Root to Rise Circle
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A sanctuary for heart-centred women to connect & thrive in an ecosystem rooted in feminine wisdom.

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Hello, Welcome Home.

Our intention is to serve your heart with love, truth and compassion.

We believe in organic growth. This means that our community sanctuary will grow from the inside out. With your participation, feedback and input, we can expand in meeting your needs.

We believe that empowered women empower women, and so we practice rooting for each others rise.

We believe that we are at the precipice of global alchemy, and that now is the time

to courageously awaken to the truth of who we are; to re-connect with our Divine Nature

in Nature, and that this connection and awakening facilitates a state of grace, empowerment

and a return to heart centred living.

We believe that what the world needs now is a re-framing of our disconnected culture.

We believe that women are awakening to to their clarion call to catalyze this movement, to embody the unique qualities of feminine leadership, cultivating authentic living.

Our wholehearted Why:

To empower women to love, live & lead from their feminine core, so that, together we

can Root2Rise for a more compassionate, thriving world for all.

Women rooting for other women’s rise through:

• Collaboration
• Holding space for their greatness
• Empowerment

• Authentic expression

• Cultivating a conscious culture
• Shared decision making
• Balancing the masculine and feminine principles, taking inspired action

& making space for being.

Eleftheria Kakambouras

Founder & Facilitator Trainer

Eleftheria is a feminine wisdom coach, counselor, mentor & facilitator trainer. She is passionate about ancient feminine myths, its healing wisdom and with over two decades of facilitating women's circles, she has experienced first hand, the healing power of women gathering in collective vision.

Eleftheria is the lead trainer for Root to Rise Circle Leaders.

www.eleftheria.center

Facilitating safe spaces which cultivate compassion, connection, & collaboration

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator Graduates

Root to Rise Circle Facilitators 2025 - 1st Generation

Ljiljana Madzarevic

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

Belgrade, Serbia

Ljiljana Madzarevic is a language lover, interpreter, traveler, and human resources professional, always curious about how people connect through words.

With a passion for etymology, she explores the stories behind language and communication. In her facilitation work, she focuses on dreams, transformation, and creative expression, drawing on a rich corporate background.

Art and literature are her tools for weaving deeper connections between people and their inner worlds

Jennifer Carey

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

United States of America

Jennifer is a Bahamian-born woman from the island of freedom, now lives in Georgia, U.S where she is a sound healing practitioner, retreat curator, and spiritual guide. Her work is rooted in her own midlife transformation and the deep belief that renewal is always possible.

Through Soulstice Wellness Retreats, Jennifer creates sacred spaces for women to pause, breathe, and remember what is true. Her offerings—sound baths, retreats, and soulful gatherings—invite women to shed what no longer fits and step into a life of grace, courage, and freedom. Each experience is an invitation to return home to oneself and to live in rhythm with the soul.

Natalie Lentz

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

Natalie Lentz is a South African storyteller, journalist, former English teacher, and writer with a deep respect for holistic health, healing, and ritual. A cancer alchemist, she draws on her own transformative journey to craft sacred spaces that empower women, foster self-healing, and celebrate the art of modern-day ritual-making. Dedicated to uplifting female voices, Natalie inspires women to reconnect with their inner strength, embrace growth, and live authentically through every season and phase of life. If you’d like to read more of her story, her book ‘The breath between’ will be available soon.

Ivana Culham

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

United Kingdom

Ivana Culham is a systems (field) cartographer, guide, facilitator, and co-founder of Web of Wellbeing CIC—a UK-based social enterprise reimagining education as a sacred act of care. Her work explores the spiral nature of living systems, offering grounded, soul-led spaces for regeneration and clarity. A mother of three, with roots in Croatia and rhythm in the UK, Ivana bridges community healing, conscious business, and personal transformation. Through offerings like Rooted Resonance, she invites others to remember what’s true, tend the whole system, and create from the inside out, starting from where they are.

Alicia Avila

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

United States of America

Alicia, a life enthusiast, was transformed by her Stage Pancreatic cancer experience in April 2021. Embracing the 10 Radical Remission Healing Factors during her recovery, she discovered newfound happiness in life's simple pleasures, like sunsets and warm tea. Now, she treasures time with her horse Picasso, enjoys walks with her dog Tequila-Pepper, and shares daily joys with her husband Per as they navigate life together.

Ana Kali Maat

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

Slovenia

Ana Kali Maat is devoted to holistic wellness, mental wellbeing, and spiritual growth. Through her work, she helps individuals reconnect with themselves and the natural world, fostering meaningful connections and positive change. As the host of The Reconnect podcast, Ana engages in candid conversations with thought leaders, healers, and visionaries worldwide, exploring topics like mental health, spirituality, and personal growth to inspire listeners to expand their awareness and embrace new possibilities.

Michelle Nel

Root to Rise Circle Facilitator

1st Generation Cohort 2025

Cape Town, South-Africa

Michelle advocates for sustainable living by establishing food systems in under-resourced South African schools. With a diverse background in business, law, and psychology, she blends traditional healing, and meditation into her work.

Using permaculture and systems thinking, she aims to create innovative food forest gardens while inspiring next generation to promote environmental stewardship, community resilience, and access to nutrition for a healthier future.

Natalie Pegasus Scholarship

In loving memory of Natalie.

Natalie discovered healing, upliftment, personal growth, a sacred sisterhood of support and a soul-lead purpose through this program, all while bravely facing cancer.

In recognition of Natalie's dedication to storytelling, writing, women's circles, and empowerment, we are pleased to announce the establishment of the

Natalie Pegasus Scholarship.

This scholarship is offered annually to one woman who is passionate about writing and women's circles, aims to foster a safe community through circle facilitation, and has experienced the cancer journey.

Applications can be submitted here.