The Green Heartwood Writing Prompts
Writing prompts culled from the Landscape of the Heart Chakra class and Journey. Deepen your Inner Territory work by writing from the Soul of Poetry, not worrying about being ‘technically’ good. Write from the green Heartwood in your soul.
The Landscape of the Chakras: The Heart Chakra
This class is heart work that asks something of you. This is not a gentle concept of love. This is the wild, regenerative force that lives in the body and insists on risk, repair, and participation in something larger than the self. The heart here is a bridge between the underworld and the world we return to, where everything we uncovered below begins to reshape how we relate, create, and belong. This class moves through grief, memory, love, and rupture, and invites you to stay open anyway. To feel. To risk again. To let love become something that reorganizes your life and your relationship to the collective
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.
Writing Prompts: Final Shed of the Year of the Wood Snake
Final Shed is a ritual writing circle held at the edge of a cycle, where we gather inside serpent medicine to name what is ending and consciously release it. Together we write into the cords that still bind us to dying systems, inherited patterns, and the exiles or shadows that surfaced over the year, allowing grief and truth to move without being rushed toward resolution. This class is both communal descent and deliberate severing, a final skin laid down before momentum returns. From that honest ground, we turn toward the Fire Horse and ask what courage, movement, and embodied power we are ready to claim, calling our strength up from the earth and stepping forward changed.
Inner Territory Journey: Inner Light For The Long Dark
This journey is about tending the inner hearth as we enter the long dark. We remember the seasonal myths that helped our ancestors survive silence, cold, and uncertainty, and we gather what needs to be close before winter deepens. The work steadies the nervous system and strengthens inner companionship, offering warmth without forcing optimism.
Rooted In Power: Menstrual Health & Herbal Wisdom For Sovereign Cycles With Natalie Stoemmer
This class brings us into direct relationship with the menstrual cycle as a source of intelligence and authority. We slow down enough to learn how the body actually functions and what it has been communicating all along. Plant allies are introduced as steady supports, offering care, resilience, and regulation through cyclical living. This is a space where trust in the body begins to rebuild and power grows through listening, consistency, and informed choice.
Self Reclamation: Samhain
We're going to be riding the gates of Samhain, thinning the veils of our own decomposing stories and laying out a plate for our nearly dead parts. We're going to be making sacred ground from the dark loam of our lives, at this time of the year when stories soften and identities loosen. The turning here is quiet and preparatory, shaped by what is laid down and what is allowed to rest as the year shifts toward winter.
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.
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.
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: 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.
History of Gaia's & Luna's Cycles With Natalie Stoemmer
This class brings us into direct relationship with the menstrual cycle as a source of intelligence and authority. We slow down enough to learn how the body actually functions and what it has been communicating all along. Plant allies are introduced as steady supports, offering care, resilience, and regulation through cyclical living. This is a space where trust in the body begins to rebuild and power grows through listening, consistency, and informed choice.
Sacred Shadow + Tarot with Katie Birch
Learn how to use Tarot to begin excavating your psyche and shadow through this well-studied practice. Using somatic experience and self-attunement, we will read the cues our bodies give us in a way that leaves us feeling empowered and highlights the truth we need to hear over and over again: everything you need is inside you now. You have the medicine you need- Tarot can help illuminate where it's living inside. Bring your journal, a Tarot deck and Katie will be your midwife and guardian of process as we enter the shadow through Tarot.
Persephone
This class moves with Persephone as an initiation story that unfolds over time. We stay with descent as a lived process: the slow shedding of identities, the disorientation, the ache of longing, and the quiet work of integration that happens in the dark. Persephone opens a way to understand how loss, love, decay, and rebirth weave together, not as a single moment but as a cycle that repeats across a life. The class holds descent alongside companionship, grief alongside witness, and emergence alongside memory, reminding us that transformation happens in relationship and never in isolation.