For women in their forties & beyond
Potent, precious and powerful seasonal initiations for women at a threshold.
Two and a half hours of somatic practice, ritual & community.
14 November · 8 December · January date to be announced
When something can no longer stay the same
Perhaps a relationship, a way of working or a version of yourself no longer feels true. There are desires you can feel, and decisions you know you need to make, yet moving towards them asks more of you than simply knowing.
This is the space between what has been and what is becoming. Experience Elixir offers a place to begin crossing that threshold, held in community rather than trying to make the passage alone.
The body belongs in your becoming
Your nervous system has learned from everything you have lived through. Even a deeply wanted change can feel unfamiliar, and protection may rise alongside your desire. Your body is intelligent, keeping you as safe as it knows how.
We do not force that protection aside. Through somatic practice, we offer the body experiences of support and choice, building the capacity to approach what you want with greater steadiness.
This is the elixir: your own embodied medicine, bringing you into closer relationship with desire, pleasure and aliveness, whether the threshold is love, visibility, abundance or a long-awaited decision.
Inside the initiation
Over two and a half hours, we weave together embodied practice, ritual and understanding. There is room for the complexity of being human and being a woman, without reducing yourself to a single issue.
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Gentle, guided experiences to notice your body's signals, find support and explore more room for feeling and desire.
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A meaningful space to honour what is ending and meet what is emerging, without needing to have your becoming neatly resolved.
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Understand what regulation can feel like, how to recognise shifts and how to return to support. Regulation is not being calm all the time.
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Be with women meeting their own thresholds, and gather practices you can return to as you move through yours.
You are invited, never pushed. You can pause, adapt a practice or simply witness, and choose what you share.
The seasonal gatherings
Each initiation lasts 2.5 hours. Confirmed gatherings begin at 7pm UK, 2pm EST and 11am PST.
14 November 2026
7:00pm UK
2:00pm EST
11:00am PST
Scorpio season · Charlene’s birthday special
A space for the letting go that change asks of us. Through somatic practice and ritual, we explore dissolution, initiation and reclamation, honouring what is ending and making room for what is becoming.
Booking opens soon
8 December 2026
7:00pm UK
2:00pm EST
11:00am PST
Seasonal theme to be announced
Another gathering to meet the threshold you are living, with somatic practice, ritual and the support of women moving through change together.
Booking opens soon
January 2027
Date & seasonal theme to be announced
Our seasonal gatherings continue into January, with space to come into closer relationship with yourself and the desires calling you forward.
Booking opens soon · Date to be announced
Investment, gathering location and booking details will be announced.
Charlene Salmon · Somatic therapist & coach
A great deal is changing in my life. I am still meeting edges in relationships, visibility and decisions I have wanted to make for years. I do not come to this work as a finished product, but as a woman who knows the importance of being supported through the passage.
Somatic practice, ritual and communion with ancestors have helped me find a deeper relationship with myself. Community and mentorship have been essential. I have support as I move through dissolution, initiation and reclamation, and I want to offer that kind of company to you.
Experience Elixir is an invitation into that shared space, and a taste of working with me. Not to become someone else, but to feel more able to meet what is true for you, with more regulation, pleasure and aliveness.
Before we gather
Women in their forties and beyond who feel at a crossroads. You may be navigating a relationship, a change in your work, questions of abundance or a decision that has been waiting. You do not need to arrive with one neatly defined issue.
No prior experience is needed. Practices are guided, with room to adapt, pause or witness. You do not need to share personal details, follow a particular spiritual belief or participate in anything that does not feel right for you.
Regulation is not a promise of permanent calm. It is growing your ability to notice what is happening in your body, meet activation with support and return to more steadiness. We explore this through practice as well as understanding.
Each initiation is two and a half hours. The November and December gatherings start at 7pm UK time, which is 2pm EST and 11am PST. January's date is still to be announced.
Booking and investment details will be announced here. Places will be booked through a payment link once booking opens. The gathering location and practical arrangements are also to be confirmed.
These are group experiences of somatic practice, ritual and community, not individual therapy or crisis support. They do not replace medical or specialist mental health care, and no particular outcome is promised.
Experience Elixir
Come into community with women who are also becoming, and begin to meet what is calling you with the support of your whole self.
Explore the initiations