“Don’t get lost in your thoughts. Fall into the soul, and the soul will take you to the water.” -Rumi
Our Spring Group is FULL.
Please register your interest here to be contacted when our next group opens. Starting late summer of 2026.
The Deep Well is an online contemplative community for those longing for depth, nourishment, and embodied presence in the midst of everyday life.
We meet bi-monthly for 8 sessions on Zoom for 90 minutes in a small, closed container of 8–12 participants.
Optional meeting times are offered and can be selected during pre-registration.
This is a space to slow down…
to listen inwardly…
to be witnessed without performing…
and to receive what the soul has been holding, while strengthening your capacity to meet yourself with steadiness and care.
If you feel drawn to depth, mystery, embodiment, or communal presence, you are welcome here.
A Place of Living Water
Across ancient cultures, wells were not only sources of water,
they were thresholds, meeting places, sites of encounter and healing.
Wells appeared where nourishment was hidden beneath the surface, where strangers became kin, and where the unseen world brushed close to the human one.
In desert lands they were lifelines, offering nourishment where none was visible.
In myth, they were womb-like vessels, places of receptivity and wisdom, where offerings were lowered
into the depths.
To draw from a well was to touch something hidden yet essential, to be replenished by what flows
beneath the surface of life.
The Deep Well is such a place for us.
A gathering to pause and listen.
To drink from what is already flowing within.
To be met, witnessed, and replenished, together.
To practice presence in community and deepen our capacity for grounded, authentic living.
Here, grief and gratitude rise side by side.
Here, what resists is welcomed with tenderness.
Here, nothing is forced, and nothing is wrong for arriving.
To enter the Well is to practice receptivity and attunement:
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listening for what is alive,
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honoring what is ready to be seen,
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respecting what still waits for its season,
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and remembering that no one drinks alone.
- Over time, this practice strengthens our capacity for steadiness, honesty, and relational depth in everyday life.
As tender of the Well, my role is to anchor our gatherings in presence and steadiness, creating a vessel where each soul can meet what is alive with reverence.
I listen for what is felt beneath the words and gently guide compassionate inquiry into what is arising.
“The mother of the world is not gone. She waits for us in the depths, and she is not silent.” -Safi al-Din (Sufi mystic)
Who This Community Is For
The Deep Well is for those who feel drawn to any of the following:
Seekers of Depth & Presence
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Long for a place to slow down and listen to what is alive in the present moment
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Feel drawn to contemplative, poetic, or embodied ways of knowing
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Want to cultivate receptivity, presence, and attunement as lived capacities, not just ideas
Those Carrying Grief, Longing, or Change
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Moving through heartbreak, transition, or thresholds
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Want to be held in community without pressure to “fix” anything
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Desire a place to rest, integrate, and strengthen their grounded presence in daily life
Lovers of Mystery & Soulful Lineage
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Value wisdom traditions—Indigenous, mystical Christianity, Sufi, Divine Feminine, and perennial streams
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Feel nourished by story, symbol, and the sacred ordinary
Those who like Embodied Mindful Practice
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Want practices that reconnect body, breath, earth, and soul
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Value somatic inquiry, present-moment awareness, and felt-sense listening
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Are curious about the barriers that make presence difficult
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Want to build their capacity for embodied awareness and relational presence
Those Seeking Belonging & Shared Humanity
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Want to be part of a community that welcomes the full range of experience:
joy, sorrow, rage, wonder, uncertainty -
Long for a place where vulnerability is honored and depth is welcome
- Desire a steady communal container in which to practice authentic presence
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Those who often hold space for others and long for a place where they, too, can be met
No prior spiritual or contemplative experience is required, only a genuine curiosity & willingness to slow down and be met as you are.
The Container
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Meetings: Bi-monthly (2x/month), 90 minutes each
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Format: Zoom
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Cohort Size: 8-12 participants
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Length: (8 sessions)
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Start: See optional times in pre registration link.
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Continuation: Option to join the next 8 session cycle after a 6-8 week pause.
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Closed container for deeper safety, attunement, and trust
We are committed to creating a respectful, inclusive space across identities and lived experiences (LGBTQ+, BIPOC).
We ask all who join to come with this orientation and intention in your heart and a willingness to contribute to a culture of care.
What You Can Expect
Embodied Listening
Slowing down, grounding, sensing what is alive within and strengthening your capacity to stay present with it.
Mini Teachings
Soulful, contemplative teachings rooted in wisdom traditions and embodied presence that support lived integration.
Guided Practices
Somatic grounding, inquiry, breathwork, imaginal practices.
Communal Witnessing
A field of presence where your experience is honored without fixing.
Integration & Reverence
Space for what is ready to be seen, and respect for what is not.
Some gatherings include:
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written reflections
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small-group (dyad/triad) inquiry
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large-group sharing
This is not about performing or striving.
It is about receiving, witnessing, and remembering what is holy in the ordinary while cultivating the capacity to live from that remembrance.
Financial Exchange
We offer an honor-based sliding scale.
Please choose the rate that reflects your financial reality with honesty and care.
Reduced Rate – $250
For those with limited means or living paycheck to paycheck.
Standard Rate – $350
The sustaining rate for those who can reliably meet their needs.
Supporter Rate – $450
For those with financial abundance who can support others’ access.
Payment can be made in one or two installments.
If cost is a barrier, please email to request a plan.
Take the Next Step
Click HERE for pre-registration link!
“The Sacred Feminine is not an idea but an experience of being woven into the fabric of reality itself. It is intimacy with what is.” -Maya Luna
About the Facilitator:
Summer Estes is a licensed psychotherapist, group facilitator, and founder of Embodied Intelligence, a body of work devoted to tending the thresholds of the human experience—grief, transformation, and opening to presence. With nearly 20 years of guiding groups, retreats, and healing spaces, she creates transformative containers where people can bring what they carry and be met with presence, reverence, and warmth.
A lifelong student of consciousness and the soul’s unfolding, Summer integrates perennial wisdom teachings with somatic inquiry, breathwork, and contemplative practice. Her work is rooted in the recognition that the body and the earth hold an innate intelligence, an ever present field of support waiting to be remembered.
In addition to her private psychotherapy practice she is a grief ritual retreat leader, a breath facilitator, and Enneagram teacher. She continues her own inner work through the Diamond Approach of A.H. Almaas, where the practice of inquiry remains a central spiritual path. She was a student with the Servant Leadership Wisdom School (now Kinward) and serves as a facilitator with Kinward since 2016. She is deeply influenced by the grief-tending vision of Francis Weller, whose teachings on the “Five Gates of Grief” inspire her seasonal grief rituals and retreats with co-facilitator Samantha DiRosa with Rituals for Grief.
Summer lives in North Carolina with her husband Kevin, their teenagers, Abby, Levi, and August, and their beloved two dogs (Rosie and Bear) and two cats (Potter and Doug). Whether guiding a grief ritual, facilitating embodied inquiry, or simply walking beneath the trees, she remains devoted to the mystery of love made visible through presence.
To learn more about Summer click here
Click HERE to fill out this Pre-Registration form to take the next step!
1.) Please contact us with any questions.
2.) Please read through our group agreements to make sure you are on board to co-create our brave and authentic container.