Sacred Cycles: A Journey

Will you join us to explore this sacred aspect of our lives?

Our menstrual cycle has not always been honoured in Western society as it could be. Do you remember your first period? What messages did you receive from those around you? Was this a celebration or something brushed under the carpet? What was your relationship with your period - were you loud and proud or hiding pads and tampons behind your back as you slipped into the bathroom? How is your relationship with it now?  

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Join Alyssa and Kim to delve into the journey you've had with your cycle from your teen years to now, whether that be current, a long time ago, or a recent memory. Beginning from childhood we'll journey through life to gain insights into the gifts and challenges we can face on this journey as women, girls and menstruators. Alongside this, we will also explore the 4 phases of the menstrual and lunar cycle. Each week we'll dive into one of the phases, discuss its energy and how you experience it. You will also have the opportunity to check in with how you’re arriving at each session over the 6 weeks. We'll use a variety of expressions, including creativity and visual art expression to connect with and explore what is within.  

This be might for you if:  

🔥 Feeling Disconnected: Your body and menstrual cycle might seem like a bit of a mystery or even a problem, and/or you're experiencing cyclical symptoms such as PMS, irregular cycles, acne, pain or just generally feeling out of flow.   

🔥 Awareness of Your Cycle: You know there's a cycle in your body, a natural rhythm, but it feels somewhat elusive. You might have some knowledge about it, yet there's a disconnect and you want to feel more connected.  

🔥 A Sense of Potential: You're in a space where things are okay with your cycle, but you sense there’s potential for more awareness and with that, greater energy and fulfilment in life.   

🔥 You're currently not experiencing a menstrual cycle due to contraception and are interested in transitioning off it and would like to learn and be prepared to live in harmony with your menstrual cycle when it returns.   

🔥 You’ve learnt that people are diving deep into the experience they’ve had with their cycle past and present, and you want to be part of it.   

 Throughout the course you can:  

💫 Rediscover Your Flow: Join us in a space where we'll explore the journey of rediscovering your inner rhythm, without the pressure of immediate solutions.  

💫 Community Connection: Experience the power of a supportive circle where shared experiences are valued and embraced.  

💫 Navigating Cycles: Whether it's PMS, pain, or irregular cycles, find a safe haven for navigating these experiences and finding a way forward through deeply understanding your body and cycle.  

💫 Mindful Presence: Discover practices that encourage mindfulness and self-awareness, allowing for a more conscious and present experience of your cycle.  

Impacts from past participants:   

💚 A feeling of empowerment at the deep connection fostered with body  

💚 A capacity to plan life around cyclical energies and strengths, and feel confident and proud in those choices, including increased productivity from aligning tasks with the appropriate stages of the cycle.  

💚 Understanding of needs throughout the cycle and more confidence to ask for and express those needs.  

💚 A deeper understanding of menstrual cycle which creates the ability to know what’s typical for them, and when to seek healthcare support for imbalances or unwanted symptoms.   

💚 Increase in confidence to openly discuss cycle with friends, family and colleagues, leading to deeper connections and more harmonious intimate relationships.  

💚 Embracing the uniqueness of each phase and the changing energy that comes within them.  

💚 Identifies and embraces their unique patterns throughout the cycle, harnessing the different energies and using their strengths to better understand how to care for self, operate in & navigate their world.  

💚 A healing of early menstrual experiences that perhaps didn’t meet the needs of their younger selves.  

💚 Inspired to share knowledge about menstrual cycles with girls and young people, contributing to a positive impact on the next generation.  

"The words that come to mind when reflecting about my experience are: connection, uniqueness and gentle guiding. It was a gift to have this experience. The facilitators of this workshop demonstrate a very unique craft of guiding the participants to discover their own answers." - Lori  

Details about the course  

🧐 We'll journey over 6 weeks delving into our cyclical nature. Below is an overview of what we’ll be exploring each week:  

💛 Week 1  

Our journey will begin with connecting with each other and our intentions for our time together. We'll continue by exploring the first of the 4 phases - Follicular and Waxing moon.   

We'll end with the opportunity to simply notice how you’re arriving and what is present. This means that as we journey together over the 6 weeks, whether you are currently menstruating or not, you will have the chance to notice what shifts, changes, moods, body symptoms and mental spaces you experience.   

🧡 Week 2  

After checking in with how you're arriving, our journey (as per week 1) will continue as we explore the ovulatory phase and full moon.  

We'll then continue by journeying to childhood; your pre-menstrual self and that moment you had your first period – the messages you received about your approaching menstrual cycle and your experience of this.  How was this for you? What did you need? What image did you have of yourself at this time?  

At the end there will be an invitation to begin to create a ritual around re-imagining your first period the way you would have liked.  

💚 Week 3  

After a check-in this session, we will begin a very special part of our journey - there will be space for each to carry out their ritual with witness and support from the group. Support will be given to design and carry out your ritual.   

💙 Week 4  

After our check in, we'll begin with our third phase - the luteal phase and waning moon.   

We’ll then delve into your experience of your cycle since that first period? – how has it been living a monthly (or maybe more or less) cycle? What feelings have been there throughout? How has it felt within your body?  

💜 Week 5  

Once again after a check in we'll explore our 4th and final phase - menstruation and new moon.   

We'll then explore the data gathered from check ins each week and consider what patterns might be emerging and how you can best support yourself in each phase.  

🤍 Week 6  

In our final week together there will be time to consider – what would you like to experience moving forward? How do you want to connect with your cycle? If you’re no longer or not currently experiencing a menstrual cycle, what do you want for yourself now? How do you want to see your cycle when you look back on it?  

Then you'll have the opportunity to create something through art or writing that represents what your intention is moving forward.   

We'll end with lots of time to share about our journey together.   

Note: Timings might shift and change as little as we'll tune into what the group needs most in each session.   

The following is included in the course:  

💕 12 hours of live calls with 2 facilitators.  

💕 Invitation to join a private Facebook group for the duration of the course - a place to connect with each other between sessions to share and witness. Alyssa and Kim will be there with prompts between sessions and to answer any questions that might come up.  

💕A cycle tracker template you can use to chart menstrual and/or lunar cycle.  

💕A guided Cycle check in meditation for you to use to connect with your body, emotions and psyche at your leisure during and beyond the course.   

💕 A weekly check-in graph spanning different areas of your life to chart the changes from phase to phase.  

💕 A chart to document all the data you gather so that you can begin to see patterns in your cycles.  

💕 A printable workbook for the series.  

💕 A list of resources for should you feel called to further exploration.  

We are so excited to open this space for reflection for ourselves and others interested in journeying with us.  

About the facilitators:  

🌜 Alyssa is a midwife, woman, and facilitator + participant in women’s spaces such as moon gatherings and women’s circles. She loves and honours the fluidity of the feminine and adores creating spaces for people to acknowledge and express the truth of themselves and their feelings in any given moment. She is so excited to be co-facilitating this opportunity to gather with other women and put a magnifying glass on this often under-acknowledged aspect of our lives.  

🌛 Kim is an Art therapist and facilitator of spaces that allow people to gently explore their psyches and bodies and find their own inner wisdom. She has had her own wild journey with her menstrual cycle and has learnt much about herself and the female body. She loves to share this wisdom wherever she finds a willing ear and believes that when we honour our cyclical nature, we live our potential. She is honoured to have co-created this series and is excited to hold a space for women and menstruators to explore their cycles - the beauty, the mess, the pain and the pleasure.  

This journey is open to women and anybody over 18 who is:   

🌱currently experiencing a menstrual cycle or, 

🌱using contraception and wanting to transition off it in the future.   

Further information:  

💚 Groups are limited to 6 to create an intimate space where there's time for everyone to be witnessed and to witness others.  

👕 We will be meeting online each week from the comfort of your home or space. Please wear clothes that you feel comfortable to sit and lay in that might be ok to get a little dirty during art expression.  

🎨 Guidance will be given as to art supplies needed. These will be minimal everyday products that you may already have in your home or garden.  

📆 Dates: Time and Date are TBC. Once we have expressions of interest received, we will be in contact to set a suitable time. We are planning to begin the next course in early to mid April.   

💲 Investment: As well as your time and energy, a monetary contribution of $220-$400 would be much appreciated, depending on what feels comfortable for you. You will see options when booking.   

💫 Personalised support wrap up session: If you'd like to have the personal and private support of Kim, you are warmly invited to book a 1:1 session to complement your time in the Sacred Cycles group. During this private 60 min session, you will have the chance to explore anything that has come up during the course. This may be related to your past experience of your cycle, your current experience and/or your intentions moving forward such as identifying patterns to better understand yourself and your body. Often throughout the course as you are visiting the past and witnessing others, thoughts, emotions and sensations may arise. A 1:1 session is an intimate space focused on you where you’ll be held gently and securely and have space for all that is arising.   

Our groups are special because of the energy and experience each person brings to it, and if you feel drawn to joining, we would love to have your energy be part of our next group.  

We are so looking forward to connecting with you and honouring ourselves as cyclical beings.  

💓 Alyssa and Kim