As mothers, we need time and space to metabolize all that we've been through on this motherhood path.
MotherCircle is that space--an 8-week journey designed for mothers of all walks of life to explore your own invisible arc of the motherhood journey and emerge with greater clarity and access to your inner wisdom.
In MotherCircle we...
- delve into the unseen and often unnamed parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal and ancestral.
- discover center (again) and knit the pieces together within a supportive community of wise and attuned women.
- explore the universality of motherhood that connects us all while cultivating the unique wisdom within you.
- ask big questions, repair old patterns and rewrite narratives with curiosity and compassion
Circle wisdom can support us through all of life's thresholds.
This is a space is ready to hold you, not change or fix anything because you're already whole.
Ancient wisdom and modern research tell us that when women gather, their mental health drastically improves. It is truly amazing that when we witness and listen to other mothers share, we often feel like parts of our own story and self are witnessed too. When we gather in circle, we feel less alone.
All mothers are welcome to take a seat in the circle.
New mothers, mid-life mothers, grandmothers, mothers to be, mothers who have experienced loss and women holding space for mothers. The circle supports all stages and seasons . It honors that there are many ways we come to motherhood including birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended, and more.
Join the next round of MotherCircle
May 21 via Zoom *** Wednesdays 7-8:15pm ET
Investment is $325 for the 8 sessions. Payment plans available. Reach out.
MotherCircle is soul-level work.
Women need a place to gather --a space that can hold the full spectrum of the motherhood experience.
We choose to be in community and connection with mothers of all walks of life as we wrestle with many of the same questions, struggles, and joys that challenge us.
As we do this work together, we begin to dissolve the layers of separation, isolation and overwhelm we as women often experience as we enter into the initiation known as motherhood. When these parts are left unseen and untouched, they can resurface as we meet other thresholds in motherhood and life. This is reparative work for us individually, collectively, and culturally,
We can arrive or return to circle at all ages and stages to share wisdom and see ourselves in each other's stories because we continue to mother through each and every threshold we encounter.
This is the kind of medicine I wish I had when I first became a mother 21 years ago. These circles feel like medicine. for the body, mind, heart and soul.
We circle around one another because were never meant to mother alone.
Women need a place to gather --a space that can hold the full spectrum of the motherhood experience.
We choose to be in community and connection with mothers of all walks of life as we wrestle with many of the same questions, struggles, and joys that challenge us.
As we do this work together, we begin to dissolve the layers of separation, isolation and overwhelm we as women often experience as we enter into the initiation known as motherhood. When these parts are left unseen and untouched, they can resurface as we meet other thresholds in motherhood and life. This is reparative work for us individually, collectively, and culturally,
We can arrive or return to circle at all ages and stages to share wisdom and see ourselves in each other's stories because we continue to mother through each and every threshold we encounter.
This is the kind of medicine I wish I had when I first became a mother 21 years ago. These circles feel like medicine. for the body, mind, heart and soul.
We circle around one another because were never meant to mother alone.
Here's what we cover and how we flow through the weeks...
MotherDive: Entering motherhood is often an underworld journey, often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, be present to it and witnessed as you locate yourself within it, no matter what stage or season you're in. Understanding this dive will support you through all thresholds you cross.
MotherCycle: Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
MotherCycle: Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
MotherBody: Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Everything a child transitioning into a new family needs, the one who is mothering them also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey or in life.
MotherJaguar: The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering and relationships. Access the full spectrum of your nervous system.
MotherBirth: Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. No matter how a woman grows her family or comes to motherhood, a mother is born and this too is an initiatory experience. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys
MotherLover: There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.
MotherWorth: Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.
MotherCode: We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.
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Welcome! I’m Karla Johnston, you’re facilitator for MotherCircle.
I've been mothering for 21 years through birth and international adoption. I've gone far and wide into the evidence-based and holistic supports for myself and for my family. After cycles of falling apart and coming together, MotherCircle helped coalesce all the pieces of my own motherhood journey and many overlapping underworld experiences that I navigated while mothering three daughters and accompanying my own mother through a decade of Alzheimer's.. After participating in several MotherCircles with the founder, Kimberly Ann Johnson, I was delighted to complete the MotherCircle Facilitator training with the first cohort. I am honored to be able to bring my own voice and gifts to the course. I believe in motherhood. I believe that when mothers thrive, children and communities can too. So, I’m deeply committed to supporting mothers on their journey, regardless of stage or season of mothering their in. Once a mother, always a mother and we need each other and our shared wisdom. I live in Durham, North Carolina where I work as a Certified Ayurvedic Wellness and Embodiment Coach and Certified MotherCircle Facilitator supporting women and mothers. I'm passionate about creating spaces where mothers remember their wholeness, digest life, and reclaim center. Join me as we embark on this journey together and let the circle hold and nurture your body and soul |
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My experience of MotherCircle
Each circle is unique with the wisdom each mother brings. I wonder what we'll create in this MotherCircle together? Come explore with us! |
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Class Details for the Online Circle...
- 8 - 60-75 minute live virtual session
- Access to recordings if you happen to miss a live call. We encourage live and life happens.
- Time for yourself with an inspiring group of women.
- Private breakout rooms (not recorded)
- PDF materials to support reflection and journaling.
- Private group to connect in between sessions and share insights
- Discount on any movement, motherhood, or Ayurvedic Wellness or somatic healing classes offered during the duration of MotherCircle.
- Additional somatic breath/movement class to help us move with the stories and reflections. Date tbd.
- An opportunity to gather in person if you live in the Triangle area or near.
- For women mothering a child born from another mother's womb, I co-host circles with my friend and colleague, Michelle Kenefick, for women mothering through adoption. I've found that MotherCircle itself can hold so much for all of us. yet when we ran our first circle together, we realized the profound healing and connection that came from offering a space to integrate the unique complexities that thread through our experiences. We hold the mystery and lead with curiosity around separation wounds and healing across motherlines. Our next circle will be in October. This May circle is for all! And you are welcome here! I'm here to guide and support you as you explore. I'll be available for you to reach out to during the sessions.. Also, know what anyone who chooses to repeat MotherCircle always receives a discount of half off.
Our next circle begins May 21st
INVESTMENT: $325 for the 8 Sessions
INVESTMENT: $325 for the 8 Sessions
PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE. Reach out.
What to expect in our space...
- A container that holds you/us
- Full and small group sharing
- Compassionate witnessing without judgement
- Wisdom from wise and attuned women
- Breath practices designed to regulate the nervous system
- An understanding of how your nervous system responses impact your mothering and how to make use of it in a constructive way.
What you won't find here...
- Advice giving or coaching
- therapy (although it can feel so therapeutic)
- venting or complaining
- long detailed sharing of stories
- open-ended sharing and ramblings
- that you have to look or feel like you have it all together.
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Throughout our journey, you will witness and be witnessed in some of the following practices:
COMMUNITY * CONNECTION * WITNESSING INTEGRATION * DEPTH * LAUGHTER BREATHWORK * SOMATIC PRACTICES * JOURNALING STORY * POETRY * MYTH * WISDOM |
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The origin of MotherCircle...
This course was created by Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of The Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild, and Jessica Connolly. Learn more about this global movement MotherCircle, including how to become a facilitator. "We think we are mothering our children; often we are re-mothering ourselves. Our children reflect our nervous systems, and we’re not sure where we end and they begin. |
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We are living at a time of renegotiation and re-labeling. New archetypes are emerging. What is required of us as women and what we require of ourselves is totally NEW. Women are finally getting honest about motherhood. There’s space in the culture for this formerly invisible experience. Our safety no longer depends on our perfection and our role-play. At this time, we can define and redefine motherhood on our own terms…and that comes with its own challenges." --Kimberly & Jessica
“We must build the world we want to belong to.”
– Kimberly Ann Johnson, co-creator of MotherCircle & author of The Fourth Trimester & Call of the Wild
– Kimberly Ann Johnson, co-creator of MotherCircle & author of The Fourth Trimester & Call of the Wild
