Join us for a magical and unique Circle gathering for women coaches, healers, therapists, purpose-led entrepreneurs and change leaders, at one of the UK’s most beautiful, nourishing and Sacred retreat spaces.

Your Sacred Space

for Connection, Healing, Wisdom and Inspiration

Is it time for you to step back from all you give, to be nourished and held in a safe, Sacred Circle of Wise Women and experienced guides who can support you on your journey of feminine awakening, healing and leadership?

Many of us have followed the calling to hold space for others in some way. It’s in our DNA as women. We are the life givers, the nurturers, the healers, the educators, the connectors and the all-round carers of life and relationship – not just in our families but in our communities, organisations and businesses too.

Whether you are a healer, a coach, a bodyworker, a purpose-led entrepreneur, a therapist, a teacher or a change leader of any kind, it’s only natural that you are feeling called to serve in a way that enables you to share your unique gifts and hold space for the transformation that you feel inspired to support.

This is essential, Sacred work that is needed in all corners of our society and community life. And as the pressure and stress of these changing, uncertain times only increases, so does the need for deeper emotional holding and support, and the presence of our embodied feminine wisdom.

The challenge this presents, is to remember to include ourselves and our own needs for wellbeing. 

Like many women on this path, you may find yourself getting caught in subtle patterns of over-care for others and under-care for yourself. It’s not just personal – it’s the result of a collective feminine ‘wound’ in the culture we’ve been born into. 

This ‘distortion’ of our natural capacity to care means that as we over-give to others (often just trying to keep all the plates spinning in our lives) we begin to lose touch with ourselves –  we rarely make enough space for the inner work and self-nourishment we need to keep our cup overflowing.

Over time this can leave us feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and disconnected from our own sense of wellbeing, purpose and power, and, ironically, from the communities of support that could resource us along the way. 

We may go to a yoga class, have a healing massage and eat healthy food – these are all important ways to resource ourselves – but we also need regular space in our lives for the deeper emotional and spiritual clearing and support that helps us to transform the conditioned stories that hold us back and become who we really are.  

The truth is, it is only through doing our own inner work that we can align with, fulfil and keep following our heart’s calling to serve in the world. 

This is why we’re creating a uniquely held space for YOU to:

• Reconnect with yourself and make space to re-awaken and deepen your own inner journey of healing and transformation – with the nourishment of mother nature around you.
• Be held, appreciated and supported in a warm community of women, on a similar path of purpose, with whom you can relate and safely share your authentic story, experience and wisdom.
• Practice and experience how your core capacity and confidence in holding space for others grows as you nurture your own emotional, physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing and more deeply embody your feminine wisdom.
• Connect in person to dance, play and laugh and celebrate the journey of feminine awakening and leadership we are on together in a beautiful, nature-held space where all aspects of our authentic power can be expressed.

In whatever way you are holding space for others in your life and work, this is a space for you to pause for breath; to sink into a Sacred feminine space where you can reconnect with yourself and your inner process and both receive and give the mutual support and wisdom of women on a shared path, who can meet you right where you are.

This is a safe space in which you can welcome and heal the old, conditioned stories and invalidated emotions that are ready to be honoured and transformed, freeing you to be true to yourself and thrive in alignment with your highest purpose.

You are here to share your voice, your unique gift and your infinite wisdom as a feminine leader –
and Rising Connected is here to support you. 

Experience The Power of Circle

Core to our purpose and practice in Rising Connected is the co-creation of transformative collective space, held in Circle and underpinned by our unique set of 8 shared Agreements.

During this retreat you’ll experience how we live these 8 Agreements in Circle together, creating a shared field of collective healing and wisdom, making it safe for you to bring your whole self to the experience and receive what you need to reSource yourself and strengthen your authentic power and Sovereignty.

In an emergent space which will be uniquely influenced by the needs of those women present, you’ll receive the deep holding and facilitation from Joey, as well as other experienced Circle guides and fellow participants.

You will also have the chance to practice and deepen your own capacity to witness and hold space for other women, without ‘over-care’ and from a place of embodied wellbeing and grounded wisdom in yourself.

In a warm, safe space, you will have the opportunity to experience and practice:

• Authenticity – Share your story and experience in a safe space where you can be seen and met in your truth, vulnerability and authentic power as a woman.
• Awareness – Bring loving awareness to the conditioned narratives and feelings you may be carrying and be witnessed with compassion and non-judgement.
• Responsibility – Reclaim your power by learning to embrace the ‘difficult’ emotions (such as fear, anger, shame and grief) that can unconsciously trigger powerlessness and reactivity – allowing freedom, joy, love and creativity to flow.
• Purpose – Discover and deepen your clarity of purpose and the gifts you have to create change in the world with the re-alignment of your power.
• Wellbeing – Receive and be held in Circle, where your true needs for healing and self-care are validated and your embodied wisdom and guidance can naturally unfold.
• Relatedness – Deepen your sense of belonging and connection to yourself, to other women and to nature, and trust in the sacred Field of Life that holds us all.
• Heart-mind – Learn to listen to (and trust) your heart and find the courage to lead with inspired action in a way that feels true to and right for you.
• Integrity – Strengthen your inner Sovereignty and keep your energy clear and bright as you learn to integrate new ways of being and relating into your life and leadership.
  

These 8 life-enhancing Agreements, created by Joey Walters, have emerged from 20 years of experience in holding Sacred Circle spaces for women and are inspired and informed by a synthesis of trauma-informed healing practices and transformational teachings, including ancient, nature-based wisdom originating in Mayan Culture, handed down by the Ehama Institute in New Mexico.

In the Rising Connected community, we work with these Agreements (individually and collectively in Circle) as the way to free ourselves from the culturally conditioned patterns of feminine suppression and isolation we have been immersed in and come home to the collective wisdom of our hearts from which our authentic feminine leadership is born.

We’d love you to join us for this inspiring week to experience The Power of Circle for yourself. You’ll have the opportunity to stay connected in the community going forward and learn more about how we walk this transformational path together in the Rising Connected community.

Watch this 20 minute video from Joey and Karen.