CIRCLES
JOYAA offers small, heart-centred circles held with care, slowness, and relational integrity.
These spaces are designed to support embodied presence, emotional honesty, and shared humanity — inviting participants to listen more deeply to themselves and one another.
Some circles are open to people of all genders.
Others are intentionally held for women only, where depth, safety, and nervous system restoration are best supported in a protected container.
Each circle clearly names its focus, boundaries, and agreements in advance.
The Four Portals
A guided journey through Love. Sex. Birth. Death.
Four living thresholds.
One sacred return to yourself.
Become She Who Stays
A Women’s Circle
JourneY
This journey may be for you if….
You're tired of understanding your patterns, yet still finding yourself living them.
You notice similar dynamics repeating in love, family, friendships or work.
You hold a great deal for others, but rarely feel truly held yourself.
You find it difficult to receive support, rest or care without guilt.
You're navigating a threshold: an ending, a beginning, a loss, a longing, or a quiet inner turning.
You sense something in your life is ready to shift, even if you can't yet name what that is.
You're seeking greater honesty, intimacy and alignment with yourself.
You long to stop abandoning yourself and begin trusting your own experience more deeply.
You don't need to have it all figured out to begin.
There are many ways we try to understand these experiences.
More rarely, do we have spaces to meet them, together
the four portals
She Who Stays
There are moments in life that do not ask to be solved.
They ask to be met.
Love opens us.
Sex awakens us.
Birth changes us.
Death humbles us.
These are not topics to master.
They are living thresholds we cross with our whole bodies, our hearts and our lives.
The Four Portals is a guided women’s journey through these great initiations of being human.
Over four gatherings across eight weeks, we enter each portal slowly, honestly, and together.
Through reflection, embodied practice, journalling, dialogue and witnessing, we begin to notice where we leave ourselves — and where we remain.
This is not a journey of self-improvement.
It is a practice of returning.
Returning to your body.
Returning to your truth.
Returning to your own lived experience.
Becoming She Who Stays.
You’re welcome to simply come and listen — there’s no expectation to share unless you feel ready.
From the circle:
“This circle felt so warm and welcoming that it was easy to be present as someone just as important and precious as all the other people in the circle.”
— Szidónia Juhasz, Budapest (Hungary)
“It was beautifully expressed and clearly facilitated. It felt rich, warm and empathically held.”
— Khristina Evans, Henley-on-Thames (UK)
“It was a beautiful, gentle reminder of what matters to me. Open-hearted women from around the world gathering and sharing openly, authentically.”
— Louise Lalande, Ottawa (Canada)
what you may begin to notice:
Pausing before saying yes when you mean no
Speaking more simply and honestly
Feeling less responsible for others’ emotions
Recognising familiar patterns a little earlier
Allowing yourself to receive support, rather than deflect it
AUTUMN 2026 JOURNEY BEGINS
Wednesday 16th september
Opening gathering (Free)
A chance to experience the atmosphere of the work, meet Priya and the other women, and step across the threshold into the Four Portals journey before deciding whether to continue.
From Portal 1 onwards, the group closes and we journey together through the portals as a dedicated circle.
A small circle of no more than 12 women, allowing space for each voice to be heard and witnessed over time.
Wednesday 7 October
Portal 1: Love
Wednesday 21 October
Portal 2: Sex
Wednesday 4 November
Portal 3: Birth
Wednesday 18 November
Portal 4: Death
All sessions take place online via Zoom from 8-10pm UK time.
Each portal is followed by a fortnight of reflection and integration before we gather again.
A small intimate circle.
A shared journey.
A space to be seen, heard and witnessed over time.
Investment:
£77 Early Bird (available until the Autumn Equinox (22 September)
£97 Standard
Includes:
Four live online gatherings
Reflection prompts between sessions
A dedicated circle of women journeying together over eight weeks
A private WhatsApp group
Ready to Begin?
Join us for the free Opening Gathering and experience the atmosphere of the work before deciding whether to continue.
Already Know You’re In?
Reserve your place for the Autumn 2026 Four Portals journey.
A Circle for Women
The Four Portals is held exclusively for women.
This women-only space supports nervous system repair, emotional honesty, deep listening and the freedom to arrive fully as yourself.
A space for presence, reflection and witnessing.
Future mixed-gender offerings will be shared separately.