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Reclaiming Menarche

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You are invited to change the narrative of your menarche and create your own rite of passage.

Do you remember how old you were when you experienced your first bleed? Was it a pleasant experience or a painful one? Did you feel supported by people around you at the time? Did you receive an initiation into menarche, go through a rite of passage?

How would you qualify your relationship to menstruation? Is that something you see as positive, negative, a nightmare, a neutral experience? Do you talk about periods with people around you or is it a taboo topic? Do you see your blood as something sacred, to be ashamed of, just blood, anything else?

Today, responses to these questions vary a lot depending on where someone was raised and what beliefs their caregivers raised them in. Menstruation has become a topic that has become and continues to become less of a taboo. Yet, in some communities, it is still ushered, in others seen as something impure, to be ashamed of, as something that is inconvenient.

The way menstruation was introduced to me is that it was something painful and inconvenient, something that was better avoided. And this shaped how I viewed periods and my body for a long time. There are a lot of different factors that in the equation leading to in later years being diagnosed with endometriosis, I do believe that the beliefs I inherited around menstruation and my body were one of them.  Although I have so much to say about this, I will keep it to this to not dilute the message here.

I am deeply passionate about ceremonial and ritual spaces and in awe of cultures rich of devotion and rites of passage that many cultures and traditions have sadly lost. I am fascinated by rites of passage for they are a reminder that we are constantly evolving and that life is a transformative journey. And they create a sense of belonging when performed in community. I didn't grow up with any rite of passage and the closest thing to one i experienced was through having mentors at the start of my career. It seemed easier for me to go through change and learning about things that were foreign to me by having people initiate me. And my wish for my community is people to have access to rites of passage again during crucial times in their lives and something that i facillitate for others.

But does that mean it's too late for those of us who didn't experience rites of passage at such key times of their existence? I certainly don't believe so! And i also am also strongly convinced that giving oneself permission to receive what we wished we had can allow to dissipate old limiting beliefs, move stuck energy from the body and an have immense impact onto someone's life.

And that is the reason why i'm inviting you to join me and a group of women and femme bodied people for a ceremony to honour your menarche in a way that is meaningful to you.

What to expect?
You will be creating your own rite of passage. No one experience is the same and i have no intention of imposing my own experience of my body and menstruation onto anyone else so this is not a space where one template of menstruation or ceremony will be shared. Instead you will be invited to share your own experience should you want. You will be guided to connect to the younger part of you and asked what is it that they wished they received when going through menarche and cater your own rite of passage accordingly while being held by your peers

All Women and Femme Bodied people welcome

Who is your facilitator?


My name is Marania. I'm a holistic health practitioner who is passionate about supporting people to come home to their bodies and embrace all parts of themselves.
My work incorporates diverse, complementary modalities from various traditions ranging from Yoga, Pranayama to Bodywork, Energywork, Sacred spaces, Womb Health and Sensual Embodied Dance.


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