THE HEARTH
A SOFT LANDING FOR CONNECTION
There is something most of us carry that rarely finds a room of its own.
The layer underneath how we say we are doing when people ask. The weight that has sat with us for so long it has started to feel like personality rather than something we picked up somewhere along the way. The quiet sense that the version of us most real has had very few places to actually land, even among people who love us.
The Hearth is an eight week container, a soft landing to connect. A small circle of eight to ten people gather together, opening and closing each evening as one body, with a tea theme chosen to meet whatever that week is asking of the nervous system. The body is always our compass here, and so is the connection we build with each other across the weeks.
Each evening holds a theme to sit with, and there is always room to bring whatever is most personally alive for you in that moment.
There is nothing here to perform. Warm, witnessing company, and ninety minutes where something real gets to happen, with people who are willing to sit alongside you in it.
A different somatic tool is woven into every gathering, so that by the end of the container, you leave with a genuine toolkit you can keep using long after the eight weeks are done.
Dates and location coming soon
Who this is for
This is for anyone who has been moving through life carrying things that have never quite had enough room to be felt. For anyone who knows the particular kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people while still feeling unseen. For anyone whose body has been holding more than an ordinary week tends to leave space for.
You are welcome here whether or not you have ever done anything like this before. The only thing that matters is a willingness to show up as you actually are.
The container
Eight weeks | Weekly gatherings
A small circle of eight to ten people
Two koha spots are held by invitation each round
The Hearth is returning for its next container and details will be confirmed shortly. If this is calling to you, reach out directly and you will be the first to know.
About the facilitator
The Hearth is held by Jay, founder of Oceans Melody Aligned. Jay works in Māori healing traditions, intuitive energy healing, and somatic bodywork across Christchurch and beyond.
Integration is one of the most important parts of this journey. Without the right conditions around us, it is easy to slip back into old patterns and the coping mechanisms we already know.
The Hearth grew out of something Jay kept noticing in her own treatment room, a session would open something tender and true in a person, and then they would walk back out into a life that had nowhere ready to hold what had moved. This gathering became that place, built specifically to give it somewhere to land and stay.
