Exhale.
A summer
rejuvenation
circle.
Two hours to set down what you've been carrying — and pick up the version of summer you actually want to live.
A few words before you read on.
Tap to playYou don't need to be fixed. You need to be nourished and reminded of how incredible you are.Courtney Rose Founder, Psanctuary Church · Transformation Specialist & International Retreat Founder · Wife & Mother
A living arc — from head to heart, together.
Bring cacao or tea, a small bowl of fruit and nuts, and flowers if you have them.
You can't think your way out of patterns the body has memorized. You have to feel something different in the same life you're living. That's why we move together, breathe together, and hold each other in the same two hours.
ArrivalSettling in
Cameras on, breath slowing. I greet you, hold the room, and welcome you into this sacred container.
TeachingWho are you today?
A short, honest naming of this season — the cost of always being available, the tax of tending too much. The exhale begins here.
The Before You Go ProcessMove, Heart, Identity
I guide the whole Circle through my three-step recalibration movement process — a vital component to shift our emotional state into coherence. We drop out of the head and into the body together.
Heart ConnectionOne woman, held by the Circle
One brave woman steps forward to be held. Hands to hearts. Breath together. Each woman who feels called offers a brief blessing or word of what she sees. The volunteer simply receives. A living taste of what the 8-Week is.
ClosingBlessing & bridge
A closing blessing. A soft mention of what comes next — your Done-For-You Summer Plan in your inbox, and the doorway to the 8-Week Summer of Connection.
This is ancestral technology, not something new.
Coherence isn't woo. It's measurable, and it travels between women.
The brain on Circle
Modern brain imaging shows that within a single session of group intention, novice participants enter the same brain state as Sufi mystics in ecstatic prayer. You don't need years of practice. You need a circle of women, two hours, and shared intention.
The mirror effect
Research on small intentional groups shows the women doing the holding receive as much — sometimes more — than the woman being held. The Circle is medicine for the giver. Holding space is the healing.
Older than memory
The historical evidence is everywhere — Stonehenge, the early Christian apostles, Teresa of Ávila's prayer circles, the women's lodges across every indigenous culture on earth. Women in Circle is not new-age. It's how we have always done this.
If you've been tending too much, this is for you.
Mothers in the trenches
Kids at home, summers that feel like a logistics operation, and the running thought that you've forgotten what you used to love.
Mothers whose kids have moved out
The house is quieter and the inner question is louder: who am I, now that I'm not who I was? The tending hasn't stopped — it just changed shape.
Women who tend in other ways
Caretakers of aging parents. Sisters and friends and partners and bosses. Women without children whose hands are still always full.
Choose what feels right and true.
Three ways to step into Circle. Each tier builds on the one before it — choose the depth that feels right and true for this season.
- 2-hour live Circle on Zoom
- Whole-Circle teaching, movement & heart connection
- Guided head to heart journey, together
- Everything in the $25 tier — the live 2-hour Circle and the guided head to heart journey
- Exhale: Your Rejuvenated Summer — a personalized Summer Plan PDF, generated from a quiet discovery questionnaire and delivered to your inbox the same day (see what's inside, below)
- Replay access to the recording
- Everything in the $50 tier — the live Circle, your custom Summer Plan, and replay access
- 30-minute private 1:1 with Courtney on Zoom
- A quiet exploration of engaging in a subtle mushroom practice — what's calling you, what's holding you back, and how a gentle rhythm might support you
Current Psanctuary Members receive a special offering on all events and programs — use code MEMBEROFFICIAL at checkout.
Your custom Summer Plan.
At the $50 tier, you receive Exhale: Your Rejuvenated Summer — a personalized Plan PDF generated from your answers to a quiet discovery questionnaire, built for family-centered women at any stage — kids in diapers, kids in college, kids long grown, or no kids at all. It reshapes your household, your rhythms, your principles, and your vision to match who you came here to be in this life — not who you've stretched yourself thin and made yourself perpetually available to be.
The questionnaire auto-saves as you type. When you finish, your plan PDF generates instantly — and your answers come back to Courtney so she can follow up personally.
A sample plan (Courtney's own). Yours is generated from your unique answers — your principles, your rhythm, your blocks.
Who you are
Your name, household, where you live, who's at home this summer, and your one-sentence vision for a good season.
Where burnout lives
What's been costing you, what fills you up, what you'll protect at all costs, and what you're ready to set down.
Your guiding principles
Sacred mornings, in-breath/out-breath pacing, themed days not packed days, hard-stop times, default-yes-to-kids, and your own additions.
The shape of your day
Sacred-morning window, family meals together, a daily soul rhythm (with optional Waldorf or Anthroposophical templates), a midday quiet block, and what you want your evenings to feel like.
Your weekly rhythm
One anchor per day — Monday through Sunday — with example anchors to borrow if you'd rather not start from scratch.
Your work & partnership
Your zone of genius, what doesn't belong to you anymore, a lane your partner can own this summer, and recurring rhythms that are just for the two of you.
Your local summer
Your pool / beach / splash pad, farmers market, standing kid activities, the kinds of weekly outings that feel good, and a realistic outing budget.
The summer's anchors
Big work events and launches, family trips and camps, a month or week reserved as pure reset, and when school starts back.
The vision
What you'd say in September if it was a good one. The horizon the whole plan bends toward.
Home is the heart. Work runs around it. You come first. Exhale — the plan has you.
Hi — I'm Courtney Rose.
I'm Executive Director and Vice President of Psanctuary Church, the sacred mushroom ministry I co-founded with my husband Eric Osborne. Outside of Psanctuary, I work as a transformation specialist and international retreat founder under my own brand, helping family-centered women come back to themselves through ceremony, deep relationship, and a willingness to change the patterns.
I have been doing this work since 2013. I am also a wife, a mother of two kiddos under 10, and a stepmom to two blossoming humans over 16. So when I say I see you in the kitchen at 7:42 AM packing lunches with your hair still wet — I am also that woman. I know what it's like to wonder if I'm saying, responding, showing up in the way that's best for my unique and dynamic family. I know the cost of holding it all, and I know the alchemy of laying it down, even for two hours, in a Circle of women who get it.
Exhale is one of the most quietly potent things I offer. I would love to be your guide.
Courtney RoseAbout the 30-minute 1:1.
What time is the Circle where you are?
This Circle is the opening of the 8-Week Summer of Connection.
If something stirs in you on June 13 — if you feel the want for more of this, more often, with these women — there is a longer container waiting.
The 8-Week Women's Summer of Connection picks up where Exhale leaves off: deeper sisterhood, a sustained spiritual practice, and a real return to self across the whole season.
You may be wondering…
Yes, with care. Replay access is included for contributors at the $50 and $75 tiers. The live experience is the heart of the Circle — but if life keeps you from being there in real time, the recording lets you still receive it.
Contributions are non-refundable. If something genuinely unforeseen comes up, please reach out and we'll find a way to take care of you — but please choose your tier with intention.
Your favorite warm drink — cacao if you have it, tea if you don't. A small bowl of fruit and nuts to nourish you. A journal and pen. Flowers nearby if you'd like. A quiet space, with the door closed if possible, where you won't be interrupted for two hours.
You'll receive your Zoom link via email within a few minutes of contributing, and again the morning of June 13. Cameras on if at all possible — being seen is part of the medicine.
Not at all. This Circle is open to women everywhere. Some of you will be longtime Psanctuary sisters; some will have just discovered us. Both are welcome and held the same way.
After you contribute at the $75 tier, you'll receive a scheduling link by email to book your 30-minute call directly with me. We'll meet on Zoom at a time that works for you — these are typically scheduled within four weeks of the Circle.
Yes — and more of it every year. A few highlights:
- A 2025 Nature Communications Biology study of a seven-day group meditation retreat found measurable biological changes after the intervention: decreased functional integration in the default-mode and salience networks of the brain, increased BDNF (a neuroplasticity protein), enhanced glycolytic metabolism, and modulation of inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, and endogenous-opioid pathways. The researchers concluded that intensive non-pharmacological mind-body practice "produces broad short-term neural and plasma-based molecular changes associated with enhanced neuroplasticity, metabolic reprogramming, and modulation of functional cell signaling pathways." Read it on Nature.
- A 2024 study in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback on Heart Rhythm Meditation (hand on heart, deep slow breath) found increases in heart-rate variability and vagal tone, plus a statistically significant increase in well-being scores for participants who practiced daily for more than ten minutes. Read it on Springer.
- The American Psychological Association has long documented that chronic stress without recovery practices contributes to cardiovascular strain, musculoskeletal tension, immune suppression, and endocrine disruption — and that practices regulating the nervous system are protective. APA · Stress effects on the body.
When you put hand to heart, slow your breath, and turn toward another woman in shared intention, your nervous system reads it as safety. Your vagal tone rises. Your heart-rate variability shifts into what HeartMath researchers call physiological coherence — a smoother, more rhythmic heart pattern that travels through your bloodstream and electromagnetic field. In a group, this coherence appears to synchronize between participants.
HeartMath Institute's research on group coherence shows that when small groups intentionally hold a state of appreciation and care together, their HRV patterns measurably synchronize — even when participants aren't touching or directly looking at each other. HeartMath Research Library.
Lynn McTaggart is a journalist and researcher who has spent two decades studying focused-intention experiments in small groups. A few findings she documents:
- In her Power of Eight circles — groups of about eight people holding a focused intention for one other person — participants consistently report rebound effects: the sender's own health, relationships, or sense of purpose improves alongside (sometimes more than) the receiver's. McTaggart calls this the "mirror effect."
- Her larger Intention Experiments, run with collaborating universities, have measured statistically significant effects of focused group intention on plant growth, seed germination, water structure, and human electrodermal activity — pointing to focused group intention as a measurable physical variable, not just a felt experience.
- Her broader thesis: consciousness operates as a non-local field that can be deliberately structured by groups in intentional coherence.
Read more at lynnemctaggart.com, or in The Intention Experiment and The Power of Eight.
Yes — collective intention, prayer, and song circles are among the oldest spiritual technologies on earth. A handful of traditions that have practiced gathered intention for centuries or millennia:
- Sufi Zikr circles — the rhythmic group remembrance of the divine name, breath-synchronized in concentric rings. Britannica · Dhikr.
- Indigenous council circles across North American nations (Haudenosaunee, Lakota, Diné, Cherokee), where decisions and healings are held by a circle of women or elders speaking in turn. Smithsonian NMAI · Native Knowledge 360°.
- Rosicrucian contemplative orders — a Christian-mystical tradition tracing to the seventeenth-century manifestos, with living lineages (AMORC, Lectorium Rosicrucianum, the Rosicrucian Fellowship) that still gather in temples and study circles for silent group meditation, sacramental ritual, and healing services held in concentric small groups. Britannica · Rosicrucians.
- Hesychast prayer of the Eastern Orthodox tradition — the ancient Christian contemplative practice of the "Jesus Prayer," breath-synchronized and held alongside fellow practitioners in community, traced from the desert mothers and fathers through Mount Athos to today. Britannica · Hesychasm.
- Tibetan Buddhist sangha and tonglen — communal practices of breathing in suffering and breathing out compassion, designed to be done in groups. Lion's Roar · Tonglen.
- Hindu satsang and kirtan — the gathered community singing the divine name together for hours. Britannica · Satsang.
- Hawaiian Hoʻoponopono — a family or community circle of forgiveness, reconciliation, and shared intention. Polynesian Cultural Center · Hoʻoponopono.
What women have always known, in many languages and bodies, modern instruments are now beginning to measure.
