“A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity. If you have one, embrace it. If you need one, seek it. If you find one, for the love of all that is good and holy, dive in. Hold on. Love it up. Get Naked. Let them see you. Let them hold you. Let your reluctant tears fall. Let yourself rise fierce and love gentle. You will be changed. The very fabric of your being will be altered by this, if you allow it. Please, please allow it.”
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come inside & join the monthly gatherings
For one Friday closest to the new moon, we gather on the sacred lands of Kernow close to Newquay, inside Pennans Round House, a beautiful clay womb like structure with an open fire. These circles run once per month and can be booked individually.
The red tent, in some places, remains an actual place. But in the West, it has been lost to patriarchal capitalist culture and transcendent spirituality. Our society has, for the last few thousand years, set about destroying the spaces women would gather, including our connection with our very own bodies. Once through brutal violence against women during the Witch Trials. Now mostly through shame and blame, and deeply embedded colonial patriarchal conditioning.
Yet, these spaces remain in our hearts & in our wombs; these spaces we would once retreat for menstruation, for visioning for the next cycle, for ourselves & our families. The communities relied on the visions women would bring back from their dreamtime in the Red Tent to set the course for the next moon and help the tribe prosper.
In these spaces magic happens. When women gather in circle and open heartednes, magic happens. We are re-writing that narrative, reclaiming what is intuitive and instinctual at the same time. When we can carve time to honour ourselves and each other in this way, fully embodied, it ripples out to women everywhere who are holding the prayer to consciously meet the Rites of Passage, for change.
These circles are a space of safety are expression. Of story, of archetypal wisdom, of deep rest, of womb embodiment, of nidra shakti, of cacao medicine, of singing, of dance, of laughing, of crying, of remembering deeply, what we almost forgot.
* please note: due to the amount of preparation that goes into these circles, places will be non-refundable from 7 days prior to event, and non-refundable and non-transferable from 3 days prior to event.
What others are saying?
This is by far, one of the best womens circles I have ever been to. Lara has an uncanny ability to make people feel really welcome. She is kind, real and funny, but also takes this work seriously. The Roundhouse and the altars she creates are absolutely stunning. The whole thing, seriously, is a work of art. It’s inspiring just to be in the space, with so much permission, to do exactly that… just be.
From my heart to yours thank you so much for yesterday. It was very powerful and today my heart is wide open. You created such a safe and warm (in all senses!) space. Listening to the raw and powerful vulnerability of women in a safe space is really a force to be reckoned with. The outpoouring of grief and joy I felt simultaneously was very moving and cathartic. Thank you so much. I can’t wait for the next one!
I want to cry again today reading your message. You are incredible. I woke up very heavy this morning and balled my eyes out for quite a while, and still so much to release. I am so honoured to have been introduced to you by my wonderful best friend. My intention is to be with you in circle for the next 12 moons.