North Star
This is my signature six week course. This summer, 2023, 22 women joined me for North Star III; a six week online embodied immersion with community at the heart.
North Star is a weaving together of fertility yoga, guided meditation, breathwork, space to connect with others and invitations to write and reflect.
It’s a coming home to yourself. I run this courses once a year, when the season calls me. If you’d like to be part of the next one, please do get in touch. You can get a sense of the course by exploring the themes below.
Session Details: Begins Summer Solstice Wednesday June 21st 7-8.15pm
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21st June- Arrive
Tonight we introduce ourselves and create our safe and confidential container for the coming weeks. We’ll begin to practice yoga together and move to locate our sense of inner coherence. Here we turn to face the autumn equinox and welcome in a new season.
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June 28th - Release
West: Today we acknowledge. We honour ourselves, our bodies and their stories. Space for reflection, space for release. An invitation to re-member ourselves home once again.
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July 5th- Define
South. A space to contemplate our relationships with others and the way they intertwine with our trying to conceive experiences. A session to consider friendships, loves and our multiple identities as sisters, daughters, partners, allies and colleagues.
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July 12th - Enquire
East. In this session we’ll invite curiosity to visit us as we wonder about the messages we’ve picked up along the way from external noise and internal chatter. Without judgment, we might reimagine what it would be like to readjust the volume. We’ll gently turn our attention to our inner wisdom and intuition, amplifying our centre.
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July 19th - Rearrive
North. We arrive again today, back at a new beginning. The North Star, A grounding, earthing session of balance and centreing. We get to move the compass needle.
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26th July - Integrate
Wherever you have travelled, we have done it as a collective. Tonight, as the sun dips earlier, we will pull together the cords we have been weaving. We’ll honour the season we have spent together, reflect on where we are and say our farewells.
A safe sanctuary
Each week, for six weeks, we will meet to connect with others who have a shared understanding. We’ll move gently, with sequences attuned to the heart space, the pelvic bowl, the elements and the phases of the moon; fertility yoga that I have curated on the back of years of training and teaching: you can read more here.
We’ll make time to rest deeply through restorative poses and connect to the breath. There’ll be weekly journal prompts and themes to invite gentle, open reflection. This is all set against a curated playlist to take us northwards and home throughout our time together. In addition, everyone will receive a mini care package in the post containing an accompanying guidebook and some little tokens for our journey.
There will be space to bring anything that is on your mind/heart to each session, though informal and confidential group dialogue through the essence of a women’s circle. Such sharing is optional, though we will introduce ourselves at the start of the course and become acquainted with who we are practicing with.
There will also be an optional Band community group for additional conversation space and reflection on the themes of the week where I will facilitate and hold the space.
Travel through compass energetics to recalibrate
We’ll use the compass as a sacred construct through which to explore our directions and the winds that can blow us off course. We’ll work towards re-aligning to our North Star - our wayfinder and intuition. The landscape of trying to conceive is one where we can easily become lost. This course is here to help you rediscover your path and provide a safe space in which to rest.
what people say
“It’s hard to describe the sense of calm, belonging and ability to breathe that you feel when attending one of Helen’s space. But calm, belong and the ability to breathe are there in abundance. If you need time, want time, need space and want to feel safe in your TTC journey or whatever journey you may be on; North Star is where to find it. You won’t regret pressing the “book” button. Thank you Helen, I hope you know how special your sessions and spaces are.”
“I attended last night Helen and to say it was beautiful and magical is an understatement and it landed just as I needed it. There was an energy I can't quite describe but this morning as I did my own little flow, I still felt the warmth between my hands as I held the sun and brought it to my heart. Thank you. I'm not quite sure you fully realise the gift you have and how lucky we are you have chosen to share it.”
'“This experience, and all of you, have been truly magical.I've never been a part of something so deep and honest. In what feels like a pretty dark time, it has been a balm, and the best part of my week. Thank you. Thank you Helen and all of you for making it so special.”
“Thank you Helen and everyone for an amazing 6 weeks. Being with you all in the most beautiful environment has been so healing. I will never forget this time we have had together”
“Not sure exactly what i expected to get out of the session but I never expected to receive all this, I feel like I have found a new inner depth I didn’t know was there. I have truly loved every moment of it. I am really emotional it is ending. Thank you @Helen and thank you all for holding this wonderful immersive powerful space”
“I've been totally emotional tonight too - the sadness of this coming to an end, but the the absolute gratefulness and warmth I've taken from this group and experience. Helen thank you so much for creating this space and to all of you wonderful individuals for making it flourish. I really felt a special connection tonight”
All of you is welcome here .
At the core of North Star is a key concept. It is that all of your feelings are valid - all of them. And all of your experiences matter. In the landscape of trying to conceive we are often pushed up closely to shades of emotion that aren’t easy. You will be in a small community of people that understand and who will listen and honour wherever you are.
This is a course suitable for anyone in the trying to conceive landscape. If doesn't matter how long you have been trying, whether you have children already, if you are trying naturally, pursuing treatment, if you are on a break or somewhere else - this is a place for all of you.
What you won’t find in North Star…
There will be no suggestions that the course will increase, boost or maximise your chances of pregnancy. You can find more on my ethos and ethical integrity on these matters here.
What this is about is a deep focus on your wellbeing amidst the experience of trying to conceive. This includes the wellbeing of your relationships with your heart, womb, intuition and self. North Star is about wrapping yourself in small layers of calm. Layers that you can take with you out into your days, weeks and dreams. This is about celebrating you and all that you already are.
North Star and IVF/IUI/medicated cycles
You are invited to attend North Star wherever you are in a treatment cycle. I ask all of the group to complete a health form and work closely with individuals who are mid-cycle during the course but you are encouraged to discuss this with your clinic.
We can always discuss how to modify each session or specific poses as needs or questions arise. Careful attention to individual needs and differentiation is something I pride myself on and I am available throughout the week via direct message.