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EARTH PURPOSE INSTITUTE •  SCHOOL OF SACRED SHADOW & SOVEREIGNTY
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Sacred shadow work for women ready to reclaim their divine feminine power.
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A TRAINING EXPERIENCE OF HEALING, POWER & RECLAMATION
Souls Roots:
Sacred Shadow Work for Women
The bridge between reading the book - and living the work.

In seven powerful weeks, you will move from understanding your shadows to embodying your sovereignty - and emerge ready to carry this sacred medicine into the world.
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Your roots hold your power.
Beneath the surface of your life lies a sacred knowing - buried under old stories, silenced voices, generational wounds, and the weight of expectations.  These shadows have shaped you, but they don't define you.

The Souls Roots Experience is a sacred space for women ready to journey inward, confront what has been hidden, and reclaim the brilliance of their divine feminine power.
THE INVITATION
Not just a course.
A living container.
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B.I.R.T.H. GRADUATES - THIS IS YOUR NEXT STEP
If you completed B.I.R.T.H. and felt something open that you're ready to go deeper into - you are exactly who this was designed for.  Souls Roots is the natural continuation of the journey you began there.  Your alumni discount is waiting for you below.
This cohort is the bridge between reading The Healing We Avoid and actually living the work.  Over seven weeks you will move through a structured curriculum grounded in sacred shadow work, somatic practice, and honest truth-telling -culminating in a soul-anchoring in-person weekend experience.

For those called to carry this medicine forward - the Facilitator's Track is your pathway to becoming a trained holder of the Souls Roots circle and the Sacred Shadow Work Experience.

THE FOUNDATION
Sacred shadow work:
The medicine beneath the surface.
Sacred Shadow Work is not about dwelling in darkness.  It is about having the courage to look at what has been hidden - and discovering what lives there.  Because within every shadow lives a gift waiting to be reclaimed.
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FOUNDATIONAL COMPANION TEXT
The Healing We Avoid
What Our Triggers Are Trying to Teach Us - Niambi Jaha-Echols
This cohort is the living extension of the book.  Each week of the curriculum is aligned to its core teachings - taking the lone self-help journey and making it relational and real.  Participants receive a copy with enrollment.
To Learn More About The Book
THE 6-WEEK VIRTUAL CURRICULUM
Six weeks of 
sacred becoming.

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WEEK 7  •  CAPSTONE  • IN-PERSON  •  ALL PARTICIPANTS
The Soul-Anchoring
Weekend Experience
The culmination of seven weeks - brought fully into the body.  This 2-day in-person immersive weekend is where the intellectual becomes embodied, the individual becomes communal, and the transformation you've been building becomes something you can feel in every cell.  Held in Chapel Hill, NC.

This weekend is also the living template for the Souls Roots Weekend Experience that Facilitators will go on to hold for others.
2-day in-person immersive • Chapel Hill, NC • Embodied shadow work • Somatic anchoring • Sister witnessing circles • All materials provided
TWO PATHWAYS THROUGH THE PROGRAM
Choose your path:
participant or facilitator.
Every woman begins as a participant.  After completing the 7-week experience, you choose: remain in the community and continue to grow - or answer the call to become a Facilitator, trained to hold the Souls Roots circle and Weekend Experience for other women.
7 WEEKS  •  PARTICIPANT TRACK
The Healing Path
For women ready to do the deep work of reclamation - for themselves.
Walk through all six weeks of virtual curriculum and the soul-anchoring in-person weekend.  Leave with an embodied transformation, a living practice, and a community of women who have walked the path beside you.
  • 6 weekly virtual live sessions (120 min)
  • Week 7 in-person weekend immersive
  • The Healing We Avoid (companion book)
  • Weekly shadow work practices & guides
  • Session recordings
  • Souls Roots community (ongoing)
  • Post-cohort integration toolkit
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After completing: grow in community, or choose the Facilitator's Track in a future cohort.
8 WEEKS  •  FACILITATOR'S TRACK  •  APPLICATION REQUIRED
The Facilitation Path
For women called to carry this medicine and hold the circle for others.
Complete the full 7-week participant experience, then enter an additional week of intensive facilitation training - learning how to hold the Souls Roots cohort and Weekend Experience.

  • Everything in the Participant Track
  • Week 8: Facilitation Training Intensive
  • Souls Roots Facilitator's Guide & Toolkit
  • Somatic facilitation practices & scripts
  • How to hold the Weekend Experience
  • Souls Roots Facilitator certification
  • 1:1 mentorship call with Niambi
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Application required. Prior participant experience required.
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THE ONGOING CONTAINER
The circle doesn't close
when the cohort ends.

After the 7-week experience, every woman is welcomed into the ongoing Souls Roots
community - a living sisterhood that grows together across cohorts, across programs, and 
across the years.  This is where the work becomes a way of life.

WHAT'S INCLUDED  •  ALL PARTICIPANTS
Everything you need to 
go all the way in.
THE EXPERIENCE IS FOR YOU IF...
You are ready to stop
circling - and start becoming.
  • You are a woman tired of reacting from old wounds and ready to respond from your truth.
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  • You have completed B.I.R.T.H. and felt the call to go deeper - into your own shadow work, divine feminine power, and reclamation. (Your alumni discount is waiting below.)
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  • You've read The Healing We Avoid - or feel its call - and want to live the work, not just understand it.
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  • You want healing that honors both your nervous system and your soul - embodied, spiritual, and real.
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  • You crave a sacred sisterhood circle - women who hold you honestly and walk the path with you.
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  • You are called to become a facilitator and carry this medicine into the lives of other women (Facilitator's Track)
INVESTMENT
Two tracks.
Choose your path.

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Completed B.I.R.T.H.? Your investment is honored.
B.I.R.T.H. graduates receive a 20% discount on any Souls Roots enrollment
tier - Participant or Facilitator's Track.  Enter code
BIRTHALUM at checkout,
​or reach out and we'll apply it for you.
20% off
B.I.R.T.H. ALUMNI

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TWO ROADS.  ONE SACRES DESTINATION.
B.I.R.T.H. & Souls Roots:
Companion offerings.
Many women ask whether they should do B.I.R.T.H. first.  The truth is - there is no wrong place to begin.  Both roads lead to the same place.  But they take different paths to get there.
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Takes you through healing in community - across cultural, racial, and generational lines.  Builds relational trust, truth-telling capacity, and the sacred container.

Plants the roots
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Takes you deeper into yourself - into shadow, divine feminine, ancestral body, and your capacity to hold this work for others.  Personal reclamation and facilitation.
 
​Grows the tree
Many women walk both roads - in either order - and find they are profoundly deepened by each.
Explore B.I.R.T.H. Here
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Niambi Jaha-Echols
Creator of Souls Roots • Author • Spiritual Midwife • Founder, Earth Purpose Institute 
Niambi knows what it means to carry shadow - old grief, silenced parts of herself, stories passed down through generations.  Her own healing began when she stopped running from the darkness and started listening to what it was trying to say.  What she discovered is that the shadow, when embraced, is not a prison but a portal - and that everything she'd been running from held the very gifts she's been searching for.
For over two decades, Niambi has guided women through this exact journey - from surviving to sovereign, from reactive to radiant, from alone in the work to held in sacred community.  She walks this path with you.

www.niambijaha.com 
The circle is forming.
Your place is waiting.
Seven weeks.  An in-person weekend.  A circle of women walking the same
sacred path.  The life you've been circling is on the other side of this work.

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Awaken Your Purpose.  Embody Your Light.
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