Inner Territory Journey: Root Chakra
This Journey takes us back to the moment a limiting belief first took root. We don’t rush it or override it. We witness the origin story with steadiness, noticing what was formed in response to fear, survival, or misunderstanding. A guide steps in, not to rescue, but to interrupt the old script and shift the trajectory. We stay long enough to feel the belief loosen, to watch the limits begin to melt off the body and psyche. This is reclamation through witnessing. This is manifestation through unbinding.
Inner Territory Journey: The Moment You Asked
Following the first of our Four Maplines Journeys, this inner path takes us to the banks of an ancient river and to an archetypal meeting with a central guide. Here we hold the intricacies of our manifestation and the origins of our limiting beliefs.
Inner Territory Journey: The First Mapline
In this Journey we enter the terrain of our first mapline and ask the question - am I asking big enough? We listen for the quietest current of desire and follow it to where our manifestation lives. There we witness its condition with honesty, meeting the old beliefs and protective parts that have kept our longing small. Gently, we begin unpinning what has been lodged in the body and allow this first mapline to breathe again.
Inner Territory Journey: Trickster
This journey moves through the part of the self that disrupts in order to wake things up. Trickster shows up here as clever, subversive, boundary-testing, and deeply necessary. As we follows this energy through the inner territory, it became clear that this isn’t about chaos for its own sake. It’s about thawing what’s been frozen, slipping through thin places, and nudging us into growth we might not have chosen consciously. What gets integrated here doesn’t stay personal. This journey carries collective impact, reminding us that small acts of disruption, humor, and courage ripple outward, loosening stuck systems and opening new pathways.
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.
Self Reclamation: Soul Medicine
This reclamation begins by orienting the body and senses, letting a peaceful meadow visualization and chakra energy clearing create enough steadiness to continue. The ancestor visit shifts the tone from doing it alone to being accompanied, introducing guidance that arrives through relationship rather than effort. The yew tunnel and the wall remind us that exile didn’t happen randomly, and that how we approach matters. What returns here comes back through care, lineage, and trust, and the bonfire brings it all home, signaling that no part is being reclaimed in isolation.
Cord Cutting: Desert
This cord cutting uses landscape as context. The desert isn’t symbolic here, it’s practical. Sparse, exposed, honest. The journey moves through a place where there’s nowhere to hide and nothing extra to carry, which makes it possible to see an old story clearly and decide what no longer belongs to it. The cut happens through revision and choice, not confrontation, letting the narrative itself loosen so the attachment can fall away without force.
Cord Cutting: Eros
This cord cutting leans into Eros as heat, motion, and aliveness. We warm the body first, move that yellow seed through the inner terrain, and let the cut come from fullness. The front porch of the soul’s home matters here. There’s no urgency or collapse. Just a clear, embodied choice. The burn is steady and clean. Desire does what it knows how to do, loosening attachment without shaming, without shutting down pleasure or agency.
Inner Territory Journey: Grounding
This journey is held as a stabilizing, orienting meditation for moments when the nervous system needs support before anything else can happen. It moves slowly through the chakra landscape with attention to safety, sensation, and presence, helping someone come back into their body and inner terrain without processing story or memory. This is a place to arrive, steady, and remember where you are before choosing what comes next.
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.
Self Reclamation: Wild Horses
This is a Self Reclamation journey centered on rescue without reentry. The bonfire acts as a signal, not a descent point, calling exiled parts without forcing them back through memory. The wild horse appears as an untamed aspect of self that already holds strength, speed, and agency, meeting the wounded part without domination or re-traumatization. The reclamation happens through embodiment, choice, and relationship, allowing the past self to come home without losing its wildness or freedom.
Cord Cutting: The Red Thread
This cord cutting works with the red thread as something inherent rather than something to earn or repair. The journey stays in the body, especially the sacral waters, and moves slowly through sensation, consent, and creative energy. Release here is not about severing connection to desire or instinct, but about loosening what has dulled or quieted the wild knowing we’re born with. The Maiden, Mother, and Crone appear as witnesses and companions, helping restore access to erotic vitality, belonging, and continuity without collapsing into shame or obligation.
Cord Cutting: St. Lucia’s Night
This is a ritual-based cord cutting held through light, witness, and intentional action rather than visualization alone. The use of candles, salt, and simple tools grounds the release in the body and the senses, allowing separation to happen slowly, visibly, and with care. This journey leans into ritual as a stabilizing container, where the act of cutting is paired with reverence, timing, and choice, rather than urgency or emotional force.
Writing Prompts: Rewriting Fairytales
In this class we return to the old stories and lay them open on the table. The princesses, the wolves, the bargains, the glass coffins, the girls sent into forests. We notice where fear was planted, where obedience was rewarded, where mothers disappeared, where magic was distorted. Then we begin again. Together we freewrite with intention, following a loose but steady structure that helps us breathe new endings into inherited tales. This class moves something deep in the Inner Territory. It stirs grief, anger, delight, defiance. Bring a fairytale that won’t leave you alone and carve out real time to enter it. When you’re done, share your rewritten myth with us. We are building new storylines on purpose.
Cord Cutting: Resurrection
This cord cutting is not about severing in the traditional sense. It holds a moment of looking back without reentering, acknowledging the underworld without descending into it. The emphasis here is on sovereignty, emergence, and choosing to be born anew without collapsing into what has already been lived. Resurrection is framed as an act of consent and readiness rather than struggle, offering a way to release the past while staying oriented toward what is opening next.
Self Reclamation: Bonfire
This is a self reclamation journey centered on recovering an old soul skin. The garden near the home of the inner territories acts as a place of safety and orientation before moving through the chakras to release what no longer belongs. The Selkie story functions as a living mythline here, not as teaching but as permission, naming what happens when something essential has been taken, hidden, or survived without. Reclamation unfolds through returning to an old memory from a resourced, present self and choosing to bring that version home without force. This journey is about consent, timing, and remembering that what was once stolen can still be reclaimed intact.
Inner Territory Journey: Threshold
This journey stays close to the moment of crossing. It doesn’t rush what comes next or explain what the threshold means. Attention is placed on the in between itself, where something is loosening, opening, or quietly ending. What matters here is noticing where you are standing and what it feels like to pause before moving on.
Cord Cutting: Communion
This cord cutting is relational and discerning rather than decisive. We will travel holy ground, lean deep into our beings, reckon with the connections that have grown stale or that have simply completed their work in us. We'll partake in a type of inner communion that gives us the opportunity to do what feels right: to sever, to readjust, to release, to firm up - there is no right or wrong. So come with your tender heart cords, come with your stories, come with your desires, come with your aches. You are the healer.
