Ritual + practice returns for a second cycle!
After a rich year of offering these seasonal courses for the first time, I invite you to cycle with me again. I have learnt so much from each season & each group, and the purpose, rhythm and structure is feeling clearer and more rooted. I am excited to see what this next cycle brings and also offering new ways for you to join for the whole cycle (all four seasons) or half a cycle (two seasons), as well as a single season.
Read on for more information about ritual + practice: what to expect, investment, my approach and testimonials. You can click on each image below for more details about each specific season & booking.
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…
Each week, this structure will gently hold us…
🌱 framing & opening ritual
🌱 sharing circle – either in the group or pairs, always with options to work solo/share silence
🌱 movement & breath – themed by the season & desires of the group
🌱 yoga nidra – resting meditation to explore the seasonal themes within, sometimes with sound & song
🌱 reflection & closing ritual
And further rituals & practices from the lists below & more will be interwoven as the wisdom of the group & season intuitively guides us.
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: one season, two seasons, the full year!
Each season can be booked as a stand alone course or you can book onto all four courses as a deep commitment to exploring this work through the year.
Prices have been carefully considered to reflect the value of these offerings with discounts for multiple bookings. For each season, this price includes: 6 x 2hr sessions, 6 x yoga nidra recordings from our sessions, a written summary of the practices we’ve explored and (optional) access to a group WhatsApp for the duration of the course.
One season
6 week course (standard): £140
Full Cycle (all four seasons booked together): £560 £490 / £480 £410
Receive a £70 discount (you get one season half price) PLUS 10% off events to celebrate Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane & Lammas and 10% off a 1-1 private session with me.
Half Cycle (two seasons booked together): £280 £255 / £240 £205
Receive a £35 discount
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.
What have folks said who attended the first years cycle?
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.
