Sisters of the Rose

What happens when we slow down, listen, and open our hearts to the wisdom of those who have walked the path before us?In this beautiful and heartfelt conversation, we sit with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli to explore the wisdom of the elders, the importance of ancestral connection, and the sacred role that elders hold in our families, communities and spiritual lineages.Together, we explore what it means to honour those who came before us, preserve the stories and teachings passed down through generations, and recognise the profound wisdom that comes with lived experience.We reflect on the importance of intergenerational connection, the gifts of listening, and how the voices of our elders can guide us back to our roots, our values and our deeper sense of belonging.This is an invitation to remember that wisdom is not always found in books or teachings. Sometimes it lives in the stories, hands, hearts and memories of those who have walked before us.Join us for a conversation of remembrance, reverence and connection.Because when we honour our elders, we honour the roots from which we grow.🌹 With love,Sisters of the Rose

What happens when a lifetime of experience becomes a vessel for wisdom? And what does it mean to bring the teachings we have gathered through our lives into a form that can be shared with generations to come?In this episode, we welcome Crystal Dawn Morris, a prominent nondual shamanic tantra teacher, lead facilitator and Council Member for the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA), whose work explores sacred sexuality, everyday shamanism, spiritual awakening and emotional integration.Based in Sedona, Arizona, Crystal has been part of the ISTA faculty since 2010 and a lead faculty member since 2014. Her journey into spiritual teaching was shaped by an earlier career in healthcare, where she worked as a nurse and midwife at Kaiser Permanente and UCSF. Through this work, she witnessed the profound thresholds of human life: birth, death, transformation and the many vulnerable moments in between.This foundation in nursing and midwifery offers a unique perspective on the cycles of life and the sacredness of the human experience. From supporting new life into the world to accompanying people through intimate and life-changing experiences, Crystal’s path has been one of witnessing the extraordinary within the ordinary, and recognising the depth of wisdom that can emerge when we meet life with presence.Her evolution from healthcare into the realms of shamanic tantra, spiritual awakening and emotional integration invites us to consider how our experiences shape the work we are here to offer. How do the different chapters of our lives inform the wisdom we carry? How do we honour the person we once were while allowing ourselves to become who we are now?These questions sit at the heart of our Rose Author Programme: Elders Circle, where we explore authorship as more than the act of writing a book. We see it as a threshold — a place where lived experience becomes story, where reflection deepens into understanding, and where personal wisdom can become a lasting offering to the world.For Crystal, whose work spans the deeply embodied territories of sexuality, spirituality, emotional integration and human transformation, authorship offers an opportunity to explore what it means to give form to a lifetime of learning. It invites us to consider how the teachings we embody, the experiences that have changed us and the questions that continue to unfold can be carried beyond the spaces in which we share them.Eldership is not simply about the passing of time. It is about what we come to understand through living, and what we choose to do with that understanding.Through this conversation, we explore the relationship between spiritual awakening and lived experience, the thresholds that shape our becoming, and the courage it takes to give voice to the wisdom we carry. We consider the importance of integrating the many parts of ourselves, embracing the cycles of change, and recognising that our stories are not separate from our teachings — they are often where those teachings begin.As part of the Rose Author Programme: Elders Circle, Crystal joins a growing circle of women honouring their stories and exploring how their knowledge, experiences and unique perspectives might serve future generations through literature.Because sometimes the next chapter of our lives is not about becoming someone new, but about finding the words for what we have already come to know.Welcome to Eldership to Authorship — where the stories we have lived become the wisdom we pass on, and where literature becomes a sacred threshold between our own becoming and the generations still to come.

There are some women you meet who carry a quality of remembering.Samsara Tanner is one of those women.A grandmother, mother, birthkeeper, doula and keeper of rites of passage, Samsara has spent decades witnessing women at some of the most profound thresholds of their lives — birth, motherhood, loss, transformation and the great transition into the later seasons of womanhood.I was especially blessed to experience Samsara’s work at Heart of the Rose Festival, where she held a very special Grandmothers Circle. I was lucky enough to attend, and there was something deeply moving about being gathered in that space — listening, witnessing and feeling into the wisdom that becomes available when women come together across generations.It left me with a deeper sense of just how important our grandmothers are.Not simply as older women, but as keepers of memory, wisdom, stories, experience and perspective.And perhaps, in a culture that so often celebrates youth while overlooking age, we have forgotten something essential:Where are our elders? Where are the women who have walked before us? Where are the spaces where their wisdom can be received?This conversation with Samsara opens that doorway.We speak about becoming a grandmother, the sacredness of the later stages of womanhood, the wisdom held in our bodies and experiences, and the importance of restoring rites of passage and intergenerational connection.A beautiful, tender and deeply needed conversation with a woman who is walking this path with such heart.I’m so honoured to share Samsara with you. 🌹Find Samsara here: @grandmother_birthkeeper#Grandmother #Eldership #Birthkeeper #RitesOfPassage #WiseWoman #WomenSupportingWomen #FeminineWisdom #SacredEldership #HeartOfTheRose #GrandmotherCircle

In this episode, we explore the ancient and often forgotten wisdom of rites of passage—those threshold moments that mark the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.Across cultures and throughout history, rites of passage have served as sacred containers for transformation. They have helped individuals move consciously through life's great transitions: from child to adult, maiden to mother, seeker to leader, wounded self to initiated self.Yet in modern society, many of these ceremonial pathways have been lost. As a result, countless people find themselves standing at life's thresholds without guidance, witnessing, or support. They know something is ending. They sense something new is trying to emerge. But they lack the structures that help them cross consciously into the next phase of their becoming.In this conversation, we explore why initiation matters and how true rites of passage are not simply events but profound inner journeys. They often require us to release identities, beliefs, patterns, and attachments that can no longer accompany us into the life that is calling us forward.We discuss the role of challenge, surrender, devotion, and courage in the initiation process, and why discomfort is often a sign that transformation is underway. Rather than avoiding uncertainty, rites of passage invite us to meet it with presence and trust.We also explore how modern-day ceremonies, retreats, pilgrimages, and sacred journeys can serve as contemporary rites of passage, creating powerful opportunities for healing, remembrance, and rebirth. Whether through motherhood, relationship, loss, leadership, spiritual awakening, or a call to purpose, life continually presents invitations to step beyond who we have been and become who we are truly here to be.This episode is an invitation to reflect on your own thresholds. What chapter is ending? What is seeking to emerge? And what would become possible if you approached this transition not as a problem to solve, but as an initiation to embrace?Join us as we explore the sacred art of crossing thresholds and reclaiming the wisdom of rites of passage in the modern world.✨Join the ⁠⁠⁠Rose Author Elders Circle⁠⁠⁠⁠🌹Connect with Erika: @erikatourell_ecosomatics ⁠ ✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠⁠⁠🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

What is the difference between growing old and becoming an Elder?In this episode of the Sisters of the Rose Podcast – The Elders Series, we sit down with Michal Maayan to explore one of the most important questions of our time: why do we need to resurrect the role of the Elder?Together, we explore how modern society has increasingly reduced ageing to a biological process, often overlooking the deeper social, cultural, and spiritual role that Elders have traditionally held within communities.We ask what happens when someone becomes older, but is never consciously invited into Eldership.Because being old and being an Elder are not necessarily the same thing.An Elder is someone who has lived through enough of life's thresholds to carry perspective, wisdom, and experience—and who chooses to offer that wisdom in service of others.Our conversation explores what has been lost as traditional structures of Eldership have disappeared, and why this role may be more important now than ever. In a world experiencing profound social change, disconnection, and uncertainty, where are the people we can look towards for perspective? Who holds the stories? Who helps the younger generations understand what it means to live through difficulty, change, loss, love, and transformation?Michal invites us to consider Eldership not simply as a stage of ageing, but as a conscious role, responsibility, and rite of passage.This conversation asks us to reconsider what it means to grow older—and whether we are willing to create a culture where people are supported to become the Elders their communities so deeply need.Because perhaps the question isn't simply:"How do we age well?"Perhaps it is:"How do we become Elders?"And perhaps, in these times, resurrecting the Elder is not just important for those growing older—it is essential for all of us.✨Find out more about the ⁠⁠Rose Author Elders Circle⁠⁠⁠🌹Connect with Michal: @michal.maayan ⁠@mature.eros⁠ ✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠⁠🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

What happens to a society when we lose the rituals that once helped women cross the great thresholds of their lives?In this episode of the The Sisters of the Rose Podcast – The Elders Series, we sit down with Sister Sally Berg of Mature Eros to explore the ancient rites of passage that once honoured women as they moved through the different stages of womanhood—and what has been lost as many of these traditions have disappeared.Across cultures, women's transitions were once recognised and witnessed by their communities. From maidenhood to motherhood, through sexuality, partnership, birth, loss, menopause and into elderhood, women were not expected to navigate these profound transformations alone.They were initiated.They were witnessed.They were guided by women who had walked the path before them.Together, we explore what happens when these initiatory structures disappear and women are left to navigate some of life's most profound transitions without ceremony, community, or Elders to guide them.Our conversation asks why these ancient roles still matter in the modern world.What might change if young women had access to women who could guide them through the thresholds of womanhood? What happens when a woman reaches midlife without being consciously initiated into the wisdom of her next chapter? And what becomes possible when mature women are once again recognised not as women who are becoming less relevant, but as Elders carrying wisdom, experience, sensuality, and perspective for the generations that follow?We explore the importance of reclaiming mature womanhood, the role of the Elder, and the cultural knowledge that can be passed from woman to woman when communities create spaces for witnessing, initiation, and belonging.At the heart of this conversation is a deeper question:What happens to women—and to society—when we forget how to honour the thresholds of a woman's life?Perhaps the answer is not to recreate the past exactly as it was, but to remember what those traditions understood:Transformation needs witnessing. Women need women. Every threshold deserves to be honoured. And the wisdom of mature women is something society desperately needs.This conversation also marks the beginning of something new.In October, the Sisters of the Rose will be launching our Rose Author Elders Circle—a dedicated Author and Rites of Passage programme inviting Elders to consciously step into their next chapter of life.This is an invitation to honour the life you have lived, reflect upon the initiations that have shaped you, and begin sharing the wisdom you have gathered along the way.Through the programme, Elders will have the opportunity to tell their story, begin writing their book, share their wisdom through the Sisters of the Rose Podcast, and create a lasting legacy for future generations.Because becoming an Elder is not simply about growing older.It is about consciously stepping forward to say:"I have walked this path. I have learned something along the way. And I am willing to share what I know."Perhaps this is the rite of passage our culture is ready to remember.The time to resurrect the Elder is now.🌹Connect and find our more about Sally and her work here: @mature.eros ✨Find out more about the Rose Author Elders Circle⁠✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

What does it mean for a man to truly grow up in a world that rarely initiates him?In this episode, we sit down with Angel Be Love, a fatherhood facilitator, men’s mental health coach, and relationship repair counsellor, whose work is dedicated to reimagining masculinity through the lens of emotional honesty, relational responsibility, and embodied presence.Angel shares his personal journey of choosing depth over numbness, and feeling over avoidance. In a culture where many men are taught to armour up, suppress emotion, and equate strength with silence, Angel offers a radically different path—one rooted in softness, courage, and conscious engagement with life.Together we explore the concept of rites of passage and what it means in today’s world where many traditional initiatory structures have been lost. Angel speaks to the importance of being truly seen, challenged, and supported through the thresholds of becoming a man, a father, and a relationally responsible human being.This conversation opens a deeper inquiry into what healthy masculine initiation looks like today. We explore the movement from performance-based identity into embodied presence, and how real strength is often found in vulnerability, accountability, and the willingness to repair what has been broken.Angel also shares insights from his work supporting men and couples, highlighting how relational breakdowns often point toward deeper unmet needs for connection, emotional expression, and initiation into maturity. Rather than avoiding these moments, he invites a new way of meeting them—as gateways into growth and transformation.At the heart of this episode is a powerful redefinition of masculinity: not as domination or suppression, but as grounded presence, emotional intelligence, and the courage to stay with what is real.This is a conversation about becoming. About initiation. And about what it means to step into a new story of manhood that serves not only the individual, but families, relationships, and the collective.✨ Connect with Angel: @angel_belove✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠ ✨ Connect with Matthew: @matthewbruce.official 🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this powerful and deeply transformative conversation, Natalie Rose sits down with Lou LaLoba to explore the awakening of the masculine through the ancient initiatory energies of Egypt's sacred lands.Together, they discuss how the modern masculine is being called into a new era of leadership—one that moves beyond control, performance, and external achievement into embodied presence, devotion, integrity, and heart-led power. Drawing on Lou's experiences working with men and facilitating transformational journeys through Egypt, this episode explores the profound energetic impact that sacred sites, temples, and ancient wisdom traditions can have on masculine healing and remembrance.You will discover:Why Egypt acts as a catalyst for masculine initiation and transformationThe wounds many men carry around power, purpose, and leadershipThe relationship between the sacred masculine and sacred feminineHow ancient Egyptian teachings can support modern embodimentThe role of brotherhood, pilgrimage, and rite of passage in men's evolutionWhat it means to become a protector, provider, and leader from consciousness rather than conditioningHow inner union creates the foundation for sacred partnershipThis conversation is an invitation for men—and the women who walk beside them—to understand the deeper journey unfolding within the collective masculine at this pivotal time in human evolution.Join Natalie and Lou as they explore the mysteries of Egypt, the restoration of masculine sovereignty, and the path toward authentic sacred union.🌹 Find out more about our next Rose-Initiations in Egypt ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠✨ Connect with Lou: ⁠@lou.laloba⁠✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠@thenatalierose__🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this episode, we step into the unfolding journey of working with Blake as he writes his book — a process that has been as much an inner initiation as it has been a creative endeavour.Together, we explore the themes that are shaping his writing emotional honesty, and the deeper layers of identity that emerge when a man commits to telling the truth of his lived experience.This is not simply a conversation about writing a book — it is a witnessing of a man in process. Of ideas becoming embodied. Of resistance becoming clarity. Of story becoming transmission.We reflect on what it means to hold space for a book to be born rather than forced, and how creative work can become a path of transformation in itself — for both the writer and those walking alongside him.At its heart, this episode is about initiation through expression, and the quiet alchemy that happens when voice, truth, and devotion begin to align.✨ Connect with Blake: @blakezealear⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🌹 Find out more about our next Rose-Initiations in Egypt ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

What if the parts of ourselves we fear the most are the very parts that hold the key to our wholeness?In this thought-provoking episode, we explore the often misunderstood realm of the Dark Masculine. Beyond gender, the Dark Masculine is an archetypal force that exists within all of us—a primal energy connected to power, boundaries, instinct, desire, protection, and our capacity to act decisively in the world.For many people, this energy has been suppressed, shamed, or projected onto others. We are taught to fear our anger, deny our intensity, and disconnect from our raw, instinctive nature. Yet what remains hidden does not disappear. Instead, it often emerges through resentment, manipulation, self-sabotage, victimhood, control, emotional reactivity, or unconscious power struggles.In this conversation, we dive into the importance of meeting the rage beneath the mask—not to become consumed by it, but to understand it, honour it, and transform it into conscious power.Together we explore:The hidden cost of suppressing anger and instinctWhy shadow integration is essential for personal and collective healingThe role of healthy aggression in creating boundaries and changeHow the Dark Masculine serves as a guardian when consciously integratedWhy these conversations are especially relevant in the current global climateThis episode is an invitation to move beyond simplistic ideas of light and dark, good and bad. True maturity is not achieved by rejecting our shadows but by bringing awareness to them. When we integrate the Dark Masculine, we gain access to courage, clarity, discernment, protection, and authentic sovereignty.The world is not asking us to become less powerful. It is asking us to become conscious stewards of our power.Join us for a deep exploration into one of the most misunderstood aspects of the human psyche and discover why integrating the darkness may be one of the greatest acts of healing available to us today✨ Connect with Jeffrey: 🌹 Find out more about our next Rose-Initiations in Egypt ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠✨ Connect with Natalie: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thenatalierose__⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🌹 Connect with Sisters of the Rose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@sisters_oftherose⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠