MEDICINE FOR THE HEART.
THE PLACE WHERE EXPANSION MEETS DEEP HOLDING.
THE EMBRACE OF SOFTENING INTO TRUTH.
CONNECTION TO LIFE’S
POETRY AND MYSTERY.
6 MONTHS OF JOURNEYING.
WILL YOU JOIN US?
We are living in urgent times where the world can feel a hostile, overwhelming and challenging place to live.
Many of us are holding complex questions about how we relate to ourselves, our communities and the wider world.
Our bodies and souls are tired.
Our nervous systems are frazzled.
We need space to breathe.
Space to connect to our essence.
Space to recalibrate and reorient to hope and beauty.
Space to allow our fullness of emotion to be present.
Tender is a 6 month Circle Journey which will hold space for you to reconnect to your essence, navigate complexity with grace and emerge with the tools and experience to give you access to a life-changing sense of inner-strength and connectedness.
IF YOU HAVE EVER FELT...
…that you spend your life giving to others and that you need time and space to fill your own cup.
...that you have tried every type of self development going - and perhaps even work in the healing arts - but have never found the ‘answer’- you still regularly feel depleted, stressed & disconnected.
…that you ‘should’ be living a calm, connected life by now, given all the work you have put in…
You are in the right place.
Tender is your access point to allow your relationship to self to deepen slowly, at its own pace, with great reverence and great care. It is an access point to finding the tools to support you through the most challenging of times. It is an access point to feeling the ways in which we can allow ourselves to be held by others if we open ourselves to it.
This is for those who feel everything deeply - who see life as a great poem and a great tragedy. It is for those for whom living from an open heart feels so rich and yet so vulnerable. It is a space in which to exercise the capacity to live from that open hearted, tender heart, whilst developing the tools to hold yourself through it.
The backbone of this programme is Circle. An intimate, guided space in which you can share, be held and allow yourself to experience the potent experience of having a space which will hold you over 6 months, a place to catch you, a space to land, a space to beat a steady drum through Winter, Spring and into Summer. Our work will be supported by a nervous system practice from Trauma and Nervous System expert Claire Rother. This will form part of your home practice, a commitment you make to yourself to shift and integrate at a nervous system level.
Read the words on this page, see how they land in your body and soul and if you feel the pull to join us, we will welcome you with open arms.
YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF…
- You are open hearted & soulful but feel exhausted, disconnected & in need of rejuvenation.
- You are passionate about being the change you want to see in the world, but often feel too overwhelmed or depleted to take action.
- You are a kind, giving being who spends their life holding space for others and know that what you need most right now is a space to be held yourself.
- You are not afraid to go deep and do inner work: you know that the path to finding new levels of aliveness and inner certainty is full of ups and downs.
- You want to tap into your tender, powerful, feminine and intuitive power.
- You recognise the value of gentle yet potent spaces and are willing to enter a container which is as much about ‘be-ing’ as it is about doing.
- You want to cultivate the confidence that comes with having a group that sees your essence, accepts it and celebrates it.
- You want to move through 2023 feeling empowered to live from a place of a connection to your tender, open and deeply connected heart.
OUR UNIQUE
APPROACH…
For those of us who are willing to have a tender relationship with life, it is a path that so often we feel we walk in isolation. There are so many contexts in which this is both beautiful and necessary - but the invitation here is to allow us to experience the exploration of what is tender, what is true, what must gently be examined within us in community.
So many programmes sell unattainable promises and do not acknowledge the complexity of what it is to be human. They lead with promises of rapid transformation and growth & sell ideas of perfection that are at odds with the reality of the human experience. They do not acknowledge that we cannot ‘love and light’ our way through life.
Tender takes an approach that is radically different. This journey is one which recognises that transformation and change is a subtle and often slow process, that will unfold differently for everyone. We do not make false promises. We do not invite you into a vision of your life which is at odds with the reality of your daily experience.
Instead, we acknowledge that being human is complicated, complex and invite you to learn to dance with the deepest and most challenging complexities. We create space for the full spectrum of emotion, from anger & hurt, to elation and celebration. We invite you to enter a space where you can explore the polarities of your emotions, not only seeking pleasure, creative fulfilment and leaning into the highest vision of yourself, but also allow you to be with the pain, the conflict, the challenges life throws at you. And underpinning that work, you will be guided by our nervous system expert Claire Rother so that you have the tools to emotionally self regulate in any moment, so you can better cope with life’s challenges and enjoy its highs more fully.
We are learning to allow the tenderness in. To access the parts of us so delicate, they feel they need to be held with extreme care.
We are building our capacity and resilience for the road ahead.
We are on our knees as a student of life. Hearts open. Palms upturned. Willing.
These are not quick fixes, but slow, radical and sustainable tools for life.