Goddess Temple Stroud

04/11/2024

The Goddess Temple is a beautiful, cosy and contemplation space that you can access for your practice. Creating a sense of calm.

This space in central Stroud is well suited for one to one or small group work, such as therapies, sound baths, sharing circles, ceremony or crafting. Alongside the Temple and inner room there is a small kitchenette and bathroom.

The space is available outside of our normal drop in hours, which are currently Mon-Thurs 10-1.

We also work with practitioners on donations-based events, so you can offer something to the community and support the Temple. This can be valuable for trying out a new practice with a group and letting people know about your work in its spiritual, healing and community feminine-centred aspects.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about accessing the Temple space for your own event.

Bookings are via this link - any problems just DM us to arrange.

https://goddesstemplestroud.simplybook.it/v2/

02/11/2024

We have long wanted to offer something for children
And now thanks to our Melissa volunteer Dem we can!

Tuesday drop in is a child friendly session for connecting, gentle arts and crafts and even music making.

Come and enjoy some child-friendly Temple time on Tuesdays.

30/10/2024

Women (and men and non binary people and all genders) need space, community, spiritual connection and to tell their stories to heal.

This is what the Temple offers. Space, community, holding, connection. Drawing upon our relationship with natural energies and Goddess archetypes to guide us through life with all its rich complex layers.

You can use the space for your own circles, events and practices.

You are also welcome to our drop in opening times and pop up events throughout the year.

Here’s to healing ❤️‍🩹

HOW A WOMAN HEALS

What women need to heal is not for anyone else to tell them what to do or how to feel. They’ve had enough of those messages all of their lives. And they don’t need to follow someone else’s wisdom. What they yearn for is a radically emphatic container of safety and support that allows them to access the deep wells of their own wisdom.

Women need to listen to themselves.

What women need to heal is dedicated time away from their multitudinous duties, obligations and responsibilities. They need to lay down the burden of needing to be all things to all people. They long to play. And have fun. To be giddy and silly and collapse into gigglefests. To laugh and laugh until they roll on the floor and snort through their noses and p*e in their pants.
Women need glitter.

What women need to heal is permission to go into the wilderness of their internal world. To explore and embrace everything that they find there. They need to know that all of their feelings and emotions will be honored and respected.
Including their rage.
Their shame.
Their grief.
Their hunger.
Their desires.
They need a place where they can feel free to howl and moan and wail.
Stomp and bellow.
Shiver and shake.

Women need lots and lots of chocolate.
Women need a place where they can be authentic. And real. They don’t need to be told that they are too much, too sensitive, too emotional or crazy.

They need a place where they can be unabashedly too anything and then encouraged to be even more than that. To express themselves with gorgeous abandon without holding anything back.

Women need art supplies.

Women need to remember. And to tell the truth. To reveal the secrets and stop the lies.

They need to bring out of the darkness and into the light the reality of the burning times. The nighttime violations. The betrayals. The rapes. The discriminations. The lost innocence.The times when they were afraid. And alone. And made to feel invisible.

They need to tell their stories.
Shout their stories.
Dance their stories.
Sing their stories.
Paint their stories.
Over and over and over again.
Until they know in their bones and in their cells that they have been heard. Witnessed. Seen.

Women need their voices.

Women need circles of other women. Bosom buddies. Companions on the journey. They need the sisterhood of knowing that they are not alone on this path. That they are part of a lineage of feminine connection and shared history. They need to know that their experiences are universal. And because of that they can be understood. Respected. Valued. Cherished.

Women need community.

Women need to reclaim the miracle of female embodiment. To bask in the luscious feminine sensuality that belongs only to them. To ecstatically re-inhabit bellies and breasts, hips and thighs. To wriggle and jiggle their sacred flesh. They need to embrace their own pleasure. Their own sexuality. Their own or***ms. To know that these things exist primarily for their OWN delight and are not dependent on anyone else.

Women need to dance their bliss.

Women need a place to be vulnerable. And needy. A place where they can fall apart. To be messy, snotty and rumpled. To not have to be perfect. They need to cry with each other. To be tender. And soft. They need to know that they don’t have to do anything to be loved. That simply who they are is enough.

Women need to be held by a compassionate heart.

Women need deep, deep rest. Sacred solitude. And silence. They need to be alone with themselves. To taste the deliciousness of their own being. They need time and space away from hustle and bustle and busyness in order to hear their own thoughts, feel their own feelings, know and identify their own needs.

Women need boundaries.

Women need to go to their edges. To take up space. Spread their wings. Daring to be big. Brazen. Practicing audacious expansion. To stand boldly in their triumphant female warrior fierceness. To confidently know the bottomless potency of their unflinching strength, plucky determination and dauntless courage.

Women need their power.

Women need to give birth over and over and over again. To babies of ALL kinds that include projects, plans, paintings, songs, blog posts, books, poems, businesses, visions for the future and genius ideas that will nurture and transform themselves and the world.

Women need to create.

Women need ritual and ceremony. Magic and mystery. Prayer and meditation. Soulful journeys. Heartfelt presence. Surrendering to the velvet inner darkness of their intuitive knowing. Opening to cosmic inspiration. Inhabiting the enchanted realms of their own imagination. They need to be broken open by awe. To dream themselves awake. To step into the holy of holies of wholeness and see their own true face reflected there.

Women need communion with spirit.

Women need independence. And liberation from oppression, both inside and out. The intoxicatingly sweet taste of self-determination. Living on their own terms. Radiant sovereignty. To be queens of their domains. To know that they can joyfully choose and choose and choose again a life of their own making.

Women need wild freedom.

Women need to remember their ancient earthy roots. To dig into the soil, dive into the ocean, wander in the the desert and open themselves in rapture to the star studded sky.

Women need to come home to the mother of us all."
-Chris Zydel-

Photo: Made by AnnaoftheMeadow

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

26/10/2024

We are very pleased to announce that the work needed at the Temple is complete and we are reopening for drop ins, ceremony and room hire from Monday morning.

Please do continue to check on opening hours before you come as we are still re establishing the Melissa rota. Just drop us a message.

We look forward to welcoming you back into our beautiful space for blessings, company, contemplation and connection with others and with Goddess.

25/10/2024

Just a small announcement that the party planned for Sunday 27th has been cancelled. Apologies.

08/10/2024

01/10/2024

IMPORTANT NOTICE - the front door of the temple is broken and awaiting repairs, so we can't open up right now. We're working out how to resolve this so watch this space and feel free to message if you need particular information.

Warm wishes from all of us.

30/09/2024

NOTICE - sorry, we're not holding our drop in today (30/09/24) due to unexpected maintenance issues.

We're always looking for melissas to hold space at the temple for these dropins, or for other offerings you feel called to give. Drop us a message, or fill in our short form if you want to know more:

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/1XY-3pcfl1haAbI9RXiJTvWRCVo3XYcqKlcSAajJ71xI/edit?pli=1

29/09/2024

The Goddess Temple Stroud offers a quiet, meditative and comfortable space for events, retreats, meditations and treatments. Two rooms available from just £8/hr. Check the link in comments for full details and bookings.

23/09/2024

One of our melissas will be holding a still point Healing Meditation in the temple at 12 pm on Wednesday - it's free to attend and everyone is welcome. Please message or comment if you'd like more details.

20/09/2024

Just to let you know we'll be closing at 12 noon today rather than 1 pm

17/09/2024

Blessed Mabon

15/09/2024

Happy to share our sacred space with the Stroud Beyond Coupledom group this Sunday. Lovely to expand our community :)

13/09/2024

We have two lovely events coming up on the Mabon / Equinox weekend - a ritual to celebrate Mabon (tickets needed for space reasons!) and then a lovely open chillout session. Take a look at our events page to find out more...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093847536077&sk=events