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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
Take your seat
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.
Held by 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.
Circle is not something I simply facilitate. It is a way I understand the world.
Take your seat in the Circle
£30 per gathering. Places are intentionally limited so that the Circle can remain intimate and each woman has space to be heard.
Please arrive a few minutes early so that you have time to settle before we begin.
Restoring the art of being human, together.