Attune your body to the wisdom of the cycles, the spiritual practice of menstruation and your rites of passage.
Moonsong
What is Moonsong?
Moonsong is a one-day workshop in which to reclaim FEMININE WISDOM, by normalising and celebrating our cycling bodies, our RITES OF PASSAGE and our experience of being born with a womb.
This Workshop Will Help You:
- Explore the wisdom of Nature’s cycles and your life seasons
- Discover how the lunar cycle and the Earth’s seasons influence you
- Remember the spiritual practice of Menstruation and your whole cycle
- Understand the transformative power of Menarche and all your rites of passage
Why the menstrual cycle?
Our menstrual cycle is a normal, healthy and healthful aspect of being a woman. It is a powerful process which shows us how to live authentically and uniquely as our selves. Our menstrual cycle – though culturally derided – is a great source of energy, regeneration and renewal.
Getting to know your cycle is getting to know yourself! During your reproductive years you are your menstrual cycle, and you see this though your moods, your energy levels and your mucus.
Our rites of passage – birth, menarche, giving birth (to children, art, careers, projects and ourselves), and menopause – are also natural, healthy and powerful initiatory processes which deepen our relationship to ourselves, our communities and the Earth.
Connecting with your menstrual cycle and your rites of passage is part of the re-wilding of the feminine that is so needed now.
“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
“Through this Moonsong workshop, I have now learned to love my bleeding time as an opportunity to give back to Mother Earth and embrace the desire to retreat and reflect.”
Myshell
“Had such a great day connecting and understanding. Thank you for the knowledge and love that you shared.”
Kirsten
“I can't believe that it took me until I was 41 to grow curious of my own cycle..”
Participant
“While I had an idea about what Moonsong was about, I did not expect to be so deeply touched by the openhearted tender acceptance of the beautiful women I sat in circle with.”
Participant
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.
Moonsong 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.
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.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft • Workshop Teacher • Artist • Mother • Tarot Reader
Angel Goulter Randall is a Shamanic Birth Worker and Craftswoman. Having personal experience birthing both within the medical system and free birthing at home, she is fiercely passionate about women’s rights to birth where, how and with whomever they choose.
She is a mother to 5 children and part time foster carer to others.
Angel is a crafter of many ceremony and medicine tools including Drums, Rattles, Shakers, Talking Bowls, Medicine Pouches, Fans, Crafted Totems and other Altar Pieces.
Since joining the school in 2018, Angel has found herself at home amongst the healed sisterhood and sitting in circle with other awakening witches is what really lights her up inside.
She is also a tarot reader, toy maker and lover of all things natural, cyclical and magical.
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 • 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 Maga woman, married for over 20 years and has two young adult children.
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.
Shamanic Craftswoman• Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner • Workshop Teacher • Dream Practitioner • Daoist Priestess-in-training • Mother • Akashic Records Reader • Chinese Astrology
Clarissa is a proud Asian woman of colour, living and dreaming on unceded Boonwurrung country, also known as Melbourne. Her ancestors called her to this work, and remain with her every step of the way. She is deeply passionate about bringing shamanism back into womens’ lives, and especially into the lives of women of colour.
Clarissa is training to be a Daoist priestess in the Quanzhen Longmen lineage, a living lineage that is connected to a home temple in Qing Cheng mountain in Sichuan, China. Clarissa also teaches an online dream series called ‘Dao of the Night’, which explores the profound potential found in our natural need to sleep.
At the School of Shamanic Womancraft, she is a teacher of the Moonsong Workshop and apprentice of the Four Seasons Journey. Clarissa is a wife, mother of two young boys, and also works in corporate Australia.
Fiona O’Shaughnessy is a mother of 3 energetic boys, and 3 spirit babies. She is a full-spectrum doula (birth, postpartum & end-of-life), menstrual & childbirth educator, human design coach, doula mentor & teacher and Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner.
She teaches our Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy Workshop and also co-teaches Becoming a Woman alongside Jaz.
As a Shamanic Womancraft Practitioner, Fi can offer 1-1 sessions for women of all ages and all life stages, helping them to explore their red thread and all of rites of passage. These 2hour sessions can be especially helpful in preparing for birth, for processing birth trauma or loss, as well as supporting through any big life change or event.
Fiona offers in-person support to women in the Northern Rivers, or online support for women anywhere in the world.
Fiona is also a Director with Hygieia Health, a charity dedicated to the prevention and treatment of birth-related trauma.
It may sound like a lot of hats to wear, but ultimately all of the work Fiona does in the world comes under the umbrella of supporting women, and their families, through all of their rites of passage; birth, menarche, menstruation, childbirth, menopause and death.
Fiona is a community builder – passionate about, and dedicated to, bringing people in her community together to serve families. She was drawn to this work after having her own babies and realising that so much of what we used to know is missing from modern womanhood, and modern mothering and seeing the interconnectedness of it all, her passion for supporting all of the rites of passage grew from there. She has been working alongside women in one way or another for over 10 years, and amidst all of the seasons of her own motherhood journey.
Antonia is a counsellor, family constellations facilitator, and shamanic craftswoman devoted to helping people reconnect with their innate power and inner wisdom. Integrating psychotherapeutic approaches with systemic constellations, somatic practices, and shamanic inquiry, she supports clients in releasing intergenerational and biographical trauma and transforming relational patterns.
Her work is highly individualised, intuitive, and collaborative, grounded in the belief that each person is the expert in their own healing. Through 1:1 and group work, Antonia offers a safe, resourced space for deep, embodied change and the reclamation of an authentic, sovereign life.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Homebirth Midwife • Perinatal Educator • MIPA teacher • PLYM Teacher • Mother •
Noemi is a Homebirth midwife, Saluto physiology midwife, a wife and mother. She is a teacher of the Moonsong and Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy workshops, and a perinatal educator. Noemi is also a MIPA teacher and PIyM teacher.
She offers Midwifery and shamanic support for girls approaching menarche, and in pregnancy and postnatally.
Noemi offers Sex education, Homebirth care and bereavement support.
She works with women in one to one sessions or group workshops.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Workshop Teacher • Menstrual educator • Contemporary dancer • Cranio Sacral Therapist
Lisa is a contemporary dancer and Cranio Sacral therapist based in Berlin, specializing in gynecology and female anatomy.
She supports women in reconnecting with their womb and menstrual cycle, guiding them tomeet their body and their blood in a new way, giving space to release and integrate past experiences.
Passionate about the sacredness of menstruation, Lisa creates dance pieces inspired by the cycle and works as a menstrual educator.
Shamanic Craftswoman • Shamanic Womancraft Teacher • Workshop Teacher • Priestess • Astrologer • Circle Facilitator • Creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal • Scrybe Witch •
Grace is a priestess, ceremonialist, astrologer and seer, as well as teacher with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is the creator of the Cyclical Wisdom Journal, a year-long self-reflection tool based on menstrual, seasonal and lunar cycles.
Grace offers astrology and Tarot readings, as well as hosting various circles and ceremonies. Each year, she and her husband host a Wilderness Solo, singing up transformation through relationship to self, others and nature.
She is passionate about intentional living and deepening into radical self-trust.
Grace lives with her husband and three children outside of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, nourished by a big vege garden and the great expanse of prairie sky above.
