Ive realized that other women can be my friends, that I can lean on them and trust them and show them more of me than I ever imagined. My trust has deepened in my own being and my own sex, and my friendships are richer for that, as is my relationship with my mother
Susannah James, Cambridge
I feel I am learning in your circles that I can own the woman I am, all her moods and passions and sensitivities into my woman. I experienced great wisdom, beauty, authenticity and found Joy’s facilitation extraordinarily responsive and her reflections have really helped me see where I can find more freedom – and that is happening every day now. I found Joy and also many of the women in the circle to be inspiring role models. That gave me a way of sensing what was possible for me as I move into the next phase of my life. Paula King, London
Wherever the feminine has been honoured in a culture, down through the ages, women have made special times for being together as women. A time to nurture, support, inspire, ‘sort the seeds’, celebrate and teach each other of us to live empowered and fulfilled as women, recognised and appreciated in our beauty and power. This is just such a time for sharing strength, vulnerability and to touch the deep mysteries of receptive feminine essence. At this gathering of women being together you will remember or learn to appreciate how truly unique each of us women is, and how to live fully in your body, celebrate and enjoy your sexuality, your relationships and your life. How to see the beauty in all women and accept all their colours of being.
Time to delight in your sensitivity, to laugh from your belly, find your voice and have time to share your story, your joys and struggles in becoming fully conscious, and be with others as they share theirs, be held safely if this is a time of intense emotion or transition, enjoy and relax in time to BE together in an inspiring and supportive atmosphere. Come, remember how you as woman have been honoured as a physical incarnation of love, for your easy connection with what is divine.
These day and weekend retreats can become a vital resource on this Secret Garden journey in which we come to love ourselves in the bodies we have, in the lives we live, in the woman we are, opening fully to what is touching us now, and finding the love for giving to those others in our lives, and to touch and enhance the lives of those in our communities. Find your glory!
Each women’s circle circle has a particular theme and, around this theme, the retreat unfolds according to the energy and needs of the group.
The theme for this May circle is our relationship with the body, with menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, sexuality and how we live this. Reclaiming the life in all that we are. Being the wild, passionate, sensual, vulnerable woman, a rite of passage as your unique essence honoured and celebrated by your sisters.
There is generally some circle sharing time, some touch, meditations, movement, intimacy structures, tantric practices, archetypal and energy work, movement, maybe shamanic ancestral lineage healing work, in response to what someone brings to the circle. Through these possibilities Joy opens possibilities for you to experience yourself in touch with your sensuality, at ease, empowered and renewed. The amazing circle of women sharing and receiving, witnessing and supporting all of us enables transformation.
On Sunday afternoon we will close with a ceremonial meeting with the men on their return from their camping trip. Such rituals have a profound impact on the unconscious where all transformation occurs
Women of all ages come to these days, women in all phases of life, mothers, daughters, grandmothers, sirens, lovers, sisters, wives, career women, of any sexual orientation, from all walks of life and cultural backgrounds. You will uncover your core strengths, discover your true identity and return home experiencing a profound and enduring sense of love, strength and possibility.
Thank you so much for everything Mark is constantly blown away by my honesty and openness!!! I have you to thank for all of that...we are smiling, laughing, intimate, talking more, finding fun in our life, we go out as a family more, I am more open to him, we are playful and overall just wonderful.
Samantha Watkins, Eastbourne
*a lovely, peaceful private home in England’s largest designated area of outstanding beauty. The Slad Valley has never been intensively farmed, sprayed or built on. It is a place of natural abundance and strong, healing energy and is acclaimed for it exceptional beauty.
I really enjoyed being in the circle . I found Joy’s workshop gentle, honest and loving and I feel I gained a lot from attending and will be going back for more
Kate Tovey, Ebbw Vale
Occasional women’s evening circles
*Occasional women’s evening circles 7 30-
You know how to say the right kind and loving words. you are so real and human.. I love your woman's warm wisdom. You have a gift to make the other, to feel heard. that is a blessing. I 'feel' between the lines that you know what I try to share and where my words might fail you read with your heart. Thank you. You have been a very a healing, reassuring and calming influence on me.
Heidi Ovarassi, Findhorn
Wonderful – I’m back in touch with softness, tenderness, compassion, peace, acceptance, connection. I had been bracing myself to cope with life for so long, and I was able to let go and surrender – and fall back into myself. Thank you for providing such a nurturing, supportive and beautiful space to enable me to do that
Rachel Irvine-
very welcoming, warm and supportive. ..to feel with others with empathy and compassion and open the door to my own feelings.
S. M, Cirencester