Embracing Darkness, Welcoming Light: A New Year’s Womxn’s Ritual w/ Meredith Rosenbluth

This two-hour circle is a gently guided and collectively woven container for women and genderqueer folks to reflect on and release the imprints of 2025, while turning towards and setting intentions for the year ahead. Through altar building, personal sharing, journaling, singing, and somatic practices, we will still time to honor ourselves and tend to our needs in the transition from 2025 into 2026.

Embracing Darkness, Welcoming Light:

A New Year’s Womxn’s Ritual for Releasing and Receiving

While January 1 is the designated new year in the Gregorian calendar, it remains seasonally and energetically the dead of winter—a time to turn inwards, rest, compost, and reflect.

In being with what was, we can begin to call in what will be. In attuning to the rhythms of nature, we can give ourselves permission to be unhurried in this process.

In this womxn’s gathering, we will co-create ritual space to tend to ourselves and each other at this turn of the wheel of the year. This ritual circle will include:

• Building a collaborative altar
• Contemplative journaling
• Personal sharing of reflections from your 2025 and witnessing others’
• Gently guided time to seed-plant intentions for 2026
• Somatic practices to release stuck tension and emotions from the body
• Group singing/chanting
• Compassionately held and facilitated space to serve you in your personal integration of 2025 and orientation to 2026

Ritual is a sacred, intentional, embodied practice of slowing time. It is a choosing to direct attention; to commune with oneself, ancestors, energies, symbols, and spirit. We need these containers to envision and manifest, process and honor, alchemize and release.

In this ritual circle, we welcome:
• Authenticity and vulnerability
• Non-judgment towards self and others
• Agency in participation and non-participation (each practice as invitation, not requirement)
• The full spectrum of human emotion
• Honoring confidentiality of what is shared in the container

Meredith is devoted to cultivating attuned, grounded, vulnerable, and joyful spaces to foster meaningful connection and transformation. All of you is welcome, exactly as you are in any given moment, always. A somatic emotional health coach and astrologer, Meredith offers individual coaching, breathwork, and group programs through her private practice. You can learn more here. 

For more information on Meredith, please see her teacher profile here! She teaches donation based Meditation weekly on Wednesdays from 1:15-1:45pm.

Cost: $30
Financial Aid Available- Please stop by the front desk, call, or email kelsey@ashevillecommunityyoga.org.

PLEASE NOTE: We encourage pre-registration for all programming. Registering in advance guarantees your spot and helps the studio have adequate staffing. If fewer than 5 participants register the event may be canceled.

Refund Policy: We understand that life happens and unforeseen circumstances come up. If life offers up an unexpected event and you need to withdraw from the workshop:

  • A full refund will be issued if you need to withdraw 4+ days before the workshop. Please reach out for your refund, as it will not be automatically applied to your account.
  • If you need to withdraw within 3 days or fewer, no refund is provided.

Please create a Mindbody account for each participant if registering more than 1 person. If you have any questions regarding registration, please email Kelsey at  kelsey@ashevillecommunityyoga.org

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