Within: A Sisterhood of the Body
A year-long virtual circle for somatic healing, IFS parts work, and remembering your body as sacred ground. Gathering every full moon.
“A living study, returned to again and again.”
Begins January 22, 2027
Early bird: $60/month or $720 for the year until Dec 31, 2026
Normal Rate: $75/month or $900 for the year
Some Teachings Are Not Meant to Be Learned Once
There was a time when wisdom wasn’t delivered in a single weekend or a single breakthrough meant to fix everything at once. It was returned to, season after season, not because the teaching changed, but because the student did.
Your body holds this same kind of wisdom. Not something to master and move past, but something to keep listening to as your life changes, as your capacity deepens, and as old layers soften and new ones rise to be met.
Within is a year-long study of the body, held in the company of other women. Together we move through the seasons, the elements, the chakras, and the archetypes of the feminine. We do it through somatic yoga, Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work, story, and ritual, and we gather every full moon to do it.
This is deeper work within the framework of somatic healing. It isn’t a quick fix, and it isn’t a program to complete. It’s a practice to keep.
This May Be for You If…
You’ve done the talk therapy, read the books, and done “the work,” and you still feel disconnected from your body
You’re the capable one everyone relies on, and you’re quietly exhausted from holding it all together
You live with a nervous system that feels stuck on high alert, or shut down, or both
You’re highly sensitive, a perfectionist, a creative, or a woman who learned early to override her own needs
You’re craving depth over another wellness hack, something that unfolds slowly the way real healing does
You want community that doesn’t ask you to perform, fix yourself, or keep up
You feel pulled toward ritual, ancestry, story, and the sacred, and you want a clinically grounded space to explore.
If you read that list and felt something soften, you’re who this circle was made for.
What We’ll Explore Together
Somatic Yoga & Breath
Gentle, body-led movement, breathwork, and stillness practices tailored to each month’s chakra and element. Everything is adaptable for chronic pain, hypermobility, trauma, anxiety, and low-energy days. There is never a “right” shape.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Parts Work
A compassionate way of meeting the protective parts, inner critics, and younger parts of you who’ve been carrying the load. We’ll meet Guardians, Exiles, the Flamekeeper, and the Silencer, and we’ll practice leading from Self-energy.
Story & Archetype
Each season brings an archetype (the Crone, the Maiden, the Mother, the Enchantress) and a story question to sit with. By year’s end, you’ll shape your own Return Story: what you’ve released, reclaimed, and remembered.
Ritual & Lineage
Earth rites, water ceremonies, candle rites, and breath rites mark each full moon. Woven throughout are Filipino indigenous psychology and ancestral wisdom, including anito (ancestral spirits), kapwa (shared self), loob (inner will), hiya, and the lineage of the babaylan, the women who once held healing and ritual leadership in their communities.
How It Works
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Gathering every full moon
12 live virtual circles, 90 minutes each
With teaching, somatic practice, parts-work reflection, and ritual -
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Seasonal curriculum
A full turn through winter, spring, summer, and autumn.
With a new chakra, element, archetype, and story theme each month -
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A private WhatsApp sisterhood
Support between gatherings
Monthly PDF prompts, somatic support videos, monthly coloring pages, a space to be witnessed -
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A year-long container
The same circle of women
Deepening together over time
Support Between Sessions
Healing doesn’t only happen in the 90 minutes we’re together. It happens in the quiet, ordinary moments in between. Within includes a private WhatsApp group to carry the work home with you:
Monthly PDF prompts: reflection and journaling questions tied to that month’s theme
Somatic support videos: short practices to return to anytime you need to ground, regulate, or come back into your body
Monthly coloring pages: a wordless way to integrate each month’s element and archetype, for the days when talking or even moving feels like too much
A space to be witnessed: share a reflection, ask a question, or simply say “today is hard” to women who understand
This isn’t another place to perform or keep up.
It’s a thread between gatherings: there when you need it, quiet when you don’t.
The Year Ahead: Full Moon by Full Moon
Winter: The Season of the Seed
Archetype: The Crone, Keeper of Roots
January 22, 2027 (Wolf Moon): The Grounding Rite · Root · Earth Meet the Guardians, the protector parts who’ve stood watch. Explore what your lineage taught you about safety in body, land, and spirit. Close with an earth rite honoring your ancestors.
February 20, 2027 (Snow Moon): The Resting Rite · Root, deepened · Earth For the parts who fear rest. Unlearn the belief that rest must be earned, and explore how hiya can become a barrier to your own worth.
March 22, 2027 (Worm Moon): The Seed Rite · Sacral · Water Make first gentle contact with what’s been frozen. Plant an intention to be tended, not forced, in honor of what your ancestors planted that you’re still growing.
Spring: The Season of Awakening
Archetype: The Maiden
April 20, 2027 (Pink Moon): The Water Rite · Sacral · Water Meet the Exile holding old grief, longing, or buried joy. Explore who in your lineage taught you to sense feeling without words.
May 20, 2027 (Flower Moon): The Curiosity Rite · Sacral, deepened · Water Playful, unscripted movement and permission to want. Meet a personal spirit animal guide, drawing on the Filipino understanding of animals and anito as messengers.
June 19, 2027 (Strawberry Moon): The Fire Rite · Solar Plexus · Fire Meet the Flamekeeper and the Inner Critic. Reclaim courage as an act of inner will, not aggression, and release old beliefs of unworthiness into flame.
Summer: The Season of Fullness
Archetype: The Mother, The Queen
July 18, 2027 (Buck Moon): The Power Rite · Solar Plexus, deepened · Fire Boundaries as Self-led love. Explore where debt of gratitude has shaped your “yes,” out of love or out of obligation.
August 17, 2027 (Sturgeon Moon): The Opening Rite · Heart · Air Your first full meeting with Self-energy. Explore kapwa: true connection isn’t self-erasure, it’s two whole selves meeting.
September 16, 2027 (Harvest Moon): The Radiance Rite · Heart, deepened · Air Where have you dimmed your light to keep the peace? Honor the women who led their communities through ritual, healing, and story, and claim your own radiance.
Autumn: The Season of Harvest & Release
Archetype: The Enchantress, The Wild Woman
October 15, 2027 (Hunter’s Moon): The Voice Rite · Throat · Sound Meet the Silencer and the Truth-Teller. Toning, humming, and speaking what you once swore never to say aloud.
November 14, 2027 (Beaver Moon): The Seeing Rite · Third Eye · Light True witnessing of all your parts. Examine the old myths you’ve told about yourself, and connect clear seeing to spirit and essence rather than only Western ideas of intuition.
December 13, 2027 (Cold Moon): The Harvest Rite · Crown · Integration Unburdening, a full-body integration flow, and the gathering of your Return Story. Close the year with a harvest and releasing rite.
Why a Full Year?
A single retreat can open a door. But it can’t walk you through everything on the other side of it. That takes time, repetition, and community, so new patterns can take root in ordinary life long after the retreat glow fades.
Within is the container that holds you between the big moments: the ordinary Tuesdays, the hard weeks, the slow unfolding that real embodiment requires. Like any true study, it’s meant to be returned to. Each cycle of the moon, and each season, will meet you as a slightly different woman.
For less than the cost of a single retreat weekend, Within offers you a full year of transformation: monthly guidance, community, and practice to help what you experience in a weekend actually take root in daily life.
Investment
Early Bird (limited time, through December 31, 2026)
$60/month or $720 for the full year
Standard
$75/month or $900 for the full year
Includes all 12 full moon gatherings, the private WhatsApp sisterhood, monthly PDF prompts, somatic support videos, and coloring pages.
Pair It With the Retreat (Optional)
Return to Your Body is our in-person somatic healing retreat, a separate offering open to Within members and non-members alike. If you feel called to deepen in person, it’s a natural extension of this work. It is never required to complete your year in Within.
Learn About the Retreat HERE
Your Guide
Leslie Slemmons is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and yoga practitioner with 20 years of experience helping people find their way back to safety in their own bodies. Trained in Internal Family Systems (Certified Levels 1 & 2), Pain Reprocessing Therapy, trauma-informed yoga, and somatic practices, she brings clinical depth and lived experience to this work, along with a deep love of creativity, ritual, and humor. Her approach is simple: healing is deeply personal, and she’ll never tell you what it should look like.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Within: A Sisterhood of the Body? A year-long virtual circle of women gathering every full moon for somatic yoga, IFS parts work, story, and ritual. It’s a deeper, slower, community-based study of the body within the framework of somatic healing.
Is this therapy? No. Within is a group educational and experiential program, not psychotherapy, and it isn’t a substitute for individual mental health care. Many members find it complements their therapy beautifully. If you’d like individual support, we offer 1:1 therapy services here.
Do I need experience with yoga, IFS, or somatic work? Not at all. Beginners are welcome. Every practice can be adapted, and you’re always free to do less, rest, or simply observe.
Is this safe for chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, or hypermobility? Yes. The practices are trauma-informed and offered with modifications. You lead the pace and you’re never asked to push through pain or share more than you choose. Please check with your healthcare provider about any specific physical limitations.
Do I have to be Filipino to join? No. This circle is open to all women. Filipino indigenous psychology and ancestral wisdom are part of the curriculum, and you’ll be invited to explore your own lineage too.
What if I can’t attend a gathering live? Replays will be available 24 hours after the gathering.
What technology do I need? A device with Zoom and WhatsApp. Cameras are welcome but never required.
What’s the difference between Within and the Return to Your Body retreat? Within is a year-long virtual study: a lower-cost, lower-barrier way to go deep over time. The retreat is a standalone in-person weekend. They complement each other, and neither requires the other.
What if I need to cancel or pause my payment plan? Full payment will be expected to be paid for once you have registered, however you can work out a payment plan with Leslie if need be.
Your Body Has Been Waiting
You don’t have to arrive healed, regulated, or “spiritual enough.”
You only have to be willing to return to your body, to this circle, and to yourself, once a full moon, for a year.