Medicine Circle Collective
The Medicine Circle Collective is a collaboration between dear friends - those known and those yet to be known. Through regular gatherings, we share love, friendship, learning, connection, and the many forms of medicine that arise when women come together with intention.
We envision a world where we gather in sacred community to remember our power, rekindle our creativity, practice ceremony, and rise together with humility, joy, and embodied wisdom.
We seek to create a living, evolving community where women feel deeply seen, supported, and empowered - a place where each of us brings our unique gifts to the circle and experiences the kind of belonging that nourishes the soul.
Our mission is to create gatherings and opportunities rooted in ceremony, creativity, learning, collaboration, and community care, expanding the definition of “medicine” beyond any substances and into all the ways we heal, grow, and transform together.
We gather to:
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Offer women a safe, inclusive, spiritually grounded space, without dogma
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Share practices that awaken creativity, intuition, and connection
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Teach and practice ancestral, ceremonial, and earth-honoring traditions
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Cultivate empowerment through shared leadership and collective wisdom
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Celebrate beauty, play, embodiment, and authentic expression
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Serve the larger community through acts of compassion and reciprocity
Our Guiding Values:
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Sacred Sisterhood & Shared Collaboration - We honor the power of women gathering. We listen, witness, uplift, and celebrate one another without hierarchy, judgment, or comparison. Everyone is invited to contribute their gifts, skills, and creativity. We rotate roles, empower emerging leaders, and cultivate humility in ourselves and each other.
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Medicine as Expansive - We honor medicine in all its forms, not only substances, but the practices that awaken the heart and return us to ourselves. Art, music, beauty, movement, play, creativity, and connection are sacred medicines. Medicine is not outside of us; it is cultivated through how we engage with life, relate to ourselves and others, and integrate meaning into our everyday experience.
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Inner Healer - We honor the inner healer, inner teacher, and unique lineage each woman carries. We trust that every individual has wisdom within her that can guide, restore, and transform. As we say: “you are the medicine.”
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Safety, Integrity & Trust - We commit to emotional, spiritual, and relational safety. We create and uphold clear agreements, confidentiality, consent, and accountability.
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Ceremony, Ritual & Earth-Honoring Practices - We root ourselves in nature’s cycles, ancestral wisdom, simple rituals & ceremony, and reverence for the elements. We create ceremony that is safe, accessible, and deeply meaningful.
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Humility & Lifelong Learning - We are students of life, not experts claiming to “Know.”. We remain curious, open-hearted, and willing to revise what we think we know. Each gathering is an opportunity to grow.
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Diversity & Inclusion - We welcome women of all backgrounds, identities, ages, and experiences. Our circle is strengthened by the beauty of our differences and the depth of our shared humanity.
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Service & Reciprocity - We give back - to our community, to the earth, and to each other. Our gatherings are not only for personal healing but also for contributing to the collective good.
Miriam Grace Kaiyo, Ph.D.
Miriam began her medicine journey in her early 20s as a way to address trauma. Over the decades, Miriam has become a passionate community leader, researcher, and educator, forging an unconventional, modern and creative path in medicine work, specifically utilizing a non-hierarchical, collaborative, embodied, and joyful approach to transformation. www.miriamkaiyo.com
Heather
Heather has been a spiritual seeker for most of her life. She has deep roots in the worlds of mental illness, mental health, wellness, and healing. She approaches her journey in this world with a profound inner understanding, love, and compassion for herself and others. She has gained much in this lifetime through diving in deep and continuing to bring her own mystery into union within herself.
Heather is dedicated to recognizing and honoring each individual’s unique potential for self-healing. Her greatest tools are genuine care, deep concern, and an unwavering understanding of individual empowerment and capacity. Heather seeks to create and open space for deep healing and sanctuary, where individuals feel safe, seen, valued, and capable of transformative healing.
Tonia Erin
Tonia is a Soul Path Coach & Ceremonialist healer skilled in using energy, sound, scent, and earth medicines for transformative healing. She weaves spaces that promote insight and connection, with a mission to awaken the Divine within and improve our interconnectedness. As a certified coach with expertise in psychedelic preparation and integration coaching, Tonia blends her spiritual practice with her affinity for nature t create enchanting spaces for communion and growth. She invokes the alchemy of ceremony and rites of passage work to support women experiencing the midlife awakening, offering a light to see their truest self.
Ann Real
Ann combines holistic methods like nature immersion, mindfulness, energy work, conscious dreaming, and intuitive guidance to heal from childhood trauma and assist others in their healing journeys. With over 7 years of experience in studying transformation and trauma healing, Ann facilitates private and group sessions that include transformational sound meditation and energy work, followed by deep integration practices. An avid reader and skilled builder, Ann's journey reflects her commitment to personal growth and helping others discover their healing paths.