…because we are meant to circle.

We are cyclical beings. We move with the moon and the seasons, with our emotions and our bodies.

We are meant to be happy one day and sad the next. To celebrate our beautiful parts and cry with our messy parts. To sing and dance and move our hips. To be sensual and to be open. To feel it all.

We remember these parts of ourselves when we sit in circle.

Because we begin to speak what is deeply true.

We learn who we are. We learn what we feel. We learn how to listen, not just to each other, but to ourselves.

And in the process, we learn how to honor ourselves and one another.

Something shifts where we are truly witnessed.

We remember how to listen. How to ask questions, How to become mirrors for one another, How to tell stories and share what we have lived.

We remember that we are not alone. That our experience may be uniquely ares, but there is so much that connects us.

And yet, we are living in the age of loneliness.

We have more ways to connect than ever before, and still so many of us are longing for something deeper. To be known. To be witnessed. To have somewhere we can bring what is actually happening inside of us. Not the polished version, but the messy, beautiful, confusing version.

We don’t need more ways to communicate. We need belonging. We need spaces where we can show up and be ourselves. Without judgement.

And that is how we become more fully ourselves.

And we remember that we don’t have to do it alone.