Menopause
Wisdom
Circles
Sharing is Thriving
In-person & online gatherings
Menopause is a powerful initiation in every woman’s life.
It can feel lonely, confusing, and destabilising.
Many woman have their experiences dismissed or trivialised.
You may be expected to push through or 'just' medicate the 'problem'.
Generally the power of this initiation, and its benefits
to each woman and society at large, are ignored.
What about the gifts of the menopause
and the woman who wholeheartedly navigates this rite of passage? What about ...
...the compassion of the wise woman initiated through the cycles of birth, death and rebirth? She lives deeply in her body. She knows unconditional love.
...the healing magic of the medicine woman who has met and
integrated her wounds, shadows and fears? She's not afraid to feel. She is humble and real.
...the freedom and pleasure of the wild woman who knows exactly what she wants. She has clear boundaries and liberates everyone in her path.
HOW ARE YOU SISTER?
Menopause calls each one of us on our own unique journey, as messy as it may be, to release the striving, to relax into our own revealing. Wherever you are, it's ok.
Do you have the circle of women you need?
You are actively weaving the wisdom of your life into something new and beautiful.
Women supporting Women
We women thrive when we are truly seen, heard, felt, and acknowledged.
Feminine initiations are real and deeply challenging. They call us into connection with other women.
But we don't want more noise or advice, pressure, judgement or shaming. We don't need more rules to fit in.
The Menopause Wisdom Circles are about women supporting women, each on her own path, listening to understand, validating experiences, acknowledging efforts, embodying and celebrating inner wisdom, and having a laugh on the way.
In these Circles we value ...
Sharing.
Informing ourselves and sharing experiences to enable conscious choices.
Deep Listening.
Cultivating safety for inner inquiry, feeling and contemplation. We listen with compassion.
Respect.
Seeing every woman as a Queen in her own right. Her journey and her choices are respected.
Rest.
Slowing down to regulate our nervous systems and creating soft space to simply Be.
Pleasure.
Prioritising this essential portal to feminine wisdom and support for body, mind and soul.
Upcoming Events
Thinking Outside the Menopause Box
ONLINE, 24 April 2024
with guest Sinéad O'Loughlin
Details below
Nourish Yourself through the Menopause
ONLINE, 22 May 2024
with guest Amy Webster
Details coming soon
Menopause Wisdom Mini-Retreat (fr/en)
2 June 2024, 15h-18h
Rolle, Switzerland
Details coming soon
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ONLINE EVENT
Thinking Outside the Menopause Box
Facilitated by Georgina Peard with special guest Sinéad O’Loughlin
Meet women keen to expand their perspective, and feel less alone through the menopause transition and beyond.
Wednesday 24 April 2024
19h30-21h30 CEST (Central Europe)
Online - Register Now
Listening to the cultural conversation around menopause, you could easily think it’s just an endless list of symptoms, improved by hormone patches, eating more protein and lifting weights. All of which may well be supporting you! Some of us find ourselves, though, also contemplating our experiences through a wider lens. A lens that encompasses the journey of our life on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels, and incorporates a desire for an uplifting and empowering transition.
What if the menopause transition is a time to celebrate the journey so far, and integrate the experiences, to prepare you for a new blossoming of your being?
What if it's a mirror, showing you the things you are finally ready to acknowledge and heal, the habits that need to go, the mindset that no longer serves you?
What if it's guiding you to trust the ebbs and flows of life, to lean into your feminine wisdom, to claim more space for your own needs, and follow your dreams?
What if it's your nervous system, your gut, your liver or some other vital system that is actually calling out for love and attention?
What if you’re being invited to attune yourself and your life to the rhythms of nature in order to relax into your own true nature?
The possibilities are endless and as unique as each woman.
Georgina and Sinead are gathering a circle of women online to open this conversation. We are not here to promote one perspective. We are two perimenopausal women, delving deep into our own inquiries, and with a wealth of experience in the world of women's health, wellness and spirituality.
One theme that particularly interests us is the role of the nervous system (i.e. stress) in amplifying menopause symptoms.
This is an interactive live event online.
Contribution: 38 CHF / Euro
(22-30 CHF / Euro for low income)
FACILITATOR: Georgina Peard
SPECIAL GUEST: Sinéad O'Loughlin
Sinéad is passionate about the intelligence of the body and helping people to relate to their bodies in a new and healthy way. She is a Chartered Physiotherapist in Ireland with over two decades of experience, especially in women's health. Her passion lies in combining the traditional western approach with neuroscience and modern nervous system and trauma education to offer a truly holistic approach. She has trained in multiple manual therapies, yoga, craniosacral therapy, somatic movement, and bodytalk, and is deeply interested in the nervous system and circadian rhythms. Sinéad's website
About the Circles ...
Every woman's journey with menopause is perfectly unique. Our focus here is inner inquiry and sharing experiences, supporting each woman to dive into her own journey, her own truth, and make her own choices. There is no judgement or pressure around personal choices, no definitive truths, and no advice.
Special guests are women who have the courage, humility and grace to share about their personal journey, as well as knowledge and experience that may support others, and stimulate reflection and conversation.
An online Circle generally includes:
- An introduction and framing of our conversation
- Introductions and agreements for our sharing circle
- Personal stories, experience and current inquiries from the faciliator or guest
- Breakout sharing rooms with useful prompts
- A gathering of our ‘gifts’ from the circle
- An integration practice to wind down
Who's this for?
Those going through the menopause transition, or anticipating this, or integrating what they have recently experienced. Those in late reproductive stage, peri-menopause, menopause or post-menopause, whether naturally occurring or due to illness or medical intervention. The only requirement is a genuine sense of curiosity for yourself and others. No need for previous experience in Circle or to feel well-informed about menopause.
There are no recordings of the sharing circles available as these are intimate and confidential spaces.
Who am I?
Georgina Laiya Peard
I'm passionate about helping people access and relax into a deep embodied state of worthiness and belonging, and to recognise their natural genius - the genius they vibrate with no effort. Born in Ireland, I have roots in Celtic spirituality and cyclical wisdom, and a palette of experience in Bodywork, Yoga, Shamanism, Tantra, and Circling, from along the way. After 15 years in international nature conservation, I've spent 15 years now mainly in women's group facilitation, offering transformational programmes, bodywork and therapy. I'm a certified yoga teacher, massage therapist, Heart iQ circle coach and shamanic practitioner. I am a natural spaceholder for sensitive listening, especially emotional-energetic and group dynamics that I want to make available to support others. In 2017 I founded a women’s community in Switzerland to support women to gather and thrive, and to live our spirituality in a more connected, day to day way.
Why I'm doing this?
At 47, I feel the changes touching all areas of my life, my body and my psyche. I'm deeply immersed in my own peri-menopause journey.
I sense the power and potential of this initiation in my life and the lives of women and men around me. I feel how it can shake us to our core and knock us to our knees, as well as bring us to wholeness and essential embodied wisdom.
I see how easy it is to withdraw inside our own struggles, to lose confidence and self-esteem, and that saddens me.
I believe the voices of women who have integrated feminine wisdom are essential for our future. I’m longing for all women to feel honoured, supported and empowered in this journey.
I ran the first Menopause Wisdom Circles as a 4 month group programme in 2020. It was a deeply touching and worthwhile experience.
I'm not here to teach you. I am training and informing myself, yes, and have things to share. Yet here, I hold the quality of space holder, enabler, catalyst, for you to be your own guide, and find your inner teacher, healer and lover. My role is to create the conditions for a welcome, safe, and intimate space to explore vulnerably and powerfully together. I am also a sister on this journey.
More Events Coming Up
Rest to Rise Retreat for women 40+
7 - 9 June 2024 (fr/en)
Residential - Restorative - Silent
Jura, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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