Alchemy + Inner Territory with Sarah Congdon
In alchemy and in inner territory, we sit with our darkness and shadows, we observe without judgment, and we gently and kindly sort out what is ours. We engage with the inevitability of change and become an active participant in the spiraling, serpentine cycles of transformation in our own lives and for the collective.
Inner Territory Journey: A Path Older Than Urgency with Rae Monterra
This Inner Territory Journey is an invitation into a slower, older rhythm. A path shaped by weather, animal tracks, green breath, and the small lives moving everywhere beneath the obvious world. Here, urgency can loosen. The part of you still trying to be ready, healed, useful, certain, transformed by morning, can finally feel what it is like to stop performing for the forest.
There is something waiting beneath all the trying.
Solar Plexus Journey
This journey moves through the inner city of gems, a place the soul’s long story carries with it from lifetime to lifetime. Here in the Solar Plexus is a living city, a high seat of intuition and knowing. We move together through its streets to a temple situated in the very center of its glistening structures. There we work within the embodied experience of intuition and its connection to oracular sight.
Astrology As Inner Territory Language with Rae Monterra: How To Read Your Natal Chart
In this class, Rae slowly, comprehensibly teaches us how to read our natal charts, moving bit by bit through a blank chart (download below). They show us astrology as an Inner Territory language, with each placement representative of a part of Self. Not only will you understand the planets, signs, houses, and aspects better by the end of class, but you will also identify and delight in different parts of being you.
The Landscape of the Subtle Body: The Upper Realms
This class completes the chakra landscape series by moving into the upper three realms: the Throat River, Third Eye Roots, and Crown Web. It explores voice, truth, oracular sight, divine connection, and the subtle body as a living map of relationship. This is a teaching and practice for returning to right relationship with the parts of us that receive, translate, express, and connect us to the larger whole.
Unraveled: Self Reclamation
This journey moves through the landscape of identity, inherited stories, and the threads that no longer belong to us. It asks us to notice what we are carrying, what was chosen for us, what we may have stitched into ourselves for survival, and what may be ready to loosen. There is tenderness here, but also courage. The energy of Samhain runs through the whole journey, making it feel like a threshold between who we have been and who we are becoming. It offers space to listen to the parts of ourselves that are ready for something different and to trust the wisdom of what wants to stay, what wants to shift, and what is asking to be released.
Working with Monsters and Shadows
This class turns us toward our inner monsters and the shadowy parts of our Inner Territories. The sharp, reactive, protective places that learned how to become the weapon so they would never again be prey. Instead of trying to fix or control them, we get closer. We listen. We relate.
The Landscape of the Chakras: The Lower Three (Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus)
This journey slows us down inside the lower three chakras and lets us really look. Root, sacral, solar plexus. Death. Life. Rebirth. We wander the landscapes of each center and notice what has been stored there, what was cut off, what went quiet, what has been overworking to keep us upright. This is relearning the language of energy and intuition from the inside out. We sit with the density, the heat, the hunger, the numbness, and begin building trust with the parts of us that learned to survive through disconnection. The work here is embodied and steady. It deepens everything that follows.
Manifesting Maplines
This journey slows us down inside the lower three chakras and lets us really look. Root, sacral, solar plexus. Death. Life. Rebirth. We wander the landscapes of each center and notice what has been stored there, what was cut off, what went quiet, what has been overworking to keep us upright. This is relearning the language of energy and intuition from the inside out. We sit with the density, the heat, the hunger, the numbness, and begin building trust with the parts of us that learned to survive through disconnection. The work here is embodied and steady. It deepens everything that follows.
Inner Territory Journey: Dragoning
This is a transformation journey rooted in rage, grief, and emergence as sacred forces of change. The work centers the moment when an old skin can no longer hold what the self has become, and the body knows it is time to crack, shed, and come through. Anger, sensuality, and ferocity are not treated as problems to regulate, but as living energies that carry wisdom, protection, and forward motion.
Writer’s Soul: Merlin Stone
Merlin Stone was the author of When God Was A Woman, first published as The Paradise Papers, and of Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood. She studied art and journalism, eventually becoming interested in archeology through her study of ancient art. Her work had a serious impact on the Goddess Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and has given us doorways of possibilities to rethink the primarily male lens through which we are taught history.
Inner Territory Journey: Feeling Good Is Feeling God
This journey treats pleasure, goodness, and aliveness as vulnerable states rather than indulgences. It challenges spiritual traditions that equate holiness with deprivation and restores sensation as a doorway to the sacred.
Inner Territory Journey: Embodied
This journey pulls the soul back into form. It rejects disembodied transcendence and instead roots inner work in gravity, sensation, and presence. The body leads here, not the mind, carrying us deeper and recalibrating to the womb of the Earth. Inner Territory work sees the body not as something separate from the soul, but one part of a complex soul system. To recover our exiled parts, our agency, our most central Self, we move deeper into the body.
Self Reclamation: Beyond the Wall
This journey follows on from the Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots. Here, we listen to defenses instead of tearing them down. We ask what the wall has been protecting and whether it still needs to stand. Reclamation happens through respect for survival intelligence. As always, we move slowly, with intention, and on behalf of all our parts of Self. There is no rush, no need to force or conjure an outcome.
Cord Cutting: Invasive Roots
Cord cutting is held here as a gardening practice rather than a severing, guided by relationship with land, body, and the wisdom of what is native.
If you can, try to spend some time in Nature before this cord cutting. Watch the way plants, animals, and elements interact with one another. Observe how the interconnectedness of Nature feels in your own body. Take note of what is native to your part of the world and what is not.
Writer’s Soul: Mary Austin’s Wild Voice
This class sits inside Joy Harjo’s way of listening to the world. We move through her poems as landscapes shaped by breath, memory, grief, and belonging, paying attention to how voice carries responsibility to land, ancestors, and spirit. We stay close to the tenderness and ferocity in her writing, the way image and truth travel together without explanation. Writing here feels devotional and grounded, guided by what has been carried forward and what still needs a voice.
Inner Territory Journey: Below The Deep
In this unique Inner Territory journey we travel through bioluminescent waters, diving all the way to the floor of our inner great sea.
We encounter whale graveyards, the libraries of all of our lifetimes, and we connect to the threads that link us to ourselves and to one another - beyond language and time. We move into depth without urgency, and encounter vast, quiet, connective landscapes. We are reminded of the long story of our souls, that we are made of many lifetimes, stories, and shared threads that persist even in the deepest dark.
Self Reclamation: The Living Altar
We begin building an altar of our energy bodies in the wildest part of our being. This journey is about cultivating relationship with the self as something alive and responsive. The altar is not symbolic or fixed. It moves, shifts, and answers back. What emerges here comes from listening to the energy body in its wild state, and following what calls from beyond reason or plan.
Self Reclamation: Largeness
This journey makes space instead of seeking change. It softens the inner landscape to make room for feral, jagged, grieving, fire breathing parts to lie down without being managed or improved. In this meditation, we offer all parts of ourselves haven rather than transformation, trusting that rest holds its own kind of intelligence.
Self Reclamation: Island of Joy
This is a unique meditation that leads us to the island of our joy. What we find there is likely to be complicated. It may feel full, distant, guarded, or unfamiliar, and grief is allowed to move alongside it. We approach joy with curiosity rather than expectation. Nothing is asked to resolve or brighten. Our attention stays with listening, learning how joy actually lives in the inner landscape when it’s given time and room.