The Initiation - Women’s Workshop
Part of the Forbidden Path – A Series of Women’s Workshops
26th - 28th June 2026
with Sanjula, Abhi & Team
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 Modules over 10 Months, weekend bookable as a stand-alone
Hosted by:
Sanjula, Abhi & team
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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
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
Training Highlights
This training is a deeply immersive journey designed to awaken your authentic self, unlock your inner potential, and support you in embodying your unique gifts in the world. Through a powerful blend of experiential practices, group processes, and individual support, you are invited into a space of transformation, connection, and self-discovery.
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Engage in dynamic, heart-led workshops that combine therapeutic processes, breathwork, energy work, and creative exploration. These embodied experiences help you release old patterns, integrate new awareness, and anchor lasting change, not just intellectually, but within your whole being.
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Movement is a gateway to change. Through music, dance, and expressive practices, you’ll reconnect with your body, awaken your vitality, and experience the joy of authentic self-expression. These sessions support emotional release, playfulness, and a deeper connection to your life-force energy.
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Create space to slow down, turn inward, and listen deeply. Guided meditations and reflective practices allow you to integrate your experiences, develop self-awareness, and connect with your inner truth. This foundation supports clarity, balance, and a grounded sense of presence.
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Transformation is amplified in connection. You’ll be held within a supportive and like-minded community where you can be seen, heard, and celebrated. Through shared experiences, feedback, and group connection, you build meaningful relationships and gain the confidence to step into your fullest expression.
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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
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.
A Message from the Facilitators
‘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 Forbidden Path dates …
26- 28th June 2026 – The Initiation with Sanjula & Abhi & Team
18th – 20th Sept 2026 – Wild Woman Rising with Fiona, Amiya & Team
11th – 13th December 2026 – Sovereign Woman with Tarisha, Louise & Team
12th – 14th Feb 2027 – Wise Woman – Stillness Speaks with Sanjula, Amiya & Team
16th – 18th April 2027 – Gifted Woman with Tarisha, Louise & Team
The Modules
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
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
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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. Payment plans are free, and payment dates will be clearly outlined when you book.
Cancellation & Refunds
Our Cancellation policy can be found here.
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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