A warm hello to you all

   I hope you are finding moments (or even whole days or weeks!) to enjoy the special treats of Winter:  cozy reads by the fire;  long, deep sleeps;  the earthy nourishment of root vegetables that grew in the dark.  It can be quite a challenge in our season-denying culture to truly accept Winter’s invitation to slow down our busyness, quieten our active minds, and allow our more interior, contemplative Self to take her rightful place in our priorities.  (I admit I find this really hard myself).  Our politicians and economists have long forgotten that “growth” can only be growth when it includes a periodic pause, a resting phase, a space for re-filling the source of our energy.

   I love the word replenishment, the sense it carries of re-plentying our inner reserves.  It’s time to fill up our interior life with an abundance of nourishing, enjoyable soul food.  Do we really trust that this will work for us;  will bring us a wonderful upwelling new energy making it easy to return to our busy lives in the world with renewed inspiration, creativity  and enthusiasm…  That it will bring gifts and surprises we quite literally would never have thought of, because they come from beyond where our busy minds can reach, the realms of our soul and intuition.

   In a culture that believes in non-stop “productivity” and “growth” we need a robust inner permission to trust emptiness, quiet, stillness and doing-nothing.  Silence and darkness, the great motherly blessings that Winter has designed to give us rest, are very hard to find in our cities, and we no longer allow a Sabbath, a pause from commerce to attend to the spiritual aspects of our lives.

   Whatever it is for you that most revives your spirit, brightens your energy, lifts your heart, rejuvenates your body, refreshes your mind – may you drink deeply of that this Winter.  May you rest without pressure, without worry.  May you lie back with perfect trust in the arms of Winter, and relax into the actual bodily sensation of replenishment, feeling it fill you like the rain fills a pond.  May you rest yourself into the wonderful feeling of being replete – fully filled up.

 

A New Luna House Service for women outside of Christchurch

   I am pleased to tell you I can now offer personal consultations for you via Skype.   These can be followup support for anything that has come up for you on workshops, or one-on-one therapeutic attention for any menstruality or personal issues you may wish to explore in this way.   You are welcome to phone or email me if you want to discuss this service at any time.  (If you don’t have Skype, consultations can be by phone).

An Invitation for Christchurch Women

Come
Celebrate
Candlemas

    You are warmly invited to a gathering celebrating the joyous festival of Candlemas or First Light.  We will mark this halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox with a reflection on its resonance with our womanly cycles and the new beginnings we are reminded to open to in our own life journeys.

WHEN:     Sunday 1st August, 7pm
WHERE:  Luna House, 4 Hurunui Street, Cracroft
COST:      $20 (negotiable where necessary)
REGISTER BY:  Sunday 25th July

Please Bring: -  A Candle that is special to you, with holder
                 -  some food or drink to share for supper

Register at:  Ph:  332 5755   or   email:

Coming Up in Other Centres

Luna House will be offering workshops in the near future in the following areas.  Please spread the word to women you know who may like to attend:

Nelson:      Weekend Workshop on Menstrual Cycles, July 24/25.  Register by 16 July
                 
Auckland: Weekend Workshop on Menstrual Cycles,  August 21/22. Reg by 13 August
     
New Plymouth: a series of Weekends offering the foundation workshops in a more spacious and indepth format over 4 months, and including extra Friday evening workshops as well:

Fri August 6, Candlemas Celebration,  Sat Aug 7, Menstrual Cycles 1, Sun Aug 8, Menopause 1
Fri Sept 3,     Sacred Sexuality 3,       Sat Sept 4, Menstrual Cycles 2,  Sun Sept 5, Menopause 2
Fri Oct 1,       Sacred Sexuality 4,        Sat Oct 2,  Menstrual Cycles 3,  Sun Oct 3,   Menopause 3
Fri Nov 5,      Men’s Workshop,            Sat Nov 6  Menstrual Cycles 4,   Sun Nov 7, Menopause 4

 

The Whole of the Moon:  Illuminating Your Menstrual Cycle

This workshop will offer women a new, indepth body of knowledge about their whole Menstrual Cycle, every day of the month.  It will offer:

• A new understanding of our female hormones and why they act in the ways they do

• A clear model that helps us know that we are perfectly designed to make sense  exactly as we are, with all our changeability, moods, emotions and physical experiences around the month

• Some tools and methods that help us align our daily life to our cycle energies, so that we can use our monthly variations to best advantage, and also minimise struggles and difficulties

• An exploration of our very special resonance with Nature, because of our cycle

• An invitation to experience the deep Spiritual and Developmental dimensions of our feminine nature through living our Menstrual Cycle consciously

The weekend will go far beyond the medical/reproductive meaning we are familiar with, and give participants a whole new perspective on being Woman.  The Luna House approach is a unique and original body of knowledge, not elsewhere available.  There is much more to our Menstrual Cycles than we have ever been told, and we need and deserve to get our knowledge back! 

Comments from Past Participants

“I have a whole new reference point and perspective on my life now… it’s hard
to convey the enormous world it has opened up to me and others.”
“This course has been life-changing.  I have eagerly been applying new-found knowledge and tools throughout my cycle and have been amazed at how awareness and understanding can sprout light and magic in an area that was dark and painful.”
“All women should have this wonderful knowledge.”
“I am blown away by the depth of knowledge of the content.”
“Fantastic and Perfect.  Insightful and Amazing.  Empowering and Beautiful.”

 

 

With love to you all

Jane Catherine

At Luna House