Emotional Release Cacao Circle
Gather with us in sacred sisterhood for a special full day women’s emotional release cacao circle where we have time and space within a safe and held container, to process deep emotions and move what may be stuck and blocked within us.
Date: Saturday, May 4th
Time: 10am – 5pm (temple doors open at 9:45am)
Location: Beautiful, spacious private residence in North Austin
We have 12 spaces available for this intimate and powerful circle, at an early bird rate of $95
Ceremonial Cacao, Sharing Circles, Dance, Drumming, Grief Ritual, Sound Bath, Healing Chants
Our ceremonial-grade cacao, Ruk’u’x Ulew (meaning “Heart of the Earth”) is sourced from a 100% Mayan-owned women’s collective in Guatemala, and will be served in generous quantities during our circle time together. Cacao has been known as “Food of the Gods” for thousands of years. Cacao works on the physical, emotional and spiritual level, having the power to open your heart and mind and to ground your body.
Circle Preparation:
- Wear comfortable clothes to sit and dance in (we’ll be sitting on floor cushions);
- Bring your own lunch, water bottle, and journal.
Optional Extras:
- Bring a drum, rattle or sacred noise-maker if you have one;
- Bring items to place on our altar.
Our Emotional Release Cacao Circle with be co-faciltated by Brenda Ryan and Katie Limberakis.
Brenda is a Moon Mná Celtic women’s circle facilitator, a shamanic reiki master, and a Journey of Young Women mentor. She works with her own indigenous Irish tradition, guided by her Tuath Dé Danann (pronounced Too-ah Day Dan-ann) preCeltic mythic ancestors, and has been holding safe and sacred space for women since 2021, facilitating online and in-person circles. Visit her Women’s Circles webpage for more details: https://www.brendaryan.com/womens-circles/
Katie is a certified kundalini yoga teacher, practicing since 2020, and a cacao ceremonialist in the Maya tradition, passed down to her from Maya Timekeeper, Jose Ajpu Munoz. She’s passionate about sound healing, employing crystal bowls and drumming for her own personal transformation. For the last 11 years of her sobriety, Katie has found yoga, dance, sound, and plant medicine to be powerful allies in her healing journey.
10% of event regsitration fees will be donated to Hometree, a native tree-planting charity in Co. Clare, dedicated to restoring our Irish temperate rainforests.
Bealtaine (Beltane) Priestess Circles:
A Flowery Fae Gathering
Bealtaine (pronounced Be-owl-tin-eh), at the start of May, translated from Irish as the “Mouth of Fire”, marks the start of the Summer season. Similar to its opposite festival, Samhain, the veil between this world and the other are thin, making it an auspicious time to connect with our own magic and commune with the faerie realm. Traditionally Bealtaine is a time of great merriment, with celebration centred on themes of enchantment, fertility and sacred sexuality. In circle, we’ll be connecting with the faerie realm through ritual and dance, embodying our joy and sensuality as we enter the full blossoming of this fiery Summer season.
Bealtaine Circle in Austin
Date: Wednesday, April 24th
Time: 6:45pm – 10pm Austin time (doors close at 7pm)
Location: TreeGarden, 638 Tillery St., Austin TX 78702
We have 9 spaces available for this circle, with an energy exchange of $30
This month, our Priestesses of the Spiral Path Women’s Circle join magical forces with Clare of the Solstice‘s Temple of the Goddess Moon Circle. Together we will celebrate both the Irish Celtic festival of Bealtaine and the Aztec festival of Hueypachtli honoring Xochiquetzal, fertility goddess of love, beauty, and flowers. Like Bealtaine, Hueypachtli ushers in the changing of the seasons from Spring to Summer with much merriment and music! In circle, we will embody these seasonal themes of magic, enchantment, beauty, and sensuality in ritual, dance, and sacred sharings, while we sip ceremonial hawthorn tea in honor of the flowery fae.
Items to bring: A cushion to sit on; Journal and pen; Water bottle. Optional Extras: Fairy wings and costume; Special items to place on our altar; Drum, rattle or sacred noise-maker; Treats to share.
Bealtaine Online Circle
Date: Thursday, May 2nd
Time: 7pm – 10pm Irish time (GMT)
Location: Virtual Event via Zoom
We have 9 spaces available for this circle, with an energy exchange of $15
Circle Preparation: Your computer with Zoom already downloaded; Quiet, comfortable and private space in your home to participate in our circle; Space to move and dance; Journal and pen. Optional Extras: Drum, rattle or sacred noise-maker if you have one; Hawthorn tea; Fairy wings; Oracle cards.
Our women’s circles are sacred spaces for women to gather in sisterhood and just be themselves. They offer us a safe and caring place to share our hearts, speak our truth and be supported by each other with love.
Brenda Ryan
Visit my Women’s Circles webpage for more details