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Daughters of the King
a community for women + mamas
Welcome
Daughters of the King is a community for mamas and those who plan to be someday that was brought forth through much intimate time spent with God.
This community is a space for you to develop authentic and honest relationships with yourself, God, and other women.
Through the various offerings, you will find support in developing deep and loving relationships, understanding the importance of your role as a mother, and support in strengthening your relationship to God.
Motherhood is the most challenging and the most beautiful experience life has to offer us as women. Sadly, most mamas don’t have near the amount of support they truly need for their own well-being.
We give so much to our children, our jobs, our families, yet we need other mamas to rest on, cry with, and to celebrate the big and little wins with. We can also find ourselves putting undue pressure on our partners to be it all for us.
Sisterhood is why this community exists. We cannot go it alone and God never intended that for us!
In Daughters of the King we explore themes of natural and organic living, responsive and compassionate parenting, pregnancy, birth, family, somatic movement, generational healing, Godly wisdom, vulnerable and authentic relating, and so much more.
The community offers many avenues for support, including weekly movement classes, online mama's circles, monthly events, parenting support, devotional bodywork, and quality childcare for local families. There is also a fully available prayer request page for you to safely reach out and ask for prayer for anything going on in your life.
My prayer is that every woman who is a part of this community finds love, support, care, and freedom in the arms of her sisters and, more importantly, in the arms of God.
Welcome to the Daughters of the King,
Shawna Michelle
Offerings
The Mama's Sanctuary (online)
8 weeks
Jan 31st, 2023 - March 21st, 2023
Live Zoom calls held on Tuesdays at 4pm PST
Space is limited!
Welcome mama,
The Sanctuary is a virtual community dedicated to providing mothers a safe and intimate space to share, learn, and grow together in all the rawness that motherhood provides.
Motherhood can be such an isolating experience and The Sanctuary exists to offer mamas connection through shared experience.
Through authentic relating and mutual witnessing, each mama is tenderly held in the arms of her sisters.
We meet weekly on Zoom for 90-min to share vulnerably the challenges and joys of motherhood. You’re invited to come as exactly as you are, invite your children, and grow in fellowship.
Monthly Mama's Meetup (free + in-person)
Every 4th Saturday of the month
11am - 12:30pm
at Hart Park in Orange
Mamas!
This is our monthly time to bring our babes and our friends to meet in-person, chat, make new friends, and share food together.
This meet-up is completely free and open for any mama to join!
This community event is a potluck, so please, bring a dish or snack to share if you can. If you can't, don't worry! We are more than happy to simply share time and space with you.
We so look forward to meeting you!
The Secret Place:
a somatic movement journey through prayer
Every Sunday at 4pm
Orange, CA
Space is very limited!
so RSVP is required
This is a 75-min guided movement journey created to bring you into the presence of God.
As Christians, our entire lives rely on this precious and highly personal relationship, yet many of us are deeply challenged by the myriad distractions that make up our modern world.
This can lead to a lack of personal relationship with God and, ultimately, an inability to hear God speaking His will into our lives.
The Secret Place is a safe space for you to show up exactly as you are, mess and all, just as God intended to meet you.
We will use movement, breath, and sound to access deep inner truth and commune with God.
*classes are open to all women*
Nourishment Nights
Every 2nd Friday of the month
6:30 - 8:30 pm
at a private residence in Orange
Ladies,
These are your nights to come home to your body and experience the deep healing found in community.
Each month we explore a new theme together through guided somatic movement, prayer, group exercises and group sharing.
We explore themes, such as, authentic relating, cultivating joy, nourishment of the body/soul/spirit, friendship, honest living, finding our strength in the Lord, healing past hurts, faith, and SO much more.
These events are guided, yet collaborative in nature. As we sit in circle, each woman is invited to participate and contribute to the experience, providing a rich environment for growing in wisdom + understanding.
*these events are open to all women*
Devotional Bodywork
Healthy Living
A time for you to lie down, relax, and receive loving touch with the utmost care for your body, soul, and spirit.
Prayerful and intuitive, this service is something the Lord placed in my hands at an early age.
Over the years, it has developed into an experience as unique to the individual receiving.
During your session you may experience deep, emotional release and, if you are open to receiving, I may share prayer and/or a prophetic word if it comes.
Every session is a dance of prayer around your body, an active following of where and how the Holy Spirit is guiding me to support your body physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Devotional Bodywork is a deeply healing and nourishing space where you are welcomed into the love of God pouring through my hands.
Leave feeling a renewed sense of how cherished and valued you truly are.
Parenting Support
All You Need
For the parents that are struggling to understand their child/ren:
why do they do what they do? why are they crying, biting, having so many tantrums? why does it feel like a battle everyday? how do we speak each others' languages? why don't they listen to me? I feel frustrated, lost, confused, stuck in patterns that I know aren't healthy. I just need help. I don't even know where to start.
I'm here to support you in the unraveling of unconscious patterns that are perpetuating disconnection, frustration, hurt, and overwhelm for you and your child/ren.
An outside set of eyes can see the areas that go unnoticed and lovingly reflect back more effective approaches to relating with your child/ren that will make your lives significantly more joy-filled.
We will implement simple shifts in communication, touch, space-holding, schedule, and/or activities that will completely transform your lives and relationships.
Motherhood is challenging as it is, let's work through the unnecessary load you're carrying and find you greater fulfillment and joy as you grow alongside your child/ren.
Childcare
Healthy Living
I provide quality childcare out of my home in Old Town Orange!
I have been caring for young children professionally for the last 12 years as a preschool teacher, EA for children with special needs, in-home nanny, and more.
Throughout my career and education, I've gained a vast understanding of children's needs and am sincerely devoted to assisting families in helping their little ones develop socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively to their best.
I enjoy a very comfortable relationship with the families in my care and love to take the little ones on outdoor nature excursions to explore through play and relationship to the natural world. I find this approach to be the most engaging and well-rounded environment for early learning.
I received my Associate's in Early Childhood Education and my Bachelor's in Family & Human Development.
If you are in need of a date night sitter, occasional nanny, or last minute care, please, reach out!
I'm happy to support your family,
Shawna
"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”
Dr. John Trainer
Hi!
I’m Shawna, founder of Daughters of the King, and it’s my absolute joy to welcome you here.
This all started from a deep calling to support women and mamas in healing our relations to ourselves and one another. God has gifted me the the ability to create spaces of deep connection, safe vulnerability, and spiritual growth.
Sisterhood has always been a core foundation of the work that I do.
As I entered my own mamahood journey as a single parent, a whole new area of needed support was made abundantly clear to me.
I felt God strongly calling me to not only support women through the avenues of somatic movement, sisterhood, and authentic relating, but mamas, too.
I’ve experienced the struggles of comparison, doubt, fear of rejection, disconnection, isolation, and a pronounced lack of communal support.
At some point in our lives, each of us has been deeply affected by the damaging social constructs of modern society.
Motherhood has been placed at the back end of priorities and has left so many of us without the necessary support we need to navigate our very important roles in our children's lives.
My mission is to provide spaces of sanctuary for women and mamas to rewrite the script for their lives and the future generations to come.
There is so much healing that happens when women come together in honest communion with God, ourselves, and one another.
It is my hope that this space provides you care, hope, and a sense of community.
Shawna Michelle
Contact Me
For any prayer requests, questions about events and classes, or to schedule a 1:1, please, submit below!
Find me on Instagram:
@Shawna.Michellee
Venmo:
@ShawnaMichelle
