You’re invited to…

-The Cave-

A seasonal women’s circle in Hobart through autumn and winter 2025

I’m calling in the women who wish to build sisterhood and friendship through the power of a women’s circle.

During the Cave Women’s Circles, we will grow the roots of our connection in the fertile darkness of autumn and winter. We enter the Cave to relax into a space of relational rest and receiving.

In circling together, as women have done for centuries, we nourish our hearts and minds. We remember how to lean on each other and be held, together, in reciprocity with each other and with life.

In circling together, we resist the dominant cultural stories of isolation and separation and weave new webs of interdependence, friendship, collective joy and nurturance.

We hold each other in loving authenticity, and the Cave holds us.

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We gather just as we are.

We gather in reciprocity and deep listening.

We gather to rest and dream.

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This season, join us in the Cave, a women’s circle sanctuary and cocoon of deep connection.

Calling in 10 women for a women’s journey through autumn and winter.

Women's circles are sacred spaces where we create connections, share experiences, and embrace our authentic selves—witnessing our all our joy and mess. Here, we find support, strength, inspiration, and the magic that takes place when women come together.

My intention for The Cave is to create a sisterhood of women who want real connection throughout nipaluna’s darker months. We come together to nurture ourselves and each other within a community of local women.

Expect to laugh and cry and sit in awe of the power of women, including yourself!

We honor the collective and individual wisdom that emerges with open dialogue, reflective/creative practices, and simple ritual.

In response to a culture that praises superficiality, hyper-individualism, independence, and “doing”, women’s circles resist and rebel this culture by fostering depth, togetherness, belonging, realness, and rest.

I believe this world needs more women who are uplifted by our collective strength, joy, and wisdom, and who are also willing to find these qualities from within. Our authentic connections to each other and to nature ripple out to create a more hopeful future.

The overview

7 circles over 6 months. All sessions will be held in a cosy healing sanctuary in central Hobart, with the exception of our solstice circle which will be held outdoors (weather permitting).

The Cave offers us a secluded, steady and quiet sanctuary in which we can gather for collective nourishment.

During our time together as a group, we’ll be exploring themes that take us beneath the surface of everyday masks and conversations.

We’ll set intentions, support each other in action, honour our cyclical lives and lovingly witness ourselves and each other in our current season of life.

We’ll learn from each other, from poetry and nature.

Our monthly circles follow a simple rhythm:

  • Opening circle

  • Meditative, creative, reflective activity

  • Supportive sharing/wisdom/discussion circle

  • Sharing tea and food together

  • Closing circle

Dates + themes

All Cave circle sessions are held from 3-6pm at a cosy healing sanctuary in central nipaluna/Hobart.

With the exception of our solstice circle on 21/6, which will be held outdoors, weather permitting, from 1-4pm.

  1. Saturday 29 March - Stone - Grounding - Opening ritual

  2. Saturday 12th April - Water - Clearing - Presence to life and finding what’s important

  3. Saturday 3rd May - Ecology - Connecting - Webs of interdependence

  4. Saturday 31st May - Magic - Dreaming - Ancestors, the future and the sacred

  5. Saturday 21st June - Darkness - Death and Rebirth - Solstice ritual (outdoor location)

  6. Saturday July 26 - Quiet - Resting - Slowing down as an act of resistance + collective deep rest practice

  7. Saturday August 23 - Emergence - Closing - Gratitude + closing ritual

This circle is a good fit if:

  • You’re desiring a close group of women to lean into with your whole being

  • You’re willing to show up exactly as you are, even when you would rather hide

  • You sense that authentic connections are an important pathway to creating a better world

  • You able to set aside 3 hours each month

  • You want to grow deeper roots in an intimate community of women

  • You desire a deeper relationship with natural cycles, your inner world and other women

  • You enjoy depths AND also enjoy lightness and play!

This circle is a not good fit if:

  • You’re not willing to be in a space of deep reciprocity, of receiving AND giving

  • You are not willing to prioritize showing up

  • You don’t like FUN

Exchange

Early bird: $375 - book and pay by March 10th

Full price: $400

To book your place or get in touch with questions, email Lauren

lauren@mountainbirdwellness.com.au

Ts &Cs:

Refunds will be available up to 7 days before the circle begins.

If you are on a payment plan, you are liable to pay the full amount after the first payment has been made. Payments cannot be transferred to other circles or events.

About Lauren - your circle guide

Lauren Burke is a circle facilitator, yoga teacher, qualified therapist and coach, ecstatic dance facilitator, and outdoorsy human. She has been running regular circles in nipaluna since 2023.

She has a degree in Process Oriented Counseling and Psychotherapy from Metavision Institute, NSW. She did her 250-hour Yoga Teacher with training from Holli Gipson at Sacred Seeds Yoga School and a 50-hour certification in Yoga for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Body Image from Sarah Ball. She also has a 100-hour training in Lunar Restorative Yoga with Ally Boothroyd.

Lauren is also a daughter, sister, runner, bushwalker and ex-wilderness guide, introvert, virgo and human being embracing the goodness, the mess, the uncertainty and the awe in this thing called life.

Her practice is showing up to life in wholeness, learning how to properly rest, plan her life according to cycles (moon, menstrual and seasonal) and she is excited to hang out in the Cave with you.

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