SoulRiver Anahata Giri

17/03/2026

“..all that we might ever need, is still whispering in the bones of story.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Come and meet some beguiling friends of mine: old stories. They are a wondrous bunch and they have warming and wise medicine for our aching hearts and turmoiled world.

In the oral tradition, stories are shared from the heart, not memorised or ‘performed’, and the stories are fresh and different every time they come out to play.

And be warned: some of these stories are wild, cheeky, transformative. You might see your life through a wolf’s eyelash, and this might turn your life upside down and inside out, beckoning to a deeper story, a deeper life, underneath...

Story Wisdom at the Red Door
Saturday 21 March 2026
5.30-6.30pm Shared dinner
6.30pm Stories

At the Red Door Studio
5 Blackwood Parade Heidelberg West

Please book, see link in bio.

❣️ Anahata

04/03/2026

“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul.”
Carl Jung

There is something powerfully honest and authentic about our dreams. Stripped of the conscious ego, our dreams can bring raw, unfiltered messages, straight from the unconscious depths of our psyche, permeated with soul’s wisdom.

The challenge is to stay with the language that dreams speak. We slow down…even slower…so we can embody, inhabit and enact the experiential, felt, imaginal, intuitive, symbolic dream images and narratives.

Without taking the simplistic short cut of interpretation and analysis, that misses the rich meaning that saturates our dreams, we stay with what is unknown, mysterious and emergent. Through active imagination, dream embodiment and enactment, meaning-making that is deeply felt, arises organically, exquisitely attuned to our soul’s becoming.

Join this small supportive circle to:

✨ practise foundational dream tending skills that are also soul tending and life tending skills
✨ inhabit our dreaming by stepping through gateways of perception: awareness, deep feeling, sensing, active imagination and intuition
✨ explore the 5 keys to dream tending from Toko-Pa Turner
✨ deepen the art of embodied listening, sacred space holding, mirroring and relational care as we tend each others dreams
✨ experiment with ways to embody the sacred medicine of dreaming in our waking lives, with art making, ceremony and enactment

It amazes me how images that at first are baffling, always bring such profound, attuned, even precise, wisdom for the individual dreamer.

Our dreams bring medicine not just for the individual, but for the collective. I believe that the world needs our dreaming, to bring planetary regeneration. Maybe the world is dreaming through humanity, so that we might wake up?

I hope you can join us in the fertile underworld of dreams.

When: Wednesdays 7.00-9.00pm OR Thursday 7.00-9.00pm

Wednesday: 25 March, 1, 8 April, week off, 22 & 29 April, 6, 13 & 20 May 2026.
Thursday: 26 March, 2, 9 April, week off, 23 & 30 April, 7, 14 & 21 May 2026.

Places are limited to 12 participants. Booking essential, see link in bio.

❣️ Anahata
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03/03/2026

"Dreams are letters from home. If we do not receive the letter, if we ignore our dreams, the Dream Maker, with astonishing compassion, will bring dreams to us, again and again, until we receive the message."

This is from a Substack piece I have just shared about experiential ways to immerse in our dream life.

If you want to go deeper with your dreams, I am running:
Dreaming Our Lives Awake: an 8 Week Dream Tending Circle, online.

We will not be analysing or interpreting our dreams, but experientially enacting, embodying, feeling, sensing, attuning to our dreams, so that we can step into the dreaming of our dreams - and all the wisdom our dreams carry.

We will explore dream tending skills, which are also powerful life and soul tending skills. Within a deep listening container, where we witness each other, the group will learn beautiful ways to help each other be with the deep dreaming of our dreams. This is not a dream therapy group, more of a participatory learning and dream-listening circle.

There are two cohorts: Wednesdays begin 25 March, Thursdays begin 26 March 2026. Limited to 12 participants so book soon if you want to join in.

"It amazes me how images that at first are baffling, always bring such profound, attuned, even precise, wisdom for the individual dreamer. And our dreams bring medicine not just for the individual, but for the collective. I believe that the world needs our dreaming, to help all of us to show up and co-create as part of the dreaming of the whole web of life. Maybe the world is dreaming through humanity, so that we might wake up?"

You can find links in my bio for both this Dream Tending Circle and for my Substack writing.

♥️ Anahata

01/03/2026

Another beautiful Remembering Story Medicine night, with wolf howling, fox dreaming, poems and songs expressing how stories have stirred up our lives, 1001 nights of stories, and hearts definitely made of flesh, not stone, lighting candles with our prayers for this wondrous and turmoiled world.

Remembering Story Medicine is led by beautiful storyteller with other storytellers, including me, and is on the first and third Sundays of the month, held in the warmth of the Kangaroo Ground Centre.

Please book - see link in bio for all 2026 dates. Next few dates are: 15 March, 5 April, 19 April.

Bring a plate for a shared dinner, bring your journal and a pen, bring your heart.

♥️ Anahata

20/02/2026

There are still places on the One Heart Meditation & Yoga Silent Retreat, 6-9 March 2026, Labour Day weekend, at Maitripa in Healesville.

Enjoy a nourishing and profound immersion in the felt sense. Embodiment is foundational to our relationship to ourselves, to others, to the sacred, to our world. When we rest into the ground of beingness we can connect with our deeper life and love.

Enjoy also your own room, beautiful and simple sitting and walking meditation, yoga suitable for all levels of experience, wisdom teachings, the gift and invitation of silence and plenty of space for you to be with you.

I first ran this retreat in 2006! I have run this retreat two or threes times a year ever since. It has been 20 years! Holding space on a retreat is still very precious to me. It is special to return again and again, to share practices and deep essential ways of practising, distilled from 30+ years of practice.

❣️ Anahata

11/02/2026

Calling yoga teachers who want to learn the inspiring art of teaching prenatal yoga to empower women for birthing.

The next Yoga of Birth Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training will be held 27-29 March 2026 at the wonderful Ergo Yoga Space in Coburg.

This is three days in-person filled with beautiful practices and practical guidance for a safe and effective prenatal practice, alongside deep honouring of the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of pregnancy and the birthing journey.

This training is registered with Yoga Australia and has received rave reviews since 2013 when it first began.

We explore prenatal yoga in a potent circle of consciousness raising that honours the feminine, mothers, mothering and birthing as potent and transformative rites of passage.

Many participants have expressed how much more they have gained from this in-depth, in person training as compared with online training.

♥️ Anahata

11/02/2026

A mandala I made expressing gratitude for this blessed life. The beauty of the colours of these seed pods!

10/02/2026

10/02/2026

“The ache in your heart is holy.”
Ben Lee

♥️ Anahata