Why?

Let me begin by letting you know that I am NOT your typical period celebrating woman. I wear jeans and hoodies and love bucket hats and go raving. I meditate and work with angels and goddesses but I don’t do ceremonies in woods and dance with flowers. 5 rhythms and ecstatic dance are too much for my neurodiverse heart, mind and soul. I love old traditional stuff, including my traditional cultural and ethnic folk dancing. I have spent most of my life ashamed of my body, unable to say the word period without a lump in my throat. I know plenty of men who were more comfortable talking about periods than I was.

I came to realise that periods are AMAZING. We make a cushion every month to cushion and support LIFE. There is nothing dirty or shameful about that at all. In fact it’s INCREDIBLE.

Working through layers of my own trauma, I heard about the menses homeopathic remedy. It is made from the menses of 9 women.

I realised I couldn’t take a remedy made from other women. I realised I have to make my own.

I am a homeopath. I LOVE discovering and testing new remedies. I also work a lot with trauma, having lived through a lot of it and transformed a huge amount.

The way we make these remedies is in the wonderful slow way of triturating (grinding) with a pestle and mortar, an hour at a time, each hour radiating the energy of the remedy through yet another layer of consciousness - through the individual, the family, ancestral, collective, cultural, planetary, solar system, universal layers of consciousness all the way up to the Divine. This is a journey taught by the amazing Dr Paul Theriault.

Within 15 minutes of starting to make the remedy from my own menses, my sacral chakra radiated an incredible warmth. Like when your hands get hot from Reiki, my sacral chakra was doing the same. I have never felt that before. I understood amazing things about this initiation into womanhood from days gone by, the making our own medicine. It awakens our power. Power I didn’t know I had is switched back on.

This is the ultimate smash the patriarchy remedy.

I would like to share this with as many women as would like to join me. In learning how to make a medicine that reclaims the power we have to create & sustain life itself, joined with women from around the world.

What if I am in my crone years?

If you in your wise elder crone years, you can still take part, inviting the energy of your menses into Spring Water / organic red wine so you can do this too.

When and where?

A short 2.5 hour workshop on Monday 20 November at 1-3.30pm BST (UK), 5-7.30am PST (US), 8-10.30pm AWST (W Australia).

There is a recording that is sent out to you afterwards if you can’t make it live.

You will learn how to triturate and make your own powerful medicine in this workshop.

Making your medicine is something that will take a few hours to do. You can do so in your own time once you’ve learned the basics.

If you would like to journey together with other women making their remedies at the same time once you’ve done the workshop, I will connect you all so you can support one another to triturate your remedies together if you’d like that.

The session will be recorded for those that are not able to make it live, and who have booked their place. I would encourage you to attend live if you at all can.

What do I need to prepare?

You will need some equipment to do this, full instructions on what to prepare will be sent in a video and PDF on booking. Some of this you may need to buy - the list includes a marble pestle and mortar and weighing scales that measure micrograms that can be used for jewellery, and a number of cheaper items. You will also need a litre of spring water - only from a glass bottle. So if you happen to stop by a holy spring before then, do collect some.

(Please note: do not wash your pestle and mortar in washing up liquid when you get it, I will explain why!).

How do I collect my menses?

Collect your menses in preparation when you are on your moon in a clean container, preferably glass (that has NOT been washed in washing up liquid, only in spring water from a glass bottle).

Place this in the freezer once collected. You only need a teaspoon worth. You will receive further instructions on booking, as to what to prepare.

A video outlining all you need to do in preparation will be emailed to you on booking.

What is the investment?

The workshop teaching, and joining in the events of the week if you would like to, is only £50.

This is to make it as accessible as possible to as many women as possible.

If you genuinely cannot give this amount, please do get in touch and ask for a gifted place.

When booking, you can book a second place as a Pay-It-Forward place to support making it available to those who would not be able to pay for their place.

How to book

If you are interested, please book asap so that you can receive the information you need and have time to obtain all you need to make your medicine.

Whilst I would love to welcome every woman who would like to do this, this isn’t to be done during pregnancy.

Love Danica x

Beautiful Medicine Woman Art by Caroline Maniere