MOTHER CIRCLE
a place to restore your capacities
an 8 session online journey
through the hidden territories of motherhood
with Lisa Rombach-Duarte
from October 5 to December 7, 2026
Live classes Mon at 6pm Vienna Time
Enrollment open until October 12
based on the curriculum
by Kimberly Ann Johnson
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"Mothering is one of the wildest journeys.
These past few years have brought most of us even more reckonings, more double binds, and more impossible choices.
We need time and space to metabolize everything we’ve been through.
Mother Circle is an 8-session curriculum created by Kimberly Ann Johnson, for mothers who want to explore the invisible arc of their motherhood journey, orienting themselves to find greater clarity and access their inner wisdom.
Who is Mother Circle for?
MotherCircle is for mothers at all stages of their journey—whether you're navigating early motherhood, raising older children, or reflecting on your role as a mother. It’s designed for those seeking connection, support, and guidance as they explore the deep changes that motherhood brings. This circle is also open to future mothers or women supporting mothers, offering a nurturing space to reflect, share, and grow. If you desire more clarity, balance, and wisdom in your journey, MotherCircle is for you:
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Mothers of all ages and backgrounds, including adoptive mothers and mothers of children who are not on earth.
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Women who want to be mothers and come together cultivating maternal wisdom
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Professionals who care for mothers: childbirth educators, doulas, gynecologists, midwives, and therapists
It takes a village to raise a child,
and it takes a village to raise a mother.
Let's create that village.
TIME TO GATHER...
We'll meet in 8 circles to explore the hidden arc of motherhood
October 5, 2026 - MotherDive
Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.
October 12, 2026 - MotherCycle
Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
October 19, 2026 - MotherBody
Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.
November 9, 2026 - MotherJaguar
The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.
November 16, 2026 - MotherBirth
Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys
November 23, 2026 - MotherLover
There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.
November 30, 2026 - MotherWorth
Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.
December 7, 2026 - MotherCode
We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. We’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.
BONUS SESSIONS
3 extra live sessions with me
Much of what supports children also asks something of the adults who hold them. For years I have worked alongside Alé Duarte in KidSoma, his somatic education for people who work with children, and I co-hosted his Five Phases training from its very first cohort. In this round's bonus sessions I bring that work home: not to the professionals who work with children, but to the mothers who live with them.
Each session is 90 minutes, live on Zoom, and recorded.
Wednesday 21 October · 18:00–19:30 Vienna
Mothering with the Five Phases
Based on the KidSoma Method by Alé Duarte
Every game, every transition, every conflict moves through a rhythm: deep rest, readiness, action, interaction, integration. In KidSoma, Alé describes these as the five phases of self-regulation — and shows how much depends on the phases we tend to skip.
As mothers we often live in action. Readiness gets rushed, and there is rarely room left for integration — for our children or for ourselves.
In this session we look at your days through the five phases:
- where mornings, transitions and bedtimes get stuck
- what happens when a child — or you — is pushed into action before being ready
- how rest and completion can find their way back into family life
- which phase you skip most easily, and what changes when you don't
Thursday 5 November · 18:00–19:30 Vienna
The Flower and the Bees – Keeping Your Center in Mothering
Based on the KidSoma Method by Alé Duarte
So often we run after our children — after every need, every mood, every new direction — and exhaust ourselves in the process.
The flower doesn't chase the bees. It stays rooted, and the bees fly out and find their way back to it, again and again. In this session we explore what it means for a mother to be that centre: rooted enough that her children can orient by her, fly out, explore, and return.
- noticing when you run after your children, and what it costs you
- what “rooted” feels like in your own body, on an ordinary day
- how children find orientation through a mother who stays with herself
- letting your children fly out, and trusting that they come back
Wednesday 30 December · 18:00–19:30 Vienna
Integration Session with surprise guests
Based on the KidSoma Method by Alé Duarte
A few weeks after our last circle, in the quiet days between the years, we meet once more. In KidSoma, integration is the phase after action and interaction — when what has happened can settle, and we find our way back to calm. This session is given to exactly that: noticing what the circle has left in you, and what you want to carry into the new year.
You will see the women you have come to know again — and meet a few guests I am inviting into the circle. Who they are stays a surprise until the day.
"Mothering well requires community, and the mirroring and witnessing that comes with it.
Without it, we are constantly depleted, taking from our own reserves to feed everyone else."
Kimberly Ann Johnson
"Lisa’s playful heart interweaves the challenging places of being with the radiant beauty of becoming. "
Miriam K.
"Whenever I am in Lisa's spaces I feel my body doing a big exhale, like I can really be myself and be still."
Lucy R.
"Lisa has a unique ability to tap into the womb of the inner world - that place within ourselves that is very secure."
Ale D.
"I love your range, you can be sweet, slow and soft all the way to confronting, fierce and fiery."
Renee R.
About Lisa
Lisa Rombach-Duarte is a passionate advocate for maternal sovereignty and the reclamation of inner power. As a facilitator, teacher and guide, she creates spaces for mothers to explore their authentic needs, redefine their boundaries, and honor their deepest values.
She is a dedicated leader in the field of relational embodiment, with over 15 years of experience as a somatic educator and a lifelong love story with music as a vocal artist.
Her work supports women across generations by inviting them to follow their bodie's wisdom into deeper alignment with their soul’s desires. Lisa’s warmth and generosity open spaces for healing and growth.
She is the mother of two earth children and a star child and intimately understands the depths of loss and the power of resilience.
As the host of the Mother Circle series, Lisa teaches the 8 powerful core sessions, bringing her warmth, plafulness, fierceness and compassion to every encounter. She is passionate about uplifting women, therapists, mothers, and visionaries, helping them deepen their capacity for nurturing relationships and inspiring impact in their communities.
Lisa’s approach combines attuned presence with a profound understanding of different body systems, nervous system states and collective healing. She works closely with her clients to help them align their embodied wisdom, authentic voice and creative force into a colorful tapestry of enriching experiences.
With extensive training in the Feldenkrais Method, Somatic Experiencing, structural bodywork, developmental coaching and attachment healing, Lisa offers transformative guidance that bridges inner and outer worlds, inviting possibilities to become lived realities.
She loves to craft powerful, intimate dialogues that change both the narrative of life and the felt experience of every moment.
For the beautiful work of her husband, Alé Duarte, Lisa hosts training programs for therapists, educators, and social entrepreneurs. They deliver courses that build resilience and connection, with a focus on somatic process facilitation.
It was during this journey that Lisa connected with Kimberly Ann Johnson, who collaborated with Alé on a course on Jaguar Parenting.
Lisa’s pioneering work in embodied relational presence continues to inspire. Whether in Vienna or online, she provides transformative spaces for women to grow in love, confidence, and connection.