...to The Hive. A peer supported community offering you a sanctuary of support. A well of inspiration to deepen your attunement to your cyclicality (no matter where you are in your cycle or menopause journey).
This is your invitation to join an intimate network of graduates from all over the world and nourish your roots as you trailblaze your unique expression of feminine leadership and menstruality consciousness in the world.
It all started with a Big Bleed…
Five years ago, Sjanie was in a yurt, in a field, in the darkness with eyes masked as she dreamed by the warmth of the fire for three days.
It was a long awaited Big Bleed, and it delivered. On cycle day four, Sjanie received a vision…
She saw Menstruality as a giant glowing and pulsing ruby half buried in the earth. Around it she saw concentric circles—our community—being nurtured, fed and inspired by this Source and by each other as we infuse menstruality into our families, communities and the world at large. She saw each one of us planting our personal menstruality rubies into our local land, creating a red grid across the planet and together embedding menstruality consciousness onto the planet.
The message was clear.
There is great power and need for us to gather in our love of Menstruality and come together as a community, to support each other to bring a wholly new way of being in the world—one which is rooted in cyclical awareness, one in which we as humans cultivate deep reverence and respect for life.
Inspired by Sjanie's big bleed vision and the needs and dreams voiced around peership amongst our graduates, the Hive opened its doors in May 2023.
We currently have 110 members from all over the globe, spanning from the very first MLP in 2011 to this most recent cohort.
The Hive is a membership community based on three pillars,
which form our foundation:
At its heart, the Hive is a deeply relational space, offering fertile ground for forming nourishing friendships and aspirational alliances that remind us we are not alone.
Yet it also invites us into a deeper, sometimes challenging inquiry: how can we belong without abandoning ourselves? Many of us carry wounds from past experiences in community—places where conformity was the cost of inclusion.
This asks us to develop and practice the often-underestimated skills of being in community: listening with presence, taking responsibility for our impact, learning to communicate with clarity and care, sitting with discomfort rather than rushing to fix or flee, and tending to both our own needs and the needs of the group.
It is our devotion to the practice of embodying Menstruality that brings us together, no matter where we are in our journey.
In a world in which this is so against the grain, this is a space in which we can inspire each other, hold each other accountable, deepen our personal practice and grow together.
We’re so used to the concept of ‘personal growth’ but what is it to ‘grow,’ embedded within a community? We're in the process of discovering this together.
Whether we’re working professionally with menstruality or simply navigating our personal lives with more intention, our agency is precious. It is the spark that fuels our capacity to initiate, to respond, to shape the world around us rather than be shaped by it.
In the Hive, action means showing up—not just for ourselves, but for one another. It’s a space where we can give and receive support, experiment with leadership, and take risks that stretch us beyond the familiar. It’s a living laboratory to discover and refine our gifts, explore new collaborations, and step into our next edge.
Action reminds us of our responsibility to speak up, to lean in, and to help steward the space. This is not a passive community where we wait to be served—it’s a dynamic field we co-create through our choices, courage, and contribution.
Why do we need a menstruality community?
In a culture dominated by individualism, competition and consumerism, being part of a community is a powerful opportunity to foster a new culture of interdependence and co-creativity.
As we know, it's not always easy! Many of us have ambivalent, contradictory or just plain difficult feelings around being in community.
Our wish is for The Hive to be a space where we can create new, positive imprints around belonging and being part of something. A space where the diversity, cyclicity and authentic expression of each one of us is valued and welcome. Where Menstruality and the Dark Arts can inform and guide us to generate a new kind of community—one grounded in The Feminine.
An evolving co-creative community…
The Hive is currently led by a team of 3 volunteer Fire-keepers and our Community Catalyst, Ruby May. The practical infrastructure, administration and vision holding is supported by the Red School team—Sophie, Lauren, Sjanie and Alexandra.
When you join the Hive you too will be offered opportunities to step into leadership through space-holding, offering of skills, initiating new ideas and so on. Also on offer is an invitation to sit back and receive nurturance, holding and the inspiration of the community.
The community is evolving organically as each of us feels for what we need and long for out of our togetherness.
It is a co-creative experiment with both opportunities to step into leadership through truth-speaking, space-holding and offering of skills, as well as invitations to sit back and receive nurturance and inspiration.
As a member, you’ll receive:
£22 / £33 / £44 p/month
We’re offering a sliding scale depending on your income / your currency / financial stability.
Here are some guidelines to help you:
£22 p/m: if your income is £25,000 or less
£33 p/m: if your income is £25-35,000
£44 p/m: if your income is £35,000+
You can also pay annually and save money:
Lower income: £195 (save £69)
Medium income: £295 (save £101)
Higher income: £395 (save £133)
This is a not-for-profit project and 100% of your membership fee will go directly into the running of the community.
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