Excavation: making space for venus
May 13 - June 27, 2020
A 7-week journey of venus retrograde in gemini
with holly hoover &
julien elizabeth
The most rare retrograde charted in Astrology, Venus Retrograde it is a time of surpreme reassessment and introspection into some of the most significant realms in our lives: love, relationship, worthiness. It happens every 19 months and lasts for 42 days. It is the epitome of quarantine.
In the end, what this transit offers is perspective and an immense opportunity to grow. Challenges encountered during these weeks are most likely to reveal what you want, want you don’t want, and what you can’t live without. We move through this transit with the potential to love ourselves and our relationships deeper and more open to strong and lasting love.
The instructions of these six-weeks is to improve your relationship to your self, to others, and to love.
This is a time most productively spent unearthing what truly brings you pleasure, uncovering your relationship patterns and making room for new relationships to come forth so that you can welcome more love and authenticity into all areas of your life.
what this is
This 7-week virtual program is for us - to connect, to understand, and to uplevel our relationship to ourselves and our relationship to love. This is a series of teachings to nourish your hungry heart and guide you deeper into a remembrance that you are whole and sustained.
This transformational experience that threads breathwork, kundalini yoga, somatic movement, yoga nidra and inquiry into 7-weeks of deep inner-work that follows the path of Venus’ retrograde through Gemini.
the nature of the work…
Week 1 ~ Setting the course
first session is Saturday May 16 at 10am pst
Open yourself fully to give and receive love. Commit to your transformation and connect to a community of others committed to receiving and giving support, too.
Week 2 ~ Diving deep
saturday may 23 // time tbd
Reconcile old resentments and sow seeds of forgiveness to create new patterns of engagement in your relationships.
Week 3 ~ Excavating
saturday may 30 // time tbd
Release and embrace core relationships patterned from your family of origin to find a deeper connection to your core sense of self.
Week 4 ~ mining for gold
saturday june 6 // time tbd
Affirm core beliefs around your worthiness and the potential for a deep and loving relationship with yourself and get clear on what the fulfillment of love looks and feels like in your life.
Week 5 ~ Healing the wounds
saturday june 13 // time tbd
Clear out old lovers and create space for new love. Understand the balance of giving and receiving that arises in all relationships and get clear on your needs and desires in true partnership.
Week 6 ~ Integration
saturday june 20 // time tbd
Cultivate essential skills and practices for authentic communication, deeper listening, and the non-negotiables you need to make any relationship fulfilling and loving.
Week 7 ~ Manifesting a new dream
saturday june 27 // time tbd
Deepen your well of compassion to restore wellness and live from an eternal source of gratitude. Expand your understanding of desire and bring it to life in every area of your life.
This journey is for you if you…
are willing to grow yourself beyond the person you are today.
crave a community of people doing work to embody their highest vision.
are ready to face your fears and come to terms with your woundedness.
can commit to doing deep and uncomfortable work so that you can experience the freedom you desire.
want to expand your capacity to love and be loved.
are open to seeing the opportunities of love that surround you today.
desire a relationship, want a deeper relationship, want to exit a relationship, or simply want to understand love and relationship.
Your presence itself as well as the wisdom, insights, questions, and stories you bring are incredibly valuable for all of us to learn and grow together. We encourage you to show up as your full self through — we certainly will be! This process and this group are here to support you as you navigate your journey home.
The details
This 7-week virtual program is designed to fit into your daily changing life and schedule, whether you work from home, are not working, and or are leaving the house for work. All sessions are streamed and saved for you to join live or at times that work for you. The thread of community will permeate throughout each week and you will experience support in multiple ways with continuous touch-ins to access this moment-in-time for the deep potential it has.
How our time together is structured:
Commitment to a 20-minute daily practice (sadhana) that includes meditation and writing prompts.
A 2-hour Saturday session to evolve each week’s theme includes discussion, guidance, a deep practice (this may include breathwork, yoga nidra, meditation, movement, mantra) and time for integration
Mid-week touch-in is optional and includes astrology insights, a practice and a brief teaching aligned with this week’s theme. Some weeks will be yoga, another breathwork, kundalini and dance.
Full access to Thursday night’s deeply restorative yoga nidra with Julien Elizabeth (7pm pst)
Connection to an accountability partner, to support your therapeutic unraveling and heart’s upleveling.
investment: $120
We begin saturday May 16 at 10am pst.
who we are
We’re Holly and Julien ~ two women navigating and nourishing our hearts. We are on this journey of love and loving with you, with tools, practices and support we use to navigate and heal our wounds of worthiness and attachment. This is what we’re sharing with you over these 7-weeks.
This program emerged from the depths of our journey and the support of our friendship. We've spent hours upon hours upon hours diving into this work - through trial and error, deep study, conscious inquiry and therapeutic unraveling.
we’ve put research and practice into this program - weaving astrology, psychology, relational healing and somatic practices together into a community for us all. we value integrity, truth and supportive, conscious communication.
This Venus retrograde is big. These times are big. Let’s do the deep work together to call in big love and big support - in our hearts and in our lives.