A COLLECTIVE EXHALE FOR WOMEN WHO’VE BEEN HOLDING THEIR BREATH

~ You're invited to take the first breath of a quiet movement ~

The Permission Slip

The Permission Slip — May: Ending Generational Curses

An evening of storytelling, reflection & crafting wooden keepsake boxes—by your own hands.

Dates: Saturday, May 9, 2026

Time: 6:00P to 8:00P

Location: Emerald City Plant Shop · 702 Washington Street, Norwood, MA (parking is free and plentiful)

Investment: This evening is a gift. A $25 reservation holds your seat and covers the cost of the space that holds us.If this evening is not the right night for you, please leave the seat for a woman who can say yes.

Experience limited to 15 women.

Featured Event

  • Your $125 ticket includes everything you need to arrive and simply be present:

    • Guided breathwork and grounding to open the container

    • Storytelling and truth-telling rooted in the theme of RECLAIM

    • Intuitive reflection — you'll identify what you've been carrying before we name what it's time to release

    • Painting your own clay pot as an act of creative reclamation — this is not a craft, it's a declaration

    • Planting marigold seeds to carry home — a living reminder that what you tend to grows

    • A BTB-branded Permission Slip card — signed, dated, and carried home as a covenant with yourself: "I give myself permission to ___."

    • Closing ritual where every woman names what she's excavating, emerging from, or exhaling — and plants her intention alongside her seeds

    • Connection with up to 20 women who understand exactly what it means to be the one who holds everything together

  • Step 1: Reserve your space.Limited seats - 20 women per event.

    Step 2: Show up as you are. No preparation needed. No homework. No performance. Come in whatever you're carrying and let the room meet you there.

    Step 3: Leave with something real. A hand painted clay pot with marigold seeds charged with your intention. A signed Permission Slip — your written commitment to yourself. And the feeling of being held by women who didn't ask you to explain your exhaustion.

SATURDAY, May 9TH

About The Bloomkeeper

Virginia LaChon has lived many lives in one lifetime. She has been a single teen mother determined to rewrite her story. An Army veteran shaped by discipline. A wife trying to make love last. A church girl taught that service meant sacrifice. The strong one who held it all — until she chose to set some of it down.

Now, as founder of Beneath the Bloom, she curates intimate, seasonal gatherings for women ready to do the same.

The Permission Slip is a three-part evening series — a gentle unfolding from grounding to planting to blooming. Not a lecture. Not therapy. Not networking. But a room where your nervous system can finally rest. Where your inner child is invited to create. Where you are held without having to perform strength.

Virginia doesn't command the space. She tends it. Because sometimes the first breath of a quiet movement is taken slowly — over time — in community.

Come alone if you need solitude. Or bring a sister, a friend, a mother — someone who's been holding her breath too.