ritual + practice
Cycling through the seasons
This offering has emerged from my years of practice and facilitating yoga spaces, finding a home in connecting to the cyclical rhythms that exist outside and within us. After years of offering weekly classes, I have decided to bring this cyclical wisdom into my work more directly – a gently unfolding process to spiral into practice together, spiral out into space for integration and regular pauses for rest.
Ritual + Practice comprises of four six week courses, offered in each season of Autumn, Winter, Spring & Summer. Each six week cycle will be framed by the themes of the season, interwoven with the magic that stirs within the group. For me, this is magical work – meeting what arises in the moment through coming together in a shared moment in time, with a shared purpose & intention. A co-created space for inquiry, embodied connection & intuition: a container to build your own daily practice and connect to a community of like minded humans for support & care.
This work spirals in & out of the individual and collective. Exploring what can resources to show up in this harmful & oppressive world with authenticity, courage and love? How can ritual & practice support us to embrace and celebrate our wholeness: the joy, the expansion, the grief, the rage, the silence, the love, the numbness? How can we care for ourselves and one another as a way to resist and dismantle systems of harm that live both within and outside of us?
Dancing between ritual + practice
Structuring words into sentences felt impossible to capture the essence of ritual and practice. The lemniscate immediately flowed from pen to paper when I let myself draw and drop out of ‘making sense’. Eternally interconnected, ritual is practice and practice is ritual. I am sure we will add more words, feelings, images, understandings to this as we meet…
What to expect?
The practices we will explore are predominantly rooted in the traditions of yoga, an opportunity to dive deeper into the vastness of yoga as a daily spiritual and liberatory practice. This will be interwoven with rituals & practices that support us to reconnect to the spiritual nature of these lands, the natural cycles within & outside of us, our guides & ancestors. In this way, we will come to know rituals & practices that are both formal and informal; those that have moved through lineages for centuries and those which we create in the moment; perhaps practices which are cognitively unknown, but yet deeply known in our bones.
The greatest ritual of this work is the commitment to meet weekly over our time together. To be present with the changing energies of the season as the wheel of the year turns. Below are the kinds of rituals & practices you can expect…
Ritual
sharing circles
altar creation
grief tending
anger release
chanting & singing
ancestor connection
spellcasting
Practice
yoga nidra
embodied movement
breathwork
yogic mapping & philosophy
reflective questions & journaling
a framework for daily practice
a community of practitioners to connect with
Investment, Booking & Venue
Each season is booked as a stand alone course, so you can join just one, two, three or all of them! Based on feedback from the Autumn cycle, I have now extended these sessions to 2 hours with a slightly later start time, 6-8pm.
Prices have been carefully considered to reflect the value of these offerings. This price includes: 6 x 2hr sessions, 6 x yoga nidra recordings from our sessions and additional resources e.g. a written summary of the practices we’ve explored.
6 week course (standard): £125
The Winter course is now live and will take place at The Beehive Centre BS5, click the images below to book!
Payment plan options are available if paying in one go is not possible. Simply select the ‘pay offline’ option and then send me an email to arrange your payment plan.
The Beehive Centre is a fully accessible venue with gender neutral toilets.
Courses will be maximum 14 people.
Upon booking your place, you will receive confirmation and a link to a google form to complete to cover more specifics about our group agreements, desires and for you to share any relevant information and access needs. This will support me in tailoring my facilitation to the needs of each cycle & group, as well as supporting you as participants to feel clearer on what to expect from the space and one another.
In between each each six week cycle, there will be the opportunity to join additional seasonal events to celebrate: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas. More information about these will be on my bookings page.
My approach
My offerings are rooted in the values of accessibility and inclusivity. I facilitate from the lens of trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practice.
You can get a sense of my approach to all my offerings by reading my about page and familarising yourself with my group agreements.
For this particular offering, there will be an emphasis on intuition, co-creation and diving deeper.
Whilst the intention of these courses is not specifically to educate on topics related to queerness, anti-oppression & decolonisation, this is the lens through which I share my offerings. You do not have to be well versed in these topics to attend, only open & willing to learn.
Who is this for?
These sessions are open to all who read these words and feel a nudge of curiosity and desire.
They are specifically designed with folks in mind who have some experience of yoga or another spiritual or meditative practice as an opportunity to dive deeper.
As a queer trans non-binary facilitator, it is important to me that this space is queer centred. Anyone desiring to attend who does not identify as queer or LGBTQIA+ is whole heartedly welcome, as along as you identify as a respectful and loving ally. Any questions, feel free to get in touch.
