Coming of Age - Women and Girls Gatherings
Evolving feminine wisdom comes from a renewed effort toward understanding our female bodies, reflecting on our earthly experience and communing with other women. Working with the relationships of personal biography, feminine physiology, and earthly rhythms provides a pathway for us as women to share our wisdom.
It is my experience that adolescents are healthiest in a community environment that is warm and supportive. Toward this end, I have developed a wide range of workshops and events to nurture and support your social life.
We, as women, have been taught to be invisible in so many ways. The feminine qualities available to both women and men- heart logic, interdependent perception, empathy and intuition, continue to be lacking in the world. Rites of Passage after 56 years old and after menopause give us an opportunity to celebrate all we have accomplished in our lives. (See Life Celebrations)
Women's Gatherings
The women's workshop is open to all women in the community. These workshops create a space for women to share their wisdom and experiences with each other and with girls preparing for maidenhood.
All workshops will engage our memories, thoughts, feelings, hands, and hearts through artistic activity, contemplation, listening and conversation. They are usually one-day workshops from 10 am to 3 pm.
Possible Workshops
- Women's Bodies - Women's Wisdom
- Puberty and Menopause - Reflections
- Menopause - A Wake-Up Call
- Co-Created Topic and Process
- The Woman-Maiden Circles
The Nurturing Woman to Welcome the Maiden Workshop will educate and support women and help build a foundation in the community that can encourage girls to celebrate becoming young women. This first workshop prepares for participation later in Women-Maiden Circles and a Coming-of-Age Celebration. The women's workshop is open to all mothers in the community.
This workshop allows women to come together to share biographies and our hopes and fears for the maiden, discover the Menstrual Matrix and review the Female Fertility Cycle.
There are three possible Women-Maiden's Circles, each focusing on the age appropriate stages of education and self-development. I offer circles to fifth/sixth and seventh/eighth grade families. Fees and schedule arranged on an individual basis.
Moon Menstrual Pads
These menstrual pads were created in 1997 when I discovered that there existed the possibility to use cloth as
menstrual pads. Pad covers are 100% cotton flannel. I made them for myself. They lasted until the end of menopause- over six years! I soaked then washed them in cold water in the machine and dried them in the dryer. My sons didn’t mind.
Pad kits ready to close by zigzagging on a sewing machine.
| Suggested pad set: | Dimensions for Adult & Teen |
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| Pad Kit each | Set of patterns and instructions |
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All prices plus shipping and handling with a minimum order is $20.00. If you want the pads ready to use please add $1.00 per pad to your order. |
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