Honoring Our Elemental Rhythms
Seasonal workshops for women to experience ways to embody the rhythms of nature
Meet H.E.R.
Once a quarter, we'll gather to honor the elemental rhythm of that particular season.
Spring = Air
Summer = Fire
Fall = Water
Winter = Earth
Designed to meet you where you are in the season the workshop is being held,
to introduce the concept of living cyclically
With the elements as our guide, we'll explore each season through movement, meditation, and more.
The intention: to learn how to live more closely with the rhythm of nature in a world that asks us to be linear.
The element is the guide.
The menstrual cycle the map.
The season the landscape.
We draw upon the elements to learn how to embody the 'inner seasons' - or more specifically, the seasons of the cycle of menstruation* - so that we can learn how to tune into their gifts
H.E.R Offer
Through the offerings of
dance or yoga,
guided meditation,
nourishing meals
a sound bath, voice activation, or breathwork session
and a circle to close out the day
We'll receive insights on how one can choose to meet their own inner season in a supportive way.
We'll learn how others experience the different phases of the cycle and how they meet them - embracing the different energies and gifts they've received by being cyclically aware.
We'll also learn how others support themselves when they encounter challenges, resistance, or friction in areas of the cycle that may feel unbalanced.
In each season, we will learn practical ways to embody small changes within our monthly rhythm, which foods or herbs may support our energy in each phase, and learn through others' experiences of living cyclically.
"The cycle teaches us how to be with change...how to keep moving with what's moving us."
-Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer from the Red School
*NOTE: You do not need to be in your menstruating years to explore living in harmony with the cyclical nature of life!
Whether you're a woman who has a regular or irregular menstrual cycle, if you are beginning to shift into a season of life where the menstrual cycle is nearing its end, or if you are a woman who no longer has a menstrual cycle, you are invited to join us.
Curiosity is the only requirement here.
There are times to push, and there are times to rest. There are times to be social, and there are times to retreat into our metaphorical caves. Just like the sun rises and sets, and the moonlight builds and diminishes, our energy naturally rises and falls, waxing and waning throughout the month, too.
Despite the modern world largely focusing on forward momentum and "go-go-go" mentality - a more linear focus - with Meet H.E.R., we begin to explore ways in which we can tune into our intelligent bodies and harness the ebb and flow that is inherent within our nature.
We learn to stop going against our nature and learn to follow the rhythm that life moves in - in a spiraling circle, continually beginning and ending.
When we learn to live in tune with our ever-changing rhythm, we feel less "crazy" and more empowered in our choices. We begin to ride the wave of our creative inspirations, relish in our emphatic 'yes', honor our sacred 'no', and become less inclined to dishonor and override ourselves when something must go or come to an end.
We begin to embrace change and honor our timing.
Moving with Our Nature
Love Your Nature
The essence of H.E.R. is to learn to love your nature
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Harmonizing Our Energetic Rhythms
H.E.R. - Air
Season of Spring and the Cardinal Direction of East
To adequately meet the element of Air in Spring, we'll ground ourselves with gentle yet strong movement before meditation. We'll be guided through a vocal activation so that we may coherently speak our heart's desires and eloquently take risks.
An intentional meal will be offered to support this season, and we'll close the workshop with a circle to share what stayed with us through our exploration.
For some, the entry into inner spring can be glorious, and for others, the newness of the season can bring about anxiety - like the vulnerability of a new sapling that has just burst from the dark ground.
Air allows for inspiration to flit through our being. It can be like a new morning's sun casting light on creations and joys that can be born in the future. Spring is our inhale and our seeds of potential stirring to life.
H.E.R. - Fire
Fire gives us the juice and drive to go after our desires. It's our passion in motion, confidence embodied, and our power backed by our own spine.
Season of Summer and the Cardinal Direction of South
For many, summer can be a fun, social, and groovy time. Joyfully being with others, supporting others like the super-women we are, and feeling the fullness of what we bring to the table can be easy to access during this season. But what happens when our fires are too weak to sustain our dreams? What happens when our fires are continually fed with other people's logs of expectations? Overwhelm. Breakdown. Burnout.
This container begins with breathwork to help tap into our inner fire. To contain it or to fan it. We'll move into dancing to embrace our fire - to meet it with aliveness and awareness. May what rises during this session help to empower us in our chosen steps forward.
H.E.R. - Water
For many, the shift into inner fall can be disorienting, painful, and vulnerable. The capacity to meet everyone's needs and the buffer that seems easy to access in the first half of the cycle diminish, and with that, irritation and reaction can rise easily.
Season of Fall and the Cardinal Direction of West
Water helps us to release. To release what is stagnant within us and to release unrealistic expectations of ourselves. Fall is the season of our exhale, where we no longer need to hold everything together or hold things in.
In this season, we'll work with the power of our truth through movement, we'll unmask our honest desires with meditation, and we'll learn to stand strong within our vibrations by gently composting what is no longer ours to carry - including unhelpful stories.
H.E.R. - Earth
Earth is where we root ourselves before beginning the cycle all over again. It's where we're invited to press pause, to rest, to hibernate, and to retreat.
Season of Winter and the Cardinal Direction of North
Our ancestors knew well the importance of 'shifting down' along with the shorter days in the winter months, and making war and labor kapu (forbidden) in times of the wet season (ho'oilo). How can we carve out time for ourselves to rest, integrate, and replenish before meeting the dawn of a new day, week, month, or venture?
In a world that tells us it's selfish to slow down and tend to our needs before anyone else, we offer this space to slow down despite it. We nourish ourselves with yin ways to tend to the body before we move into our teaching portion of the workshop, and we take time to meet ourselves with loving attention in our journals.
What to Expect
This Workshop's Flow:
10:00 AM - Doors open
10:10 AM - Welcome/Introduction
10:25 AM - 45-60 minutes
Shake Rising movement practice11:30 AM - 30 minute
Guided meditation with Michelle12:00 PM -
Lunch prepared by Ollie12:45 PM - 45-60 minute
Presentation with the LYN Ladies1:45 PM - 30-45 minutes
Sound Healing2:30 PM - 1 hour Circle to close
When the doors open, we invite you to settle in before we get started at 10:15. Find a seat, use the restroom, listen to the music, and the quiet buzz of women beginning to gather for a day of Release together.
Other Details:
Time will be woven throughout the day to allow us to get up and stretch after periods of sitting or to relieve ourselves.
We will aim to stick to our outlined timeline and intend to leave the space no later than 4:00 PM.
We'll start off in a circle, where Crystal will lead us in our opening introduction for the day.
We'll take a few minutes to situate ourselves on our mats, or take the opportunity to relieve ourselves if needed, before we move into our morning movement session.
Mari?
Once we have shed and released through movement, we'll continue to rest in our resting position or choose to sit up while Michelle leads the group through ________________
A short window of time will be provided to gently come out of meditation, to journal if you'd like, or to continue resting after the meditation.
We'll gather for lunch, lovingly prepared by Ollie.
After being nourished by Ollie's passion, we'll take a short break before moving into the presentation.
The presentation will be led by Crystal, who will invite specific co-faciliators to share their experience with cycle-syncing their lifestyle during the pre-menstrual phase. Ollie may share why certain ingredients were chosen for the meal; Michelle may go into more detail about the meditation's theme; and a few of the LYN Ladies will have the opportunity to share what they've learned and experienced in their inner fall.
There may not be a Q&A portion to this presentation due to time. We ask that all questions be written throughout the workshop so they may be gathered at the end.
Sound Bath? Why - memories, stories, vibration Journaling/Tea/Cacao?
We'll gather in a circle once again to cap off our time together. Crystal will facilitate the space and offer a prompt to reflect upon, and we'll take turns sharing if we desire it.
Meet the LYN Ladies
If you are still menstruating, how is your relationship to your menstrual cycle?
Do you allow yourself to slow down during menstruation?
Do you feel the subtle return of energy and outward expression when you enter the pre-ovulation phase?
Do you feel more social and free to be yourself when you're ovulating?
Do you resist the call to begin to slow down or tune in when the pre-menstrual phase arrives?
These questions have no wrong answer.
You don't need to know what these phases are.
You don't even need to be in your menstruating years to explore living in harmony with the cyclical nature of the seasons.
If you are a woman who is not menstruating or has yet to begin menstruating, how is your relationship to the seasons of life?
Do you carve out time to be to yourself so that you can rest and rejuvenate before heading back into the world? Do you have simple ways in which you can slow down and resource yourself? Are there things that could use time for reflection, or for dreaming into being?
What does the bubbling anticipation feel like in your body? How does your body respond to the desire to do something? Do you have practices that help ground you in times of increased mental chatter?
Have you noticed if you feel your most energetic at certain parts of the day? Perhaps during certain times of the month, like when the moon is new or full? What season do you feel like you most 'come alive' in?
What signals does your body provide when you've had enough? How do you know if overstretched your energetic capacity? How do you feel about setting boundaries? Do you give yourself the time to reflect on what does and doesn't work and how you may want to proceed from there?
Tending to our blossoming energy in nourishing ways while harnessing the inspiration and increasing energy of spring.
Stepping confidently and exuberantly into our creative fire of summer.
Gently turning our attention inward, reviewing and editing or clipping away anything that no longer serves in fall.
So that we can be ready for resting and rejuvenating ourselves when we meet our winter.
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