Earlier this year I completed my circle facilitation studies with Sister Stories.
I had embarked on a 4-month circle journey during the 2nd lockdown here in the UK of the Autumn/Winter in 2020. A journey I embarked upon to keep myself sane amidst all the crazy. To hold myself steady amongst so much uncertainty. Weathering myself so that I didn’t get blown away by the relentless storms as I was tossed about from one wave to another as if lost at sea. By then you see I wasn’t really lost. Though I didn’t quite know where I was either. But I knew something. I felt something.
I met a sacred soul sister in the throes of this 4-month journey. She signed up believing it was the start of some kind of writing class. Though fair to say none of us knew what to expect or quite what we had signed up for. Though there must have been some kind of invisible thread drawing us all together. Weaving in and amongst the uncertainty to bind those of us who were feeling connected to the something more.
All of us brought together with needs we had that we were not aware of what they were or what exactly it would be that would help us fulfil those needs. We only knew we had them and that lockdown was giving us the opportunity to meet them in a way we might never have been open to before. Even though we could not yet see it.
Much like the journey I had already begun some 2 years and one massive relapse prior, it was a journey into the unknown. Yet there I was, willing and able. I was late to the first one. I had not heard the initial shares. So when it came to me introducing what it was that had brought me there, I shared a lot of my past. About how I had numbed out all my life, took drugs, wound up disabled and now here I was trying to figure my way out of a world I’d caught myself up in when I knew the truth of what was going on all along.
It was a challenge at times to show up, be creative, give myself permission to let myself run wild in all my abandoned glory. A fully immersive, deeply transformational experience; life never was the same again after. Connection, insight, wisdom that I had never known or at the least, never connected to before. Expansion, freedom, a door opener to more (inner) work to be explored, to begin.
In awe of the circle facilitators presence was often how I felt. Gentle yet powerful. All knowing yet not knowing. Comfortable, serene, calm in and amongst the uncomfortable, not serene and anything but calm. I had already taken an interest in holding circle earlier that year. But I did not yet know that this were to be my calling, connected to purpose and part of my life’s work.
It took me a further 3 years to be ready to commit to the learning of how I too, could hold space for a coven, whilst at the same time prepare myself for any eventuality that facilitating a space of this nature may open and bring.
It was during receiving these teachings that I was strongly guided to launch a series of circles specifically over “the week of the witch”. I had to google when that was! It’s the last few days of October and so I am braving it up to launch The Power of 3 on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 29th – 31st October next month!
Witches, warriors and changemakers, you are invited to
1. Learn to let the body lead (day 1)
2. Embark upon the (held) journey of letting go (day 2) and
3. Rebalance the divine feminine and the divine masculine (day 3)
This will be an expansive 3-day journey that will have capacity to create change and transformation in your life. You will be guided into the deepest, darkest depths of yourselves. Here you will be gently held in a space where you will feel trust and support.
All parts of you will be welcomed. All parts of you will be seen, honoured, witnessed.
Who is this coven for?
This unique and sacred space is for those of us who live with chronic migraine and invisible illness who are, in some way, waking up to the truth that we matter, our health matters.
What is this witchery?
A series of 3 one and a half hour circles around the cauldron.
When will I change my life?
The week of the witch,
Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st October
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Why might I want to be there?
These sessions will help you take back the reigns of creation for your own life, your own health, your own healing. Or at the very least to more firmly grasp hold of them!
Where will we gather?
Online. On zoom. From the comfort of your very own room.
Any questions, please ask.
My question for you right now is, are you in?
You can book here on Eventbrite if you are.
Ooh this is exciting and sounds exactly what I need right now 😍 I love that you mention that we can show up as we are. I get nervous with zoom stuff sometimes. I'm always worried these days, due to the autoimmune disease/fatigue, that I can only show up to things if I'm 'well', I guess being ill makes me feel all vulnerable and exposed? 🤔 But I trust that you will make us all welcome no matter how we turn up, and I'm looking forward to it ☺️
I am very tempted.... I will try to get in the right headspace (on top of the exhaustion at the moment) x