PART TWO- WEAVING SACRED SPACE
THE CONTAINER
Creating the Bowl
Before anything sacred can be held, a vessel must be formed.
This is where we learn to build the bowl — steady, grounded, and wide enough to hold it all.
The safety you seek begins within you.
Welcome, sister.
This week we step into the container —
the steady bowl that holds what we are becoming.
Here, we remember that safety doesn’t come from the outside,
but from the way we ground, breathe, and meet ourselves within.
Take your time here.
Let steadiness be your practice.
STEP ONE – Watch: The Teaching
As you watch this session, let your body listen as much as your mind.
This week isn’t about taking in more —
it’s about feeling the steadiness that rises when you ground, soften, and breathe.
Let the teachings settle into you like warmth from a fire.
You may want to keep your journal open beside you — sometimes a single sentence, image, or emotion will rise that wants to be remembered.
Step Two: Guided Meditation: You are the Bowl
Before you press play, take a slow breath.
Let this be your grounding — your shift from the outer world into your inner bowl.
Soften your shoulders, relax your jaw,
and allow the sound to guide you into the warmth and steadiness within.
Step Three: Reflect: Journal Prompts & Companion Guide
These reflections are invitations to listen inwardly.
You don’t need to answer them with your mind — let your pen move from your body, your breath, your knowing.
1. Where do I feel most able to hold others?
Reflect on the situations, relationships, or environments where you naturally become the “steady one.”
What qualities rise in you?
Is it empathy? Strength? Calm? Presence?
How does it feel in your body?
2. Where do I struggle to hold myself?
Not fixing.
Not rescuing.
Not abandoning.
Simply being with yourself.
Where does that feel hard?
Where do you wobble?
What emotions or moments feel overwhelming?
Where do you tend to disconnect?
3. What does safety feel like in my body?
Go deeper than “safe” or “unsafe.”
Does safety feel like:
✨ warm?
✨ expanded?
✨ steady?
✨ soft?
✨ grounded?
✨ slow?
✨ open?
Or perhaps:
✨ quiet?
✨ spacious?
✨ unclenched?
Let your body answer, not your mind.
4. What makes me soften? What makes me close?
Softening and closing are both wisdom.
Both are signals.
What helps you soften?
✨ tone of voice
✨ warmth
✨ predictability
✨ environment
✨ spaciousness
✨ breath
✨ presence
What makes you close?
✨ raised voices
✨ pressure
✨ unpredictability
✨ judgement
✨ certain boundaries being crossed
✨ not feeling resourced
Knowing this is part of becoming a container.
5. Where have I become over-masculinised in my life?
Where have you had to be:
the planner
the protector
the fixer
the responsible one
the container AND the flow
the structure AND the softness
And how has that shaped the way you enter space?
6. Where do I long to soften?
What parts of your feminine want more room?
Emotion? Creativity? Rest? Expression?
What would you need to feel safe enough to open in those areas?
7. What boundaries support my inner bowl?
Think of boundaries not as walls
but as warmth, clarity, and protection.
What boundaries help you feel steady?
What boundaries need strengthening?
Where do you leak energy?
8. What does my inner masculine look like right now?
Is he:
supportive?
scattered?
rigid?
calm?
absent?
overactive?
How can he rise in service to your feminine?
9. What does my inner feminine need from me this week?
Rest?
Creativity?
Slowness?
Movement?
Stillness?
A good cry?
A long exhale?
A moment of truth?
Let her speak freely.
10. How does the idea “I hold myself first” land in my body?
Does it feel empowering?
Tender?
Difficult?
New?
Familiar?
What shifts when you repeat it?
I hold myself first
Step Four: Practice - The Container in Daily Life
This week, your invitation is to tend the part of you that holds.
The part that grounds, steadies, and protects your feminine.
Choose one or all of the practices below.
Move gently. Let this be an act of devotion.
• Tend your inner fire each morning
• Create a small sacred corner that feels like ‘home’
• Set three loving boundaries — with others or with yourself
• Light your candle and return to presence
• Whisper: I hold myself first.
You’ve begun the work of building your inner bowl —
the steadiness, the warmth, the boundaries, the breath.
Notice how it feels to hold yourself a little more fully than before.
Sacred space isn’t created all at once.
It strengthens layer by layer,
through presence, repetition, and gentle devotion.
There’s no hurry here.
Let what you’ve learned settle into your body.
Let the container grow from the inside out.
When you’re ready, we’ll meet again for Week Three,
where we weave the threads of Air — The Agreements
and discover how trust is created between us,
word by word, breath by breath.
BONUS: The Container Playlist
Let this week’s energy sink deeper into your body.
I’ve created a Container Playlist — music for grounding, centering, tending your fire, and softening into presence.
Use it while journaling, during your home practice, or anytime you want to return to your inner steadiness.