Carina Covella is an authoress, underworld priestess, and feminine embodiment guide. She’s the creatrix of dreaming so darkly—a temple space devoted to the arts of shadow alchemy, sacred sexuality, conscious kink, and sovereign submission. Writing as Persephone, Carina guides women into the deeper layers of themselves through her mythopoetic erotic journeys and transmissions on healing, transformation, and feminine reclamation.

At the heart of Carina’s work is the belief that feminine power is reclaimed through descent—into the body, the psyche, and the underworld depths modern culture has taught women to fear. Through the myth of Persephone, she explores how shame, disembodiment, and wounded innocence sever women from their instincts and erotic aliveness, and how the descent itself becomes the path of reclamation. For it’s only after descending into the underworld and being crowned queen that eternal innocence is truly reclaimed—not as naïveté or weakness, but as something embodied, sovereign, and fully awake.

Carina’s own journey began after a lifetime of struggling with the effects of complex trauma. She had her first therapist at four years old, and several more after that, but it was only through her decade-long descent into tantra, somatics, sovereign submission, and conscious power exchange that she began reclaiming her own power and erotic aliveness. It was through these experiences that Carina came to understand how we come to eroticise our wounds—because it's in the very places where we've been stripped of our power that our power waits to be reclaimed. Her path has taken her across the world in study with renowned teachers and practitioners, including studying as a tantra teacher with an enlightened tantric master.

Originally from Los Angeles, California, Carina currently lives in Cornwall, England amongst the ancient myths, storm-dark seas, and liminal landscapes that deeply shape her creative world. When she’s not writing or guiding others through the underworld, she can usually be found wandering the cliffs and ancient forests, or swimming in the cold Atlantic sea, resisting the occasional urge to lure unsuspecting sailors to their demise…

Carina graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and is completing her year-long certification as a tantric sex, love, and relationship coach. For those who feel called to journey deeper into her world, one-to-one mentorship and immersive underworld offerings will be opening soon. Join the waitlist below to be the first to hear when the temple doors open.

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