Women’s Circle Training:
28th February to 1st March and 21st to 22nd March 2026
Teacher: Anna Brook (Shala Women)
Certification: 50 hours CPD
Dates: 28th February/1st March and 21st/22nd March
Location: Soul Studio
Accredited by: Yoga Alliance Professionals + Shala Women Training
Cost: £999 (payment plans available)
Overview
If you’d like to create empowering women’s circles that nourish your community and your own sense of purpose, deepen confidence in your space holding and facilitation, and develop an extensive toolkit of rituals, techniques and practices to enhance your circles, then the Women’s Circle Training is here for you.
This small group training (up to 8 participants) offers a chance to immerse in circle on a personal journey of discovery, alongside a deepening of your capacity to offer transformative group spaces (great for holding retreats, workshops etc). Reconnect with this ancient tradition in modern times, to live your part in a global movement for change.
Course Content and Training Dates
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Create and clarify your circle agreements, intentions and vision.
Learn how to hold different types of circles, structure them and the practicalities of setting up your own.
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Discover your purpose as a facilitator and the role your body language and nervous system regulation play in holding space.
Learn to enhance levels of listening and the subtlety of advanced space holding skills. Practice facilitating in a supportive environment.
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Activate, heal and embody the feminine by connecting with the different energies of the feminine archetypes and goddesses. Discover how to channel these into your circles.
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Experience a variety of ways to transition to sacred space. Consider themes for your circles and create, receive and practice a toolkit of potent rituals to draw on.
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Experience a range of grounding, visualisation and breathwork techniques. Learn how to create your own guided relaxations (Yoga Nidra) and experience Partner Yoga techniques for bonding.
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Understand how to work with the Moon phases and what themes to draw in, as well as learning to connect with astrological phases and how to weave them into your circle. Learn how to create New & Full Moon Circles.
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Explore Shadow Work – Including the Sister Wound and Witch Wound and explore research around group dynamics. Learn behaviour archetypes and how to navigate them to feel confident in your ability to rebalance circle dynamics.
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Discover your unique circle style and leave the training with a clear sense of your vision for your circles and how to create them.
Who Is This Course For?
Do you have a passion for women’s circles and are drawn to holding your own sacred spaces for others?
You have some space holding skills and would like to develop your own best practice to enhance your facilitation and hold deeper transformation for your community.
You know you have the potential to hold powerful experiences through your circles, if you just had a wider toolkit of practices, techniques or rituals to weave in.
You are drawn to community and sisterhood and would like to go on a journey with women with a similar vision to you.
Calling the Yoga Teachers, Therapists, Energy Healers, Practitioners, Bodyworkers, Breathworkers, Coaches, Creatives, Trailblazers & those looking to step into the holistic sphere for the first time…you’re in the right place…
Meet Your Facilitator,
Anna Brook - Shala Women
With 20 years facilitation experience, Anna Brook is a Circle Facilitator & Women’s Yoga Therapist who has a deep belief in the power of circle to ignite community, connection and belonging amongst women.
Anna has taken circle into a variety of environments – on many Yoga Retreats, Monthly Circles, Mama Circles, Wheel of the Year Circles, Breathwork Circles, Circles with Inner City Teenagers & Circles for Stress Relief in the Corporate Sector.
Her approach to circle blends nervous system regulation practices with deep sharing, and the intention is that you expand your capacity to create your own unique circle offering, with the capacity to take circle into any environment and community that you feel the call towards.
Anna has over 1000+ hours of yoga training and is also a Breathwork Coach (specialist in trauma release), Ceremonialist, Birth Worker, Cacaoista + Closing the Bones practitioner. She is the founder of Shala Women.
