Learn the Magic of the Menstrual Cycle and how to Honour and Celebrate Menarche as a Rite of Passage
Becoming A Woman
What is Becoming A Woman?
Together, we will demystify menarche, and honour the passage into womanhood. In the spirit of the healed feminine, mothers and daughters will deepen their understanding of menarche in a seasonal, age appropriate and soul nourishing space.
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Honour and celebrate your daughter’s rite of passage to becoming a woman
- Deepen your relationship to your menstrual cycle and the inherent wisdom it holds
- Heal your red thread and create a new story in your family and lineage
- Understand the transformative power of Menarche and the cycles of life
Why the menstrual cycle?
Becoming A Woman is a guided workshop for mothers, daughters, and caregivers that introduces the menstrual cycle as a meaningful initiation into womanhood. It offers an overview of the cycle as a source of wisdom, connecting personal experience with the wider rhythms of nature and the shared experience of women. The process begins with a dedicated session for mothers, known as The Reclaiming, where they revisit and reshape their own menarche experience, creating a more supportive foundation for the next generation.
From there, mothers and daughters come together in circle for a four-hour, interactive and experiential journey of learning, remembering, and reconnecting with the language of cycles. Through this shared space, participants explore how the body moves in harmony with nature, building trust, understanding, and connection. Beginning this journey at menarche with awareness and support can profoundly shape how girls relate to their bodies over a lifetime, empowering both mothers and daughters to engage with the menstrual cycle as a source of strength, renewal, and self-trust.
“"At menarche a young woman enters her power, throughout her menstruating years she practices her power, and at menopause she becomes her power.””
Native American Saying
“I felt very blessed to be able to be a part of such an experience with my daughter, an experience all young women should be given the opportunity to be part of.”
SueMother
“It reinforced my deep reverence and appreciation for my womanhood and encouraged me to continue the dialogue about the importance of this very significant right of passage.”
Lara
Workshop Structure
Each Moonsong workshop begins with the creation of a safe container to hold us all during the day, our sacred circle. In the magic and safety of circle we pass the talking bowl, to talk, to listen, to share and to reflect.
In this space we open the floor to whatever wants to be expressed and we also explore feminine wisdom, what it is and how and why so much of it has been lost.
The map, the way home, is within us. We draw the wheel, delineating the correspondence between the major influential cycles of the earth seasons, the lunar phases, the stages of the menstrual cycle and our own life seasons.
The transitions between the seasons of our lives, the rites of passage of birth, menarche, motherhood, menopause, retirement and death are reframed as initiatory processes offering us deep opportunity for personal and collective growth and understanding.
We explore each of these aspects of the wheel, charting the changing energies, actions, feelings, and ways that are associated with each aspect – always mindful that this is the just the map, your own body is the territory.
What emerges is the basic cyclical map of birth, growth, full bloom, harvest, decay, death and rebirth – a cycle we can live by, flow with and become present to in our own lives.
Bringing consciousness to these ever present patterns engages us in the creative process of life, and positions us as active participants in the web of life.
Seeing our own patterns, and stories is helped by paired share discussions, personal mapping and inner guidance through a drum journey.
Emphasis is also given to our menstrual cycle – understanding the fundamentals of fertility, of the monthly changes in our bodies, and the ways we can anchor ourselves in the spiritual practices of menstruation and menopause.
Becoming A Woman Teachers
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Witch • Hearthkeeper of the SSW • Doula • Mother •
Sequoia is a Mother, a Witch, a Shamanic Craftswoman, a Doula and a Hearthkeeper.
As a Teacher with the SSW 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.
Sequoia 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.
She holds workshop 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 Tentsand 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.
Listen to Sequoia on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 5 – Blood ~ Safety and Connection
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
Midwife • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess of Avalon • Mage •
Judy has a professional background in health sciences and women’s health. She is an experienced midwife who has spent over 20 years working with birthing women and families in Australia and England. She currently practices as a midwife in the public health system. She holds a passion for all aspects of child birth and an awareness of pregnancy and birth as a transformational rite of passage. She offers clinical supervision and mentorship to student midwives.
Judy is a Graduate and Teacher for The School of Shamanic Womancraft. She teaches the Four Seasons Journey, Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops.
In all her work, Judy guides women to remember and reclaim their innate wisdom, inner knowing and authentic nature. She creates and holds the sacred space, the safe container for inner healing to take place.
Judy leads ritual and ceremony to honour significant times of transition in our lives including rites of passage, seasonal Sabbats and phases of the lunar cycle. Judy facilitates women in reconnecting with Self and the Divine Feminine, grounded in Nature Based Spirituality.
Judy holds workshops, courses, individual transformational sessions and community-based women’s circles, including:
The Women’s Spiral of Transformation: year-long program
Pregnancy and Birth: The Inner Experience
Wise Woman Rising: Introduction to the Women’s Mysteries
Journey to Avalon Immersion
Moon Circle for Soulful Women program
Frame Drum journey work
Student Midwife Support Circles
Co-Creatrix of regular Red Tent Rising gatherings.
Judy brings the wisdom of many years of spiritual, personal and professional education and enquiry to all that she offers. A woman of Goddess, Judy delights in the continued unfolding of a synchronous, magical and meaningful life.
Judy recognises Biripai Country and offers her respect to the Biripai people as the original guardians, custodians and wisdom keepers of the land where she lives, the beautiful Mid North Coast NSW.
Listen to Judy on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 12 ~ Priestess Wisdom ~ Maga, Honouring our Transitions
Founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft • Creator of Moonsong, Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest queen workshops • co-creator of Winter Woman, Bone Wisdom Workshop • Grandmother •
My interest in bringing and offering this information is to help how I can in healing the wounded feminine and the wounded masculine of our patriarchal culture.
My mission is to help women reclaim feminine knowledge and wisdom, to help heal birth, menarche, menstruation, menopause and death, for all my relations.
I represent three lineages:
Home birth Midwifery – ancient wise woman practices passed down the generations that I learned from Maggie Lecky Thompson (Australia).
EarthSong (Boulder, Colorado, USA) Shamanic Teachings and Practices – that I learned from James Harvey (AKA BlackBear) and Cedar Barstow.
Shamanic Midwifery – the teachings and insights of the Late Jeannine Parvati Baker (USA).
(Jane Hardwicke Collings is not registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.)
Listen to Jane on the Womancraft Podcast→ Episode 2 ~ Growth ~ Founder & Shamanic Midwife
Shamanic Craftswoman • MagaWoman • Workshop Teacher • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Shamanic Drum Making Teacher • Story Teller • Earth Dancer • Wild Bird Protector • Tree Sister •
Sarah Bird Miller is enchanted by this Earth and has a passion for embodied earth wisdom. She is deeply held by the stories/myths and ways that reweave humanity back into the web of life.
She is a teacher of the Four Seasons Journey and Moonsong Workshop for the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is also the founder of Embodiments Dance, a dance, drum and women’s circle space.
She lives an embodied spirituality, honouring feminine wisdom, the cycles within and without, and the gentle-wild rhythms of Life that hold us all.
She is a Mage woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
Listen to Sarah on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 18 ~ Embody ~ The Drum Journey
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Witch • Hearthkeeper of the SSW • Doula • Mother •
Sequoia is a Mother, a Witch, a Shamanic Craftswoman, a Doula and a Hearthkeeper.
As a Teacher with the SSW 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.
Sequoia 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.
She holds workshop 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 Tentsand 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.
Listen to Sequoia on the Womancraft Podcast
→ Episode 5 – Blood ~ Safety and Connection
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Blood Keeper • Sister • Aunty • Daughter • Explorer • Observer • Creator •
Brittany is a teacher of the Moonsong workshop, drawing on many years of cycle-tracking and retreating during her blood time. She loves sitting in sacred circle with sisters and is passionate about supporting women and girls to reconnect to self through the menstrual-ovulation cycle and reconnect to the earth mother through the cycle of the seasons.
She has a special interest in Fertility Awareness for body literacy and has studied with fertility specialist Kerry Hampton.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher – Moonsong • Circle Facilitator • Integrative life coach • Shamanic Drum Making •
Bianca offers community events and circles in the Sydney Northern Beaches area and supports women 1:1 in their growth, healing, and transformation.
She is a shamanic craftswoman, integrative life coach, circle/ceremony facilitator, Moonsong workshop teacher, drum maker, and meditation teacher with a background in healthcare.
Woven through her work is an emphasis on rewilding, reconnecting, and restoring wellbeing. You can see Bianca 1:1 for integrative life coaching and shamanic womancraft. You can also join a Moonsong workshop, shamanic drum making workshop, the monthly women’s circle or monthly shamanic drumming circles in Freshwater.
Bianca offers bespoke rite of passage ceremonies such as mother-to-beblessings, bridal blessing circle, and maiden moon blessings. And offerings for workplace wellbeing programs.
