preparing your child to align their inner moon with the moon above.
Co-Led with Alchemical Coach and Moon Mother Mentor Jamie Wiggins
Transform your child’s life with a deep and lasting relationship with their body, womb and sacred nature.
* This experience welcomes all youth with a physical womb.
This is an invitation to ground your child in cyclical awareness in preparation for their first bleed, while celebrating this delicate entrance into the blossoming season of their life.
We will explore a journey through the inner seasons of the womb with a thoughtfully curated mosaic of creative lunar yoga practices, art, myth, meditation, hiking, sistership, poems, storytelling, conversation, and song.
The inner seasons will serve as an energetic blueprint for your child to explore their nature, while anchoring in their calling and unique expression in the world, as they prepare for their menstruating years.
“Celebrating menarche is an important thread in the reweaving of the healing mandala of feminine life. Whether or not your culture has preserved any part of the wondrous rituals to elevate and protect the spirit of your children, it is important that you recast a set of practices in keeping with your ancestral history that embrace, honor and nourish the Shakti force in your daughters.” - Maya Tiwari ( Mother Maya)
In this experience your child will:
Become initiated into ancient women’s mysteries
Grow a stronger sense of belonging and connection with their body and the earth
Explore body mapping + anatomy
Understand the landscape of their cycle experience, and the archetypal powers of each season of menstruation.
Connect to the womb cycle through seasonal and earth-based songs guided by Magnolia Rodes.
Learn to connect to the power of each ‘season’ of the body’s menstrual cycle to live from a more empowered place.
Explore the practice of cycle tracking.
Explore via positiva +via negativa held within the lunar cycles; empowering your child to align with action/agency for creating and radiant rest for deep listing and replenishment.
Spend nourishing time in an old growth forest in the stunning Columbia River Gorge.
Grow a loving, kind, and intimate relationship with their sacred body.
Learn age related feminine practices and herbal remedies to nourish leading up to and during their bleed time.
Receive a closing ceremony gift to mark this initiatory experience.
Tentative Outline
Day One| June 24th |The Nature of Cyclical Wisdom + Connection
10:00 10:15 Welcome Ritual
10:20 Mythic Tale of the Embodied Seasons with live original music
10:40 Break/Snack
10:50 Intro to the the Cycles- Day, Moon, Seasons/ Inner seasons of the womb
11:00 (Art) -Journal-Sharing Circle
1:40 Full Season Yoga w/ Sasha
12:10 Lunch Break/Hike
1:10- Embodied Archetypes/Improv
2:00 Intro to Moon Cycle Tracking
2:20 Team Building
2:35 Sharing circle
3:00 Womb Meditation and Dance
3:45- Savasana/Closing Song
4:00 Close
Day Two | June 25th| Exploration of Inner Spring | Play + Tenderness
10:00 am — Rose Water Blessing -Meditation + Aligned Herbal Tincture .
Group agreements, Body Check-in
10:30 Art -Seed Intention in journal
11:00 Yoga + Mindfulness Practice w/ Sasha
11:45 am — Lunch/Hike
12:45 - Myth of Hera the Moon Goddess
1:00 Time to Journal and Reflect on Intention and Myth
1:30 Light candle, Moon cycle charting (Take five minutes of quiet and have each person to do it)
2:00-Break
2:15 — Exploring the Body, Womb Ecology through Art/Sacred Energetics of the Womb/Art Project
2:45 Sharing Circle
3:15 Dance Party
3:45 Savasana/Closing Song
4:00 Close
Day Three| June 26th| Exploration of Inner Summer | Expressing Our Gifts + Creative Center.
10:00 am Human knot/Rose Water Blessing/ body check in / Meditation/ Journal-Art
10:45 Herbal Tincture + Full Moon Yoga Practice w/ Sasha
11:15 Snack
11:25 Menstrual Wheel and Inner Seasons Art Ecology
12:15 Hike/Lunch
1:15 Myth
1:30 Light candle, Moon Cycle Tracking Practice Together (music)
1:45 Sharing Circle (How do I like to express myself? What do I love)
Time to Journal
2:30 Exploring the Concept of Nourishment
3:15 Dance Party
3:45 Savasana/Closing Song
4:00 Close
Day Four| June 28th|Inner Autumn
Working with our inner Critic
10:00 a Rose Water Blessing/
10:30 Fall Meditation/Journal Sharing circle
11:15am: Lunar Yoga Mindfulness
12:00 Lunch/hike
1:00 Sacred Energetics of Autumn/Menstrual Wheel Activity
1:50 Break
2:00 Fairy Tale Story/ Vassilissa the Fair (Russian)
2:20 Inner Critic Exercise
3:00 Sharing Circle
3:20 Body Love Dance Circle
3:50 Savasana-Song
4:00 Close
Day Five| June 28th| Inner Winter - The Bleed Time | Anchoring the Vision + Listening to the Call + Learning to Rest.
10:00am— Rose Water Blessing/Welcome Circle + Herbal Tincture for the
10:20 Lunar Yoga
10:50 Inner Season/Tree meditation
Art journal reflection
11:30- Lunch/ Hike
12:30: Inner Ecology of the Womb + Discussion on Wisdom Blood.
1:00 Native American Myth
1:20 Movement- Herbal Wisdom
2:00 Art
2:40 Sharing Circle
3:00 Dance Meditation
3:30 Closing Circle Blessing + Song
4:00 Close
Location
The Vitality Barn @ Dancing Tree Sanctuary
432 NE Salzman Rd., Corbett, OR
This is the perfect escape from the city. I’ve chosen this location for my women’s health and young women’s retreats due to the healing nature of the land, and the beauty of the space. ( This is about a 25-30 min from Portland).
What to Bring
Water Bottle
Journal + Pen
Lunch
Yoga Mat
Small Blanket or Pillow For Journaling and Eating Lunch in Natural Surroundings.
Please Have Your Child Wear Comfortable Loose Fitted Clothing for Movement.
What Can Parents Do During this Time?
If not feeling to drive home between sessions, parents are welcome to enjoy some relaxation and rest time on the land, while your child is in their session.
There are plenty of forests, creeks, and places to hike, journal, and reflect on the property, and in the the near by area.
Bring a blanket, lunch , journal or a good book, and enjoy some radiant rest and resourcing for yourself.
Interested to Plug into the Magic of Practitioners On the Property, While Your Child Is In Their Program?
Dancing Tree Sanctuary is the headquarters of the School of Forest Medicine. There are many skilled practitioners living on the land.
If interested to receive a list of healing modalities + practitioners — Please email: Sasha@sashalang.com
