The Initiation - Women’s Workshop

Part of the Forbidden Path – A Series of Women’s Workshops

26th - 28th June 2026
with Sanjula, Abhi & Tarisha

Empowered Women: Embodied Inner Authority Weekend

Threshold – Earth – Rebirth


For women ready to step into embodied Inner Authority - with authenticity, integrity, and heart.

Inner Authority isn’t about volume. It’s about grounded presence, clear boundaries, and a voice that carries strength and kindness at the same time.

This weekend is for women who are ready to stop shrinking, stop over-explaining, stop abandoning themselves — and begin leading from embodied truth.

It takes courage to live authentically.
Often, what holds us back are unexpressed emotions stored in the body.

This weekend is about releasing, remembering, and reclaiming.

Summary

Begins on:
Friday 26th June

Ends on:
Sunday 28th June

Duration:
5 three-day modules over 10 months. Each weekend can also be booked as a stand-alone event.

The Initiation is hosted by:
Sanjula, Abhi & Tarisha

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What this weekend opens you into

You are not coming to learn something new.
You are coming to remember who you were before you were shaped, silenced, made smaller, made agreeable, made polite, made acceptable.

This work invites a deep return to your instinctual core, where the belly anchors your sense of safety, boundaries, and inner authority. As this centre awakens, the channel to the throat heals and strengthens, allowing your needs and truth to be expressed with clarity and embodied power.

This is the Forbidden Path:

The path where women are no longer ruled by shame.
The path where your body is your authority.
The path where your voice is no longer negotiated.
The path where boundaries are not defended — they are lived.
The path where leadership comes from presence, not performance.

This weekend is a crossing point.

” If you want to share with sisters on your journey, to go deeper into your self knowledge & awakening, to expand your energy & to celebrate life from & with your heart, this retreat is for you!!”

-Vanessa, participant Woman Alive 2024

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What women often leave with

  • A strong foundation of clarity and grounding

  • Emotional release and identity shedding

  • A personal boundary statement

  • A daily grounding practice

  • A communication framework to use immediately

  • A deepened commitment to walking the Forbidden Path

Who this weekend is for

  • Women ready to step into embodied leadership

  • Women longing to stand alongside other women in honesty and depth

  • Women carrying shame, anger, or ancestral weight that is ready to be laid down

  • Women ready to reclaim their voice, boundaries, and rooted power

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The Weekend

Here we awaken the element of Earth: grounding, stability, boundaries, body-truth, and the first shedding of an old identity.

Through ceremony, shadow work, ancestral clearing, emotional release and embodied boundary practices, we enter the place where women remember who they are beneath generations of conditioning.

We will work with:

  • A threshold ritual of release

  • Earthing practices for grounding and boundaries

  • Ancestral shame, guilt & suppression

  • Emotional expression & somatic truth

  • Voice, presence & embodied Inner Authority 

  • Clear, kind boundaries and authentic communication

You will be held through elemental ritual, body-based healing, and earth practices that support you to hold more life force, truth, and leadership in your system.

‘I arrived feeling a bit tired and needing nourishment. The songbird in my heart began to sing. She remembered her song.’

-Nadia participant of previous workshop Woman Alive

The Modules

  • June 26–28, 2026 — with Sanjula & Abhi
    Threshold – Earth – Rebirth
    (Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

    Here the threshold is crossed. This weekend awakens Earth: grounding, boundaries, body truth, stability, and the first shedding of the old identity. Through ceremony, emotional release, ancestral clearing, shadow work and embodied boundaries, we enter the underworld of the Forbidden Path — the place where women remember who they are beneath conditioning.

    We address shame, guilt, unprocessed rage, silence, and the inherited stories from mothers, grandmothers and patriarchal lineage. This is where you meet the woman you were before you were shaped: instinctive, earthy, honest, clear. You will be held through elemental ritual, body-based healing, earth grounding, and practices that prepare your system to hold more life force.

    During this workshop we will…

    • Walk a full threshold ritual of release

    • Work with earthing practices for grounding & boundaries

    • Explore ancestral shame, guilt & suppression

    • Activate emotional expression & somatic truth

  • 18–20 September 2026 — with Amiya & Fiona
    Untamed – Sensual – Sacred

    (Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

    This is the Water Earth And Fire weekend — the domain of emotion, instinct, sensuality and the underworld feminine. Here we meet Lilith, Kali, the sensual serpent woman, the ecstatic dancer, the one who has never apologised for her hunger or her freedom. Through dance, movement, naked or clay-covered body painting, deep emotional alchemy, grief & rage ritual, and sensual reclamation, we return to the raw feminine the world has tried to tame.

    This workshop liberates shame, rage, repression, Catholic guilt, and the pleasure woman within. It is a breakthrough space where freedom, earthiness and instinct become sacred once more. We honour the woman who wants to fly and the woman who wants to root.

    During this workshop we will…

    • Reclaim sensuality, pleasure and instinct

    • Explore Water: emotion, guilt, shame & release

    • Engage in dance, naked/clay body painting

    • Meet Lilith & Kali archetypes through ritual

    • Work with expression , repression & breakthrough processes

    • Heal through sound, breath, movement & circle

    • Reawaken pleasure and the snake-wisdom of the body

    • Explore your forbidden sensual shadows

  • 11-13th Dec 2026 — with Tarisha & Louise

    (Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

    Authority – Fire – Truth

    This is the Fire weekend — boundaries, clarity, leadership, voice, inner authority. After entering your wildness, we now refine it. Sovereign Woman stands tall in her truth, speaks clearly, and reclaims the power she once handed over to others. Here we work with unprocessed rage, control, empowerment, embodied boundaries, communication and leadership.

    This is leadership not as performance, but as presence. You will learn to stand on your own feet, reclaim your ability to take space, and speak with precision and integrity. Through fire ritual, voice work, power reclamation, and tree-rooted embodiment, we awaken the inner queen and leader.

    During this workshop we will…

    • Practice embodied boundaries & clear communication

    • Reclaim unprocessed rage in healthy expression

    • Work with Fire: desire, leadership & sovereignty

    • Strengthen self-regulation without external reliance

    • Explore voice, visibility & the sacred “no”

    • Unwind patterns of shrinking or over-boundarying

    • Reclaim inner leadership & embodied authority

    • Use nature (trees, earth) as allies for empowerment

  • 12 – 14 February 2027 — with Sanjula & Amiya

    Stillness – Insight – Discernment

    (Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

    This is the Air & Ether weekend — intuition, clarity, ancestral listening, and deep stillness. After the emotional, sensual and fiery territories, we now enter the quiet that reveals everything. This workshop includes silence, meditation, council work , breath, intuition activation, shadow integration, night-time nature rituals, blindfolded visioning, earth-burial practices, and listening to the land.

    This is where the feminine elder comes online — the woman who sees truth without fear, speaks only what is essential, and trusts her inner knowing completely. Here we integrate the journey so far and begin to sense what our medicine might be.

    During this workshop we will…

    • Drop into deep stillness and intuitive states

    • Engage in blindfolded vision quests and listening rituals

    • Work with night nature practices & sweat lodge (if permitted)

    • Explore Air: voice, discernment, creativity

    • Integrate shadow and wisdom with care

    • Receive ancestral insight & heal conditioning

    • Recalibrate the nervous system toward spaciousness

    • Sit in stillness circles & elder council

  • Spring 2027 — with Tarisha & Louise

    Radiance – Offering – Purity
    (2 nights · £330 EB)

    The final workshop completes the Forbidden Path — the return to Eden as a woman who now chooses the apple consciously. Gifted Woman is where your medicine becomes visible. This is the weekend of radiance, purity, elegance, sensual innocence, and sacred offering. Through creativity, ritual, expression, ancestral honouring, nature listening, and visibility practices, you will discover the gifts you’ve hidden — and the courage to share them.

    We explore pleasure as purity, visibility without shame, embodied offering, and the subtle feminine power that blesses by simply being. This is not about becoming a healer — but about recognising how you naturally heal, inspire, and uplift when you stop hiding.

    During this workshop we will…

    • Discover your unique medicine & feminine gifts

    • Explore visibility, expression & embodied radiance

    • Engage in pleasure, purity & sensual innocence rituals

    • Work with creativity, voice & movement

    • Listen to nature for guidance on your offering

    • Reclaim gifts hidden by shame or conditioning

    • Participate in a completion ceremony

    • Return to the Garden as the woman you’ve become


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Meet your Facilitators

Sanjula

Sanjula is a deeply experienced facilitator trained over many years at Humaniversity under the guidance of Veeresh. She specialises in working with women, supporting emotional expression, empowerment, and deep healing. Her work is grounded in Shamanic deep healing bodywork and extensive experience facilitating and assisting primal groups. Sanjula runs Empowerment for Women workshops at Leela and brings a grounded, heart-led presence shaped by her own healing journey, particularly in the art of forgiveness within family relationships.

Abhi

Abhi is a heartful friend and has been part of the Leela Workshops staff since 2019. A certified Bioenergetics facilitator from the Italian Academy A.I.O.C, she is deeply passionate about body-based therapy and regularly practices and facilitates Bioenergetics both within Leela and beyond. Abhi’s bodywork focuses on releasing unprocessed emotions and softening the armours and chronic holding patterns that restrict the natural flow of energy and aliveness in the body. She brings vibrant enthusiasm, sensitivity, a grounded presence, and a genuine thirst for life into the community.

Tarisha

Tarisha is a Singing Medicine woman and a keeper of the land at Leela.
Songs and prayers come naturally through her, connecting us to the Divine, to the light inside..to the light worldwide.. She is an inspiring musician and poet with a visible creative fire that inspires and uplifts those around her.

This is a space where you meet the woman you were before the world told you who to be.

A space where something old can fall away.
A space where something truer can take its place.

You will not leave exactly as you arrived.

Practical Information

Arrival and departure times

  • Arrival Friday 26 June from 8pm (Arrive from 5pm to settle in, dinner is at 7pm)

  • Ends Sunday 28 June by 5 pm

Dates other modules

18th – 20th Sept 2026
11th – 13th December 2026
12th – 14th Feb 2027
16th – 18th April 2027

What’s included

  • Tutorial, teaching and experiential training

  • All meals and teas

  • Sauna access and facilities

Important

All workshops are available standalone

To ensure our gatherings are accessible, we offer a concession option for individuals who might benefit from financial support – please email [email protected] to apply

If you have any specific needs related to physical health, mobility, neurodiversity, or anything else that may be useful for us to know, please reach out to us in confidence ahead of time so that we can support you. We are committed to ensuring your comfort and well-being during this journey. Please contact Louise at [email protected]

Training & Accommodation Costs

Price The Initiation

as a stand-alone workshop

Early bird till 5th June

£330 (SAVE £60) + accommodation*

Full price

£390 + accommodation*

*Accommodation is not included in the price and can be selected separately during checkout via the booking link.

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Payment Plan

We understand that everyone's financial situation is unique, so we've designed our payment plan with flexibility in mind.

Secure your place by spreading the total cost into manageable instalments. We offer the option to pay a deposit and spread the balance over the remaining months before the payment deadline which is a few weeks before the start of the event. There is a £5 charge for using this payment plan option, and payment dates will be clearly outlined when you book.

Cancellation & Refunds

Our Cancellation policy can be found here.

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Food at Leela

All food is vegetarian, drawing inspiration from cuisines from around the world. Garden produce is used when available including green salads and culinary herbs.

There is a separate tea making area with a wide range of beverages which include herbal teas, coffee, decaf, green and black teas, hot chocolate, plus cow’s milk and alternative milks.

We cater for the following diets …

  • Dairy-free / Egg-free

  • Gluten Free

  • Sugar conscious

  • Vegan and vegetarian

Food is prepared in a shared kitchen where allergens are present. See our food information page for details.

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