This article is written by Jade Shutes, my Instructor at The School of Aromatic Studies. Now that fall is in the air and we're hiking in the woods mesmerized by the beautiful fall colors I thought this article was very timely to share. I created my Evergreen Resilience Rollerball blend from the calmness I would feel after taking my walks in the woods.
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"I am creating a life, I love" is my mantra and I am in the archetype "Enchantress" life phase of the Divine Feminine which challenges us to find those gifts of age and hard-won wisdom we have so well earned. I love walking in the forest which soothes my soul, gives me answers to my life questions as I connect to the healing, stress-reducing beauty of the North Woods. Inner Wild Woman Studio is located in Ely, a small town in northern Minnesota, that is a dot on the map right under the border of Canada in the Boundary Waters Canoe area. I manifested the idea of finding a home with studio space that offers a safe, sacred space for women to gather, find healing, feel emboldened, inspired and encouraged. My studio is my sanctuary, a self-portrait of my soul and reflects all the things I love and all the things I am. Stepping into my studio feels like entering a sacred creative wonderland, where time moves at a different pace, inspiration is never ending, and anything is possible. In my studio I inhale deeply, while infusing my aromatherapy blends, I am free to explore, to chase that winding path of imagination and creativity. Some kind of alchemy stirs within me as I let myself get lost in the dream, I transcend the endless bustle of modern life and am free to simply be.
I am grateful for my life experiences and the wisdom I have gained that allows me to help in my life's purpose of guiding women in their healing process and teaching them about the tools available to aid in their journey. I am working on building a sisterhood in my community as I am called to pass on my wisdom of being a teacher and healer to others. I want to empower women to follow their life journeys with a renewed sense of purpose and love for themselves.
I welcome you to participate in the monthly Sacred Women's Full Moon Circles I will be facilitating each month and a wide variety of mind, body and spirit workshop topics. For more specifics on each event click on EVENTS. I encourage you to add a whole emotional wellness level to your practice and my goal is to educate you on topics that inspire you to improve your well-being. Optimal wellness includes caring for the 'whole' self, creating a healthy environment, appreciating nature and being grateful for the basic pleasures of life. I teach how to live by the lunar cycles, using essential oils to enhance and balance emotional and physical aspects of your life, balancing the chakras, vibrational energy healing, crystal healing, flower essences, ecstatic dance, sacred practices, manifestation (I have proven it works!) and many others that will nourish your mind, body and soul.
I love this quote by Jan Porter, "One woman is a tiny divine spark in a timeless sisterhood tapestry collective; All of us are Wild Women."
Blessings.
Marcia
Sacred Women's Circle Creatrix
Holistic Aromatherapy Practitioner
Gallup Certified Strengths Coach
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Sacred Full Moon Women's Circles
I welcome you to join in on the monthly Full Moon Women's Circles I will be facilitating that will give sacred pause of our roles and responsibilities and allow ourselves the space to slow down and simply BE. Attending a Women's Circle can awake something deep inside you. The Full Moon is the Moon's most powerful phase. When we see her total illuminated appearance or just know it is there, this is the time of fulfillment. There is much activity around this phase. Most who pay attention to the Moon phases can particularly feel their own heightened sensitivity to feelings and emotions under the Full Moon phase.
Learn MoreHolistic Aromatherapy Practitioner
As a Certified Holistic Aromatherapist I use essential oils for specific conditions and complementary therapies for physical, emotional health and well-being. I offer personal aromatherapy consultations that take into consideration many factors when deciding which essential oils to use. I explore clients lives, health, lifestyle, emotional and physical health. I listen to your 'story' to come up with a plan for your specific request. Health promotion, prevention and stress reduction are key areas where essential oil therapy is highly effective. Aromatherapy can help concerns and goals including anxiety, depression, sleep, stress, bloating, PMS, menstrual cramps, pain management, headaches, migraines, fight infections, improve immunity, eczema, acne and so much more.
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Join in on my workshops to learn about the many techniques and tools that can aid in a transformational healing process for the 'whole' body. After these last couple of years we ALL need to heal! True healing is about connection and transformation. Transforming, means changing your state of mind or shifting your consciousness. Transforming combined with your intention, which is what you passionately want to achieve, can assist you in every aspect of your life and help you achieve a sense of wholeness, and well-being. My workshops are fun, informative, and interactive while creating a sense of sisterhood in my community.
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The Harvest Full Moon represents a chance to embrace new opportunities, create goals for yourself, and manifest your own destiny. This first full moon following the autumn equinox is here to propel you forward into a change of direction, of season, of life.
This October's Blood Full Moon on the Saturday before Halloween is to celebrate FUN! This event will be held in collaboration with the Ely Wellness Collaborative. It marks the end of the harvest season and allows us to reflect on what we've accomplished this year and what we're grateful for. For those of you that know me it's one of my favorite months to decorate (inside & out) and I could not pass the opportunity on this full moon night to gather in costume (required to attend as adds to the fun) and CELEBRATE!
So, what should we be mindful of during this Frost Full Moon? Join in on the November Women's Circle to celebrate letting go of drama and embracing calmness so we can move towards appreciating basic values, being calm, and feeling safe and secure. Simple pleasures and creature comforts take on elevated meaning. This Frost Moon should leave us all feeling strengthened.
Watch for 2024 Full Moon Women's Circle dates and the information on workshops I will be offering. Have a blessed holiday season, be grateful for our days and to new beginnings in 2024!
Join in on this last Full Moon Women's Circle of the year as we clear your plate of anything that’s distracting you from following your dreams as we prepare to enter a new year. You won’t want to miss out on the magic of the season!
August's Sturgeon Supermoon is a time for all of us to take a step back and really appreciate everything. Supermoons occur because the Moon has a slightly elliptical orbit around earth. So there is a point every single month when it is at its closest to our planet and thus looks slightly larger in the sky. Join in on this Full Moon Women's Circle to express gratitude for the bounties of nature, and appreciate the fruits of all seasons and the unique beauties of the cycles of life. This will be one of two Supermoons in 2023. There will also be a full blue moon on Wednesday August 30th at 8:35 PM. It will be the second of two Supermoons in 2023. The second August Full Moon will be the full moon in Pisces. This moon is called a full blue moon because it’s the second full moon in a calendar month. It could also be referred to as a super blue moon because the second August Full Moon will also be a Supermoon.
The simple act of using a signature scent perfume you've created for yourself can be an act of self-care. Create a rollerball scent that will always be associated with you! Our sense of smell is the most direct way in which our emotions can be triggered. Once we have discovered that certain essences make us feel good and can actually enhance our sense of well-being, we can blend them into a perfume so the subtle aroma can be with us everyday. At one time, every perfume would have been skillfully blended from the finest essential oils, and were an indulgence on the psyche and on the purse. Today, perfumes created in a lab have become more synthetic. Essential oils can be used to create a natural alternative to traditional perfumes. Essential oil-based perfumes are easy to make, and the number of combinations you can create is nearly limitless! You can use essential oils from flowers to make feminine, floral scents, or essential oils from trees to make woodsy and musky scents, and so on. Or you can mix and match different types of oils in unique combinations to create your own “signature scent!”
Join in this Buck Full Moon circle that calls for change in our lives and listening to our hearts more than ever. This is a time for transformation and listening to your intuition. The message is to know when it's time to slow down, enjoy the moment, and remember the important things in life. Let your mind, body, and soul rest!
Now is the time to embrace your fiery badass self. To soak up that energy and let it fuel you. Join in on the Inner Wild Woman Summer Solstice Fire Ceremony as we celebrate the beauty and abundance around us! Summer is a time of celebrating, enjoying life totally and living in the moment!
Astrologers consider the Strawberry Moon—the last full moon of the spring or the first of the summer—to be a moment of ripeness. Now is the time to reward yourself for the hard work you've put into your life, relationships, and career. Set your intentions to find your own personal truth and philosophy of life. Join in on the moon before the Summer Solstice as it relates to good fortune, optimism and generosity to release all so you can adventure into summer and grab opportunities as they come along.
To manifest is to co-create with an energy greater than you. By connecting to this Divine energy, we call in what we desire. Imagine that you hold in your hands the power to change your reality - that you are capable of creating your highest vision and desire. A Manifestation ritual is a process of bringing your ideas, concepts, visions, and dreams from your inner world into your outer world, so you can enjoy it with your physical body. What you might not realize is that you manifest things all the time without even thinking about it. Look around you. Everything in your surroundings was once a thought in your head before it manifested into your reality. Your home, your business, the meals you cook, your clients, your partner, the trips you go on, events you attend - you manifested all of it! You combined a vision with action and manifested that vision into a reality!
Join in on this Women's Circle as we celebrate spring! The Flower Moon embodies all the spirit and energy of the Beltane and the Spring season. Now is the time to bring those goals and dreams to life. This is the time to look deep within and focus on introspection and healing. You might need to answer some hard questions about yourself and what needs to happen to make your intentions materialize! There will also be a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse at the same time as the full moon, technically 9 minutes before the full moon peak.
Join the Pink Full Moon Women's Circle to fully release negative thoughts or relationships that do not have space in our 'new life' that is starting to unfold. Come and feel the community of energy women will come with to help set your intentions to focus on relationships, balance, and harmony in your life!
This day is for celebrating and supporting the connections between women. Sister's Circles will be happening in person & online all around the world. A Sister Circle is a 90 minute gathering to engage in meaningful conversation about our hearts, lives, and vision for the planet. We need gatherings more than ever now to remind us that we are connected!
Join in on this March's Full Moon Women's Circle as we celebrate with the affirmation that this is your world and you're needed in it! Your light is needed. Your unique energy is needed. Your passions are needed. Your perspectives are needed. As you stand in your light, you light up the world!
Join in on this Snow Moon Women's Circle that will be full of staggering spiritual revelation and purpose. This moon signifies renewal in the spirit. The snow moon gives people a chance to reset and reevaluate. It's about new dreams and overcoming past hurts, forging forward with a greater sense of purpose. February is a very chilly month, but one for building cozy relationships and having a brighter outlook.
January's full moon, known the Wolf Moon, is named as such because of legends from long ago. It's thought that January's full moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time, as a way to mark territory, hunt, and find other pack members. The full moon represents a time to harvest your intentions that have been set and making sure they materialize. This moon comes in the dead of winter and is a time for transformation and introspection. This is a great time to reflect on your goals for this year and what you want to improve in your life. It is a time of figuring out what you need in order to have a successful life. It's also a time of seeing what's missing and finding truth in what you long for. It's about sacrifice and finding personal truth and discovering your purpose and how it relates to the bigger picture and society as a whole.
Watch for 2023 Full Moon Women's Circle dates and the information on workshops I will be offering. Have a blessed holiday season, be grateful for our days and to new beginnings in 2023!
Join in on this last Full Moon Women's Circle of the year as we clear your plate of anything that’s distracting you from following your dreams as we prepare to enter a new year. You won’t want to miss out on the magic of the season!
So, what should we be mindful of during this Frost Full Moon being in eclipse? Join in on the November Women's Circle to celebrate letting go of drama and embracing calmness so we can move towards appreciating basic values, being calm, and feeling safe and secure. Simple pleasures and creature comforts take on elevated meaning. This Frost Moon should leave us all feeling strengthened.
October's Blood Full Moon is a time to focus on your relationships in your life. Join in on October Women's Circle ceremony to work on the energy to balance your own emotional needs and the needs of your loved ones.
What is Ecstatic Dance? It's a type of sacred movement that helps women connect to their bodies and feel into their primal selves. You don't need to know how to dance as the powerful music is KEY to allow us to move. I LOVE ecstatic dance! Every culture in the world has had some sort of dance component to their culture so it is appropriate to say that as women, we have a natural call to dance, move and shake. It is in our bones to move and flow to a beat, and women LOVE to express this! Join me in enjoying a beautiful fall evening by the fire, listening to the beat of the music, letting go and feeling free!
The Harvest Full Moon represents a chance to embrace new opportunities, create goals for yourself, and manifest your own destiny. This moon allows you to carefully curate new beginnings by leaving behind any negative habits or practices that no longer serve you. This full moon has been a starting point for many individuals to amplify their energy, reclaim their callings, and release anything blocking their own inner light path from shining. Post Harvest Moon, the moon wanes. This process from a full to waning moon is symbolic of the opening and closing of chapters in your life. Join the September Women's Circle and we release and manifest away! So, what have you been harvesting? What is ripe and ready? What needs to be pruned to allow for continued growth?
August's Sturgeon Super Moon is a time for all of us to take a step back and really appreciate everything. Join in on this Full Moon Women's Circle to express gratitude for the bounties of nature, and appreciate the fruits of all seasons and the unique beauties of the cycles of life.
Chakras, also known as "wheels of life", are the energy centers in our subtle body, and they are the vital force of our well-being. When the energy passes through these centers freely we experience harmony within ourselves, everything seems to work out in our lives, we have good health emotionally and physically. Join me in my blending studio to learn about which essential oils to use to create harmony in our energy flow and we'll create a rollerball essential oil blend for each of the seven chakras to take home and enjoy!
Join in this Buck Super Full Moon circle that calls for change in our lives and listening to our hearts more than ever. This is a time for transformation and listening to your intuition. The message is to know when it's time to slow down, enjoy the moment, and remember the important things in life. Let your mind, body, and soul rest!
Now is the time to embrace your fiery badass self. To soak up that energy and let it fuel you. Join in on the Inner Wild Woman Summer Solstice Fire Ceremony as we celebrate the beauty and abundance around us! Summer is a time of celebrating, enjoying life totally and living in the moment!
Astrologers consider the Strawberry Moon—the last full moon of the spring or the first of the summer—to be a moment of ripeness. Now is the time to reward yourself for the hard work you've put into your life, relationships, and career. Set your intentions to find your own personal truth and philosophy of life. Join in on the supermoon before the Summer Solstice as it relates to good fortune, optimism and generosity.
Join in on this special Blood Moon Women's Circle as we celebrate spring! The Flower Moon embodies all the spirit and energy of the Beltane and the Spring season. Now is the time to bring those goals and dreams to life. This is the time to look deep within and focus on introspection and healing. You might need to answer some hard questions about yourself and what needs to happen to make your intentions materialize!
Gardeners have been taking pleasure in savoring all the gardening catalogs that have arrived in the mail over the winter. We will soon be preparing our garden beds to sow this years' seeds. There are so many aromatic plants which we can grow at home in our gardens and on pots on the patio. Join me in my blending studio as we celebrate spring and all the joyfulness we can experience in creating a healing garden. Plant aromas effect our brains in surprisingly and healthful ways. Adding potent botanicals to your garden can create a restorative haven.
Join the Pink Full Moon Women's Circle to fully release negative thoughts or relationships that do not have space in our 'new life' that is starting to unfold. This moon in Libra will help you with speaking your truth, pursuing justice and resolving any conflicts in your life. This is a time to find your balance in life. Come and feel the community of energy women will come with to help set your intentions to focus on relationships, balance, and harmony in your life!
Join in on this March's Full Moon Women's Circle as we celebrate with the affirmation that this is your world and you're needed in it! Your light is needed. Your unique energy is needed. Your passions are needed. Your perspectives are needed. As you stand in your light, you light up the world!
Join in on this Snow Moon Women's Circle that will be full of staggering spiritual revelation and purpose. This moon signifies renewal in the spirit. The snow moon gives people a chance to reset and reevaluate. It's about new dreams and overcoming past hurts, forging forward with a greater sense of purpose. February is a very chilly month, but one for building cozy relationships and having a brighter outlook.
January's full moon, known the Wolf Moon, is named as such because of legends from long ago. It's thought that January's full moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time, as a way to mark territory, hunt, and find other pack members. The full moon represents a time to harvest your intentions that have been set and making sure they materialize. This moon comes in the dead of winter and is a time for transformation and introspection. This is a great time to reflect on your goals for this year and what you want to improve in your life. It is a time of figuring out what you need in order to have a successful life. It's also a time of seeing what's missing and finding truth in what you long for. It's about sacrifice and finding personal truth and discovering your purpose and how it relates to the bigger picture and society as a whole.
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Because luna moths are attracted to light, they appear at night. They are most commonly seen in May and June, when they are making their cocoons.
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I have traveled extensively to healing centers, holistic retreats and intentional communities, what Marcia Chambers offers in her women's circles is magical. Her gatherings are truly the divine feminine manifest. She blesses every woman with warmth, kindness and generous care. Her tranquility garden is the finest I found in all my travels. She is a gracious host with a genuine interest in the well being of others. I feel the support. I feel the love. I feel joy every time I attend.
Jeanette C.Story Portage Founderhttps://storyportage.org/ Attending one of Marcia’s events feels like being enveloped in a cocoon of sisterhood. The warm, inviting energy of her home allows one to instantly feel at ease. It’s clear that every element is created with painstaking care and attention. From the delicious food to the thought-provoking rituals, and the conversations shared between women in sacred space, Marcia’s events are thoughtful, beautiful, and inspiring from start to finish.
Maggie D. For someone who struggles with quieting the mind and truly getting into a meditative state, I can’t thank you enough for experiencing your “Goddess Vibes in Ecstatic Dance”! This workshop—with your empowering affirmations and beautiful music—created a space for me to move my body & just “BE”! Thank you so much!
Jennifer Z. The Lunar Cycles workshop that Marcia facilitated at Camp du Nord was wonderful. Marcia’s knowledge of the moon and its phases was eye opening for me. She makes it easy to understand and shares her personal journey with “moonology” and how it has enhanced her life. I look forward to learning more about the moon’s magic & applying it to my life.
Jennifer Z. Marcia’s Women’s Circles are inspiring and empowering. She creates a safe space to share and connect –a place to be our true and authentic selves. Working with the power of the moon phases, she uses her wisdom to gently guide us to tap into our feminine energy. I have learned so much from Marcia about the natural cycles of nature and the importance of finding healing, sharing experiences, the magic of sisterhood, and living with intention.
Shelley F. The experience of the Summer Solstice celebration at Marcia’s Inner Wild Woman studio was uplifting, energizing and insightful for me. The entire evening had a touch of magic to it, from the meditations, to the content she provided, to the meaningful sharing by the other women present, to the serenity and beauty of both her indoor and outdoor spaces. Marcia pays attention to every detail from the lovely crystals, essential oils and tarot cards, to the mocktails and dessert made especially to represent the fire and warmth of the summer solstice. I couldn’t have enjoyed or benefitted from the experience more!
Lissa M.
