A Soul-Centered Sangha

THE WEAVING

We were never meant to do this alone

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For those whose inner work has outgrown the people around them —
and need a circle strong enough to hold it.

Artwork by Autumn Skye, "Lightwork"

Something Is Calling

You may already feel it... a shift.

More and more people are grappling with something that feels almost mythic in scope. Not just personal healing, but a sense of participating in something ancestral and urgent.

The shadow moving through the world right now has exceeded the capacity of our individual nervous systems. Many of us have been white-knuckling our way through individual healing, secretly terrified we are not strong enough.

If you are honest, you are weary of walking this terrain alone.

This space was created for you.

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Monthly membership · scholarships available — learn more ↓

What we're creating

A Community of Becoming

The Weaving is rooted in wisdom traditions and the integration of the Divine Feminine, fostering wholeness. Where relationships are the thread and the collective itself becomes medicine.

The loneliness many of us carry is not personal failure. It is a wound with a history; the systematic splitting of what belongs together.

We are moving away from the “either-or” and toward the “both-and”.

Science and Spirit
Individual and Collective
Clarity and Uncertainty
Light and Shadow
Intuition and Logic

Here, we both hold and are held.

We practice horizontal power, not hierarchy. Emergence, not predetermined outcomes.

Growth is not driven, but cared for. Everyone's gifts and edges are part of this circle. Through listening, reciprocity, and witnessing, we tend this becoming, trusting what unfolds in the space between us.

The Portal Within

We build a container strong enough to hold both the ecstatic and the shadowed, because our gifts live in both.

This is how initiation works:

✨ descent that becomes emergence

✨ what you were taught to hide becomes your medicine

✨ breakdown that births breakthrough

When opposites meet, something new is born. This is why we build containers strong enough to hold both shadow and joy. Because our gifts live in both.

Healing artwork

Artwork by Autumn Skye, "Healing"

Our Foundation

Guiding Principles

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Sacred Geometry

The Structure

We're building The Weaving in concentric circles, organized by the sacred geometry of 9, a pattern that honors completion and wholeness.

The Weaving sacred geometry: nine-pointed star, seed of life, triangle
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What's Included

Membership

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Monthly Gatherings

Several ways to gather each month woven around a shared theme. Join what calls to you and catch recordings for what you miss (deeply personal sessions are not recorded)

  1. Learn — An exploration into the month's theme, weaving ideas from wisdom traditions, mysticism, science, and lived experience. Led by members of our Council or guest practitioners.
  2. Practice — A guided session of meditation, somatic work, or ritual, embodying the month's theme together.
  3. Connect — An open gathering for sharing, witnessing, and being in circle, the relational heart of the month.
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Quarterly Salons

Deep dive mini-retreats where ideas meet lived experience: a space where rich conversation, guest experts, and cross-pollination become collective medicine.

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Weaving Pods

Small groups of 6–9 people, meeting regularly to build the kind of connection that deepens over time.

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Community Space

A digital home for the in-between — where the work keeps moving, relationships continue, and the community stays alive between gatherings. Includes member profiles and private chat.

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In-Person Gatherings

Future events where we hold space together in the same room, on the same land.

The Founding Circle is Forming Now

We're inviting the first 27 Stewards who will shape this culture from the beginning, who will co-create this container and be the cultural DNA.

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Your Path In

1

Application

Share your story and archetype resonance

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Q & A

Ask any questions you have of the Founding Council by email (hello@theweaving.community)

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Welcome

Cross the threshold into community

Stewards - 27 spots
$72
per month

By invitation only.

Members - opens later
$81
per month

After the founding circle is complete.

Scholarships are available. Please inquire by emailing us at hello@theweaving.communitymunity.

Stewards join at a founding rate in recognition of the trust and co-creation they bring to this early phase.

Right Fit

Who This Space Is For

This is for you if you:

  • Are comfortable being mid-process
  • Can listen as much as they speak
  • Are willing to sit with slowness and not-knowing
  • Want shared reflection rather than guidance
  • Are navigating transition, initiation, or creative awakening
  • Are seeking community and a container to support your individual practice

This is not for you if you:

  • Are looking for coaching, mentoring, or advice
  • Are seeking therapy or clinical treatment
  • Want clear answers, fixed outcomes, or step-by-step solutions
  • Want professional training or certification
  • Are uncomfortable with silence, ambiguity, or shared responsibility
  • Are seeking a guru who already holds all the answers

This is not a place to start from zero. We expect you're already doing your own work - in therapy, embodiment, shadow practice, somatic healing, being in nature. We provide the container to deepen into those spaces and feel held in the transition.

Who’s Holding the Weaving

The Weaving has no guru. The council holds the container; the community co-creates the wisdom. This is a community of agentic peers, each bringing their own depth, their own gifts, their own becoming to the circle.

Founding Council
Linnea Butler
Linnea Butler
Psychotherapist, Energy Healer, Writer

Psychotherapist, trauma specialist, psychedelic guide, energy healer and former molecular biologist. A creature of polarity walking the path of Both-And between science and spirit. Founded Bay Area Mental Health ↗ and now writes How Healing Happens. Honoring awe and Soul-Full depths to support healing.

How Healing Happens ↗
Founding Council
Julie Schmidt
Julie Schmidt
Spiritual Doula, Minister, Tarot Reader, Writer

Mythopoetic guide, student of dissolution and emergence, and explorer of thresholds where the sacred meets the ordinary and where becoming is its own kind of magic. Rooted in diverse mystical and spiritual traditions, with academic foundations in nutrition science and consciousness studies.

Walking the Liminal ↗
Advisory Council
Ari Kushner
Ari Kushner

An artist’s heart with a business mind, Ari blends a background in community building, philanthropy, and the arts with his current experience as a marketing executive, musician, breathwork facilitator, and participant in men’s work. He focuses on fostering authentic connection and creative growth.

Advisory Council
Jenna Newell Hiott
Jenna Newell Hiott

Author, healer, and teacher normalizing relationship with ancestors, archetypes, and the unseen in a way that honors the nervous system so sensitive seekers can remember their place in the vast web of belonging.

Spirit Connections ↗
Advisory Council
Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy

Husband, father, psychotherapist, author and founder of 360° Kindness, helping improve the quality of lives through kindness that connects.

360° Kindness ↗
Advisory Council
Daisy Obry
Daisy Obry

Writer and creative coach helping people understand and give birth to their unique creative impulse.

Substack ↗
What Becomes Possible

The Becoming

We're declaring a world where we hold each other through community, through the dark time and into the next phase of our world. When we stop turning away from what is difficult and begin turning toward the conditions that shape us, something shifts. Possibility becomes alive and a new reality comes to life.

While nothing is guaranteed, many members may experience...

✨ Greater inner coherence and alignment

✨ Deeper trust in bodily knowing

✨ Greater sensitivity to the impulses of inner guidance

✨ Clearer recognition of Both-And living

✨ Deeper connection to both Self and Spirit

✨ Increased capacity for uncertainty

✨ Less isolation and loneliness

"If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough… sustain it, be true to it, we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality."
— Marie Louise von Franz
The Founding Circle is Forming Now

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If "be the goo together" makes perfect sense, if you're in your own initiation and need peers who understand, if horizontal power and shadow work and both-and consciousness feel like home - let's talk.

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Questions

Common Questions

What is a Sangha?
A sangha is a circle of practice and belonging - a community of people who come together to be changed in one another's presence. It is a space for shared path, shared witnessing, and shared devotion, where we do not walk alone and where the collective itself becomes part of the medicine. In a sangha, healing is not only personal. It moves through relationship, shared presence, and the quiet courage of being held.
What do you offer that I can't find elsewhere?
Most spaces ask you to show up as a student, a client, or a seeker with a problem to solve. The Weaving asks something different: to arrive as a peer with a desire to co-create something that cannot be done by one person alone. This is not therapy, a course, a coaching program, or a certification. What we offer instead is something rarer: a safe container, a circle of practitioners who understand initiation, shadow work, and the kind of transformation that doesn't fit into a twelve-week program.

We operate from a model of horizontal power, not one person who is a self-proclaimed arbiter of Truth but shared wisdom where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The Council of 9 holds the container and they bring their wisdom, their training and their life experience to the table. Everyone's gifts and edges matter here and we hold them together. We offer several monthly gatherings: some will be workshops or presentations, some will be practice sessions to embody what we are learning and some will be smaller gatherings that allow for real and deep relationships to grow. This is a place to explore evolution of consciousness and have conversations that may otherwise be difficult in our day to day lives.
Is this therapy?
No. The Weaving is a peer community, not clinical treatment. If you need individual therapeutic support, please seek a qualified therapist. This is a companion container, not a substitute for personal clinical work.
Is this certification or training?
No. This is not professional development or credentialing. It's community for practitioners already doing the work. No certificates, no curriculum, no outcomes to demonstrate.
Is this virtual or in-person?
Initially virtual, but ultimately we expect to build in real-life gatherings. We're building a virtual platform for global connection, with regional pods for embodied depth over time.
How do I know if I'm ready?
If the dissolution and shadow language resonates. If you're actively in shadow work. If you need peers who understand initiation. If "be the goo together" makes perfect sense. If you're already doing your own therapeutic or somatic work and looking for a peer circle to go deeper in.
What if I miss a gathering?
Monthly gatherings are recorded. You can watch recordings in the council member area for events you miss. We understand life happens. Show up as you are able.