Photo: Samjana Moon
Moon Queen
Empowering Menopause
Bookings open now for this series.
“If we realize that the body event of menopause is connected to a soul event, then it gives more meaning to this transition”
Felicity Green (yoga teacher)
Menopause can be a difficult time in a woman’s life. Physical symptoms such as headaches, weight gain, insomnia and hot flushes, along with emotional symptoms like depression and anxiety, grief and rage, are a lot to deal with. Then there’s the cultural conditioning that leads women to feel they are no longer attractive, over the hill, powerless and suddenly invisible.
How do we access the gifts of this intense right of passage ?
How do we make this an empowering transformation ?
“I came to Moon Queen totally at a loss over my menopause, unable to make much sense of what was happening to my body and me - a hitherto reasonably self assured career woman, wife and mother now grappling with little tangible but plenty of confusing information and attitudes towards this change in a woman's life.
Nikki's highly professional workshop, which allows women to safely explore menopause in a deep and meaningful way, gave me an opportunity to share with others in an incredibly helpful way for me, and together with Nikki's teachings and insights, I came away with a startlingly powerful sense of self, direction and purpose in the cool, early evening of my life as a woman.
Thank you Nikki, from the bottom of my heart.
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Amanda RP (Marketting Manager)
So what if we had a different cultural framework? What if we’d been told that this life stage is a powerful, healing initiation? A chance to review life and consciously choose what to carry forward into our Autumn years – the rich years of the Moon Queen, when we step fully into our power, find our life mission, and turn our energies to serving our community?
Menopause has the potential to be an empowering, dignified and transformational process in which we can shed that which does not serve us and birth a truer, stronger and more authentic version of ourselves. But to experience it this way, we need information, we need a map, and we need support. Sady that information, map, and support are not readily available out there in society.
Even with this map and support in place, it can still be an intense and sometimes rocky time - as befits initiation, which involves the death of the former self and is not necessarily meant to be easy. However, a positive framework and shared culture can make all the difference to allow us to go through this in a conscious way, and hold it all with love and compassion in our hearts, and to reap immense rewards and gifts.
Moon Queen workshops are open to peri-menopausal and menopausal women and are designed to enable us to dive deeply into menopause on several levels - practical help, emotional/psychological/spiritual framework, and the support of sharing and sisterhood, guiding women through the major themes of loss, grief, anger, sexuality, health and nutrition, herbs and ritual.
We will meet for one day a month and each day will cover a different area of knowledge or experience. We will sometimes invite expert teachers to come and share their knowledge. Some sessions will be more practical and theoretical, and some will be more experiential - for example the yoga, anger work and grief ceremony.
Every session includes a time for sharing your own experience and a deep relaxation, Q&A, and further resources, as well as a delicious menopause-friendly lunch, teas and snacks, and Moontime Chocolate's yummy menopause chocs!
I usually run a closed group over several months, but this year, due to the uncertainty of the covid situation, the workshops will be stand-alone sessions. Book on to each one individually, to reserve your place (booking open in late August).
What You can Expect to Recieve
- a safe, trauma-aware, body-led space
- sharing circle - a space to share our experience
- sisterhood support
- listening partnerships
- health and nutrition tips
- symptoms information & herbal / dietary support
- HRT - all the facts to help you make an informed decision
- beneficial exercise - Yoga & Qi-Gong for peri-menopause & menopause
- rest and relaxation with meditations and Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation)
- exquisite self-care and self-kindness practices
- self-enquiry & journeying
- sexuality session
- the menopausal vagina and bladder session
- take care of your pelvic floor workshop
- processing emotion, such as loss, grief, anger, rage, numbness and anxiety
- shedding the old identity
- creating a compassionate Inner Mother
- birthing the new and truer you
- further reading - sources & resources
- delicious, menopause-friendly, vegetarian, gluten-free lunch, snacks and teas provided
What We Ask From You :
Confidentiality
In order to make this a safe container, we ask you not to repeat anything shared in the space, without consent of the person concerned.
All day workshop : 10am - 5.30pm
Arrive between 9.30 & 9.45 to allow time to settle.
Lunch, teas and snacks provided.
Booking
To book please send me an email (to nikki@moonsisters.co.uk) with your NAME & PHONE NUMBER (in case of emergency or cancellation), stating WHICH WORKSHOP you wish to book and confirming that you agree to the covid precautions and cancellation policy, and I will then reply with bank details to pay by transfer.
Choose your price from the selection below, according to your means, and transfer the funds with your NAME as the reference.
You will then receive a welcome email with directions and what to bring.
Costs
Benefactor price £120 (to support a concession place, as well as your own).
Abundant £100
Comfortable £70
Assisted £55
Covid Precautions
Please do not attend if you have cold or flu type symtoms, or if you have had contact with anyone who has recently developed covid. If you have to cancel due to having covid you will be offered a refund.
Please do a lateral flow test before you set out for the workshop, to enable a level of safety for our more vulnerable sisters, and sooth the nervous system, so that we can all relax into closer proximity and connection, without unnecessary worry. If this is problematic for you please let me know and I will check if it is okay with the group for you not to do one.
We will be in a spacious hall, sitting (or lying!) in a fairly close circle.
I aim to create a safe and inclusive space, and to offer respect and compassion for individual needs, including those who are vulnerable or in contact with vulnerable loved ones, so if you need to wear a mask or sit further apart you are supported to do so.
I will not be wearing a mask.
Hand sanitizer will be available for anyone who wants it.
Please check in for consent before hugging anyone.
As a trauma aware space, there is always choice in my workshops – you have the option to sit out of any given exercise or ask to do it in a different way.
Cancellation Policy
- Cancellation up to two weeks before the workshop begins - full refund.
- Cancellation in the two weeks leading up to workshop start - half refund.
- Cancellation within 48 hours of workshop start - no refunds.
- If I have to cancel due to Covid Restrictions, everyone will get a full refund.
Missed a Session?
I offer catch up calls on zoom for previous sessions you may have missed, as well as the written resource pack from the live event.
One hour catch up on zoom - £50
Emailed Resource pack - £25
Printed and posted Resource pack (UK post) - £30
Email me to arrange.
Recordings
I am recording teaching sessions for a future online version of Moon Queen. No participant voices will be included, and sharing circles will not be recorded at all - just the teaching sections and Yoga Nidras.
Moon Queen Sessions
Oct 16th 2021 - A Map for the Journey
Reframing menopause as initiation – the psychological aspects and how to work with them to support yourself. How Menopause fits into the pattern of larger cycles, such as the menstrual cycle, the moon, the diurnal day cycle, and the life stages of a woman. Plus the importance of a coccoon for time alone to rest and reflect. This is the map and framework for the journey... With this in place everything makes much more sense!
MISSED IT ?
One hour catch up zoom - £50
Emailed Resource pack - £25
Printed and posted Ressource pack (UK post) - £30
Dec 11th 2021 - Symptoms & General Health
The well known, and not so well known symptoms, and sources of support from herbs, supplements & diet, plus all the info on HRT. The main things to focus on - a look at inflammation, weight gain, adrenals, thyroid, blood sugar, digestion, and stress.
MISSED IT ?
One hour catch up zoom - £50
Emailed Resource pack - £25
Printed and posted Ressource pack (UK post) - £30
Jan 29th 2022 - Exercise, Rest & Rejuvenation
What exercise is appropriate in menopause to keep us strong and energised but not exhausted ? And how can we support and soothe our nervous system?
Nourishing Yoga and Yoga Nidra for menopausal nervous systems (no experience necessary, suitable for all bodies).
The importance of rest and rejuvenation. Coping with anxiety, and how to get the elusive good night's sleep. Vagus re-set exercises and acupressure points, calming herbs, and singing.
Come and be nourished and soothed!
Please note we will be talking about stronger forms of exercise but won't be doing anything strenuous today!
MISSED IT ?
One hour catch up zoom - £50
Emailed Resource pack - £25
Printed and posted Ressource pack (UK post) - £30
Feb 26th 2022 - Menopausal Vagina
This session will explore a subject that's not often talked about, and information that I feel strongly should be more available - namely, the changes that we can experience in our pelvic floor, vagina, vulva and bladder, and how to prevent or support them, and how to keep our pelvic energy flowing and healthy once we stop bleeding.
Symptoms of atrophy, such as vaginal dryness, pain, burning, and bladder issues such as frequency and urge incontinence, affect 80% of menopausal and post-menopausal women, yet very few get treatment.
We'll look at support from herbs, foods and exercises, as well as more conventional treatments, and there will be examples for you to look at.
I'll be bringing some yummy exercises from belly dance and womb yoga, as well as our usual sharing circles, partner enquiries, relaxations and scrumptious lunch.
And we have expert pelvic floor coach Suzi Read leading an afternoon workshop on how to keep the pelvic floor healthy through the menopause transition.
And what about sex in menopause? How is it different, and could it even be better than before? !
MISSED IT ?
One hour catch up zoom - £50
Emailed Resource pack - £25
Printed and posted Ressource pack (UK post) - £30
April 23rd 2022 - NURTURE and CELEBRATE Your Inner Queen
A nurture day with nourishing treats and practices - belly dance, yoga, yoga nidra, womb meditation, and song,as well as intention setting, sharing our next steps to claim our Inner Queen. , as well as partner enquiry and sharing circles.
The final Moon Queen day of this series.
Book now
Each session includes a sharing circle, radical rest (Yoga Nidra), Q & A, resource follow-up pack, delicious lunch, teas and snacks, and Moontime Chocolate's yummy menopause chocs!
Venue
Beautiful, secluded oak barn near Ashburton, Devon - 10 mins from A38 turn off.
Testimonials
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