09/09/2026
What if the changing season was also an invitation to turn inward? 🍂
This September, we welcome Freya Shi to OCA for Autumn Equinox Ritual: A Five Elements Journey, 90-minute ritual created to honour that beautiful threshold where day and night, Yin and Yang, meet in balance.
Guided by the wisdom of the Chinese Five Elements (Wu Xing), we’ll journey through Earth, Water, Wood, Fire and Metal, exploring our own inner seasons through gentle somatic movement, guided meditation, reflective writing and a nourishing sound bath.
✨ Meet your facilitator, Freya Shi (she/they) a writer, poet, art practitioner and holistic wellbeing facilitator whose work weaves together meditation, spirituality, critical thought and practices of transformation.
Freya is a 2026 Barbican Young Poet and 2024 British Council Venice Biennale Fellow, and this ritual draws from their debut book, Unlearning, to Love: An Academic’s Memoir on Truth, Meaning, and Spirit.
There will also be a short reading from the book, and a signed copy is included with your registration! 🤩
A space to slow down. To harvest what this season has given you. To release what no longer needs to follow you. And to move forward grounded in the wisdom of autumn.
🍂 AUTUMN EQUINOX RITUAL
A Five Elements Journey
📅 23 September
⏰ 7:45–9:15 PM
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