Sisters In Circles: Workshops for Women

Sisters in Circles is a series of four workshops designed to assist women in awakening and harnessing the power of their Being to form a group for women or a Sisterhood Circle.

Sisters In Circles workshops can be done anywhere. We will travel to you. All you need do is gather a group of women willing to open their minds and hearts to experience Sisterhood and a fuller Awakening of Self.

Using shamanic and alchemical techniques and guided by a ceremonialist and shamanic practitioner we will journey together into the deep inner reserve of Knowing that guides all women who are willing to Hear. The workshops all include teachings as well as experiential and ceremonial elements. Each of the four weekends help form the foundation for sisterhood but each Circle will primarily be defined by the women who participate in it. Each Circle will be unique. This program is not limited to any lineage, tradition or spiritual path.

Coming together in Sisterhood is a spiritual practice, not a religion.

“It is time for women to understand that as Keepers of The Great Round Vision and as Transformers of Energy that our role on this sweet earth is vital, our mission is holy and our responsibility is real. We understand these things better when we come together and help one another. One of my Elders told me that “keeping women separate from each other is the last ‘hold’ of the malevolent patriarchy”. It is time to break that hold for good and step into the Truth of Woman.”  ~ mary standing otter/2012

Sisters In Circles workshops offer experiences and techniques that have evolved over 20 years and are based on ancient knowledge. They have proven to be very successful in helping begin a new group or empower an existing group to accomplish a light year’s worth of experience in one year’s time. The bonding and growth that happens through this process will catapult your group to a new level, forming a Women’s Circle that will LAST.

With leadership, focus and compassion a Sisterhood Circle can eventually become an energetic entity itself and can function as an Elder or GrandMother to the women who participate in it. Then, through the love, support and guidance of a Sisterhood Circle, we can Become the Elders our planet so desperately needs.

Dear Sisters~
I have spent the last 20 years learning and serving my own community. I have quietly done what I could do to alleviate suffering and to build community. Now it is time to bring all that we have learned through our hard work, compassion, bumps and bruises and joyful awakenings to those who would also like to heal.

A teaching from the Ancients tells us that it is the women who create and hold the space that healing happens within. Just as we carry a physical womb, women can weave an external energetic womb and maintain it for entire communities. In fact that is what we do whether we are conscious of it or not. If we are not aware of this then the space we create can be warped, weak or “leaky”. The more aware of this process we become the more we can not only weave a strong web but continue to keep positive energy flowing into it. This process does not cost us or feel hard. In fact it is just the opposite. We enjoy all the benefits as well. It can improve our health in every aspect.

Many of us have awakened to the fact that life is much more than what we experience with our five senses. We are also aware of the shifts and changes happening all around over the face of the entire planet.

Now is a good time to step into a brighter awareness. It is a good time to shed the illusions that we are separate from each other and that we are anything less than one great human family. It is time to include the stones, the animals and the plants in our family and make Earth the home she was meant to be by caring for her in the ways she is meant to be cared for. We begin by caring for ourselves, then our families and communities and it spreads as we heal the world.

I hope you will join us for a weekend of womb dreaming and web weaving. A weekend of tapping more deeply than before into your ability to create Beauty.

Many Bright Blessings,

Standing Otter

(top photo by Madeline Blyveis)
There are also other services and ceremonies that can be offered to your community for men, women and families along with the workshops. Please see ‘Other Ceremonies and Experiences‘ for more information.