JUNE 6 - JULY 5
ONLINE-COURSE with LIVE SUPPORT
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS
REVISED VERSION
Feathers spread hope, birds exude freedom, nests give shelter - they all nurture us deeply. Birds remind us of who we once were and teach us how to listen.
Engage. Love. Break open.
"Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”
~ Terry Tempest Williams ~
'The Bird in the Heart' - Painting the Unwritten Voice
Immersive experience designed to help find our voice, embrace silence, and connect with nature, moving from "blind" creation to empowered expression.
When Women Were Birds... Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams is a lyrical memoir exploring the journey to find one’s authentic voice, sparked by the shocking discovery that her mother’s thirty-four journals, kept until her death, were completely empty.
This forces her to reckon with the "silence" of her mother's life and what it means for her own. Williams investigates how to move from a life of silencing, or being silent, to one of speaking, writing, and acting.
The book is a reflection on inheritance, silence, and the power of women's voices, structured into 54 variations - matching the age at which her mother died.
Birds, and nature more broadly, act as metaphors for freedom and connection. They represent the wild, untameable part of the female spirit.
The deeper meaning centres on interpreting the "blank" legacy. Instead of seeing her mother's silence as a void, Williams learns that it was a gift - a "performance" of silence that challenged her to fill in the pages with her own voice.
Hope perches in our souls...
Create a wonderful picture, mystical and profound yet liberating at the same time, symbolizing hope with feathers, new life and protection with eggs and nests, and exploring freedom with the winged ones.
The free symbolism of the birds touches me deeply and I know that I am not alone in my feelings.
June, being a time of vibrant life and maximum daylight, aligns perfectly with the book’s celebration of birdsong, nature, and finding one’s voice - and balances the lushness of June with the introspective and nature-focused tone of the memoir.
The protection that comes from nests inevitably brings to mind the maternal aspects of ourselves.
The very first voice we hear and inhale is the one of the mother.
This voice is imprinted on our soul and throughout our lives it is a very important process of letting this voice on the one hand guide us - in its true sense of shelter and nourishment - while on the other hand we took on the journey to finding our very own voice - in its true sense of freedom and hope.
And... there's a mother amongst us, a mother that has no form and has all forms:
Women who have done and still do the same in every moment of humanity, or who choose silence as a voice, blank pages as their story... or a canvas as their voice to be made visible.
Voice is a complex and very important part of ourselves with the mean to express, a keeper of the nest within ourselves, our refuge.
Voice is a creature meant to fly - and a women free to express her voice for her own pleasure and the higher good is a woman that engages, loves, breaks open.
"Every woman who heals herself helps heal all the women who came before her, and all those who come after her."
- Christine Northrup -
Course Content
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS 1 - Engage - Embracing the Blank
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS 2 - Love - The Sound of Colour in a Broken World
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS 3 - Break Open - The Wild Within
WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS 4 - Emergence - Singing at Dawn
YOU HAVE A VOICE
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