Long-Term Circle
Live, online meetings monthly.
Annual weekend retreat at Pastime Farm.
Established in 2017, this advanced-level circle gathered one Sunday per month at Pastime Farm. Three years later, in response to shelter-in-place, our meetings shifted online. In these past five years, we’ve evolved into a hybrid format: monthly meetings (online) paired with an annual weekend retreat (on land). Our process varies by context. Monthly meetings include brief guided meditation, sacred sharing, extemporaneous teaching, dyad inquiry, and group discussion. The annual weekend retreat is intentionally spacious and relaxed – providing the space and place for reunion. Within the teaching periods, for example, emphasis is placed on seeing what spontaneously emerges within the group.
Jean Shinoda Bolen on Commitment within a Women’s Circle:
“When women come together and make a commitment to each other to be in a circle with a spiritual center, they are creating a vessel of healing and transformation for themselves, and vehicle for change in their world”