Integration Circles

Space to Digest, Ground,
and Continue

Integration Circles are online spaces that typically follow a completed course, retreat, or significant arc of work. They support students in digesting what has opened, grounding insight, and staying in relationship with practice after an intensive experience.

Post-Course Support | Online Integration | Ongoing School Connection

Format Note:
Integration Circles are almost always offered online
Routing Note:
All Integration Circle inquiries are routed through Rochelle Quarry via the school

Intro

Not every next step should be another training. Sometimes the most important work is staying with what has already moved. Integration Circles create a steadier container for students who need support in translating insight into lived change, relationship, and next-step coherence.

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What This Space Holds

These circles may include guided reflection, expressive integration, gentle practice, relational inquiry, and support for metabolizing the emotional, spiritual, and practical effects of deeper work. In this kind of mentorship space, participants are invited to slow down, name what is unfolding, and explore how their inner experiences are landing in their bodies, relationships, and everyday lives. The emphasis is on integration rather than instruction, offering time to process big shifts, ask honest questions, and be held in a caring, trauma‑aware community as the work continues to move through.

Who It Is For

Integration Circles are especially supportive after the Medicine Wheel, teacher training, retreat, or a major season of transformation in which students need time and relationship more than new input.

In these spaces, the emphasis shifts from gathering additional teachings to actually living what has already been received, allowing insights to settle, emotions to unwind, and new ways of being to take root in daily life.

Rather than moving quickly on to the next training or spiritual experience, students are invited to slow down, return to community, and be witnessed as they integrate powerful inner changes in a grounded, sustainable way.

These circles offer a steady container where graduates of shamanic training, yoga teacher training, or significant retreat work can share what is unfolding, ask questions in real time, and receive gentle guidance as they navigate the challenges of bringing their practices home.

The focus is on support, reflection, and embodiment: understanding how Medicine Wheel teachings, shamanic healing experiences, or teacher-training learnings show up in relationships, work, and the wider world.

Integration Circles help students metabolize big initiations so that their growth is not just a peak experience, but an ongoing, lived transformation rooted in connection, community, and continued care.

Stay with What Has Opened

If you need a gentler next step after a completed course or retreat, Integration Circles offer space to ground the work before moving on too quickly. School-based integration inquiries are best directed through Rochelle Quarry.

Integration Cricles FAQ

Integration Circles are online spaces that typically follow a completed course, retreat, or significant arc of work. They support students in digesting what has opened, grounding insight, and staying in relationship with practice after an intensive experience.

These circles may include guided reflection, expressive integration, gentle practice, relational inquiry, and support for metabolizing the emotional, spiritual, and practical effects of deeper work. The tone is slower, steadier, and more digesting than directive, creating room to process rather than rush ahead.

Integration Circles are especially supportive after the Medicine Wheel, teacher training, a retreat, or a major season of transformation. They are ideal for students who need time, relationship, and ongoing support more than new input or another immediate training.

Integration Circles are almost always offered online so students can stay connected to the school from wherever they are. They act as a post-course support space, helping translate insight into lived change, relationship, and next-step coherence while maintaining an ongoing connection with the wider school field.

If you need a gentler next step after a completed course or retreat, you are invited to ask about Integration Circles as a way to ground the work before moving on too quickly. School-based integration inquiries, including Integration Circles, are best directed through Rochelle Quarry, or by using the “Ask About Integration Circles” or “Request Mentorship Guidance” buttons on the site.

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Mandakini Class at Shala Yoga
Saturday, June 13th
6:00 – 8:00
$50
For those who want to go to the roots of yoga, Shamanic Yoga Institute in partnership with Shala Yoga is bringing you a special 2-hour class with Mandakini Puri Rox.

In this workshop, Mandakini will guide a traditional Himalayan Hatha Yoga and Pranayam Practice rooted in the living teachings of the ashram. The session will include a carefully structured series of asanas, approached in a therapeutic and accessible way, along with pranayama and selected subtle movements to awaken energy, release stagnation and prepare the body and mind for deeper practice.

The session will close with chanting of mantras, offering space to integrate the practice through sound, devotion and inner stillness.

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Kirtan and Potluck

Mandakini Puri Rox, Dr. Christine Selda and Gin Perry. We invite you to come together with your community and sing. Kirtan is a powerful way of meditating upon vibrational sounds that have the benefit of clearing the mind and opening the heart.

There will be a Potluck beforehand. If you wish to join, please bring something to share.
Date: June 12th
Shala Yoga
Time: 6:30PM Potluck | 7:00 – 9:00PM Chanting
Price: By donations, suggested donation is $10 but no one will be turned away for a lack of funds.

Vision Statement

Evolve and Honour the ancient technologies of the Sacred in Service to the needs of this present time and space and the ReMembering of our Essential Nature.  

We Commit to Being the Change-Makers, Pioneering New Methodologies of practice, and Being the Midwives of Awakening for ALL.  

We Aim to establish a Mother-Ship – an open learning Experiential Mystery School – where we can support and Mentor New Leadership in the new world we are dreaming into being.

SYI is structured as a collaborative teaching model, one that is designed to remove barriers, remain inclusive, and give back to the community and the Earth.

We Vision to establish Collective Membership in the Land and hold ourselves and each other accountable to Right Relationship in all our work.  

We Vision a world where a connection to the Earth, Sky, Fire, and Water leads us all together Beyond Duality. This is a Unitive Vision that encompasses and supports the complex Diversity of Spirit. May we all know the Sacred Joy that lies beyond suffering. This is our motivation and this is our collective essential birthright.