I wanted to speak about how important feminine connection truly is.
I have spoken before about how women receive oxytocin from being together. Oxytocin is the hormone that nourishes and influences all our other hormones, and I truly believe we are deeply depleted in oxytocin. I wrote a previous blog about “oxytocin bathing” and how important it is that we experience pleasure, surround ourselves with beauty, and create beauty, because this is what feeds us as women. Here is the link.
Men are often fed through dopamine. Through ticking boxes, achieving goals, and getting things done.
Women are different. We are nourished through connection, softness, beauty, slowness, touch, presence, and being deeply seen.
There is definitely a return happening right now.
An invitation for women to return to slowness.
To return to gathering with other women.
To return to themselves.
Over the last three years of offering women’s circles, I have witnessed the magic that truly happens when women come together. On the surface, it can seem so simple. A group of women sitting together in a room, speaking about a certain subject, listening to one another, sharing stories, tears, laughter, silence.
But there is so much richness there.
So much depth. There is healing in witnessing and in being witnessed. There is something ancient that awakens inside women when we gather together in this way.
I also believe there is a deep longing in women for ritual. Not routine. Ritual. Ritual is simply bringing awareness and presence to the ordinary moments of life.
Even making a cup of tea can become a ritual.
It depends on how you are making it.
Are you slowing down enough?
Are you taking a deep breath before you drink it?
Are you allowing yourself to truly arrive in the moment?
These small moments matter because they gently bring us back to ourselves. The wisdom I am always inviting women back to is the wisdom within themselves.
Back to your womb.
Back to your body.
Back to your deep inner knowing that already exists inside you.
There is so much wisdom available to us when we slow down enough to hear it.
When we gather with other women, when we connect with ourselves, when we honour the seasons within and around us. It changes everything. It changes who we are in the world and how we move through the world.
It reconnects us to our intuition, our body’s wisdom, and a deeper sense of self-compassion. It allows us to soften, to let go, and to flow with life rather than constantly pushing through exhaustion, overwhelm, numbness, disconnection, and depletion.
And this is exactly why I created the Womb Wisdom Weekend.
A space for women to pause, soften, heal, receive, and reconnect with themselves on a deeper level.
A space to step away from the noise and busyness of everyday life and return to what women have always known: connection, community, ritual, beauty, presence, and being held.
The Womb Wisdom Weekend takes place in Linden, Jhb:
Friday 19 June 6–8pm
Saturday 20 June 9am–4pm
Sunday 21 June 9am–3pm
A few spots are still available.
The weekend is fully catered for, so you can simply arrive ready to receive.
Over these three days, you will be gently guided through practices, conversations, rituals, and moments of reflection designed to help you reconnect with your womb wisdom, your intuition, your body, and your authentic self. There is something deeply powerful that happens when women gather with intention and openness.
If you feel the pull towards this work, trust it. Perhaps this is your invitation to return to yourself.
love always
Theoni