’s truth, medicine, wisdom, & expression.

Soul Tattoos carry the song of your soul, channeled by your soul, the ancestors, and guides to support, attune, activate, and align you to the highest expression of your light in the world. This unique form of ceremonial tattooing calls tattooing back to its magical, ancient, feminine origins—thousands and thousands of years before the tattoo machine and the modernized tattoo industry—when tattoos were a method of soul retrieval, spiritual amulets, spells, oracular protection, portals, initiations into one’s role, a map of the soul’s evolutionary journey, and badges of honor woven into the luminous field as much as the sacred body form.

  • “I received a Soul Tattoo and it was instantly added to the internal list of moments that changed my life. I’ve felt empowered and inspired by its medicine […].”

    AMBER

  • “Ashley River and her work will have my gratitude forever. This has been an incredible and life-changing experience I wish for everyone to experience.”

    NADIA

  • “Getting a Soul Tattoo was a turning point in my life.”

    GRACIELA

  • “Ashley is a brilliant and gifted artist and healer. Ash’s work has changed my life and activated expressions of self that I have long been fearful to share. I am beyond grateful to her.”

    OLIVIA

  • "Ashley holds immaculate, solid space for a true unraveling self-return to take place. Ashley is a true light as well as a shadow walker. Her grace and strength, her searing clarity and her absolute dedication to walking the path of the soul will enable you to find those qualities in yourself, under her gentle yet uncompromising guidance. She is the embodiment of the healing ways and the feminine remembering that we so need right now."

    LOVEDAY

  • “You are truly a gift to this world and I am so blessed and honored to have been able to receive your healing work. I know I have to do the actual work after receiving your medicine, but you truly make it a pleasure. I have always felt so safe and protected on my journey and I know the love notes on my body from you are very much a part of that. Thank you for being an angel and light in this world. No words can ever amount to the love I have for you!”

    LAUREN

  • “This tattoo emulates everything that has been and will be, based on the learning and growing I’ve done in this life, and past lives, as that knowledge guides my wispy spirit to the future. This connects me to the cosmos, my divine truth; reminding me that everyone is a guide, a mirror. This is also a reminder of strength and inner wisdom. Ashley gave me brilliant ideas and messages of how I can tap into growth as my wild feminine incarnate and to cultivate the balance of taking care of oneself too. Endlessly gratuitous Ashley!”

    DANYA

  • “What you gave me was life-changing in more than one way. Thank you. I am so grateful and honored to have had that experience with you. You are a truly special person. Thank you for helping to open portals for me, and for opening my heart. Thank you for the trust and for helping me surrender in such a peaceful way. Everything you said to me resonates so deep. I’m going forward now letting my heart guide my hands.”

    ANDY

  • “My soul tattoo is facilitating and supporting my growth into my higher self. I even feel its energetic imprint rising sometimes. I can’t identify why, but it’s like a caress, hand hold.”

    ASHLEY

  • “I wanted to let you know how greatly my life has improved in the past year since our tattoo session. You helped me realize so many things I was trying to ignore—and now I have eliminated them from my life, and I can say I have never been happier. I wake up everyday and am living my dream life. My business has improved, my relationships are stronger, and I have become more of “myself” every day. I am so grateful for our time together, and I love having my Soul Tattoo as a reminder forever.”

    MARITA

  • “I’m so grateful for the healing energy that’s come into my life since our session. I’m profoundly grateful for the metamorphosis that I’ve experienced. I feel empowered and proud of my human and feminine existence. Thank you for helping me on my path. I truly feel like the time and place that I was able to accept your healing will be forever engraved in my life spiritually beyond the beautiful marking on my arm.”

    YUNI

  • “I can’t thank you enough for the magical experience you provided for me. I am so grateful for the portal tattoo and your healing energy and intuition. I already feel the pull to create change and be seen more than ever. Your gentle medicine is a gift to the world.”

    LYDIA

  • “My Soul Tattoo and our time activated such immense unexpected feminine magic for me. A legit total awakening.”

    CAITLIN

  • “Thank you for the work that we did together. I feel so much gratitude and awe because it has shifted a lot for me. It had empowered me to take a lot of steps towards supporting and nourishing my feminine and it’s still unfolding in my life. It doesn’t all feel easy and there has been a lot of tears of grief and still some resistance but I feel more committed than ever to keep supporting her.”

    FATIMA

  • "What a beautiful energy to be around: Ash is gentle and also sure, she is genuine but also open. It is so inspiration to sit with someone who has invented a way of working, the Soul Tattoo, that allows multiple dimensions of her gifts to be active in her work. What an honor and a privilege for me!”

    XENIA

  • “Your session and the year that has followed has been the best medicine I have received. Your medicine and messages could not have been more spot on. I have major life shifts happening and I have you to thank.”

    BRITNEY

  • “Ashley’s energy is simultaneously calm and powerful. She’s spritely but easy-going. Being with her felt like floating on water. I left a new woman. My experience with Ashley pushed my boundaries. I choose to believe that maybe there is such a thing as magic. Most importantly I made a choice to trust in something beyond myself and let go of the rest. ”

    DEENIE

  • “I want you to know how much I loved my experience with you and how much I love my soul tattoos. You don’t need me to tell you this, but you really do have this gift that sees right into the heart of things and lives in its truth. So THANK YOU for helping me to start finding certain truths in my life and giving me the armor and balance and and protection and support that I was searching for.”

    SARAH

  • “My Soul Tattoo has helped emancipate and support me, providing calming stillness of my inner waves, the purging of past habits, a freeing liberation of letting go, the abolition of self-worth based on any standards but my own, and the acknowledgment and embracing my power as a propeller to my most authentic being. Through my session I gained strength and courage to sit within grace and let go of the shadows darkening my existence, awakening to my truth and the power my voice possesses. I was guided to such awareness by my Soul Tattoo.”

    KASS

  • “I would just like to extend my gratitude for all the words and wisdom you shared during our session and beyond. You truly have a gift, Ash, and your guidance is something I will be forever grateful for”

    PAIGE

  • “I absolutely Love my Soul Tattoo. It is a constant reminder to use my voice, let go of what is no longer, embrace change and to look at myself through my own eyes. The most magical and empowering experience I have had in a long time. Ash you are the essence of Nature-Spirit connection.”

    GRETCHEN

Soul Tattoos are sacred talismans

Each dot, line, mark, element, and symbol contains intentional alchemy channeled by the wisest, most infinite, loving, and powerful part of you, activating deep healing and transformation, placed on the physical body in accordance with the meridians, organs, and energy centers within the body to align the design to the placement on the body that can best support your evolution in clearing density from past timelines and ancestral lineages, freeing you to be who you came here to be. It is through the deeply illuminating and transformative process of intention/dream casting and activation of divine desire, past-life/soul regression journeying through the history of you, the channeling of your soul and sacred symbols and messages directly from the source of you, plant alchemy, and ceremonial magic that we can harness the magic of this mysterious, ancient, sacred healing art, and use it to heal and boldly leap into deeper alignment with your soul’s gifts and destiny path.

These hand-woven markings act as portals of becoming, symbols of empowerment, initiatory experiences, and medicine that go much, much deeper than the art you see on the surface. In fact, activating a soul tattoo imprints your soul with a specific evolutionary healing that will be carried with you after you leave your present body form.

Though a Soul Tattoo is a highly therapeutic, intentional healing experience of receiving a tattoo that is unique to each person, it is also deep evolutionary soul work that calls you to rise to alignment with who you truly are.

THE SOUL TATTOO

IMMERSION

JOURNEY

My primary offering, Soul Tattoo Ceremony Immersion, is a multi-day pilgrimage experience held over 3-4 days. These private immersions center around a pilgrimage to lands that support the ancestral mending and soul liberation you are being led to cross the threshold of. Specific lands/lineages will call you to remember yourself through them, and we work with these lands and the ancestors to uncover, reweave, and mend what has been lost, hidden, or broken so that the gifts of you can be free to express through your unique soul’s song.

OTHER TYPES OF SOUL TATTOO CEREMONIES

Looking for a larger piece, but don’t have the time or resources to commit to a multi-day immersion? A full-day ceremony includes all the aspects of a Soul Tattoo ceremony, but instead of journeying together to retrieve your marking through a soul regression, soul healing experience, I channel your marking before we meet through communion with my guides and ancestors. The design is revealed on the day of your ceremony, between opening our time together with our plant ally and meditation, and diving into the marking ceremony. These ceremonies typically last 5-7 hours and do not include any photos or other modalities.

FULL-DAY CEREMONY

GROUP SOUL TATTOO CEREMONY

Book a private group soul tattoo ceremony for you and your beloved, family, or soul sisters.

Group ceremonies are offered (typically for 2-6 participants) to bless and initiate a couple or small group on their evolutionary path. Come with a specific intention, a special moment of time to mark, or something you wish to heal through in union with others. Share your intentions, and I will arrange a unique and sacred ceremony for you and your loved ones. These are beautiful for a group of soul sisters devoted to a shared walk, beloved partners to deepen in Sacred Union, mothers/daughters (18 or older) to heal through the mother lineage, or siblings in a ceremony of ancestralization.

These ceremonies include ritual, a soul journey, plant connection, and a small, hand-woven marking for each person (approximately 2-3 inches).

FAQ

Apprentice With Ashley

Certified Soul Tattoo

Apprenticeship

DO YOU FEEL THE CALL TO WEAVE THIS MEDICINE OF SOUL ON BODY FORM?

Ashley’s Soul Tattoo apprenticeship program is a bespoke initiatory journey of anchoring your own medicine as a ceremonial Soul Tattoo artist.

Equal parts traditional hand-poked tattoo apprenticeship and soul journey of remembrance and initiation into your gifts and medicine, Ashley’s apprenticeship container is a portal to uncover and unleash your innate healing magic using the unique modality of Soul Tattooing.