HOME AWAY FROM HOME
bridge the worlds within you
May 3 - May 24, 2025
live & recorded online breath series
When life is overwhelming - do you tend to
drift into the vast, uncharted landscapes
of your inner world?
What if these inner places are not random fantasies; what if they hold
wisdom, purpose, and medicine for here and now?
What if you are a bridge between - a messenger destined to carry the stories, essence,
melodies, gifts, and healing whispers hidden within these sacred spaces?
Through four live classes, Home Away From Home is offered for those who long to integrate the essence of their most beloved inner places
into their daily experience - not as a means to escape reality, but as a wayshower toward greater presence, wholeness, and connection.
This series invites you to return to the realms that feel like home, to uncover the deeper meaning they hold,
and to weave their spirit into the fabric of your everyday life. Whether these spaces exist in your imagination, in your memories, or in enchanted places you’ve wandered,
Home Away From Home is an invitation to bridge these spaces from distant havens into accessible sources of grounding and strength.
Home Away From Home Schedule
live classes and course content are posted in a private web portal for those unable to attend live,
and for those desiring to return to the classes again and again.
Live Classes (Recorded)
APPRENTICING THE ACHE:
Discomfort as a Doorway to the Worlds Within
Saturday, May 3rd - 9am - 10:40am PST
We begin with bringing presence and attunement to the inner ache, the angst, agitation -
the parts inside that feel disconnected from a true sense of place, home, and belonging. These sensations, often dismissed or avoided, may serve as inner doorways
to listen more closely to what lies within and beneath. Where does your consciousness travel in times of stress, overwhelm, need? Our first class is an invitation to allow
the ahce to guide you back to the sacred terrain of your inner world - to your Home Away From Home.
THE EXILED SELF:
Re-Membering Your Way Home
Saturday, May 11th - 9am - 10:40am PST
When we’re called to return to our Home Away From Home, it’s often because there is some element of our essence that has been repressed, forgotten, or hidden.
Through this class, you will be invited to attune to Exiled Longings within - inviting this presence to serve as a wayshower to your Home Away From Home.
DIVINE DISTILLATION:
The Essence of Your Home Away From Home
Saturday, May 17th - 9am - 10:40am PST
Imagine entering a magical apothecary with a wall full of herbs - lavender emanating depth and dreamscapes, rosemary with tales of temples long since fallen -
each plant an enchanting doorway into a living reality. Just as plants distill their medicine and homes away from home in various forms,
this class invites you to attune to the inimitable essence at the heart of your Home Away From Home.
EARTH KINSHIP:
Ecotone Your Way Home
Saturday, May 24th - 9am - 10:40am PST
Ecotones are spaces where two distinct ecosystems meet and mingle - such as where forest meets meadow, where river meets sea. These natural thresholds mirror the inner landscapes we navigate in times of transition, integration, and becoming. In our final class, we’ll explore your Home Away From Home through the lens of kinship with Earth - tuning into the ways your inner world meets and mingles with the natural world. What does it mean to belong at the edges, where difference meets connection? This session offers space to reflect, integrate, and root the insights of the series into your daily life, nourishing an ongoing relationship with home here on Earth and your Home Away From Home.
How are the classes structured?
Breath ~ Movement ~ Writing ~ Somatic Inner Attunement
Each class will begin with a brief guided centering process to create a supportive container for exploring your Home Away From Home.
From there, we’ll move into an introduction of the class topic through a series of slides. We’ll then move into an experiential practice, where you’ll be guided through meditation designed to deepen your connection to the theme. We’ll close each session with space for optional sharing, reflection, and integration. You’ll also receive suggested integration resources, including journaling prompts, rituals, or creative exercises, all of which will be posted in our private web portal for easy access and ongoing integration.
Join Home Away From Home
There are three options for joining this series:
This series is for those who’ve
felt untethered, in-between, or unsure of where they belong.
It’s for the ones who’ve heard again and again:“Come back to Earth. Get grounded. Keep your head out of the clouds.”
When I first began offering breath classes over ten years ago, one of the most frequent reflections I’d hear is: "I touched a place inside me that felt like home - and now I don’t know how to get back. I don’t think it exists here."
There’s a quiet ache in those words - a kind of homesickness. I could easily recognize it because it’s been my ache, too.
What if these places - the ones that feel just out of reach - aren’t meant to be left behind? What if they’re not figments or fantasies, but sacred spaces carrying wisdom meant to be woven into this life, this body, this moment?
What if the invitation is not to abandon those realms, but to learn how to carry their essence with us? To let them shape how we move, love, create, and serve?
Before we can integrate the spirit of these subtle places, it’s necessary to turn within and listen - to the stories they carry, the symbols they offer, the medicine they bring.
Home Away From Home is a space for this kind of listening. For remembering. For bridging belonging and bringing that felt-sense of home even more here.
It’s not about leaving the world. It’s about welcoming more of your essence into it.
FAQS
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Yes. All the classes are recorded and posted in a private web portal for you to take in your own time. The web portal will remain accessible long after the course closes (at least 1 year) - so you’re also welcome to revisit the classes & content again and again.
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For at least a year following the live classes. If you’re called to return to the classes or take them at a later date, the recordings will remain available for you long past the live class recordings.
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Please send an email to madeline@madelinegiles.com and I'll get back to you within 72 hours.
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