Harness the transformational powers of Menopause: After Mother, before Crone, is the time of the Mage, the Harvest Queen.
Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen
What is Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen?
Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen is a one-day workshop in which to explore (PERI-)MENOPAUSE as a powerful rite of passage in a woman’s life, often feared and misunderstood.
As our fertility wanes, we move from the Summer season of our lives to the Autumn. This is a time to CLAIM our harvest, EMBODY our wisdom and LEAD our communities!
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Explore the transformative power of Menopause and your earlier rites of passage
- Unpack fears and ‘cultural baggage’ around changing bodies and aging
- Renegotiate your health, your work-life balance, your relationships, your sexuality, your lifestyle…
- Appreciate your embodied wisdom and embrace the new person you are becoming in this energetic upgrade!
Why Menopause?
All our rites of passage are powerful initiatory processes, and menopause is particularly potent.
Through this journey we are called to re-examine, and reflect on our life thus far, so that we can step into this powerful life season of Mage, crafting our soul purpose.
In this workshop we celebrate you, and your journey to the Altar of Transformation that is menopause.
The dance with your hormones, your bodies, and your emotions are given a sacred context which empowers you to navigate this part of your life with clarity and consciousness.
Self-care practices are embedded within the day, as how we care for ourselves now shows up through the rest of our lives.
Join us to reclaim this powerful rite of passage , and to become your own Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen!
“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
Workshop Structure
An Autumn Woman Harvest Queen workshop begins with the creation of a safe container, the sacred circle which holds us all throughout the day. In this co-created space we ground and center. We pass the talking bowl, to listen, to share and to reflect.
We allow our stories, bodies and presence to carry us into full feeling, whether that be grief, joy, pleasure, pain, delight, shame… knowing that all of these experiences are pathways that lead us home to ourselves.
And Menopause is a home-coming, a profound journey to Self.
Much of the wisdom of menopause has been buried and seems lost. And yet, within your own body, within the wisdom of your menstrual cycle, there is a profound map to guide you through this powerful Rite of Passage.
In this workshop we co-create the wheel of life and chart the changing seasons, energies, feelings and opportunities of each phase.
Then we dive deeper into the particular medicine of the Autumn season and the Maga archetype, her powers and potential, so that you can reframe and celebrate the deep bodied wisdom and power of menopause.
Menopause, like any rite of passage, is an ‘altar of transformation,’ a threshold on the lifelong journey of becoming more uniquely and distinctly YOU!
At this altar you meet yourself, those parts that may have been exiled, those parts that show up again and again to teach you what you need to know, and those parts of you calling to be born anew.
What needs to be renegotiated and transformed so that you can become your own Sovereign Self?
The body holds much wisdom for this menopausal journey. In this part of the workshop you are invited to let your hands create, and your body move to the wisdom within.
Creative play with clay, with dance and drumming are openings to deeper consciousness of your lived experiences, and offer transformational opportunities of release and rebirth.
Self care is essential to the easeful transition within and through menopause. In this workshop, we share stories and insights about many of the important self-care practices available to you. By the end of the day, you’ll have many more tools and possibilitiesto adapt to your unique situation!
We reflect on ways of claiming the power of Maga, of your sexuality and life force. We are nourished by the voices of each other, pooling our stories of loss and transformation, and sharing the resources and perspectives that help us in this journey.
Autumn Woman, Harvest Queen 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.
SSW teacher, Workshop Teacher, Earth Woman Mentor, NonLinear Movement and Wild Woman Facilitator, Astrologer , Transformational Coaching.
I am a Mother, Grandmother and a lover of the ocean and wild nature.
I facilitate rites of passage, circles, and workshops for women — weaving together archetype work, embodiment, somatic and shamanic practices into a living, breathing container for transformation. I also offer Soul Journeying with the Divine Feminine through astrology using the language of archetypes to illuminate your unique path.
My work is grounded in the wild, the sacred, and the cyclical — honouring the natural rhythms of a woman’s life and the deep wisdom that lives there. Whether you are in a season of transition, awakening, or simply longing to come home to yourself, this work meets you where you are.
I work with groups and privately in 1:1 sessions.
At the heart of my work is a passionate belief that every woman deserves to know her ecstatic birthright — and to live her fullest, most radiant potential.
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.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Transpersonal Art Therapist • Menstrual educator • Yoga Teacher • Birth Keeper
I am a Mage Woman, a Grandmother, a Birth & Earth Keeper, an Educator of Women’s Sacred Blood Mysteries, Ceremonialist, Medicine Woman, Visionary and Community Weaver.
I teach BodyMindSpirit awareness and healing pathways through Yoga, Transpersonal Art Therapy & Women’s Blood Mysteries.
I offer workshops, circles and modalities that support wellbeing & womb wellness throughout the transitions of menarche, pregnancy, birth, menopause and beyond.
It brings me great joy to introduce girls and women to the power of the menstrual cycle so they learn to trust the wisdom of their amazing bodies, practice more self care and arrive at the ‘Altar’ of each life transition more prepared for the gifts that await them.
I hold space for ceremonies that honour and celebrate these Rites Of Passage, Sacred Marriage and Seasonal Sabbat Gatherings
It was she the girl within… who stood alone…. at the sacred altars of womanhood that led me on this quest to remember, rewild and restore, so that I may share what I that I have learned.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Wife • Mother • Grandmother • Earth-Based Psychotherapist • Medicine Woman
Jules was born and raised on her sacred ancestral lands of Avalon in the Summer Country of England and now lives in the Blue Mountains.
Jules has been a Herbalist and Natural Health Practitioner for over thirty years and a Psychotherapist for twenty. She has been co-facilitating monthly Red Tent Gatherings, Moon Circles and Women’s Retreats for over ten years.
Jules is deeply passionate about women’s health, wellbeing and empowerment which she believes is deeply connected to the Ancient Women’s Mysteries
The intention of her work in all its differing guises, is to support herself and other women on their collective journeys to re-member, reclaim, re-wild, embody and celebrate what it is to be Woman.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Counsellor • Circle Holder • Death Walker
Linda is a teacher of the School’s Autumn Woman Harvest Queen and Winter Woman Bone Wisdom workshops.
Linda sees life as a collection of threads we weave over time. A tapestry of ancestral, familial and cultural stories that we are woven into when we are born and an emergent story that we weave for ourselves.
Stories of hope and fear, gifts and woundings, longings and dreams. As we meet the challenges of menopause,eldership and death, the threads might be feeling a bit threadbare or tangled. These are sacred moments, fullof possibility and potential. She supports us to see the patterns in the weave and encourages us to craft ournext chapters with trust, compassion and intention.
Linda works on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm, Melbourne.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Mother • Midwife to the Trees • Protector of Children • Nurturer of the Seeds
I am a graduate of the 4 Seasons Journey 2016 and an Autumn Harvest Queen workshops teacher.
I have over 2 decades experience as a home educator, community carer and I am an environmental, natural health and social justice advocate.
Shamanic Craftswoman. Four Seasons Journeywoman. Autumn Woman Harvest Queen and Women Circle Facilitator. Maga. Drum midwife. Earth keeper.
Angela is a Maga woman who loves to facilitate and create sacred spaces for women to feel safe, nurtured, seen and held.
It is though a lens of compassion and lived experience that she is able to support women though their own transformational journeys, helping them to remember their strength and reconnect to their power, thereby assisting them to reclaim their sovereignty and sense of self-empowerment.
Angela is a student of life and a seeker of knowledge. She continues on her own path of healing, self understanding and is a priestess to the Divine Sacred Feminine. She loves walking barefoot upon mother earth, living within her cycles and exploring the lineage of the strong women of her ancestry.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Midlife Mentor •
Gus is a Self-Discovery Coach who guides women through the shapeshifting terrain of midlife.
With a foundational understanding of the body, shaped by her years as a nutritional therapist, she weaves cyclical consciousness, Human Design, and nervous system-informed emotional work to help women unearth their truest selves.
Through her Shapeshifter framework, Gus supports women to release outdated patterns, reclaim their power and root into a steady, embodied self – creating lives that are aligned and true.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Ayurvedic practitioner • Yoga Practitioner • Priestess •
Kriya is an Ayurvedic Yogic Practitioner, Priestess of the Goddess and Midlife Mentor with more than 30 years of experience in women’s health.
She offers Ayurvedic consultation and bodywork, Yoga classes, courses, workshops, retreats, women’s circles and talks. Through working with nature’s seasons and cycles Kriya supports women to nourish, honour and reconnect with their true essence, to realise and align with their self enlightened ‘wisdom goddess’.
