WHO: For parents who want to tend real relationships while taking a fresh and receptive approach to the following themes:
Creativity & Motherhood
Individuality & Community
Taking up space & Holding space.
WHAT: A ritual container for us to
discover more of our creativity together
while being held by something bigger than ourselves.
WHEN: First & third Thursdays (except June 18th)
WHERE: The Nest, 156 South Auburn St. Grass Valley
Upcoming Experiences for Parents
It is often said how parenting is easier in community. But “community” doesn’t just mean having support around the day-to-day of meal prep, laundry, carpooling, etc … Parents also need to feel their days come alive with meaning. And we can’t do that alone.
Parents need group experiences that center, empower and witness each of us in our own individuality, stories, meaning-making and dreaming consciousness — while connecting to others in theirs.
Through astrological and mythic contemplation, movement, art, and group reflection, we step into the living Field of this astrological moment together, discovering and weaving with the deeper threads and patterns of Creativity that lie beneath the chaos and stress of parenting through unprecedented times.
This approach is relational — helping us steward connection with our many human and more-than-human relations.
This approach is also non-dogmatic and does not offer a fixed set of beliefs or interpretations of the astrology. It holds space for each individual’s dreaming and meaning-making, while reflecting back the organizing, living Field we are inside of — whether that is a myth or an archetype we’re turning our attention toward.
May 21st: The Great Mother
We’ll explore the archetype of the Great Mother, looking at the constellation myths behind Cancer and connecting with the past year’s transit of Jupiter through this Sign.
Through experiential processes, we’ll tend our relationship and dreaming of the characters, animals, places and dynamics in this ancient story that continues to pattern our parenting, creativity and community-tending in Western culture.
We’ll turn our attention toward Hera, Queen of Heaven, goddess of family and social order, protectress of women and childbirth — and invite Hera to share beyond what the patriarchal tellings of her allowed to come through.
This is what we mean when we say “take a receptive approach” to parenting issues. When we attend the living field of Story that underpin our daily lives with care, respect and conscious participation, the agency and fluidity of the Story itself comes forward and we get to receive, respond and tend more healthy relationships with it — in a way that helps create real change in the realities we are experiencing and creating.
Meet Nicole
Nicole Esclamado Feola is an Experiential Astrology Practitioner, trained by Jason Holley of the Hermes-Hestia Center for Living Astrologies; certified in the Conscious Parenting Method with Dr. Shefali Tsabary; and Internal Family Systems with Guthrie Sayen. She has a B.S. in Biology and brings her love for the living Earth and her creatures, into everything she does.
Nicole has worked as a teacher at a progressive high school semester program, as a mentor to post-college graduates and a youth soccer coach. She has two children of her own, ages 6 and 10.
Nicole weaves a deeply relational approach to astrology, myth and biology to facilitate direct experiences of our universal nature.
She is a Sagittarius Rising, Taurus Sun and Capricorn Moon — and absolutely loves her work.