The brilliance of menopause has become buried in a culture in denial of cyclical life. A culture obsessed with constant production, consumption, growth and doing.

Menopause interrupts the current cultural momentum and as such is often portrayed as a problem. A looming disaster. Something to be endured.

Many people find themselves blindly navigating their way through this transition, feeling lost, mad and dismissed.

They have been cast outside of a dignified holding and respect for this rite of passage that is, in fact, significant to the whole community.

Menopause is an initiation - an adventure in spiritual maturation - that can deliver you to a place of great meaning and power, a sense of inner coherence and belonging, and dare we say, Union.

Yes, a deep spiritual fulfilment - a sense of connection to and serving something greater. This course reveals the spiritual truth of menopause - it’s a restoration of its deep spiritual meaning, the true story that is trying to happen regardless of whether you are connected to it or not.

Menopause can be a homecoming

Do you want to feel readied for menopause?

Would you like to experience menopause - no matter how mad, bad or distressing your symptoms currently are - as meaningful and dignifying?

Do you long to learn practices that will help you meet the challenges of menopause and find your way home to yourself?

Would you appreciate the companionship of a loving community of like-minded people as you navigate this transition?

We warmly invite you to join us for this year’s live Menopause: The Great Awakener programme. Together we will call up the spiritual significance and healing power of menopause through our teachings and exercises, your individual stories and experiences, and so discover its power to awaken us to ourselves and our responsibility to Life.

Menopause can be a homecoming, a feeling of at last recognising who you are and having the kindness and strength of heart to finally receive and anoint yourself as OK.

That is the liberating power of menopause.

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Menopause is an Initiation

Menopause is a holy initiation, a pause in ‘normal life’ that catapults you into an unknown territory.

What you may not know is that there is a meaningful process at work - an inner orchestration that is exquisitely designed to deliver you home to your true self.

The deep truth is menopause is a moment of powerful awakening.

It profoundly serves us, and the whole community of life. Initially it reveals your shadow, your wounding, in order that you might fully receive yourself and be freed to be who you are. And thus come in to a sweet intimacy with life and what it is calling you to step up to.

The course will:

Give you a deep understanding of the ‘infrastructure’ of menopause. Think of it as the instruction manual for navigating this spiritual territory.
Leave you feeling held and readied to traverse this initiation in a dignified way, able to feel your wholesomeness even as you face being undone, provoked and at times abandoned.
Provide you with the psycho-spiritual skills you need to hone in order to birth yourself and thrive in post-menopause country.
Make meaning of menopause even if you are right in the middle of it or have already been through it.
Reveal the awakening process that is menopause and restore its rightful place within the context of your soul’s maturation.

Who is this programme for?

If you’re reading this, we imagine you sense there is more to menopause than the collective story dictates, and you’re feeling called to reclaim the power of the menopause initiation...

You might be:

Still cycling, and feeling curious about menopause and want the heads up.
Feeling some kind of disturbance or health challenge in your final cycle years.
Cruising along nicely but sensing menopause on the horizon and you are starting to feel a bit nervous.
Already in menopause and feeling a bit lost, overwhelmed or undone.
On the other side of menopause but are still feeling somehow incomplete.

Wherever you are in the menopause journey, and whatever you are experiencing, you are welcome. We invite you to bring the fullness of who you are, and the fullness of your experience however messy, complicated, confusing, uncertain, unknowing it might be. All our experiences hold at their heart a deeper story of power.

To clarify, this programme is for anyone who:

Is in their early to mid-forties and older*
Is currently going through menopause
Is post menopause

**If you are younger than this but feel a strong desire to join please do so with an understanding that it will be more of a theoretical exercise. You will, in a sense, be sitting in on something that you can't fully participate in. It may however serve you to have ‘advanced notice’ of menopause and offer you information you can pass on in your professional work.

What participants are saying...

Thank you for giving me a language and a map to navigate these stormy seas of Menopause… I am deeply grateful and it is such a relief to have a new way of making sense of my feelings and experiences, of the different stages you laid out for us and how to identify and prioritise those fundamental needs, (no, rights, yay!) for rest, for nourishment and fun… for the right to indulge, play, love ourselves, nap, express our ‘No’s! and find our way to our ‘Yes’s’.
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Not only do I have a new sense of understanding which will enable to me to hold myself through this process far better than I was doing before but it has also given me a new excitement about this next phase (one I had been dreading until now – The Old Crone!) and which now I welcome…

Lisa M

Psychotherapist

This course has been life-changing, completely revolutionising my attitude towards menopause, ageing and this journey I’m on. Having a context for what has happened and is happening has allowed me to make sense of it and to make peace with it. It’s also sharpened my sense of the huge patriarchal violence of the way our culture currently perceives menopause and the ageing process for women.

Emma Mitchell

Stand-Up Comedian /
Creative Strategy Director

‘Menopause: The Great Awakener’ has helped me ground down into myself and my experiences in the shifting sands of who I am… into who I am becoming!

I have found the maps and practices of the course ‘stabilising’ tools, like a pair of knitting needles allowing me to unpick the yarn of my life, safely… enabling me to see the holes re-casting on, re-knitting a new story.

In the simple act of listening and sharing with other women, I have experienced a much needed normalising and belonging; a knowing that I’m not alone in ‘this’, permitting me to recover and re-mend something of my essential self in this natural life process ….. I have done the course 3 times and each time, I recover and learn, just a little more of myself.

Pat F

Events Organiser, NHS

Menopause is the ultimate moment of bringing us into alignment with ourselves

It is crucial now that we all come together to serve the planet in our own unique ways.

Our cycle is coded with our particular gifts and menopause is the ultimate moment of bringing us into alignment with ourselves and these gifts so that we may be potent and effective agents of change in the world.

This course is designed to support you to discover a deep peace with who you are and, from this resourced well spring, step into your full authority and leadership.

The world needs more of us in our full power. The world needs you.

You will discover:

How to prepare for menopause, so that you arrive ready (as ready as you can be!) for the initiation.
How to recover the ‘backstory’ or lost years of your menstrual cycle if you are already in or post menopause, to restore a sense of belonging to yourself and life.
How the spiritual architecture of the menopause transition - the 5 archetypal phases of awakening - can anchor and hold you through the tumultuous parts of the journey.
How to handle the accompanying pitfalls, challenges and possibilities you may encounter, so that you feel less alone and more supported, even as you may feel lost, or undone.
The keys to access the wisdom of each phase of the transition, so that you can step ever more deeply into your authority, power and leadership.
The crucial skills and practices you will need to navigate menopause - and how to cultivate them so that you can fully receive the spiritual process you’re undergoing.
Alexandra’s personal recommendations for tending to health symptoms, so that you can have the best menopause possible.

Here’s what you’ll receive:

Session One:
The Five Phases of Menopause

Menopause is a death and a rebirth - the ending of a way of life you have lived to date, and the beginning of a new, more expanded consciousness. Think of it as a spiritual upgrade. The only snag is that initially it can feel like you have fallen off the edge of the world, into a seemingly empty and unknown space.

There’s a kind of hidden intelligence at work within this apparent emptiness - the subtle interior architecture of the five phases of menopause is holding and working you...