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Truth ~ Embodied Wisdom ~ Sovereignty

June 2026 till April 2027

The Forbidden Path: Reclaiming the Wise, Powerful Woman Within

Initiation ~ Wild Woman ~ Sovereign Woman ~ Wise Woman ~ Gifted Woman

The Forbidden Path 5 part journey is for women who are ready to reclaim their power, pleasure, intuition and embodied truth that have been buried under centuries of silencing.

Attend all 5 for the journey, or each workshop is available standalone.

This journey is elemental, ritualised, emotionally honest and rooted in the feminine mysteries.

Calling in women who are ready to walk the path all the way: through the underworld, through the garden, through their lineage, through their rage, through their pleasure, and into their fullness.

Whilst walking this path you will be held and guided into deeper layers of your body, psyche and soul.

‘Come out of the shadows

Speak your true words

It is now safe to reveal your inner world

Lifetimes of silence

Now things have changed

Open your voice to reveal and heal your shame

Reveal and heal your pain

Come back to life again.’

Tarisha

You Will Experience:

Nervous system care, emotional expression, ancestral unwinding, shadow work, embodiment, womb healing practices, sisterhood circles, and sacred encounters with the parts of you you were taught to hide — the sensual woman, the intuitive woman, the angry woman, the radiant woman, the wise elder, the gifted healer.

The Full Journey Includes:

  • Integration tools and embodied assignments between workshops
  • Six online sharing circles and juicy sessions keeping the theme alive and deepening sisterhood connection and support.

The Forbidden Path Dates

26- 28th June 2026 – The Initiation with Sanjula & Abhi & Team
18th – 20th Sept 2026 – Wild Woman Rising with Fiona, Amiya & Team
11th – 13th December 2026 – Sovereign Woman with Tarisha, Louise & Team
12th – 14th Feb 2027 – Wise Woman – Stillness Speaks with Sanjula, Amiya & Team
16th – 18th April 2027 – Gifted Woman with Tarisha, Louise & Team

 

 

INITIATION ONTO THE FORBIDDEN PATH:

June 26–28, 2026 — with Sanjula & Abhi
Threshold – Earth – Rebirth
(Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

Here the threshold is crossed. This weekend awakens Earth: grounding, boundaries, body truth, stability, and the first shedding of the old identity. Through ceremony, emotional release, ancestral clearing, shadow work and embodied boundaries, we enter the underworld of the Forbidden Path — the place where women remember who they are beneath conditioning.

We address shame, guilt, unprocessed rage, silence, and the inherited stories from mothers, grandmothers and patriarchal lineage. This is where you meet the woman you were before you were shaped: instinctive, earthy, honest, clear. You will be held through elemental ritual, body-based healing, earth grounding, and practices that prepare your system to hold more life force.

During this workshop we will…

  • Walk a full threshold ritual of release
  • Work with earthing practices for grounding & boundaries
  • Explore ancestral shame, guilt & suppression
  • Activate emotional expression & somatic truth

 

 

WILD WOMAN RISING

18–20 September 2026 — with Amiya & Fiona
Untamed – Sensual – Sacred

(Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

This is the Water Earth And Fire weekend — the domain of emotion, instinct, sensuality and the underworld feminine. Here we meet Lilith, Kali, the sensual serpent woman, the ecstatic dancer, the one who has never apologised for her hunger or her freedom. Through dance, movement, naked or clay-covered body painting, deep emotional alchemy, grief & rage ritual, and sensual reclamation, we return to the raw feminine the world has tried to tame.

This workshop liberates shame, rage, repression, Catholic guilt, and the pleasure woman within. It is a breakthrough space where freedom, earthiness and instinct become sacred once more. We honour the woman who wants to fly and the woman who wants to root.

During this workshop we will…

  • Reclaim sensuality, pleasure and instinct
  • Explore Water: emotion, guilt, shame & release
  • Engage in dance, naked/clay body painting
  • Meet Lilith & Kali archetypes through ritual
  • Work with expression , repression & breakthrough processes
  • Heal through sound, breath, movement & circle
  • Reawaken pleasure and the snake-wisdom of the body
  • Explore your forbidden sensual shadows

 

 

SOVEREIGN WOMAN

11-13th Dec 2026 — with Tarisha & Louise

(Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

Authority – Fire – Truth

This is the Fire weekend — boundaries, clarity, leadership, voice, inner authority. After entering your wildness, we now refine it. Sovereign Woman stands tall in her truth, speaks clearly, and reclaims the power she once handed over to others. Here we work with unprocessed rage, control, empowerment, embodied boundaries, communication and leadership.

This is leadership not as performance, but as presence. You will learn to stand on your own feet, reclaim your ability to take space, and speak with precision and integrity. Through fire ritual, voice work, power reclamation, and tree-rooted embodiment, we awaken the inner queen and leader.

During this workshop we will…

  • Practice embodied boundaries & clear communication
  • Reclaim unprocessed rage in healthy expression
  • Work with Fire: desire, leadership & sovereignty
  • Strengthen self-regulation without external reliance
  • Explore voice, visibility & the sacred “no”
  • Unwind patterns of shrinking or over-boundarying
  • Reclaim inner leadership & embodied authority
  • Use nature (trees, earth) as allies for empowerment

 

 

WISE WOMAN STILLNESS SPEAKS

12 – 14 February 2027 — with Sanjula & Amiya

Stillness – Insight – Discernment

(Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

This is the Air & Ether weekend — intuition, clarity, ancestral listening, and deep stillness. After the emotional, sensual and fiery territories, we now enter the quiet that reveals everything. This workshop includes silence, meditation, council work , breath, intuition activation, shadow integration, night-time nature rituals, blindfolded visioning, earth-burial practices, and listening to the land.

This is where the feminine elder comes online — the woman who sees truth without fear, speaks only what is essential, and trusts her inner knowing completely. Here we integrate the journey so far and begin to sense what our medicine might be.

During this workshop we will…

  • Drop into deep stillness and intuitive states
  • Engage in blindfolded vision quests and listening rituals
  • Work with night nature practices & sweat lodge (if permitted)
  • Explore Air: voice, discernment, creativity
  • Integrate shadow and wisdom with care
  • Receive ancestral insight & heal conditioning
  • Recalibrate the nervous system toward spaciousness
  • Sit in stillness circles & elder council
Tarisha and Louise

 

 

GIFTED WOMAN

16 – 18 April 2027 — with Tarisha & Louise

Radiance – Offering – Purity

(Standalone – 2 nights · £330)

The final workshop completes the Forbidden Path — the return to Eden as a woman who now chooses the apple consciously. Gifted Woman is where your medicine becomes visible. This is the weekend of radiance, purity, elegance, and sacred offering. Through creativity, ritual, expression, ancestral honouring, nature listening, and visibility practices, you will discover the gifts you’ve hidden — and the courage to share them.

We explore pleasure as purity, visibility without shame, embodied offering, and the subtle feminine power that blesses by simply being. This is not about becoming a healer — but about recognising how you naturally heal, inspire, and uplift when you stop hiding.

During this workshop we will…

  • Discover your unique medicine & feminine gifts
  • Explore visibility, expression & embodied radiance
  • Work with creativity, voice & movement
  • Listen to nature for guidance on your offering
  • Reclaim gifts hidden by shame or conditioning
  • Participate in a completion ceremony
  • Return to the Garden as the woman you’ve become

” If you want to share with sisters on your journey, to go deeper into your self knowledge & awakening, to expand your energy & to celebrate life from & with your heart, this retreat is for you!!”

Vanessa, participant Woman Alive 2024

Meet The Forbidden Path Team

Meet Sanjula:

Sanjula is a deeply experienced facilitator trained over many years at Humaniversity under the guidance of Veeresh. She specialises in working with women, supporting emotional expression, empowerment, and deep healing. Her work is grounded in Shamanic deep healing bodywork and extensive experience facilitating and assisting primal groups. Sanjula runs Empowerment for Women workshops at Leela and brings a grounded, heart-led presence shaped by her own healing journey, particularly in the art of forgiveness within family relationships.

Meet Tarisha:

Tarisha is a Singing Medicine woman and a keeper of the land at Leela.

Songs and prayers come naturally through her, connecting us to the Divine, to the light inside..to the light worldwide..


She is an inspiring musician and poet with a visible creative fire that inspires and uplifts those around her.

Meet Fiona:

Fiona is a Body Wisdom Coach & Therapeutic Touch Practitioner. Fiona supports people to reconnect with their inner wisdom through body-based awareness and nervous system regulation

Drawing from years of experience in somatic coaching and her own personal journey of healing, she creates gentle, grounded spaces where transformation happens through presence, empathy, and embodied connection.
Her work is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and remember the body as home.

Meet Amiya:

Amiya is a sensitive, intuitive, and creative woman from Spain who has been connected with the Leela centre since 2013. Passionate about female empowerment, vitality, and well-being, she is deeply inspired by nature and the wisdom of the feminine.

Amiya loves holding space for women and brings a rich tapestry of tools and experience to her groups, weaving together astrology, dance, creativity, meditation, and heartfelt connection.

Meet Abhi::

Abhi is a heartful friend and has been part of the Leela Workshops staff since 2019. A certified Bioenergetics facilitator from the Italian Academy A.I.O.C., she is deeply passionate about body-based therapy and regularly practices and facilitates Bioenergetics both within Leela and beyond. Abhi’s bodywork focuses on releasing unprocessed emotions and softening the armours and chronic holding patterns that restrict the natural flow of energy and aliveness in the body. She brings vibrant enthusiasm, sensitivity, a grounded presence, and a genuine thirst for life into the community.

Meet Louise:

Louise lives at Leela and supports people to reconnect with their true, authentic, and lovable selves. A transformational coach and mindful living guide, she brings warmth, embodiment, and creativity to her offerings. Rooted in a deep love of the natural world, she weaves ritual, circle, and manifestation into her work, creating spaces that honour both depth and lightness. She loves to work in tune with the cycles of nature, crafting rituals and experiences that nurture both presence and joy.

‘I arrived feeling a bit tired and needing nourishment. The songbird in my heart began to sing. She remembered her song.’ Nadia participant of previous workshop Woman Alive

 

Details:

Each workshop starts on a Friday at 8pm (Arrive from 5pm to settle in, dinner is at 7pm) and completes by 5pm on a Sunday on the above dates

Each workshop is £330 Earlybird and £390 full price.

£1600 to attend 5 workshops (a saving of £250 based on the earlybird price)

All workshops are available standalone

To ensure our gatherings are accessible, we offer a concession option for individuals who might benefit from financial support – please email louiseatleela@gmail.com to apply

If you have any specific needs related to physical health, mobility, neurodiversity, or anything else that may be useful for us to know, please reach out to us in confidence ahead of time so that we can support you. We are committed to ensuring your comfort and well-being during this journey. Please contact Louise at louiseatleela@gmail.com

Book Your Accommodation (2 nights):
Own campervan £10 – £50
Dorm £30
Regular Private Room £100
Premium Ensuite Private Room £150
Pine Cabin Regular Private Room £110
Pine Cabin Single Private Room £80
Single pod £100
Shepherd’s Hut £120

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