The Women’s Circle, Wellington
Dates: Saturday 27 April, Saturday 25 May, Saturday 29 June, Saturday 27 July 2024
Time: 9am – 12pm
Host: Kirstie Cleary
Venue: The Home of Compassion, 2 Rhine Street, Island Bay, Wellington
Women hold up half the sky.
- Chinese Proverb
The Women’s Circle is a series of four in-person workshops that explore a wide range of wellbeing teachings and practices that specifically empower, enliven, and nourish women. It’s a gathering of women, for women.
The Women’s Circle is an invitation for you to shift from head to heart thinking and explore powerful ‘feminine’ qualities such as authentic connection, collaboration, intuition, creativity, receptivity, playfulness, and pleasure. These workshops are a sacred space for you to discover what being a woman means to you, and how to embody and express this in your everyday life. It’s a safe place for women to relax, connect with their inner wisdom, be nourished by embodiment practices and ritual, and honour the gifts of their feminine nature.
We live in a world that champions masculine traits of hierarchy, competition, logic, productivity, and predictability. Many women express these masculine traits but suppress their feminine qualities. This imbalance leaves women feeling disconnected, uninspired, and heart-sore. The Women’s Circle is a sanctuary to rebalance, heal, and embrace the fullness of who we are as women.
I provide a deep container of experience for women to explore authentic ways of being and doing that validate who you truly are and how you want to be seen and heard. You’ll receive heart-centred wellbeing teachings, somatic/non-linear embodied practices, creative activities, holistic self-care rituals, quiet time to reflect and deeply rest, and the warm support of a community of open-hearted and inspiring women.
Take your seat in The Women’s Circle
The Women’s Circle is an intimate gathering and will be limited to 14 places.
Each monthly workshop will follow a similar format but will focus on a different topic of exploration.
You are welcome to attend any number of the workshops.
No previous experience is necessary.
FOUR CIRCLE WORKSHOPS
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This workshop explores what eastern wisdom teachings call ‘the sacred feminine.’ In a world that privileges a masculine worldview of control, reductionism and separation, the sacred feminine is about reconnecting the opposing forces in ourselves that are meant to co-exist. A woman who embodies the sacred feminine is deeply relaxed in her body and heart. She allows herself to be both powerful and vulnerable, practical and mystical, wild and serene, habitual and unpredictable, active and at rest. A woman who embraces her sacred feminine simultaneously belongs to herself and is connected to all that is.
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This workshop explores what it means for a woman to embody her soft power. Soft power inspires collaboration versus coercion; it focuses on empowerment and generosity rather than masculine traits of dominance and scarcity. To embody soft power, it can help to be living a ‘soft life.’ Elements of a soft life include less hustle and more spaciousness, not comparing yourself to others, time for important relationships, less consumption, more creativity, and the goodness of daily small pleasures. When we live a soft life, our soft power naturally rises to effect harmonious change and collaboration in our families, communities, and world.
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This workshop explores the fundamentals of real self-care versus the consumptive and popularised notions of self-care messaging that bombard women relentlessly wherever they are. Real self-care is not goal-oriented or based on an idealised concept of beauty or health. Real self-care is being willing to take the time to connect to yourself so that you know what it is that you actually need. It’s about finding simple, cost-effective ways to nourish your body-mind-soul so that you can enjoy doing more of the things that light you up. Real self-care is deeply personal and rooted in whatever wellbeing means to you.
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This workshop explores the emotional landscape of the heart; how to sense into the heart’s wisdom and allow this to guide the way we live. The language of the heart is felt-sensation. When we become skilful at paying attention to our feelings and what they reveal, we can make decisions that feel right for ourselves at a deep and sustainable level. We connect to our hearts through slowing down, opening, sensing inwards, and asking what really matters. Rewilding the heart is a process that begins inside. When we have the courage to sense into our heart, it reveals the experiences that we want to create, sustain, and surrender.
Note: Describing energy as masculine or feminine is a useful way to understand the polarities of energy inside us so that we can access the full range of our energetic repertoire. Describing energy as masculine or feminine is not about gender or sexual orientation. Feminine energy isn’t restricted to women. Masculine energy isn’t restricted to men. Every person contains both and needs both.
This is for you if:
You want to explore and embody your feminine sovereignty in a safe and supportive space.
You feel disconnected from your intuition, creativity, and playfulness, and want to activate and express these qualities in yourself.
You want to express more pleasure and power, and know that skilful support can be the difference between faltering and flourishing.
You have a vision for a juicier, authentic, more meaningful life and want inspiration and support to catalyse it.
You want to shift from head to heart thinking and explore a more feminine way of being in the world.
You long to reconnect with your feminine essence and be inspired by other open-hearted women.
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Circlework
Wellbeing teachings
Embodiment practices | somatic & non-linear movement
Guided meditation | breathwork
Holistic self-care rituals
Story telling
Self-enquiry, reflection, and journaling
Time for deep rest
A community of support and inclusion
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You can attend any number of the workshops and no previous experience is necessary
Single circle workshop | $105
Register for all four workshops and receive a 10% discount | $378
‘A happy woman is a woman relaxed in her body and heart: powerful, unpredictable, deep, potentially wild and destructive, or calm and serene, but always full of life, surrendered to and moved by the great force of her oceanic heart.’
— David Deida
