Beyond Survival: The Mother Alchemy circle

🌿 The Mother ( Woman) Alchemy circle is a 6-Week Therapeutic Women's Circle for Deep Self-Reclamation and the Wild self.

A Soul-Deep Space for Women Tired of "Holding It All Together"

You carry so much , I see you: You carry for your family, your work, your relationships, your community, perhaps even the pain of the world.

And amidst and beneath all that holding, something in you has begun to throb,to hum to whisper, maybe even sing.

There must be more than survival.

More space.

More aliveness.

More truth.

More of you.

The Mother Alchemy Circle is an intimate therapeutic space for women who feel called towards that deeper re-alignment.

Here, Mother is reframed, reclaimed and remembered beyond servitude.

Mother is not synonymous with self-abandonment.

She is sovereignty.

She is creativity.

She is life-giving power.

She is the capacity to nourish without disappearing. Without losing herself.

This is a space for depth over doing.

Over six weeks, we gather in a small circle of women and enter the Ancient Mother Spiral ; my evolving body of work; it is not a linear programme to complete, but as a living map that we can return to again and again, meeting ourselves with deeper consciousness each time.

The Spiral becomes a way of holding what is happening in your life, rather than another thing you have to achieve.

We make space for the places where you are changing.

For what is ending.

For what is beginning.

For what has been buried beneath responsibility, expectation and survival.

And for the part of you that may already know that something wants to emerge. I TRUST blindly your inner knowing.

A Gentle — and Fierce — Therapeutic Space

This is not a course to master.

It is not another self-improvement project.

And you don't need to arrive whole, healed or ready.

You simply need to feel the quiet pull towards not navigating everything alone.

The work is grounded in my experience as a psychotherapist with over 17 years experience working with clients and holding groups in my role as a trainer of therapists and supervisors, and in trauma-informed, embodied and presence-centred practice.

Alongside this clinical foundation, I weave together myth, archetype, contemplative practice, poetry, creativity, body awareness and the deeper wisdom of the Wild feminine.

There is room here for both the psychological and the mysterious.

For the practical and the poetic.

For the body and the soul.

For what can be understood and what needs to be experienced.

Soul work is slow work . I build a space of Reverence to the Mystical and Deep dimensions of Life. The moment. Our space.

So we take the pressure off.

We breathe.

We listen.

We allow what is here to become known.

What We Explore Together

Each circle is shaped by the women who enter it, so I don't work from a rigid script.

The Ancient Mother Spiral provides the underlying map, while the actual work responds to what is alive in the room.

Our sessions may weave together:

Contemplative presence — practices for stepping out of constant doing and returning to the present moment.
Embodied inquiry — slowing down enough to notice what your body may already be communicating.
Myth and archetype — stories and symbolic language that can illuminate the deeper layers of our experience.
Dreams and imagination — drawing on the symbolic and imaginal dimensions of inner life.
Creative and poetic practices — allowing expression to emerge beyond the limits of ordinary language.
Ritual and reflection — simple ways of marking transitions and bringing the work into everyday life.
Deep witnessing — being heard without pressure to perform, explain or have everything figured out.
The Ancient Mother Spiral — a map you can continue to work with long after the circle ends.

The intention is not simply to understand yourself differently.

It is to begin to experience yourself differently.

To listen more deeply.

To recognise patterns without immediately judging them.

To meet complexity without abandoning yourself.

And to discover what becomes possible when you are witnessed, accompanied and given space to breathe.

A Circle, Not a Classroom

There will be a maximum of 8 women.

This matters to me.

I want this to feel intimate enough that you are not lost in a crowd.

You don't have to share anything you don't want to share.

You don't have to perform vulnerability.

You don't have to arrive with the “right” story.

You can come exactly as you are.

It takes a village to raise a parent.

And a woman needs other women.

This circle is an invitation to experience what can happen when we stop trying to carry everything alone.

What I Hope You Take With You

Not another set of rules for how to live.

Not another identity to perform.

Not another list of things you should be doing.

Instead, I hope you leave with a deeper relationship with your own inner world.

With practices you can return to.

With language for experiences that may have previously felt difficult to name.

With a greater capacity to listen to your body and your inner knowing.

With the experience of being witnessed.

And perhaps with something even simpler; yet Im aware how challenging it is to embody and abide in:

A remembering that you don't have to become someone else to come home to yourself.

Some of if Rich influences and teachers who Inspired by my own embodied journey to unearth my dharmic purpose , and infused by the writings of Marion Woodman, Bill Plotkin, Joanna Macy, Francis Weller , Carl Jung, and Carl Rogers, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Arnold Mindell and Rashani Rea, i aim to bring a strong foundation of embodied principles from these inspiring elders and teachers of mine, to name a few.

This Intimate Healing Circle is For the Woman Who

This Intimate Healing Circle Is For the Woman Who…

🌿 Is Tired of Holding It All Alone

You may be a mother, creative, professional, partner, therapist, carer — or simply a woman who has become very good at carrying a lot.
You may be longing for a space where you don't have to be the one holding everything together.

A space where you can arrive as you are and be genuinely witnessed.
🌿 Longs for Depth Over Doing

You have had enough of surface-level conversations and endless advice.
Something in you wants to slow down.
To go beneath the roles you carry.
To listen to your body, your inner world and the quieter knowing beneath the noise.
You want depth, not another thing to achieve.

🌿 Senses That Healing May Be About Remembering

Perhaps you are beginning to question the idea that you need to fix yourself or become someone different.
Perhaps you sense that some part of your work is about remembering what has become obscured beneath survival, expectation and conditioning.
The Mother Alchemy Circle offers a space to explore that possibility gently.

🌿 Is Moving Through a Time of Transition

You may be navigating motherhood, identity, burnout, overwhelm, grief, relationship changes, creative change or a sense that an old way of living no longer fits.
You don't have to know exactly what is happening.
You don't have to arrive with a clear goal.
You simply need enough curiosity to explore what is asking to change.

🌿 Wants Both Gentleness and Fierce Empowerment

This is not about pushing yourself to transform.
Nor is it about staying small in the name of being gentle.
We make room for tenderness and truth.
For rest and movement.
For grief and rage.
For vulnerability and sovereignty.
The invitation is to discover what becomes possible when you are held safely enough to meet yourself honestly.

🌿 Feels Drawn to the Ancient Mother Spiral

You may have already experienced the Spiral through my free series.
Or perhaps you are simply curious about this way of understanding transformation.
Mother Alchemy offers an opportunity to enter the Spiral experientially and begin discovering how its wisdom might live within your own life.
You don't need any previous knowledge of the framework.
You simply need to feel the pull.
There is SO much more depth beneath the initial layers of the Spiral. Imagine Infinity.

The Circle Is Intentionally Small

To protect the intimacy and depth of the group, places are limited to 8 women.

The next Mother Alchemy Circle begins:

Monday 14 September 2026

UK time at 10:00-11.30

The circle runs for 6 weeks.

If your body softens reading this, if something in you says YES; your inner self is ready to be seen again.

Your Investment

I want the circle to remain accessible while also honouring the depth, preparation and professional holding that goes into this work.

For the full six-week journey, you can choose your level of investment:

£150 — £240

This works out at approximately:

£25 — £40 per session.

Choose the amount that feels sustainable and appropriate for your circumstances.

There is no difference in what you receive.

Every woman receives the same six-week experience, regardless of the amount she chooses.

Ready to Join?

BOOK YOUR PLACE IN MOTHER ALCHEMY

SUBMIT THE FORM

If you feel drawn to the circle but the Monday timing doesn't work for you, please don't disappear quietly.

I genuinely want to make this work as accessible and workable as possible.

You don't have to navigate this alone.

Mother Alchemy is a place to arrive, be witnessed, breathe, explore and remember.

SEPTEMBER 2026 NEW GROUP - AMENDED TIMES

14/9, 21/9, 05/10, 12/10, 19/10 AND 2/11/26

10:00-11:30 MONDAYS

TESTIMONIALS

"Maria was an incredible, wise, accepting and compassionate therapist. She helped me to see my body and mind in a non-pathologising way, and to learn to trust my body as my truest guide in life. She taught me that I can listen to deepest thoughts and feelings and they can be messages of wisdom rather that something to fight. Her approach was really beautiful and nuturing"

"I have a stronger sense of the truth being within me, and a sense of there being no wrong or right answer to things I’d have always looked towards research/backed sources."

" Thank you Maria,

You have had a profound positive effect on my life

For me, the AMS was a really cosy space to huddle together and release myself from the shackles of grief that motherhood brought. I was able to journey through a process of letting go and re-planting something beautiful in the ashes that remained. I started a new relationship as a result of this Spiral. It is a relationship with myself and she may just be the love of my life

Thank you x" Elle

"It is my honor and a great privilege to offer these words of praise and recognition for this hard-won and unique gift to mothers. We are a vast part of the population, and yet often the least supported in ways that truly assist us in becoming fuller expressions of ourselves as women—through motherhood.

The generosity, acceptance, and openness that held this circle met each woman exactly as she was. That presence pierced me, helping me see the places where I am still holding, still judging myself, and still leaning too heavily into fixing rather than allowing understanding, patience, and compassion to emerge. In that mirror, openness revealed its counterpart ~ contraction ~ and that, too, was welcomed.

It was rare medicine to hear each woman’s voice echoed back to her in such a way that she could recognize her own expanded wisdom, truth, and beauty braided into her own words. No woman was diminished or ruled over by fixing or by the offering of answers. Instead, each was met with deep listening and respect.

This experience softened places in me that once, wisely chose to guard, to not trust. The work offered here is profoundly needed in this world, and its impact reaches far beyond the circle itself.

With deep gratitude and respect,

Lila"

Monthly Alchemy Circle for mothers and women

🌒 A Monthly Gathering for Women and Mothers

For mothers and women walking the inner journey

This is a sacred space to come home to yourself in the presence of other women who are also walking a path of inner transformation.

Each month, we gather in circle. We meet to sit together, reflect, and deepen into the spiral of our becoming.

✨ Each gathering offers:

A contemplative meditation to attune to the deeper rhythm within
A short talk that weaves insight with myth, mystery, and lived experience
A space for honest sharing where your inner movement is seen and honoured

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need to be anywhere other than where you are. This is a circle of sisterhood where presence leads and each voice belongs.

🌾 Over time, these circles become:

Anchors in your month
Gentle reminders of your own unfolding
A quiet knowing that you are not walking alone

If something in you exhales as you read this—you’re already part of the circle. To register your interest submit a form via my website. Next intake starts in September