Becoming / Women’s Soul Circle

Follow your love for this world and the wild calling of your deepest self

An immersive nine month journey with the profound support of a monthly soul circle, guided home practice and one to one mentoring

Being witnessed and supported in a circle is a profound catalyst for transformation. This is a facilitated process, exploring nature-based and heart-based soul-craft, to support each person to navigate their edges and follow their own soul’s guidance. Through this loving and witnessing circle, we support the unique soulful becoming of each participant, so that each may step up, claim their soul gifts and find their co-creative act of service and love for this beautiful, yet aching world.

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When we follow the golden spiral of soul, it leads us not only into the depths of our own soul-self, but also into the world, into profound love for this precious green and blue planet. Then the individual soul serves the world soul. Then co-creative love and regeneration of self and world is possible.

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The Becoming / Soul Circle is for you if:

  • You want to strengthen your relationship with your soul-self & your deepest knowing

  • You are seeking direction, purpose, meaning - your deepest ‘why’ for being here

  • You want inner tools and practices you can use for a lifetime to walk the soulful path of purpose

  • You want connection, support and community with other like minded pilgrims on the soul path

  • You want support to contribute your gifts to this turmoiled and wondrous world

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“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious.

If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door.

If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door.

If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”

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Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Becoming / Soul Circle offers:

  • A nine month, transformative, guided, experiential journey that is sensitively attuned to what is emergent for each individual.

  • 9 guided soul circle sessions held each month on Sunday afternoons, afternoon tea provided.

  • Monthly inspiring and evocative practices for home. You have lifetime access to all practices and focus on the ones most relevant to your life - this is not a one size fits all approach. Practices include guided meditation recordings, nature practices, soul art, stream of consciousness writing, songs, dream exploration, movement & embodiment practice, journalling & self inquiry, ritual, ceremony and many other soul-based practices.

  • Two one to one mentoring sessions with Anahata, to help you get the most from this 9 month immersion. These sessions are 1.25 hours each and you can do these sessions whenever you like, for up to one year from the start of the Becoming program. You can read more about soul mentoring here.

  • With more than 20 years experience of facilitating circles and with a background in community development, I am passionate about tending carefully to our circle container, to foster deep connections, friendships and community. I will offer guidance and skill sharing to empower participants to keep the soul circle going for themselves beyond the 9 months, if desired.

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So many of us long to contribute to the world in a way that feels authentic, meaningful, loving and fulfilling. We might feel there is more for us to do with this precious life, but are not sure what, or even how to find out what. We may long for a sense of belonging and purpose - and we may struggle with this alone.

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What is the soul?

“By soul I mean the vital, mysterious, and wild core of our individual selves, an essence unique to each person..our unique and deepest personal characteristics, the core and enduring qualities that define our personhood..Soul is what is most wild and natural within us.” - Bill Plotkin

The soul is the innermost essence of you and has core powers, core values, core abilities, core knowledge, and a core identity that is archetypal, what Bill Plotkin calls a mythopoetic identity. When we uncover this core self with these innate and nature ways of being we come home to who we truly are. We are then profoundly empowered and inspired to share our gifts with the world.

Of course, the hardest self to see is our own deepest self. The soul needs a mirror. The soul can be mirrored through: our dreams; ritual and ceremony; our deepest emotions; listening to our lives; nature communion; art making; through image and symbol; stream of consciousness writing; embodiment and movement practice; mentoring; through witnessing from others in circle; and through many other soul-based practices.

Our soul helps us to rediscover and reclaim the deep story that is our own, reveals how our story connects with the world’s story and shows us how to participate, contribute and love this precious, turmoiled world.

If you want to learn more about my approach you can read many of my blog pieces that explore different soul practices - a good introduction is The Golden Thread of Soul. I also highly recommend reading Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin.

You are planted in your own integrity

and there you stand,

gnarled and knotted,

perfectly at ease with yourself,

your roots deep in truth,

your branches held up to let the light in.

- Stephen Mitchell

Anahata Giri

Anahata is dedicated to helping people awaken to their unique way to love this world, through soul-based exploration, nature-based practice and heart-based inquiry.

Anahata is a Soul Guide and is a dedicated apprentice to Soul and to Love, and receives ongoing inspiration from the work of Animas Valley Institute. She is also a certified Purpose Guide with the Purpose Guides Institute.

She has over 30 years experience as a group facilitator and this has given her a deep trust in the group field to evoke shared depth, connection, insight and warmth. She supports the wisdom and heart of each participant and loves the magic of a group witnessing each other, to help us each emerge, unfold, become and to give back to this precious web of life.

She has a background in environmental activism, community development work, twenty years experience as a yoga and meditation teacher and retreat leader and she is a trained somatic psychotherapist and yoga therapist.

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Becoming / Soul Circle

Please register your interest by emailing me, for this 2025 offering

When: 9 soul circle sessions 2.00-6.00pm on the first Sunday of the month. Dates 2025: 2 February, 2 March, 6 April, 4 May, 8 June, 6 July, 3 August, 7 September, 5 October 2025. The two one to one mentoring sessions are at times that suit you. Note: if you are interested and prefer another time, please email me. I will go with the group’s preferred times.

Where: Croydon Hills, address given upon booking

Who for: Anyone who wants to explore their connection to their soul-self and find deep meaning, belonging, love and purpose

Commitment: It is suggested to do 1-3 hours practice each week to deepen and integrate the learning, but this is flexible

Cost: SPECIAL PRICE: $950 if booked before 31 December 2024. From 1 January 2025 price is $1250. Cost includes: A nine month immersive soul journey with 9 x 4 hour facilitated soul circle sessions + afternoon tea; monthly notes and home practices; 2 x 1.25 hour one to one mentoring sessions with Anahata. This SPECIAL PRICE of $950 is also available for participants on the Wild Heart Wild Soul Retreat 2-7 January, if paid by 31 January 2025.

For more information and how to apply: If you have done soul mentoring, the Wild Soul Immersion or a soul retreat with me, you can book via my booking page. If you are new to working with me let’s have a 30 minute zoom chat so you can see if this offering is a good fit for you.

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Want to learn more? Let’s chat.