The Wild Within – Spiritual Exploration & Connection

This special event is an invitation for witchy and spiritually curious women to come together and embrace the shifting seasons, both within and around us. As we move from fall into winter, we enter a time for honoring the darkness—a sacred period for reflection, release, and gentle re-seeding. 🍂❄️

I heard this term recently and absolutely loved it - Endarkenment. As our spiritual communities so often seem to value the concept of "enlightenment", I think that the magic and medicine of the darkness is so often overlooked. Hence, this circle was inspired :)

So in this potent new moon energy, we gather to explore the practice of endarkenment —delving into our shadows, finding what needs releasing, and setting intentions as we prepare to nurture new visions in an upcoming season of great transition, both personally and collectively.

We will journey and explore with ritual and intentional practices, shadow work, oracle decks and journaling, active imagination, somatic and energetic practices, and an authentic sharing space to tune into our inner wisdom. We'll prepare a special herbal infusion to support our energy work and invite our plant spirits into the space as well 🌿

As women have gathered in circle space for millennia, we will co-create a rich and safe space for spiritual sisterhood, supporting one other’s journey into the depths of our own hearts with grace and power. 🌘🌑🌒

Here, we enter the darkness and the mystery as allies, embracing its gifts, integrating our own shadows parts, and learning to create and cultivate our powerful light within. ✨

When: Sunday, December 1 @ 5:00 - 7:00pm

We will cap the circle at 12 women to keep the space intimate.
This circle will be co-hosted by Kristen Yates (somatic guide and breathwork facilitator) and Whitney Hawkins (herbal medicine and spiritual practitioner)

Location:
2436 NE Ainsworth St.
Portland, OR

Contact Kristen >> (360) 556-0415.

This is a free event, however donations for this circle help keep this Meetup group alive amidst growing organizer costs. Feel free to contribute whatever is available for you. 🙏

Look forward to sharing sacred space with you ☾♡

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Transformational Breathwork (or Conscious Connected Breathwork) is a healing modality where we intentionally work with our breath to enter a deep state of consciousness to access physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing and activation.

This practice helps us to deepen our inner connection, improve our physical vitality, elevate mental and emotional clarity, and awaken our spiritual connection.

⚡️ In this week's session, we will work with various somatic release tools and activation methods along with some powerful pranayama practices to deepen our breathwork journey.

Transformational Breathwork works by helping you to bypass the conscious mind and move into the subtle body to access the deeper layers of emotion, while gently supporting the nervous system. It’s a faster way to move stuck energy and tap into a deeply intuitive state while remaining grounded in the body!

We'll begin with setting intentions in a connection circle before diving into somatic and pranayama practices to warm up and activate the emotional centers in the body. We'll explore what's present in our bodies through an elemental exploration, and create a connected field of support for our journey to unfold.

We will then enter into our Conscious Connected Breathwork journey, a physical, emotional, and often spiritual journey working with the breath or prana to enter deep healing states in the body.

📍 Where: The Way Home Studio
8435 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216

🕓 When: Sunday, December 8
2:00 - 4:00pm

For many, the breath utilized in this way can help to release stored emotional energy that has been keeping them blocked and stagnated for years. And for many others, it is a portal to their innate wisdom and medicine within, an activation of their true essence and gifts.

Our journey will conclude with a group integration, with time for journaling and sharing insights and further support for one another.

Together we will co-create a healing afternoon of somatic release, heart-centered expression, and deepening of your relationship with yourself and the love that you are.

Note: If you tend towards elevated blood pressure or have any heart issues, please contact me before the session so we can determine if this particular form of breathwork will be appropriate for you.

Suggested contribution of $25-35, but feel free to contribute what feels right for you! No one will be turned away.

Venmo: @Kristen-Yates-8

I will be available for integration support after this experience should you find yourself needing it, as a breathwork journey can initiate deep emotional healing and clearing.

Join us on the Winter Solstice for a cozy afternoon of reflection, release, embodied vision mapping and expansive dreaming as we prepare to step with intention and empowerment into the New Year together.

In this 3-hour workshop, we'll take a creative and embodied approach to aligning with your soul’s deepest desires for 2025 and embodying the version of you that you are ready to step into. You'll learn a powerful process for reflection and release, and apply practical visioning tools alongside creative life-design practices for mapping out the energy and manifestation of your coming year.

Together in community, we’ll create a cozy and inspiring space to reflect on the past year, let go of what no longer serves, and intentionally craft the vision for your most authentic path forward.

We will explore:

✨ Embodiment & Creativity: Through movement, meditation, visualization, and art practices, we’ll connect with our inner guidance.

✨ Ceremony & Ritual: We'll embody our release of 2024 through a ceremonial process so we can step into the new year with intention.

✨ Visioning & Mapping: Learn a powerful journaling process to dream expansively and craft practical steps to manifest your goals.

✨ Future Self Connection: Meet the future YOU who is already living your soul’s vision for 2025.

✨ Practical Manifestation Tools: Take home rituals and a mini-workbook to continue the inspiration and life-design process as you prepare for the new year.

✨ Community & Connection: Share, be seen, and witness others in their journeys as we support one another in stepping into this new portal together.

Come cozy up with tea and your journal, and let’s craft a plan to live in alignment with your soul path in the year ahead.

Together, we’ll envision and align with the expansive possibilities of 2025.

I can’t wait to journey with you!! 🌟

Where: The Way Home Studio
8435 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97216

When: Saturday, December 21
11:30am - 2:30pm

Contribution: Sliding scale $33-$44 for workshop + materials

If this cost is prohibitive, please reach out to me; it is my intention for this event to be accessible to all those who feel called.

Space is limited; please only RSVP if you are sure you will be joining us! 🙏