The Return

A year-long journey of remembering
how to rest, move and feel with the rhythm of nature

by Nina Samay

I feel the calling

The world we live in is not designed for our needs.

Can you feel it?

Twelve months. Sharp cuts. New resolutions in the middle of winter.

Urge to bloom when you feel depleted.

Expectation to live as if we were machines:

productive every day, emotionally stable at all times,

always growing, always visible, always "on".

This is the world built like a masculine container,

that asks us for moving up and forward, without a pause.

But we are cyclical beings. You are a cyclical being.

Once we all lived in close relationship with the Land,
Moon cycles, darkness, birth, death, and renewal.

And your body still carries the cyclical meaning of time.
Energy rises and falls. Life expands and contracts.

You know it, you feel it, but you keep coming back to the linear time and growth.

Maybe you try to slow down, but when you do, it feels uncomfortable.

"What am I worth if I stop?"
"How do I truly rest?"

Something in you knows that there is a different rhythm.

You catch a glimpse of it when you dance, sing, make love, drum, look into the fire, into the water, when you watch a sunset.

The rhythm that is about life, death, and rebirth.
Expansion, descent, re-emergence.
Rest, movement, slowing down again.

And maybe you feel it
that underneath structures,
underneath rituals and concepts
there is something older.

A knowing that lives in your body, that is still there in your bones.

If you feel the pull to explore this rhythm
to live the life we are truly meant to live
not just outside, but inside

not to impress anyone

but to really return
to the wisdom of your body
to the wisdom of cycles

to feel
you are connected to the intelligence of all LIFE

to feel YOU ARE nature

this is a space for you.

This speaks to me

Sometimes you experience a sudden energy shift, a little revelation, and you feel in your bones you're not the only one. This may happen during Full Moon or Solstice – as if ancient knowing was waking up inside you.
You sense there is more to explore beyond written traditions, books, and theoretical concepts of women’s cyclicity, and you feel drawn to practices that are meant to be experienced rather than understood.
You want to belong to the mystery of life more – embrace all that life carries, participate in the grand ceremony it is, and taste all of its layers.
You are tired of moving against your own rhythm, pushing when you need rest, numbing when you need to feel.
You want to feel more connection to your body, pleasure and desire, experience the world more through senses, and less through mind.

This is me

This is a journey of remembering the ancient, cyclical rhythm of the year. We move through the Wheel of the Year not as theory, but as lived, embodied experience. Each sabbat becomes a portal into feeling the rhythm of nature inside your own body.
The time between our gatherings is a space for your own deep exploration and listening. You will be given sacred tasks and invited to guided somatic practices that support you along the way. There will also be a space for sharing and integrating what's moving inside.
The journey is intentionally slow and intentionally light, designed to unfold month by month. We don't rush. It's not a course to complete, not theory – though we use the language of myths and archetypes to describe what we're doing.
You enter a safe container, a strong collective field, held by an experienced facilitator. We journey, experience and rest together – adding to the shared wisdom.
There is an optional live gathering for Summer Solstice 2027 - to meet in person and live the experience in the physical space.

This speaks to me

How it works

Monthly live gatherings

We meet once a month, on Sundays at noon - on Zoom. Each gathering is a portal to connection with Mother Nature and everything that moves inside us.

Guided practices

Between calls, you receive audio somatic practices and invitations to stay connected: journaling prompts, rituals, reflections, and integration check-ins.

Shared space

An intimate Telegram group to share and feel connected to the collective field. The power of this journey is that we do it together – and add to the shared wisdom.

OPTIONAL:

Live Litha (Summer Solstice) 4-day retreat in Poland

June 2027

Details will be shared upon joining

Hi, I'm Nina Samay

I am a space holder, circle keeper, ritual carrier, and group facilitator from Poland.

I am also a new mother to a beautiful daughter, and stepping into motherhood has been my deepest initiation. My daughter was born because I believed in the wisdom of cycles, and trusted my body can open like a portal to welcome her on this Earth.

For years, I was searching for ways to reconnect with myself to "heal" what "was broken". Over time, I began to understand that what I needed was not another workshop. Not another healing. But a slower way of being with myself. A way to let what I already knew settle into my body and everyday life.

The Return was born from that longing.
(there is more about my story at the bottom of the page)

The journey

The journey begins on September 27, 2026
and ends in August 2027.

September 27, 2026

Mabon - Autumn Equinox - Entering the Wheel

Where are you now, at the threshold between seasons, when days begin to darken and nature slowly turns inward? And as we enter the Wheel together, we begin by meeting ourselves honestly – exactly as we are.

We use this portal to pause, take stock of what has ripened in our lives, what nourishes us, and what we want to carry into the darker part of the year. It's time to learn how to gather your inner resources so you can access them later. It's time to prepare, find peace and balance – to learn how to stay grounded and nourished throughout the winter.

October 11, 2026

New Moon Womb Portal

A portal of sacred womb, devoted to reconnecting with your inner cycle (whether you menstruate or not). This is a key gathering during which we access the knowledge and channel the energy we will need for the rest of the journey.

Each of us has been initiated into cyclical living, and our cycle is a reflection of the Wheel itself. Together, we'll take a shamanic journey into the origin of all being, we honour our bodies, our inner seasons, and our blood.

November 1, 2026

Samhain - Into the Underworld

A portal of death and descent into the unknown. Together, we enter the darkest part of the year, guided by the wisdom of myths and archetypes: Persephone descending into the underworld, Inanna surrendering layer by layer at the gates below. We welcome our witch, and unleash her with all her power.

The gathering will be a ritual space to surrender into the mystery, to meet the parts of yourself that live in the shadows. To listen to what is fading, dying, asking to be released.

November 22, 2026

Integration gathering

A gentle reminder that we are on this journey together, that we all belong in this collective and in this world. A check-in to see what is moving, what needs support, and what needs release. We will experience how we can nourish each other in a gentle way, how to ask the village for support and how to be received.

December 13, 2026

Yule - Winter Solstice – The Portal of Silence

Stillness and silence descend upon the land. We stay with the dark a little longer, to dream, to be in the fertile void, in the Cosmic Womb of Great Mother, in the belly of Gaia. There, when we are quiet and still, we can hear her voice and wisdom.

This is the portal of trust – January will be our intentional deep winter break, with nothing happening, and a full permission to rest and reset.

January 31, 2027

Imbolc - Germination

We have been like seeds resting in the Earth. Dormant. Dreaming. And after this deep stillness, Imbolc brings the first movement. Wild animals wake up in their burrows after a long night. It is a moment when first signs of life appear, and there is a promise of rebirth (Imbolc means "in the belly").

This is a space to check in with yourself after the winter. To notice what has shifted in the silence, what wants to grow, and what needs more time beneath the soil. If you're lucky, you will access the Knownig of what you are meant to be, you will feel a root birthing in the fertile dark – that will let you grow into the Light.

February 21, 2027

Full Moon Release Portal

Before we fully enter the energy of spring, we pause to release what no longer serves us. It is a portal of illumination, of bringing any tensions to the surface.

We create space to let go of old stories, heaviness, expectations, attachments, and ways of being that no longer feel alive, to make space for what wants to emerge.

March 21, 2027

Ostara – Spring Equinox - Awakening

The seeds begin to grow in the dark soil, reaching slowly toward the light. Ostara marks the turning point when the days become longer than the nights, and we enter the brighter half of the Wheel.

This is a portal of awakening. Of trusting what is beginning to grow. A space to reconnect with hope, movement, creativity, and possibility. The old will soon melt away with the snow, and new ideas, like sprouts, will need our attention.

May 2, 2027

Beltane - Bloom

The Earth is fully alive again, and your Wild Woman is wide awake inside you now. She wants to feast.

During Beltane gathering, we'll enter a portal of feminine energy, sensuality, creativity, and aliveness. It will be a ceremony of pleasure, beauty and juiciness of being alive - not as performance, but as a return to the instinctive, untamed parts of yourself that long to bloom freely. It's time to fertilize seeds planted in yout garden, open our bodies and dance the wild ecstasy of LIFE.

June 2027

Litha – Summer Solstice - Ripening

The Earth is abundant. Everything is vibrant, overflowing, alive. Flowers become fruits.

This is a space to celebrate yourself fully – your vitality, your sensuality, and sexual energy flowing freely through the body. It's an invitation to fully inhabit the present moment – to celebrate, dance, savor the richness of being alive before the Wheel turns again.

For Litha, I invite you to live gathering in person – a juicy retreat in Poland, available as a separate offering. The offering details will be shared upon joining.

There will also be a traditional online gathering, dates to be announced.

August 1, 2027

Lammas - Harvesting

A portal of gratitude, reflection, and gathering the fruits of what has grown.

This is a space to acknowledge your journey, to receive the gifts. To recognize not only what you created outwardly, but also the quieter inner shifts that unfolded along the way.

Together, we close this cycle with a despacho ceremony — an offering of gratitude for Pachamama, prayer, and reciprocity with life. A ritual of thanksgiving, of returning what has been received back to the Earth with reverence.

A reminder that every ending is also a beginning of another turn of the Wheel - because, as we all know it, it doesn't have a beginning or the end.

Take the journey

A feeling that you can regulate faster, feel more grounded, stay with your heart more, know where you are and what you want – despite external circumstances.
Clearer boundaries, especially around your rest and self-care. You will know when to say "no" to the world and "yes" to yourself.
A growing trust in cycles, change, and natural timing, along with a feeling of attunement to the seasons, Mother Earth, the elements, and the living world around you.
You taste life with all your senses and feel more alive, even in darker times. You understand what it means to be present, to never abandon yourself, to trust your own medicine.
You live more inside your body, and you listen to it – with love.
You notice subtle changes around you and inside you, and smile to yourself in these "aha" moments.

Yes, I want to feel that

11 live calls on Zoom (90 minutes each)
Monthly audio invitations – in a podcast form
Somatic and embodiment practices, including breakthrough tools
Additional materials in form of a beautiful workbook
Gentle guidance, support and a strong, safe container

I feel called

Enrollment for The Return opens in July 2026.

If you feel drawn to this journey, you can leave your email below to be the first to receive details, pricing, early access, and an invitation to the free live opening gathering.

Spaces are limited.

FAQ

More about me

I was born in Poland, a country of four distinct seasons — and this is what I remember from my childhood. Frosty winters with sledge riding, then thaw, then frost again. Bright, cold springs taking their time to unfold into juicy summers filled with sunshine and heavy rain. Autumns with apple picking, warm days and cool evenings, when we baked potatoes over a bonfire.

Now – it's completely different.

We have a long grey autumn-winter with only occasional snow. A rapid shift into spring. Summers that are dry, intensely hot, with violent storms and extreme heatwaves.

How can we feel regulated in such circumstances?

It feels as if cyclicity itself has been disrupted. Everything mixed together, as if the Earth herself was struggling to find balance.

And our bodies feel that, too.

Luckily, I know my rhythm. I know my cycle, I feel when the Full Moon is approaching, and tension builds up. The New Moon too: the quiet pull of new beginnings.

And I realized I have always lived like that. In my family, we lived in cycles, we lived rituals, though we didn't call it spirituality back then.

A conscious spiritual journey has been unfolding for me for more than a decade.
Over the years, I discovered that one of my gifts is carrying wisdom forward — creating brave spaces where others can reconnect with themselves and gently step through doors that are ready to open.

But path has never been linear.

I have been a journalist, tour guide, marketer, and writer. I wrote two poetry books, a collection of short stories, and a novel. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, I traveled to Africa to create a project about my mother. I mix methods and approaches, I draw a lot from tantra and shamanic practices, as well as Jungian psychology.

I am a trainee of Usha Anandi (Menstrual Cycle Awareness), Aiste Anandi (Feminine Work), and the Nativ School of Shachar Caspi.

I treat life as a grand ceremony, and I love it.

Get in touch

email: ninasamay.art@gmail.com