SOMATIC STUDY, RITUAL & EMBODIMENT YEAR CIRCLE

This program is for you

This program is for women who want to be more embodied and empowered, and feel more of life!

This program is for you if you want to learn how to address physical conditions, emotional states and life challenges not only with the mind, but with the felt experience of your body. Your wise body.
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The magic of a circle of sisters

My vision of this course is as always to open a magic space together, once a month, to be together as we are, without having to fake anything, taking off our daily masks and roles and breathing together. And then we can have honest and heartfelt conversation and step into a practice together which supports each of us with the current challenges that we are facing.

“Feminine wisdom is not learned. It is remembered. It is the ancient knowing that stirs within each woman, calling her back to her true self.”
Charmeli Ardagh

The flow of the course

I will introduce relevant topics and share teachings of wisdom in each session, but it’s not a fixed curriculum that we have to achieve. The way of guiding this work as a woman is to make space for what is appearing, what needs to be heard and seen, and to learn from each other. Each of our perspectives and experience is relevant and important for the collective, so this is not a course to silently and passively receive material, but to take your seat in this ever-revealing wheel of wisdom. And don’t worry, I will guide you to take that seat, so that you don’t have to do it from a place of pressure or expectation, but so that you can find and land in your seat with your softness and your already perfectly capable heart.

In this year-long study, I will be holding space for you individually and for us as a group. So you can reveal who you are. Who you long to be. Already are. Yet can’t see.

In this container of transformation, we will dive into the rich universe of somatic practices and experience, breath and meditation practices, wisdom sharing, community building, practices to remember and to return to wholeness. We will laugh, we will cry, we will celebrate, forgive, say yes to life and our true belonging on earth, we will create a space that answers the longing in our hearts, a space to be authentic and dive into conversations from the heart. A space to feel supported and where we can recharge  and reduce suffering.

Identifying as women, our bodies are deeply linked with the cycles of nature. We just can't escape that fact. Therefore we will reclaim the power of honouring the seasons and learn about specific celebrations and how to practice ritual and prayer in our daily lives, as modern women. This is NOT a study program about the Celtic Wheel or indigenous practices, but seasonal wisdom and inspiration from nature-connected traditions will be woven into the program so that we will be connecting to the bigger cycle of nature and receive universal support.

You will also receive tools that you can share in work as a teacher, therapist, facilitator, coach, or to share and apply in your family, work, community and friendships.

The size of the group will be intimate and limited to 13 women, so that everyone will have space to be heard and share.

Focus of the course

Deepening of embodiment, which means living and standing for our values, our love and for life. Learning in the form of experiencing and sharing. Learning with and from our wise bodies. Breaking down hierarchical ways of learning and understanding our role in the bigger cycles of life. Transforming limiting emotional and thinking patterns, healing old belief systems through the body and in the field of community. Freeing more vital life force and use it towards intentions of our choice through somatic exercises/explorations and breathing and meditation tools. Learning the art of shape-shifting, perspective-change and compassion for ourselves and others. Reclaiming authenticity, love and responsibility.

What do you need to participate in this program?

Required for entry into this program is that you have already participated in a retreat with me, (preferably that you can join the Opening Live-Retreat at Chato Cherie in Aljezur, Portugal October 20-25) or that we have already worked together 1:1 with Transformative Bodywork. It is also possible that you come to Portugal to work with me 1:1 during the year of our program. You don't need prior education in somatic or yoga practices. This program meets all of us where we are, no matter if we have already practiced for years, or if you are just beginning. The topics are designed in a way that they will meet levels of profoundness depending on the readiness of the layers to receive.

You also need:

A curiosity for magic, a longing to be more embodied, to feel more alive and to contain more life energy.

A willingness and wanting to transform old habits and beliefs.

A call to be part of a collective, a community, a circle of women who are committed to study the mystery of our lives.

Structure of the online sessions

Each session will offer time for sharings and everyone to speak and check in and be seen in their personal research of life and its processes, before we continue with wisdom and information sharing about teachings of the wisdom of the body from various somatic and yogic schools and latest scientific trauma-research. We will each time dive into guided, somatic explorations, physical exercises and practical breathing and meditation exercises, as we get into our own bodies as the field of research and curiosity. Together, we will review our practice and there will be room for questions, deepening, and bringing the fruits of our research together. As we are moving through the cycle of a year together, we will alternate between purely somatic research calls with a focus on body practices - and calls that weave the somatic experience with seasonal topics of the lunar calendar, and co-created, embodied ritual on the sun festivals of solstices and equinoxes.

Each session contains

- Meditation/Centering
- Physical practice/Somatic experience/Breathing Tools
- Sharing / observation of the the present/the field
- Introduction, Information and visualization of a topic
- Room for somatic research of the topic
- Deepening and/or clarification of the topic and sharing fruits of research as community
- Practical application to life
- Material to read, muse, and study - or not-  in between monthly sessions
- every second session contains embodied ritual

Specific topics

- The Elemental Body, The Energetic Body & The World we live in
- Anatomy of Breath, cellular awareness & cellular breathing
- The Liquid Body & The Blood
- The Art of Prayer & Forgiveness
- The Mind & Meditation
- The Cycle, The Womb & The Voice
- The Nervous System: How to stay grounded in a fast-moving world
- Desires, The Inner Child & The Gold found in the wound
- Anger, Shame, Grief, Pain & Suffering
- The Fear of Death & Freedom
- Storytelling & Myths of Wise Women​​​
- The power of embodied ritual

The format will be

Online events:

November 2025 - October 2026: 12 monthly Zoom calls of 120min (depending on the season 18:00 - 20:00 or 19:00 - 21:00 GMT on the first Monday evening of every month)

= 12 online sessions in total

Investment

For the online course: 777EUR (12 sessions of 120min)

(streaming or download recordings are available if you miss a call or want to repeat the sessions)

Includes:

2 one-on-one calls with Jana (one before the start of the program to determine your intention and wishes for the course and one mid-term check in call), notes and practices to deepen your study and research after each call, reading recommendations and musings, recorded yoga nidras, meditations & more

For the live retreats:

1,100-1,500EUR per live retreat (Final pricing depends on the final group size. Price includes 2 one-on-one bodywork sessions and individual support during the retreat, all group practices and rituals, as well as accommodation and all meals. Travel to Portugal not included). Find out more