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: 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.
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.
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.
Descent, Initiation, and Transformation
This year, we are centering on the Inner Territory work of manifestation. On unblocking inner rivers of memory and story, of sitting honestly with subconscious beliefs and habitual responses. On identifying where our monsters prowl and leading them to green pastures where they can soften, unarmour, and allow younger parts of Self to repair, to exhale, to expand.
Inner Territory Journey: Mother's Night
This Journey takes place in the deepest dark of the year, when nothing is meant to be rushed and no light is demanded. We gather with the ancestral mothers and the long memory of winter, trusting gestation over action. This is a night for waiting with eyes open, for honoring what is quietly forming beneath the surface, and for remembering that return is already underway.
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.