AN INTIMATE 6-WEEK LIVE ONLINE JOURNEY | LIMITED TO 8 WOMEN | BY APPLICATION ONLY
Are you ready to rewrite your story and reignite your life?
For generations, women were taught that midlife meant quietly stepping into the background, burning out, or surviving a "crisis."
We are the generation rewriting that story.
Midlife is not an ending—it is a sacred initiation. It is the precise moment when your energy returns home to you. It is the call to descend back into your body, gather the disowned parts of yourself left behind to please the world, and step into your full creative sovereignty.
You don't need to conquer another mountain or prove anything to anyone anymore. You simply need a space to come home to yourself.
Reclaiming What Was Exiled: The Spellbreaker Journey
The Spellbreaker Journey is an intimate, sacred container designed for a maximum of 8 women. It is built to guide you through the process of unearthing your suppressed voice, dismantling the beliefs that keep you small and stepping firmly into your creative sovereignty.
Together we weave Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey with intuitive painting, guided visioning, journaling, and herbal magick to unearth the voice you buried, and embody your truth and build a deeper connection with nature.
More info coming soon. Next start October 29th.
The Living Artifact: 1 Canvas, 6 Sacred Gates
Over 6 weeks, we will step through 6 distinct thresholds together on a single canvas. Each week is a live, held space where we gently peel back the layers of who you were taught to be, so you can remember who you actually are.
Week 1: The Threshold & Opening Ritual
We gather to bless our canvases and formulate a clear intention for the journey ahead—one that will serve as your compass as we paint a new vision for your life. We examine where your life has felt thin, shallow, or constrained by the expectations of others, and we begin using raw color and texture to invite back the parts of yourself you had to exile just to survive.
Week 2: Descent to the Goddess
We bring the hidden, quiet, and dark parts of our story straight onto the canvas. We make visible the places where we have fallen into despair, burnout, or perimenopause exhaustion from suppressing ourselves for too long. We enter this liminal space with paint and raw marks to bring light, love, and release to the hurt parts of us.
Week 3: Space for What Wants to Be Born
We make room for your suppressed yearnings. We dive into what is quietly waiting to be born through you—what wants to be lived, felt, and expressed. Using the canvas as a non-judgmental playground, we bring these desires to the surface so they have room to unfold and teach us who we are now.
Week 4: Reclaiming our Roots
We look back across our lineage to address the split with our mothers and ancestors. Together, we reach back to reclaim the initial values, intuitive gifts, and raw attributes of the women who came before us—or those like them—but we look at these traits through the mature, sovereign eyes of an adult woman.
Week 5: Embracing the Wounded Masculine
We make peace with the "masculine" principle—not as an over-driven, exhausting force that demands burnout, but as a protective, healthy container. We address our relationship with structure, focus, and boundaries, constructing a personal "golden thread" that keeps your daily life aligned with your sanctuary.
Week 6: The Sovereign Integration
In our final gathering, we seal the container by fully integrating the "masculine" and "feminine"—structure and flow, doing and being. Your visual artwork comes together as a complete living artifact. You step out of the circle seeing through false binaries, ready to interact with a complex world from an unshakable, whole identity.
The exchange for 6 weeks of live classes
€800/ 913$
It's possible to pay in 2 or 4 instalments. Recordings are sent out after the live class.
This inaugural cohort is offered at a foundational investment as I offer this journey online for the first time, in return I'm asking for honest feedback. After the first cohort the price will be €1680.
It includes 6 weeks of live classes, once per week and support in a dedicated group online.
Due to the limited capacity of this container, participation is by application only. This ensures that every woman who enters the circle is fully ready for the depth of this work.
You chose how deep you want to go, the container is set to hold you in safe space for your transformation, but this space is not a substitute for therapy and designed for women who are ready and able to hold their own trauma and wounds with self-responsibility.
Applications close once the 12 seats are filled.
This is for you if:
You are standing at the midlife threshold—whether called by an empty nest, a shifting body, a changing career, relationship or simply an undeniable ache for something real.
You don't need to be an artist. You just need to recognize yourself here:
- The Quiet Disconnect: You’ve built a life fulfilling others expectations and your life feels hollow now
- The Exhausted Anchor: You are the fixer, the peacekeeper, the hold-it-all-together woman. Your nervous system is starving for a space where you are held.
- The Desire for Raw Expression: You want a sacred, unhurried space free of rules, judgment, or perfection,where color can say what words cannot.
- The Sacred No: You are done shrinking to keep others comfortable. You are ready to stop giving yourself away and honor your inner voice.
The journey begins August 27 2026, and will last 6 weeeks, with one weekly group session of 2 hours length held on Zoom every Thursday from 7 to 9 PM CET.
No worksheets, no checklists, and no "homework." This space is designed to give you your energy back, not give you another task to complete.
6 Live Weekly Circles (120 Mins)on Zoom: Guided mythic explorations, deep inquiry on the canvas, and intentional sharing in a quiet, held space.
- Dates: August 27, September 3, September 10, September 17, September 24, October 1
- Time: 7pm CEST /1:00 PM EDT / 10:00 AM PDT / 6:00 PM BST
Intimate Cohort Size: Strictly limited to 12 women to preserve the sacred depth and individual attention of the circle.
A Quiet Sanctuary: An optional, off-social-media digital space to rest, drop in, and stay connected between gates whenever you feel called.
What You’ll Need
Essential Acrylic Paints: Primary blue, yellow, magenta, white, gold and black (you will be able to mix any color from these)
Canvas: One canvas, roughly 30x40cm / 12x16in
Tools: A couple of brushes, a jar of water, and some old rags
Elements from Nature: Leaves, feathers, soil, or other found earth materials
Journal & Pen: For quiet reflection and unscripted writing
Your Space: An easel or a flat table to work on
No artistic skill required—we paint for expression, not performance.
Note: A complete, detailed list of recommended materials and preparation rituals will be delivered directly to your inbox upon joining the circle.
Preparing for the Journey
Your guide
Nathalie Markiefka
The Spellbreaker Journey is the container I wished I had when I was standing at that exact crossroads.
I am not here to fix or coach you. You are not broken, you are simply bound by old stories that have outlived their purpose. My role is to hold a safe sanctuary, light the lanterns, and walk alongside you as you gather your scattered power and reclaim your sovereignty.
This container brings together a decade of holding transformative spaces, my own journey through the wilderness of midlife, and a lifelong devotion to igniting the creative spark in women.
With love,
Nathalie xx
"My sessions with Nathalie happened at a time of transition in my life. I had decided to change of job to work with values and purpose closer to my heart. But it was not just about changing of job. Personal and professional events in the previous two years had brought me back to heavier and sadder times in my life. Nathalie’s sessions helped me with: rebuilding self-confidence, remembering what matters to me and what is good in myself. Stepping back from who others think I am and reassuring myself of who I am. I now have something to hang on so that I can stay connected with myself when I feel emotional and that my environment indirectly pushes me to suppress my emotions and feelings." Audrey V.
What others say about my work
"Nathalie is kind, intuitive, intune and a fantastic soul to aid in you in your journey through the next stage of womanhood! I highly recommend her services if your looking for a guidance and support." Sinead M.
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