GATHERING BONES Mentorship
an intuitive mentorship for creative women
ready to trust themselves in their work
Together, we gather what has been scattered—ideas, energy, confidence, and direction—and begin creating from a place that feels truer, steadier, and more aligned.
Over twelve weeks, we slow down enough to examine the beliefs and patterns shaping your decisions around creativity, money, visibility, leadership, and worth. Through reflective inquiry, somatic awareness, ritual, creative practice, and grounded business support, we reconnect you with your own way of creating, earning, and leading.
This is not a rebrand.
Not a reinvention.
Not a personality upgrade.
It is integration.
You will not be handed a rigid formula or promised a particular financial outcome. Instead, we create the conditions for clarity to emerge and build structures that support who you are rather than requiring you to override yourself.
The goal is embodiment, not hustle.
The Method: The Spiral as a Teacher
Growth here is not linear.
Throughout our twelve weeks together, the spiral becomes both our structure and our teacher. It reminds us that returning is not regression. We circle back to questions, patterns, and parts of ourselves with greater awareness and a deeper capacity to listen.
The work moves through three anchors:
Returning.
Ritual.
Bone.
They are not steps to complete or levels to achieve. They overlap, speak to one another, and reveal what needs our attention.
Returning
We begin by creating space.
Before changing, refining, or building, we slow down long enough to recognize what is already there: the beliefs shaping your decisions, the patterns held in your body, and the parts of yourself that may have been set aside.
Returning is where urgency begins to loosen and self-trust has room to emerge.
Ritual
With greater awareness, we begin practicing new ways of listening, choosing, and creating.
Through boundaries, intuitive practice, creative devotion, and embodied awareness, we explore what it means to remain connected to yourself while moving through your life and work.
Ritual turns recognition into practice.
Bone
Bone is where what you have uncovered begins to take form.
We look at the structures surrounding your work and ask whether they can truly hold you: your offers, boundaries, pricing, pace, creative practices, relationships, and ways of making decisions.
This is not about building more. It is about creating structures that feel honest, sustainable, and strong enough to support what matters.
Throughout each phase, the spiral continues to guide us.
A conversation about pricing may lead us back to a belief about worth. A boundary may reveal an old survival pattern. A creative block may ask us to return to joy. A new structure may require more capacity before it can be sustained.
We follow what emerges rather than forcing the work into a straight line.
Each time we return, we see differently.
We gather what we could not see before.
We deepen rather than climb.
The Bones Book
Throughout our three months together, you will create a personal Bones Book: a living record of what you are gathering, remembering, releasing, and choosing.
It may hold words, images, symbols, fragments, photographs, drawings, questions, or pieces of your own creative work. It is not a brand book or a polished final product. It is something more personal: a tangible record of your return to yourself.
At the end of each week, you will add something to the book, allowing the process to take form slowly. By the end of Gathering Bones, you will have created an artifact of what you uncovered and what you are ready to carry forward.
The Private Immersion
Gathering Bones is a three-month private mentorship shaped around what is emerging in your life, work, and creative practice.
It includes:
Six private 60-minute sessions
Thoughtful between-session text support
The Gathering Bones workbook, released one month at a time
A blank book for creating your personal Bones Book
An opening intuitive reading with Brian Patterson
Daily distance Reiki throughout the three months
Somatic and creative integration practices
Preferred access to future workshops and retreats
The intuitive reading, daily distance Reiki, and creative integration practices support the deeper process unfolding alongside our sessions and workbook work.
Investment: $2,500
Payment plans are available upon request.
Enrollment is open.
“Before you know it, the work has built into a tidal wave of understanding and deeper knowledge. I arrived at the end changed, expanded, and more aligned.”
— Erin H.
How I Hold This Work
This container is relational, responsive, and intentionally intimate.
I am not here to fix you, position myself above you, or become your authority. I am here to witness you clearly, ask precise questions, reflect patterns you may not yet see, and help you slow down when urgency begins to take over.
Our sessions are conversational, grounded, and embodied. Each one responds to what is emerging in your life, work, and creative practice while allowing the Gathering Bones workbook to guide our three months together.
We may explore:
Nervous system patterns around money, visibility, or decision-making
Core beliefs that keep you from creating or moving forward
Boundaries, pacing, and client relationships
Creative blocks and intuitive signals
Offer language, pricing, or structures within your work
Somatic and ritual practices that support integration
I bring structure so you have room to soften, listen, and recognize what is already yours. There are no scripts, no pressure to perform, and no expectation that you arrive polished. This is not therapy. It is guided remembering.
Over time, the intention is for you to rely less on my reflection and more on your own internal authority.
About Rachael
Rachael Ellis is an artist, educator, ceremonialist, Reiki III practitioner, certified somatic healing practitioner, and founder of Satellite Salon.
Her work explores the meeting place between creativity, the body, ritual, and the structures we build around our lives. She brings years of experience in mentorship, facilitation, art-making, and building values-led businesses to Gathering Bones.
Her role is not to become the authority on your life, but to offer structure, reflection, and steady witnessing as you strengthen trust in your own.
Who This Is For
Gathering Bones is for creative women who are building a business, practice, or body of work and want to do so without abandoning themselves.
You may be a good fit if you:
Value depth over speed
Feel the tension between ambition and softness
Are willing to examine your beliefs and patterns
Want to develop more sustainable ways of creating, earning, and leading
Are ready to participate fully in the process
Who This Is Not For
This may not be the right fit if you are seeking:
Quick revenue strategies or guaranteed financial results
Purely tactical business or social media coaching
Someone to give you all the answers
Support for an acute mental health crisis requiring clinical care
Gathering Bones asks for curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to engage with what emerges.
A Manifesto
Everything is art.
The way you build.
The way you earn.
The way you rest.
The way you hold silence.
The way you decide who you are.
Gathering Bones exists for the woman who has built something meaningful while slowly disconnecting from parts of herself.
This is not about becoming someone new.
It is a remembering that you can create and feel safe.
Earn and remain soft.
Lead and stay attuned.
Be visible without abandoning yourself.
The name Gathering Bones comes from an old story about a woman who walks the desert collecting what has been scattered.
Read the story behind Gathering Bones →
Closing Invitation
You are allowed to build something meaningful without abandoning yourself.
You are allowed to slow down, question inherited scripts, and choose sustainability over urgency. You are allowed to earn without hardening, be visible without performing, and lead without losing softness.
If something in you feels quietly relieved while reading this, that is worth listening to.
Gathering Bones is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering what has always been yours.