This is a timed awakening.
Like the caterpillar that knows when to create a cocoon, and go inside to be remade, you too are being guided. Your body is following an ancient script.
There is nothing wrong with you. This has been timed to occur at the threshold of midlife, when the structures that once held you no longer can. You are expanding into your next form.
You can resist this.
You can deny it.
You can pathologize it.
And there is an entire materialistic, reductionist paradigm that will sustain and encourage you to do exactly that: to treat this intelligence as a problem, fight your own biology, and override your own inner knowing.
Or you can choose another path that honors your deepest being and the sacred process that is underway.
Something is reorganizing from the inside out:
Your body.
Your priorities.
Your identity.
Your way of being in the world.
Your wings are being formed. A complete metamorphosis is underway.
It will feel like dying at times because something is. And something new is awakening.
Do you feel the drumbeat of your Heart calling you?
Come, sister, join us in the circle. Feel yourself welcome, exactly as you are.
I'm so glad you are here.
I have a burning passion for supporting women in telling a new story about themselves—their bodies, their desires, their grief, and the possibilities for the rest of their lives. I am more alive, more embodied, and more myself now than ever before—not in spite of, but because of, the changes I am moving through in this potent phase of my life.
I am an accredited holistic counselor, systemic family constellations facilitator, and a yogini with over 25 years of embodied practice. My work integrates ancestral intelligence, depth psychology, and somatic awareness in service of women reclaiming their true worth, power, and wisdom. Read more.
INITIATION is grounded in a simple but radical understanding:
The midlife journey is not only personal.
It is also ancestral.
What often surfaces at this time—physical symptoms, emotional intensity, relational upheaval, loss of meaning—is not only about what is happening now. It is also about what has been carried forward through generations, through genetic and epigenetic pathways, mostly unconsciously.
Patterns of self-sacrifice. Silencing of desire. Inherited grief, fear, strength, resilience. Ways of surviving that once served—but now restrict life.
In INITIATION, the so-called “midlife crisis” is understood as a divine opening—a portal through which inherited patterns come to the surface even stronger, to be seen, felt, and released. Restoring harmony not only to ourselves, but also to our family lineages.
This is the work of ancestral alchemy: transforming personal and familial burden into blessing, and pain into purpose.
As this happens, the connection to your ancestral field grows and becomes a profound source of support for your journey of soul embodiment.
As what is inherited is released, attention naturally turns toward what is most true for you.
Your soul. Your essence. The inner authority that does not come from culture, family expectations, or old survival strategies.
INITIATION supports this turning toward a deeply embodied, sovereign way of living in alignment with your soul. One rooted in truth, vitality, discernment, and love.
This is the moment to ask:
How do I want to live the rest of my life?
What am I here to serve?
What wants to manifest through my life?
The shape of the journey
Body as Oracle
Meet yourself and your life exactly as they are now. This phase is about learning to listen in a way that takes the body seriously—not as a problem to be managed, but as an oracle. Our vision opens to receive the teachings from symptoms, sensations, fatigue, desire, anxiety, heat, fog, grief, longing. What has been labeled as dysfunction is approached as signal: portals into where your soul is moving next.
Ancestral Consciousness
This movement is about releasing inherited patterns, identities, and loyalties that once ensured belonging or survival—but now restrict life. Ways of being a good daughter, a good partner, a good woman, the strong one, the one who holds it all together. Here, grief is allowed its intelligence to restore coherence to the body. We learn to release what is not ours to carry, to make space for what is emerging.
Soul Embodiment
As old bindings loosen, attention turns toward what wants to live through you now. The midlife initiation is a spiritual awakening into our soul's authority in our lives. This is the path of true fulfillment and joy, as we live our soul purpose in service to Life. This phase is less about deciding and more about aligning. Trusting your rhythm and allowing your life to reorganize around what is essential.
Practical details
Dates: March 24th–June 16th, 2026
Live gatherings: Tuesdays, 3:00–5:30 pm CET / 9:00-11:30 am EST
(All sessions are recorded if you cannot attend live.)
The course includes:
12 live group gatherings (2.5 hours each)
6 embodiment classes (1 hour each)
1 individual session with Sheila (75 minutes)
Access to a private online space for community connection and reflection between sessions
Contemplation & integration practices after each session to support your process
Guidance and support from Sheila throughout the course
The group is kept intentionally small and held with care to ensure a profound and highly supported journey.
The Invitation
There comes a moment when a woman knows the path forward cannot be inherited, postponed, or lived on someone else’s terms. It must be lived from the inside out—in service to her soul, to love, and to life itself.
INITIATION is an invitation into that moment.
Into remembering your authority.
Into truly releasing what no longer belongs to you.
Into stepping more fully into the wise woman you are—rooted, discerning, alive, and in relationship with the world.
The application process for INITIATION begins with a complimentary discovery call with Sheila to explore whether this journey is the right fit and discuss practical details and pricing.
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