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
Before the Becoming a Woman gathering, mothers are invited into a special evening called Reclaiming — a circle created especially for women to reflect on their own experience of menarche and womanhood. In this nourishing and supportive gathering, mothers explore the stories they received about menstruation, the impact of their first blood, and the wisdom they have gathered through their own cycles over the years. Through circle sharing, guided processes, storytelling and drum journeying, women are offered an opportunity for healing, insight and reclamation, so they can stand beside their daughters with greater presence, wisdom and empowerment.
- 2. Welcome & Opening the Circle
- 3. Teaching the Wisdom of the Cycles
- 4. Mothers' Wisdom & Storytelling
- 5. Drum Journey to Meet the Inner Guide
The gathering begins by creating a safe and sacred circle for the girls and their mothers. Together we light the Mother Candle, set intentions, acknowledge the land, and gently arrive into the space through grounding and connection. Each participant is welcomed and invited to be fully present as we begin this important rite of passage journey together.
Through interactive teaching, storytelling, visual wheel teachings and shared discussion, the girls are introduced to the wisdom of the menstrual cycle and its connection to the cycles of nature, the moon, the seasons and the phases of a woman’s life. Together we explore the gifts, energies and “superpowers” of each phase of the cycle, helping the girls understand menstruation not as something shameful or confusing, but as a source of wisdom, power and self-knowledge.
In a beautiful sharing circle, mothers are invited to speak about their own experiences of menstruation and what they have learned through their lives as women. The girls hear stories, wisdom, honesty and reflections from the women around them, helping to demystify menstruation and restore it as a natural and honoured part of life. A special story of the Moon Goddess is also shared, offering a healed and empowering vision of menarche and becoming.
The gathering concludes with a guided shamanic drum journey where the girls are invited to journey inward and meet their Inner Guide —a source of wisdom to support them on their Becoming a Woman journey. Through the rhythm of the drum, imagination and inner vision, the girls are encouraged to connect with their intuition, creativity and inner knowing. Afterwards there is time for drawing, reflection and sharing about their experience.
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 was a Registered Practising Homebirth Midwife for 32 years (1984–2016) in the NSW Health System, Australia.
Mother • Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Priestess • Seer
Arahni walks her own shamanic path of healing and transformation and serves to re-awaken the innate healing wisdom and soul nature within others.
For 20 years Arahni worked in trauma responsive family support services, safe refuges, and schools. She supported young people and women and children in therapeutic work. She designed and facilitated peer prevention programs in sexual assault, domestic violence, alcohol and other drugs and sexual health.
For the last decade, Arahni studied intensively with School of Shamanic Womancraft, a Women’s Mysteries school, and is a graduate teacher of the Four Seasons Journey, guide on the Earth Woman online course and facilitator of Becoming A Woman workshops for mothers & daughters.
Practicing the healing arts of holistic counselling, shamanic womancrafting, intuitive body work and compassionate enquiry, she works alongside those who seek guidance to re-orient themselves through life’s challenges, transformations and transmutations, from the altar of birth to the final rite of death.
Arahni offers positive menstrual education, 1:1 private healing sessions, reclaiming ceremonies, healing rituals, sacred circles and coming of age year-long journeys for mothers & daughters in her community and beyond.
Arahni lives on the lands of the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal Nation and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.
Born Kristan Lee Read in 1969 by the Brisbane River, Kristan spent her childhood travelling the globe.
Her early childhood years campervanning around Europe, her primary school years on Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) and adventures in boarding school on the Gold Coast. A move to the USA meant high school in both the Midwest, Indiana and Northwest of America, Seattle and University in the deep South, Atlanta! In 1994, she wove her way home.
Kristan completed her training as a Steiner Teacher in 2000, her training as a Holistic Remedial Educator the following year and her Bachelor of Education in 2003.
In 2024, Kristan completed her Masters in Social Work.
In 2010, Kristan began her Four Seasons Journey with The School of Shamanic Womancraft and then went on to apprentice, intern and become a teacher of the program, graduating in 2016. In 2019 Kristan co-taught her first Four Seasons Journey in the Blue Mountains and is a Facilitator of the online course, Earth Woman, offered by the School.
Kristan has completed her training as a teacher and facilitator of the one day workshops offered by the school, Moonsong, Becoming a Woman, The Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy and Autumn Woman Harvest Queen.
In 2013, in collaboration with Jane Hardwicke Collings, they developed Project Pomegranate, a project that began with the intention of reframing Eating Disorders as another symptom of the wounded Feminine of the Patriarchal Culture and offer a ceremony for healing.
Kristan has participated and presented at festivals and conferences within Australia and Internationally. Her work has been published in the Squat Birth Journal, BettyMag, Birth Matters and Midirs.
Kristan is a founding member of the Huon Women’s Health Collective, on mission to support the women of Southern Tasmania to thrive. She offers her support to the Cygnet community through regular Social Work Support Sessions and Women’s Circles.
Kristan shares her work in the wider community and globally, one-on-one, through the modality of Shamanic Womancraft, both in person and online.
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.
Mother • Shamanic Craftswoman • Menstrual Educator
My name is Hope Ryan. I am many things, as most Women are. Cyclic and expansive in my capacity to hold growth and change.
I am a mother to three, a sister to many. An educator, a creative and one who is deeply nourished, connected and committed to the natural world and her cyclic wisdom.
I am a teacher and a student of the blood mysteries, having begun this conscious exploration into womb wisdom in 2005.
It is my privilege and responsibility to share this wisdom. I hope you will join me in Circle, Moonsong or the Becoming a Woman workshop or training as we deepen connection to our selves, to each other and to this sacred path we walk.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Mother • Grandmother • Crystal Witch • Becoming a Woman • Maidens School of Magic
Char is a Mother and Grandmother.
She is a Crystal Witch Co creating magic with the presence of the Crystal and Mineral Devas. Char facilitates Becoming a woman circles and co- facilitated school holiday programmes for the Maiden School of magic.
She graduated as a teacher of the Four Seasons journey in 2018.
She has a passion for Shamanic Woman Craft. Re-membering and re-claiming the roots of Woman. Shamanic. Magical. Wild. Empowered. Connected to self, the Earth Mother and the powerful web that is the Sisterhood. All Seasons of Woman. Coming home to the healed feminine. This is her calling.
I am Anne — a woman who has lived deeply, held many roles, and walked through change with her eyes open.
I grew up in Arnhem Land and the Northern Territory, and have moved between business, art, motherhood, and navigating relationship within community, family, and work. My work is shaped by real life — by navigating complexity, standing in truth, and learning to hold steady through change.
I am a trained Shamanic Womancraft practitioner and certified Beautiful You life and business coach. I work with women at thresholds — where something is no longer working, and something new is asking to emerge.
When we work together, I hold a clear, grounded space where things can be seen as they are. Rites of passage, cycles, and ancestral patterns are recognised. We slow down, name what matters, and cut through what is no longer true. I bring directness, deep listening, and practical support. You leave with clarity, awareness, and the capacity to trust your own knowing and choose what comes next.
I support women to bring that knowing into all aspects of life — how they live, work, and show up in the world.
This is not about fixing. It is about remembering, choosing, and becoming all of who you already are.
Becoming A Woman Facilitator
Becoming A Woman Facilitator
SSW teacher, BAW facilitator, Private Sessions (Certified Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner)
With a background in nursing & midwifery, Brie brings a nurturing nature & gift for holding space, where women & girls feel safe, seen, held & heard.
Brie is passionate about supporting the next generation to love, understand & feel proud of their changing bodies, instead of shame, suppression, or disconnection from their natural cycles. She believes that when girls are honoured through these transitions, they grow into women who feel more empowered in themselves, their relationships, & the vulnerable thresholds of life – including birth.
Brie offers personalised rites of passage ceremonies for girls welcoming menarche (their first bleed), & for women marking meaningful transitions such as pregnancy, postpartum, birthdays, menopause, grief, loss or other significant milestones. She holds these pivotal moments with warmth, reverence, compassion & care.
Brie also facilitate monthly women’s circles, honouring the seasonal sabbats (changing of the seasons), the moon cycle, or unique energy relevant to the timing of the gathering.
She also offers 1:1 private sessions that can be tailored to birth or menopause preparation, unpacking previous births/birth trauma or navigating a difficult life transition (change in career, relationship breakdown etc).
Please reach out for more information or to dream up what support feels most aligned for you xx
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Menstrual Educator • Mother • Feminine embodiment guide
Gemma is deeply passionate about empowering women to reclaim trust in the innate wisdom of their bodies and its cycles, Shifting the culture around Menstrual shame and healing rite of passage experiences for women.
Gemma works with women of all ages and stages of life in a 1:1 capacity both in person and online, she offers sessions in Shamanic Womancraft as well as Cycle Awareness, Feminine embodiment and Ceremonial Womb massage. She facilitates ritual and ceremony to honour the Rites of passage and changing seasons of a Woman’s life and often leads, circles, workshops and events around embracing the fullness of womanhood.
A mother to a teenage daughter, Gemma has a special interest in working with Mothers and Daughters, to heal their red thread and transform their relationships for future generations.
