The Cohort
A year in the foundations — yourself, your body, the land, your relationships
Ground Before Anything Grows
This is for women who are carrying more than they have ground to hold.
You have probably done a great deal of work already: modalities, teachers, trainings, books, retreats. Some of it helped, and then stopped helping, and you were left wondering whether the problem was you.
What was missing is that the ground underneath wasn't yet strong enough to hold what was set on top of it. This is the most consistent thing I have seen in thirty years of practice: healing doesn't hold when the ground can't hold it. You can do precise, skillful work and watch it dissolve within days, because the field that would keep it in place is too thin.
Ground is not a state you reach and then have. It's a living relational field – with yourself, with your body, with the land you live on, with your ancestors, with the people around you. When it's thin, everything you build on it crumbles. When it grows, things you have been straining to carry become, simply, carried.
I want to be plain about what this year is and isn't. It’s about remembering and becoming, which happen at the same time, and which are slower and far less dramatic than growth. What we do here is tend. We tend ourselves. We tend our bodies. We tend the Land. We tend our relationships. Ground comes from tending. It has never once come from effort.
A Year, Because the Year Is the Teacher
There's a way of living inside time that most of us were never offered.
Time as you've been given it is a line you fall behind on. There is always a next thing, and the next thing is late. Under that arrangement, rest has to be earned and defended, and you come home wrung out and wired — too depleted to do anything, too keyed up to actually rest.
The year works differently. It doesn't move in a line. It turns. There is a season for going down and a season for coming out, a season for tending the dark and a season for standing in the light, and none of them is behind. Eight times a year we meet at the thresholds where the year turns, and we mark it. Not a class about ritual. Ritual itself — the practice of standing in a particular moment of the year, in a body, in a place, and letting that moment do what it does.
What most women find is that after a few turns, the year stops being something they are living through and becomes something they are living with. Their own rhythm comes back into view. The relationship with the place they live changes. Rituals of their own start to arrive — not borrowed, not performed, but theirs, arising from what they are actually in relationship with.
This is why it's a year and not a course. A year is the smallest unit this work comes in.
Discover Belonging in This Room
The same women, all year.
Ground isn't only yours. A group tending it together across a year builds something none of you would build alone, and all of you get to stand on it. Conversation starts deep because nobody has to work up to it. And the women beside you will notice what has changed in you before you do, because they were there when it hadn't.
You will not be asked to explain yourself here, or to translate what you perceive into something more acceptable. Nothing you bring will be treated as strange. Much of what you have kept private, you have kept private for good reasons, and you keep the right to those reasons — but you'll be in a room where you don't need them.
The Courses
You'll walk five courses across the year. Each one falls in the season that carries it, because the material and the season are doing the same work. What follows is what each is for, and where it sits in the turning.
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This is the ground everything else stands on, and it's the only course we're in continuously. We return to it every month, all year long.
It's the work of building the relationships that ground is actually made of: with your own body, with the land you live on, with the ancestors whose blood you carry. Your nervous system learns what safe enough feels like, and then learns it again, more deeply, each time we come back. That's the reason it doesn't end in the autumn and get ticked off. Ground builds and capacity grows in a spiral. You meet the same ground repeatedly, and each turn you arrive with more of yourself intact.
Everything else in this year grows out of this course.
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We work with the ancestors in the season when they are nearest.
Your bloodline family is your first and deepest layer of ground, and for most of us that layer has been interrupted. This course is the practical skill of getting into right relationship with your wise Ancestral Elders — how to tell an ancestor from a ghost, how to keep yourself safe, how to tend an altar, how to work with what you've inherited so that the burdens can settle and the gifts can come through.
It sits at Samhain because that's when the veil opens, and because the descent into the dark half of the year is the right time to go looking for what's underneath you.
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The stillness at the bottom of the year.
The Twelve Nights are the sacred pause our ancestors kept between the Solstice and Epiphany — twelve nights that read as twelve moons of the year to come. We spend them in oracling, dreaming, divination, and a daily meditation. Not goal-setting. Goals are the culture's idea of what a new year is for. This is listening for what your own soul is already holding ready.
It sits here because it can only sit here. This is the one time in the wheel when the ground is quiet enough for that kind of listening.
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The light returns, and the question changes from what needs healing to what wants to be made.
This course is about the alchemy of remembering and becoming: how to stand between opposites — fire and water, spirit and matter, longing and limit — without collapsing toward one of them, and let something new come out of the tension. Creation stops being something you perform and becomes something you participate in. It's where you stop solving your life as a problem.
It sits at Imbolc because the seed stirs before there's any visible sign of it, and because the work of creation is much easier once the ground beneath it has been well tended through the dark.
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The Earth's breath pauses at the top of her exhale, and the spirits of place are most awake.
This is the practical work of relationship with the living world: how to listen to the spirits of land, water, wind, and place through your European ancestral animist lineage, and trust what you hear. You'll learn to make sacred offerings — oils, tinctures, bread, cloth — as acts of exchange rather than consumption, and what real magic requires: not technique, but presence, consent, and the willingness to be changed by contact. It builds on the ground laid in Rewild Yourself, deepening it into reciprocity and the kind of embodied coherence that starts to reorganize the world around you.
It sits at the height of the light, at the point in the year when everything is in full expression.
What’s Included in the Year
The Courses, plus group integration sessions. The full curriculum, taken in the season each one belongs to. The integration sessions are with your own group, where you bring your experience of the work and the questions that only arrive after you've lived it.
Wheel of the Year Ritual Gathering, 8x per year, online. Not a class about ritual. We gather to ground in ritual through the turning year, and to embody place more deeply.
Quarterly 1:1 sessions with Ro, 4x per year. Time with me at each turn of the season, to look at what's actually arising in your life and what's most supportive for you right now. You'll leave with a practice prescription, revisited each quarter as you change.
In-person Retreat, June 2027. The one time we're all in the same place. Location TBD. Lodging and food are not included.
A community of aligned women who are doing the same work alongside you.
What’s Next
The Cohort is a closed room for the year. We begin together at the Autumn Equinox 2026 and finish together in August 2027 — one commitment, held across four seasons.
$3,245 for the year. Pay in full, or pay eleven monthly payments of $295. The price is the same either way; choose what actually works for your life.
Some scholarships may be available. Please complete the commitment form above to express your interest.