BOOKING NOW: Yoga, meditation and wild art journalling workshop to nurture women journeying through peri and menopause.
January 14 2024, 2-6pm, at Beechwood Hall, Cooksbridge.
In this nourishing workshop, we will explore meditation, breath, self massage and gentle movement practises to invite a more introspective, self-nurturing energy of this time of life. We will also explore wild art journaling as a way of creatively playing with self expression and identity as it shifts with throughout this transformational stage.
We welcome anyone who is moving through peri-menopause or menopause, or who is moving towards this stage, and would like to do so from a place of deep connection, acceptance and compassion. We aim to offer a supportive, non-judgemental expansive space where you will feel held and free to explore beyond the patriarchal notions of what this time of life entails. We welcome you to Maga.
When I first came across the term ‘Maga’, it felt like home. A place, or archetype, which follows the Mother (the stage of literal mothering a woman’s life or the bearing of other fruit, the productive ‘summer’ of life). While I’m all about reclaiming Crone as a positive and powerful time of life from the patriarchal downgrading of crone to wicked stepmother, witch (as a negative), or invisible and useless beyond reproductive years; with longer life spans, but at 50, it just doesn’t quite fit yet for me and so many women I talk to. Jane Hardwicke-Collins talks about Maga as:
‘the feminine version of Magus – the wise man, magician… a time of “integration and pulling through and pulling together the biggest pieces of my life work, my offering to the world.”
Where Mother is the Summer phase, Maga is the Autumn, and we can look to the seasons for guidance. It is a time of drawing in, regrouping, bringing in what we need for nourishment at a transitional time of life.
Book workshop, £50 for the afternoon.
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Moyra Scott runs classes and art retreats. She developed her own processes, style of painting and a way of (WILD) Art Journaling. Moyra has her own painting studio and exhibits and sells her paintings. She also has a coaching practice with 1-2-1 clients and small group programmes (creative business owners, artists, designers, healers, photographers etc) and continues to coach and run workshops in the corporate setting (Reuters, UNV, UCL, Bristol Council, Kings College London, Cambridge University, Roche, Bayer among others).
Leonie Taylor is a senior yoga teacher and therapeutic Thai massage practitioner, teaching online (at Charlotte Watts Whole Health and Heart + Bones Yoga and in person. Leonie runs a weekly menopause yoga class.
Leonie is also a published author, having collaborated on Yoga Therapy for Digestive Health and co-authored Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health. She is currently writing her first solo project for Thames & Hudson, to be published in 2024.