Sacred Circles

Creating a Women’s Circle is a powerful way of awakening your birth power or finding joy and inner peace in your mothering.

It is easier than you think to bring together a group of women in a way that will be empowering and meaningful to you and to everyone involved. You have all the skills you need right now and we are excited to offer Women’s Circles Kits that make it even easier to get started.

There are many benefits to creating a women’s circle during your pregnancy or as a new mother. Here are just a few:

Women’s circles create a safe space for sharing stories. Storytelling is an important learning tool that has been used for thousands of years. In my birth classes, couples often tell me after the birth that it was the stories that I weave through my classes that they remembered during the intensity of birth and where they found gems of wisdom to apply to their birth experience. For new mothers, sharing stories helps you to realize that what you are feeling and experiencing is normal and natural. You are not alone and you are amongst friends! Through our stories we become teachers for each other.
Women’s circles are a tool for self-discovery and growth. We discover ourselves. We discover new things about birth and motherhood through the women around us or through our own internal wisdom rather than from books or childbirth professionals. Our learning becomes self-directed and this is the fastest and most lasting type of learning.
Women’s circles create positive rituals to mark the sacredness of the birth journey and the mothering journey. Rituals connect us to our inner spirit, to the divine and they create a sense of community. Blessingways or Baby Showers are familiar pregnancy rituals.
Women’s circles create a positive sense of belonging and community. Women all over the world instinctively seek a deeper connection to other women during pregnancy and motherhood. This connection is healthy and nurturing especially when you consciously choose to surround yourself with women who empower and support you.
Women’s circles create a place to be heard. Within a circle, women listen actively without judgment. This is a gift to the woman speaking which brings the gift of healing.
Women’s circles foster the recognition of and the development of your individual gifts. Every woman brings her own talents and strengths to birth and mothering. It is her task to discover them.
Women’s circle provide a safe environment for recognizing your inner knowing. In regards to giving birth and to mothering (and life!), we truly believe what Sonia Johnson says in Going Out of Our Minds: “We don’t need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.”

Creating a women’s circle during pregnancy allows you to prepare for birth with a group of like-minded women, enjoying the journey together, sharing fears and joys, learning from each other and ultimately empowering each other. This may be everyone’s first pregnancy or the circle can be a mix of new mothers and experienced mothers. You may all be making different birth choices but share a positive, pro-active focus. You may all be at different stages in your pregnancy. You may want to host just one women’s circle or create a group of women that will stay together until everyone has given birth. Creating a pregnancy circle is about preparing for birth by drawing out your own inner wisdom and sharing wisdom between women- this has been done for thousands of years and is very different and arguably more effective than being given information by childbirth professionals. And you may find the circle so empowering that you continue beyond birth and into motherhood.

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Creating a women’s circle during motherhood allows you to share the challenges and the joys of motherhood with a group of like-minded women. Together you may find you enjoy the journey more as you learn from each other and continually find that your feelings and your experiences are normal , natural and shared by more women than you thought!

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Everything you need to start a women’s circle during pregnancy or motherhood is contained within our Women’s Circle Kits or you can create your own women’s circle using resources like: Sacred Circles - A Guide to Creating your own Women’s Spirituality Group by Robin Deen Carnes & Sally Craig.

“There is undeniable power in the shape of a circle. It is one of the fundamental energy patterns in the natural world. Circles collect and focus energy. We sit facing one another, mirroring one another, no one higher or more prominent. Women facing inward. The roundness of our circle reflects the roundness in our bodies. There is no outward diversion, no distraction from the focus on one another and ourselves. Circles are soothing, comforting and challenging.” Sacred Circles: A Guide to Creating your own Women’s Spirituality Group