Becoming / Women’s Soul Circle
Follow your love for this world and the wild calling of your deepest self
Based on the soul maps and 60+ practices of the Wild Soul Immersion, this is an
immersive six month journey that includes 9 in-person soul circles in nature/indoors
Being witnessed and supported in a circle is a profound catalyst for transformation. This is a facilitated process, exploring nature-based, heart-centred and soul-infused practice, to support each person to navigate their edges and follow their own soul’s guidance. Through this loving and witnessing circle, we support the unique soulful becoming of each participant, so that each may step up, claim their soul gifts and find their co-creative act of service and love for this beautiful, yet aching world.
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The Becoming / Soul Circle is for you if:
You want to strengthen your relationship with your soul-self & your deepest knowing
You are seeking direction, purpose, meaning - your deepest ‘why’ for being here
You want inner tools and practices you can use for a lifetime to walk the soulful path of purpose
You want connection, support and community with other like minded pilgrims on the soul path
You want support to contribute your gifts to this turmoiled and wondrous world
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“The doors to the world of the wild Self
are few but precious.
If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an
old, old story, that is a door.
If you love the sky and the water so much you
almost cannot bear it, that is a door.
If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
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Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Becoming / Soul Circle offers:
A six month, transformative, guided, experiential journey that is
sensitively attuned to what is emergent for each individual.
9 guided soul circle sessions held Sunday afternoons in person, afternoon tea provided.
60+ evocative soul tending practices for home that you have lifetime access to. You focus on the practices most relevant to your life - this is not a one size fits all approach. Practices include guided meditation recordings, nature practices, soul art, stream of consciousness writing, songs, dream exploration, movement & embodiment practice, journalling & self inquiry, ritual, ceremony and many other soul-based practices.
With more than 20 years experience of facilitating circles and with a background in community development, I am passionate about tending our circle container, to foster deep connections, friendships and community.
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When we follow the golden spiral of soul, it leads us not only into the depths of our own soul-self, but also into the world, into profound love for this precious green and blue planet. Then the individual soul serves the world soul and co-creative love and regeneration of self and world is possible.
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So many of us long to contribute to the world in a way that feels authentic, meaningful, loving and fulfilling. We might feel there is more for us to do with this precious life, but are not sure what, or even how to find out what. We may long for a sense of belonging and purpose - and we may struggle with this alone.
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A Taste of the Wild Soul Immersion: 12 Modules
This is primarily an experiential journey - this is what makes it transformative - making the heart of this deep dive your own inner journey
With more than 60+ practices in the immersion, every module you receive a palette of 5-7 experiential practices to choose from, including soul-based practice, embodiment practices, guided meditations, nature practice, soul art practice, stream of consciousness writing, heart inquiry and dreamwork. You choose what is relevant to your unfolding edge of soulful becoming..
The 9 in person circles will be a space to explore practices togethers and digest your discoveries from your home practice..
Module 1: The Golden Thread of Soul
Learn foundational practices and rituals to help you authentically attune to soul’s wisdom
Begin to create your own personal practice to help you call in body, heart and soul, with support from the Foundation Meditation recording & Somatic Unwinding practice
Module 2: Healing, Wholing & Souling
Explore maps that affirm and expand your relationship with spirit, soul and self
Explore nature wandering and sit spot practices as ways to hear nature’s wisdom about your place in the world
Create your prayer to soul attuned to your specific longings and questions
Module 3: The Unlived Life
Work with negative core beliefs, resistance and self-doubt, to help move from limiting narratives to soul’s expansive narrative
Explore your way to attune to your soul using the Guided Meditation Connection to Soul
Explore a sense of belonging in the web of life using the Guided Meditation: Dadirri: the Art of Listening
Module 4: The Language of the Soul
Explore the language of soul - the images, dreams, stories, metaphors, nature messages, sensations, feelings held as hidden gold in your psyche and imagination
Deepen your connection to body, heart, intuitive mind, nature, soul and spirit with the Guided Meditation: Your Inner Resources
Explore a soul-centred way of working with dreams
Module 5: Honouring Our Pain
Learn ways to consciously connect with core wounding to compassionately recover from survival strategies and receive the hidden soul powers that the wound reveals
Develop a collaborative, empowering relationship with your inner protector archetypes (like the inner critic)
Explore your own pain as the tender portal into what you most care about, your values, soul powers and belonging in the web of life
Module 6: Soul is Belonging
The soul is our unique place of love and belonging in the web of life. Deepen your sense of belonging with experiential practices and the Map 6 Realms of Belonging
Discover your soul essence, soul powers, supported by the Guided Meditation: The Pearl
Module 7: Calling for Soul, Dawn to Dusk
Explore soul-based practices and create your own self-designed ceremonies that meet your emergent edge
Deepen your capacity to be an empty vessel, allowing nature and soul to mirror your deepest story
Follow the thread of your soul’s messages, support by the Guided Meditation: Messenger Animal
Module 8: Longing and the Dark Night of the Soul
Explore the power of longing
Develop your capacity to embrace the unknown, endings and life/death cycle
Follow the thread of your soul’s messages, support by the Guided Meditation: Messenger Animal
Embrace strong emotions including grief, ecological grief, shame, loneliness, rage, fear and pain
Module 9: Dawn to Dusk Ceremony & Module 10: Soul Gifts
You receive support and learn skills to undertake the Dawn to Dusk Ceremony: a solo, self-designed ceremony in a sit spot in nature, a courageous stand learn from your own soul and take your next steps in your healing, wholing, souling journey to soul purpose
Explore the soul gifts you received from your practice
Develop ways to integrate soul’s wisdom, from gentle soulful messages to powerful, ego-dissolving or initiatory soul encounters
Module 11: Being You & Module 12: Your Creation Song
Bring the strands together and name what you have discovered about your soul-self, your soul’s values, powers, essence and gifts for the world
Take the next steps in the unfolding deep story of your life, the symbolic truth of who you are and what you are here to do
Name your soul gifts and explore your next steps
Affirm the tools and practices you now have for the ongoing soul purpose journey
Affirm your contribution to this beautiful yet turmoiled world
Becoming / Soul Circle
When: The Becoming Immersion is run twice a year on Sundays 2.00-5.30pm, over 6 months. Dates for 2026 are:
Intake 1: 8 & 22 February, 1 & 22 March, 12 & 26 April, 24 May, 14 June, 5 July 2026.
Intake 2: 26 July, 9 & 23 August, 13 September, 11 & 25 October, 15 & 29 November, 14 December 2026.
Where: Sessions will be held in the Warrandyte State Park or, if weather is inclement, at an indoor location within 15 minutes of Warrandyte
Who for: Anyone who wants to explore their connection to their soul-self, discover their soul gifts and share them with the world, and find deep meaning, belonging, love and purpose
Commitment: Your own practice is the heart of this immersion. It is suggested to do 2-4 hours practice each week to deepen your experience. You also do a one day solo ceremony at a time and location that suits you
Cost: $850. Cost includes: A six month immersive soul journey with 9 x 4 hour facilitated soul circle sessions + afternoon tea + 60+ practices including recordings and soul maps that you have lifetime access to
For more information and how to apply: If you have done soul work with me before, you can book via my booking page. If you are new to working with me let’s have a 30 minute zoom chat so you can see if this offering is a good fit for you.
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What is the soul?
“By soul I mean the vital, mysterious, and wild core of our individual selves, an essence unique to each person..our unique and deepest personal characteristics, the core and enduring qualities that define our personhood..Soul is what is most wild and natural within us.” - Bill Plotkin
The soul is the innermost essence of you and has core powers, core values, core abilities, core knowledge, and a core identity that is archetypal, what Bill Plotkin calls a mythopoetic identity. When we uncover this core self with these innate and nature ways of being we come home to who we truly are. We are then profoundly empowered and inspired to share our gifts with the world.
Of course, the hardest self to see is our own deepest self. The soul needs a mirror. The soul can be mirrored through: our dreams; ritual and ceremony; our deepest emotions; listening to our lives; nature communion; art making; through image and symbol; stream of consciousness writing; embodiment and movement practice; mentoring; through witnessing from others in circle; and through many other soul-based practices.
Our soul helps us to rediscover and reclaim the deep story that is our own, reveals how our story connects with the world’s story and shows us how to participate, contribute and love this precious, turmoiled world.
If you want to learn more about my approach you can read many of my blog pieces that explore different soul practices - a good introduction is The Golden Thread of Soul. I also highly recommend reading Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin.
You are planted in your own integrity
and there you stand,
gnarled and knotted,
perfectly at ease with yourself,
your roots deep in truth,
your branches held up to let the light in.
- Stephen Mitchell
Anahata Giri
Anahata is dedicated to helping people awaken to their unique way to love this world. She co-creates supportive and potent spaces for soul-based exploration, nature-based practice and heart-based inquiry.
Anahata is a Soul Tender and a dedicated apprentice to Soul and to Love. She is deeply inspired by Bill Plotkin’s soulcraft work and Animas Valley Institute (AVI) as well as the work of Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She receives ongoing mentoring from Laura Gunion, soul guide with AVI. Anahata is a certified Purpose Guide with the Purpose Guides Institute.
She has over 30 years experience as a group facilitator and this has given her a deep trust in the group field to evoke shared depth, connection, insight and warmth. She supports the wisdom and heart of each participant and loves the magic of a group witnessing each other, to help us each emerge, unfold, become and to give back to this precious web of life.
She has a background in environmental activism, community development work, twenty years experience as a yoga and meditation teacher and retreat leader and she is a trained somatic psychotherapist and yoga therapist.
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