online circles

The Wheel, my online offering, includes 8 circle gatherings a year and plenty of content to help you stay connected to seasonal rhythms, review what’s been going on for you and plan ahead for the next cycle.

I run these circles via my Substack blog, Being and Moving. When you sign up and select a paid membership option (either £5 a month or £50 a year) you automatically become a member of The Wheel, and will receive posts and invitations to circles in your inbox.

The Wheel gives you access to:

  • an online circle every 6 weeks in line with the Celtic Wheel of the Year, a Pagan calendar of festivals that mark the four major solar events - solstices and equinoxes - and the halfway points between them

  • an in-depth post before each circle exploring the significance of that festival

  • a short summary post a few days after the circle, to remind you what to take with you into the next cycle, and simple ways to do that

  • a post mid-cycle helping you stay anchored to the present and remember your intentions in this period

Online circles are at 8pm and last about 90 minutes (sessions are recorded with access available for a month afterwards). They involve brief teaching and embodied practices to take the teachings to a deeper level, including movement, breathwork and meditation. There’s some time to respond to journalling prompts - this always helps uncover something useful or meaningful in your life.

Finally there’s time for sharing in a (virtual) circle - speaking is always optional, you’re really welcome to have camera off and not share. Sharing is another way to witness our selves and others which again, leads to a more profound level of understanding and clarity.

I find these circles nourishing and grounding. Even though they are online, or if I can’t attend live, I feel connected and present with the group and the themes. I appreciate hearing what’s going on for the other women present, it locates my own experience in another kind of cycle. I love the gentle and contemplative space Chloe creates. It opens up a compassionate pause in the month.
— Lizzie

Why be part of The Wheel?

Carving out the space to reconnect with yourself and others for every 6 week cycle allows a tracking of yourself and life’s events and sheds light on recurring themes and patterns. It’s a form of care and regulation of your nervous system. By showing up you make visible intentions and hopes, joys and triumphs, disappointments and sadnesses, reviews and plans - with a more evolved sense of trust, compassion and acceptance.

Coming together with others to explore and share provides the age-old, in-body wisdom of not being alone. When you feel, rather than know intellectually, that you’re not the only ones feeling a certain thing or struggling in a certain way, the powerful events of connection and co-regulation have happened.

Lastly, living more in tune to the seasons and cycles helps you feel much grounded and anchored in time, space and nature. It encourages you to pause more often, to review and to gently plan and look forward. It’s easier to remember, in your bones, that everything is a cycle.

Copyright Danielle Barlow

I loved it, just what I needed today. It was brilliant and I can’t wait for the next.
— Emma

Dates for The Wheel circles 24-25

Circle are at 8pm for around 90 minutes on these Tuesdays:

  • 29 October (Samhain/All Hallows)

  • 10 December (Winter Solstice/Yule)

  • 4 February (Imbolc - first day of spring)

  • 18 March (Ostara/Easter)

  • 29 April (Beltane/May Day)

  • 17 June (midsummer/summer solstice)

  • 29 July (Lughnasadh/first harvest)

  • 23 September (Autumn Equinox/Mabon)

How do I join?

Sign up to my Substack account as a paid subscriber (just £5 a month or £50 a year). This gets you access to all sessions, the full archive of my work and posts for paid subscribers only.

Thank you for tonight, Chloe! I’m feeling so calm and recharged now.
— Christina
Thanks so much for this gathering last week Chloe. I really got a lot out of it and it has stayed with me since. Looking forward to the next one.
— Annie