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During this episode, it was a real joy to dive into honouring the cycles of our bodies, mother earth and the phases of life we journey through. I chat with Earth Medicine Woman, Women's Health Advocate & Cyclical Guide Amanda Trieger about how these cycles can help us weave self care into daily rituals by being prepared and understanding what we need at different phases of our lives, our menstrual cycle and during each season. It was a bit of an epiphany for Amanda when she realised that tucking self care around the edges of her life wasn't going to be sustainable. She noticed dramatic shifts when her understanding of her menstrual cycle began to drive her self-care- allowing her to plan out a month of self-care rhythms. As a naturopath, doula, and mentor, Amanda guides women reclaim feminine frameworks and integrate the healing power of plant medicine into their cyclical self-care rituals. Her work supports hormonal wellbeing, vaginal microbiome health, vulva care, and raising awareness of the sacred Rites of Passage that shape a woman's journey. Through rituals, retreats, workshops, and women's circles, she empowers women to cultivate cycle awareness—honoring the rhythms of their menstrual, lunar, seasonal, and life cycles as they transition through the menstruality timeline.Amanda generously shares her knowledge on cyclical living during this episode and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!**SHOW NOTES**Amanda mentions Jane Hardwicke Collings and her School of Shamanic Womancraft and recommends Her Story.**CONNECT**AMANDA holds space for women over a season, three months, or a full year, offering a deeply held container where they can explore, embody, and integrate this wisdom in a way that feels true to them. Within this growing community, she calls in those who are ready to deepen their connection to their cycles, reclaim their feminine wisdoms, and walk this journey alongside others who are rising together - elevateHER. You can join her free community here to access any free resources (including her Yoni steaming recipe) and stay up to date with upcoming events. https://membersnaturopathicwomancraft.app.clientclub.net/communities/groups/cyclical-wisdom-collective-/home?invite=67ad7dbce8c3f919f997991fBook an alignment call here: https://alignment.naturopathicwomancraft.com.au/booking-pageOr find out more about Amanda and her offerings here:https://www.naturopathicwomancraft.com.au/You can connect with JESS via instagram and facebook here and here, join her newsletter community here, buy her handmade herbal products here or book an appointment here.**BUY ME A CUPPA**If you liked the episode and want more, a cuppa fuels my work and time, which is given for free. Leave a comment and a few bucks here: https://buymeacoffee.com/theeldertree**THE ELDER TREE TROVE PATREON COMMUNITY**You can join our Patreon here and gain a deeper connection to our podcast. Pay only $2 per week to have access to bonus and often exclusive resources and opportunities- plus support the Elder tree at the same time! To find out more about The Elder Tree visit the website at www.theeldertree.org and donate to the crowdfunding campaign here.You can also follow The Elder Tree on Facebook and Instagram and sign up to the newsletter.Find out more about this podcast and the presenters here. Get in touch with The Elder Tree at: asktheeldertree@gmail.comThe intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins. You can find Chad's music here and here.
In this powerful episode, we sit down with Jane Hardwicke Collings, a grandmother, former homebirth midwife, and internationally renowned teacher of women's mysteries. Jane's work spans decades, focusing on the sacred dimensions of menstruation, childbirth, and menopause, helping women reconnect with their bodies and reclaim their power.Having trained as a midwife in the hospital system, Jane had a profound awakening to the institutionalised abuse within maternity care. This led her on a lifelong mission to educate and empower women, founding The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international women's mystery school.Jane shares her personal experiences with birth, including her own VBAC journey, and the importance of surrender, trust, and deep inner work in preparing for birth and beyond. Jane's journey from hospital midwife to homebirth advocate. The importance of rites of passage and how they shape a woman's journey. Understanding and healing birth trauma through a shamanic lens. How modern maternity care fails women and what we can do to change it. The power of surrender in birth and how it transformed Jane's own experiences. Practical tools for women to connect with their intuition during pregnancy and birth.Jane's wisdom is raw, deep, and life-changing—this is a must-listen for anyone wanting to reclaim the power of physiological birth and dismantle the patriarchal narratives surrounding women's bodies.
Welcome to Episode 27 - The Seven Wonders of Menopause with Shavita Kotak (Sound healer, spiritual facilitator, wellness practitioner & yoga teacher and now author) In this episode we talk all things perimenopause and menopause and Shavita talks about her debut book in which she has sagely gathered deep wisdom from visonaries from across the globe, namely: Dr. Gladys McGarey – "The Well-Lived Life", "Living Medicine" and "The World Needs Old Ladies" Ibu Robin Lim – The Mother (author of "Placenta: The Forgotten Chakra", The Ecology of Gentle Birth" advocates for holistic, natural birthing practices. "After the Baby's Birth: A Woman's Way to Wellness"—a postpartum guide for mothers) Alexandra Pope – The Initiator (Her books are co-authored with Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, "Wild Power: Discover the Magic of the Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power", "Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose, and Belonging" Jane Hardwicke Collings – The Boss Witch. Author of multiple books, including "Ten Moons: The Inner Journey of Pregnancy" and "Blood Rites – The Spiritual Practice of Menstruation, and founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft . Dr. Christiane Northrup – The Ageless Goddess. "Author of The Wisdom of Menopause","Goddesses Never Age" and "Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" Dr. Vandana Shiva – The Warrior. Author of "Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development" and "Earth Democracy" Shavita Kotak's links: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmLIua38SE1DkGycMJacTpA https://wellnesswithshavita.com/about/ More about your host: Alicia is a mumma of four. She has been a lawyer since 2001 and has transformed from being an exhausted perfectionist workaholic to now living a life of delicious chaos, juggling mum life alongside her own legal business and her spiritual wellness business. In March 2012, while hanging out the washing, Alicia started to spontaneously channel one of her Spirit Guides, an Ascended Master called Goenga who spoke to her using her own voice (like Whoopi Goldberg in the movie, Ghost). This was the start of her channeling journey. Alicia loves to help people to thrive, enjoy life more and reconnect with their soul and remember who they really are - eternal pure love and magnificent light beings. Alicia has written a book called, PURE ENERGY - The Busy Women's Energy Guide to Thrive. She has a passion to help humans understand themselves as energetic beings. Alicia lives with her family in Victoria, Australia. LINKS: SPIRITUAL WELLNESS BUSINESS www.aliciatemmerman.com www.globalsoulcentre.com/ LEGAL/HR BUSINESS www.dumaisws.com.au/ HEALTH AND WELLNESS VEGAN PRODUCTS BUSINESS http://aliciatemmerman.arbonne.com FACEBOOK COMMUNITY https://www.facebook.com/groups/frequencyraisingenergyearthschool LINK TO ALICIA'S BOOK https://www.aliciatemmerman.com/shop-now YOU TUBE - Global Soul Centre https://www.youtube.com/@theglobalsoulcentre323 LINKTREE https://linktr.ee/alicia_dumais_temmerman?fbclid=IwAR1Zet17KVAYLCep3FtYa2PeE9xYbuqGZECN0DIZajJQcvmtSXH0KKKz_iA FREE 7 day mini course - INCREASE YOUR ENERGY FREQUENCY https://aliciatemmerman.podia.com/85b5cfb0-5da7-402c-9351-89892bf7fa69 Much love AliciaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
My friend and wise woman Angela (Ange) Jessup joins me on the podcast today to speak about all things holistic kinesiology. Ange and I met on the Four Season's Journey with Jane Hardwicke Collings and The School of Shamanic Womancraft, and quickly bonded over all things babies (we both had newborns), yoga, and the multidimensional aspects of life! Ange curates her kinesiology offerings to serve the specific needs of women, especially those in their mothering season, and more recently children, and she is a total sorceress - it was a delight to hear her speak about her work. Ange is also the mama of three little ones. In this episode: Ange explains kinesiology, emphasising its basis in Chinese medicine and 5-Element theory, how she works with the meridians and specific points, as well as muscle-testing and other multidimensional aspects of the work, such as how kinesiology is such a unqiue tool for addressing subconscious patterns, wounding and triggers How Ange works with children, both her own and in clinic, especially in terms of respecting the intution and knowing of the mother How kinesiology has assisted her on her own journey as a mother (and pre-conception - Ange was told she'd never have kids!) Ange's journey integrating and healing the wounded parts of herself so she can show up as a mother Ange shares her passion for addressing birth trauma and advocating for women's choices in the birth space. She recounts her personal experiences with birth and the importance of women being able to advocate for themselves. We also reflect on the systemic issues and societal expectations that affect women's experiences of birth and motherhood. How Ange balances motherhood and self-care, especially as someone serving other mothers How Ange approaches conscious parenting And so much more! I love this chat, it's so nourishing and Ange is definitely one inspiring mama! Grab a cuppa and get settled. And then book a session with Ange! Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/angelajessup__/ Website: https://www.angelajessup.com/ Mentioned in this podcast: Parliamentary Inquiry Into Birth Trauma School of Shamanic Womancraft https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/ Jane Hardwicke Collings https://janehardwickecollings.com/ Zoe Bosco https://www.zoebosco.com/ Drama Triangle https://karpmandramatriangle.com/
PTSTD or Postnatal Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder could in many situations be avoided if the mother had been heard. Instead we have too many women being diagnosed with PTSTD, stemming from a less than ideal birthing experience. PTSTD is a type of anxiety disorder, also known as birth trauma, with symptoms including vivid flashbacks - feeling that the trauma is happening right now, not being able to show affection to your baby, feeling isolated and blaming yourself for what happened, and terror around the thought of going through labour again. Not so long ago, birthing our children looked very different to how it does today - in a hospital, in some cases with a midwife - you're only just meeting for the first time, and a team of other professionals - strangers - coming and going, often taking the baby away from the mother soon after delivery. Never addressing the often hellish events that have just occurred. Shhhhh new mum. Now go home and look great, have an abundant flow of milk, and do not complain about pain or sleeplessness, about potentially not bonding with your newborn, and make sure you're feeling and looking pretty goddamn sexy very soon as otherwise your partner may take a new lover. Oh my goodness, the pressure! The fear. Sequoila Glastonbury is co-mother of the Not For Profit Hygieia Health - a charity she co-founded with 3 like-minded women focusing on preventing and healing birth trauma, by supporting gentle births. Their highest vision is to create a private birthing sanctuary open to the birth choices of all mothers, creating a system that supports not just mothers and their babies, but also their families and care providers. Sequoia holds the vision of the Healed Sisterhood. Over the past 14 years she has been a teacher at the School of Shamanic Womancraft, having apprenticed and co-taught with Jane Hardwicke Collings. Sequoia teaches the school's 4 Seasons Journey in Byron Bay and is the hearth keeper (or operations queen!) at the school. Sequoia Can be reached at School of Shamanic Womancraft. Click here for the Toxic Silence Playlist.
February 2024 Feature: Girl Awakening Top Four Episodes! It's been a hot minute since Girl Awakening began sharing with you the AWAKENING stories of many incredible Souls. We have no favourites, we are humbled and so blessed to sit with each guest and absolutely LOVE each and every episode we share with you. But as the analytics go, there are four episodes that reached many many of you - so we decided to re-share these four with you in service to the energy and activation that was created the moment they went out into the atmosphere! In no special order, February festival of Four with Brittany Laidlaw. An Earth Angel Activation is the gift to our blessed Mother Gaia & the divine feminine with the evolution of this beautiful Soul in her Awakening's! Brittany Laidlaw is a Somatic Ecologist, Rewilding Mentor, and Accredited Wayapa Practitioner with over a decade of experience leading embodied nature-connection programs. Britt holds a Master of Environment in Somatic Ecology, a Bachelor's degree in Sustainable Enterprise & is currently completing a pioneering PhD in Eco-Somatics. Co-Founder of NatureCulture, a social enterprise that offers immersive programs which reconnect people to the natural world & the wild parts of themselves. Within NatureCulture, Britt's programs specifically focus on midwifing the dormant potential within women through connecting to their wild feminine. She has recently handed over her reins in this space to focus on other areas of the Wild calling her. Today, her work primarily focuses on guiding women through The EARTHED Framework, an experiential map for conversing with the body, soul, & nature -based on her PhD research. In this episode we walk barefoot on Earth into a complete breakdown, leading into an ebb & flow process of activation and Phoenix like re-emergence in a mind body spirit dance of allowance that was that was such a powerful dynamic in her awakenings. With the presence of plenty of Scorpio in her natal chart, Britt embraces what we love to call "The Full Lotus" - sinking into the mud in her process of letting go, letting go, letting go. To finally, a giving up of who she thought she was, then drawing on the fertility of the mud aka her true essence, in rising up as she discovers the harvest in the breakdown! There are an incredible number of gifts here for us all in Britt's awakening, you will not want to stop from beginning to end ! We suggest making a huge pot of herbal tea or mug of cacao and settle in, as you embrace the "the art of deep listening" in Britt's words. More about Britt here: Social Handles:Instagram (Britt personal - women & ecosomatic focus): @brittanyjanelaidaw Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPnDmTs6413l_kJvuiyxTNg Programs & Research My signature in-person program for women where I guided women through The EARTHED Framework - Wild Woman: The Immersion: https://www.brittanyjanelaidlaw.com/wildwomanone?r_done=1 May 2024. PhD in eco-somatics - Exploring how dance can be used as a vital means of relating to & restoring living ecologies. Working closely with the Peek Whuurrung Maara people (Indigenous community in Victoria, Australia) to document their whale dance ceremony, how it's restoring the health of both people & place. My research has also led to the development of The EARTHED Framework, an experiential map for entering into conversation with soul & place. The framework integrates comprehensive knowledge from somatics, neuroscience, ecology, and mythology, as well as first-hand experience with Indigenous knowledge keepers & world-renowned experts within the rewilding movement. Books & Resources Mentioned: The EARTHED Framework Masterclass (free class) - https://bit.ly/earthedexclusiveaccess Book: Cathedral of the Wild by Boyd Varty Dr Martin Shaw - Mythologist Jane Hardwicke Collings - School of Shamanic Womancraft // https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/four-seasons-journey/
Today's guest on the Resonate Podcast is Jane Hardwicke Collings! It was such a privilege for us to have this conversation with her, especially since we have been following Jane's work for so many years. This is a must-listen for anyone who has daughters! Jane speaks on the importance of reclaiming our menstrual cycles in a culture that shames them and invites us to support our girls through their rites of passage. Jane shares her journey from being a nurse to training in midwifery and how her own births deepened her midwifery practice. Going "to the pain" was a portal during the birth of her children, and experiencing altered states of consciousness and the interconnectedness of everything led to her life's work of honouring women's cycles. Rooted in earth-based spirituality, Jane expands on the seasons in life and the menstrual cycle, the menstrual cycle being a doorway into womanhood. She also shares her wealth of knowledge through her amazing Spinning Wheels App, which helps to guide and connect you with the wisdom of your menstrual cycle, lunar cycle, earth seasons, and life cycles. Jane carries on the lineage from Jeannine Parvati Baker and runs the international School of Shamanic Womancraft created in 2009. This conversation is rich in wisdom, and she encourages us to reclaim the wisdom of our cycles and the spiritual practice of menstruation, birth and all rites of passage. With love, Eleanor and Emma Website: www.thereconnected.comFacebook: www.fb.com/thereconnectedInstagram: www.instagram.com/the_reconnectedTikTok: www.tiktok.com/@the_reconnectedPinterest: www.pinterest.com.au/the_reconnected/Twitter: www.twitter.com/the_reconnected
My guest today is a proper badass hag. Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women's Mysteries School.I wanted to know how to be a fab elder, or hag or crone because there really aren't so many positive role models or much signposting. We discussed:o What menopause taught Jane about being an elder. o The importance of owning our language and how we name ourselves: hag, crone, elder, wise womano How to balance following your passion with caring for being in an ageing body. o How can we protect against the mental effects of ageingo How do we counteract the miserable narratives about older womeno What Jane wished she had known in her 40'so How Jane's relationship with death illuminates her day-to-day living You'll notice in the conversation that though we both use a seasonal structure as a map for life, Jane and I do this differently. Jane sees one cycle through the seasons with the end of Winter announcing death, and I see two cycles, with a Second Spring starting postmenopause. Jane's links:Website www.janehardwickecollings.com and www.schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com Instagram @janehardwickecollings Facebook ‘Jane Hardwicke Collings' More information about Katehttps://www.katecodrington.co.uk/Instagram @kate_codringtonSecond Spring: the self-care guide to menopause is available from your favourite bookshopMusicTrust Me (instrumental) by RYYZNCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / StreamMusic promoted by Audio LibraryArtworkKate's portrait by Lori Fitzdoodles
This week in The Lounge I welcomed a guest who had me in goosebumps half the time and brought some serious BME - (Big Matriarch Energy) - a term which I've just coined...at least I think nobody else has used it anyway!Jane Hardwicke Collings, the founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women's Mysteries School, came on to discus menopause and rites of passage.We chatted about the misunderstood elements of menopause and peri-menopause, debunked some misinformation and myth around it as something to be pathologised and approached from the disease model of medicine, and covered lots of ground as we meandered through the ways in which menopause can be seen and used as a gift, and an important, potent rite of passage.We also talked about libido in menopause, how the way you bleed and birth are reflected in the way your move through menopause, how to navigate it with grace and help support yourself to have an easier time, and "symptoms" versus "signals" from your body. There's SO much good stuff in here and Jane is a wealth of knowledge and passion so I absolutely loved this interview!Plus you can expect all the usual antics and hilarious, vulnerable n' relatable personal stories and signature segments that you've come to know and love here in The Labia Lounge!Make sure you're subscribed for more LL action, and it'd absolutely warm my heart and tickle my clit if you'd leave a gushing review or five star rating for the poddy!Check out Jane's work here: janehardwickecollings.com and get her free resource for listeners, the Her Story - Womanifesto ebook, here: http://janehardwickecollings.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/herstory_ebook.pdf*** Join my Labia Lounge Facebook group for extra content, Q & As, freebies from my guests, discounts and to be part of a rad and supportive community of labial legends! www.facebook.com/groups/thelabialounge/Grab a P*ssy Magnet and check out the new Labia Lounge MERCH over here (there's even fanny packs if the standard tote bags and tees ain't cuttin' it for ya!): https://www.freyagraf.com/productsonline-trainingsAnd chuck me a follow here: https://www.instagram.com/freyagraf_thelabialounge/AND here: (my backup account cos I keep offending the Algorithms-that-be) https://www.instagram.com/freya.graf/Or support me and the poddy by buying me an extra hot soy chai latte (yes, that is my coffee order cos I'm a bit of a tosser like that) here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/freyagraf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How you experienced your first period affects how you give birth, how you parent, how you live, work and play. All things are so interconnected, and my guest on Wild Flow Podcast Hannah Brown is here to help us tell our stories to release the past, and come into a new relationship with ourselves, our bodies, and our life stories. Hannah Brown offers menstrual story work to women to help them unpick the threads of their stories, lived experiences, and relationship with their body and cycle. By exploring the patterns that run through your womb story, you can challenge what's true, what's yours and what needs letting go, with the aim of rejecting menstrual shame and reclaiming your cycle. Hannah is a Children's social worker, trainer/consultant and menstrual cycle coach who has worked with people to support change for nearly two decades. She's also a client of mine, having been coaching with me and part of my Cycle Sorcery group journey so this conversation feels like a beautiful natter with a good friend. Hannah and I chatted about:Hannah's journey from Social Worker for children, to women's Menstrual Cycle Coach,Life Story work as a healing modality for children to help them know that what happened to them isn't their fault, and how this can be applied to menstrual cycle work!How Hannah helps women reclaim and tell their menstrual stories, to find healing and transformation.Plus we also slipped into chatting about Hannah's recent positive period workshop which she did for her daughter's school class, and all the goss on what went well, what worked and how she got into work at the school..and we also chatted about my upcoming vision quest with the school of Shamanic Womancraft, and plenty more!Connect with Hannah on IG at @womb__wisdom and find the full show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/reclaim-your-menstrual-story-to-reclaim-your-body/----------------------Thanks so much as ever for supporting me to host Wild Flow Podcast! It means such a lot to receive your ratings, reviews, and to be tagged in your IG stories @charlotte.pointeaux.coach! Please share with your soul sisters who are learning to honour their cycles and live as an embodied cyclical woman too, so they can receive the wisdom they're searching for. Find the full show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/podcast/ Charlotte xxx PS: Would you love to belong to a soul-nourishing sisterhood of women who are deeply connected to their inner seasons, cycles and body's wisdom? If so, I'd love to invite you to become a treasured member of our Wild Flow Coven membership and Subscribe for your free cycle magick rituals guides. Want to dive deeper and be held in your own private container for inner healing? Find my coaching and programs here at https://charlottepointeaux.com/coaching/
The Cosmic cycles are reflecting your soul journey back to you, and energetically influencing you all the time. In today's episode I welcome Grace Funk to the podcast to dive deep into the astrological influences of the planets, moon and Lilith archetype as mapped out in your astrological natal chart. Tune in to hear Grace and I sharing on:Our cycle check ins, and how Grace is attuned to the cosmic cycles and particularly the influence of Mars in retrograde as part of her embodied experience. Grace's journey to finding her work in Astrology.Grace's Cycle Wisdom Journal which she has made every year and will be giving away as a free gift for 2023. Get it hereThe Lilith archetype as a reflection of your lost girl self, and how Grace invites you to tell your Lilith story in a private reading, guiding you to find and share your medicine from your sacred wounds. Grace's rituals for Samhain (Halloween) in the northern hemisphere and my Beltane rituals in the Southern Hemisphere, plus what the sabbats are and what these seasonal milestones mean. Meet GraceGrace Funk is a ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles. Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies. She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust. Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.Connect with Grace and download her free cycle wisdom journal from November 8th at www.priestessyourlife.comGet all the links and details in the show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/journeying-with-the-cosmic-cycles-and-lilith-archetype/ Thanks so much as ever for supporting me to host Wild Flow Podcast! It means such a lot to receive your ratings, reviews, and to be tagged in your IG stories @charlotte.pointeaux.coach! Please share with your soul sisters who are learning to honour their cycles and live as an embodied cyclical woman too, so they can receive the wisdom they're searching for. Find the full show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/podcast/ Charlotte xxx PS: Would you love to belong to a soul-nourishing sisterhood of women who are deeply connected to their inner seasons, cycles and body's wisdom? If so, I'd love to invite you to become a treasured member of our Wild Flow Coven membership and Subscribe for your free cycle magick rituals guides. Want to dive deeper and be held in your own private container for inner healing? Find my coaching and programs here at https://charlottepointeaux.com/coaching/
Jane Hardwicke Collings is a powerful, magickal Boss Witch who is a on a mission to wake up the Witches. She woke me up when I came across her work, that's for sure. As my incredible teacher of the Women's Mysteries, I'm thrilled that Jane joined me on the Wild Flow Podcast to inspire, ignite, and call you into being the woman the Earth needs now too. Tune in to hear:Jane's cosmic weather report, a powerfully simple tool to understand how the cycles around and within you are influencing you. Jane sharing the breadcrumbs she followed that have led her to becoming the woman and leader she is today. How we got into the state of the world we're in today with high rates of depression, illness, disempowerment in a broken system, and what we can do at this pivotal point in time to create change individually, and collectively. Reflections on the deeply transformative year-long Four Seasons Journey is which I'm doing with Jane this year, and what Jane's intention for creating it was, Jane explaining the phase of life she's in right now: the Maga phase, post-menopausal powerful Autumn Harvest Queen, and how we can prepare before hand for a healthy, empowering menopause beforehand, and claim our gifts and power when we're there ourselves. Thank you so much to Jane for chatting with us, leading us, teaching us and guiding us into our own power. >>>>>>>>>Connect with Jane Hardwicke Collings:Herstory ebook and audioJane's website Her School of Shamanic Womancraft's website Jane's Instagram Read the full show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/waking-the-witches-standing-in-your-feminine-power/>>>>>>>>>Thanks so much as ever for supporting me to host Wild Flow Podcast! It means such a lot to receive your ratings, reviews, and to be tagged in your IG stories @charlotte.pointeaux.coach! Please share with your soul sisters who are learning to honour their cycles and live as an embodied cyclical woman too, so they can receive the wisdom they're searching for. Find the full show notes at https://charlottepointeaux.com/podcast/ Charlotte xxx PS: Would you love to belong to a soul-nourishing sisterhood of women who are deeply connected to their inner seasons, cycles and body's wisdom? If so, I'd love to invite you to become a treasured member of our Wild Flow Coven membership and Subscribe for your free cycle magick rituals guides. Want to dive deeper and be held in your own private container for inner healing? Find my coaching and programs here at https://charlottepointeaux.com/coaching/
In this special Integral Stage episode, Layman meets with feminine empowerment and leadership teacher, and Integral Semantics facilitator, Adriana Forte, to talk about the menstrual cycle -- the ways it is misunderstood, repressed or denied; its cosmic, biological, and psychospiritual dimensions; and the power and transformation that can attend aligning more closely and consciously with its rhythms. Together they explore the dimensions and dynamics of cyclical life; the importance of attending to cycles in embodiment practice; indigenous wisdom on the menstrual cycle; the stages of reclamation of menstrual consciousness; the 'magic' and subtle states associated with the menstrual cycle; the possible forms future society might take when we learn to better align with individual and natural cycles; and much more. Adriana has been teaching workshops on feminine empowerment and leadership for years. In the last years she has been focusing her work and studies on Adult Development and Vertical Growth. One of her main areas of interest is on the cross-over between the feminine aspect of consciousness and Adult Development: how it shows up in the later stages (as a natural bi-product of growing up) how it flowers in men and women and how it can be used to spark/deepen the process of both waking up and growing up. She has a Bachelor Degree in Communication, a Diploma in Holistic Kinesiology and in Shamanic Womancraft. She is a coach and a qualified Integral Semantics Facilitator and is now training to become a scorer of the Stages Assessment (still unavailable in Portuguese). Her work (both with individuals and groups) is deeply influenced by Integral Theory (Wilber), Stages (O'Fallon), Action Inquiry (Torbert) and by the work of pioneers on Feminine Wisdom as Janine Parvati Baker and Jane Collings. She currently facilitates developmental retreats in Brazil. Please consider supporting The Integral Stage on Patreon to make more of these conversations possible! https://www.patreon.com/theintegralstage
All Rise Up - A Podcast To Support Your Network Marketing Business
This is a podcast episode on stories and topics that have been on my mind this week. I've loosely considered what is happening in my life this week, in my business, and things that are inspiring thought within me. I also chat about a polarising ad on the inter webs and whilst I thought about adding a disclaimer and MORE info on the nuance I see after the initial record, I have left it as is. If you do not agree with what I have said or what my opinion is (or comes across as) for whatever reason, I do want you to know I understand there is nuance to this topic and if you think I'm wrong then that is okay and you're right. These are simply our truths. Links/Notes to people and podcasts I have spoken about in this podcast: Huberman Lab podcast with Dr. Peter Attia https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xBlkGYTioYLFFgKqy8MtH?si=7d753566e7094e9e Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett https://open.spotify.com/show/7iQXmUT7XGuZSzAMjoNWlX?si=cd7a213db8d94b3a The Joe Rogan Experience with Alex Berenson https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xCeuH6zui8r27ImExB6K6?si=be3c9bde47c14638 The Joe Rogan Experience https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk?si=e46e71130f4a4164 Photographer Roshini McCartin https://roshinim.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roshimcartin Business Coach Rachel McDonald - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rachelmacdonald Space-holder + facilitator Claire O'beid with - Atunement - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/Claireobeid_ Four Seasons Journey, School of Shamanic Womancraft. https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com
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https://www.instagram.com/alicenicholls_thewholedaily There 'were' two things I wanted to share with you today and an audio was required for the first because I didn't know how to write it down. I've shared with you before that speaking is often more truthful through me to you than writing, because I don't censor myself and I never edit (this isn't always a great thing
In this episode I speak with Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane sees herself as an agent of the Goddess. She is a Priestess at the birth altar and at the altar of transformation. She is a former midwife, woman's mysteries teacher, shamanic woman-crafter and founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft. In today's episode we talk about the shame of our menstrual cycles—and how snake medicine is the healing for this reclamation. We also talk about: The rites of passage within a woman's lifetime How to heal internalized patriarchy The Pill—what it really does to our bodies The Lunar Phase Return & its connection to surprise pregnancy Resources: Jane Harwicke Collings: https://janehardwickecollings.com/ (Website) | https://www.instagram.com/janehardwickecollings/ (Instagram) | https://www.instagram.com/schoolofshamanicwomancraft/ (School of Shamanic Womancraft) Mentioned in Episode: https://janehardwickecollings.thinkific.com/courses/snake-medicine-shedding-menstrual-shame (Snake Medicine, Shedding Menstrual Shame) Course,https://www.amazon.com/Lunar-Cycle-Astrological-Fertility-Control/dp/185327013X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2X45FC2DODX0N&keywords=the+lunar+cycle+francesca&qid=1650053543&sprefix=the+lunar+cycle+franchesca+%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1 ( The Lunar Cycle: Astrological Fertility Control book by Francesca Naish) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCWdyTtCCOEsnX61bS0AUU17npJFeLD66ztbrxVImQI63Chw/viewform (Rename & Reclaim Campaign) | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&v=2956149667957185&external_log_id=8a539b51-6898-4a2f-a684-eca017cef75c&q=Jane%20Hardwicke%20Collings%20rename%20and%20reclaim (Video) https://janehardwickecollings.com/product/thirteen-moons-a-cycle-charting-handbook-journal/ (13 Moons: A Cycle Charting Journal and Handbook) by Jane Hardwicke Collings Jaclyn Norton: https://jaclynnorton.com/ (Website) | https://www.instagram.com/jaclynnorton/ (Instagram)
Content Information/Warning This episode contains swearing and references to birth, disempowerment/oppression of women, sexual experiences, menstruation, generational and childhood trauma, self harm and eating disorders. Reclaiming Menarche The First Menstrual Blood; Ways to Honour and Heal. Join Grace as she speaks with Australian author and teacher Jane Hardwicke Collings around the importance of Menarche, the first menstrual blood. Jane is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, a writer and menstrual educator. Jane gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women's Mysteries School. You can read more about Jane and purchase her new book Blood Rites and find further information on the texts mentioned during the episode (The Herstory and Becoming A Woman) at www.janehardwickecollings.com You can read more about Grace and her work at www.withgracefrome.co.uk Title Music JuliusH - Dance of The Witches
Welcome back to season 3 of Positive Birth Australia. I am beyond excited to be back sharing inspiring and educational stories to assist you along your journey. It gives me the greatest pleasure to start this year off with one of the greatest, a Women's Mysteries teacher and founder of “The School of Shamanic Womancraft, Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane is a self described postmenopausal grandmother at the sunset of her life. She supported women birthing at home for 30 years, giving us detail on what she learned along the way and the life lessons she drew from her own births. Jane shares her boundless wisdom on an array of topics from reconnecting to our menstrual cycle, birth imprints, rites of passage and the formula for life we can unearth from our own birth experiences. This is must listen for all… enjoy! ❀ Show links: Instagram: @janehardwickecollings Website: www.janehardwickecollings.com Today's episode brought to you by: Intuitive Birth Doula Services @intuitivebirth.ds www.intuitivebirth.com.au Use code: PBA50 for 50% off
The Wild Witch Sequoia Glastonbury and I talk about blood magick, and how honouring your blood relates to your relationship with your body, your relationships, and your sexuality. We cover: What it means to be a witch; The imprint your first bleed leaves on your life; Promising ways newer generations relate to their cycles; The menstrual cycle as a gateway for accepting and honouring your body; Getting used to seeing your own blood; Doing blood prayers during your bleeding time, offering your blood back to the earth; Honouring the inward pull and need for rest during your bleeding time when you have real life obligations; What to do when other people in your life are not on the same page as you; How loving your cycle helps you have better sex; Building belief and trust in yourself when you're doing something different; Taking your time on this journey and letting it unfold at your own right pace. Sequoia is a Mother, a Witch, a Shamanic Craftswoman, a Doula and a Hearthkeeper. She is the founder of The Wild Witch, supporting women to claim their inner witch and live a wild and wonderful life. She offers in-person workshops, online courses and 1:1 support. A Teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft, she brings her presence and skills to witnessing and supporting transformation, creating safe spaces and supporting women to find their inner knowing and reclaim their power. She holds workshops in her community, at conferences and festivals, on Blood Magick, Reclaiming our Wild Selves, Honouring Women and Menstruation, Drum Making, and Seasonal Sabbats. She has co-created and held Red Tents and women's spaces around Australia. She lives in the forest on Bundjalung Country in the Byron Hinterland with her family and animal companions, connecting daily with the earth and all the wild creatures she shares her bush home with. Sequoia holds the vision of the healed sisterhood and is dedicated to living in service to the Goddess. Sequoia's website: https://www.thewildwitch.com.au/ Sequoia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewildestwitch/ Sequoia's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildestwitch My website: https://www.carolanne.com.au/ My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolannealive/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reawakeningloveandpower/message
This week we have the incredible wisdom & insight of Jane Hardwicke Collings. This incredible woman is self described as a postmenopausal grandmother at the sunset of her life. A former Registered Nurse who worked in Paediatric Intensive Care Units and Women's Operating Theatres, she became a midwife, but left the hospital system & was a home birth midwife for 30 years. She travels teaching workshops on the wisdom of cycles, the spiritual practice of menstruation; preparation for menstruation for mothers and daughters; and the sacred shamanic dimensions of pregnancy, birth, mothering and menopause; and how to reclaim and heal our rites of passage. She created the School of Shamanic Womancraft (formerly the School of Shamanic Midwifery) in 2009, and her mission is to reclaim feminine knowledge, wisdom and power through reconnection with the Women's Mysteries. Join us as we delve into the power of rites of passage, the Harvest Queen time of our lives, and what it truly means to embody the Crone. Jane has also been so generous to offer our Podcast Coven a very special added bonus - 'Herstory', a book authored by Jane is available as a PDF download for our listeners who sign up to Jane's newsletter. https://www.getdrip.com/forms/780641998/submissions/new Find more of Jane here http://www.janehardwickecollings.com/ Instagram - @janehardwickecollings Facebook - 'Jane Hardwicke Collings' With www.schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com Have a witchy question to ask? Get in touch, we would love to hear from you! Email - tospsychic@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram #turnsout_shesawitch Presented by Shannon Cotterill & Laura Turner. Produced, edited, & music by Laura & Matt Turner. Visit Shannon's website here www.ashamoon.squarespace.com www.shannon-cotterill.squarespace.com Visit Tracey's website here Australian Medium, Psychic & Spiritual Alignment Mentor https://www.traceydimech.com.au
This week we have the incredible wisdom & insight of Jane Hardwicke Collings. This incredible woman is self described as a postmenopausal grandmother at the sunset of her life. A former Registered Nurse who worked in Paediatric Intensive Care Units and Women's Operating Theatres, she became a midwife, but left the hospital system & was a home birth midwife for 30 years. She travels teaching workshops on the wisdom of cycles, the spiritual practice of menstruation; preparation for menstruation for mothers and daughters; and the sacred shamanic dimensions of pregnancy, birth, mothering and menopause; and how to reclaim and heal our rites of passage. She created the School of Shamanic Womancraft (formerly the School of Shamanic Midwifery) in 2009, and her mission is to reclaim feminine knowledge, wisdom and power through reconnection with the Women's Mysteries. Join us as we delve into the power of rites of passage, the Harvest Queen time of our lives, and what it truly means to embody the Crone. Jane has also been so generous to offer our Podcast Coven a very special added bonus - 'Herstory', a book authored by Jane is available as a PDF download for our listeners who sign up to Jane's newsletter. https://www.getdrip.com/forms/780641998/submissions/new Find more of Jane here http://www.janehardwickecollings.com/ Instagram - @janehardwickecollings Facebook - 'Jane Hardwicke Collings' With www.schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com Have a witchy question to ask? Get in touch, we would love to hear from you! Email - tospsychic@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram #turnsout_shesawitch Presented by Shannon Cotterill & Laura Turner. Produced, edited, & music by Laura & Matt Turner. Visit Shannon's website here www.ashamoon.squarespace.com www.shannon-cotterill.squarespace.com Visit Tracey's website here Australian Medium, Psychic & Spiritual Alignment Mentor https://www.traceydimech.com.au
Today’s episode is with a woman whose work & wisdom has quite literally changed my life. It’s my absolute privilege today to bring to you one of my great teachers, Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, a teacher, writer & menstrual educator. She gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth & menopause. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s Mysteries School. If you haven’t come across Jane before, brace yourself mama, because today’s episode is EPIC. If you do know Jane and her work, you’re in for a real treat here because in this episode we don’t just skim the surface of her work, we dive really deep into her ideas and thinking & we get into all the meaty details. We talk about: The shamanic dimensions of pregnancy and how the things that show up in our lives & bodies during pregnancy are information to support us to transform into a new version ourselves and to become “the mother our babies come for” How we have the birth we need to teach us what we need to learn about ourselves to take us to the next place on our journey, and how the quality that we need to learn about ourselves in how we birth our babies, is the quality we need to bring to mothering them. How to learn from and begin healing from a traumatic birth - the questions Jane offers to ask yourself are life changing. The difference between midwifery and obstetric care and how the single most impactful decision a woman will make that will influence her birth outcome is who her primary carer will be & her place of birth. How we can prepare for birth before we’re even pregnant, through healing trauma stored in the body, opening to a relationship with our spirit baby, connecting with our menstrual cycle, looking into our previous experiences of rites of passage, unhooking from the medical model of birth, and bringing consciousness to our fears. If you enjoy today's episode, it would mean the world to me if you left me a review over on iTunes, because that helps to get this podcast in front of other wild mamas who could also benefit from these conversations. You can also share this podcast with other mamas by simply taking a screenshot and sharing it on Instagram, and don’t forget to tag me at @drjessicahodgens! RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODE: Grab your copy of my free guide, 'The Four Things you Actually Need to Know to Prepare for a Physiologic ("Natural") Birth' Jane’s incredible book, ‘Ten Moons: The Inner Journey of Pregnancy’ CONNECT WITH JANE On Instagram@janehardwickecollings Through one of Jane’s online courses including Pregnancy: The Inner Journey & Snake Medicine: Healing Menstrual Shame Book a private session with Jane Study with the School of Shamanic Womancraft Until next time - stay wild, mamas! Jess xx Find me on Instagram at@drjessicahodgens www.jessicahodgens.
In this episode, we invite Jane Hardwicke Collings to show us some profound insights into History and reclaiming our feminine knowledge, wisdom, and power. On a mission to help other women wake up from the patriarchal slumber, Jane has been spreading her empowering message across the globe. Jane sees herself as an Agent of the Goddess, a Priestess at the altars of transformation. She carries 3 lineages: Homebirth Midwifery - ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia). EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices - learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow. Shamanic Midwifery - the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA). Jane is a post-menopausal mother and grandmother. She was an intensive care and operating theatre nurse, and a homebirth midwife for 30 years. Jane now focuses on teaching the Women's Mysteries and writing about them. She also gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred and shamanic dimensions of pregnancy, birth, and menopause. Jane is the Founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women's Mystery School. KEY POINTS: Waking up from our Patriarchal slumber Diving into the Patriarchy and Matriarchy The role religion plays in the Feminine and Masculine How to dispel menstrual shame and embrace your cycles Healing through and honoring our menstrual cycles Ways to prepare your child for menarche and menstruation How to start standing in your feminine power Home births: returning to what's natural for your body Understanding that the truth always changes QUOTABLES: “What we need to be, is the women the earth needs now. And that's not subservient, and that's not oppressed, it's standing up in our feminine power and standing up for the earth and our children.” “The menstrual cycle is the barometer of our well-being. Anything that's not working in our lives, any imbalance, any toxicity, and that could be poisoned food, thoughts, relationships, it all shows up in our menstrual cycle.” PRODUCTS / RESOURCES: Jane Hardwicke Collings janehardwickecollings.com Herstory: Jane Hardwicke Collings Writings On The Fall Of Matriarchy | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/herstory-jane-hardwicke-collings-writings-on-fall-matriarchy/id1231912533?i=1000463565225 Sign up for your free copy of Herstory while also subscribing to the Lunar newsletter here: getdrip.com/forms/780641998/submissions/new Season 4 enrolment of HER Playbook Program is now open: kristeldavid.com/herplaybook Follow Kristel on Instagram @kristelcdavid - instagram.com/kristelcdavid Visit her website at kristeldavid.com Subscribe to her YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCLy96L4X7KnuqStzoqYsTow Access her other resources here: linktr.ee/kristelcdavid Be sure to join the HER Playbook Private Facebook group to keep the conversations going, share your 2 cents, and stay up to date on all the value Kristel has to offer! - Join here: facebook.com/groups/1028818904241672 HER Playbook is edited by Instapodcasts (visit at instapodcasts.com)
Anne – Four Seasons Journey. 2018 Anne uses the creative practice of process to explore and learn from the world that surrounds her. Working with plants and place, she uses her sense of curiosity to investigate how knowledge can be embodied through the senses, and translated into bodies of work that can be shared with […] The post 26 – Connected- Anne – Sacred Business appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Susan – Four Seasons Journey. Travelling Mermaids! 2010. Musings from Susan “Feeling this deep sense of landing and being with exactly the right people I needed to be with.” “There is a fierce independence I feel when I connect with my power animal, Lioness.” “The polarities and paradox of menopause.” “The vision was […] The post 25 – Vision Seed – Susan – Erotic Experience appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Kirrilee – Four Seasons Journey – Blue Mountains 2019 Musings from Kirrilee “I felt the Four Seasons Journey would be such a strong container to not get away from facing myself” “I felt intuitively the Four Seasons was going to give me all I needed.” “There was a real gentleness about my […] The post 24 – Being Witnessed – Kirrilee – The Healing Path appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
In our culture, giving birth is perceived as frightening, painful and something to endure. Women are not taught to trust their bodies but instead are encouraged to hand over their health and wellbeing (and that of their baby) to the medical system. Intervention is common and information is not being given to women to allow them to make informed and empowered decisions about what is best for their situation. Recently I discovered from Sarah Miller, a Teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and MoonSong (Menstrual Wellness) Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft, that how we approach and experience birth can give us insights into our creative process and identify areas for healing. I found this fascinating and wanted to learn more and help shine love and light on this rarely talked about aspect of our lives. We talk about why ancient knowledge and wisdom about our birth process is hidden and shamed, why it's valuable to get interested in our birth story, how our birth story can impact us through our life, the links between our birth story and our creative process, and the power we can tap into when we embrace and love our body, connect with natural cycles, and trust our feminine wisdom. In our conversation, we also discuss: The impact of a patriarchal system on women's ability to give birth naturally. The shame and fear that begins with the menstrual taboo. How our birth process is mirrored in other rites of passage throughout our lives. What you can do if you don't know your birth story How making a drum can give you insight into your birth story. The power in tuning in to your body, pain messages, and natural cycles The healing power of sitting and sharing with women Acknowledging the pain of loss and grief that comes with the birth of babies that don't make it earthside (terminations, abortions and stillbirths) If you'd like to connect with Sarah, you can find out more on her website https://www.embodimentsdance.com.au/ If you'd like to find out more about resources Sarah mentions in the episode, visit my website discoveryourwild.com.au/podcast
Akhalita Makoto Vision Mother I am passionate about reclaiming the sacred depths of what it is to be human. I believe a profound shift in consciousness, and therefore healing, is possible in these times of great crisis. The Amazonian Arts offers us a New Story of renewal from the Ancient Ways. I bring my background of […] The post 23 – Womb Awakening – Akhalita – New Story appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
In this episode, we have Jane Harwicke-Collings.Jane is a grandmother, former midwife, teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops in Australia and internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth, and menopause a modern-day Women's Mysteries Teacher.Jane is an inspiration to many, a pioneer in the field and I just loved our conversation.We go on a deep dive through the mysteries of women and how we can tap into our feminine power and knowledge.Jane shares practical tools that can help you on your healing journey, through tapping into our cycles, moon cycles, menstruation, seasons and even within the day. When we tap into our cyclical nature, there is true power and healing potential. We can begin to understand ourselves on a deeper level.We talk about the seasons of a women's life, rites of passage and about healing wounds that may have occurred around these times and how moving forward we can begin honour these rites of passage with rituals.And so much more. This is really a beautiful conversation, not to be missed!Connect with Jane:Website: https://janehardwickecollings.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/janehardwickecollings/School of Shamanic Womancraft: https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.comFind out more about:Birthing in New Earth -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/birthing_in_new_earth/Missed the September 2020 gathering. Click here to get the all access package:https://birthing-in-new-earth-talk-gathering.heysummit.comThe host Samantha -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samantha.briatico/Website: https://www.samanthabriatico.com
Jane Hardwicke Collings is a former home birth midwife, teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops Internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred and shamanic dimensions of pregnancy and birth and menopause. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft (formerly The School of Shamanic Midwifery), which prepares women to practice and teach the Women’s Mysteries and midwife the soul. Jane is the author of Ten Moons, the Inner Journey of Pregnancy, Thirteen Moons, How to chart your menstrual cycle, Spinning Wheels (a guide to the cycles), and Becoming a Woman (for girls approaching menstruation). "Knowing that you can trust your instincts and that you need to trust your instincts, that's when you have the next level experience...You are the expert of yourself" Join us for a powerful discussion about connections between cycle, energy and our ability to create and learn the most valuable lesson of all: "Look after the things you create." Here are the details of this episode: Jane’s shamanic abilities in the core of her superpower What are the seasons of life Jane’s recipe on how to go deep within (there is some serious brainwave talk there!) How can you avoid 'outsourcing' children while having a career Jane walks Anna through her birth story and what she can learn from it Menopause and beyond. What’s different for women besides not having their period? What does it mean to be a creatix? And a lot more... Links Jane's Website Herstory - Audiobook with Free E-book Labour Hacks PDF & Guided Drum Journey + Drumming for Labour AUDIO P.S. Sign up for the free, exclusive training from me on How to Start Attracting Committed Masculine Men By Releasing Control & Letting Him Lead to find out: The #1 reason successful women are still single and can’t attract a committed masculine man (hint: it’s not what you think) How to break through the patterns of attracting unavailable or feminine men and find your blind spot so you start attracting the men you want How to master the art of feminine/masculine polarity so you start feeling taken care of, claimed and finally be able to let go of control How to get out of the “get the guy” mindset and instead move into your full feminine self and have the guy get you Uncover The Lie of Female Success that’s keeping you stuck, exhausted and unfulfilled (in masculine energy all the time) so you can start living in freedom & joy And much more… Sign up at girlskill.com/webinar
Join me in coversation with Ruth Cato as she explains what Shamanic healing is, how she came to it and what difference it makes to her life and the lives of the people she works with. You can find out more about Ruth at: Ruthcato.com The anthropologists Ruth learned from are Prf Chris Knight and Camilla Power of UCL and the Radical Anthropology Group or RAG. She has also been influenced by: Suzicrockford.com Janehardwickecollings.com Janine Parvarti Baker was one of Jane's original teachers in Shamanic Womancraft. And the books Ruth mentioned: The history of Magic by Chris Godson The tribe of Witches by Stephen Yeates To find out more about my writing, coaching and training: https://www.julieleoni.com/
Today on the show I speak with former homebirth midwife and women's mysteries teacher - Jane Hardwicke Collings. I was so excited to chat to Jane as her work totally resonates with me and the way I think. I love her Aussie, no bullshit approach! And I must admit I am a total fan girl of hers. We chat about her life to date and her journey from studying midwifery, becoming a homebirth midwife, then to the birth of her first child, a planned homebirth turned c-section, and then her subsequent home births for her next two babes. We also chat about what lessons are learnt from each birth and how this lesson needs to be brought to parenting that child. She talks about the growth from each birth and how massive that is and how she thought you could never have any more growth than that… until she went through menopause. We really touch on every rite of passage for women from menarche to menopause. Jane is an intelligent spiritual leader for this time and has so much wisdom and understanding of this world - particularly birth. I came away so inspired from this chat and I know you will do too. About Jane: Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years, teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops in Australia and internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause – a modern day Women's Mysteries Teacher. Jane practised as a homebirth midwife for 30 years, this work from her late 20's to early 50's informed her worldview and brought focus to her knowing of what's possible when women feel safe. Through her own life experiences, her learning and research of ancient and modern shamanic practices, evolutionary biology, psychology, spirituality, the ecology of the Sacred Feminine, and as a student of the Earth, she has found a common thread that weaves and connects our lives from one moment to the next and to each other, everyone and everything. With this awareness and her teachers' guidance and help she developed a way to teach this. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women's Mysteries School. The School, through Jane and other graduate Teachers offers year, and two year long, in depth immersions into the self and one's relationship with all that is. The program offers a focus on ‘Know Thyself' and is more than anything a grand awakening for each individual woman as she comes to know who she really is when she separates her self from the misogynist, power over paradigm of the patriarchal culture. A profound and epic healing happens when women reclaim their body and their functions and remember that they do not visit Nature, they are Nature. Reclaiming Feminine Power, through Reconnection with the Women's Mysteries…
Eleanor is a passionate midwife, eco-textile artist, budding researcher & feminist permaculture educator. She has had the privilege to work with women, families and birth for over a decade as a doula and more recently, a registered midwife. She describes herself as a life-long apprentice of the nature and her rhythms through permaculture study, sustainable off-grid living […] The post 22 – Rising Up – Eleanor – With Woman appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Hi I'm Romi, I am the woman, Mother, daughter, sister, friend, lover and Goddess behind SoulBirth. I live and work in the beautiful Blue Mountains with my husband Dom, our son Oli and our dog Quincy. My vision in life is to support and empower women throughout all of their journeys. My aim is to […] The post 21 – Fourth Trimester – Romina – In Service appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
In this episode, we have the absolute delight of interviewing Jane Hardwicke Collings about women's rites of passage and how they shape our lives. We pay particular attention to the peri-menopause and the role of Autumn Women as leaders and change agents in the maternity system. This episode is jam-packed with intelligent, jaw-dropping and wonderful insights into womanhood. Let us introduce Jane...Jane Hardwicke Collings is a post menopausal grandmother. She was an intensive care and operating theatre nurse, and then a homebirth midwife for 30 years. Now her work focuses on teaching the Women’s Mysteries and writing about them. She gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred and shamanic dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause. Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international Women’s Mystery School.Links:More about JaneJane Hardwicke Collings' website: https://janehardwickecollings.com/ School of Shamanic Womancraft website: https://schoolofshamanicwomancraft.com/Jane's forthcoming online courses:Autumn women, harvest queen Snake medicine: shedding menstrual shameMentioned in the podcastAbout Bloody Time by Karen Pickering & Jane Bennett: https://www.vwt.org.au/projects/about-bloody-time/Dr. Christiane Northrup. https://www.drnorthrup.com/ More about the slang use of 'Karen': https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/karen/
The incredible Jane Hardwicke Collings joins Tahnee on the Women's Series today, to explore the cyclic nature of womanhood and the potency of menopause. Jane is a menstrual educator, midwife, teacher and writer. It is an exquisite delight and absolute honour to share in the vast nature of her knowledge and wisdom. The conversation shared between Tahnee and Jane is powerful, an important listen for all the women out there, both young and wise, who are keen to learn more about their own innate rythmns. Or for the men folk who are eager to understand and support their female friends and loved ones. Tahnee and Jane discuss: The cyclic nature of womanhood. Menstruation, menopause and the lunar cycle. The medicalisation of menopause, "menopause is not a disease. It doesn't have a diagnosis, and therefore it doesn't have symptoms." - Jane Hardwicke Collings Birth, menarche, motherhood and menopause as rites of passage. Rites of passage as key indicators of how individuals are valued culturally, based on which phase of the cycle they're in. How the menopausal shift in luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone can increase a woman's intuition and visionary capacity. What our experience of menarche teaches us about being a woman and how that impacts our experience of menopause. The cultural shame that surrounds the menstrual cycle in Western society. What menopause or 'mimi' signifies in the cultures of Australia's First Nations Peoples. The concept of the "mother line" or "red thread" theme when going through menopause. How to prepare for yourself for menopause - "the best thing anybody can go into menopause with is inner strength." - Jane Hardwicke Collings Who is Jane Hardwicke Collings? Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, midwife, teacher, writer and menstrual educator. Jane gives workshops in Australia and internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth, and menopause – a modern-day Women’s Mysteries Teacher. Resources: Jane's Website Jane's Online Courses The School of Shamanic Womancraft The School Of Shamanic Womancraft Podcast About Bloody Time Book Cedar Barstow Website Christiane Northrup Website Lara Owen Website Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus we're on Spotify! Check Out The Transcript Here: Tahnee: (00:00) Hi everybody. Welcome to the SuperFeast podcast. Today I have Jane Hardwicke Collings with me, and she's a grandmother, midwife, teacher, writer and menstrual educator. Jane was a home birth midwife for 30 years, and she gives workshops on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation and the spiritual practise of menstruation and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause. She's a modern day women's mysteries teacher and she founded and runs the School of Shamanic Womancraft and International Women's Mysteries School. Tahnee: (00:33) I'm very excited to have you here today Jane. You were requested heavily by our community when we were reaching out about who people wanted to hear from. We had I think probably 50 plus emails and messages about you, so you're very popular. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (00:51) Oh wow, that's cool. Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me. I'm very honoured to be here with you. Tahnee: (00:57) Yeah, super exciting. I wanted to chat to you today about menopause in particular. You do have such a rich background, but we've spoken a lot about birth and menstrual issues and the younger women's journey, but we haven't spoken a lot about these later stages of womanhood and what it means to transition from a woman who bleeds to a woman who no longer bleeds, and what that kind of means both on a spiritual level and on a physical level. I know you've got some insights around this and have a course coming on your website soon, which is really exciting. Tahnee: (01:34) I wondered if you could, if you're open to it, share some of your journey with us and how you came to be interested in these topics. That would be a great place to start I think. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:43) Yeah, for sure. Thank you. Like this hidden rite of passage of menopause that seems to have been either ignored or forgotten or at least not talked about. As a midwife, I absolutely thought that there could not possibly be anything more transformational than giving birth until I went through menopause. I learned so much from my experience, and there wasn't that much around to learn from, but that's not a problem because the experience teachers one everything one needs to learn if one is open to it. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (02:31) I'm not sure which is feared more, childbirth or menopause. Probably childbirth because menopause is just not even talked about. It's something that we really, really need to reclaim and embrace because it's inevitable. You can avoid it if you like, but that would be a waste of an amazing transformational opportunity. My journey to menopause was, well it's kind of similar to other women who are obsessed with the menstrual cycle, which- Tahnee: (03:13) More and more women are, which is really exciting. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (03:17) It's so exciting. Approaching my menopause, I was like, "Oh no, how am I ever going to be able to live my life without my menstrual cycle? I'm so obsessed by it. I use it all the time to guide me and working with the energies, et cetera. What would it be like without it? Oh no." I was approaching it with well I guess some worry about what life would be like without my menstrual cycle. It's very different. It's an interesting process to shift from the cycle of one's menstrual cycle into the cycle without the blood. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (04:05) When you learn all about the menstrual cycle, one of the most interesting things that we learn is that the blueprint for the menstrual cycle is to follow the cycle of the moon, and we won't go into that in great detail now and it's very easy to find information about it, but the point of raising that now is that the moon doesn't go away when your periods do. So there she is up in the sky and there's a return to the lunar clock or the lunar calendar, like a recalibration for one from the perimenopausal journey on to reconnect with the original blueprint cycle of the moon and be with that. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (04:59) It's not like there's no cycle anymore. There is that cycle that's always been there in the background anyway, and so the experience of or my experience of my cycle after my menstrual cycle stopped, which was to fully tap into the lunar cycle, is similar to the menstrual cycle but not as intense. There's not the high highs of ovulation and the low lows of bleeding, and I don't mean low in a negative way, I mean deep. Tahnee: (05:30) Interior, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (05:32) The heights and depths of the menstrual cycle and not there in the post-menopausal cycle. There's similarities, like I feel the fully moon and the dark moon and the journey there and back, but it's not as intense. In some ways and for very, very many, many, many women, there's a lot of relief in that too, especially if there's been pathology around the menstrual cycle through the journey. The cycle remains and yet it is gentler. Shall I just talk a little bit about the whole thing? Tahnee: (06:08) Yeah, I'm super interested. That just brought up a load of, because I had this intuition that it was a steadying I guess of those rhythms or like a harmonising, I suppose, because I know so many young women go through really big ebbs and flows, like the tides are big tides. Yeah, I've seen what you're speaking to, is what I felt a sense of what menopause is offering. I'm really interested to hear you speak more about it, so please, go. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (06:36) Yeah. Well it's a journey to that. I stopped bleeding when I was 56, and I'm turning 62 this year. I'm nearly six years since stopped bleeding, and is till have hot flashes. I have different sleeping patterns to what I used to have. It's not something that you go through and then it's back to normal. There is no back to normal. There is- Tahnee: (07:06) The new normal. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (07:07) Exactly, which is what we're experiencing now with the pandemic. The big questions of what will it be like after this, when we get through this. What will happen? Will we be going back to business as usual? Those are all the same questions that women are asking themselves when they're going through the perimenopausal journey, and the answers to it are, well, let's see, or everything will be revealed or the unravelling will result in the answer to that, et cetera, et cetera, but the bottom line is that it's not business as usual. There's no return to normal. There is a new normal, which is something that we're all getting acquainted with now. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (07:51) It's very interesting how quickly and maybe not easily, but we adapt to or adopt new normals. I think the experience with the pandemic will be something that perimenopausal women will be able to relate to, like the whole unknowns around it. I'm saying the word perimenopausal a lot, so I just want to define that. Peri means around, so around menopause. Menopause is a moment. It's the last menstrual cycle that you have, and you never know. You never know when it's going to be the last one, like you never know when it's going to be the last breastfeed or never know when it's going to be the first period or you never know when the baby's going to come or whatever, whatever. It's one of those mysteries, as they're called. The women's mysteries. There's lots of mystery to them. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (08:44) Perimenopause is probably the term to use to describe the journey because, as I said, menopause just means the last period. Then there's post-menopause, which is when one has reached the medically designated period of time that you're meant to have no period for, to then be a post-menopausal woman, and different people say different things. Often it's one year without a period and others say two years to get your diagnosis of being post-menopausal, but therein lay the trick and the trap there because menopause is not a disease. It doesn't have a diagnosis, and therefore it doesn't have symptoms. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (09:32) You can see with the language used around it that it's really been- Tahnee: (09:39) Medicalized. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (09:40) Exactly, and unfortunately like the menstrual cycle as well. It's a rite of passage. Menopause is a rite of passage, and knowing that gives us the clues about what it holds for us. A rite of passage is a major transformation in our lives and there's physical rites of passage and there's cultural rites of passage. Cultural rites of passage are things like getting married, first job, graduating, getting divorced, going to school for the first time. First car. Tahnee: (10:21) First car. Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (10:21) First what? Tahnee: (10:21) Oh, I said first car, I think we were in sync. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (10:26) First car, yeah. The big one. Tahnee: (10:29) Yeah, 18th, all that kind of stuff, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (10:30) All of that, yeah. Then there's the physical rites of passage or the women's mysteries, that they call the blood mysteries. Obviously I'm referring to the female experience of those. Men have these similar rites of passage, but they're nowhere near as intense as the female version of it, like menopause for a woman compared to a say- Tahnee: (10:53) Andropause or something. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (10:54) Yeah, or midlife crisis. Same with giving birth, like the woman's experience of becoming a mother compared to a man's experience of becoming a father is very, very different. Not not significant, but different. A rite of passage is this time of transformation and whatever happens during the time, whatever happens or doesn't happen, whatever's said or not said and whatever's going on in the world around you or in your family or whatever, all of that teaches the person going through the rite of passage how their culture values the next phase they're going into. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (11:34) With menopause, it's into the wise woman years or the ageing you, the middle aged you. What happens, teaches us how our culture values the next role we're going into and therefore how to behave to be accepted by the culture. So that's the case for every rite of passage. So birth, menarche or first period and then every pregnancy results in a birth regardless of whether it makes it all the way, and then menopause and then death. They're the physical rites of passage. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (12:10) This is such big work and I just want to really encourage your listeners to think about what each of their rites of passage have taught them about how their culture values the next role they're going into and therefore how to behave by what their experience was. Just to focus on menopause, I guess the thing is that what we've already talked about is how it's hidden and not talked about and possibly feared and kind of ignored, and so what does that teach us about how our culture values it? Doesn't, or it needs to be hidden or covered up or whatever, and therefore, how do you behave to be accepted by your culture? You stay invisible. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (12:58) You don't draw any attention to yourself, and you just keep it low and quiet and just carry on. There's even investigations by our scientific community, especially evolutionary biologists to ask the big question of why would it be that human women, human females, sorry, would live beyond their fertile years? What's the point? Tahnee: (13:21) I've actually read that stuff online. They're like, "Only whales and humans live past menopause. Why is that?" Jane Hardwicke Collings: (13:27) I know! As a post-menopausal woman to have one's value questioned, what is the use of me, that's a really- Tahnee: (13:39) Devastating, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (13:41) Yeah, and ridiculous and information. A bit of a clue, right? A fertile woman is the most valuable woman, and obviously on an evolutionary level, that's a very important role, to be reproducing, but the reasons they've come up with that you would have read the most popular hypothesis is called the grandmother hypothesis. Tahnee: (14:08) Yeah, the cultural reasons. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (14:10) Yeah, that the babies, the children of a woman whose mother is alive and helping her last, live longer or make it through childhood. The value of the post-menopausal woman, according to the evolutionary biologist's theory of grandmother is that the use of us is to help our daughters and sons, children stay alive by gathering more food and all of that kind of stuff. Tahnee: (14:40) It's still so reductive too. I mean it takes away your value. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (14:47) Which gives us a clue to how our culture values wise women. It's not that many hundreds of years ago that the wise women were burned on the stake. Tahnee: (14:56) Yeah. The witch trials [inaudible 00:14:58]. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (14:58) We got a long way to come back from that. The wise woman is not valued in our culture. Nobody's trying to dress up to look like her, are they? They're all trying to dress up to look like a 25 year old. She's actually the most loved and honoured- Tahnee: (15:18) Archetype sort of thing. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (15:20) Exactly. The archetype of the wise woman is not one that's terribly honoured or cared about, and we see that through the experience that women have around the rite of passage. That's the whole thing about the rite of passage of menopause, and it's not an isolated event. Rites of passage build on each other, and one leads to the next. They are also massive healing opportunities because their transformation takes place there. To bring to menopause, what we would hope is that by the time women get to menopause, they've kind of awoken to their inner knowing and feminine wisdom and power and strength, but many don't and many haven't. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (16:06) What we can do in a conscious way of approaching menopause is to remember what we've learned about ourselves so far, because that's the person that we're going to meet at the altar of menopause, so to speak. It's a really huge experience, and it takes some time. It can take 13 years, and it's an experience that is like a birth. It's a labour and a birth, and the labour is the perimenopausal journey and can take, as I said, up to 13 years. The birth, the baby is the wise woman version of ourselves, and the entrance into the maga life season, which is a relatively newly recognised life phase or life season in a woman's life. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (17:07) Nature is such a great teacher. If we use nature as the teacher here, we can see our maiden years, which are like zero, from our birth to around 25 are our maiden years, and then at 25 we all go into our mother season, the summer of our lives. So the maiden is the spring, the mother is the summer and every woman goes into the summer mother season of her life at around 25 regardless of whether she has children or will have children. We enter these years from 25 to menopause, and in those years we are as if the creatrix. So we conceive, gestate and birth all manner of things besides human babies like careers- Tahnee: (17:53) Ideas. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (17:55) ... [crosstalk 00:17:55], businesses, gardens, projects, whatever. Then at around ... Well the average age for menopause is 50, 51. So then we enter the second half of our lives. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, menopause is called the second spring, and so that gives a very nice perspective on it rather than the beginning of the end. Back in the day, when we were ... Well so the original archetypes of the female life story are maiden, mother and crone. That's the triple goddess that most people who are students of the women's mysteries are well aware of, and that's a very old story, maiden, mother and crone, and it comes from a time when we were mothers by the time we were 14, grandmothers by the time we were 30 and dead by the time we were 45 or so. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (19:08) If we reached menopause, average age 50, then we must be very close to death. That little perspective has unfortunately hung on. Tahnee: (19:21) Despite many changes to life expectancy. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (19:24) Exactly. Now when we get to menopause average age 50, we now live to, what, let's say 100. We're halfway. It's not the beginning of the end. It's the beginning of the next half of your life. Rather than that being crone, which crone is the old woman, the winter of our lives. Now with our longer lives, we can embrace and invite in the autumn season of our lives, which would go from say 50, average age of menopause to just say 70, which would be the beginning of the crone or winter season of our lives. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (20:06) The menopause heralds the autumn season of our lives, which is a really powerful and potent and important part of the cycle of the earth. Autumn is the harvest season. It's actually, back in the day before we could go down to the supermarket at 1:00 in the morning and buy a mango in the middle of the winter, we were reliant on our gardening and farming capabilities to keep ourselves alive. Autumn, the harvest season was the time when we were so busy and so busy in community as well gathering together to do whatever we had to do with the 100 zucchinis that we had or [crosstalk 00:20:57]. Tahnee: (21:00) Pickling. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (21:00) Pickling. [crosstalk 00:21:01]. Tahnee: (21:01) Reaping what we've sowed, right, [crosstalk 00:21:03]? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (21:02) Yeah, and sharing. You've got all those whatever, I'll swap you my pumpkins for your broccoli or whatever. If we can remember, whether romantically or actually, the sharing of the harvest idea, then that's what we can bring to understanding the autumn season of our lives, that it's an important part of our lives where we get to see and share our harvest and shift into a different kind of living style and experience based on not having the menstrual cycle anymore. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (21:50) The name that I was taught for the autumn season of our lives from one of my teachers in America, Cedar Barstow, is maga, M-A-G-A, and Cedar's about 10 or 15 years older than me, so she went through all of this before me, and was sharing her experience in her community when her group of similarly aged friends and colleagues, when they went through menopause, their mothers, many of them had their mothers still alive. They could see that they were crones, their mothers. They were old, wise women, and yet there was this cohort of them, around 50 or so shifting from the mother season into this other season, which they called maga, and they called it maga as a female version of the male term that's quite well known and used for men of that age called magus, which means magician. Tahnee: (22:49) [inaudible 00:22:49]. Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (22:50) Yeah, exactly. Maga is one of the words that can be used, and there are many others that are used and that is enchantress or sovereign woman or matriarch or amazon, queen, warrioress, witch, priestess, changing woman. Get the picture, she's next level. Tahnee: (23:24) She sounds like a dude. I'm excited. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (23:26) She's a total dudess. Tahnee: (23:28) Yeah, dudess. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (23:31) She's very much one version of the woman we need now, the earth needs now. The earth needs now, these women who are aware of their sovereignty, who are aware of their power and their connection to the earth and magic and will. One of the most amazing things that happens post-menopause when two of the main hormones of reproduction actually change their role, that's luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone, which are part of the cocktail that make ovulation happen and sustain hormone levels for pregnancy, et cetera. They change their role post-menopause and they change their role to become neurotransmitters of the right side of the brain. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (24:29) The effect that they have is that they increase our intuition and our visionary capacity. Tahnee: (24:38) Yeah, because I've heard they activate the pineal gland and that sort of third eye space I suppose, or the intuitive seat. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (24:46) Yeah. Imagine if the women in this phase in their lives were really aware of that first, but using ... That's what we need. We need visionaries. We need the intuitive grandma to participate in life. It's not like it's all over situation. It's a whole new story. The maga life season, I think the work of that, the story of that, the information about that has probably been one of the biggest and most impactful things that I've shared in my work and my writing because when women who are approaching menopause hear about this whole other season, it's like a relief and a bit exciting and gladness making that it's not all over. It's actually next level. Tahnee: (25:46) It's just beginning. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (25:47) Yeah, exactly. It has a lot of responsibilities. Post-menopausal women not being so under the influence of their menstrual cycle have more energy. They don't usually have little children anymore. They're more established in themselves and who they are in the world and what they do and all that. They're not trying to figure out what to do with their lives, they're doing it. With an increased visionary capacity and intuition, they're a very valuable member of the community that I think that would be a wonderful thing to harness, like a band of post-menopausal warrioresses. I'm [inaudible 00:26:36] with that. Tahnee: (26:35) Well it's funny, there's a group here called the Knitting Nana's and they send out all these amazing newsletters about fossil fuels, and they just dedicate their time to research and education around environmental issues. I'm thinking of them. I'm just thinking of also the Hindi life cycle has a similar arc where it's from zero to 25 you're sort of a student, and then from 25 to 50 you're in the child family, building stage of life and then 50 to 75 you're giving back to your community with your insight or wisdom. Then 75 to 100 is the spiritual years. Tahnee: (27:13) If you look at all the longevity communities, because I know the Taoist tradition has a similar life cycle, and the indigenous people of this country had that as well, like until 30 you were a baby and then 30 to 60 were kind of those community years, and then onward into your wisdom years and your spiritual years. I think it's such a call to arms to women to use this transformational time to step into some greater sense of their own purpose and power. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (27:43) Absolutely. Tahnee: (27:44) More so even than ... because I see so many young women seeking that really early, like in their 20s, and I'm compassionate and also remembering myself and thinking even from 18 to 35, I'm still not completely sure of what I'm contributing to the world yet. I'm still finding my passions and the things that light me up and things I can share without draining myself. I think that we've got to give ourselves more time, and it sounds to me like when you get into those 50s and 60s, you're starting to I guess condense. I think about Metal and how it condenses Water into something substantial and that wisdom of the Kidney energy and the winter energy in Chinese medicine. That's the kind of metaphor, I suppose, that's coming is that this is the time to condense all of your life experience into insight to contribute that back. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (28:35) Exactly. Tahnee: (28:36) Yeah. Sounds purposeful. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (28:41) Our culture needs that now more than ever. Tahnee: (28:46) Yeah. I think the leadership role, we're all obviously over this middle aged white men thing that's going on, it's about time we brought back some of this feminine power and wisdom. I've been reading a lot of the Celtic myths lately because I'm Irish descent and Scottish, and I've realised I've read a lot of the Native American, but not really so much from the Celts. They talk about the goddess of sovereignty, and when you're talking about that, I was thinking about that a lot, like that deep rooted connection to the land and that sort of sense of independence and self-composure and strength that comes from just tapping into those natural rhythms. This is all what's coming through for me listening to you speak. Tahnee: (29:35) I'm curious, so many women, when they hear the word perimenopause, they just freak out. They just immediately I think go into panic and I've spoken to a lot of women, because we work with herbs so a lot of women contact us in those times and they're looking for something to sort of I guess make it all go away, and I'm obviously uncertainty as how to advise a lot of the time in terms of the emotional side of it because I haven't experienced it myself that I often think this is such a potent time for self-reflection and probably to step back from things for a period while we I guess assimilate some of these ideas. Is that something you recommend? How do people navigate this time if they don't have structures and cultural support? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (30:17) Well it's really like a classic situation where wherever you go, there you are. Everybody is going to meet themselves at each rite of passage and really meet yourself. I just wrote down what you just said then about one of the main things women want to do is to make it go away. Where does that come from? I'm not going to wait for you to answer, I'm going to take us straight to the menstrual cycle. Tahnee: (30:47) Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (30:48) She who was initiated into womanhood at the altar of menarche, so menarche being your first period, is the woman that grows up and goes through and has babies and then goes through menopause and into her old years and then dies. We are really looking at menopause, what we can really see is what was the experience that our menarche taught us about being a woman. The "make it go away" is the classic thing. Tahnee: (31:26) Sure is, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (31:28) We've done some amazing research on the menstrual cycle and menopause. We did it in cahoots with the Victorian Women's Trust, and there's a wonderful book that was created out of all of the research and then the analysis of it called About Bloody Time. Tahnee: (31:44) I like that name. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (31:45) The menstrual revolution we have to have, and anybody who's interested in the menstrual cycle and interested in the impact of it in our culture, it's a great resource and wonderful thing to read, and you can get it through the Victorian Women's Trust. Anyway, a big thing about the research there and anybody who is involved in menstrual education will know that most commonly the experience women have at menarche, their first period, teaches them that they need to just carry on regardless. Hide it. Don't really let anybody know about it and whatever you do, don't leak. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (32:40) What gets set up there is shame, menstrual shame, and we know that menstrual shame is actually the pandemic and menstrual shame leads to body shame, which leads to low self-esteem, which leads to all the behaviours associated with that including at its worst, eating disorders and self-harm. Also, actually leads to dangerous sexual decision making, and also the large use of hormonal contraceptives, especially the pill to turn it off. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (33:25) Our culture is very successful at making the menstrual cycle go away. Tahnee: (33:31) It's our specialty. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (33:33) To our peril, right? Tahnee: (33:35) Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (33:36) The menstrual pathology and the denial of cyclical nature of women and even the denial of the cyclical nature of the earth has been one of the main things that's got us into the total fucking mess that we're in now. Then we see that "make it go away" happen in childbirth. Tahnee: (33:59) Oh totally, yeah. Numb me, inject me. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (34:03) Yeah, make it go away, make it go away. By the time we get to menopause, if we haven't awoken to the idea that "make it go away" is actually part of the way to keep women oppressed. If we haven't figured that out and have risen accordingly, then "make it go away" at menopause is a very easy thing to do. There's all kinds of drugs that you can take to make it go away, but the problem is it doesn't actually go away, it just goes on pause. The same for- Tahnee: (34:39) With the birth control pill. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (34:40) With birth control pill, exactly. Tahnee: (34:41) Yeah, like a weird faux pregnancy. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (34:43) Yeah, like you're in some sort of limbo, weird limbo land, and look, to be fair, for some women, their experience of the menstrual cycle and childbirth and menopause are so extreme and they don't have the internal or external resources to be able to navigate it. I really support everybody's choices in whatever they choose; however, I really want to be sure that everybody has all the information so that they can be making informed decisions rather than just the current- Tahnee: (35:21) Yeah, well it's disgusting how little education is done by mainstream health when prescribing these things. That's something that I find so frustrating, and one of the reasons we're doing this series for women in the first place is just to have these conversations and for people to start to maybe at least educate themselves to a baseline level about what's actually happening when you take a hormonal contraceptive or when you medicate your perimenopause or something like that. The impact can be really deleterious, and people think it's themselves. They blame their bodies and they blame this ... Especially women because it's so easy for women to feel shame and to blame the body and to think of the body as something other than ourselves and something that needs to be controlled and managed. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (36:15) Absolutely. Tahnee: (36:15) It's like, no, this thing ... I mean even during this pandemic, I've just let my body go fully, just completely natural and wild, and I don't know, I'm feeling so strong. It's been such an interesting, because I've been pretty au naturale anyway, but even just with like I'm wearing softer clothes because I'm not having to go out as much. I'm just feeling very different in this time, and that's been a big shift for me and I'm trying to even imagine if you're going through menopause, it gives such an opportunity to heal some of these wounds if they aren't already things that you've considered or worked with or started to navigate. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (36:57) Dr. Christiane Northrup has a lot of wonderful things to say about women's health, but she also has heaps on menopause, which is [crosstalk 00:37:05]. Tahnee: (37:05) Yeah, [crosstalk 00:37:06] really great. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (37:06) Yeah. She calls menopause the mother of all wake-up calls. Tahnee: (37:10) Totally. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (37:11) It so is, because it's like everything that you've swept under the carpet comes out at menopause, and that's due to what happens with the hormones, which I'll just mention in a minute, but the other quote of hers around menopause is that besides being the mother of all wake-up calls, it's an experience that's designed to heal all the unhealed parts of you. If you don't want to heal menstrual ... Well if you don't want to heal your body shame and you want to keep being ashamed of your body and covering it up and altering it in whatever ways that you can, then you can keep doing that, but it gets harder and harder and has to happen more and more often and gets more and more expensive and probably more and more dangerous too to be altering your body in all the chemical and surgical ways that you still can. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (38:12) The opportunity at menopause is to heal all the unhealed parts of you. That's a big invitation, but it's an invitation that you need to be ready for and prepared for and open to. It's not necessarily going to be easy. It's one meets one's self there. It's not like some demon out of the cupboard, unless you've kept yourself in the cupboard and you've turned into a demon, then it probably will be. It's such an opportunity to grow up and to accept that there are things that are never going to happen again or things that are forever changed. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (39:07) In a world that's fixated on youth and beauty and the growth cycle, that's all seen as useless. It's quite a big shift that needs to happen within one's self to be able to really get the most out of menopause. Many women sail through it and have no issues, but those who embrace it as the transformation that it's offering are going to have the experience they need to have to teach them whatever they need to learn. One of the best things in preparation for menopause is to make peace with all your experiences through your mother season. One of the biggest ways we see that show up at perimenopause or definitely post-menopause is that there's going to be no more babies. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (40:07) That might be something that you're glad of or it might be- Tahnee: (40:12) [crosstalk 00:40:12] or relief or both. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (40:13) Yeah. Relief or regret. There's so much of that. For some, the relief is like a whole new life opens up, and for some the regret is like the thing they've been trying to ignore for the last however many years they can't anymore. 60% of divorces apparently happen around menopause and initiated by the women. There's this them. It's like, "What have I been putting up with all this time," and that can be around anything. I mean it'll be around everything. At the first period, around menarche, it's like a veil descends on one, and it's the veil of oestrogen and progesterone. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (41:07) Oestrogen is known as the hormone of accommodation. What that means is that through the mother season of our lives, we sacrifice ourselves for our children or our businesses or our careers, whatever it is we're mothering. We sacrifice ourselves for it, and we're richly rewarded for that. It feels really, really good to dedicate our lives to the things that we really care about and want to help grow and survive and mature and all that. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (41:48) Then around say five years or so, before the last period, so you never really know, as I said, but there is some familiarity in family. If your mother hand a natural menopause, then your age will probably be similar to hers. About five years before that, this veil begins to rise, and so as the hormone of accommodation lessens within one's self, we're not so interested in sacrificing everything for everybody anymore, and the most uttered words are "How come I'm the only one who does anything around here?" or "Why can't you do that" or "You've been doing that for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Jane Hardwicke Collings: (42:36) People say, "You've changed." Yes, I've changed. It was okay yesterday, it's not okay today. Yes, that's right, it's not okay today. It's up in the air and it's confusing and it's confusing for the woman and it's confusing for the people she lives with, and it's a whole new ball game. The woman who's going through the experience, she kind of doesn't even recognise herself either, and she definitely doesn't know who she's going to be on the other side of this because she's never ever been that person before. What we have never run on the cocktail of hormones post-menopause ever in our lives, so it's a whole new version of us. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (43:22) There can be positives in that, and there can be negatives, especially around life purpose. For a woman who's had children particularly and post-menopause, there's her life, her children have probably grown up quite a lot and there's the negative version post-menopause called the empty nester where women's life purpose of raising their families is they're no longer needed for that, and that's quite a challenge. Christiane Northrup suggests to women around that that they try and remember what they were interested in pre-menarche, before they were socialised into being a woman through their menstrual cycle and being coerced kind of into being the way women need to be in the patriarchal culture. Prior to that, post-menopausal women who are looking for "What's my thing," can remember what their thing was before their periods started, that can be a bit of a clue to the un-brainwashed female version of themselves, and maybe they can pick up that interest post-menopause. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (44:43) The thing is that everything's different after menopause. You don't have the same ... the same things don't matter as much. It's very interesting. I had a big conversation with one of our wonderful aboriginal elders who shares her wisdom, Minmia many- Tahnee: (45:10) Oh I've read her book. I love her book. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (45:11) Yeah. Tahnee: (45:12) Yeah, Under The Quandong Tree Tree. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (45:14) Exactly. I sat with her one day with pen and paper going as fast as I could asking [crosstalk 00:45:21], and I said to her, "So what about menopause?" She said, "I don't know any woman whose worthy of the transformation into mimi. I don't know anyone who's ready for that, koori or white woman." She said, "Everybody's just trying to look young and keep doing what they always do, and they all turn into cougars." Tahnee: (45:52) She's been watching too much TV. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (45:56) I said, "Okay, so in all the books around menopause and the talking about menopause, everybody says it's a time for renegotiating things, like renegotiating work/life balance, renegotiating relationships, renegotiating your relationship with your body, et cetera, et cetera." She said to me, "Oh that's such a western way of thinking, renegotiating." She said, "It's not that at all." She said, "Post-menopause, when you become a mimi," so that's their word for it, mimi, she said, "It's not business as usual, it's not renegotiated life. It's a whole new role." Jane Hardwicke Collings: (46:39) She said, "The role of the mimi, the role of the post-menopausal woman is to weave the dreams for the grandchildren." Tahnee: (46:47) That's beautiful. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (46:49) Yeah. It's not that you're trying to return to what life was like before the rite of passage of menopause, it's a whole new thing. It's not about trying to do what you were doing before. It's about weaving the dreams for the grandchildren. To my mind, that means preserving the world for our grandchildren and like that group that you just mentioned, the Knitting Nana's. You know the environment is a classic place where we have to be focusing for that. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (47:24) It's a total cultural shift to embrace menopause in a way that nature teachers us about the autumn. It's not a carrying on of the summer. It's not a repeat of the spring. It's the harvest. It's the time when you need to give back and share everything that you've learned and to continue to focus on yourself in the way that you need to be able to to get on with your life. You really need to be healthy. I remember in my very first menopause workshop, Autumn Woman Harvest Queen workshop, one of the woman who was going, just entering her perimenopausal experience said, "Oh, okay, I get it. I can't live on Vegemite sandwiches anymore." Jane Hardwicke Collings: (48:17) You need to nourish yourself properly. I mean you need to nourish yourself properly the whole time, but the cost is higher post-menopausal. How you go through menopause, you're setting yourself up for your old age. So we need to train around menopause. We need to be doing exercise in the way that we would have been doing way back before everything got really easy. In the farming sort of way that we had to live, we need to recreate a lifestyle that's supporting our bodies and growing us strong and keeping us healthy, and we need to be nourishing ourselves on every level. Not just by food, but by adopting proper daily practises that include meditation and reflection and especially connection with nature. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (49:13) I think probably if there's one thing that I would suggest to anybody going through the journey of perimenopause and postmenopause is to spend as much time as you can in nature and time alone. Lara Owen and Susun Weed, two people who have written quite a lot about menopause- Tahnee: (49:34) Yeah, I've spoken to both of them. I've been very lucky. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (49:38) Yeah. Good. They suggest that menopausal women take a sabbatical, take a year off to remember yourself, to put yourself back together into your being so that you're ready for the second half of your life. Time alone in whatever way you can, a bit like a red tent or moon lodge experience to the max, as much time as you can have just on your own and as I said, especially in nature. I think that the other important things around menopause are around communication and education. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (50:16) As the woman in the family starts to go through menopause, everybody needs to understand what's going on so that they can understand what her experience is and she can feel supported in that, in the same way that you would be around someone having a baby. If someone's getting toward the final days of pregnancy and the baby's coming and in the newborn period, that woman needs to be cared for in a particular way, and it's kind of obvious, and that's what's required, and same, same in menopause. It's a woman going through a rebirth and she needs to be cared for an understood in that process. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (51:01) It's not just a normal time anymore. Education and communication within the family and the community, and menopause workplace policies are a thing, especially in England because a lot of the women who work there are post-menopausal too. Menopause workplace policies are a growing and very important thing to enable women to be able to self-care during their working hours, and that can be as simple as having a bloody window to open or a fan to access or more flexible working hours for women who are experiencing insomnia, which is a very common experience in perimenopause. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (51:49) Rather than ignoring it or remember the legacy of the menstrual cycle, ignore it and carry on and don't let anybody know, but taking that into perimenopause makes life very, very difficult and a lot of women leave work because they can't pretend nothing's happening. A hot flush that comes, which affects about 80% of women in the perimenopausal journey, you can't ignore it. It's, say, a 90 second probably experience of an increase in your body temperature that takes all your attention and all your awareness, and if you're in a culture or in a situation where you have to ignore and pretend nothing's happening, that's going to be really difficult. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (52:38) More often what happens is women isolate themselves or quit their jobs because you can't pretend it's nothing's happening. Or you can be medicating yourself so that it turns it off, which is the other option, but then you miss the opportunity that I think we can see quite a similar experience around childbirth, say. If you have a drug free birth, you have a very different experience to if you have a drugged birth. Tahnee: (53:05) I was wondering, are they kind of like a Russian birth, almost like a contraction in the sense of [crosstalk 00:53:10]. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (53:10) Exactly. Tahnee: (53:13) I mean if you can give yourself that opportunity to be present with it, I imagine there's a lot of self-growth and discovery in that. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (53:21) Yeah. My experience with hot flashes, to be fair and to be honest, I find them extremely annoying. That's no surprise to me because anything that stops me and brings me into the present moment can be a bit annoying to me. Tahnee: (53:41) Yeah, definitely. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (53:42) And there in lay my learning and my important thing that my hot flashes are obviously remaining to teach me. Tahnee: (53:49) Remind you. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (53:49) Yeah, like come into the present moment. Tahnee: (53:53) Totally. I feel that's similar with birth because I felt when I was birthing the contractions, when I was fighting them were much worse than when I learned to work with them, and the pain almost went away once I realised their function I suppose. I think sometimes we try and effort through things to keep ... I don't know what, I think I was like, "All right, I'm having a baby. We're giving birth." Its like, "No, you literally are going to ride the wave of this. You're not in control of this situation." I think that was a really powerful lesson for me, and I think in some ways that wisdom of the body takes over and it's humbling I think to be sat on your ass and told, "Sit back while we handle this." Jane Hardwicke Collings: (54:42) Exactly. The clues for what your experience of menopause will be lay in what you just said. It'll be the next level version of that teaching. Tahnee: (54:55) Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (54:56) About surrender and about trust. Tahnee: (54:59) Control. Yeah, totally, which is like them of the last time anyway. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (55:03) Yeah. It's not usually a surprise to people what comes up for them in their menopause. It's the usual, yet it's the opportunity to really deal with it. Tahnee: (55:18) Do you recommend women seek solace in circle with other women? I have a friend who works for us here at SuperFeast who I'm not completely sure how old she is, but I think she's around the 50 age, maybe like 40s. She is in a group with women of a similar age and they all discuss their experiences, and she started to have hot flushes and things. I know from her, just from speaking to her, that's been a really enriching experience and has given her a lot of confidence. Even, I'm her boss technically, so she communicates with me when she needs temperatures changed or to be in a different space. Tahnee: (55:58) I think I've seen her really strengthen through that. Is that something that you recommend or are there other? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (56:05) Totally. Women's circles, in whatever stage you are in your life, that's becoming a more and more common thing, but there's been a reclaiming to do that. I think that there's real benefit in women's circles with a variation of ages and that's basically what our four seasons journeys in the School of Shamanic Womancraft are circles of women from teenager even up to 65, 70, and there's an amazing teaching being in a circle with representatives from the whole cycle of our lives, and especially for the younger ones. Then the specific age circles, like as you're saying, are such opportunities to learn. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (56:59) Just thinking about circles of women who've got newborns, how much they learn from each other by just watching each other. Oh, I see she's fed off that boob and now she's going onto that one. Oh she's going back. They're watching each other, learn from each other, so we know that. By the time we get to the menopause experience, sharing our journeys with each other, just the very simple thing of realising, "Oh my god, I'm not alone," is so huge, and it normalises the experience that you're having. It makes your individual experience more real and accessible once you realise that everybody's going through something, and then individual stories are the things that are playing out with the actual sort of things going on in our relationships or with our body or whatever. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (57:52) It's so important to share with each other and to understand the process together, and the other really big part to remember is that each of us are simply and complicatedly the representative of our red thread or our mother line in our story of our lives. Each of us, when we come to these transformational rites of passage are doing our mother line story, so there'll be a theme or a pattern that's been going on in your mother line or your red thread forever, and it's not like it means that everybody has the same experience. You might not have the same sort of life story as your mother or your grandma, but there will be common themes in them. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (58:47) Helping ourselves understand what the story is in our mother line is so powerful because it's the healing opportunity that comes through these rites of passage where the pattern can stop and a new story can begin if somebody, and the person who's going through the rite of passage now decides, "I'm going to do the inner work so that the pattern stops repeating, the pattern of low self-esteem or depression or addiction or whatever it is. It's in their rites of passage where we can really do that big transformational work to not go down the well greased pathway of doom that's been playing out, I'm exaggerating, but in our red thread. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (59:44) Being together in circle and talking about all of these things, like what's arising and how am I experiencing that emotionally and physically and spiritually and stuff is really like the wonderful way and place that we all learn from each other. Women's circles are I think necessary all the time, and then especially during our big rites of passage. Tahnee: (01:00:11) I mean I guess, I obviously want to be conscious of time and I want to wrap it up, but I'm thinking about communication skills. Is there any advice, because I think it's such a foreign, it's like foreign territory I suppose. A lot of women struggle to communicate their needs at that time. Is that where that sabbatical, even just a period of internal exploration I suppose is useful that you're able to stake a claim and ask for what you need? Is there any tips you can give in that space for people, because I think that's something I've observed in women I know going through that period of time that don't know how to communicate? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:00:54) Yeah. Well for those for whom it's still in the distance, they can practise everything they need for the perimenopausal journey within their menstrual cycle. Perimenopause has been likened to the experience of the pre-menstrum. It's like during the say week three and week four of your menstrual cycle, everything that's not working in your life shows up. Tahnee: (01:01:25) Yes, it does. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:01:27) You can let go of it with your blood. Tahnee: (01:01:29) Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:01:30) If you don't let go of it, it just gets bigger, and that's an example of something getting swept under the carpet. For those for whom menopause is approaching but you're still menstruating, then pay attention to the second half of your menstrual cycle, so from ovulation or halfway if you're not ovulating anymore, so the week or two before the blood's ready to come, and if you're in perimenopause and the cycle's all over the place and you don't know when it's going to come, you're probably in that state all the time, so to pay attention to what you're feeling and what's arising and what you feel physically, what your emotions are telling you. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:02:11) I think before we can communicate with anybody about what we need and what we're feeling, we have to be able to communicate with ourselves. That's what the menstrual cycle gives us, like a bit of a feedback loop about what's working and what's not working. In the perimenopausal journey, the first person we have to listen to is ourselves. We can use mythopoetic language and archetypes to help us, and probably the easiest one in this situation would be to listen to the dark goddess within. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:02:45) The dark goddess is the aspect of ourselves who is telling us about all the things that need to change. If we could practise listening to her and not telling her to fuck off, really- Tahnee: (01:03:07) I've been thinking about Kali this whole conversation. That ruthless cutting cords, cutting heads off. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:03:16) Exactly. Tahnee: (01:03:16) Whatever needs to happen, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:03:17) Exactly. If we can firstly establish this communication with ourselves about what needs to change, and this is the biggest trick. We've probably been ignoring these things forever, so here they come very big and loud, and they burst out. First of all, establish a communication with oneself within about the things that need to change, and then start sharing that with the people we're in intimate relationships with, like especially our partners or our children or our work friends and colleagues and circle sisters, et cetera. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:04:00) One of the things that menopause is quite famous for is losing your memory, and I've forgotten why I've started ranting about this, so what was your question? Tahnee: (01:04:12) I think we were talking about communication. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:04:13) Oh right. Tahnee: (01:04:19) It's interesting you touch on that because I've just been doing teacher training with a woman who is in her 70's. We were talking about memory and how sometimes ... Well I'm curious as to your thoughts on if you have any thoughts on why we lose our memory in menopause because we were talking about how sometimes with meditation and things, you lose your memory as well. Yeah, it's just it was an interesting conversation. Do you have any thoughts on that or is it just a phenomena that occurs? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:04:50) Well it seems to be a phenomena that occurs, but there's reasons why and apparently it happens at every big rite of passage. The parts of your brain get used in different ways, not shut down, but other things are more important. Tahnee: (01:05:11) Like baby brain and all that kind of stuff. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:05:13) Yeah, all of that kind of stuff. It's not a problem, it's an important change. I find that the things that I forget, like if I ... After a period of time, I remember them. It's still there, but the things that are on instant recall are different now because different things matter. Tahnee: (01:05:34) Mm-hmm (affirmative). Different priorities, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:05:36) Yeah, but it is a thing. It is definitely a thing, and thing, the word thing becomes such an important word in my vocabulary because it can mean so many different things. Like "That thing," or "Let's talk about the thing about ..." [inaudible 01:05:52]. [crosstalk 01:05:52]. Tahnee: (01:05:51) A multipurpose tool. Your Swiss Army knife of vocabulary. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:05:59) Yeah, exactly. Communication and education, prepare yourself for this. In the way that women do childbirth preparation and education, we need to do that for menopause too. Tahnee: (01:06:14) Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:06:14) One of the ways I've seen that really work is within the four seasons journeys that I mentioned before, the School of Shamanic Womancraft. We have, as I mentioned, all variations of ages in the groups, and part of the yearlong training includes going to two of the Autumn Woman Harvest Queen workshops, which are the one-day workshops all about menopause. Mostly the women that come to those are women that are in it or have gone through it and want to understand what happened or women that for whom it's coming soon. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:06:50) With the four seasons journeys with the whole range of ages, there are many very young women that do these Autumn Woman Harvest Queen workshops, and they're learning about menopause like in many cases before they've even had children. It's so epic to see what these young women who learn about menopause, how their attitude to menopause changes in an instant, well not an instant, in a day, having learned about it and seeing that it's not this end story or this doom situation. There's a lot of amazing things that lay ahead. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:07:35) I've been able to see young women finish the day's workshop saying, "Wow, I'm really looking forward to menopause now." That's awesome. Tahnee: (01:07:46) Yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:07:48) I think education, which involves communication obviously, is what's required for so many things. We could be having this same conversation about death. Preparation- Tahnee: (01:08:00) Yeah. My favourite topics. Why aren't we preparing for death when we're young? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:08:05) Exactly. In many traditional cultures, that's what everything's about. The least we can do is prepare for menopause. Tahnee: (01:08:17) And then prepare for death. I know you're not able to actually run your in-person retreats at the moment, or sorry, workshops and things, which is a shame obviously, but that will shift as things do. You mentioned I think before when we were talking about having a course coming soon for women about the maga stage of life. Is that right? Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:08:40) Yeah. I've recently just put out a pregnancy eCourse. It's called Pregnancy: The Inner Journey eCourse. Now I'm doing an Autumn Woman Harvest Queen eCourse, so all about harvesting the transformational potential of menopause or something like that. I can't remember what the tagline is, but I'm gathering all the bits and pieces for that. I've got some beautiful artwork that's just been made of an Autumn Woman Harvest Queen and a poem that's just been written, and I'm pulling together all the information and the process for women to do in the comfort of their own home in their own time. I'm very excited to have that in the mix. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:09:34) I would imagine it'll probably take our southern winter for it to fully- Tahnee: (01:09:40) Get together. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:09:41) ... yeah, and then be born in the spring, or sooner. We'll see. These things run on goddess time, they're not to be ... they've got their own gestation. Yeah, I'm very excited to be bringing that eCourse out soon, and eCourses, pandemic or not, are really definitely one of the things of the future as we- Tahnee: (01:10:04) Yeah. That's such a powerful way I think for people to explore these topics without the geographical boundaries limiting them. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:10:12) Yeah. I mean obviously it's not the same as sitting in a circle with everybody. Tahnee: (01:10:15) Right, yeah. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:10:16) But there's very good things from them as well. Tahnee: (01:10:20) Well I think for a lot of people, it's a place to start or a way to explore, especially what we were talking about earlier where some people don't have the resources to travel or afford many, many courses. It's nice to offer things like that. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:10:38) Yeah. Tahnee: (01:10:39) It's something we wrestle with a lot because we used to do a lot of in-person stuff, and now with our daughter and the business, it's tricky, so we've been offering stuff online. A part of my soul misses the contact and the humans, but then another part of me is like, well, we're affecting people all over the globe, which we wouldn't be able to do if we were doing a workshop in our backyard. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:11:01) Absolutely. That's the point, right? We need to be the women the earth needs now. That's those who are soft and strong and resilient and adaptable. Tahnee: (01:11:16) Full of love. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:11:19) The pandemic has pulled the rug out from underneath us, so we need to adapt. In order to adapt, we need to be resilient. That's like another great lead-in to menopause. It's all about adapting and developing resilience, to be able to do that. The best thing anybody can go into menopause with is inner strength. Tahnee: (01:11:48) Well that's a powerful note to end on. I wanted to say thank you so much for your time. I've really enjoyed speaking with you, and I'm super excited to get to do some of your workshops some day. I'll link to your website, Jane Hardwicke with an E, Collings.com, but I'll put all the show notes and everything in there. Is there anywhere else people can find you? I know you have social media. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:12:10) Yeah, Instagram and Facebook. Lots of stuff going on there. We've got a very big project going on at the moment with the pandemic, that's all about supporting mamatoto's through birthing crisis. Lots of social media action. Tahnee: (01:12:27) Great. Well I'll link to those as well, and we will follow up with you when the maga course goes live. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:12:35) Awesome. Tahnee: (01:12:35) We'll put that in the show notes as well for people who listen a bit later on. For everyone out there, please get on Jane's mailing list and get involved. This is important work for women and men. I'm really passionate about, my poor partner gets the down low on all this stuff, but he loves it and I think as we have a business full of women, it's so important to be conscious of their cycles, and we also have a daughter, so I think if anyone's listening and you have men folks that are interested, please pass on these messages to them or let them listen to the recordings. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:13:07) Thank you so much for inviting me. Tahnee: (01:13:10) Oh, such a pleasure to speak with you Jane. Thank you so much. Jane Hardwicke Collings: (01:13:11) Thank you.
I am local to Far North Queensland and grew up on a farm near Tully. Cairns area has been my home for 22 years. My greatest achievements ever have been home birthing and raising 3 awesome daughters, and blending a family with my amazing partner and his children. As I have mothered my children I […] The post 20 – Hold Space – Jillian – In the Birth Altar appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 Healing Before Your Birth with Jane Hardwicke Collings.She is a grandmother, midwife, teacher, writer and menstrual educator.And she was also a home birth midwife for 30 years.Jane gives workshops on the spiritual practice of menstruation and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and menopause.She founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft and has recently launched an e-course called Pregnancy - the Inner Journey and Healing from Traumatic Birth Experiences.She is a very dear friend and certainly one of the wise women in our birthing world.I think our conversation is perfect to include right next to our previous interview with She Births® mum Peta Kelly on scripting your birth.Peta and I talked about healing the mother line and generational trauma - but of course it is not such an easy thing to do.At She Births® we discuss our belief systems and what fills the subconscious mind. The latest neuroscience that confirms how we live is how we labour...and we know that traumas are passed down as well as fears and beliefs but untangling that ball of wool inside our heads and hearts is not always so easy.Jane has many insights that will allow you to understand and unravel perhaps the tangle of a traumatic birth, or the toxic belief systems that could be passed down via your family's ‘red thread'.Jane, like me, believes that giving birth is an opportunity to heal and the growth and transformation available to women is profound.To learn more about Jane's work go to www.janehardwickecollings.comI hope you enjoy and please leave us a review if you do. xxx
Jane Hardwicke Collings is fiercely rallying the birth community, as well as the community at large, to come together during this time of crisis to enact real and radical change in the care birthing women are receiving during the Coronavirus pandemic. Jane speaks of the impact the crisis is having on birthing women and mother-babies, and how we must come together now to provide better birthing options in response to what women are seeking at this time. Together with a group of women, Jane has founded Hygieia Health, a not for profit dedicated to making such changes. They recently surveyed over 800 women and found that 80% are re-assessing their birth and maternity care options in the middle of this pandemic. Jane shares how we as a community must come together to adapt to meet the needs of women and babies, and the impact that this pandemic will have if we don't - particularly on mothers mental health.Jane is the founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft, has been a home birth midwife for over thirty years. and can be found at www.janehardwickecollings.comThis interview was recorded on Bundjalung country on Thursday 2 April, which must be acknowledged as much is changing daily during this pandemic. In adherence to social distancing, this interview was recorded virtually, and due to the current demand on these services, there are a few glitches and technical difficulties which we apologise for.Contact information for this episode:Mamatoto Support for Birth in Crisis Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205614144006691/Hygieia Health: hygieia.health.2020@gmail.comJane Hardwicke Collings: jane@schoolofshamanicwomancraft.comKirilly Dawn: kirilly@pbbmedia.org
Jane Hardwicke Collings is fiercely rallying the birth community, as well as the community at large, to come together during this time of crisis to enact real and radical change in the care birthing women are receiving during the Coronavirus pandemic. Jane speaks of the impact the crisis is having on birthing women and mother-babies, and how we must come together now to provide better birthing options in response to what women are seeking at this time. Together with a group of women, Jane has founded Hygieia Health, a not for profit dedicated to making such changes. They recently surveyed over 800 women and found that 80% are re-assessing their birth and maternity care options in the middle of this pandemic. Jane shares how we as a community must come together to adapt to meet the needs of women and babies, and the impact that this pandemic will have if we don't - particularly on mothers mental health.Jane is the founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft, has been a home birth midwife for over thirty years. and can be found at www.janehardwickecollings.comThis interview was recorded on Bundjalung country on Thursday 2 April, which must be acknowledged as much is changing daily during this pandemic. In adherence to social distancing, this interview was recorded virtually, and due to the current demand on these services, there are a few glitches and technical difficulties which we apologise for.Contact information for this episode:Mamatoto Support for Birth in Crisis Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/205614144006691/Hygieia Health: hygieia.health.2020@gmail.comJane Hardwicke Collings: jane@schoolofshamanicwomancraft.comKirilly Dawn: kirilly@pbbmedia.org
Jessie is a midwife, shamanic craftswoman, educator and artist and not to forget Mother to three! Share this beautiful journey with Jessie and her experience with the Four Seasons Journey in 2017. ♥️ Musings from Jessie “I loved Jane's down to earth practicalness.” “It was a total reaffirming of being on the right track.” “The […] The post 19 – Red Thread – Jessie – Connecting to Self appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
In 2012 Sarah Miller embarked upon her first journey to the School of Shamanic Womancraft. It resonated profoundly, and Sarah felt called to this sacred dance and drum beat. The drum making journey was one of the most potent connections, especially connecting her own birth story to that of the drum making. Also, the journey […] The post 18 – Embody – Sarah – The Drum Journey appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Come journey with heart and soul of how we relate in ourselves and in relationship with others. Avalon journeyed with the school in 2011 and have weaved a beautiful blossoming of her deep work to opening the portals for women to step into and collectively uprise and find the container of transformation. This episode is a […] The post 17 – Blossoming – Avalon – The Sacred Feminine Way appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Mara and I journey on this episode into how her birth experiences opened up new dimensions to sacred womancrafting. Mara is a current final year apprentice and we explore her time over the years with the school and we delve into a fantastic discussion about the word ‘midwife' and our expectations of what that word […] The post 16 – Held – Mara – Midwifing Transformation appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Holliea talks in this podcast about taking opportunities to develop self-development and self-enquiry, with her health journey coming into immediate need, Holleigh found the school after studying Ayurveda and holistic practices. Follow the journey of tuning in with our cycles and how Holliea connected with healing the divine feminine. Musings from Holliea “This deeper work needs to be shared.” […] The post 15 – Nourish – Holliea – Cycles, Trust & Intuition appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Judy is an experienced Midwife, teacher of Shamanic Womancraft and Priestess of Avalon workshops. Judy guide sand mentors Women on their soul paths. Teaching the Womens mysteries; the wisdom inherent in in the naturally occurring cycles & how to effectively live in alignment with these for greater ease, flow & meaning. Judy shared her own beautiful and interesting story and we discussed a lot, the key areas being: - An indepth insight into the Four Seasons Journey, "A healing journey for the individual, made richer for being collective" - The importance of ritual & gathering with other Women in circle - Natural Cycles as a guide for a fulfilling & harmonious life - The Continuum of the Woman's life cycle and rites of passage - Ancestral lineage, deep connection & acknowledgement to both our ancestors land and the land we live upon - Birth as a sacred rite of passage and how birth professionals can honour and hold space for this - reframing the path to Menopause as a positive and empowering experience You can find out more about Judy at: Website - School of Shamanic Womancraft Facebook Instagram The contents of this podcast do not constitute medical or professional advice, do not reflect the opinions of this business, any of its parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, promotional sponsors, or advertising agencies, and do not create any type of patient-physician relationship or other professional relationship between the audience and presenters. No person viewing any podcast from this website should act or refrain from acting on the basis of the content of a podcast without first seeking appropriate professional advice and/or counselling, nor shall the information be used as a substitute for professional advice and/or counselling. Pollination Mamas expressly disclaims any and all liability relating to any actions taken or not taken based on any or all contents of this site.
Talia asked the question after she found her self travelling for some time, what is it to be a woman? She becomes even more curious and interested, and serendipitously she found the School of Shamanic Womancraft. Here is Talia's journey into weaving the hearth… Musings from Talia “I am a woman of this earth, and what does that […] The post 14 – Hearth – Talia – Maidens and Magic appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Welcome to the world of somatic ecology and dance. Welcome to Brittany Jane. This episode is a delight into the journey that Brittany Jane took with the school and how it paved the way into her current offerings. We explore how connecting with our inner world serves and how important tuning into our inner wisdom […] The post 13 – Movement – Brittany Jane – Somatic Ecologist Dancing for Growth appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Jane Hardwicke Collings is direct, bold and some would say unrelenting in her passion and purpose to help women reclaim rites of passage, long denied to them by the patriarchy. You will soon learn, as my guest on The Priestess Podcast today, that Jane is a no holds barred Priestess of powerful proportions, and her desire for women to feel more deeply connected to the cycle of life through birth, menarche, pregnancy, menopause, decay and death. Todays podcast is going to be of particular interest to you if you are a bleeding woman or one who is potentially going through the life stage of peri-menopause or menopause - or if you have ever birthed a baby. Such things are of course not synonymous with being or identifying as a woman, however for many of us they play a hugely significant role in our lives - and not always in a positive way. Jane's mission in life is to change this which she is absolutely doing through her worldwide events, workshops, books, teachings and the School of Shamanic Womancraft which she founded.
Enter Maga phase and the rich wisdom we can all learn from a woman in her absolute self. Judy Diana offers this podcast her journey as a midwife, priestess (including training in the sacred lands of Glastonbury) and Womancrafter. Judy talks about the goddess path, and how her midwifery call has helped intertwine this sacred work […] The post 12 – Priestess Wisdom – Judy Diana – Maga, Honouring our Transitions appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
This podcast with Sar from Medicine Voice will find you exploring how we can cultivate our inner power for the good of all! Sar journeyed and now apprentices with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. Sar's powerful voice gifted to us as medicine healing, and we see how Sar journeying with the school found many depths […] The post 11 – Medicine Voice – Sar – Our Voice Within appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
This episode we are fully present and blessed with Anki. This explores te depths of her journey with the SSW back in 2012 when she to become a homebirth midwife for the first time. We navigate her loving journey into the amazing offerings that she now brings in Sacred Feminine and Journey of the Wild […] The post 10 – Wild Feminine – Anki – I See You In There appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Dive into the world of connection with this light and whimsical tale of Mel's journey in the Four Seasons in Victoria, Australia. Mel talks deeply about the importance of connection for ALL ages, we delve into the drum making process and how that showed up for her own birth story, and we then talk about […] The post 9 – Firekeeper – Mel – Earth Connection appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Tamar comes to us from her experience journeying with the school in the UK. Currently, she weaves her magic in France, and this episode connects with her birth story and how this process comes up for her in her four seasons journey. Tamar joined with the drum making process and felt so deeply into the […] The post 8 – Reclamation – Tamar – Unlocking Greatness appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Grace brings the podcast a real insight into our cycles and patterns and how important is our deep work for the healing feminine. Grace Journeyed in 2013 with the school and is now teaching. We will hear in this podcast a woven tale of our awakening and honouring of self. Ever had that feeling of […] The post 7 – Lunar – Grace – Importance of Honouring our Rhythms appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
We found a modern day priestess for this absolutely insightful podcast. Julie Parker journeyed with the school in 2017, she come into this with absolutely a strong pull to follow this instinct after having nightmarish dreams that were telling her that she needs to wake up and go back to the work that will wholly […] The post 6 – Priestess – Julie – Inherent Beauty & Women in Business appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Sequoia brings us an insightful podcast. We explore her deep calling to do this work and how she come into her first journey with the SSW back in 2010, then she was pregnant and we learn fro Sequoia how she got held over this year in pregnancy, birth and postpartum…. We dived into safety and […] The post 5 – Blood – Sequoia – Safety & Connection appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
This exploration opens us up to Cailleach Howard from Triple Spiral Womancraft We talk about how her life shapes in the energetic Blue Mountains, Sydney NSW. The podcast looks at Cailleach's growth from the corporate world to phycology, psychodrama and the gifted work she currently does now with women coming into the 4SJ of The School of […] The post 4 – Triple Spiral – Cailleach – Myth and Psychodrama appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
This episode opens up to Joey's journey in the Four Seasons Journey (4SJ) and how this engaged her to further expand the amazing work she does with vestibular audiology, yoga, mindfulness and neuroplasticity! Joey is a powerhouse woman who is giving back and in this podcast we explore how the 4SJ gifted her insight into the […] The post 3 – Balance – Joey – Integrative Medicine and Sensory Challenges appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
In this episode we explore Jane's journey into shamanic womancrafting, feminine mysteries and working with goddesses. Jane talked extensively about her leap into this work coming though her own journey as a midwife in Australia to her births that have weaved the way into her path and ultimately to the birth of The School of […] The post 2 – Growth- Jane Hardwicke Collings – Founder & Shamanic Midwife appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
Ayla Myra, story guide and host gives us a little insight in the podcast and how The School of Shamanic Womancraft has shaped her direction into producing what will be a magnificent podcast series of healing and medicine stories. Ayla Myra has hosted the in depth birth story podcast The Circle of Birth over the past […] The post 1 – Birthing – Ayla Myra – Herstory appeared first on School of Shamanic Womancraft.
ABOUT JULIE Julie Parker is an Author, Speaker, Life Coach Trainer and host of The Priestess Podcast and Sacred Priestess Circles. She is devoted to her spiritual practice having studied with the 13 Moon Mystery School, School of Shamanic Womancraft and Temple of the Magdalene. Julie is the recipient of numerous leadership and women’s business awards and she appears regularly in the media including Sunrise and The Morning Show, as well as publications such as Cosmopolitan, Peppermint Magazine and Sunday Life. As a modern day Priestess Julie is committed to contributing to a world where feminine qualities of intuition, presence, nurturing, spiritual exploration and service, sit comfortably within the realms of global for profit entrepreneurship. CONNECT WITH JULIE: Podcast : http://juliesuzanneparker.com/podcast/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/julesyparker/ Facebook : https://web.facebook.com/juliesuzanneparker/ JOIN US IN THE SEXY SOULFUL SUCCESS FB GROUP COMMUNITY
Lauren's interest in the mystery and power of feminine wisdom began when she was pregnant with her son many years ago. Feeling awakened to her true self for the first time, she began to explore her intuition and found herself drawn to creating space for women undergoing the transformation of motherhood. Lauren shares with us her incredible perspective on the identify shift that women experience when they become mothers, and seeing the season of early motherhood as a time of creativity and full bloom instead of closing off or isolation. Bringing the wisdom of over a decade of supporting women in birth and motherhood, her compassionate and gentle soul radiates throughout our conversation as we talk about everything from aligning with the season of life you are in to believing in your body. Lauren's work in creating Spirit Birth is a culmination of years of holding space for mothers, and we are so excited for what she offers. Believing that each woman's birth path is important and beautiful, she knows that every mother deserves the support and education to create an empowered, spiritual birth experience. See the Show Notes below for more information! In This Episode: Early motherhood is a season of creation - we are the most full of life and creativity we will ever be We have the birth we need to become the mothers we need to be Our children are our mirrors - we can look at them and often it's a reflection of where we're at Taking responsibility for our own state of being - we can't change anyone but ourselves Birth is a bridge - no matter how it goes down, you have to cross it in order to transform Confidence over control in birth and motherhood Living in alignment with the seasons of life Seeing motherhood as a time of opening, not a time of closing off Living in rhythm rather than routine Show Notes: Lauren's Website Hub - Featuring all of her projects Spirit Birth - Lauren's incredible online birth course Sneak Peek into Spirit Birth The Life Pod - Lauren's Yoga Studio in Sydney Calm Birth Childbirth Education The School of Shamanic Womancraft Lauren's Influences: Ina May Gaskin, Sarah Buckley, Peter Jackson, Pam England About Our Guest: "I’m Lauren Falconer and I am the creator of The LifePod and Spirit Birth. I’m a birth educator, a doula, a yoga teacher, calmbirth practitioner, shamanic midwife in training and a blogger. I work with pregnant women, mothers, and women looking to reignite their connection with their intuition and passion for a soulful life. I help them to feel nourished and supported, prepared and deeply aligned with their inner wisdom. I help to take the fear out of the birthing process and empower pregnant women to trust their own innate intelligence, reigniting the spirited experience that birth is."
Sequoia Krop from Within Woman talks about travel, birth, sisterhood, and her life's calling towards Shamanic Womancraft, as well as the Red Tent Ceremony and other sacred offerings to the women of the Byron Shire. For more info www.withinwoman.com.au
Sequoia Krop from Within Woman talks about travel, birth, sisterhood, and her life's calling towards Shamanic Womancraft, as well as the Red Tent Ceremony and other sacred offerings to the women of the Byron Shire. For more info www.withinwoman.com.au
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