Published at the turning points of the year, this intentionally curated magazine filled with creative inspiration, ordinary wonders, and touching stories, invites you to slow down, tune into cycle, and remember your belonging to the greater whole.

Imagine a room where the world fades away. The air hums with the energy of pens gliding, keyboards tapping, and hearts opening.

The Steeping Pot invites you to step into this sanctuary of creativity and community—where we write, connect, and share the alchemy of stories that only you can bring to life.

Your seat at the table is waiting.
We will begin with an invitation... for all to shed the weight of the outside world and step fully into the moment.
Then a gentle facilitation consisting of exercises and prompts...a way to slip into the rhythm of the group and release judgement and wake up our creative genius.
Then we write... there’s a magic in the silent communion of people writing together. Each person absorbed in their own world, yet buoyed by the shared energy of the space.
Then for those who wish we share... a reciprocal act as we give of ourselves and in return are met with listening, encouragement, and perhaps even inspiration sparked in another’s heart.
Your writing may take shape as the spark of website or social media content, it may sing as poetry, dance as lyrics, whisper as journaling, unfurl as stories, flow like letters, shape worlds through fiction or cast light on truth in non fiction.

May you leave feeling nourished, not only inspired but deeply seen and connected.

About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale
Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.

Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.

Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.

First Cycle – Remembering the Story

(A Year and a Day)

The First Cycle is an immersion into the foundations of MiddleWorld Mysteries.

This is where we begin.

Over the course of a year and a day, you will be introduced to the cosmology, rhythm, and practices of the Druid path as held within the MiddleWorld Mysteries tradition. You will experience seasonal ritual, story, song, crafting, dreaming, land-based awareness, and embodied spiritual practice.

This year is about participation and context.

You are not expected to know anything before you arrive. You are held.

Teachers and guides carry the structure. The group container is strong and steady. Your work is to show up, to listen, to try the practices, and to notice what unfolds across a full turning of the wheel.

Through weekly gatherings (2 hours per week), you will:

• Learn the core MiddleWorld Mysteries cosmology
• Experience ritual and seasonal observances
• Develop foundational practices (journeying, breathwork, land attunement, crafting, journaling)
• Begin building your personal MiddleWorld support kit
• Learn how cycle teaches us about ourselves
• The First Cycle is experiential. It is relational. It is immersive.

You will begin remembering.

Second Cycle – Walking the Path

(A Year and a Day)

This circle gathers those entering the Second Cycle of MiddleWorld Mysteries alongside participants midway through their First Cycle and others returning to revisit the teachings through review or renewed practice.

MiddleWorld Mysteries unfolds as a spiral. While the teachings repeat, our relationship to them deepens. Within this shared circle, some will be encountering material for the first time, while others meet it again with greater familiarity and lived experience.

The Second Cycle deepens the work.

If the First Cycle introduces you to the landscape, the Second Cycle asks you to walk it with greater awareness and responsibility.

Practices become more layered. Conversations become more nuanced. Your relationship to land, story, community, and sovereignty becomes more conscious.

You are still held — but you are now participating in holding.

This year invites you to:

• deepen your understanding of MiddleWorld Mysteries cosmology
• take greater responsibility for your own practices
• grapple with what it means to live as a bridge between worlds
• engage more fully in conversation and shared reflection
• strengthen your commitment to the path and community practice

You will begin to notice how your own rhythms mirror seasonal cycle. You will observe how showing up — even when unfinished, uncertain, or behind — is itself the teaching.

This year emphasizes:

• embodied sovereignty
• relational integrity
• shared stewardship of the container
• commitment without rigidity

As participants move beyond the midpoint of the First Cycle and into the Second, additional optional offerings become available to support the deepening of practice.

Commitment

Weekly gatherings for a year and a day, with limited weeks off. Includes seasonal observances and optional extended offerings.

Participation

This circle includes participants who are:

• entering the Second Cycle
• midway through their First Cycle
• returning to the work for review or renewed practice

Second Cycle – Walking the Path

(A Year and a Day)

The Second Cycle deepens the work.

If the First Cycle introduces you to the landscape, the Second Cycle asks you to walk it with greater awareness and responsibility.

Practices become more layered. Conversations become more nuanced. Your relationship to land, story, community, and sovereignty becomes more conscious.

You are still held — but you are now participating in holding.

This year invites you to:

• Deepen your understanding of MiddleWorld Mysteries cosmology
• Take greater responsibility for your own practices
• Grapple with what it means to live as a bridge between worlds
• Engage more fully in conversation and shared reflection
• Strengthen your commitment to the path and community practice

You will begin to notice how your own rhythms mirror seasonal cycle. You will observe how showing up — even when unfinished, uncertain, or behind — is itself the teaching.

This year emphasizes:

• Embodied sovereignty
• Relational integrity
• Shared stewardship of the container
• Commitment without rigidity

By the midpoint of the First Cycle and into the Second, additional optional offerings become available to support your deepening.

The Second Cycle is about practice.

You begin to hold yourself within the work — and you are still supported.

Commitment

Weekly gatherings for a year and a day, with limited weeks off. Includes seasonal observances and additional optional offerings.

Prerequisite

Completion of Middle World Mysteries – First Cycle

Imagine a room where the world fades away. The air hums with the energy of pens gliding, keyboards tapping, and hearts opening.

The Steeping Pot invites you to step into this sanctuary of creativity and community—where we write, connect, and share the alchemy of stories that only you can bring to life.

Your seat at the table is waiting.

• We will begin with an invitation... for all to shed the weight of the outside world and step fully into the moment.
• Then a gentle facilitation consisting of exercises and prompts...a way to slip into the rhythm of the group and release judgement and wake up our creative genius.
• Then we write... there’s a magic in the silent communion of people writing together. Each person absorbed in their own world, yet buoyed by the shared energy of the space.
• Then for those who wish we share... a reciprocal act as we give of ourselves and in return are met with listening, encouragement, and perhaps even inspiration sparked in another’s heart.

Your writing may take shape as the spark of website or social media content, it may sing as poetry, dance as lyrics, whisper as journaling, unfurl as stories, flow like letters, shape worlds through fiction or cast light on truth in non fiction.

May you leave feeling nourished, not only inspired but deeply seen and connected.

About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale

Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.

Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.

Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.

Wondering well, together.

Let’s Wonder is a monthly gathering for unhurried, unfacilitated, unframeworked, and unplanned conversation. We’ll meander through thoughts, questions, stories, and half-formed ideas—following the thread wherever it leads. There’s no agenda and no outcomes to reach, just time and space to wander together.

Bring food to share, your thoughts and wonderings (big or small), and an openness to see where conversation takes us. We’ll listen, reflect, and trust the quiet magic that happens when people are given room to roam.

About the Facilitator ~ Sue Gerber

Professional Contrarian and Friend of the Fae, Sue writes and tells stories in honour of her patron Saint: Walt Whitman. She holds the dusty path of the voices unheard amidst the tired wind of the mainstream and brings forth the whispers, calls and giggles of the forgotten and long ago quieted in preparation for their grand re-emergence. She has a way with tongue that transfixes and humours all who share the mirth and spell of the stories she tells.

Deep Rest Through Sound

Rooted in the foundational sequence of Yoga Nidra and conscious relaxation, these sessions invite you into a deeply restorative, sleep-like state while awareness remains gently present. Sound healing instruments replace verbal guidance, allowing vibration and frequency to guide the nervous system into rest.

You lie down.
You rest.
Sound does the work

June - Receiving Fullness

With the season approaching its height, this session offers rest as reception. Rather than striving or pushing, the body is invited to receive what is present and let fullness settle naturally.

A pause to absorb and integrate abundance.

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

What if the words you most need to hear are already waiting within you?

Letters From Love is a sacred, guided writing practice where your pen becomes a bridge to the wisdom your soul has been whispering all along. Through a gentle ritual of spontaneous letter writing, you’ll uncover the messages, reassurance, and clarity already living inside you.

Imagine sitting down to write and discovering words on the page that feel like the love you’ve been longing to receive. This is a remembering—of your inner knowing, your belonging, and the guidance that has always been yours.

Together, we’ll explore:

• Releasing negative self-talk and the fears that cloud your inner guidance
• Trusting yourself, your pen, and the truth that flows through you
• Listening deeply and welcoming the wisdom already within
• Accepting what arises and reconnecting with your innate clarity

You’ll leave with a living practice you can return to again and again—a personal language of love—and a deeper trust in the quiet guidance calling you home.

Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or simply a deeper connection with yourself, this experience will meet you where you are.

All are welcome.

About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale

Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.

Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.

Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.

Listening Beneath the Surface

An invitation to lie down comfortably and rest. There is nothing to do, nothing to perform. Simply settle, breathe, and listen. Sound, silence, and gentle guidance create a spacious field where intuition, memory, and quiet knowing can surface without being directed or defined. This is a practice of attunement.

Sound healing instruments, seed sounds, and subtle spoken inspiration shape the container for sensing, resting in not-knowing, and for hearing what is stirring beneath the surface.

Less effort.
More listening.

A return to the space where whispers gather.

June — Listening in Full Light

Even as the world brightens, the well remains deep. This session invites listening for quiet truths beneath fullness and activity.

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

Imagine a room where the world fades away. The air hums with the energy of pens gliding, keyboards tapping, and hearts opening.

The Steeping Pot invites you to step into this sanctuary of creativity and community—where we write, connect, and share the alchemy of stories that only you can bring to life.

Your seat at the table is waiting.

• We will begin with an invitation... for all to shed the weight of the outside world and step fully into the moment.
• Then a gentle facilitation consisting of exercises and prompts...a way to slip into the rhythm of the group and release judgement and wake up our creative genius.
• Then we write... there’s a magic in the silent communion of people writing together. Each person absorbed in their own world, yet buoyed by the shared energy of the space.
• Then for those who wish we share... a reciprocal act as we give of ourselves and in return are met with listening, encouragement, and perhaps even inspiration sparked in another’s heart.

Your writing may take shape as the spark of website or social media content, it may sing as poetry, dance as lyrics, whisper as journaling, unfurl as stories, flow like letters, shape worlds through fiction or cast light on truth in non fiction.

May you leave feeling nourished, not only inspired but deeply seen and connected.

About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale

Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.

Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.

Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.

Deep Rest Through Sound

Rooted in the foundational sequence of Yoga Nidra and conscious relaxation, these sessions invite you into a deeply restorative, sleep-like state while awareness remains gently present. Sound healing instruments replace verbal guidance, allowing vibration and frequency to guide the nervous system into rest.

You lie down.
You rest.
Sound does the work

July - Rebalancing

Heat and activity can tax the system.
This Sound Nidra supports cooling, grounding, and nervous system regulation. Sound offers a place to soften excess stimulation and return to steady rhythms.

Rest that restores clarity and ease.

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

Listening beneath the surface

An invitation to lie down comfortably and rest. There is nothing to do, nothing to perform. Simply settle, breathe, and listen. Sound, silence, and gentle guidance create a spacious field where intuition, memory, and quiet knowing can surface without being directed or defined. This is a practice of attunement.

Sound healing instruments, seed sounds, and subtle spoken inspiration shape the container for sensing, resting in not-knowing, and for hearing what is stirring beneath the surface.

Less effort.
More listening.

A return to the space where whispers gather.

July — Listening in Full Light

This journey supports listening for what sustains vitality rather than burns it.
What nourishes your energy over time?

About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski

Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.

🌐 www.whispersfromthewell.com

Imagine a room where the world fades away. The air hums with the energy of pens gliding, keyboards tapping, and hearts opening.

The Steeping Pot invites you to step into this sanctuary of creativity and community—where we write, connect, and share the alchemy of stories that only you can bring to life.

Your seat at the table is waiting.

• We will begin with an invitation... for all to shed the weight of the outside world and step fully into the moment.
• Then a gentle facilitation consisting of exercises and prompts...a way to slip into the rhythm of the group and release judgement and wake up our creative genius.
• Then we write... there’s a magic in the silent communion of people writing together. Each person absorbed in their own world, yet buoyed by the shared energy of the space.
• Then for those who wish we share... a reciprocal act as we give of ourselves and in return are met with listening, encouragement, and perhaps even inspiration sparked in another’s heart.

Your writing may take shape as the spark of website or social media content, it may sing as poetry, dance as lyrics, whisper as journaling, unfurl as stories, flow like letters, shape worlds through fiction or cast light on truth in non fiction.

May you leave feeling nourished, not only inspired but deeply seen and connected.

About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale

Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.

Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.

Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.