AWAKENING PERSEPHONE:
SPRING SOMATIC WORKSHOP SERIES
The Journey
In Greek myth, Persephone descends to the underworld each fall to take her place as sovereign Queen, and returns to the surface to become the Goddess of fertility and spring, until the cycle begins again.
Her ascent brings the world back to life - everything that went quiet starts growing again. Seeds awaken in darkness, push through soil, and bloom.
Winter does the same thing to us. Pulls us inward, slows us down, asks us to tend what needs attention in the quiet and the dark. Then the stirring comes, and we awaken. Spring arrives, the body comes alive, and we, too, enter the cycle of awakening, emerging, and blooming.
This three-workshop series tracks Persephone's return from underworld to surface, and your body's parallel journey from winter to spring. March works with the awakening when you're still in the threshold between seasons but something underneath has begun to stir. April is the active emergence, when you're breaking through into spring but nothing feels settled yet. May is full bloom, learning to inhabit aliveness again while still carrying what the dark revealed.
Each three-hour workshop uses breathwork to open what's been closed, somatic practices to work directly with what your body is holding, movement to wake dormant energy, tarot to give language to what's emerging, and ritual to seal the crossing. You'll be on your feet, on the floor, breathing, moving, feeling, creating actual shifts in your nervous system.
Saturday mornings. Embrace the cycle with the full series, or focus with a single workshop.
FEMININE FIRE:
WOMEN'S SACRED
RAGE WORKSHOP
Saturday, NOVEMBER 14th
10am-4pm
WISHING STAR FARM & WELLNESS CENTER
Glen Arm, Maryland
An Intentionally Crafted Workshop
Conceived, Created, and Facilitated by
Gentle Hands Healing Arts
& WildRise Somatics
FEMININE FIRE:
WOMEN'S SACRED
RAGE WORKSHOP
Saturday, NOVEMBER 14th
10am-4pm
WISHING STAR FARM & WELLNESS CENTER
Glen Arm, Maryland
An Intentionally Crafted Workshop
Conceived, Created, and Facilitated by
Gentle Hands Healing Arts
& WildRise Somatics
WHAT PAST ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT FEMININE FIRE
"A powerful, empowering workshop supporting the idea that anger is a natural emotion that everyone experiences, no matter your gender or background.
Jessica & Brooke create a safe space for you to learn, feel, and express without judgement or fear. There is not only a chance for release in a physical way, but also some amazing somatic exercises, lecture, discussion, and a relaxing sound bath!"
- T, Feminine Fire Attendee
Come together in community.
Scream it out. Smash it to pieces.
Reclaim your sovereignty.
Feminine Fire is a collective experience devoted to honoring, expressing, and releasing women's sacred rage through ritual, energetics, and somatics.
Women have never been permitted anger. They call it hysteria. They call it PMS. They call it Melodrama and Moodiness. History has a long memory for punishing women who refused to stay quiet, and most of us inherited the lesson whether we were taught it directly or not.
This is a day to call rage what it actually is: sacred, useful, and yours to reclaim on your path to sacred sovereignty.
What the Day Holds
- Collective Altar-Building
- Teaching on sacred rage, emotional anatomy, goddess ontology, and feminine power
- Somatic practices to release what's stored in the body
- Guided rage release: screaming, destroying, breaking what needs breaking to create space for more (gentle options held and offered for survivors of violence)
- Calling in joy and sacred sovereignty
- Sound bowl and nervous system aftercare to ground you before you leave crowned.
- Nourishing, catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks, including intentional spices for calling in fire to the body.
WHAT PAST ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT FEMININE FIRE
"The smashing things part was necessary for me. I have been through a lot of big T trauma. This really helped me process it. 
It has also made my past easier to talk about. Before, I had trouble looking at the evidence from what happened to me. Now I can face it and process it. I knew I needed to release these emotions, but I hadn't figured out a safe way to do this for myself. I was scared of all that I was feeling.
Thank you with all of my being for providing a safe space to express this rage that is often pushed aside or diminished for more palatable forms of expression."
- S, Feminine Fire Attendee
WHAT PAST ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT FEMININE FIRE
"The smashing things part was necessary for me. It helped me to release so much I had been holding onto, even emotions and grief I hadn't realized I was holding onto. I have been through a lot of big T trauma. This really helped me process it.
It has also made my past easier to talk about. Before, I had trouble looking at the evidence from what happened to me. Now I can face it and process it. I knew I needed to release these emotions, but I hadn't figured out a safe way to do this for myself. I was scared of all that I was feeling.
Thank you with all of my being for providing a safe space to express this rage that is often pushed aside or diminished for more palatable forms of expression."
- S, Feminine Fire Attendee
The Details
- Date: Saturday, November 14, 2026
- Location:
Wishing Star Farm
11323 Glen Arm Road
Glen Arm, MD 21057 - Duration: 10am-4pm
- Capacity: 20 women total
- Cost*:
$275 early bird price through 10/16 with code FEMFIRE
$325 full standard price 10/16 - 11/14 - Scholarships: Thanks to some lovely souls, we are again offering a few scholarship spots to those who need this work but don't have the financial resources.
Click here to apply for consideration.
*Cancellation Policy: Full refund available for cancellations up to two weeks prior to event. A 50% partial refund is available for cancellations up to one week prior to event.
This workshop is a gift to all women-cis, QUEER, and trans women, as well as non-binary folks who align with womanhoodand- and the Feminine Fire that burns in us all.
OUR FACILITATORS
Jess and Brooke conceived, created, and birthed Feminine Fire: Women's Sacred Rage
as friends and practitioners in a coffee shop. We were venting frustration at toxic positivity, being told "happiness is a choice," and how so many workshops, classes and influencers exclude anger, fire, and fury as sacred, healing practices.
We got mad. We made this.
We offer it to you, and your beautiful, sacred rage.
Brooke is a trauma and resilience-trained somatic practitioner and bodyworker
in the Strozzi lineage, and member of the Gentle Hands Healing Arts Collective.
They are a proud survivor, bio and kinship mother, Underworld Witch, bellydancer, fire performer and member of the Havenwood Farm village of do-gooders.
They see clients in Savage Mill, West Friendship, and virtually.
Jessica is a Reiki Master Teacher since 2013, trauma-informed bodyworker and sound healing practitioner, and founder of Gentle Hands Healing Arts, an incubator for holistic small businesses at Historic Savage Mill.
Jessica has held space in hospitals, hospice rooms, recovery centers, and her own practice for over a decade.
She sees clients in Savage, MD, virtually, and at their homes.
WHAT PAST ATTENDEES SAY ABOUT FEMININE FIRE
"I LOVED the lecture portions! I learned so much and took so many notes.
You both should record this, have a TED talk, or something along those lines. You passed down critical knowledge!
It was a much needed experience and I really hope that this becomes a more frequently occurring thing.
I would love to stay in touch with the other ladies, too. I found that this workshop had the inner workings of a community of its own."
- Z, Feminine Fire Attendee
Rage is Sacred. Anger is our Birthright.
And we refuse to suffocate it in shame anymore.
Nervous System Regulation
Embodied Confidence
Increased Aliveness
Intuitive Wisdom
Walk the Full Journey
Awakening Persephone: Full Series
March 28, April 18 & May 16, 2026
Saturday, 10am to 1pm | Savage, MD
Intentionally Small: Limited to 15 Participants Per Workshop
BUNDLE PRICE: $399 — $133 per workshop, $96 saved.
Walk the full journey alongside Persephone — from Awakening through Emerging to full Bloom. Each workshop builds on the last, tracking her return from underworld to surface and your body's parallel journey from winter to spring.
March 28: Awakening — The threshold between winter and spring. Somatic practices for aliveness, grounding, and bold action / Breathwork to open and settle the nervous system / Intuitive movement / Tarot as integration / Closing spring ritual
April 18: Emerging — The active crossing. Breaking through when nothing has landed yet. Somatic anchoring practices for nervous system regulation / Breathwork for grounding and stability / Body mapping / Sensory grounding techniques / Closing ritual
May 16: Blooming — Full spring. Radiant, unguarded, take-up-space blooming. Somatic practices for expansion and full aliveness / Breathwork for joy and vitality / Divination for pleasure, joy, and sovereignty / Closing ceremony
For you if: You're ready to commit fully to yourself this season. Three months, three workshops, the complete arc of spring — and every tool you need to move through it with intention. Breathwork, somatic practice, movement, divination, and ritual, all building toward the most alive version of you.
Walk the Full Journey
Awakening Persephone: Full Series
March 28, April 25 & May 16, 2026
Saturday, 10am to 1pm | Savage, MD
Intentionally Small: Limited to 15 Participants Per Workshop
BUNDLE PRICE: $399 — $133 per workshop, $96 saved.
Walk the full journey alongside Persephone — from Awakening through Emerging to full Bloom. Each workshop builds on the last, tracking her return from underworld to surface and your body's parallel journey from winter to spring.
March 28: Awakening — The threshold between winter and spring. Somatic practices for aliveness, grounding, and bold action / Breathwork to open and settle the nervous system / Intuitive movement / Tarot as integration / Closing spring ritual
April 25: Emerging — The active crossing. Breaking through when nothing has landed yet. Somatic anchoring practices for nervous system regulation / Breathwork for grounding and stability / Body mapping / Sensory grounding techniques / Closing ritual
May 16: Blooming — Full spring. Radiant, unguarded, take-up-space blooming. Somatic practices for expansion and full aliveness / Breathwork for joy and vitality / Divination for pleasure, joy, and sovereignty / Closing ceremony
For you if: You're ready to commit fully to yourself this season. Three months, three workshops, the complete arc of spring — and every tool you need to move through it with intention. Breathwork, somatic practice, movement, divination, and ritual, all building toward the most alive version of you.
March 28: Awakening
Saturday, 10am to 1pm | Savage, MD
Intentionally Small: Limited to 15 Participants
Persephone knew when it was time to leave the underworld. Your body knows the way, too.
Something underneath has been stirring for weeks now, ready to break surface whether or not you feel ready for it. This workshop is you answering that call — working with your body's own intelligence to release what winter asked you to hold and make space for what's ready to rise.
- Somatic practices for aliveness and grounding
- Breathwork to open and settle the nervous system
- Tarot and Divination for the season to come
- Closing spring ritual
For you if: You've spent enough time in the underworld. You're ready for spring to mean something this year.
Early bird through March 14:
$135 with coupon code EARLYBIRD
After March 14:
$165
April 18: Emerging
Saturday, 10am to 1pm | Savage, MD
Intentionally Small: Limited to 15 Participants
Every spring, Persephone had to cross between worlds again to emerge. Your body is a sacred vessel for liminality, too.
The crossing is never simple — the ground is unstable, growth is happening, and nothing has fully landed. April lives in exactly that liminal space, and your nervous system feels every bit of it. This workshop gives you the tools to stay anchored when the crossing gets disorienting.
- Somatic practices for nervous system regulation
- Breathwork to open and settle the nervous system
- Body Mapping for walking the liminal
- Closing spring ritual
For you if:
You know where you've been and you can feel where you're going, but right now everything is uncertain and you need to learn how to stand steady anyway.
Early bird through March 14:
$135 with coupon code EARLYBIRD
After March 14: $165
May 16: Blooming
Saturday, 10am to 1pm | Savage, MD
Intentionally Small: Limited to 15 Participants
Persephone bloomed from Underworld Queen to divine glory as Goddess of Spring and Fertility. Your body is radiant and sovereign, too.
Persephone came back radiant. Every spring she returned to the surface and the earth itself responded — flowers opening, light returning, everything reaching toward her. This is how we emerge: full, unguarded, taking-up-space and blooming.
- Somatic practices for expansion and aliveness
- Breathwork for opening to joy and vitality
- Divination for Pleasure, Joy, and Sovereignty
- Closing spring ritual
Early bird through March 14:
$135
with coupon code EARLYBIRD
After March 14: $165
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