Seasonal Sister Circle
A transformative year-long journey around the Celtic Wheel of the Year, aligning with the wisdom of our inner and outer seasons.
This in-person course invites you on a nature inspired journey exploring our inner and outer seasons. Women have been coming together in circle for thousands of years to share stories, wisdom, support and encouragement.
Join your hosts Nicky and Emma on this transformative, year-long journey around the Celtic Wheel of the Year. Over a period of 12 months, we’ll gather together as women on each of the 8 seasonal festivals to reconnect with nature, align with Earth's cycles and draw from the wisdom of nature to help empower, realign and harmonise our lives.
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Honouring the timeless wisdom of Celtic traditions, we will explore the unique teachings of each of the Earth festivals, learning about its significance and how it can support our personal growth, healing, and empowerment. Through guided meditations, journaling practices, nurturing sharing circles and nature crafting, we will experience a deep sense of grounding; a noticing of how we can regulate our nervous systems; nourish our creativity and tap into our highest potential.
Working with the seasonal cycle helps us to:
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embody strength, resilience and inner peace
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nurture our creativity
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live with intention and manifest our goals
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build like-minded sisterhood community
Each session offers a safe space for self reflection, grounding and reconnection along with an opportunity to share in a supportive circle of like-minded women. A mindful moment to pause and tune into how our inner worlds are reflected and shaped by the outer world. You will gain greater self awareness, clarity and confidence that can empower you to step into your dreams and goals.
This course is ideal for beginners, offering an immersive experience in the wisdom of nature, our greatest teacher and powerful ally. The Wheel of the Year offers a transformative framework to help us align with the natural rhythms of life. We will learn to harness the energy of each season to support our growth, deepen our connection to the Earth and to live with more clarity, balance, and purpose.
Course aims:
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Learn about the 8 festivals celebrated on the Celtic Wheel of the Year – which occur approximately every 6 weeks
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Understand how we live in tune with nature and how this seasonal living is reflected in our own lives
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Create nature inspired crafts that reflect our cyclical living and align with the energy of each season.
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Learn about the natural rhythms of our inner and outer seasons
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Explore how we experience cyclical living and how this may affect our own feelings and emotions
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Map out the rhythms of our own lives using the Celtic Wheel of the Year as a template.
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Gain a greater insight into our own direction and life goals
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Gain an appreciation of our own value and greater self-awareness
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Gratitude for the community we co-create
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Honour ourselves, women in circle and our ancestors, alongside marking an ending or our work together
What's included on this journey:
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Meditation and seasonal guided visualisation
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Deep healing and inner transformation
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Working with your inner visions to achieve your goals during the year
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Historic information on the Earth festivals
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Nature Crafting
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Self care and nervous system regulation
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Working with plant wisdom, exploring foraging and plants as medicine
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Introspective invitations such as journaling & movement meditations
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Sharing in a safe supportive circle of women
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A private support group on facebook
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A spotify playlist for each Earth festival
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Fun and laughter
We will meet in-person on a Wednesday evening (6.30-9pm) in approximate 6 week cycles following the changing seasons, observing these through the model of the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
Course held at St.John's Church Hall, Crowborough, 6.30-9pm on the following 2025 dates:
Session 1 - Wed 22nd January
Session 2 - Wed 5th February
Session 3 - Wed 26th March
Session 4 - Wed 7th May
Session 5 - Wed 18th June
Session 6 - Wed 30th July
Session 7 - Wed 17th September
Session 8 - Wed 29th October
Session 9 - Wed 10th December
**Whilst the course will be therapeutic it is important to highlight this is NOT therapy. For 1:1 Therapy please click here**
Host
Nicky is an accredited member of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy and most importantly a nature lover who appreciates nature connectedness for wellbeing. Nicky finds mindful wellbeing walks to be so restorative - she especially enjoys walks on our local Ashdown Forest with her labrador Jess. Read more about Nicky's journey with the Celtic Wheel of the Year here.
Host
Emma is an artist, arts educator, mindfulness teacher and forest bathing guide. She is a passionate nature lover and advocate of nature connection for health and well being. Her work seeks to express the beauty & wonder of our natural world, believing that it helps people connect to nature. When we connect, we care & what we care about we protect. To learn more about Emma, visit her website here.
LOCATION
St John's Hall - cabin in the woods
St John's Road, Crowborough, East Sussex, TN6 1RZ, UK
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Circle Introduction
Your hosts Nicky and Emma will welcome you to the course and set out the course aims. We encourage you to bring a dedicated notebook to use for the duration of the course. We will introduce the seasons within the Celtic Wheel of the Year and how these have been marked throughout history. Please bring a nature inspired item so we can co-create a centre piece for our circle.
Imbolc
Theme: Promise and Potential. IMBOLC - also known as Brigid’s Day, is celebrated each February 1 at the halfway point between Yule (Winter Solstice) and Ostara (Spring Equinox). The word ‘Imbolc’ itself means in the belly which is a direct reference to a new stirring of life and possibility. We will offer a nature crafting activity to align with this seasonal energy.
Spring Equinox - Ostara
Theme: Balance and Beauty. At equinox we have the balance of light & dark. Ostara is a time of warmth returning to the soil and growth everywhere, with the hours of light increasing until Litha (Summer Solstice).
Beltane
Theme: Joy and Love. Bel (good) tan (fire). Just like the tree sap that rises in early spring that enables the trees to transform into leaf, we too experience this energy within our bodies at this time of Beltane. We will notice what brings up our energy and light the fires of our creativity and feminine energy. Traditional May Day celebrations were historically joyous occasions as villagers gathered to welcome the return of the warmer months, dancing around the maypole, selecting a May Queen and in addition to the dancing figure of the Jack-in-the-Green (Green Man).
Summer Solstice - Litha
Theme: Health, healing and strength. Solstice comes from the Latin word solstitium meaning 'sun standing still', as it appears to hang steady in the sky. This festival marks the longest daylight hours and shortest night of the year. Our ancient ancestors celebrated this point in the year as evidenced by many stone circles and standing stones aligned to the rising solstice sun. This point is all about expansion and growth throughout nature. It's also about personal empowerment, so we will acknowledge how we reclaim our light/worth. We will take our circle outdoors for this session (weather permitting).
Lammas - First Harvest
Themes: sacrifice, nourishment, giving. The festival of Lammas is a time to gather the first harvest - a grain harvest. Days are growing shorter now, farmers will be harvesting corn, wheat and barley. This was a time our ancestors would come together to bring the harvest in. Lammas, also known as loaf-mass was a time to make bread by hand and appreciate the nourishment the first harvest brought. We will think about our own nourishment and acknowledge any sacrifices we may have made this year.
Autumn Equinox - Mabon
Themes: wisdom, expansion, fruit harvest. The autumn equinox is the second point of pause in the wheel of the year. This is the point where we meet opposition as well as balance. This period is about letting go and moving towards our winter. We will explore how we let go.
Samhain - All Hallows eve
Themes: Honouring our ancestors, death. This is one of the festivals that dates back to the dark ages. We will honour our ancestors and explore our own relationship with endings in nature and life. Samhain marks the point where we enter the dark part of the year as the clocks go back an hour, the nights are drawing in, nature is turning inward. This is the point where we slow down, pause and sit with the stillness.
Winter Solstice - Yule
Themes: resting, shining light in the darkness, birth. Our final session together is marking Winter Solstice and season of Yule. The darkest part of the year and the birth of the infant sun at this winter solstice point where we mark the longest night and shortest day! Here we explore this worldwide archetype the birth of the sun/son as we get an average of 6 minutes more light per day after this point. We will say goodbye to our circle and give thanks for the gifts we have created internally and externally.
Nicky & Emma
look forward to sitting in circle with you!
£250
*Early Bird offer £222.20
10 spaces available for next course
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