Somewhere inside you,
there's a small table in the sun
On it: a delicate gold chain, a bell, a bowl of figs, honey, a glass dripping with condensation, and a plate of oysters offering up a pearl; a dream you come to visit when the yearning takes over.
You sit here from time to time.
Maybe in the quiet before sleep.
Maybe in the car, alone, in those moments life stops asking something of you.
Maybe in the middle of an ordinary day when the dream rises again, inconvenient and luminous, asking if you remember.
The children, work, money, relationships, your home...all the usual obligations. Sigh.
Your nervous system knows how to keep the familiar going, but not always how to let the new take root.
So you tuck the dream away again. Not because it doesn’t matter or because you don’t want it. Not because you’re not sure which steps to take.
But because if you stop calling it impossible, impractical, inconvenient, selfish, or “not the right time,” you might have to admit this dream has been demanding your attention for a long while now, and holding it down like a beachball underwater is getting tiring…
You remember this incandescent dream, but then life keeps moving.
what would happen if you stopped pushing your dream down?
and more importantly, what if it exists to feed you?
Imagine a season where you're fed, and in being fed, begin to move again.
This is the invitation of Temenos: to stop pushing your dream away and enter a protected field where it can rise slowly, safely, and with support as you rest and make space for what wants to live through you.
step into temenos
Enter the Field
You certainly don’t need to be ready to change your entire life overnight.
You just a restless dreaming spirit willing to leave “realistic” at the door.
- A creative project, a community garden, a new body of work…
- A relationship you know needs to change, or a new one you desire to call in…
- A bold cross-country (or cross-continent) move you’ve been fantasizing about for years…
- A next chapter of life that feels tremblingly tender, delicious, and alive.
- A fantasy that never felt close enough to be yours...until now.
the dreaming field is open
You tell yourself you don’t have the time, money, resources, clarity, support, or “right” conditions for it to happen now, but you can feel the excuses starting to wear thin.
You’ve made yourself busy so you don’t have to come face-to-face with how and why you’re not taking action on it (yet).
You have a relentless dream, idea, desire, vision, or creative longing that keeps returning, even when you try to set it aside.
You have a relentless dream, idea, desire, vision, or creative longing that keeps returning, even when you try to set it aside.
You’ve made yourself busy so you don’t have to come face-to-face with how and why you’re not taking action on it (yet).
You tell yourself you don’t have the time, money, resources, clarity, support, or “right” conditions for it to happen now, but you can feel the excuses starting to wear thin.
Your vision exists in fragments: images, fantasies, plans, journal entries, voice notes, half-starts and stops, secret yearnings…Maybe you’ve even been noticing little signs and synchronicities coming alive.
This is for you if:
what is temenos?
In its oldest sense, Temenos is the name of the consecrated ground surrounding a temple, but not the inner sanctuary. This is the place where you step out of ordinary time and feel the atmosphere shift, without needing to declare what you’ve come for.
Later, Jung used Temenos to describe an inner protected space: a psychic enclosure where what lives beneath the surface can rise without being rushed, exposed, judged, or forced too quickly into form
This is the shape of the Dreaming Field you’re being invited into:
Here rest is restorative, vision forms without being forced, your voice rises in community, and your creativity shapes the next arc of your life.
This is a season where you don’t have to keep proving that what you want is valid before you’re allowed to make space for it.
You make space first. And then you listen as each next step unfurls.
An outer ground you can step onto, where something has already been prepared.
And an inner space that begins to open slowly and ripen in the sun as you stay.
Your vision exists in fragments: images, fantasies, plans, journal entries, voice notes, half-starts and stops, secret yearnings…Maybe you’ve even been noticing little signs and synchronicities coming alive.
- A body that knows rest and the vision in your heart more deeply.
- A clearer relationship with your dreams and the symbols they evoke.
- A workbook that holds the evidence of what moved through you.
- A dream that feels less like an untouchable fantasy and more like something beginning to anchor into your reality with legs.
- A stronger relationship with your voice.
- More capacity for joy, pleasure, play, and creative energy in your body.
- A support network that reminds you you are not alone and certainly not “delusional” for wanting what you want.
- Small steps that feel possible because they came from listening, not forcing.
- A deeper understanding of what your dream is asking of you.
- And perhaps most importantly: a felt sense that your dream is real enough to take up space. Not eventually someday, but now.
what you'll leave with
In the Mythosomatic Sanctuary, Summer belongs to the Oracle: the guide of the Dreaming Field.
She is not here to hand you a five-step plan, but to show you what you cannot see in the places you’ve already been looking.
Sometimes she speaks in images, symbols, warnings, and synchronicities.
Sometimes she shows up as a riddle in your dreams for you to decode in waking life.
The Oracle deepens your relationship with your inner knowing, she doesn't replace it.
who is the oracle?
Temenos exists for this threshold.
Not to push or rush you or turn your dream into another assignment…but to offer it enough protected space that it can start to reveal what it wants from you.
Because change, even when we want it, is still change.
Change can destabilize, bring up fear, disrupt what’s known, and that alone can keep you bracing and frozen at the threshold.
But you don’t have to walk into this sacred space alone.
The Oracle will meet you there.
You may already live close to the mythic, symbolic, intuitive, unseen layers of life, but grounding those unseen layers in your body, your voice, your creations, and in your community is a whole other threshold.
what the temenos holds
Temenos is a full summer in the Mythosomatic Sanctuary and includes six live and recorded sessions to nourish your rest, dreams, vision, voice, and embodied creation.
We begin by inviting your body into a supported rest state.
The first session is a rest-state breathwork experience to open your nervous system, soften the bracing, slow your inner pace, and help your body remember rest not as a reward for being productive, but as the source of your ability to create what you desire.
Rest
Vision
Dream
Parasympathetic Breathwork with Chauna Bryant
Next we move into the places where sleep itself has been interrupted. In an Energy Archaeology session, you'll unwind sleep trauma, allow the fear of resting to release, and let your body come down from it’s long guard watch.
As the body deepens its rest, dreaming comes back online. Both the dreams you have at night, and the deeper dream animating your waking life.
Energy Archaeology with Ash Stinson: Sleep and Deep Rest
As the body softens and the dreamworld opens, you’ll be guided through a hypnosis session to envision your dream world and partner with your unconscious desires to let images arise, receive symbols and impressions, and stop trying to think your way into what’s waiting to reveal itself to you.
Instead you’ll start to decode how your dream is directing your next steps.
Group Hypnosis with Marta Matson
What’s been quiet will eventually ache for expression.
Explore your body’s most immediate form of creation through vocal activation.
During this session, what has lived inside finds a voice without needing to be explained, just heard. Let sound rise as your dream moves from a feeling, a fleeting thought, a vision, and into being. This session connects you to your voice as a vehicle of creation.
Create
Anchor
Embody
Vocal Activation with Dr. Kiki Steiner
As expression returns, so does a sense of play, movement, and aliveness.
Welcome pleasure, joy, and creative energy into your body. Because your dream cannot only be something you work for, but also something you’re available to receive.
This session supports your body to expand your capacity to hold more aliveness, delight, energetic movement, and creative charge.
Energy Archaeology with Ash Stinson: joy, pleasure, and creative capacity
Finally, we widen the lens, connecting what has moved within you to what moves through you.
In this workshop you'll connect your ancestral patterns and paths into community future-weaving.
Here, your dream becomes, or is illuminated as, bigger than you.
You'll feel how it connects to the people, resources, relationships, and lineages around you and participates in a shared future.
Community Future-Weaving with Katy Swallow
These whispers from the body created a living ecosystem; a circle where your body’s story dreams with the collective imagination, and together they weave your living mythology.
My path has been strange and winding, as all the best paths are, but thankfully, I sprinkled a trail of breadcrumbs that led me through the Realms of Embodiment to arrive here, where I trust both your body, and my body, to guide us home to ourselves and our stories.
My mythosomatic experience is that of a creator, a deep feeler and a deep thinker, a parent, an apprentice to my ancestors, a student of hedgeriding (a specific type of spirit work), Emotional Release facilitator, and an expert on healing through the energy of your anatomy.
The MythoSomatic Sanctuary emerged from a decade of listening closely to bones and blood, to ancestors and the sudden clarity of the spleen that says “this is it, now.”
You can delve into my certifications, trainings, education history, and influences in detail, on the
Ash Stinson (she/they) is your mythosomatic guide, energy worker, and space tender.
Chauna brings trauma-informed, inclusive Breathwork to stages that have historically centered more traditional voices.
Chauna uses her two decades of experience to blend movement, meditation, and energy work to help clients reconnect to their bodies, deepen intuition, and step into their personal power.
Chauna founded Breath Liberation Society because she recognized that Breathwork schools often lacked diversity and operated within outdated wellness models led by a single "all-knowing" authority. At Breath Liberation Society, the Apiary (faculty) represents different voices, backgrounds, and perspectives. BLS holds space for Breathwork as a tool for both intuition development and magic, while going deep into nervous system regulation.
Chauna has represented BLS at conferences and trainings across the US and UK, most recently serving as Facilitator in Residence at Sounds True and presenting at the Polyvagal Institute's Global Gathering.
Chauna Bryant (she/her) is a Pilates & Breathwork Facilitator and the founder of Breath Liberation Society
Through a winding path, Marta found her way to hypnosis in 2022, and completed Desiree Eckert's Evidence Based Hypnosis Training for Healers & Mystics in 2023.
Marta's work is rooted in an animist worldview and the belief that the mystical and the mundane are not separate, but one and the same. Through hypnosis and energy work, Marta offers support and guidance to people who are ready to claim their sovereignty through thought and action.
In 2007, Marta had their first experience receiving Reiki and intuitively began channeling energy. From 2018-2019, she received her Reiki I, II, and III certifications. Marta began decolonizing her energy work practice in 2023, under the guidance of Siobhan Diores in her Care Immersion course, and study of Marika Clymer's Decolonizing Reiki course. Marta no longer uses the Reiki framework or identifies as a Reiki practitioner. Her current energy work is based on self-study of Norwegian folk healing traditions (the ancestral line she has the deepest embodied connection to), and the work of Ted Andrews, Barbara Ann Brennan, Rosalyn L. Bruyere, and Cyndi Dale, among others.
Marta Alise (she/they) is an energy worker, animal communicator, and Certified Hypnotist.
Dr. Kiki is here to support artists in developing their creative voices & visions, artist identities, and personal creative frameworks to birth the life of their dreams.
Dr. Kiki is passionate about supporting artists in reclaiming creative sovereignty. She was born, transracially adopted, and raised on Ho-Chunk Nation lands in the rolling hills of Southwestern Wisconsin, which set the stage for her personal journey to find community and healing through music & creativity. Her ancestors are from the Ilocos region in the Philippines, Scotland, Ireland, and Switzerland.
In 2021, Dr. Kiki received their doctorate in choral conducting and decolonizing choral music education from Arizona State University where they began to develop a decolonized approach to vocal music teaching practices. Since leaving academia, she has been developing The Voice Doula Praxis, informed by her background as a music educator, birth doula, and sound healer.
Dr. Kiernan "Kiki" Steiner, D.M.A. (she/they) is a vocal liberation and creative care coach
Katy’s work invites you into the strange, grounded magic that emerges when we listen to what the Earth, the ancestors, and the body have been saying all along.
Katy's work moves through the tangled realms of ancestry, death, transformation, and reconnection to the living world. Her path has been shaped by decades of listening closely to spirits, land, dreams, and the often uncomfortable truths that live beneath inherited stories.
What began as childhood psychic sensitivity and a fascination with death, ritual, and the unseen slowly deepened into a lifelong practice of spirit communication, divination, ancestral healing, and energetic clearing. Over time, Katy’s work led her beyond polished “love and light” spirituality and into the raw, deeply human work of tending grief, intergenerational trauma, loss, and becoming.
Her practice is rooted in animism and the belief that spirit lives everywhere. Through readings, spiritwork, and energetic guidance, at the Swallow's Nest and online, Katy helps people untangle what has been carried for generations.
Katy Swallow (she/her) is an animistic spiritworker, reader, energy worker, and herbalist
You don't have to attend every session live to be nourished in Temenos.
All sessions are recorded and replays are made available within 24 to 48 hours.
Live attendance gives you the opportunity to ask questions, share your experience, and be in the room with the facilitator and the group.
You can arrive in real time or return later when the season has had time to settle into your body, when something in you is ready to receive the work differently, or when your own timing asks you to come back.
Recordings of all sessions
This is where your inner and outer world progress can be witnessed, gathered, and anchored.
Inside you’ll find guided prompts to stir your dreaming and track what the Oracle shows you, what your body begins to understand and integrate, what excuses you’re willing to lay down, and what small steps begin to appear.
A Temenos workbook
You’re invited to step into the shared field and bring what’s moving within you: dream fragments, questions, synchronicities, reflections, creative stirrings that want to be witnessed…
Sometimes the people closest to us subtly or overtly ask us to push our dream back down–this channel exists to do the opposite. Here we’ll listen to one another, share without apologizing for taking up space, and bask in the nourishment of communal creative energy.
A dedicated Temenos discord channel
An email from Ash each Monday morning that offers a thread to follow, a question to sit with, or a way of staying in relationship with the dreaming field as it unfolds.
A reminder to rest, stay engaged, and return.
Weekly Missives
Enter the Field
Enrollment in Temenos also includes:
"I was feeling stuck, in fear, not sure how to move forward. Emerging after heartbreak, and moving through different layers of grief, feeling lost and untethered. Now, I see that I have built many more relationships and connections, I have stepped into life and creating without holding myself back. There is a deeper current of trust emerging. I feel like there is more possibility for ease, new opportunities flowing in. I go back to the recordings at different moments if I get a ping to listen to them to keep supporting integration.”
kate c.
“I became more settled in my own skin and even with the uncertainty of all the moving parts of life, I was able to return to a more grounded state. I found my way forward steadier as we worked back and forth with Ash between individual and group sessions. As my self-trust strengthens, I am grateful to not be defined by my shadows, merely informed by them as we become more familiar one each other. I'm grateful for the ebb and flow of the sessions and the lovely cosmic containers Ash holds us in.”
grishma d.
“Participated in @theashleystinson ‘s Nervous System Immersion this afternoon and baptized a whole new version of myself into being. The immersion was the most gentle, attentive, restorative surgery. Prior to the session, my poor baby nervous system was on high alert...playing defense and snapping at anything that tried to approach. I’ve come out of the call unencumbered and open to receive. What a difference. Best money I’ve spent all year.”
elizabeth c.
words from your inner space
Where rest feeds you, dreams emerge as guideposts, and creation begins at a natural pace without being forced.
There’s a generosity to it.
The calls, the practices, the conversations, the quiet moments you return to on your own—all of it adds up to something you can feel yourself inside of. Not as an observer, but as someone participating, responding, adding your own movement to what’s already unfolding.
It’s the kind of season you look back on and recognize by how much more alive everything felt.
How much easier it was to stay with yourself.
How naturally things began to take shape.
Who you became when you stopped holding your beachball of a dream underwater and let it rise to meet the sun.
Temenos is an invitation to be nourished and satiated for a season through a guided arc where you'll rest, dream, vision, create, embody, and anchor the tender dream inside you.
step into temenos
summer solstice through autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere, winter solstice through spring equinox in the southern hemisphere.
Your enrollment includes:
- Six live sessions with replay access through September
- A PDF downloadable Temenos workbook
- Access to the Temenos Discord channel
- Weekly Sunday Missives from Ash
- Replay access through the end of the season
the details
Enter the Field
The Temenos is consecrated ground, but it’s not the inner sanctum of the
Folks in Temenos don’t receive a Welcome Packet, the Energy Archaeology Archives, or the discounts on one-on-one work that come with full Sanctuary enrollment. Those belong to those who choose to enter the full seasonal cycle in the Fall.
Your summer recordings are yours for the length of the season, and they remain with you if you continue into September. If you don’t, access closes as the Dreaming Field comes to an end in September.
This is intentional.
The Temenos is a place to rest with what is emerging, to dream, to let things surface and take shape without needing to carry them further than they’re ready to go. It offers the conditions for something to begin, or to become clearer.
What waits inside the Sanctuary is for those who choose to stay with it.
what the temenos doesn't include
Come take your place at the table
It’s the space to stop ignoring the parts of your life that don’t work for you anymore, and rather than burning it all down, “figuring it out”, or moving on reactive impulse, start allowing life’s greater intelligence to guide you toward what’s next.
Temenos isn't merely an antidote to "burn out"
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