Cycles & Circles with Julie

What if perimenopause is an invitation into a deeper relationship with yourself, your body, your power and your vitality?

I’m excited to open registrations for the next round of Inner Fire Perimenopause as a Rite of Passage, a 5-month online circle journey of initiation, embodiment and aliveness starting in October!

🐥 €100 early bird discount until 31st August 🐥

Join us to explore perimenopause as a rite of passage, a transformational threshold through which we reconnect with the power to shape our lives.

Together we’ll follow a roadmap guided by the Wild Woman: from fierceness and sacred rage, through emotional alchemy and the healing void, towards integration and renewal.

At the heart of our journey is sacred rage as an embodiment practice of movement and voice.

For many of us, perimenopause brings a new intolerance for the ways we have been overriding ourselves, accommodating others and playing the good girl.

Rather than suppressing that fire, we learn to listen to it. Sacred rage can become a doorway into vitality, power and the courage to shape our own lives.

We begin with the body: understanding the changing hormonal and nervous-system landscape of perimenopause and how it can affect the way we feel, function and relate to ourselves.

From there, we explore what becomes possible when we stop seeing these changes simply as problems to manage and begin to approach them as part of a meaningful rite of passage.

Each of the six Inner Fire circles combines intuitive movement and song, ritual, wisdom transmission, soul sharing and embodied exploration.

The programme also includes two individual sessions with me plus inspiring resources and inquiries I share with you between the circles.

🐥 €100 early bird discount for registrations completed by 31st August

All details via link in bio and do reach out to me with any questions you have or to chat about whether the programme is for you.

You’re very welcome to join us even in your late 30s when you may not be sure whether you’re yet in perimenopause.

I’d love to have you with us! ❤️‍🔥

Picture by Camille Leon

This offering has been brewing within me throughout my 46th year. Finally, it’s ready to share with you.

An invitation to encounter the medicine of the wild through sea, rock, pine and sun along the Sfakian coast of South Crete.

This offering is born from the countless journeys I've made along these shores since 2015. My feet carried me back time and again along the rocky coastal path with views over the vast blue sea.

I noticed a pattern - each time I returned with a sense of renewal and possibility. As my relationship with Crete's herstory deepened, I came to understand that what was calling me was the ancient Goddess of the Wild. I was drawn to her holy place - a mythical, pre-patriarchal landscape of power and sensuality.

Being on her lands, elemental rituals would organically emerge from within me.

Inspired by her breeze.
Washed clean by her waters.
Ignited by her fire.
Held by her rocks.

As I walked the path once again on my 45th birthday last year, I was in the midst of my own peri-menopausal initiation, with my relationship and home of 7 years falling apart…yet I felt ecstatically alive.

It was there that I had a vision of offering this gift to other women - especially those needing time away with themselves, those standing at a turning point in their lives.

For women longing for intentional, ritual space, to meet the medicine of the wild and reconnect with their inner compass.

Maybe you’ve dreamed of setting out on a journey like this before, but you’re not sure where to start.

Perhaps you’re tired of making decisions, of organising everyone else’s lives and would love someone else to take care of the planning.

Or perhaps you’re wondering, “Could I really set out on my own?” You can! That’s exactly why I designed these pilgrimages: to make a journey like this possible, with the freedom to
discover it in your own way.

If a part of you senses that you’re standing on a threshold, perhaps this pilgrimage is your invitation to cross it. I look forward to meeting you in the Wild! 🐐

All details in first comment - do reach out to me with any questions you have x

Dear ones - These are the last days to harvest my summer offers this July:

🍇 50% off the supported version of the Red Moon Circle School online self-study course (from €225)*
🍇 30% off the basic version of the Red Moon Circle School online self-study course (from €175)*
🍇 One extra 1:1 session when you book two online sessions with me (from €170).

All details are here: https://sh1.sendinblue.com/3glb6pe4vb9pfe.html?t=1785394580505

It feels so fulfilling to know how the Red Moon Circle School is making a tangible difference in women’s lives:

“The last module was very powerful and enlightening. It helped me clarify many abstract ideas about patriarchy and identify practical aspects of how it shows up in my life and the people I know. I trust my body more, I feel a deeper acceptance of myself and empathy towards myself and others. I feel relieved from other people's views about how my body looks or what I wear.”

And while my 1:1 work has been less visible than my circles, it's what I’ve devoted at least half of my time to for over 13 years now with much joy and impact!

A client wrote me the other day:

“Today in a team building exercise my personality type was creative while some years ago it was strict perfectionist. I'm convinced that it's all the inner work that I've been doing with you that has allowed me to open up, to tap into my emotions and creativity.”
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­I also want to share some of the background story to my July offerings:

Lately I - like many of the women I work with - am feeling the impact of the tough economic climate which means that we have less to spend on women's spaces and self care.

The past few years as women we have collectively decided to devote our spare time, energy and money to things that matter to us - building communities of sisterhood, growth and power across the world.

Reclaiming pre-patriarchal knowledge about our bodies and connection to the natural world.

Building a post-patriarchal toolkit for a different world to come.

This is deeply meaningful because our economic empowerment has meant that we’re able to reshape our lives according to the female gaze, following female desire - creating what we long for, instead of consuming what patriarchal structures tell us we want.

And in the process, dissatisfaction is spreading with the patriarchal ways because we now have a felt sense of how things could be oh so different.

Perhaps we have awakened the pre-patriarchal memories in our bones. The memories of our ancestresses living before patriarchy took hold of our motherlines.

We certainly have kindled a hope for the dysfunctioning patriarchal structures to crumble.

For something new, something matriarchal, to rise from the ashes.

Yet my big picture mind - some of you may know that I used to work in strategy consulting and scenario planning in London in my late 20s and early 30s! - also sees another scenario.

One where women’s spaces get marginalised once again now that Trump & co are wrecking the economy, eroding women’s spending power.

The beauty medicine we’ve jointly been building is extra vulnerable because most women still earn substantially less than men and many are dependent on men for access to finances at all.

And not just economically vulnerable, also psychologically as internalised patriarchal voices rear their heads to proclaim that a beauty medicine experience is a nice to have, not something essential for life.

Yet it is essential - to survive the misery of the dead throws of patriarchy that we see all around us.

Beauty is vital medicine, it’s the voice of harmony with the land, of the original instructions for how to be in right relationship with the earth and all her creatures.

It’s exactly what will lead us out of patriarchy into a society that centers life, not destruction.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how to sustain beauty medicine while it’s under pressure. How to sustain women like me who have dedicated their lives to sustaining other women.

There has to be a way to support all of us so we can make it through to the other side - through the collapse of patriarchy into the promise of matriarchy.

Because that’s exactly what matriarchy is about - a circular economy and society nourishing all.

My July offers are a very humble attempt at that, constrained as I am by rising monthly costs in the current linear growth model of economy and society.

If you’re hesitating to book or have any questions or ideas, just reach out to chat - I’m always happy to connect!

Including about how to work together even if these offers are not financially affordable for you.

With love and sisterhood from Crete 🌹

🌀 Come explore the raw & sensuous beauty of Sfakia to meet your wild self in the garden oasis of YogaOnCrete on 1st August!

🍇 A Wild & Sacred Cyclical Nature harvest celebration circle to experience the ancient magic of this land, where the powerful White Mountain cliffs plunge into the vast Libyan sea.

🐍 I’ll guide you through ritual and ecstatic voice & movement practice inspired by the ways of the Minoan snake goddess.

🌿 As we explore our wild & sacred cyclical nature, we’ll be held under the stars and the olive trees at the outdoor shaded shala oasis of YogaOnCrete.

💃🏽 You’ll come away feeling deeply grounded and full of aliveness, connected to your wild self, the land and our community of women.

🌊 My work is informed by 13 years of post-patriarchal spaceholding for women’s groups and 1:1 as a trauma, embodiment & menstrual therapist, in Europe, India and online, as well as by preparing a PhD on Minoan menstrual medicine.

✏️ Registrations: You can book your spot via https://forms.gle/Ud6Y1ysBxVMtEgb39 until 2 days before each circle.

👌🏽 For all details see: https://fb.me/e/9gBL7gl8y

Any questions, let me know!

Looking forward to welcoming you to the circle 💞