Candlelit circle centrepiece
Candlelit circle centrepiece
Women's Circle
Women's Circle
Women's Circle

A place to slow down, put down what you are carrying and experience the nourishment of the Circle.

NEXT CIRCLE · SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER

NEXT CIRCLE · SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER

Welcome

a place to come as you are

Hello and welcome to the Circle. I’m Tanya, and I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I am gathering a community of women who can come to know and support one another, a place where we can arrive as we are and feel welcome, and share my deep love of being in Circle.


My hope is that what we nurture together travels with us into everyday life, helping us feel more connected to ourselves, to those we love and to the lives we long to live.

Hello and welcome to the Circle. I’m Tanya, and I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I am gathering a community of women who can come to know and support one another, a place where we can arrive as we are and feel welcome.


My hope is that what we nurture together travels with you into your everyday life, supporting you to feel more connected to yourself, to those you love and to the life you long to live.


Ancient ways, modern times

Ancient ways.
Modern times

A remembering


Women have gathered for generations, around hearth fires and kitchen tables, through birth, grief, celebration and the changing seasons of life. Across cultures, these gatherings have held different traditions, each rooted in its own people and place.


Circle carries something of this ancient remembering: coming together to share stories, tend what hurts, honour what is changing and find our way together. Many of us no longer have spaces where this happens naturally, yet I believe the longing remains in our bodies.


I hear it reflected back by so many women: a desire to slow down, to be known beyond the surface and to carry less alone. When we gather, we practise listening without preparing an answer, speaking what is true and making room for another woman’s experience, even when it differs from our own.


Through this simple, sometimes brave practice of being present, we begin to restore belonging.

Women have gathered for generations, around hearth fires and kitchen tables, through birth, grief, celebration and the changing seasons of life. Across cultures, these gatherings have held different traditions, each rooted in its own people and place.


Circle carries something of this ancient remembering: coming together to share stories, tend what hurts, honour what is changing and find our way together. Many of us no longer have spaces where this happens naturally, yet I believe the longing remains in our bodies.

Women have gathered for generations, around hearth fires and kitchen tables, through birth, grief, celebration and the changing seasons of life. Across cultures, these gatherings have held different traditions, each rooted in its own people and place.


Circle carries something of this ancient remembering: coming together to share stories, tend what hurts, honour what is changing, celebrate life and find our way together. Many of us no longer have spaces where this happens naturally, yet I believe the longing remains in our bodies.

Rooted in matriarchal values

MATRIARCH

Practising Another Way


We live within a culture shaped by patriarchal values. One that teaches us to keep going, compare ourselves, prove our worth and carry more than is ours to hold.

Many of us have become very good at living this way, but it has cost us something.

This circle is an opportunity to practise another way.

A way rooted in relationship, where we remember that we are part of a living web and that none of us exists alone. Every woman’s voice matters here. We are invited to give and receive, to honour our differences and to care for both ourselves and the circle as a whole.

This is the heart of matriarchal practice. A practice of bringing values that have been pushed to the edges back into the centre: rest, care, reciprocity, deep listening and shared responsibility.

Come as you are, with a willingness to listen, to be seen and to meet one another with honesty and care.

Together, we can begin to remember a more connected, human and life-giving way of being.

We live within a culture shaped by patriarchal values. One that teaches us to keep going, compare ourselves, prove our worth and carry more than is ours to hold.

Many of us have become very good at living this way, but it has cost us something.

This circle is an opportunity to practise another way.

A way rooted in relationship, where we remember that we are part of a living web and that none of us exists alone. Every woman’s voice matters here. We are invited to give and receive, to honour our differences and to care for both ourselves and the circle as a whole.

This is the heart of matriarchal practice. A practice of bringing values that have been pushed to the edges back into the centre: rest, care, reciprocity, deep listening and shared responsibility.

What to expect

the rhythm for the evening


Each gathering will have its own rhythm because each time we meet, we will be different.

Gently guided somatic practice: to support the physical body to presence.

Sharing Circle: to connect us to ourselves and one another.

Ritual: to hold us in the sacred.

Yoga: deeply restorative on every level.

A sense of aliveness and connection to life!

The three pillars of our Circle

The three pillars of our Circle

The ground beneath us

Wind turbine

Restore

Restore

Restore

Circle is a space to slow down, soften, and step out of constant doing.


We make room to simply be with no agenda to keep up with, nowhere else to be, nothing to prove.


Just permission to arrive as you are and let your nervous system settle. What a relief!

Circle is a space to slow down, soften, and step out of constant doing.


What a relief!

Circle is a space to slow down, soften, and step out of constant doing.

Woman pouring vitamins in her hand

Belong

Belong

Belonging is genuine connection, where every woman’s voice and presence matter.


In circle, we are witnessed and heard without needing to explain or perform. There is room here for all of you; the parts you show easily and the parts you keep hidden, and a quiet strength that comes from realising you are not alone.

Belonging is genuine connection, where every woman’s voice and presence matter.

Belonging is genuine connection, where every woman’s voice and presence matter.

A natural wood desk

Remember

Remember

Remember

Remembering is returning to the body, to inner knowing, to ancestral wisdom and the power of women gathering together.


Circle is one of the oldest ways women have supported one another long before us, and long after. When we gather with intention, we remember something older than ourselves: that we were never meant to do this alone.

Remembering is returning to the body, to inner knowing, to ancestral wisdom and the power of women gathering together.

Tanya Forgan
"Circle is not something I simply facilitate. It is a way I understand the world"

Portrait of a woman

Tanya

Circle facilitator · Ritualist · Embodiment guide

I am a Circle and group facilitator, somatic therapist, ritualist and grief tender. For more than three decades, my work has taken me through humanitarian and community spaces, trauma-informed practice, embodied healing and the training of women who hold others.


As a mixed-heritage woman and lifelong edge-walker, I know something of the ache of not fully belonging. My work is shaped by that lived enquiry, alongside grief, identity, social justice, the wisdom of the body and a devotion to rebuilding the relational fabric between us.


I hold circle with warmth and humanity, but also with clarity. I am interested in what becomes possible when we stop performing belonging and begin to practise it.

I am a Circle and group facilitator, somatic therapist, ritualist and grief tender. For more than three decades, my work has taken me through humanitarian and community spaces, trauma-informed practice, embodied healing and the training of women who hold others.


As a mixed-heritage woman and lifelong edge-walker, I know something of the ache of not fully belonging. My work is shaped by that lived enquiry, alongside grief, identity, social justice, the wisdom of the body and a devotion to rebuilding the relational fabric between us.


The Circles I hold offer warmth and humanity. I am interested in what becomes possible when we stop performing belonging and begin to practise it.

Practical details

Everything you need to know.

Everything you need to know.

Everything you need to know.

The dates, the place and what to bring.

The dates, the place and what to bring.

Circle Dates

Saturday 10 October 2026
Saturday 21 November 2026
Saturday 19 December 2026

Time

6.30pm to 9pm

Please arrive a few minutes early so that you have time to settle before we begin.

Location

Location

Sarvanga. 20 Holme Grange Craft Village, Heathlands Rd, Wokingham RG40 3AW

Sarvanga. 20 Holme Grange Craft Village, Heathlands Rd, Wokingham RG40 3AW

Investment

Investment

£30 per gathering. Places are intentionally limited so that the Circle can remain intimate and each woman has space to be heard.

What to bring

Please bring a blanket, water bottle, journal and pen. Wear something comfortable that allows you to sit and move with ease.

Accessibility

If you have any access requirements, health considerations or anything else that would help you feel more at ease, please contact me before booking. I will be glad to talk with you about what you need.

Cancellation and transfer policy

Places are limited and your booking reserves a place in the Circle, payments are non-refundable.

If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer your place to another woman. Please let me know her name and email address before the Circle begins.

If I need to cancel the gathering, you will receive a full refund or the option to transfer your booking to another date.

Book your place

Reserve your place.

Reserve your place.

Reserve your place.