Let go of being "good", shed the shoulds and step into your spiritual sovereignty.
Join us as we gather around mythic and archetypal wisdom
to explore obedience, creative transgression, and sovereignty.
Most of us are handed a map for our lives.
Parts of the map might be beautiful, and other parts shadowy. But the maps name us and as long as we stay within its confines and walk its well-worn roads, we are carried along by the communal sense of favor - a favor that obedience to the "shoulds" often brings.
There is a comfort in this.
There is a certain kind of ease in an unquestioned life ~ a life that follows the Directions.
However, many of us discover at some point along the way that sometimes that map is taking us further from our own lives, rather than toward them.
Through the siren song of longing and the murky disruptions of discontent, we may begin to feel the wild beyond the well-worn paths luring us to step across the pre- approved boundaries.
We are called out of old obedience and into wild sovereignty.
I want to tell you a little about my own story around spiritual harm, questions, loss, myth, & spiritual sovereignty and about one of my most important teachers on this journey ~ the mythic Eve...
I know what it is like to be "good" ~ to live according to all the shoulds that are constantly handed to us. Like many of you, I know what it is like to try so hard to do what we are supposed to do and be what we are supposed to be, until one day, we just can’t do it anymore… AND we don’t know any other way to live.
In my early twenties I lost my way of living a meaningful, symbolic, and spiritual life, and along with it I lost my direction, orientation, and vision for my life. I lost favor and belonging in my community. This began years of walking through a deep dark night and sometimes I thought there was nothing left for me.
One of the most powerful lies of any fundamentalist paradigm that tells you there is only one way to live is the lie that if you walk out of that way of living you will have nothing. Even though part of me believed that, I also knew I had to listen to what was unleashed in my own deep knowing. And, yes, it was very hard.
And also, I can tell you now: that story is a lie. It is meant to keep you small and compliant. I can tell you that beyond the boundaries of the approved but too-small life is a deeper, more expansive, and more true life waiting for you.
"Vanya has such a gift for cultivating spaces that foster self-reflection, discovery, and transformation in community with other women. I'm so grateful for Vanya's wisdom and the opportunity to learn from her and be witnessed and supported in my own journey from good girl to knowing woman." -Melissa
This course might be for you if you:
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Want to learn about the archetypal mythic Eve as a powerful teacher on our paths toward sovereignty, instead of a symbol of our depravity and guilt
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Don’t want to live by the “shoulds,” but don’t know how to break those patterns and don’t know how else to be
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Have been taught that you are bad and cannot trust your body, heart, intuition, imagination, and knowing and yet feel a deep and relentless pull toward living a life that is shaped by your own wild nature, by you own wild knowing
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Are struggling with feeling like your life is good but not satisfying, like you spend too much energy doing the things you are supposed to but not findings the meaning in it that you used to find or had hoped to find
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Want a safe community to explore these experiences with
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Long for a truer way of being in your life but don’t know how
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Want to move past the stories of your "badness" and want cultivate trust in your own knowing
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Want to move beyond too-small identities, roles, ways of being but it's overwhelming and scary
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Long for a more creative, handmade life
"I'd had many friends participate in Vanya's programs, and when it came time to shape my own degree, I knew I wanted to learn from her. Vanya created a customized course for me that had the academic vigor required for my doctoral program as well as the soul required for deep and meaningful integration. I loved every moment of exploration and conversation with Vanya and I look forward to learning from her again soon!"
Lacy Clark Ellman
This course will help you:
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Recognize and name your experiences of being a “good" ~ places where you remain obedient to imperatives and stories you no longer want to or can serve
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Trust yourself as the primary authority of your own life, so that you can stop looking to external places for permission and be empowered to make decisions rooted in your own knowing, desires, and vision.
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Remember yourself as your own spiritual authority, so that you can find courage to walk out of what no longer satisfies and to live out your spirituality in ways that make sense for you
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Understand what creative transgression is and its role in cultivating sovereignty
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Recognize those constricted places and learn ways of breaking away from the “shoulds” in your life
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Cultivate inner permission and blessing
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Recognize the many ways we have been exiled from our true belonging, so you can remember that you are not alone and find meaningful conversation and community
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Cultivate the practice of welcoming all parts of your experience, so you can stop judging yourself and live a freer and more expansive life
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Listen deeply to your own knowing
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Find your own permission and blessing to live from your wild knowing
This course includes:
12 Monthly Sovereignty Sessions
During these monthly live gatherings, we will turn to mythic and archetypal wisdom to explore themes of obedience, creative transgression (ie.e, disobedience), and spiritual sovereignty. Looking to mythic figures like Eve, Psyche, and Ariadne and to the new sciences, we will enter into the archetypal pattern of creative transgression toward sovereignty. In other words, the reality that disobedience is sometimes a profound necessity in our becoming, liberation, and sovereignty. Along the way we will dive deep into questions of permission, blessing, and sacrifice. We will also explore the habits of belonging and competencies of sovereignty. Together we will ask what it means for each of us to stand at the center of our own circle and live a life that grows out of our being and our own knowing.
Mini-Dream Tending Course
Getting to know the dreams that visit us while we sleep is a powerful way of returning to the deep wisdom and guidance of the mythic imagination. As part of this course, you will receive a pre-recorded dream tending course to help you befriend these wild friends that offer us so much wild wisdom
Weekly Coffee Time Q & A
Once a week you will have the option of joining the community for a relaxed conversational space where we can explore questions and related experiences that have been coming up during the month. This will give us an opportunity to stay connected and continue to deepen into the work together between sessions
You will also receive access to the
Belonging to the Wild Community
an ongoing community that includes:
Weekly Monday Morning Circle
We begin each week with a pause. As we prepare to step into the current of culture we take a few moments to listen and attune to our deeper wilder lives. We do a grounding meditation, reflect around a poem, theme, or story and then leave with a question for the week.
Monthly Dream Circle
Once a month we gather to share and explore our dreams together. As we do this we build community, strengthen our ability to befriend the dreams and learn their wisdom, and also cultivate our mythic sensibilities together so that we can be more connected to the myth and magic in everyday life.
Private Online Space for the Community
This is a private space dedicated to the community of like hearted folks. There you can connect with others on this path and share your experiences as well.
When
Monthly Sovereignty Gatherings:
Sundays at 11 am pacific
Weekly Coffee Time Q & A:
Thursdays at 8 am pacific
Weekly Community Meditation:
Mondays at 10 am pacific
Monthly Community Dream Circle
Mondays at 9 am pacific
Where
Our gatherings are all virtual.
They are always live and only the dream course is pre-recorded.
Tuition
In order to increase access to folks, there are three tuitions tiers:
Tier One: $95/mo
Tier Two: $135/mo
Tier Three: $175
Please choose the tier that works for you with kindness and generosity.
Want to join us?
The next cohort starts in September!
If you are interested, please join the waitlist and you will be the first to know when enrollment doors open.