storyteller within
women's sacred expression retreats
SPACIOUS
HEART SUNDAY SESSIONS
the bravest and most fulfilling decision you will make is to live with an open, spacious heart
We circle every other Sunday morning
from 10am-12pm EST
(schedule posted below)
"Breathtaking honesty—the second of willingness to risk the seemingly impossible truth, to throw it all in the air if only for this moment, to render oneself naked to oneself anew and even if undone, to call forth the once inconceivable from within—is the rawest note of human beauty. The moment when the palm of the heart turns slowly upwards."
- Aimee Hansen
IN SPACIOUS HEART SUNDAY SESSIONS:
Like any of my offerings, we are going to gather to tend the inner sanctuary. We attune to the deep inner knowing that unfolds through and around you. We align to the greater Love that is always calling you towards yourself and your adventure. We connect with possibility and the essence seeded in, and expressing through, you.
And with this circle space,
we are going to get even more...
daring in the questions.
raw in our truths.
real with our ink.
honest in our being.
deeper in our inquiry.
vaster in our realizations.
These times call for a spacious heart.
A "spacious heart" is one that can, again and again, find more room within to hold the whole of your experience. To allow all of you and all of life. To not turn away or close down, but open again to expand.
This circle space is for you if:
- You no longer wish to stay stuck in, justify, and defend contractive spaces in your heart. Or the stories that support their tight grip.
- You are willing to look in the mirror and are receptive to be willing to hear when unexpected truth arises, even seemingly impossible truth.
- You do not want to point the finger outside of yourself and are ready to allow, accept, and embrace that power lies, and has always dwelled, within you.
- You are more interested in openness and expansion of your being and your capacity than protecting any sense of story, affliction, or identity.
- You want to allow more love and vital energy to flow through your being, and are willing and prepared to stay with yourself through the witnessing of blocks.
When we live from the heart, we Be guided back to the sacred space of your heart.Anchor in your own energy amidst the chaos of the world.Live your life from the place you wish to create from.Trust your intuition and your inner authority.Witness the wonder around and within you.Meet eyes with yourself and what holds you back.So that you can honor the beauty that is within you and beckoning you to bring it out. So you can remember your power andesteem the self.So you can be the spaciousness of heart that can hold your experiences.So you can go into dark places and recover the light in a light-hearted way.
What You Will Receive Each Month:
Live writing session
every other Saturday
(10am - 12pm EST)
(via Zoom)
recordings will be available
Live monthly
somatic session
(via Zoom)
with Jessica Basken
recordings will be available
Twice weekly (brief) audio journaling prompts for opening the heart
(via Telegram)
available on phone & desktop
Interactive community space for sharing
writing and reflections with other members
(via Telegram)
available on phone & desktop
When you circle with other women, you connect into more of who you are. The circle creates space within you.
Getting on a plane is not the only way to tap into the magical and catalytic energy of a women's retreat circle.
My intention with this community is to hold a sacred space for your heart from where you stand.
I want to gather women who tend the inner space and commit to coming back to live from a spacious heart.
When we live from the heart, we
Be guided back to the sacred space of your heart.
Anchor in your own energy amidst the chaos of the world.
Live your life from the place you wish to create from.
Trust your intuition and your inner authority.
Witness the wonder around and within you.
Meet eyes with yourself and what holds you back.
So that you can honor the beauty that is within you and
beckoning you to bring it out.
So you can remember your power and
esteem the self.
So you can be the spaciousness of heart that can hold
your experiences.
So you can go into dark places and recover the light in a light-hearted way.
Imagine
What do you get as part of this experience?
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Three inspirational musings/meditations/journal prompts per week to come into the heart.
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Interactive community space in which to share writing to the prompts with other women.
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2 x Month 2 hour live writing and sharing circles (Sat 10am EST)
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1 x Month 1 hour live intuitive embodiment sessions with Jessica Basken (Thurs 4pm EST)
How will you access it?
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Daily audio inspiration and writing prompts and community space will be delivered and hosted via a Telegram group, available as an app on your phone and desktop.
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Live sessions will take place on Zoom. Recordings will be available if you miss live sessions.
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Somatic sessions will also be recorded.
Aimee Hansen
I'm the creator of Storyteller Within. I'm an intuitive Pisces. I'm a sacral authority. I live my life through following gut intuition and heart-centered awareness, repeatedly returning to that space (and my aliveness), when I forget. And I forget, so I can remember, more profoundly.
Because frankly, intuition and divine guidance are far better guides towards the fulfillment of what lights me up! I've learned this (iteratively) each time I've tried to grab the wheel through exertion, fear, scarcity, self-dominance or desire hunger. I only ever end up farther from myself, whereas intuition and divine guidance not only lead me back to myself, but to becoming more of who I am. Life becomes a more expansive adventure.
Intuition has led me to take my first plane at 21 years old to London, where I could come to live for nearly a decade. Intuition has made me leap from jobs without a place to land in, because I am meant to create the landing which will birth more of me. Intuition has led me to decisions that attracted long-term relationships to me from across the world, twice.
Intuition guided me to Guatemala in 2012. Intuition inspired me to leap from a single two hour circle to offering week long retreats. Intuition is the core way in which I facilitate the Journey Into Sacred Expression Women's Retreats for nine years, and increasingly more. Intuition introduced me to the co-author of my retreat journal coming out in 2025.
Intuition has also led me towards expectation shattering lessons I've needed so I could disrupt the patterns getting in my own way (and also given me the chance to pick up the signal before I did). Intuition has thrown me on the plane more than once, told me to stay put, asked me to say the impossibly to say thing, and to let go.
I could go on... swaying with intuition is a playful enchantment of being and participating in my life, with my Self, with others, and through the mystery of guidance. Again and again, I feel in for the subtle sway of my soul. I feel it's the call towards destiny, rather than fate.
Jessica Basken
Jessica is a mother, a moon dancer, a somatic coach and an embodied movement facilitator. Through her travels across the world, the ceremonies she has participated in and the trainings she's done, the most profound lesson she has continued to learn is that the body is home. Trusting her body is how she lives and it's what she is here to help you remember how to do, too.
This community circle will invite you to:
- Be seen and heard and held in a safe space with a group of women.
- Be open towards ever unfolding new truths and expanding insights.
- Attune to your feelings, your bodily knowing and your intuitive awareness.
- Clarify and loosen the ways we each limit, inhibit or self-sabotage ourselves.
- Listen to and live from your aliveness, heart center and soulful desires.
- Become more fluid in the powerful art of perspective.
- Engage with curiosity, beauty, mystery, poetry and divine guidance.
- Practice self-knowing to root more deeply in your authenticity.
This space will also encourage you to:
- Play freely with your creativity and bring creativity into reflective journaling.
- Fire up the muse through live prompts and override the inner critic.
- Get used to sharing your raw, initial expression and hold witness for others.
- Honor and be witnessed for your embodied and lived experience.
- Break from your routine to nurture yourself, connection and creativity.
- Access your writing channel and sensitize your awareness.
- Share in rich interaction in a casual pop-up circle of women.
Take an Intuitive Leap And Join Now
*(still available until we reach 22 women!)*
No plans available
Once there are plans available for purchase, you'll see them here.