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Tanya Forgan is a dedicated Mindfulness Mentor, Group Facilitator, and Embodiment Guide. She integrates ancient and contemporary practices to create loving and inclusive spaces that offer self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. Known for her sensitivity and care, Tanya emphasises grounding embodiment practices and conscious relating, enabling people to build deeper trust in themselves and others. Committed to supporting people awaken and live more from the heart, she guides them to discover the depth and beauty of their true selves through meaningful connections with others. Website - www.tanyaforgan.com
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Stay curious,

Tanya x

11/01/2026

🌑Descent Book Circle begins this week - the final of the season

This Thursday, we begin our last Descent journey for this season, a six-week exploration of grief, community, and renewal, guided by The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller.

This is for anyone who wants to understand grief more deeply, not as something to fix, rush through, or carry alone, but as something that belongs in community.

Each week, our journey is held and guided by live music and sound from Facilitator and talented intuitive Musician Catherine Holt. The music is a companion, a guide, and a language for what words cannot reach. Sound helps grief move through the body, softens the nervous system, and creates a shared field where all emotion can be met safely and without explanation.

The work we’re drawing from does not come from modern Western self-help culture. It is shaped by ancestral and village-based wisdom, rooted in the cosmology of the Dagara people, shared through Elders such as Malidoma Somé. This lineage reminds us that grief is relational, needs witness and invites us into ritual and timeless space.

Grief is not only about death. It lives in the losses of identity, land, safety, health, dreams, belonging. It lives in our bodies, our families, our communities, and our times.

In the circle, we explore the Five Gates of Grief as a map that will support each of us to become more able to meet grief in ourselves and others, without fear.

This Book Circle is open to ALL. It’s especially supportive for those who hold space for others, formally or informally, and for anyone who senses that grief is asking for a different kind of attention.

DESCENT
🕯 Starts this Thursday, 15th Jan
🕯 7:30–9:00pm · 6 weeks
🕯 Final journey this season

🔗 https://tanyaforgan.com/descent

29/12/2025

I am thrilled to announce the birthing of a new offering.

DEVOTED

A six month initiation into holding Circle.

For thousands of years, people gathered to listen, to witness, to grieve, to celebrate, to remember who they were together. Wisdom lived in the collective. Authority was shared. Healing happened in relationship.

Devoted is a return to that knowing.

This journey is for women who feel the quiet call to gather people well.

Women who are inspired to:

• Hold Circles that restore belonging.

• Support others to regulate and feel safe.

• Understand trauma, nervous systems, and group dynamics.

• Lead from body and heart, not from role or performance.

• Create spaces where healing happens through relationship.

• Model what it means to be an embodied, awake, compassionate human.

Circle work is not a luxury.
It is cultural repair.
It is how we relearn to be human with each other.

We begin in February, in a small and intimate group.

This is an initiation that will ask something of you, and will give you much in return.

What you will receive:

• A carefully curated journey of teachings, readings, and embodied practices.

• Small, supportive peer pods for connection, practice, and gentle accountability.

• Ongoing mentorship and collective wisdom from a community walking beside you.

What you will leave with

• The confidence and skill to create and guide circles and community gatherings.

• A grounded toolkit of somatic, energetic, and relational practices for coherence and repair.

• An embodied understanding of welcome, deep listening, and navigating conflict.

• A circle of women, and a certificate affirming your completion of this initiation

Awaken hearts.
Restore belonging.
Lead with devotion.

Online, with two in person practice days.

www.tanyaforgan.com/devoted
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18/10/2025

This year’s Winter Retreat is already stirring something deep within me.

The women are gathering, the Circle is forming.

I’m dreaming and visioning.

I’m writing, weaving, and gathering. I can already see the altar space, the cocooned rest nests, and the land that holds us.
I’m feeling the power of the Circle of ‘us’, those that have said yes and those hearing the call.

I’m collecting stories, songs, and poems.
I’m scribing the rituals, attuning to the quiet alchemy already forming in this year’s retreat.

This is not a “rinse and repeat,” even though I’ve returned year after year.

This is deepening.

It’s listening to the women who have come before, some for many years, hearing what supported their unfurling, what brought them most alive to love.

It’s holding just enough structure to nurture, but not so much that it squeezes out the mystery.

I know the space, the land, the people at Florence House intimately. That familiarity allows me to trust in the holding beyond the circle itself.

And I love that this year’s retreat lands in the heart of Winter Solstice, with all the quiet gifts it brings.

This retreat is my absolute love. If you’ve been before, you know why. If this is your first time you'll get to find out ;-)

It holds the rhythm of our gathering. It’s the one I know best. It feels like a beloved.

We’ll gather from 19–21st December to retreat into and celebrate the Winter Solstice. This retreat will be lovingly supported by my Soul Sis Geeta Jajani.

The Circle is open.
If it’s calling you, please join us.

https://tanyaforgan.com/the-winter-retreat/

09/10/2025

Grief.
* For all those who have lost their lives in wars and conflicts.
* For all those whose lives are being trampled upon by powerful elites.
* For all those who are suffering.
* For all those who are homeless on the streets of London, Delhi, Washington DC...
* For all the varied species on this beautiful planet who are being obliterated by greed and aggression.

And so I grieve.

On a personal level, four people important to me have died in the last two years. Getting older: fewer weddings, more funerals. And I am grieving today for a good friend who is very unwell. At times I feel an iceberg of sadness within me. My heart shakes at the enormity of it all. Sometimes, it is almost like I am on my hands and knees. What happens next?

Grief. This is a powerful word that comes from the Latin ‘gravis’ meaning “heavy” or “weighty”. Sallie Tisdale (author of 'Advice For Future Corpses') wrote: “Grief is like a long march in bad weather.” Grief can be deeply exhausting.

But can we allow our grief? As best as we can, can we attempt to engage with grief, even express our grieving? Because pain and sorrow might cultivate appreciation of life. Because without grief, there might be no joy. Because loss can teach us about the importance of life. Because grief – a letting go – can make space for joy. A learning that we can aspire to do what we love in this life (and so not prevaricate or postpone).

Engaging with grief can take many forms: remembering absent friends with other friends, gardening, tree hugging, pet proximity, physical and verbal expression, watching the sky and the horizon, journal writing – and much more. Maybe wondering where our happy places might be (two of mine are the Parkland Walk and the Woodberry Wetlands cafe).

Where are your happy places?

08/10/2025

DESCENT: A Six-Week Book Circle Journey through Francis Weller’s The 'Wild Edge of Sorrow'.
Exploring the Five Gates of Grief, together.

As we meander towards winter, I’m following an inner call with something that has been quietly living in my heart for some time.

Together with amazing Soul Sister and Sound Therapist Catherine Holt, we will be offering DESCENT, a six-week journey through Francis Weller’s 'The Wild Edge of Sorrow' book, weaving grief exploration, sound healing, and the sacred art of tending the soul.

Years ago, when I first encountered Francis Weller's words, something in me opened up. His book gave language to what I had been carrying for so long and offered me a permission slip to feel what I had long held back. The experience moved me so deeply that I went on to apprentice with him as a Grief Tender, learning the living practice of holding community Grief Rituals.

During that time I discovered that when grief is given space, witness, and ritual, it transforms. It ceases to be a private burden and becomes a river that reconnects us, to ourselves, to one another, and to what truly matters. I find grief the most exquisite expression, for it reminds us how much we love.

Catherine and I have both walked our own descents, individually and in support of each other. We know the landscape of grief intimately, not because we've nailed it, but because we're still in it, still learning what it means to stay open when everything in us wants to close.

We are called to offer the DESCENT journey now because so many of us are carrying unspoken griefs, personal losses, collective heartbreak, the ache of dreams deferred, love unmet, and a world trembling with immense loss. We need spaces where we can tell the truth about what it actually feels like to be human right now. Where we don't have to perform or produce or have it all 'together'.

This circle is for anyone who is curious about exploring grief as a teacher, who wants to move beyond intellectual understanding and experience its wisdom through the body and the soul. It is for those who sense grief living within them, grief that may be old or unspoken, known or unnamed.

Over six weeks, we’ll travel through The Five Gates of Grief as described by internationally known Psychotherapist, Author and Soul Activist with over 30 years of experience Francis Weller. We will be blending reading, reflection with sound healing, and gentle ritual into a living exploration of the heart.

This is not a traditional book study where we stay safely in our heads, analysing and discussing from a comfortable distance. It's an embodied descent. A journey where Weller's words move from page to body to soul. Where we let ourselves feel, gently and with care. Where we discover that grief, when welcomed, becomes a portal to deeper connection, meaning, aliveness, and, surprisingly, more joy.

No prior experience is needed, only a willingness to arrive with an open heart, and a copy of The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller.

Commences Thursday, 6th November · 8pm (Online)

Join us
https://tanyaforgan.com/descent/

24/08/2025

EMBODIED PEACE - Calling all Peace Builders, Facilitators, Coaches, Community Leaders, and anyone seeking to cultivate deeper presence and resilience in their personal and collective lives.

I’ve known what it feels like to fracture relationships and then slowly learn what it takes to heal them….or walk away with the knowing that I have done all I can. I’ve witnessed people I love struggle with conflict. I’ve seen how easily fear, defensiveness, and silence take over. And I know in my bones that conflict is one of the hardest things we face as human beings.

What I’ve come to know is that peace isn’t something we’ll stumble upon only when the world quiets down. Peace begins within. It is felt in the body, carried on the breath, and nurtured in the tender space of the heart.

I’m not speaking about bypassing with love and light. I mean the raw, steadying practice of tending to ourselves, and co-tending to one another, especially when life feels messy, uncertain, or divided.

This day at is an invitation to explore - together. How we find more steadiness when things feel shaky, to practice staying in relationship even when it’s hard.

🌿 We will use movement, breath, and somatic practices to reconnect with the peace that lives inside us

🌿 We will learn how the nervous system responds in conflict, and how to meet tension with curiosity instead of collapse or escalation

🌿 We will sit in Circle, inside the Bedouin tent, and practice what it means to hold disagreement with grace and to live from our deepest values

This is for anyone who feels the weight of these times and longs to root into a steadier presence.
Especially for those working in peace building, facilitation, coaching, leadership, activism, and anyone who simply wants to learn how to navigate conflict with more resilience, honesty, and heart.

No experience is needed. Just a willingness to pause, to listen, and to remember that peace is possible, even here, even now.

Date: Wednesday 4th September
Venue: St Ethelburga’s, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
Time: 10:00 – 16:30

🔗 Book via https://www.stethelburgas.org/event/embodied-peace-workshop-sep-25

23/08/2025

For the past few years, I’ve been listening to one question whispering through my body again and again:

What does it really mean to live with an awakened heart?

The answer, while never final, continues to reveal itself in small, ordinary ways, in the cracks of grief and tenderness, in laughter that dissolves walls, in the quiet exhale of being truly seen.

Heart Alchemy was born from this inquiry.

On 7th September, Blanca León and I are holding a one-day retreat created as a remembering, a return to your heart’s natural rhythm, to the part of you that already knows how to rest, soften, and belong.

This is not a retreat of shiny performances or spiritual posturing. It is a day of honest humanity with a circle of women who are all learning to be with life in its raw, wild, tender forms.

We’ll be guided by restorative movement to soften what’s braced, Yoga Nidra as a doorway into renewal, nourishing seasonal food to restore the body, time in nature to remember our place in the wider web, and a women’s circle where truth, love, and presence are welcome.

This day is medicine for weary hearts, excitable hearts, tender hearts, ALL the hearts.

It’s an invitation to stop holding it all together for a while, to breathe deeper, and to let yourself be met.

💗 The circle is almost full. If you feel the pull, join us.

Heart Alchemy Women’s Retreat Day ~ A Sacred Return
7th September | Wasing Park, Aldermaston
🕙 10:00am – 4:30pm

https://tanyaforgan.com/womens-retreat/

18/01/2025

To all the new people here—thank you for joining my little corner of the world. And to those who have been here for a while, thank you, too. I truly hope this space offers you an out-breath in a world that often feels like it’s holding its breath.

I’m Tanya—an Embodiment and Group Facilitator, blending Yoga Nidra, mindfulness, grief tending, breathwork, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion into spaces where we can truly come home to ourselves. I believe in speaking to the truth of life, peeling back the layers, and cutting through the noise to reconnect with what truly matters. Small talk? Not really my thing. What I care about is the deeper conversation—the one that leads us back to a sense of belonging, both to ourselves and to each other.

My main body of work is called ‘Awakening The Heart,’ and is dedicated to reconnecting with our epicentre of love - our hearts, our truths, and life. Time and again, Through ritual, reflection, and community we co-create moments of stillness in the chaos, allowing us to return home to ourselves.

Whether you’re here for a little inspiration, a reminder to slow down, or a nudge on your journey, I hope we can continue to awaken, explore, and embrace the messy beauty of the human experience together.

Love ❤️

05/01/2025

Grief and Gratitude Ritual ~ Saturday 11th January, Wokingham.

This time of year often brings a quiet tenderness that’s hard to put into words. After the rush of the holidays, there’s a certain stillness that can feel heavy. The joy we’ve celebrated sometimes gives way to sorrow—whether for lost loved ones, missed moments, or just the sheer exhaustion that creeps in after it all. It’s normal to feel a little raw.

Next Saturday I will be holding a ‘Grief and Gratitude Ritual’ alongside amazing Sound Healing Therapist Catherine Holt in Wokingham.

This is a space to tend to tender hearts, rest weary bones and enjoy the simple delight of sharing precious moments together.

Grief and Gratitude Ritual
Date: 11th January 4-7pm
Location: Sarvanga Studio, Wokingham

https://tanyaforgan.com/grief-and-gratitude/

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I am a Community-Gatherer, Meditation & Yoga Teacher, Holistic Therapist and Wisdom Seeker. I blend these skills and gather people in the UK and Spain to share, move, co-create, explore and build connection and community.

I teach classes in yoga, meditation and self discovery, creating safe and compassionate space to explore.

I facilitate groups and communities, bringing them together in circles for sincere conversations through mindfulness and meditation, helping them reach deeper levels of understanding and trust.

I coach individuals through mind based exploration and physical awareness, helping to guide towards a deeper understanding of living a healthy and authentic life.