MAKING REFUGE
Making Refuge
Rituals of Remembrance through the Long Dark
We are living in extraordinary and impossible times, where the future of our precious world feels increasingly unknown. So too, it is a time ripe with possibility for transformation, as we are being invited into knowing that there is a deeper and more ensouled way of being in the world.
We feel the urgency in our bones – we must remember how to belong to ourselves, one another, and the wider web of life once more. To gather in ways that respond to these times in beauty, hope and imagination.
Some say we have entered what beloved elder Francis Weller calls the Long Dark; a season of collective descent where we are being invited, individually and collectively, to plunge our roots into the darkness, to surrender our stories of separation, and find the courage to hear the burning call of our soul’s longing to come wholly alive.
Making Refuge is a space of remembrance and return to the refuge of our hearts.
A place to tend to the holy grounds of our lives; to grieve, to pray, to fall apart, to come undone, together. It is a container which weaves together rituals, ceremonies and contemplative practices to support us as we descend into the fertile dark.
This is a space to enter deep-time, to listen deeply, to bathe in the wellspring of imagination, to hear the voices of longing and the prayers for life that dwell within our depths, so that we may find our generativity, courage and creativity in these darkening times.
Sessions include; tea ceremony, grief ritual, meditative & contemplative practices, creative processes, song, dreaming and prayer within a communal space of women.
This is a container where we will hold and tend to both our personal wounds and our collective heartbreak. This is for you if you’re longing for a place of soulful embodiment as well as nourishment and resourcing through the depths of winter.
Dates :
Friday 15th and 22nd of August | 2 group sessions in Thornbury
Time: 6-9.30pm
Places limited to 12 people | 9 spaces remain
This event is for those who identify as women.
Together, we go for refuge – co-creating the more beautiful, hopeful and ensouled world our hearts know is possible.
Your Guides
Sally Sophia & Leela Kalyani
Sally Sophia is an integrative psychotherapist, multi-faceted creative, deep thinker and ceremonialist.
At the heart of Sally’s life and practice is an abiding devotion to the imaginative life of the soul. Guided by the urgency of our times, Sally creates pathways for life-affirming culture to be born through deep listening, creativity and prayer. Sally is impassioned about cultivating the fertile grounds for more ensouled ways of being in the world; supporting individuals and communities to contact and commune with the deep wellspring of their beings, so that we may all come into flourishing and wholeness in these times, together.
Leela Kalyani is a bodyworker, doula and ritualist devoted to supporting those navigating life’s vast thresholds.
Committed to honouring rites of passage in their many forms, Leela works within the realms of body, heart and soul - tending to those journeying with birth, loss and life stage transitions- creating sacred spaces in which we can attune to our inner landscapes of grief, longing and knowing; spaces in which we can meet the whispers of wisdom from those we walk with - so that we may be in greater connection to the web of life, in service to all beings.