A full day mapping your cyclical nature, from your first bleed to menopause.
Out of sync. Too sensitive. Too intense. Not motivated enough. Too much, not enough.
If you have ever felt any of that, there is context for it: language for how your menstrual cycle moves across a month, how your energy, mood, focus and boundaries move with it, and how those same shifts run through menarche, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause.
Together we weave in physiology, psychology, mythology, and the cycles of nature. I love noticing the overlap.
I offer practices, stories and symbols. What you make of them is yours.
Many of the most powerful moments in a woman's life are surrounded by silence, shame, or dismissal. Menstruation is often treated as inconvenience or something to hide. Birth is portrayed as chaos or loss of control. Menopause is reduced to "the change." Women over 50 quietly become invisible.
And yet these phases hold immense power. They are thresholds.
Honoured properly, you come out of these transitions more yourself. More certain. Harder to talk out of what you know.
When you understand your cycles and life stages as meaningful rhythms rather than problems to manage, something shifts. It puts you back at the centre of your own life story.
You'll leave with a map.
A simple framework for the phases of a cycle, how the same shape shows up in menarche, birth and menopause, and why times of change can feel unsettling even when nothing is wrong.
The menstrual cycle. The lunar month. The turning of a year. A single day, from waking to dark. The same shape runs through all of them, once you know where to look.
The map does not tell you what to do. It simply helps you locate yourself.
We do not all move at the same pace. We live in different stages of life, shaped by our inner world and the outer conditions around us.
Just like the seasons across the year, you may be in summer. Someone else may be in autumn. Someone else may be in deep winter. None of that is wrong.
When women are allowed to be exactly where they are, without comparison or pressure to be somewhere else, something softens.
A circle doesn't require sameness. It simply requires women steady enough within themselves to show up as they are, and willing to meet one another without defence.
Your first bleed. Birth. Menopause. Elderhood.
Each one is a threshold within a larger pattern. They are cumulative. They layer. They shape the seasons that follow.
Like nature, these transitions unfold whether we consciously tend to them or not. A seed rests in the dark. It sprouts, it blooms, it opens fully, then releases and ripens into seed.
Once the pattern is named, it becomes practical.
- Plan important presentations or creative launches in outward phases
- Understand why the week before your period feels the way it does
- Protect deep rest during bleeding or inner seasons without guilt
- Stop labelling yourself lazy when energy shifts
- Speak more clearly about your needs and boundaries
- Make decisions when you're clear, rather than when you're pressured
When you understand your own rhythm, something shifts. You stop asking permission to exist as you are.
Who this is for
Many women come with no background in this at all. You don't need to have attended a circle, a workshop or a course, and you don't need to be spiritual. You don't need to be tracking anything, or know what phase you're in.
What it does ask is that you're willing to reflect. To sit with a question rather than want an answer handed to you. If you'd rather have a protocol to follow, this isn't the day for it.
What the day is like
We sit together in circle on the floor, around the map itself, made by hand into a rug, with candles at the centre. Bolsters, cushions, chairs if you'd rather.
The day starts with grounding and introductions, then moves between teaching, discussion and reflection, with real breaks to eat and talk.
Everything is an invitation. You take what you need and leave the rest. Radical self care is the value underneath the day.
Jennifer Hazi
I am a midwife by profession, but this workshop sits outside my clinical work.
Alongside my midwifery practice, I have spent many years studying and practising within women's wisdom traditions that explore cycles, life stages, and rites of passage as meaningful patterns rather than problems to solve. I am a graduate of the Four Seasons Journey, a long-form immersion in cyclical awareness and women's rites of passage, and I work as a shamanic craftswoman within this lineage.
This work draws on the lineage of Jane Hardwicke Collings and Moonsong, and has evolved through my own experience, study, and practice with women over time.
Book your place
Small group, limited to 13 women per date.
$250, payment plans available. The Gathering Space, 160 Flinders St, Paddington.
Includes teaching, reflection, discussion and journaling prompts. Bring water, a journal and lunch. Morning tea, afternoon tea and herbal tea provided. We spend the day sitting in circle, so bring anything you need to sit comfortably.
Accessibility: please share any needs when booking. There is a single step into The Gathering Space.