About this Event
Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself lately?
Maybe you’ve been questioning something in your life and can’t seem to find clarity.
Maybe you know something feels off, but you can’t quite work out whether what you’re feeling is intuition, fear, protection or something within you genuinely asking for change.
RETURN TO SELF is a cacao ceremony created to give you the space to come back into relationship with yourself beneath all of that noise.
We’ll be gathering in the days leading into the Autumn Equinox (on 23rd Sept) a seasonal turning point that brings another layer to this exploration of returning to ourselves.
As we move from one season into another, there’s a natural invitation to take stock. To notice what feels balanced and what doesn’t, what we’ve been carrying, what we want to carry forward and what may be ready to be released as we move into the next season.
Not from a place of deciding that everything needs to change, but from creating enough space to hear ourselves clearly within it.
It’s easy to think of alignment as something external, whether we’re in the right relationship, doing the right work, making the right decisions or moving in the right direction.
But alignment also comes from the relationship we have with ourselves within all of it.
How often are you actually checking in with what you feel and what you need?
Where are you putting what you feel to one side?
Where are you acting from fear and calling it intuition?
Where are you protecting yourself from something that actually isn’t a threat anymore?
And where are you trying to convince yourself something is okay when, deep down, you know it isn’t?
That is the space we’re going into with this ceremony.
✨ The Astrology & Autumn Equinox
Alongside the seasonal threshold of the Autumn Equinox, the astrology we’re meeting under holds so many different parts of this conversation.
With the Sun in Virgo and Moon in Capricorn, we’re looking at what’s working, what we’re maintaining and where our energy is going. Mercury in Libra and Mars in Cancer bring relationships, compromise, emotional safety and belonging into focus, while Jupiter in Leo and Saturn, Neptune and Chiron in Aries bring us back to our life force, identity and sense of self.
And with Venus in Scorpio already moving through her retrograde shadow, there’s an even deeper conversation beginning around relationships, values, desires and what truly matters to us.
Rather than using this ceremony to decide “this stays, this goes, this is right, this is wrong,” I want us to go underneath all of that.
Because maybe you already know where you’ve lost connection with yourself.
Or maybe you don’t.
Maybe the thing you’re convinced needs to change isn’t actually the thing at all.
Through ceremonial cacao, somatic exploration and shamanic journeying, we’ll create space to get underneath some of that noise and reconnect with the parts of ourselves we may have stopped hearing.
Eventually asking yourself:
What does returning to myself look like now?
Not what should it look like or what somebody else would do or what fear wants.
But what is actually true for me?
Returning to yourself won’t look the same for everyone.
It might ask you to move, stay, soften, speak, let go, lean in or simply listen to something within yourself that you haven’t been listening to for a while.
This ceremony may be for you if…
✨ You’ve been questioning an area of your life and can’t seem to find clarity.
✨ You struggle to tell the difference between intuition, fear and protection.
✨ You find yourself putting what you feel or need to one side.
✨ You’ve spent so much time considering everything around you that you’ve lost touch with what you actually want.
✨ You can feel something within you has shifted, but you’re not quite sure what it means yet.
✨ You simply feel disconnected from yourself and want some space to come back in.
You don’t need to know where you’ve lost connection with yourself. Sometimes feeling the disconnect is enough to begin.
During Our Time Together
✨ Ceremonial Cacao
✨ Autumn Equinox prayer & Astrology we are moving through
✨ Nervous System Awareness & Somatic Embodiment
✨ Hands-on 1-1 Energy Work / Reiki / Cosmic Light Language
✨ Sound
✨ Guided Shamanic Journey
✨ Channelled messages, reflection, card pulls & integration
✨ Authentic Connection Within Community
You’ll Leave With…
✨ A deeper understanding of where you may have lost connection with yourself
✨ More awareness of what’s actually yours and what may be fear, protection or expectation
✨ A clearer connection to what you feel, need and want
✨ Insight into the patterns that may be influencing the choices you’re making
✨ Tools to help you keep checking in with yourself beyond the ceremony
✨ A greater sense of connection to yourself and what feels true for you
📅 Date & Time
Sunday 20th September 20261:00pm – 6:30pm
Please arrive with enough time to settle so we can begin together on time.
📍 Location
Islington Studios161 Marlborough Road, London N19 4NF
🎒 What to Bring
✨ Yoga mat or something comfortable to sit or lie on (a mat will be provided, but feel free to bring your own for extra comfort)
✨ Blanket
✨ Water bottle
✨ Journal & pen
✨ Anything you’d like to place on the altar, a crystal, photo, sacred object or anything meaningful to you
✨ Comfortable clothing
No previous experience is needed.
Whether this is your first ceremony or you’ve sat in many circles before, you are warmly welcome.
I can’t wait to share this space with you 🤎
With gratitude,
Chyna
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161 Marlborough Road, London, UK, United Kingdom
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