Dramatherapy Joni Wilkinson

18/01/2026

This morning’s women’s circle felt quietly powerful and very precious to hold.

The women connected so beautifully - sharing their stories and lived experiences with an open-hearted vulnerability and authenticity that created a deep sense of trust in the space. There was such a feeling of being met and witnessed, without needing to fix or explain anything.

The Selkie Skin story opened up some rich and powerful reflections around sovereignty - how we lose parts of ourselves through life, and how we might begin to reclaim our bodies, our voices, and our sense of self.

Everyone surrendered so fully to the guided visualisation, each woman receiving her own symbol - a gift from her inner wisdom rather than something forced or searched for.

We then came back together over a hug in a mug - homemade soup from my own family recipe passed down. This opened up such lovely conversations about food, care, and connection, and how the nurture of those who may no longer be with us still lives on through the recipes they’ve shared.

The space was held by alder branches forming our altar - guardians of the waters, symbolising strength, resilience, and the bridge between past and future. It felt like they were quietly watching over each woman’s story, honouring what has been survived and what continues to grow.

We closed the morning weaving new skins - dreamcatchers made to hold any dreams or visions stirred by tonight’s new moon.

I feel deeply grateful for the trust, openness, and willingness to step into this space and meet yourselves through embodied and creative processes. Thank you for bringing your honesty, your courage, and your presence. 🤍

15/01/2026

15/01/2026

Shedding and Shapping - A winter women’s circle

12/01/2026

There are still a few spaces left for our Twilight Winter Women’s Circle - offering you space to rest and re-set after the festivities.

Join us for an evening of myth, meditation, creativity, somatic yoga and shared reflection - a place to soften, exhale, and come home to yourself again with some seasonal refreshments to enjoy with a wonderful group of women.

✨ Women’s Circle - Shedding and Shaping
📅 Friday 16th January 2026
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⏰ 6.30 – 8.30pm

Contact Dramatherapy Joni Wilkinson or Yoga Barn - Ellenhall to reserve your space today.

Images from the beautiful Rooted Woman Oracle by (illustrated by .artist) and used here with deep respect for the way her work continues to inspire and shape my practice. 🌿

06/01/2026

The last couple of days have felt like true snow days - routines paused, plans cancelled, and that rare sense that the world has quietly exhaled.

Snow has a way of reminding us who’s really in charge. Nature steps in, slows everything down, and gently insists we soften too.

After the sparkle and busyness of December, winter now asks us to reset, to listen inward, to rest beneath the surface.

As I return to holding circles after the festive break, I’m filled with gratitude for these beautiful spaces and the women who step into this work with such courage. It feels like coming home.

And if January finds you holding both inspiration and exhaustion, you’re not alone.
This season is about shedding what no longer fits… and shaping what’s ready to grow beneath the surface.

🌑 January Women’s Circle – Shedding & Shaping

An evening / morning of myth, creativity, movement and shared reflection - a place to soften, exhale, and come home to yourself again.

This year I’m offering two ways to join - whether you prefer a nourishing twilight gathering or a spacious Sunday morning.

✨ Twilight Circle
📅 Friday 16th January 2026
📍 The Yoga Barn, Ellenhall
⏰ 6.30 – 8.30pm

🌤 Morning Circle
📅 Sunday 18th January 2026
📍 The Ishta Centre
⏰ 10.00 – 12.30pm

💛 DM to reserve your place – spaces are limited so you’re encouraged to get in touch soon.

01/01/2026

✨ Happy New Year ✨

As we step across the threshold into a new cycle, I want to offer heartfelt gratitude to each of you who has walked alongside my work this past year - whether through women’s circles, Dramatherapy spaces, voice work, or quiet conversations behind the scenes. Your presence, trust and courage to show up for yourselves is what makes this community what it is. Thank you.

This season always carries a paradox - the sparkle and brightness of December still echoing in our bodies, while winter softly asks us to slow, shed and listen inward. Many of us arrive in January holding both inspiration and exhaustion.

If you’re feeling the call to gently release what no longer fits, and begin shaping what wants to grow from winter’s stillness, I’d love to hold space for you.

🌑 January Women’s Circle – Shedding & Shaping

An evening / morning of myth, creativity, movement and shared reflection - a place to soften, exhale, and come home to yourself again.

This year I’m offering two ways to join - whether you prefer a nourishing twilight gathering or a spacious Sunday morning.

✨ Twilight Circle
📅 Friday 16th January 2026
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⏰ 6.30 – 8.30pm

🌤 Morning Circle
📅 Sunday 18th January 2026
📍 The Ishta Centre, Stone
⏰ 10.00 – 12.30pm

💛 DM to reserve your place – spaces are limited so you’re encouraged to get in touch soon.

Here’s to a year of gentle shedding, courageous shaping, and many meaningful glimmers along the way ✨

01/12/2025

✨January Women’s Circle: Shedding & Shaping✨

A morning to release the skin that no longer fits, and shape what wants to grow from winter’s stillness.
Held through myth, creativity, movement, and shared reflection.

As we step into December - the season of light, gathering, and celebration - we’re also invited into winter’s quieter rhythm.
A time when nature softens, asking us to rest, retreat, and gently reset… even as the world grows busy around us.

If you find yourself holding both the sparkle and the overwhelm, you’re not alone.
And in the new year, when the festivities fall away, there will be a space waiting for you to come home to yourself again.

📅 Sunday 18th January 2026
📍 The Ishta Centre, Stone, ST15 8HD
⏰ 10am - 12.30pm
💛 DM to reserve your place

🌟 And if you’re looking for a thoughtful festive gift this year, why not offer someone you love the gift of time and space?
I have bespoke gift vouchers available for the January Circle - a gentle invitation to begin the new year with clarity and intention.

26/10/2025

✨ Swipe through to get a sense of what you might experience when attending one of my Women’s Circles.
Each gathering is a journey through story, movement, creativity, and reflection, offering space to reconnect, release, and renew. 🌙

This week, we rooted into autumn’s energy - releasing what’s no longer needed and preparing for the gentle descent into winter. 🍂

19/10/2025

Such a beautiful morning at the Centre, gathering in circle to root into Autumn 🍂

Thank you to the wonderful women who come with open hearts and a readiness to take part - your presence, courage, and creativity make this space what it is.

A photo to capture a few of our beautiful ladies and their creativity ✨

I’m always so moved by the depth, laughter, and connection that unfold when women gather. It’s an honour to hold space for this work ❤️

18/10/2025

Less than a week to go until our Root and Release Women’s Circle. Only 3 spaces left! Come and join us 🍂

As autumn whispers in, we’re called to shed, root, and renew. 🍂
Join me, Ruth Hilton founder of
Yoga Barn - Ellenhall and Joni Wilkinson Dramatherapy Joni Wilkinson for Root & Release
A women’s circle inspired by the Celtic myth of transformation.

⚡️We’re now 50% booked!
so if this speaks to you, message me soon to secure your mat space 🌙

📍 Yoga Barn Ellenhall – Friday 24th Oct | 6:30–8:00 PM

17/10/2025

✨ World Dramatherapy Week ✨

For as long as humans have gathered around fires, we’ve shared stories to understand the world and our place within it. Dramatherapy continues that process - using story, image, movement and play to help us make sense of our experiences.

It offers ways to explore and express what can be hard to put into words. By working with objects, characters or creative expression, we can bring what’s inside us out into the open - where it can be seen, understood, and sometimes gently transformed.

Because Dramatherapy is an embodied approach, it doesn’t just involve talking about things. The process of Dramatherapy invites us to feel and experience change through the body. When we move, create and connect in this way, it can help the nervous system settle and new patterns begin to form.

And it can also be playful. Through play, we reconnect with our curiosity, imagination and sense of aliveness; the parts of us that often get lost when life feels heavy or overwhelming.

The British Association of Dramatherapists has invited us this week to reflect on our Dramatherapy superpower.
For me, the superpower of Dramatherapy is its innate ability to help us remember what it is to be fully human - to be present, to feel, to imagine, and to make meaning through story and creativity.

08/10/2025

As autumn whispers in, we’re called to shed, root, and renew. 🍂
Join me, Ruth Hilton founder of
Yoga Barn - Ellenhall and Joni Wilkinson Dramatherapy Joni Wilkinson for Root & Release
A women’s circle inspired by the Celtic myth of transformation.

⚡️We’re now 50% booked!
so if this speaks to you, message me soon to secure your mat space 🌙

📍 Yoga Barn Ellenhall – Friday 24th Oct | 6:30–8:00 PM