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SUMMARY:SEEN - A Guided Embodiment Photoshoot Journey
DESCRIPTION:There’s a version of you that doesn’t edit herself before she walks into a room.\nShe moves from the inside out. She doesn’t perform presence — she is it.\nSEEN is a ceremonial photography journey designed to bring her forward. \nAn intimate embodiment experience for just 8 women ready to move from unseen to fully expressed. A space where visibility becomes ceremony\, where photography becomes embodiment\, and where you remember what it feels like to take up space in your body without apology. \nThis is not just about getting beautiful photographs — though you absolutely will. \nThis is about being witnessed in your truth. \nAbout softening the self-consciousness.\nAbout dropping the performance.\nAbout reconnecting to the part of yourself that already knows how to take up space. \nThis is where embodiment\, artistry\, sisterhood\, sensuality\, nature\, and conscious visibility meet. \nExpress. Embody. Be Seen. Step into your power. \nTHE SETTING \nYou arrive at Ajna Temple\, Byron Homestead — a barefoot luxury sanctuary nestled between Byron Bay and Mullumbimby. Just six minutes from Byron Bay\, the land holds you before anything else does. \nAncient fig trees spread their roots deep beneath the earth while golden afternoon light filters through the canopy above. The air slows you down. Your nervous system begins to soften before anything even starts. \nThis is not a studio.  There are no harsh lights. No stiff posing. No pressure to “look good.” \nOnly living landscape\, embodied guidance\, sacred witnessing\, and the permission to arrive exactly as you are. \nTHE SOMATIC JOURNEY EXPERIENCE \nWe begin with a ceremonial opening facilitated by Stephanie of Ajna Temple — a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner with over 15 years experience in breathwork\, tantra\, feminine embodiment\, womb wisdom\, sacred space holding\, and transformational facilitation. \nThis is not a warm-up exercise.  It is a genuine threshold crossing. \nThrough somatic release\, movement\, breath\, presence work\, nervous system grounding\, and archetypal embodiment\, Stephanie guides you into an archetypal journey of being seen in all aspects of you. \nYou are held moment by moment. \nNo performing. No “getting it right.” No needing to know what to do with your hands.  You are guided and held all the way through the journey and photo experience with loving embodiment. \nTHE ARCHETYPES — guided embodiment that allows something real to emerge. \nThe Maiden • White \nSoftness. Openness. Innocence. Receptivity. Light presence. \nThe Priestess • Red or Black \nGrounded sensuality. Mystery. Magnetism. Sacred feminine power. Embodied leadership. \nYour Personal Archetype \nA third expression uniquely chosen by you and supported within the space.  Wild woman. Oracle. Lover. Earth mother. Muse. Mystic. Untamed self. \nThese are not costumes. They are energetic states already living inside your body. We simply create the conditions for them to emerge. \nTHE PHOTO JOURNEY  \nThen Karl from Down To Earth Media begins capturing the journey. \nKarl has spent years immersed in conscious communities\, sacred ceremonies\, festivals\, embodiment spaces\, and transformational events across the Northern Rivers and Gold Coast. \nHis gift is capturing the moment the mask drops. \nThe moment someone stops trying to be seen… and actually is. \nCollaborators describe his work as:\n“an ability to gently bring out and capture a depth of expression that encapsulates someone’s true essence and authenticity.” \nAs the afternoon light filters gold through the fig trees\, we move through the landscape — in flow\, in stillness\, in full expression. \nFrom Unseen to Seen \nMost women have spent years being partially visible. \nHolding back.\nManaging perception.\nDimming expression.\nTrying to be beautiful instead of fully alive. \nSEEN is designed to shift that. \nThere is a moment in every journey where something opens. \nThe self-monitoring softens.\nThe body relaxes.  The expression becomes honest. \nThat is the moment we work with.  That is what gets captured.  Not posing. \nPresence.  Not performance. Truth. \nINCLUDED ADORNMENTS AND COSTUME PIECES \nTo support your expression during the journey\, you will have access to: \n•⁠ ⁠Angel wings\n•⁠ ⁠Headdresses\n•⁠ ⁠Flowing fabrics and veils\n•⁠ ⁠Archetypal garments\n•⁠ ⁠Sacred adornments\n•⁠ ⁠Statement jewellery\n•⁠ ⁠Embodiment-inspired styling pieces \nEverything is offered as support — never pressure.  You are held and guided the entire way through. \nWHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH \nBeyond the images — and there will be beautiful images — something deeper happens in this space. \nMost women leave with a felt shift in how they inhabit themselves. A loosening of the long habit of being just slightly less than fully visible. \nThis is an experience designed to embody a new state of being that you can take out into the world. \nNot only will you leave with professional high-resolution editorial photography that will bring you even deeper into your self-love practice\, but you’ll also leave knowing what it feels like to take up space — for you — without apology. \nINTEGRATION  \nWe close with an intimate integration circle to ground the experience back into the body. \nBecause this isn’t just about photos. \nIt’s about what happens when you experience yourself differently. \nMost women leave with: \n•⁠ ⁠A deeper sense of self-recognition\n•⁠ ⁠Increased confidence in visibility\n•⁠ ⁠Greater embodiment and self-expression\n•⁠ ⁠A grounded experience of being witnessed safely\n•⁠ ⁠A shift in how they inhabit their body and presence\n•⁠ ⁠A renewed relationship with sensuality\, authenticity\, and power and self worth \nSomething changes here. \nNot just in how you look. \nBut in how you see yourself. \nThis Is For You If… \n•⁠ ⁠You’re ready to stop hiding parts of yourself\n•⁠ ⁠You want to experience photography as ceremony\n•⁠ ⁠You long to feel more confident being seen\n•⁠ ⁠You desire authentic expression over performance\n•⁠ ⁠You’re craving a conscious sisterhood experience\n•⁠ ⁠You want embodiment\, beauty\, nature\, artistry\, and depth woven together\n•⁠ ⁠You’re ready to take up space without apology \nPACKAGES AND PRICING  \nESSENCE PACKAGE\nEarly bird $222\nRegular $277\nHalf day guided embodiment session\n+ 7 editorial style edited images \nEMBODY PACKAGE (Recommended)\nEarly bird $299\nRegular $355\nHalf day guided embodiment session\n+ 15 editorial style edited images \ngroup IG reel \nRADIANCE PACKAGE\nEarly bird $399\nRegular $477\nEverything in Embody\n+ 22 images \nPersonal 30 second Instagram reel \nOPTIONAL ADD ON \nMakeup and hair Stylist support available as an additional add-on: $77 per person.
URL:https://ajnatemple.org/event/seen-a-guided-embodiment-photoshoot-journey/
LOCATION:Ajna Temple Byron Homestead
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