Tending the Internal Flame — A Winter Gathering
A weekly online gathering to hold space for whatever is with us, to connect with our  inner flame — to reimagine our relationship with the dark half of the year, to be present with ourselves, to reflect, dream, and nourish the burning light within, through gentle creative processes.
This is an invitation to pause amidst the intensity of the season — to spend a few hours each week in community, tending your own spark, and discovering simple, meaningful rituals that bring warmth and presence into daily life.
Together, we’ll let nature be our teacher as we tend to our hearth. We’ll deepen our relationship with the more-than-human world, listening to the guidance of animals, plants, and the local land beneath us.
This work arises in response to the wider call of our times — the collective awakening to our interconnectedness in the face of social and ecological change. It is inspired by indigenous ways of reciprocity, and by the wisdom of women, elders, ecologists, writers, and environmental and biological scientists who weave the threads between spirit and earth, self and community, human and more-than-human worlds.
The four sessions will follow an arc to help us explore what the internal flame is, how it manifests within us. We will learn how to access our personal fire using embodied, somatic techniques, journalling, drawing, myth building, storytelling, journeying and other mysterious practices to help you connect with yourself, each other and your living local nature.
Each week you'll be offered invitations, small rituals, research and journalling prompts, to expand your awareness, and to help you feel into an embodied relationship with nature and to help you stoke the fire within, to carry you through the dark of winter.
Tending the fire within 
Winters Descent - The Internal Flame, is a four part creative circle, that will help us journey with the lowering light, as we traverse into the dark half of the year. We will connect with our internal flame, tend our own personal fire - our inner sun -  As we gently reconsider,  reimagine and reframe our relationship with the season. We will stoke this potent energy, our deepest embers, as they carry us toward the winter solstice. We will explore grounding mystical practices that help us keep that psychic warmth burning though the depths of winter. 
The sun lives within you. The ground is warmed from the long summer. In some ways we were scorched. How can we welcome this coolness, the frost that holds what little light the sun has for us, and crystalises her rays in a blanket of diamonds. 
How do we care for ourselves as we descend into the dark half of the year?  Can we reframe the dark of winter, challenge our assumptions and reframe it as perhaps a darkness full of fertility? Winter could be a place to incubate ideas, hopes, dreams and reflections, perhaps like the holding nourishing space of a womb? Or like the dormouse, the hedgehog or even the bat, could winter be a burrow or a psychic cave for safety and rest? How can we make this space a tabernacle of self honouring, a container within that tends the spark of our own life's fire.