Upcoming Groups
It’s cold. February is February-ing. Ancestrally this was the time of year when resources were getting low, when all of nature was feeding on the last remains of the previous year’s harvest. Its a bit of an unknown how we will make it til spring. To make it, our intentions are needed. What do we want to bring forth? How will we make a promise to ourselves this year? This season feels still in the natural world, it is still winter, after all~ but there is the promise of spring’s arrival. We may be feeling antsy, tired of the cold, the long nights~ these are wise symptoms. February brings with it the stirrings beneath the ground: What is gently stirring within you? Come gather to ritualize the seeds you wish to sow in the belly of winter.
Hillsborough, NC: February 14th, 3-5 pm AND February 21st, 3-5 pm
Online- February 15th, 2-4 PM EST
What is calling you inward right now? How is the outside landscape of winter reflecting itself in you? Whether it is a deep winter moment for you~ one which was perhaps brought about through hardship, illness, grief, the state of the world, or your own personal experience of loss. Or you’d like to drop in deeper right now and forego the busy pace of life, you are warmly invited to join me for a small mid-winter group ritual where we will honor your current moment of Wintering, and mark this precious threshold between the old year and the one yet to come. All are welcome!
Hillsborough, NC: January 17th, 3-5 pm
It’s time to emerge, alongside Spring. How are you meeting this moment? Are you ready? Or is the Cave still calling to you? Come be present together in ritual space to the budding moment of Persephone’s return from the underworld. This time may be very welcome, but there is often an air of disquiet~ did I finish what winter asked of me? Am I actually ready for another season of busy outside time? It’s a complicated moment, to be sure. However you are, come share in our space of authenticity and honesty.
March 14th, 3-5 pm Hillsborough, NC
March 21st, 2-4 pm EST, online
Our monthly Ritual Group in May is where we meet our Desires with curiosity and deep inquiry. Beltane is often associated with fertility rites of a frolicking nature, unifying the masculine and feminine archetypes within ourselves, with the pollination of Springtime, and with rejuvenation in this way. To ground all of this, we look at Desire with a capital D~ something beyond a craving which is a way we might like to numb any pain we are feeling~ Desire instead, in this context is looked at through the lens of this important question: “If time, resources and energy were not an issue, what would I Desire?”
How does that question sit with you, as you read it? What arises instantly in your mind, or body? Whatever it is, I encourage you to write it down, because these are clues to your inner world and the way you have been considering what a kind of freedom means, since you were very small.
With this in mind, the question I pose would be: Can I see that what I want, in the physical world, mirrors my inner relationship with Desire?
In other words, we are all Magicians: creating the world we feel to be true, in any given moment. This month we look at the concept of Desire: how it lives in our bodies, what it means to be human, how we negotiate with Fear when it comes to Desire. When we were born we were in complete perfect Unity consciousness with all that is. We were not separate, and we knew this. This is why we would cry out immediately when our needs were not satisfied, the crying or the longing was our way of both signaling our unity with all that is and where we had just come from, as well as our realizing we would now have to reckon with being born a human, into this school of life where duality is the name of the game.
To register, please email Julia at julia.millar@gmail.com
Payment is via Venmo @sacredattentionhealing or Paypal via my email.
April is crisp with Springtime’s joy. Reminding us how too seriously we take ourselves. This is the moment when we explore our relationship with the Divine Child: our inner child, the little one who walks with us, who we once were, who we refer to. We invite them to join us in the circle snd express whats alive for them at this moment. Expect play! The energy of Youth. Perhaps your child was complex, forlorn, longing, shy…rambunctious! Most of all: Precious. They are ALL welcome here. After all, they are so often the one driving the bus of our lives. To be with our own child is to understand the Divinity we hold inside ourselves always. To welcome them is to be in the fullness of both our biographical lives and also our eternal one.
“I asked my inner child: What do you need in order to feel safe?
My inner child replied:
Always be there for me when I need you
Don’t abandon me
Love me as I love you
Think about me, care for me
Prefer me, make me ‘special’
Be my companion, my nurturer
Admire me
Protect me
Be tender towards me
Don’t punish me, hurt me, wound me
Accept me... totally
Help me to grow and mature
Help me to help myself”
~Richard Harvey
April 11th, 2-4 PM EST, Online
April 25th, 3-5 PM, in person, Hillsborough, NC
In this small group setting we will explore the theme of Attachment and Loss in a format that will enable you to dive deeply into your attachments and invite you to release. Through journal exercises, optional prompts for sharing with one another and gentle internal inquiry we will spend two hours in a strongly held, confidential healing container.
A Group offering from Sacred Attention Therapy with support from the Center for Human Awakening.
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Every Wednesday evening, 5-7 pm.
Hillsborough, NC