You were meant to lead.
A matriarch's initiation, rooted in the body.
You can sense everything in the room, but you've been leading from your head and holding back what you really know. Inside The Sunia Shift Pod, a small circle of women, you'll move fear through your body instead of thinking it away, make peace with money and power, and come back ready to lead the thing you've been waiting to start.
Bodhisattva-devoted. No one crosses alone.
I love simple. I don’t love watching a woman call herself simple because she’s learned to need nothing.I love a good framework. Give me the research, the strategy, the spreadsheet. I’m a nerd for how things work. But knowing the name of a cognitive bias doesn’t tell you what to do with the knot in your stomach before you hit send.
This is a leadership the world hasn’t seen yet. A leadership we get to birth together.
Women coming together to bring real things to life.
Art.
Businesses.
Offerings.
Places to gather.
Resources.
The idea that keeps finding you while you’re folding the laundry.
This is the work of The Sunia
Shift Pod.
Not just another place to talk about our wounds. Not another plan that leaves the woman out of it. We go inward. And we make something with what we find. We play in silence. We learn in stillness.
This is Matriarchal Leadership. Stop avoiding life and learn to speak the language of your heart.
My name is Bailee Buckendorf. I am a writer, teacher of contemplation, creative psyche coach, and founder of Rebuilding Roots & The Sunia Shift.
I help people stop avoiding discomfort and learn to embody the language of their heart. I invite people into the places within themselves that cannot be reached by the intellect alone.
My work plays in the art of silence and grace. A radical act of devotion to listening differently and getting out of our own way.
As a facilitator, I create spaces of ripeness, where what you’ve been calling into your life has a place to land.
Through silence, archetypal and constellation work, breath, and meditation, we cultivate the inner terrain to recognize and receive it. Not by force, but through being.
Once a month, we gather live for a Sunia Shift: a contemplative virtual gathering weaving meditation, intention, and writing alchemy. We play with sound, silence & breath making room to listen inward.
Sacred stillness. Sacred silence. Energetic nuance.
Upcoming Sunia Shifts:
Thursday, October 15 · 10:00 AM PT
Skeleton Woman & Rebirth
Thursday, November 19 · 10:00 AM PT
Grief & Gratitude
Thursday, December 17 · 10:00 AM PT
Tending to Wintering
Let your voice take up its rightful space to create your life. In The Sunia Shift Pod, we create life and beauty with what much of society calls a mess. Women are invited back into relationship with the parts of themselves that were asked to go quiet.
instinct. creativity. deep inner knowing.
Matriarch-rooted means that I don’t care if your house is messy, nor if you’ve just gotten over a depressive episode, nor if you are working hard and trying. I still don’t think you’re broken or need fixed.
I’ve been sitting with the question: how would the world change if mothers were fully resourced? I don’t mean resourced only at the level of having their basic needs met, I mean resourced to exist in their own dynamic, cyclical way. Spontaneity and unpredictability, with a side of it just worked for her because she knew.
I like to imagine an earth where it is against the law (extra, I know, lol) to measure a mother’s worthiness of receiving support because of what she has lost in order to get back to basic survival. Instead, it would be considered outrageous not to respect what it means to mother. To not protect and bow to what it means to mother.
The non-negotiable for me in this vision is that a mother will not and shall not ever in the land of ever be measured, analyzed or proven on some data point for her majestic, life-giving abilities.
Instinct Retrieval
Because the body is remembering how to trust itself again.
Grief Alchemy
Because the ache you carry is ripening into wisdom and purpose.
Creative Psyche Opening
Because something inside is ready to create again, even if the way isn’t clear yet.
Intimacy + Eros Healing
Because closeness can feel like home, not a place you disappear.
Subtle-Body Listening
Because clarity lives deeper than the mind and longs to be heard.
Embodied Belonging
Because this life wants you to rest inside your own skin, not perform for connection.
When in doubt, I call upon silence and stillness for deep listening. This is where the idea of The Sunia Shift came from. Sunia is a state of ripeness, no-thingness…absolute presence.
You don’t have to be a biological mother or a mother in any sense that our modern-day society has taught us defines one. Mother within this Sunia Shift Pod is an archetypal exploration for the deepest devotion to life as it is. Right now. YOUR lived experience fully held and resourced.
There are no promises of quantum jumping or leaping. That might happen. But I’m not interested in getting you to pleasurably attune to your womb, or anything of the like.
I’m interested in honoring humanity with respect to what cannot be seen. In singing to the hearts of the creators, life-givers, way-knowers (not showers), so they may feel safe enough to return to their soul-song expression. For no reason other than it is their right and gift to own.
To be a rebel and believe we can give and provide without the transactional measuring of who did what. It’s having the courage to do things in a way that have not been done before.
Contemplation and stillness have unlocked worlds upon worlds for my life. This is simply my heart and art, creating for a more love-filled world.
Make this a sense experience.
Feel the sound dance through you. Listen beyond words.
FAQs
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No. The Sunia Shift Pod is rooted in the lived resonance of motherhood, but you do not have to be a biological mother or mother at all.
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It names a way of gathering that values relationship, reciprocity, care, listening, creativity, and the wisdom carried through bodies, stories, grief, seasons, and the earth. Matriarch-rooted means we look at relating to live and relate to community beyond what exists now.
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A radical act of devotional nuanced listening through words.
You do not need to be a writer or share anything you create. The point is not polished writing, it’s to give you access to contemplative thinking. -
A matriarchal pod is not leaderless; it is relationally led.
The Sunia Shift is a living pod, not a performative pilgrimage of who is most healed, spiritual, articulate, productive, or worthy of being heard.
We are here to be human together and to support our humanness. A space to be and explore our inner worlds together.
You were meant to lead.
A matriarch's initiation, rooted in the body.
You can sense everything in the room, but you've been leading from your head and holding back what you really know. Inside The Sunia Shift Pod, a small circle of women, you'll move fear through your body instead of thinking it away, make peace with money and power, and come back ready to lead the thing you've been waiting to start.
Bodhisattva-devoted. No one crosses alone.
monthly · live online · $44/month
“When loss happens, we get initiated into a power we don't quite know how to hold...YET. The loss or unexpected transition strips away the layers of muck keeping us stuck, bringing us back to a state of pure presence, away from the constant loop of egoic expectations. That is the moment we need unconditional support.”
Bailee Buckendorf, Founder
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