The Centre for Soul Nourishment (2025)

04/08/2025

This was meant to be a Lammas day offering but due to circumstances and a little bit of NHS gratitude in-between it's a little later than intended but heartfelt all the same from me!

Perhaps Shamanic Monday was the next best day to put it out! 😍

Before I get to that point though I wanted to begin with some gratitude's for this week....
🌟Thank you to all the beautiful, amazing and magical women who were able to come and share the space of the Lammas Celebration with me last week at Pegswood. It was a joy.
🌟Thank you to those of you who couldn’t make it but still contribute to the energy and magic of the wheel of the year group. I am learning so much and am much more able to consciously move through the year as a result of the blessings I am gifted as a result.
🌟Thank you to the Spirits, to Wolf and Willow for joining us on our journey and for creating a holding for the magic that we created.
🌟Thank you to the musicians and their beautiful music that took us on our journey.
🌟Thank you for the spirit of fire that helped me release all that people didn’t want to take home with them as well as taking the requests of what they did want to the universe to hold and do what needs to be done.
🌟Thank you to anything or anyone I’ve forgotten to thank, all the helpers seen and unseen and the Spirit of Pegswood Welfare that holds and loves us each time we are there.
🌟 Thank you to the NHS and all those who work hard helping others despite the challenging circumstances. The NHS is a piece of magic we should all fight hard to keep.

There’s a magic in bringing more gratitude into our hearts and our everyday lives. I invite you to lean into that magic this week whilst we hold onto our Lammas themes of courage, resilience and gratitude.

Who do you need to thank?

What are you grateful for?

How can you share gratitude with others around you right now to bring more joy, nourishment and growth to both you and them?

Be you.

Be wonderful, magnificent you.

Always.

And for those who feel they are at a sticking point in being able to be themselves the offer below might be something you want to explore. If it is, reach out and I'll send you more info. 🦋✨

17/07/2025

The wheel of the year seems to be spinning fast this year! I wonder how many of us feel like it's hard to keep up?

I wonder whether we are still managing to find time to stop and pause and to take in all of the beauty that is around us. The flowers, the trees the butterflies, the bees...the bird song too! So much beauty around today!

🧚‍♀️🐝💖🌳🌺🌞🧚‍♀️🐝💖🌳🌺🌞🧚‍♀️🐝💖🌳🌺🌞

It seems for me Wednesdays are always the craziest day so 'Wheel Wednesday' might just have to take a back burner to make space for 'Thought Full Thursday' instead within the groups I hold.

I know I could schedule the posts in advance but that never seems quite as meaningful to me as I want to capture the moment I am in when I write them!

So here we are today with a Thought Full Thursday Offering from John O Donoghue to inspire you to dream a little more deeply this week...!

Blessed be the longing that brought you here
And quickens your soul with wonder.
May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire
That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.
May you have the wisdom to enter generously into
your own unease.
To discover the new direction your longing wants
you to take.
May the forms of your belonging -- in love, creativity
and friendship --
Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.

If you want to delve a little further into dreaming deeply but in community with others the next threshold of the wheel is rapidly approaching with Lammas/Lughnasadh. This time around we're off on an adventure of courage, resilience and dreaming with the Wolf & The Willow.

Many of my groups have been working on seeking and/or finding their own Power Animals lately and it seems the themes for the Wheel of The Year events are following this thread as this time we'll have the help and power of Wolf as our guide along with the Willow tree.

Willow's gentle, steady holding will guide us into the dreamworld where Wolf will take us on a journey of self discovery to find the courage and resilience we need to follow our dreams and longings for the year ahead.

I do hope some of you can join me! I'll pin a post later with more information but for anyone who already knows they can or are called to come just comment below and I'll send you the form!!

04/07/2025

Most people love Fridays because it's the end of their working week and they have the weekend free...not me...I love Fridays because that's the day I get to spend working in partnership with Northumberland Recovery College to run their Happiness & Meditation Club. I appreciate that I'm perhaps a little biased as I run it but it's one of the most nourishing and enriching spaces I could imagine! Each week I'm surrounded by amazing women who come together to remember and remind each other just how amazing they are!

Though our aim might be happiness that does not mean we exclude sadness or any of the other emotions that might overwhelm us or feel heavy. We work with them and hold each other in a space of support, deep listening and when invited to do so we offer help and guidance to whoever might be struggling so that they can find their own way.

Today I've witnessed, vulnerability, strength, deep listening, heart felt offerings and the magic of being heard. We have spent time in the silence so that we can hear the whispers that await us, we've reflected, we've set goals and made plans, we've opened up to softening our hearts and keeping each other going with guidance and support and all without judgement or the desire to jump in and 'fix' something or someone.

There's magic to be found in sitting in community with others. It helps us to remember more of who we are and allows us to be the light for others and ourselves if we just take the time to stop, pause and listen to our hearts and each other.

We've each taken a little reminder away today to support us to lean into creating a more 'Joyful July' this month and I thought I'd share that with each of you in case it might inspire you!

May you each find more joy as July unfolds and may you remember you are indeed enough. 🦋✨❤️

16/06/2025

Summer Solstice Celebration Information

Summer solstice is almost upon us and I appreciate I'm almost a little late to the party with this one but here goes!!

Following a promise made to the lovely Arlene & Charlotte a couple of weeks ago about Shamanic Mondays I sat with my Spirits pondering how to create the space to get people to a point where they could join a shamanic journeying circle and they reminded me that I've already got a point set aside and what better time was there to cross a threshold into a Shamanic pathway than the one that presents itself at the Summer Solstice so that was the decision made!

This wheel of the year summer solstice celebration will be a little different to the previous ones (which also matches working with the Spirit of Change that the happiness club lot are exploring with me 😉)

There will still be celebration and ceremony but we'll also learn how to journey in a Shamanic way to meet our own Power Animal with the Spirit of the Drum as our guide so that we can each tap into the energetic support that is always there for us when we need it.

Shamanic journeying is a gift that can be learned by anyone and is accessible to all so if you'd like to cross the threshold and learn a little more to help you decide if it's for you this session might be a good place to start!

I also know there's a few of you in this group who already have experience in Shamanic journeying so if you'd still like to join us I'll give you a more advanced intention for your journey so you can start to deepen your relationship with your helping guide. There's something special about journeying with others and of returning to our beginnings that can often bring power and deepening to the relationships we hold and indeed you may even find yourself an additional helper as you do!

The room was already booked and the Spirits have said that it's time so I do hope some of you will be called and able to join me on the adventure despite the shorter notice!

Cost remains on a sliding scale of £20-£25 for your three hour workshop and you choose where you are on the scale. If this is a struggle and you'd really like to come along please do message me. This will include a free PDF booklet and a little spirit gift that I'll create to support the session and give you further information about shamanism alongside some suggestions to celebrate and honour the solstice this year.

If you are interested please let me know in the thread below and I'll send further information over to you!

It feels good to finally be moving towards my word for the year and being able to get closer to my Spirits (and yours!) as I do!

Looking forward to sharing the magic with you...

💖🐶🐱🐭🐹🐰🦊🐻🐼🐸🐷🐮🦁🐯🐨🐻‍❄️🐵🐔🐧🐦🐺🦇🦉🦅🦆🐥🐗🐴🫎🫏🦄🐝🪱🐛🐞🦋🐌🕷🦂🐢🐍🐠🦀🐙🐟🐬🐳🦈🦭🐊🐅🦏🦛🐘🦣🦧🦍🦓🐆🐪🐎🐑🐕🦜🦝🐇🦨🦡🦫🦦🦥🦔🐿🐀🐁🐉☀️🔥🧚‍♀️💖

29/12/2024

Feeling blessed at sharing space with the grief and remembrance of others. There was so many names in the bowl and so much heat and love in the room from the light they all gifted!

A little reminder for each of you. ✨💛✨💛✨💛✨

To all those who offered names to the bowl of love, know that grief and love are two parts of the story shared by each of you.

There is space for grief but there is also space for life.
It is important to remember this on your journey ahead.

Walk forward with love in your heart and live your best life, knowing that the light of your loved ones still shines bright through you.

For those who are struggling now. You do not have to struggle alone. Reach out to others, reach into your heart and hold on to the love you are offered this night.

Holding each of you in love and hoping that as you move forward, the journey gifts you all you need to help you heal and feel the love you so very much deserve.

Your light still shines! 💖✨🌝💖

28/12/2024

The holiday season is often a time when grief and loss can hit the hardest or feel the heaviest. It’s also a time where many of us want to honour those we miss in a special way. We’ve been working towards creating spaces for grief that are accessible for those who can’t join an in person event or who are just not ready to share their grief with others or who perhaps just want to mark a point in the year in a special way.

Tomorrow (Sunday 29th December) on behalf of Northumberland Recovery College I'll be holding a special ceremony offering people the opportunity to send the names of those you miss (or want included for any other reason) to be held in a sacred space of love.

A candle will be lit at 7pm to honour both them and you, along with the journey you shared with each other.

Making space for grief is also making space for love so if you’d like to be involved simply share the name of the person(s) you would like honoured in the feed below, message me or email the details to ashleigh.ranft@everyturn.org and I'll add them to the bowl of love. 💖

💛💖⭐️❤️🧡✨💙💜🌟💚⭐️

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