Journey to Womanhood
Empowering women to listen to the wisdom of their body and cultivate a relationship with their inner world.
Remembering to listen to ourselves..
The teenage years and early adulthood are a time of deep emotional, physical, and relational change. Many young women find themselves navigating new feelings, attractions, expectations, and pressures, often without much support to slow down and notice what is actually happening inside their bodies.
In a culture that encourages constant doing and quick answers, it can be difficult to stay with inner experience: to recognise sensations of ease, openness, and pleasure, as well as moments of tension, discomfort, or overwhelm, and to sense when something is asking simply to be felt, and when it’s asking to be acted on.
In relationships, especially early romantic or sexual ones, it’s common for attention to move outward, toward being liked, chosen, or accepted, and for inner signals to become quieter or easier to ignore.
Journey to Womanhood supports a way of listening that many of us learned early in life, but often lose touch with as we grow older, particularly in the presence of attraction, intimacy, or pressure.
By learning to notice what brings a sense of aliveness, connection, and rightness, alongside what feels constricting, confusing, or depleting, women can begin to develop self-trust and inner clarity. This kind of listening forms the basis for healthy boundaries, respectful relationships, and choices that are rooted in the body rather than expectation, approval, or fear of loss.
“When women lose touch with their real selves, the harmony of the world ceases to exist and destruction sets in. It is therefore crucial that women everywhere make every effort to rediscover their fundamental nature, for only then can we save this world.” (Amma)
Group Circles
Journey to Womanhood offers small-group circles for older teens, as well as separate circles for mothers and women who want a dedicated space to reconnect with themselves.
The circles are practical and experiential. Rather than focusing on advice or instruction, time is spent slowing down, noticing, and reflecting — both individually and together.
Each circle weaves together gentle movement, guided sharing, mindfulness, and creative practices to support participants in tuning into their own inner responses and learning how to stay connected to themselves in everyday life.
Within the circles, participants have the opportunity to explore:
emotions and physical sensations as information
experiences of pleasure, ease, and vitality
early signals of discomfort, tension, or an inner “no”
personal boundaries and relational awareness
relating to the body from within, rather than through external standards or comparison
softening habits of self-observation shaped by family, peers, and culture, and reconnecting with a felt sense of the body
caring for the body with curiosity rather than judgement
body changes, including menstruation, as part of broader self-awareness
The circles are designed to complement, not replace, formal education or support. They offer a grounded space to practise listening inwardly and to strengthen self-trust in a way that can be carried into relationships, decisions, and daily life.
When young women are not given a safe space with the guidance that empowers them into womanhood, they may unconsciously take on the conditioning of their family, peer groups, society and the culture they grow up in, or they might rebel against them altogether. This can lead to feelings of disconnection, guilt, shame, anger and uneasiness about their body, weighed down by expectations that stifle rather than celebrate who they truly are.
Many girls and women carry deep-seated beliefs about having to look or act a certain way to be worthy of love. But as we go through this journey we begin to realise the essence of who we are, which is so much more then our outer appearance.
Every girls circle follows the head, heart, and hands model, which means we dive into learning and group discussions, practice meditation to connect with ourselves on a deeper level and get creative with art activities. It’s all about empowering ourselves and embracing our true essence.
'I don't see distant wars or environmental capitalism being able to survive in a world full of initiated women.' The Dalai Lama
” Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each Sun. “