Community · Belonging

Soul Sangha.

For those who long for sacred community in a world of surface connection.

Each gathering carries its own theme — from belonging and grief to wildness and ceremony.

Next gathering 31 March · Belonging

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A gathering for people asking the deeper questions

Something in you already knows the way.

Most gatherings ask you to arrive with answers. This one asks only that you arrive. Soul Sangha is a monthly hour of unhurried presence — where the questions are honoured more than the conclusions, and where being witnessed is the point.

There is no curriculum, no self-improvement agenda, no performance. Only the rare and necessary act of finding people who take the inner life seriously — and letting yourself be met.

Come as you are →
What to expect

Three currents run through every gathering.

Guided Reflection

Rachael opens each gathering with a practice rooted in depth psychology and nature wisdom — an invitation to drop below the surface before we speak.

Real Conversation

Small breakouts so you actually connect with others standing on the same threshold. No icebreakers. No agenda. Just honest exchange.

A Taste of the Season

Each Soul Sangha opens a door into the wider Portals to Purpose journey. Go as deep as you choose — or simply rest in the gathering itself.

We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being.

— James Hollis

An honest invitation

This work is for you if…

  • You sense there is something deeper you are here to offer, even if you can't yet name it.

  • You feel the urgency of these times and want to respond from your deepest truth.

  • You are tired of surface-level purpose work and ready for a genuine descent to soul.

  • You long for community with people who take Soul seriously.

  • You are drawn to nature-based, multi-tradition wisdom rather than a single school.

  • You long to experience the magic and sacred animacy of all life.

Upcoming Gatherings · 2025

Each month, a threshold.

Step in when you're ready. Each session stands alone.

Mar31Free

Belonging

What does it mean to truly belong — to yourself, to others, to the living world?

Opening gathering
Apr28Free

Grief as Love

When we allow grief its full expression, something essential returns to us.

Related: Grief as Gateway to Soul
May30Free

Finding Your WildSpecial event

A screening and conversation with Craig Foster's My Octopus Teacher — exploring what it means to surrender to nature, descend into the unknown, and return transformed.

May 30 · 9:00–10:30 am PDT

Register free →
My Octopus Teacher poster
Jun2Free

Re-membering your Wild Self

What has been domesticated in you that longs to return to its nature?

Summer threshold
Jul7Free

The Descent to Soul

Darkness as initiation. What the underworld takes from us and what it gives back.

Deep summer

Wondering if the deeper work is right for you?
A discovery call is the best place to begin.

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