Sophia’s Circle

We make space to experience a deep knowing when we bravely engage with ourselves and share our vulnerable truth in a safe community. This is not a top-down space where you listen to a teaching and never say a word. Rather, we create intimate circles, where everyone gets to speak and share what is arising for them. We feel it is through courageously speaking and witnessing each other where true realisation, healing and gnosis occurs. Some have referred to the circle as feeling like “Free Therapy”.

The Body is our Temple and learning how to connect into what we physically feel and sense is the smartest way to heal and grow. Patriarchy has demonised the body but in truth it carries an intelligence beyond our comprehension. Matter or the body is often associated with the Mother Goddess and when we surrender to its wisdom it will heal and restore us. If our nervous system is out-of-balance, no amount of clever philosophies or spiritual rituals can transform us. The body is the root of our being, which is why we do somatic practices together to help us self-regulate and experience feelings of wholeness and peace. TRE (tension release exercises) is one of the modalities we use among many.

Yoga is an ancient spirit science meaning ‘to join’ or ‘to yoke’, where one’s individual consciousness unites with universal consciousness and brings harmony between mind and body. Contrary to popular belief, yoga is not a series of physical exercises, although this is a small part of it, but rather an energetic technology for self purification. Through doing breath-work, mantra, mudra, movement, meditation and visualisations, we gently allow Kundalini energy, which is the Mother’s life force energy, to reveal unconscious parts of ourselves for acknowledgement and integration.

When we devote weekly time to ourselves and sharing our personal journey we begin to cultivate self awareness. We learn to see our lives from a third person perspective and notice where our subconscious ‘wounded’ shadow has us living in unfulfilling patterns. From here we lovingly encourage a process of shifting these limiting beliefs with a powerful modality called QEC (quantum energy coaching). This is where we rewire the false core belief into something positive and beneficial at the subconscious level of the mind. This brings deep gnosis and experiences of renewal and self-empowerment.

Sophia’s Circle is rooted in the chakra language of Kundalini-Chrism Yoga, an inbuilt rhythm for personal growth. The Great Earth Mother is a primordial body, and the way the annual life force energy moves in Her, is the same way it moves in us too. We go from the root chakra to the crown chakra as the Earth Mother moves from solstice to solstice.The knowledge of Kundalini-Chrism Yoga helps us to accept what is naturally happening and grow gently in divine timing.

Sophia’s Circle is also rooted into the annual Myth Wheel. Just as the cycle moves through the chakra system, it also correlates to the psychological story architecture of The Hero’s Journey. The Story kicks off each year in March and comes to a close the following March. As we journey together we reflect on our own lives and identify the pattern of story happening in real time. We are walking in a living myth and when we learn to see ourselves as ‘actors’ experiencing turning points, we become conscious in the story and more equipped to make sovereign choices and create a more fulfilling personal reality.

Through syncretic teachings we are empowered by wisdom that transcends all religions and speaks directly to the nature of things. We learn about; The many myths of the ‘dying and rising god’ as a metaphor for our own mythological journey, the suppressed history of the Goddess in the Middle-East and how Yogic philosophy gives us a comprehensive understanding of her life force energy, about how the loss of the Goddess has resulted in symptoms of Narcissism and Codependency, and many more explorations of sutras and teachings from various wisdom traditions.

When we allow ourselves to draw, paint, dance or write freely we are moving in the gifts of the Mother’s Holy Spirit. When we let go of control and surrender to playing without pressure, we are often surprised by how profound the interior insights can be. This place of creative flow is fertile soil for our deepest inner truths to make themselves known. We encourage this play to spill out into your life where you create personal rituals and sacred spaces for your own evolution. In esoteric wisdom we often create something out of pure instinct, and later, we actually embody or become that thing. Our creations are an act of prophecy over our own lives.

We are all born with feminine and masculine energy, but the world we grew up in with all its dysfunction and overwhelming expectations, has knocked this out of balance. We explore what constitutes these two aspects of the self and what areas we may need to support to come back into harmony. The mystics would call this ‘coming into the middle way’. When we harmonise these polarities in ourselves our being starts to feel whole, relaxed and in vibrational flow with life.

When we connect into our body and our being using the approaches above, we begin to hear our own hearts again. The mind becomes still and we make space to hear the whisper of our heartfelt intuition, our higher voice who leads us to walk in our authentic purpose and passion. We’ve been conditioned to doubt and question this instinctive voice but in truth, it is our greatest ally and the key to experiencing a life of great pleasure and fulfilment. The heart is the source of endless divine love and direction, and we learn to trust this holy space again.