Seasonal School 2025:From Imbolc to Beltane
Feb3- May 2, 2025
All classes will be recorded and uploaded to an easy-to-access online portal.
Join us for another seasonal school from Feb 3-May 2, from Imbolc to Beltane, the first stirrings of spring into the beginning of summer on the Celtic wheel of the year, early May.
This seasonal school will support and stabilize the quickening time when the creative energy slowly rises and forms into our new beginnings—dreaming and creating our vision info form.
I have gathered my favourite trusted practices and created a three-month experience to support folks looking for structure in their intention of living intimately and staying close to themselves. This offering is intentionally structured to provide a rhythm and routine that allows for a sturdy container without feeling heavy or intense while being robust enough to encourage intimacy with life. It provides a consistent place to drop in and learn through direct embodied experience.
All these practices will help us stay close to the whispers from the soul and the deep self's yearnings. To stay close to the longings of the heart. Knowing what these longings are requires a devotion to our inner life. A devotion to listening and, eventually, loving all the messy and magnificent aspects of who we are. These practices center around holding ourselves with gentleness, inclusion, care, and curiosity. They are the practices that I turn to again and again for refuge and resilience, some of them for over 20 years. This is not a typical school; it's a school of gnosis, of self-knowing through direct experiential insight. Forging these inner resources is an essential life skill, given all we face collectively in the polycrisis. It is how we nourish the soulful tethers to an embodied life.
Meditation
Three guided embodied meditations per week. We'll start by soothing our nervous system, grounding into the earth, and connecting with our three centers of intelligence before moving into a mindfulness practice of exploring our breath, sensation, and sound in a warm inclusive way.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7- 7:20am PST
Writing Cirlce
The writing circle is a practice of staying close, showing up, and clearing the space to see what comes through. We begin with a brief meditation to help gather our attention. I'll then read a short quote, poem or archetype from the tarot or the planets. We'll then engage with a stream-of-consciousness writing practice.
*No writing experience necessary
Thursdays at 11 am-12:15 pm PST
Monthly meetings
Each month, we'll gather to go over the themes we'll explore for the month ahead. This hour-long gathering will be somewhat in the theme of a dharma talk, going over the "why" of what we're practicing to illuminate and inspire. These gatherings will offer place-based outdoor practices, creative projects, and further readings.
Tuesdays Feb 4, March 4 , April 1, 11am-12pm
At the end of each month, we'll gather for an "ask me anything" session, a time to share insights and ask questions about how the practice is evolving.
Tuesdays Feb 25, March 25, April 29, 11am-12pm
Yin Yoga
Participants of the seasonal school will have access to 20 pre-recorded yin classes through our online portal to practice at their convenience.
Weekend Practice
The cohort will decide on a one-weekend practice session in March or April. Options include dreamwork, a longer yin and meditation practice, or a combination of both.
Investment
$825 (in the currency of the country you reside in)
Please get in touch with info@carlyforest.com to register.If you are new to working with Carly, an introductory call will be set up to ensure this program is a good fit.
Payment plan options and a few scholarship options are available for those in need.
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