A group container for women

From Performance
to Presence

Reclaiming feminine power together

8 weeks · online Starting June 15, 2026 Mondays · 90-minute sessions
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Who this is for

Meditate. Journal. Move. Go to therapy. Achieve career goals. Get external recognition.

You have done all of it. Yet your internal state has not shifted the way you wish it did.

You keep catching yourself dismissing your intuition, overriding your body, and calling your ambition empowerment when it might be compensation.

You are afraid that dropping into your feminine energy means losing your drive, your edge, everything you've built. You don't know how to be powerful any other way.

You have understood the pattern intellectually — the conditioning, the system, the cost. And understanding it has not been enough to leave it.

You want to know how to do things the feminine way — not as a concept, but in the actual texture of your work, your body, your daily life. And you want to figure it out together, not alone.

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The place from which we take action is far more decisive than the action we take.

— from Healing is the new hustling

What this is

A space where the female body becomes the authority.

You already carry your own power. It was buried under years of performing for systems that could not hold it. This is the space where we unbury it — together, in a field that only becomes possible when women gather without the need to perform for each other.

The group field is the primary force here. Releasing what no longer serves happens in the presence of other bodies that are safe. In the warmth of being seen without having to earn it.

Each Monday, 90 minutes. We open with a somatic practice to arrive in the body. We check in. We move through that week's territory. We close with what wants to land.

Between sessions, a private group channel holds us — for support when overwhelm arises or something needs to be shared.

Each woman has one private 60-minute session with Dora — individual attention at the moment when something has cracked open.

Weekly themes

  • 01 Naming what we have been living — the diagnosis
  • 02 The body as authority — learning to listen
  • 03 The cycle as intelligence — working with rather than against
  • 04 Shadow and the performing self — what we buried
  • 05 Grief as portal — feeling what we have been managing
  • 06 Intuition as knowledge — trusting the pre-verbal
  • 07 Doing business the female way — practical exploration
  • 08 Integration and emergence — who are you becoming

What if softening means losing my edge?

Presence is not the opposite of ambition. It is the source of sustainable achievements. The kind that doesn't cost you your health, your relationships, or your sense of self along the way.

What you lose when you drop into your feminine power is not your drive. It is the exhaustion of misalignment — the chronic effort to become someone the system will take seriously.

What remains when that falls away is actually yours. Your true self rooted in alignment rather than compensation.

The women who need this most are often the ones too busy to stop. This container is precisely for them.

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"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

— Audre Lorde, 1984

The container

8
Women
Intentionally small. Every woman in the room matters to the field.
8
Weeks
Long enough for something real to shift. Short enough to stay fully present.
90
Minutes per session
Weekly live sessions online, plus a private group space alive between calls.

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Dora

Your guide

Dora Petrova

In 2018, I launched the first podcast in Europe featuring early-stage female founders — FemGems podcast. It grew into FemGems Club, an online feminist startup accelerator and membership community.

I believed I was fighting for female power. I didn't realize I was quietly abandoning my own.

When all collapsed, I didn't just lose my company and my founder identity. I lost my well-being — and spent four years finding my way back to myself. The most humbling passage of my life.

What I discovered changed everything: living out of alignment with your own nature is not a spiritual problem. It is a physiological one. The chronic stress response, the suppressed impulses, the overridden intuition — these register in the body as inflammation, exhaustion, anxiety, depression, and chronic illness. I experienced this. It is why I am here now.

I am currently training in polyvagal therapy and transformational coaching while rethinking how we can do business the female way.

I know this path from the inside. Not from a methodology. From having lived it.

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Testimonials

"I met Dora at a time when I was struggling to find meaning, purpose, and excitement. Through her targeted questions, insightful perspectives, and simple yet powerful exercises, she helped me reconnect with my inner voice and gain clarity on who I wanted to become and the path I wanted to pursue. Thanks to her guidance, I found the courage to step away from a path that didn't align with me and start creating my own rules. Gradually, excitement began to outweigh fear, and I felt more grounded, aligned, and connected to myself."

— Rafiaa, Madrid

"I am so happy that I found Dora as my mentor. She has given me a completely new way of looking at how I develop and lead my business. From the beginning, she asked all the right questions and helped hold a mirror in front of me so I could clearly see where I currently am and what I truly need. One of the most important things I'm learning is how to work as a woman in business — embracing my feminine way of leading, listening to my body, and allowing my business to grow from that place. With Dora, everything is aligning naturally. The process feels calm and supportive, without pressure, rushing, or judgment. It's simply genuine guidance and real support, and I absolutely love the process."

— Irena, London

"Dora's shadow work–oriented approach dives deep into the soul, helping uncover and transform old patterns—especially those rooted in a neglected inner child. In some of the most important and vulnerable moments of my life, she helped me come back to myself and reconnect with a deep sense of inner strength."

— Violeta, Berlin

The investment

€440

One-time founding cohort price

  • 8 live group sessions of 90 minutes each
  • Private group space between sessions
  • A held container of up to 8 women max
  • One private 60-minute session with Dora
  • Practices and materials to deepen the work
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Cohort begins June 15, 2026

We were never meant to arrive at wholeness by becoming less of what we are.

If you recognized yourself in these words — you already know whether this is for you. Trust that knowing. It is the same knowing this entire program is built around.

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