Join us for another seasonal school from Sept 22 - Dec 19, as we journey into the heart of descent season.
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.
Seasonal School Fall Session
Sept 22-Dec19 2025
Meditation on Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7- 7:20 am PST
Three guided embodied meditations per week. We'll begin by soothing our nervous system, grounding ourselves in the earth, and connecting with our three centers of intelligence, before moving into a mindfulness practice that explores our breath, sensation, and sound in a warm and inclusive manner.
Writing Circle on Thursdays at 11 am-12:15 pm PST
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
Rotating Circles on Tuesdays, 11-12:15 PST
On Tuesdays, we'll gather for rotating circles of support. This 75-minute gathering will rotate between yin yoga, embodied experiential dreamwork, prayer, ritual, and an AMA (Ask Me Anything).
Sept 30 - opening circle and teaching
Oct 14- yin yoga
Oct 21- dream circle
Oct 28- AMA
Nov 4- yin yoga
Nov 11- dream circle
Nov 18- prayer circle
Nov 25- AMA
Dec 2- yin
Dec 9- dream
Dec 16- AMA
Weekend Retreat
November 1st and 2nd (online and recorded in case you can't make all live sessions)
A Samhain retreat to honour the descent into the dark season. Meditation, yin/restorative yoga, mythology, craft and writing.
Saturday and Sunday
9 am-noon PST
3-5:30 pm PST
Yin Yoga
Participants in the seasonal school will have access to 20 pre-recorded yin classes through our online portal, allowing them to practice at their convenience.
Investment
$950 (in the currency of the country you reside in or the currency you are paid in). Payment plans are welcome.
Payment from Canadian participants through e-transfer to: info@carlyforest.com
Payment from US or international participants can be made through PayPal:
carly.forest@gmail.com