Tanya Forgan

Tanya Forgan I have inspired and empowered thousands of people through my work as a Transformational Mentor, Rest

Tanya Forgan is a dedicated Mindfulness Mentor, Group Facilitator, and Embodiment Guide. She integrates ancient and contemporary practices to create loving and inclusive spaces that offer self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. Known for her sensitivity and care, Tanya emphasises grounding embodiment practices and conscious relating, enabling people to build deeper trust in themselves and others. Committed to supporting people awaken and live more from the heart, she guides them to discover the depth and beauty of their true selves through meaningful connections with others. Website - www.tanyaforgan.com
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Stay curious,

Tanya x

02/08/2026

I want to know what love is. I want you to show me.

I vividly remember years ago hearing 'Sri Argala Stotram' by Krishna Das for the first time. I was sat in a workshop in connection with two complete strangers. I was washed with love for them both as the lyrics, "I want to know what love is. I want you to show me," were sung. Tears poured down my cheeks and I smiled wider than I think I'd ever smiled before. I felt so much love with these two people, even though I didn't know them. The love I experienced continued to grow and grow until it became vast and boundless beyond anything I had ever known before.
It was a beautiful experience, and this song became one that I returned to over and over, until it seemed to disappear from my awareness.

A couple of weeks ago I invited wonderful Mandy Penalver into a conversation about her experience of the six month 'Devoted' Circle training. I really enjoyed our time together. She spoke about how, over those six months, the Circle had grown and deepened in love.

We shared our 'why' for doing this work. What struck me as I listened back was afterwards was that we had both named something that has quietly shaped our lives... a quest to know TRUE LOVE. Not the Disney version we've been sold, or the romantic "you complete me" fantasy, but the kind of love that welcomes every single part of our humanity and stays present when life is messy and uncertain.

Many of us have spent our lives learning something very different than this kind of love. We learnt to perform to be accepted, please so as not to be rejected, stay strong so nobody sees our vulnerability, and hide the parts of ourselves we fear are too much, or not enough.

So where do we get to practise being in 'true love'? For me it's been in many places, but in Circle spaces it's been the place I get to really see myself. It is the place I bring my whole self without needing to perform. It's where I can be witnessed in grief, joy, uncertainty, and make mistakes without being exiled(if that is not your experience in Circle spaces please find another!). It's basically the place I can show up as ME.

After listening back to my conversation with Mandy, the song made its way back into my awareness. "I want to know what love is. I want you to show me". Is love not something we embody, in relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us?
I believe one of the great invitations of our time is to increase our capacity to love, and meet ourselves and one another with a little more honesty, care and courage.

If you are curious about holding spaces that explore this the next Devoted training begins in September, and the Circle is beginning to fill.

Devoted: www.tanyaforgan.com/devoted
Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EgqG9kELZY&list=RD7EgqG9kELZY&start_radio=1

Feel free to dm me for a relaxed conversation over a cuppa.

Written by Human.
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I’ve been reflecting on what life would have been like when I started out holding spaces for others if I’d been supporte...
29/07/2026

I’ve been reflecting on what life would have been like when I started out holding spaces for others if I’d been supported in the way the Devoted training does.

10 things I wish I’d known before I started holding group spaces….

1. We can’t talk about belonging without understanding exclusion. To create spaces where everyone can belong, we first have to recognise the systems and cultural stories that have taught so many people they don’t.

2. I’m not the expert on anyone else’s experience. My job is to hold the space, not have the answers.

3. Safety isn’t the absence of discomfort, and clear boundaries make a space safer, not smaller(okay snuck an extra one in there!).

4. Do not fear conflict. It is an opportunity. Conflict handled well can deepen trust, strengthen relationships and teach more about others.

5. People’s nervous systems matter more than my plan! It’s important to feel into what is alive in the moment vs controlling the space.

6. Presence over performance. I used to think I needed to perfect my facilitation. Now I know what matters most is my capacity to stay present with whatever unfolds. Game changer!!!

7. My humanity doesn’t weaken the Circle, it strengthens it. I don’t have to pretend I’ve got it all together!! Some of the deepest moments have come when I’ve allowed myself to be fully human.

8. Listen to the collective intelligence of the group. It’s literally magic at play I’m sure of it!

9. Less is more! Keeping things spacious allows life to move through the group and allows people to hear themselves. It can also offer a good rest from the noise of life!

10. Good endings matter. I have had enough sh*tty endings in life to know the power of closing something well. The way we close a Circle or any group space matters. It honours what has happened, supports integration and allow people to leave feeling complete.

If you’re called to deepen your capacity to hold Circle with confidence, care and devotion, Devoted is waiting for you. The next cohort begins in September. Link in bio.

I have so many more I could share!!! What can you add to the list?

www.tanyaforgan.com/devoted

🌑Descent Book Circle begins this week - the final of the seasonThis Thursday, we begin our last Descent journey for this...
11/01/2026

🌑Descent Book Circle begins this week - the final of the season

This Thursday, we begin our last Descent journey for this season, a six-week exploration of grief, community, and renewal, guided by The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller.

This is for anyone who wants to understand grief more deeply, not as something to fix, rush through, or carry alone, but as something that belongs in community.

Each week, our journey is held and guided by live music and sound from Facilitator and talented intuitive Musician Catherine Holt. The music is a companion, a guide, and a language for what words cannot reach. Sound helps grief move through the body, softens the nervous system, and creates a shared field where all emotion can be met safely and without explanation.

The work we’re drawing from does not come from modern Western self-help culture. It is shaped by ancestral and village-based wisdom, rooted in the cosmology of the Dagara people, shared through Elders such as Malidoma Somé. This lineage reminds us that grief is relational, needs witness and invites us into ritual and timeless space.

Grief is not only about death. It lives in the losses of identity, land, safety, health, dreams, belonging. It lives in our bodies, our families, our communities, and our times.

In the circle, we explore the Five Gates of Grief as a map that will support each of us to become more able to meet grief in ourselves and others, without fear.

This Book Circle is open to ALL. It’s especially supportive for those who hold space for others, formally or informally, and for anyone who senses that grief is asking for a different kind of attention.

DESCENT
🕯 Starts this Thursday, 15th Jan
🕯 7:30–9:00pm · 6 weeks
🕯 Final journey this season

🔗 https://tanyaforgan.com/descent

I am thrilled to announce the birthing of a new offering.DEVOTEDA six month initiation into holding Circle.For thousands...
29/12/2025

I am thrilled to announce the birthing of a new offering.

DEVOTED

A six month initiation into holding Circle.

For thousands of years, people gathered to listen, to witness, to grieve, to celebrate, to remember who they were together. Wisdom lived in the collective. Authority was shared. Healing happened in relationship.

Devoted is a return to that knowing.

This journey is for women who feel the quiet call to gather people well.

Women who are inspired to:

• Hold Circles that restore belonging.

• Support others to regulate and feel safe.

• Understand trauma, nervous systems, and group dynamics.

• Lead from body and heart, not from role or performance.

• Create spaces where healing happens through relationship.

• Model what it means to be an embodied, awake, compassionate human.

Circle work is not a luxury.
It is cultural repair.
It is how we relearn to be human with each other.

We begin in February, in a small and intimate group.

This is an initiation that will ask something of you, and will give you much in return.

What you will receive:

• A carefully curated journey of teachings, readings, and embodied practices.

• Small, supportive peer pods for connection, practice, and gentle accountability.

• Ongoing mentorship and collective wisdom from a community walking beside you.

What you will leave with

• The confidence and skill to create and guide circles and community gatherings.

• A grounded toolkit of somatic, energetic, and relational practices for coherence and repair.

• An embodied understanding of welcome, deep listening, and navigating conflict.

• A circle of women, and a certificate affirming your completion of this initiation

Awaken hearts.
Restore belonging.
Lead with devotion.

Online, with two in person practice days.

www.tanyaforgan.com/devoted
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This year’s Winter Retreat is already stirring something deep within me.The women are gathering, the Circle is forming.I...
18/10/2025

This year’s Winter Retreat is already stirring something deep within me.

The women are gathering, the Circle is forming.

I’m dreaming and visioning.

I’m writing, weaving, and gathering. I can already see the altar space, the cocooned rest nests, and the land that holds us.
I’m feeling the power of the Circle of ‘us’, those that have said yes and those hearing the call.

I’m collecting stories, songs, and poems.
I’m scribing the rituals, attuning to the quiet alchemy already forming in this year’s retreat.

This is not a “rinse and repeat,” even though I’ve returned year after year.

This is deepening.

It’s listening to the women who have come before, some for many years, hearing what supported their unfurling, what brought them most alive to love.

It’s holding just enough structure to nurture, but not so much that it squeezes out the mystery.

I know the space, the land, the people at Florence House intimately. That familiarity allows me to trust in the holding beyond the circle itself.

And I love that this year’s retreat lands in the heart of Winter Solstice, with all the quiet gifts it brings.

This retreat is my absolute love. If you’ve been before, you know why. If this is your first time you'll get to find out ;-)

It holds the rhythm of our gathering. It’s the one I know best. It feels like a beloved.

We’ll gather from 19–21st December to retreat into and celebrate the Winter Solstice. This retreat will be lovingly supported by my Soul Sis Geeta Jajani.

The Circle is open.
If it’s calling you, please join us.

https://tanyaforgan.com/the-winter-retreat/

09/10/2025

Grief.
* For all those who have lost their lives in wars and conflicts.
* For all those whose lives are being trampled upon by powerful elites.
* For all those who are suffering.
* For all those who are homeless on the streets of London, Delhi, Washington DC...
* For all the varied species on this beautiful planet who are being obliterated by greed and aggression.

And so I grieve.

On a personal level, four people important to me have died in the last two years. Getting older: fewer weddings, more funerals. And I am grieving today for a good friend who is very unwell. At times I feel an iceberg of sadness within me. My heart shakes at the enormity of it all. Sometimes, it is almost like I am on my hands and knees. What happens next?

Grief. This is a powerful word that comes from the Latin ‘gravis’ meaning “heavy” or “weighty”. Sallie Tisdale (author of 'Advice For Future Corpses') wrote: “Grief is like a long march in bad weather.” Grief can be deeply exhausting.

But can we allow our grief? As best as we can, can we attempt to engage with grief, even express our grieving? Because pain and sorrow might cultivate appreciation of life. Because without grief, there might be no joy. Because loss can teach us about the importance of life. Because grief – a letting go – can make space for joy. A learning that we can aspire to do what we love in this life (and so not prevaricate or postpone).

Engaging with grief can take many forms: remembering absent friends with other friends, gardening, tree hugging, pet proximity, physical and verbal expression, watching the sky and the horizon, journal writing – and much more. Maybe wondering where our happy places might be (two of mine are the Parkland Walk and the Woodberry Wetlands cafe).

Where are your happy places?

DESCENT: A Six-Week Book Circle Journey through Francis Weller’s The 'Wild Edge of Sorrow'. Exploring the Five Gates of ...
08/10/2025

DESCENT: A Six-Week Book Circle Journey through Francis Weller’s The 'Wild Edge of Sorrow'.
Exploring the Five Gates of Grief, together.

As we meander towards winter, I’m following an inner call with something that has been quietly living in my heart for some time.

Together with amazing Soul Sister and Sound Therapist Catherine Holt, we will be offering DESCENT, a six-week journey through Francis Weller’s 'The Wild Edge of Sorrow' book, weaving grief exploration, sound healing, and the sacred art of tending the soul.

Years ago, when I first encountered Francis Weller's words, something in me opened up. His book gave language to what I had been carrying for so long and offered me a permission slip to feel what I had long held back. The experience moved me so deeply that I went on to apprentice with him as a Grief Tender, learning the living practice of holding community Grief Rituals.

During that time I discovered that when grief is given space, witness, and ritual, it transforms. It ceases to be a private burden and becomes a river that reconnects us, to ourselves, to one another, and to what truly matters. I find grief the most exquisite expression, for it reminds us how much we love.

Catherine and I have both walked our own descents, individually and in support of each other. We know the landscape of grief intimately, not because we've nailed it, but because we're still in it, still learning what it means to stay open when everything in us wants to close.

We are called to offer the DESCENT journey now because so many of us are carrying unspoken griefs, personal losses, collective heartbreak, the ache of dreams deferred, love unmet, and a world trembling with immense loss. We need spaces where we can tell the truth about what it actually feels like to be human right now. Where we don't have to perform or produce or have it all 'together'.

This circle is for anyone who is curious about exploring grief as a teacher, who wants to move beyond intellectual understanding and experience its wisdom through the body and the soul. It is for those who sense grief living within them, grief that may be old or unspoken, known or unnamed.

Over six weeks, we’ll travel through The Five Gates of Grief as described by internationally known Psychotherapist, Author and Soul Activist with over 30 years of experience Francis Weller. We will be blending reading, reflection with sound healing, and gentle ritual into a living exploration of the heart.

This is not a traditional book study where we stay safely in our heads, analysing and discussing from a comfortable distance. It's an embodied descent. A journey where Weller's words move from page to body to soul. Where we let ourselves feel, gently and with care. Where we discover that grief, when welcomed, becomes a portal to deeper connection, meaning, aliveness, and, surprisingly, more joy.

No prior experience is needed, only a willingness to arrive with an open heart, and a copy of The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller.

Commences Thursday, 6th November · 8pm (Online)

Join us
https://tanyaforgan.com/descent/

EMBODIED PEACE - Calling all Peace Builders, Facilitators, Coaches, Community Leaders, and anyone seeking to cultivate d...
24/08/2025

EMBODIED PEACE - Calling all Peace Builders, Facilitators, Coaches, Community Leaders, and anyone seeking to cultivate deeper presence and resilience in their personal and collective lives.

I’ve known what it feels like to fracture relationships and then slowly learn what it takes to heal them….or walk away with the knowing that I have done all I can. I’ve witnessed people I love struggle with conflict. I’ve seen how easily fear, defensiveness, and silence take over. And I know in my bones that conflict is one of the hardest things we face as human beings.

What I’ve come to know is that peace isn’t something we’ll stumble upon only when the world quiets down. Peace begins within. It is felt in the body, carried on the breath, and nurtured in the tender space of the heart.

I’m not speaking about bypassing with love and light. I mean the raw, steadying practice of tending to ourselves, and co-tending to one another, especially when life feels messy, uncertain, or divided.

This day at is an invitation to explore - together. How we find more steadiness when things feel shaky, to practice staying in relationship even when it’s hard.

🌿 We will use movement, breath, and somatic practices to reconnect with the peace that lives inside us

🌿 We will learn how the nervous system responds in conflict, and how to meet tension with curiosity instead of collapse or escalation

🌿 We will sit in Circle, inside the Bedouin tent, and practice what it means to hold disagreement with grace and to live from our deepest values

This is for anyone who feels the weight of these times and longs to root into a steadier presence.
Especially for those working in peace building, facilitation, coaching, leadership, activism, and anyone who simply wants to learn how to navigate conflict with more resilience, honesty, and heart.

No experience is needed. Just a willingness to pause, to listen, and to remember that peace is possible, even here, even now.

Date: Wednesday 4th September
Venue: St Ethelburga’s, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG
Time: 10:00 – 16:30

🔗 Book via https://www.stethelburgas.org/event/embodied-peace-workshop-sep-25

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