we begin Sunday 28th November 2021
THE DISSOLVING is a gently grounding container of six calls on the new & full moons of November, December & January. To provide you an anchor of connection, a lighthouse of guidance & a wellspring of emotional resource through the darkest months of the year.
We may fear the darker months. Both for the lack of sunlight and because we have not been taught how to dissolve into the darkness. Yet this is the hidden treasure of winter, and a core teaching in the feminine mysteries & Goddess myths. How to surrender, let go, and dissolve. Trusting you will be reborn more Whole, more aligned, more authentic, more vibrant.
Our bodies crave winter. To fall into rhythm with the sun, to burrow down into the roots, to cocoon into a rest nest to replenish our bones. Can you feel the magnetism that draws you down to the earth, the Calleach’s call to slowness, stillness, the darkness of a winter’s sleep & dream?
Together in THE DISSOLVING we will journey for the 3 moons of winter – through the portal of the eclipse – completing our journey on the January blue moon & Celtic rebirth sabbat of Imbolc. Weaving ourselves into the spiral dance of the Celtic Wheel and the living myth of the Goddess.
what is your relationship with the dark?
Could you call Her your friend? Have you ever been taught the necessary beauty & tools of decay, death & rebirth? Within winter and the realm of the dark Goddess is contained the secrets of life.
There is an ancient knowing that our ancestors held, tugging at our attention, urgently asking us to remember: the importance of winter and the sacredness of death. All life depends on it.
We meet the dark whenever we close our eyes to sleep & dream. To meditate. To sink into deeper peace or pleasure. To imagine & create our futures. We close our eyes and open to the darkness to meet all that lies below & within.
All new life begins in the dark. All creations begin in the imagination. All dreams that become manifest begin as dreams… and winter is the collective dreamtime.
It is a journey nature takes every year. No other Being resists it. The journey of the Goddess to the Underworld and back. It has been long forgotten, in a society obsessed with creation, consumerism, endless summer, the beauty of youth alone — forgetting the necessary wisdom of the Crone, the radiance of the Calleach.
And we wonder why we wander lost and alone.
We may fear the dark, the descent, the dissolving. Because we have not met Her as ally, have not been taught the spiral dance.
Perhaps what you always needed, was for someone to be a light in the dark… and show you the way?
The Feminine Mysteries begin and end in the dark.
In the ancient Celtic lineage, the new year begins on Samhain, as the winter portal opens & the Calleach returns.
In the Celtic ways, and many other indigenous earth-based cultures, time is not linear. There is no ‘beginning’ and ‘end’. Death is not a finishing. Time is a spiral.
Because the ancient wisdom is this: all life begins in the darkness of the womb. It is only we, in our modern disconnection from Earth-mother, who have forgotten.
To open to this wisdom and embody it is to befriend the dark, to re-member ourselves back to Wholeness. To embrace the Feminine Mysteries & old ways of myth, mystic and Goddess.
The Feminine Energetics are that of trust, surrender & Being.
More of the world is now remembering the Feminine energy that was burned with the Goddess temples & witches, as our bodies began to burn out.
You may have journeyed with the Feminine in some way: letting go of the 9 - 5, sinking into the slowness of yin yoga, working with your womb cycle.
Releasing the hustle of capitalism, the endless hunger of consumerism, and embodying the Feminine in her energetics of surrender, trust and Being.
But you may not have met Her like this.
This is the dark chamber of Feminine Mysteries that is still so missing from our world. That of befriending the decay & dissolving into winter. And of embracing wise woman and crone.
For it means the deepest trust we may ever know: that if we choose to let it all go, completely surrender to Her in the deepest emptying out… that we will come back. That there is life on the other side of such an absolute dissolving.
To say “yes Ma, take me too” and trust that in the composting of what we were, from that fertile dark we grow into who we were always meant to be.
Our modern world is one of endless-Doing without deep rest.
Our artificial lighting & capitalist culture of “the more you Do, the more worthy you are” encourages us to bypass the natural cycle of seasons & winter’s darkness. We work and live as if we were in an eternal summer. But too much sun and the earth turns to desert. Too much farming and the soil turns to dust. Too much Doing without Being, and our bodies burn out.
This is the shadow of sacred rest and it is destroying our bodies & our planet.
Signs that you may need the deep rest of dissolving…
➜ Procrastination on the daily. Social media scrolling. Unable to focus on any task for too long. Time spent ‘slumping’ rather than Doing with joy and focus.
➜ You feel stuck or stagnant in some aspect of your life (for nothing new can birth until we let go of what is gone).
➜ Unable to get up in the mornings. A morning malaise or mental depression.
➜ Wired but tired. Feeling like you deeply need rest but unable to switch off or slow down.
➜ Adrenal symptoms that include: night sweats, tinnitus, feeling dizzy, bags under the eyes, feeling tired between 5 – 7pm then alert again around 11pm. Craving salty food. Relying on caffeine & sugar to get and keep you going.
➜ Either unable to stop Doing, but in a way that is uncomfortable. A whirring mind, feeling ‘sped up’….
➜… or completely unable to Do, in a state of deep exhaustion and depletion. Brain fog. Body aches and fatigue. Lack of creativity and inspiration. Low or no libido. No matter how much your sleep or eat, feeling exhausted.
➜ Free time makes you anxious. You get FOMO or fear being alone with no plans.
➜ Feeling lazy, unproductive or completely unworthy if you do rest without any purpose.
➜ A resistance or fear of winter, or perhaps even S.A.D. (seasonal affectory disorder).
➜ Disconnected from your menstrual cycle & womb or menstrual health issues and treating every day of your month as the same, without resting and honouring the slowing down of your bleed time.
➜ Your body always sick in some small or big way, fighting off a cold, stomach upsets, trouble sleeping, digestive issues, hormonal imbalance, autoimmune issues, unexplainable sickness that Western medicine has no answer or cure for.]
➜ Stuck in grief, unable to move into the sweetness and grace of love and loss.
➜ A fear of aging in your body. A clinging to the maiden.
➜ The idea of dissolving, of letting go into the darkness of winter and the embrace of the earth mother brings up resistance or fear.
Tend to your grief
A shamanic grief ritual will hold your aching heart, so you may honour that which you have loved with full presence. Winter is when we most deeply feel what is in here as we close our eyes to the world out there.
Learn from the Earth & Ancestors
Weave yourself into the spiral dance that our Celtic ancestors knew. Fall back into rhythm with the earth. Embody the wisdom you so deeply yearn to remember.
Journey with Goddess
Allow the Goddess myth to be revealed and unfolded within your own Being. We will trace Inanna’s descent into the Underworld, with story telling & embodied practices, returning more Whole & holy.
Learn to see in the dark
Discover the true gifts of winter, and specific practices that are most potent in the darkest months: bone breathing, dreamtime journeying, conceiving of your fullest life.
Reveal the Womb Mysteries
By journeying through winter, discover how your body contains the codes & keys to this cycle every month — and how it is your super power as a woman, to die & be reborn each lunar month.
Begin the Deep Dreaming
Everything that exists began as a dream. The deeper we dream, the more we can birth through into our worlds. If we don’t stop to dream, we remain on the treadmill of repetition. And so there is the most potent medicine of winter: to dream, to call forth our new lives.
THE DISSOLVING is a container that will gently hold you through the darkest three moons of the year. It will provide a steady rhythm of calls that will soothe your system & give you external holding so that you don’t have to do it yourself. It will provide an anchor of regular connection, community, and guidance so you don’t feel untethered or alone in the journey.
You will not need to learn anything. This is not a course with homework. It is a permission slip to rest. And yet you may absorb and re-member so much through the story telling and embodied journey. It may even help you fall in love with winter, as you hear Goddess myth and Celtic tales of the beauty of winter.
It is a sequence of six calls over nine weeks held on each new and full moon (recorded and available for replay), recorded audio meditations, journal prompts and playlists. Infused with wisdom from somatic embodiment, Traditional Chinese Medicine & adrenal support, womb & hormone balancing, tantric embodiment, Celtic shamanism, Goddess myth & devotion, Jenny Rose will guide…
somatic practices to unwind tension in the body & regulate your nervous system very gently and deeply
a grief ritual to honour the natural deaths in our lives that is never given sacred space to be felt and expressed
movement and stillness practices
shamanic journeying and nidra for powerful dreamtime medicine & spirit guidance
Goddess myth & story telling as medicine and a light in the dark
a safe, sacred space to feel it all, let go and come home to yourself
on this 3 moons journey, you will receive…
✔ the permission slip that it is your turn to rest. You no longer have to hold others, and don’t have to do it all yourself. You cannot be both midwife and the mother who births. you cannot be both the doula and that which dissolves.
✔ the ability to journey through winter more emotionally resourced, feeling held, safe, soothed by the LIVE calls & the group container.
✔ deep somatic nervous system soothing & regulation, so you can discharge any held stress, freeze or fear in your body, and journey through winter as well as possible during a very strange moment in human history.
✔ the guidance on how to dissolve with grace. with tools and a hidden map that will show you how to see in the dark, and make sense of the labyrinth of your inner realms, so you can truly rebirth anew.
✔ physical ways to replenish your adrenal energy, drawing on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Scottish herbal medicine
✔ practices to help you fall in love with the dark
✔ the wisdom of nature and the Celtic Wheel of the Year & Celtic culture.
✔ the wisdom of the Feminine Mysteries & Crone & Calleach as an antidote to a culture obsessed with maiden leaving no space for other.
✔ storytelling, myth & transmissions of the Goddess Inanana’s descent to the underworld
✔ deeper Feminine Mystery activations for mystic & psychic abilities within your body and Being, through meditations and safely held Void-space to activate your right brain & Goddess gifts
✔ wisdom & practices to deepen your womb work & menstrual cycle awareness, working more intimately with the ‘winter’ aspect of your cycle
✔ a container to softly dissolve all the old Self away into the winter’s earth, melting away layers of codependency, and people-pleasing masks or identities you have put on to ‘survive’.
Only once we are willing to completely dissolve, to let it all go, can we claim and receive all that is truly meant for us. One of winter’s most powerful gifts is the dissolving. For we compost and mulch anything that is not Who We Really Are.
The masks, the people-pleasing, the learned habits and behaviours that we adopted and adapted to ‘fit in’, and be liked. The codependency. The persona of false belonging that is in fact slowly killing us…
…that is what will dissolve. You see, my love, Who You Really Are can never be destroyed. The Dark Goddess will only take back to the earth that which has given all the love it can, and that which is rotting already.
Will you trust Her? Can you truly surrender, knowing that you will be reborn? For Spring always follows Winter. THE DISSOLVING is not only to support you in deep rest, but to guide you through the portal of dreamtime.
THE DISSOLVING is a journey of your Becoming. It is realising that in choosing to dissolve you can truly be reborn.
Our journey begins at the eclipse portal on the cusp of the descent, journeys through the three moons of winter, and ends at the Celtic sabbat of Imbolc — the next portal, of rebirth.
THE DISSOLVING is an accessible 10 week container, with three payment options for everyone.
THE DISSOLVING is a nine week container with six live 3-hour calls, recorded audio meditations, journal prompts, playlists & a Facebook group for peer support & connection.
The calls will be held on or very close to the new and full moons.
The LIVE calls will be a space to crawl out of bed into, with a cup of herbal tea. To lay back and receive the story telling, weaving of myth with somatic practices, gentle sharing circles, and space for all of you to Be exactly as you are.
The Call Schedule
☾ 1: Sun 28 Nov
☾ 2: Sat 4 Dec
☾ 3: Sat 18 Dec
☾ 4: Mon 3 Jan
☾ 5: Sun 16 Jan
☾ 6: Sun 30 Jan
all calls are 0800 - 1100am GMT (UK & Iceland time).
calls will be recorded and replays made available for a month.
If you feel any resistance to an early morning call, that is welcome. And the call times are chosen specifically so we can befriend the darkness of early winter morning’s. It is best for our bodies that we are not on the screen at night before bed. And if we can familiarise our bodies with the darkness before dawn, waking with the sun, it will help regulate our circadian rhythms and our moods.
I’m Jenny Rose, a trauma-resoultion somatic coach, Feminine Mysteries teacher, womb worker, doula, and devotee to the Goddess. I created THE DISSOLVING because it is the journey I have embodied deeply.
In my late 20s I had both an eating disorder, full-blown adrenal burnout and an addiction to Doing. No Western doctor could tell me ‘what was wrong with me’, and it was only when I stumbled into an advanced training in yoga therapeutics that I learned about adrenal fatigue, and began to deeply heal. It took me on an eight year path of embodying and teaching all I have learned and healed: adrenal fatigue recovery and prevention; hormone balancing and sacred womb work; replenishing sexual vitality through Taoist and Tantric techniques; healing sexual, emotional and childhood trauma through somatic trauma-resolution techniques; rewiring my system from adrenaline addiction to peace and pleasure. And fully choosing a new story through neural reprogramming, working down to the roots of people-pleasing and codependency, to become fully sovereign and free.
And I want the same for you.
I specialise in women’s work. Both my grandmother’s are midwives and I am a trained doula. I have run 100s of women’s circles and held 100s of women in online containers through my other programmes: SACRED SPACES (women’s circle facilitation), EMBODY THE GODDESS (tantric embodiment), SOVEREIGN (sacred self pleasure), WAKE THE WITCH (101 of magic and ritual) and BECOMING MOON (sacred menstruation and menstrual cycle awareness).
THE DISSOLVING is a blend of all my magic, wisdom and expertly trained facilitation in trauma-informed sacred spaces. I am both endlessly devoted to study, training and uplevelling my skills as a trauma-resolution somatic facilitator. I am a VITA coach with Layla Martin, a trauma resolution student with Rachael Maddox, a Yoga Therapeutics and Womb Wisdom teacher with Tina Nance, and a student of sacred herbalism with the School of Sacred Wild.. I have been a practicing Celtic shaman since I was 13. I weave and combine these two powerful modalities, alongside Goddess devotion, my love of myth, archetypes and storytelling, to create unique, potent spaces for your total transformation.
It would be my honour to guide you through the three moons of winter, and see you through the Underworld with safe passage.
