Moon Sisters

Last Sunday the first edition of Moon Sisters took place and it was absolutely wonderful! I knew it was sooooooo necessary to hold space for women and allow for their beautiful selves to be just as they are, to share, connect, heal, learn… and that was confirmed on the night.

What is a women’s circle?

Basically, a women’s circle is a safe and sacred space for women to come together. It is a gathering in which they can be seen, heard and honored just for being who they are. The circle offers a sense of community, a safe haven, loyalty, trust and love, a warm container to share wisdom and, most of all, it allows women to thrive on empowering connection.

Our ancestors have long gathered in circles. This for thousands of years! They have shared experiences and wisdom and have empowered each other throughout history. The circle was a safe space for them to self-reflect, unwind and be utterly free of judgement.

Sisterhood.

In coming together women collectively connected to their bodies, to their tremendous feminine power and to their inherent wild nature.

There is usually one woman who is the space holder and invites the women in the circle to connect as sisters. She encourages to reconnect to the feminine energy, opens the group to reflect on individual and shared challenges of life and to share experiences without judgement.

A women’s circle is a truly sacred space, free from any judgement, in which each woman commits to honoring the other and to keeping whatever is shared in the circle, in the circle.

A sense of safety for all is everything!

It helps women show and share their true selves. They find their unique voice and truth, reclaim their infinite power and remember their self-worth. As equals. In a nurturing environment. It is, simply put, a place of love. Love for the other, love for the self and, by extension, love for the world. This stimulates self-growth in a profound way.

There is something incredibly delicious about women coming together!

We have grown out of the energy of gossiping, competing, complaining, jealousy and envy. Today, like our ancestors before us, we come together as sisters. With a specific goal in our conscious or subconscious mind: to heal, grow and blossom.

We have learnt to understand the need for divine feminine energy on a global level. We know that in order to cultivate planetary transformation and make a shift in how the world is and has been dominated by a masculine competition-based system, we have to create space for a communal, egalitarian and nurturing system instead. A system born out of divine feminine energy.

We know it starts with us.

We are relearning to be a woman.

And come together as women.

In equality.

There’s no hierarchy.

We can be ALL of what we are.

Dark and light.

Honoring each woman’s individual voice.

In a circle.

What a women’s circle can mean for you

The first thing you might want to identify is why you would NOT want to attend a women’s circle. There could be many reasons, and they are all valid, but perhaps it’s wise to see whether or not the feelings and thoughts come from a place of resistance.

Two of the women who attended the circle on Sunday actually expressed feeling resistance towards coming to the circle. And that is completely fine! If it comes up, I invite you to go into that resistance and explore it a bit.

Attending a women’s circle is an act of caring for the self. It is nourishment for the soul. It is self-loving behavior! When we want to install selflove practices into our lives, chances are that this tricky thing called self-hate complicates the process.

Any woman who is struggling with low self-worth is likely to find the root of that in feelings of self-hate. And self-hate is resistance to selflove. So when we want to do something to enhance selflove in our lives and we feel resistance to it, we are likely to find that what is causing it, is self-hate.

The thing is that nowadays the term ‘selflove’ is thrown around so much and is almost forced upon people that we forget to go about the whole process with thoughtful care. Let me tell you right know: selflove can NOT be established if there is self-hate.

Spiritual teacher Teal Swan explains this very clearly by comparing selflove to flowers and self-hate to weeds. Most methods around teach us that we should plant lots and lots of flowers. Selflove. And that is a wonderful teaching. But there’s a big but!

If we don’t pull out the weeds of self-hate, then they will keep popping up and spread in between the flowers. This creates internal warfare. This creates internal resistance where the weeds and the flowers are fighting each other, endlessly.

The thing to do here is to identify the resistance. Any thoughts, words or actions that steer you away from self-loving behavior.

This might not be an easy thing to do, because we as people have become so used to living in a state of resistance that we cannot see the reality of it anymore. It can help to look for any oppositional thought, word or action working against selflove. For example:

When you say you love yourself but you binge on food and tv most nights, that is resistance to selflove.

When you say you love yourself but secretly and silently call yourself fat, that is resistance to selflove.

When you say you love yourself but you tell yourself that women’s circles and women practices are useless and are not going to help you, that is resistance to selflove.

Any oppositional thought, word or action to selflove is resistance. And anything you resist persists.

The challenge here is to identify and release whatever feeds the resistance. That means we need to address the self-hate. And that requires inner work. There’s no way around it.

This might all sound a bit much and you might not know where or how to start, but you know what, dear sister? You are not alone in this!

Women’s circles are held to help you. To help you reconnect to your core strength. To support you. To give you space to grow, heal, blossom.

To honor you and ALL that you are.

The next edition of Moon Sisters is held on June 8^th and you are invited! Send me a message if you want to attend or fill in the form after clicking the button below.

Check out the photos to get a feel for what a Moon Sisters night looks like.