About Soulbirthing

Soulbirthing is a gathering of women to connect and offer resources to help free ourselves from the blocks that prevent us from living in our truth and authentic connection. We believe that all we imagine is meant to be birthed into the world. In Soulbirthing, we explore tools and strategies to follow our inner knowing; we share our stories in a safe group where we are seen and supported; and we experiment with the various parts of ourselves that we gradually integrate to experience a sense of wholeness and fulfillment.

Quarterly Gatherings

In quarterly workshop gatherings in March, June, September, and November at 18 Springs in Winston-Salem, participants are guided through 13 different archetypes, or facets, of a woman’s inner life, informed by an ancient Celtic feminine wheel that some of our ancestors once lived by. This is a springboard to get curious about and deepen our understanding of all we may have had to hide and put away out of survival. We need a safe place where we are supported in differentiating what is truly authentic and joyful to us from what is conditioned expectation. We may have taken on behavioral patterns and limiting beliefs to appease others or meet standards that we can now shed with the help of a loving community. This guided introspection allows for deep healing of the past and a way to give ourselves now what we couldn’t be given then. It is a unique framework to free what is needing to be expressed and created from a place of truth. Since 2022, this gathering has catalyzed women into overcoming fears to create their dream of life, their art work, soul mission, and/or their work sphere. Registration coming soon HERE.

Retreats

By invitation, we meet in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains near Hot Springs, North Carolina. Gathering on 14 acres of land, setting up tents and sitting around the fire, we experience ourselves in the wild, separate from male-defined or dominated spaces. We laugh, share stories, learn resources, and follow the signs of the land. We take time to rest, go inward, get playful, and explore what we are compelled to follow. Everyone is invited to carve wood, tend fire, weave, or make symbolic power pieces to wear. This time in the woods allows us to feel into our primal selves and our inherent sisterhood. We share meals and follow yin energy to create a group-designed ritual.

International Pilgrimage

By invitation, intention, and when resources are available, we take an international pilgrimage to a meaningful place that, through curiosity, we have been led to in our discussions. Our first pilgrimage was to the Caves of Mary Magdalene in Southern France, and our second was to the Black Madonna in Switzerland. We felt we were intuitively drawn to each place to free ourselves from the constrictive, dichotomous Puritan concept of the penitent whore and virgin, and discover who these women really were. Each year, we are open to where our curiosity and adventurous spirits will lead us.