The Spiritual Power of Menopause

Join us for two weeks of insightful conversation and teachings about how menopause awakens authority, purpose and belonging
October 12th - 22nd 2026
with Red School and special guests

Menopause is an immense life event a great spiritual initiation. Not only is it a complete hormonal shift in the landscape of your overall health, it’s also a psychological and emotional transformation. All this means you’re going to change. Profoundly. Think ‘death and rebirth’.

Join us for a series of honest, intimate and vulnerable conversations and teachings with Alexandra and Sjanie, plus a group of wise teachers and guides who share the spiritual gifts, insights and clarity that their menopause initiation has awakened in them.

Menopause is searingly powerful, and this power awakens great potential. However it’s largely viewed as a health condition from which we need to be rescued. But what if you’re not sufferingfrom a health disorder? (Even as you may be experiencing some unpleasant, perhaps very distressing symptoms).

What if, instead, you’re suffering from a huge lack of recognition of and respect for the spiritual process you’re undergoing? As each of our guests share what menopause has revealed and liberated in them, you’ll be invited to explore the power, authority and purpose that menopause can awaken in you.

The Spiritual Power of Menopause

Join us for two weeks of insightful conversation series and teachings about how menopause awakens authority, purpose and belonging

October 12th - 22nd 2026

Register Here

How the Spiritual Power of Menopause will unfold:

WEEK ONE: INSIGHTFUL CONVERSATIONS

You’ll be invited to listen to seven in-depth, honest conversations with Sophie, the host of the Red School Menstruality Podcast and our special guests, who share generously about their personal menopause experiences.

WEEK TWO: AWAKEN THE POWER OF MENOPAUSE

Join the co-founders of Red School, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer for three days of teachings to help you...

What is the spiritual power of menopause?

We believe that menopause initiates you into a form of leadership that is infused with love and wisdom - your Wise Power.

We think of menopause as the Great Awakener. It’s a call for us to wake up – both to who we truly are and to our responsibility for Life.

It’s a personal transformation that also serves these times in which we’re living.

Humanity is facing unprecedented challenges on many fronts: the very future of our planet is at stake. We need to rise to these challenges and bring new, creative responses to seemingly insurmountable problems.

No one person or solution will provide the answer – we’re all needed. You have an important part to play – big or small, public or private – a singular Calling with which you’ve come coded.

Stepping up to and fulfilling your Calling will demand much of you, and so you need to be prepared. Menopause is your ultimate preparation.

Menopause mobilizes the singular genius of you - your Wise Power - to bring a positive influence to the planet, unleash your personal agency and potency and step into your authority.

We invite you to immerse yourself in this conversation series and find the power in your menopause process exactly as it is, so that together we can ignite a conscious menopause revolution.

The Conversation Series
Week One: Schedule

DAY ONE: October 12th

Surrendering Old Identities and Embracing Mentorship, Artistry & Leadership in Menopause

With Seane Corn, Yoga teacher, public speaker, activist and author

Seane shares how she confronted internalised misogyny around midlife and aging, how her Yoga practice supported her to release identities that she had outgrown, and how the alchemy of menopause helps us step into new levels of mentorship, artistry and leadership.

DAY TWO: October 13th

Trauma-healing, Letting Go and the Ancient Menopause Wisdom

With Elayne Kahlila Doughty, Soul Midwife and Legacy Catalyst

Elayne breaks down the phases of the alchemy of her decade-long menopausal dark night of the soul, where she navigated the intense healing of early life trauma, as well as the ground-breaking science that helped her make sense of her menopause anxiety. 

DAY THREE: October 14th

Menopause was not my Ending, it was my Ignition

With Shavita Kotak, author, speaker and guide. 

Shavita explores how the initiatory fire of menopause awakened her life calling, and the fresh creativity that can open up in us post-menopause, if we can listen for what our bodies are asking for.

DAY FOUR: October 15th

Menopause as a Gateway to Sexual Pleasure, Freedom and Power

With Dr Arianna Sholes-Douglas MD, integrative healthcare practitioner and women’s health visionary.

Dr Arianna explores the transformative fire of menopausal rage, the clarity that arises once the ‘oestrogen veil’ falls away, and how menopause deepened her lived understanding of both pleasure and power.

DAY FIVE: October 16th

Perienopause - A Defiance in Service to Love

With Bethany Webster, speaker, coach and author

Bethany shares how the ego dissolution and painful symptoms of perimenopause helped her transform a long-held identity around competence, productivity, and being useful to others. She explores how she has built a new life based on slow living, depth, beauty and presence.

DAY SIX: October 17th

Menopause, Energy Medicine and Coming Home to Belonging

With Prune Harris, energy expert, consciousness educator and soul activist

Prune shares how she worked with the energetic intensity of hot flushes, the impact of stress on menopause symptoms and how menopause can help us all to meet the modern day crisis of separation and call us home to belonging. 

DAY SEVEN: October 18th

Menopause - our Personal Stories of Spiritual Awakening 

With Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, co-founders of Red School

Alexandra invites us into the story of how menopause reorganised her life in service to her calling, and how Sjanie has been navigating developmental trauma healing in the Quickening years in the run up to menopause.

Week Two: Three-day live event
How Menopause Awakens Your Power
When you join the retreat, you’ll also receive instant access to the following three bonus interviews:
How to Feel Better in Menopause

With ND, Lara Briden, author of the Hormone Repair Manual

How to approach menopause and perimenopause health challenges.

How to Approach Sex in Menopause

With Dr Sonia Wright, sexual counselor and certified life coach.

How sex changes in midlife and how to manage it.

Healing the Mother Wound in Menopause

With Bethany Webster, author of Discovering The Inner Mother

How to reclaim our inner mother.

The Spiritual Power of Menopause

Join us for two weeks of insightful conversation and teachings about how menopause awakens authority, purpose and belonging

October 12th - 22nd 2026

Register Here

The Wise Power Retreat

Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause

October 11th - 18th 2022
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About Your Hosts

The conversation series is hosted by Sophie Jane Hardy, the host of the Red School Menstruality Podcast.  
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer are the co-founders of Red School and the authors of Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging.
After working together since 2009, we co-founded Red School in 2014 with a mission to restore menstrual cycle awareness as an initiatory path and spiritual practice, ignite the conscious menopause revolution, and train the menstruality leaders of the future.