UPCOMING EVENTS
HARNESSING YOUR POWER
How to navigate change, re-member who you are, and retrieve your power as a woman in midlife.
3rd December 2024 at 7 to 9 pm UK - online
Why this offering?
Ah, midlife! What is the first word association that comes to mind when you hear that word? Crisis - and there is a reason for that.
Midlife is like the second act, when it dawns on you that this ain’t no dress rehearsal. By now you’ve been through enough not to get too swayed by other people’s opinions, have cultivated a fair amount of resilience, can stand up for yourself, and are evaluating where you are in life.
As we step into this threshold and turning point of life, we question our existence, purpose, and life overall. Interestingly, some of the main questions that arise are entwined with the regrets of the dying because, yes, mortality is getting more real at this stage.
Can you relate to these being true for you already?
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
In midlife, we enter deeply into cycles of death and rebirth (aka personal transformation), where we come face to face with who we are right now, and get glimpses of who we want to become. It’s a tall order! But we are fortunate to be living in a time where the Divine Feminine is rising, and for those of us who feel, sense, hear and see this happening, it’s a perfect time to explore this relationship in order to reclaim the parts of us that have been taken, denied, or gone missing over the years. This is one of the vital keys of empowerment - re-membering ourselves and reclaiming our power.
Who is Harnessing your power for?
This workshop is for women in midlife who are tired of the narratives and conditions holding them back, and want some fuel to help create something new in everyday life. Some examples of what we’ve been saddled with are:
the “Good Girl” (repression & suppression of power)
living in survival mode (hypervigilance leading to depletion)
wing clipping (living as a watered down version of yourself, not having a voice, not taking too much space)
scarcity mindset (not feeling supported and living fear)
caregiver fatigue (feeling drained)
shame and blame (persecution & witch wound).
…Sound familiar?
These themes have led us to not live the highest expression of who we truly are. When they can be recognised, healed, and transcended they unlock a large amount of vitality, creativity and power.
If you connect with any of these themes and feel like you’ve been working on them for what feels like forever, this workshop offers you the catalytic energy to transform.
What is Harnessing your power?
This two hour workshop is an introduction to empowerment in midlife through shamanic practices and wisdom.
What to expect
Teachings about how to navigate midlife from a shamanic perspective
- concept and understanding of power loss & retrieval
- midlife as a rite of passage
- the importance of cultivating your relationship to Spirit (nature spirits / directions, elements, plants, …)
- why women have a natural inclination for shamanism
Shamanic journey
Sharing circle
Community of like hearted souls who has been on a similar journey to yours
Safe, boundaried container to express & explore
What you need on the day
quiet space
time and space for yourself afterwards
comfortable setting and clothing (blanket, etc)
a candle
power object
offering for spirit
Your hosts
Laura Prins
Originally from Ohio, I'm an American expat who has lived in the UK for 17 years, and am now based in Berlin. I'm trained as a transpersonal psychotherapist (Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education in London, Northampton University), systemic constellations facilitator (Centre for Systemic Constellations, London), energy worker, and shamanic healer (Second SIght, Sussex UK), and have worked almost exclusively with trauma for 15+ years, both in 1 to 1 work and in groups.
I'm doing this work because it lives in my heart, soul, blood, and bones. The women in my ancestral family lines didn't have a voice, and struggled to love and be loved in ways which didn't disempower and diminish their light. In my teens and 20's I found myself treading similar pathways, living with depression, ‘mystery’ illnesses, chaos, and addiction. It was through breakdowns, grace, and good therapy that my path began to change.
It's my calling in this life to empower not only myself, but support others in empowering, healing, and deepening their relationship to life - with all the wonder, mystery, and unexpectedness that this entails. These energies and forces are here, ever increasing, highly supportive, and ready to party with us. It's time.
Catherine Björksten
My greatest passion is facilitating spaces of transformation for people to step into a higher, more authentic and fulfilling version of themselves. I want you to experience the truth of who you are and be supported on that journey. The heroine’s journey is one of courage, depth and willingness. Many of us are feeling the call to step up in the current climate.
My past life was in marketing and advertising. becoming a mother and a burnout called me to the more holistic and spiritual side of life. For the past 10 years, I have worked with people 1:1 offering soul plan readings, shadow integration and spiritual awakening mentoring, led retreats, held workshops, talks and women’s circles. And I am the author of “You are loved: essential spirit guides and guardians”. In that time frame, I have also had the privilege to learn directly from indigenous elders from various lineages and dive deeply into their cosmologies and ways. I have also completed a three-year shamanic training, which included deep personal healing, initiations, and healing techniques.
And last but not least, I apprenticed with great teachers in womb awakening and mentored with Jane Hardwick Collings. We are here to remember the power and gift that is to be a connected woman. Connected to yourself, nature, community, and Spirit.
When & Where
3rd December 2024 at 7 to 9 pm UK - online
Exchange
£60
PAST EVENTS
🕊️ MOTHERS FOR PEACE 🕊️
Prayer & Meditation on Tuesday 19th December - 7 pm UK (online)
Mothers play an extremely important role in current times and what is asked of us as the Human collective.
Mothers are the givers and carriers of life who will nourish and protect it at all cost. Have you ever seen a mother (human or animal) whose child is being threatened? There is no force of nature greater than a mother protecting the life she has given.
We, as Mothers carry by default the codes of peace because we would never send our children to war- not ours, not anyone else’s. Any child, is a child of the Mother.
I am speaking to and on behalf of Mothers because I am Mother and know the power we carry. So I am calling all Mothers to gather in prayer on Tuesday 19th December at 7 pm UK. Prayers are very powerful as they ripple out into the collective consciousness, and Goddess do we need to charge up the Collective with faith, reverence, courage and most importantly, love.
In this prayer, we will tap into the power of the love we feel for our children and weave it into the Collective fabric to dilute the darkness we are witnessing.
Mothers, you are needed. You have the ability to embody unconditional love and to turn a spirit into human form. Turning the spirit of your prayers into reality has the same potency. Let’s birth peace on Earth.
No experience needed for this gathering of prayer, just bring your motherly hearts, and we will pray together for Peace 🕊️
Please share with the mothers and grandmothers you know so they can join us in prayer.
WOMEN’S CIRCLES
Women have gathered in circles since time immemorial but the modern western world made us forget their existence, and instead, we have isolated , competed against each other and lost trust in each other. Every day, women are now awakening to and remembering their inherent talents and values that our world is in desperate need of: unconditional and fierce love, protection and gift of life, connection to spirit and the Earth, intuition led living, creativity, nurture, and so much more. Women are now called to step up and stand on the front stage of where humanity needs to be going. In order to do that, we need support, witnessing, compassion, understanding and holding…from other women. We are here to do it together.
My wish is to offer a safe space for us, women, to gather, share, connect and support each other as we remember who we are. We have chosen a female incarnation in these incredible times of rapid and undeniable transformation, and we have volunteered to be a part of the collective expression of the Feminine, so let’s represent Her to the best of our ability!
We all benefit from a community that helps us stay committed, can relate to us, holds and encourages us, and, above all, reflects back to us our beauty and bravery.
The intention behind the Women’s Circles is to bring women back together in an ancient and sacred way that we all know deep in our bones. Circles ignite a deep re-membering of an aspect of who we truly are in the genuine and caring reflection and witnessing of others.
If you feel the call to sit in a space where you can leave your masks at the door, open your heart, receive and be held in reciprocity, you are welcome.
WORKSHOPS
BRINGING BACK THE SACRED INTO YOUR DAILY LIFE
How often to do you live intentionally vs by default? In out fast paced lives, we do not often have the time to prepare ourselves for the busy times ahead, whether it is in our family or work life. We mainly roll from one week into another.
This is time for you to go within, set your intention, release what is no longer needed, and connect with community and the sacred.
We will build a beautiful altar together with the offerings we bring, sharing our intentions and infusing them with prayers. Being witnessed helps us to supercharge our intentions with energy. It can give us the little oomph we need to make them happen. You might even find that some other participants have similar goals and who knows where that will take you together?!
This is a space to create a life that is more intentional and supported.
CREATIVITY AS BRIDGE TO CONNECT TO SPIRIT
Sunday 12th November 2023, 10 am - 3 pm, NW London
Where do creative and artist draw their inspiration from? The same source as you intuition, your gut feeling and bone deep knowing. That creative channel is our inherent deep knowing sourced from our connection to spirit, source, the great mystery, how ever you want to call it. We all have an inner knowing which is our capacity to birth the intangible into the manifest world.
The Feminine is the giver of life. The birther. This is the energy that we will be tapping into in this workshop. We will be experiencing what birthing through creativity feels like and how we birth our visions into life from a child to business via a piece of art, and whatever else you long to create and share with the world.
We will explore creativity as a bridge for our connection to Spirit - how to trust and reinforce it.
We will also be materialising our vision with making small amulets / altar objects to support our creative ideas. The visioning will be done with the support of a shamanic drumming journey held by your guides - Sasha and Catherine.
We will also look into some potential block that you might encounter in your creativity and how to overcome them.
Our workshop will be supported by the element of Water. Mother water is one of the great expressions of the Ancient Feminine. She is necessary to all life creation. No water, no life. Our womb space is the centre of creation also when look in to the chakra system. Our power as women is the power of birthing the unseen into the seen.
What is your heart longing to birth?
This workshop has been created for you to remember what a powerful creator being you and you can hone your feminine energy and its power of creation.
Your guides will be Sasha and Catherine met on a three year shamanic training which they have now completed. They both have a deep connection to the Ancient Feminine, Earth, animistic consciousness and shamanic practices which they both like to make practical so you can use them in your daily lives. They are both mothers to two children and are thus grounded, compassionate, and have had to learn how to exist in the spiritual and the earthly realm. No fluff. No woo. Just embodied and practical spirituality to bring into your daily lives so you can tap into your power of creation though creativity and your connection to spirit.
2022
* Dark Goddess retreat: Reclaim your power & embody your gifts, 10-13th November 2022, Glastonbury UK
2021
* 30th September - 3rd October 2021, Glastonbury Retreat, Aligning with your Higher Self’s true Path & Gifts
2019
* 22-24th November, Glastonbury Retreat, Dreaming 2020 into Being
* 4th October - Aligning with your Soul Purpose evening talk at LifeSpace (London W11)
* 13th August - Webinar - Awakening the Starseed Magician (2)
* 23rd July, London evening talk + gathering, Soul Tribe
* 16th July - Webinar - Awakening the Starseed Magician
* 16th May, London evening talk on Awakening the Magician
* 19th-21st April, Glastonbury Retreat, “Earth Magic. Multidimensional Spirit.”
* 1st April, London evening talk on The Sacred Fool Archetype on the Journey of Awakening
* 12th February, London evening talk on Stepping into your Soul Mission beyond Resistance
2018
* 20th November, London evening talk on Dream your Magical and Miraculous Year 2019 into Being
* 18th September, London evening talk on Embracing your Soul Tribe: Twin Flames, Soulmates and all Soul Connections
* 29th June-1st July, Glastonbury Retreat, The Return to Eden: the re-union of the Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine
* 26th June, London Evening Talk on Aligning with your Soul Purpose with Catherine Bjorksten and Steve Nobel
* 10th May, London Evening Talk- Abundance, stepping in to a higher octave of living with Steve Nobel & Catherine Bjorksten
* 8th March, London Evening Talk- The Magical Union of the Divine Feminine & Sacred Masculine with Steve Nobel & Catherine Bjorksten
* 1st February, London Evening Talk- Psychic Clearing & Protection for Starseeds with Steve Nobel & Catherine Bjorksten
2017