The Gaia & The Eagle: Embodied Power and Visionary Leadership for Women
Each time I return to Delphi, I feel a deep remembering, an awakening of something ancient, intuitive, and wise.
During our most recent Delphi Awakening retreat, two powerful symbols emerged that offer a transformative lens for leadership: Gaia and the Eagle. These symbols speak to the unique inner and outer capacities women can access when they lead from both embodied presence and elevated perspective.
Gaia represents grounded, instinctual wisdom, the emotional depth, intuition, and strength of the feminine body.
The Eagle represents strategic vision, the clarity to rise above and lead with expanded awareness.
Together, they form a balanced, empowered model for leadership that is especially relevant for women navigating complexity, responsibility, and change.
Why This Matters for Female Leaders
Traditional leadership often emphasizes such traits of the Eagle as detachment, decisiveness, strategy. These are powerful skills, but incomplete on their own. Many women already lead with Gaia’s depth: intuition, containment, empathy. But they are rarely invited to integrate both.
Inside the ancient Corycean Cave of Delphi, we guided women into silence and deep stillness. In that space, we reflected on the body as a sacred source of leadership, especially the uterus as a symbol of inner containment, nourishment, and creation. Power is not always loud. It can be cyclical, embodied, and deeply rooted.
This is not about being less emotional.
It’s about being more aware, more integrated, more aligned.
When women lead with both emotional intelligence and visionary clarity, their leadership becomes not only more effective, but also more human.
Upcoming Retreat: October 23–27, 2025
I’m thrilled to be partnering with Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, a global authority in leadership, innovation, and systemic change. Together, we are co-creating an immersive retreat for women in leadership, taking place in Athens and Delphi.
This retreat is for women who are ready to:
Reconnect with their body’s wisdom
Cultivate emotional resilience
Expand their leadership perspective
Lead from a place of alignment, not exhaustion
Through movement, myth, silence, reflection, and nature, we will explore how to embody the grounded power of Gaia and the clarity of the Eagle.
Join Us
Dates: October 23–27, 2025
Location: Athens & Delphi, Greece
Facilitators: Dr Tina Grigoriou and Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
For more information or to express interest, please email us at: info@thetaleadershipcollective.com
We would be honoured to journey with you.
With warmth and clarity,
Dr Tina Grigoriou
Theta Leadership Collective