Sovereign Alignment

The 10 Week Circle

A circle of men learning what it is to become conscious.

Beginning October* ·  Six to eight men  ·  Live online, held in confidence

Years ago my own life came apart, and everything I believed about being a man came apart with it. What rebuilt me was inner work, done in the company of other men.

Sovereign Alignment men's circle
The Circle

Ten weeks. A small circle of men, looking honestly at what it is to be a conscious man in today's world.

We ask key questions:

Where do we stand as men, in a world rightly questioning old dominance?

How do we hold the balance between the masculine and the feminine we each carry?

What is it to be present, to listen without rushing to fix?

What is sovereignty, and the maturity to meet your life with steadiness rather than reaction?

How can we become more conscious? Free from our emotions and limiting beliefs so we can become free, lighter, more joyful and loving towards ourselves and the world.

We work these in the body, in practice, and in the mirror other men offer once the room is safe enough for honesty.

The Ten Weeks

The circle moves through four passages. It begins by meeting the self you have constructed, turns toward the shadow and what you buried, identifies the balance of your opposites, and opens toward sovereignty and purpose. A first taste of a deeper path, walked honestly.

Week One

The Call and the Container

Why you are here? What is your inner calling?

Week Two

The Constructed Self

The personality you have constructed. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Week Three

Presence and Attention

How to be present, to come into the here and now, rather than somewhere else.

Week Four

The Shadow

Meeting the parts you have been avoiding and meet them with honesty, maturity and integrity.

Week Five

Trauma and the Coping Self

The patterns that once protected the boy that now run the man.

Week Six

What We Buried

The anger and grief you were taught to swallow.

Week Seven

Masculine and Feminine

The two poles alive in one man, and the balance between them.

Week Eight

Sexuality and Presence

Intimacy as honesty rather than performance.

Week Nine

Sovereignty

Alignment with the truth of who you are and who you are meant to be.

Week Ten

Purpose and the Return

Your potential and your path towards freedom.

Men's inner work and brotherhood
How It Works
The Sessions

Ten weekly sessions, two hours each, live on Zoom with video on. Nothing is recorded, so every man shows up, and what is spoken in the circle stays in the circle.

The Practice

A sitting practice that grows week by week, somatic and contemplative work, and some reading drawn from key thinkers. Light enough to hold alongside a working life, steady enough that something shifts.

The Brotherhood

A private group where the men hold each other through the week, for accountability and witnessing. Materials arrive by email each week.

One to One

Private work with me is available alongside the circle, at an additional rate, for the man who wants to go deeper, to meet with himself and to explore more.

Who This Is For

Men who feel the call and are ready to change.

Often you have achieved much and sense that something essential is still waiting. You are willing to be seen, to be met, and to do the work rather than read about it.

This is depth work, and it is also a beginning. The circle is a genuine first taste of a longer path, a doorway rather than a promise of arrival. I will not tell you ten weeks will complete you. I will tell you they can change how you stand in your own life, more aware of yourself and where your work lies.

Ceremony and rite of passage
Ricardo Assis Rosa

I have spent most of my life following one insistent call, to understand the human experience at its depths, where mind, body, emotion, spirit, and ancestry meet.

I have practised for over 20 years, apprenticed with masters from different parts of the world, received initiations and rites of passages, studied psychotherapy, compassionate inquiry, yoga, meditation and so much more.

I work as neither guru nor fixer. I hold a clear, grounded presence so you can hear the intelligence of your own system, and I walk beside you as the calling is about your becoming.

The Founding Circle

Although I have been working with men and men groups for almost a decade, this is the first cohort in this style and delivery, and you will help shape it with me. For that reason it runs at a founding price, held for the men who arrive first. Future circles will run at £1,200.

£600
Founding Circle  ·  Ten Weeks

Six to eight men  ·  Beginning October

If you have read this far,
something in you already knows.

The circle begins in October

Request a conversation

The first step is a conversation, because the fit matters to both of us.

ricardoassisrosa@gmail.com
+44 7828 500285  ·  WhatsApp

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* Monday evenings 18h30–20h30 (GMT), starting 5th October

Sovereign Alignment

Oxford, United Kingdom