“Moon Medicine - a lunar love in. Over the years The Trailblazery events have been the source for all sorts of new ideas but now they have come up with an ancient one...”
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The Trailblazery presents Moon Medicine – a monthly gathering for women to coincide with the Full Moon cycle of 2019. This is an invitation for women who are ready to harness their inner power and reclaim their wild feminine nature. Our next gathering takes place on May 18 with host Kathy Scott and guest luminaries Lian Bell | Waking the Feminists with Nina Hynes | Artist and Musician and Dee Mulrooney | Artist and Women’s Sacred Circle Holder - see full bio details below. Our Full Moon May gathering weaves a range of potent practices and teachings with live music, soundscapes, performance and ritual.
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Meet our May Guest Luminary Lian Bell
The #WakingtheFeminists movement was spearheaded by Lian Bell. She decided to call out the glaring omission of women playwrights after the unveiling of the 1916 centenary programme at the Abbey Theatre, where nine out of 10 featured plays were written by men. That social media post galvanised what became a major sea change in the theatre landscape. It was the thing that woke many women out of slumber and ignited a movement towards gender equality and equity in the theatre world and beyond. Lian works as a freelance set designer and cultural project manager. Since completing an MA Scenography at Central St. Martins, London, she has worked with some of the most significant arts organisations and contemporary performance makers in Ireland. As a designer she tends to work on devised and/or collaborative performances, often in spaces that aren’t theatres. She has designed for The Local Group, Moonfish Theatre, Louise White, The Corn Exchange, junk ensemble, Brokentalkers, and Catapult Dance. Lian was Campaign Director of #WakingTheFeminists, a highly successful one-year grassroots campaign for equality for women working in Irish theatre.
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All the way from Berlin, meet our May Moon Medicine Creatrixes - in- Residence
Nina Hynes has collaborated with The Trailblazery on many landmark projects from Rites of Passage to We Need to Talk About Ireland. She has released 4 albums Creation (1999), Staros (2002), Really Really Do (2007) and Goldmine (2013). She is a member of various art and electronic-music collaborations. She is currently working on 2 albums and a feature film soundtrack. At an early age, she toured with experimental composer Hector Zazou and collaborator Harold Budd. Nina has written songs for all her own releases as well as for other singers and projects including Jane Birkin and Melanie Gabriel on Strong Currents by Hector Zazou (2003). She has also taken part in Art Exhibitions with photographic images, sonic installations and soundtrack work. Nina was one of five founders and curators of CRAW, an extremely successful alternative Irish arts festival in Berlin in June 2018. She also performed at CRAW with her 6-piece band and a separate dark electronic show as part of her dance choreography musical; Dancing Sun lies down. She has toured America and Europe and played many supports including Roxy Music, Terry Callier, Smog, Stereolab, Cat Power, Julee Cruise, David Gray, Joan as a Police woman, Glen Hansard and Damien Rice.
Dee Mulrooney is a mother, teacher, doula, women’s sacred circle facilitator, storyteller and an artist. She believes passionately and through her own embodied experience that ‘Art is Medicine’. For her the transmutative power of creative expression is healing. Dee uses a variety of media to explore the iconography of identity, in particular womanhood. Her most recent explorations have given birth to ‘Growler’. Growler is Dee’s alter ego, a 78 year old Vulva from the inner city of Dublin, who has been displaced in Berlin. Through story-telling, singing, spoken word, comedy and prayer, Growler takes people on a journey through women’s pain and healing. She is a transmuter of sorts, a channel for women’s stories, a voice for the voiceless. Raised working class in the Northside of Dublin, a time and place dominated by Catholicism and men, Dee is now discovering the joy of playing with taboos and visions of female identity that would until recently have seen her locked away. In her own words.. “My work is a place where my joy in creativity as a woman is wholly my own and ungovernable. Through the pain and sometimes even the unspeakable, there are no limits. As women, we contain it all.”
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In light of Repeal and the rising momentum of women worldwide speaking out, stepping up and reclaiming their power, this is a special opportunity to rediscover and celebrate your own creative feminine life force. Hosted by Kathy Scott {Creative Director of The Trailblazery} - this series of monthly mystery gatherings will illuminate the magical gifts of the Moon at special locations around the city of Dublin as 2019 unfolds. Moon Medicine is an opportunity to tune into the gifts of the Lunar Cycle and meet a host of inspiring trailblazing women along the way.
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For more information on Moon Medicine click here
Investment:
€200 euros: Moon Medicine Bundle of 6. You can select and attend 6 of our Moon Medicine Gatherings. You will also receive a direct download of lunar intel including writings, recordings, resources, practices, self inquiry questionnaire and reading material delivered directly into your inbox every month. Once you have purchased you can email us to arrange your spots at hello@thetrailblazery.com.
€100 euros: Moon Medicine Bundle of 3. You can select and attend 3 of our Moon Medicine Gathering . You will also receive a direct download of lunar intel including writings, recordings, resources, practices, self inquiry questionnaire and reading material delivered directly into your inbox every month. Once you have purchased you can email us to arrange your spots at hello@thetrailblazery.com.
€35 euros : drop-in rate per gathering. Advance booking is recommended as spaces will be limited.
Testimonials:
Kathy Scott has been traveling the world as a passionate student and brave pioneer of practices that bring people into intimate contact with their creativity and power. As a teacher, she beautifully weaves together all that she has gathered into a rich and generous offering. This is a deeply nourishing and powerful brew, especially for women.
Annie Ryan, Artistic Director Corn Exchange
Kathy Scott creates an utterly transcendent yoga experience. I attended her recent Rising Feminine Medicine Yoga Programme and it exceeded any expectations that I might have had on a mental, emotional, energetic and deeply feminine level. Her classes are packed full of wisdom, kindness, practical yoga asanas and meditative exercises that flowed off the mat with me and seamlessly threaded into my days for the rest of the week. Kathy elegantly weaves a powerful depth and breath of experience into all of her classes. Such a restorative weekly tonic. I couldn't recommend her more highly.
Nadine McCarthy Performance Consultant
Kathy Scott is one of a kind. She has a rare and special gift of teaching, her classes are unique, authentic and raw. Kathy has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom and brings together the most beautiful blend to her teachings . She offers unique pearls of women’s wisdom and deep feminine sensuality into all of her classes. Without doubt the most nourishing and beautiful classes I have ever gone to. Thank you Kathy for sharing your gifts.
Michelle Drury, Auriel Yoga Studio
Kathy Scott blazes a new and exciting trail using yoga as a way of expressing her higher purpose in this life. She has the powerful ability to align with Source in a way that allows this magnificent energy to flow in her, for her and through her. This invariably enables you to reach into the very core of your own being accessing the Divine feminine power that lies deep within you. Kathy is an embodiment of that wonderful feminine energy that has the potential to rise within us all.
Judith McAdam, Author, Theologian, Kinesiologist and Spiritual Life Coach
About Me.
Yogi, Curator, Creative Entrepreneur and Cultural Acupuncturist; I have been practicing and teaching yoga for over 15 years. I have trained as a teacher in the Kundalini, Sivananda & Anusara yoga methods and am committed to continually developing my practice and teaching. I am deeply influenced by the teachings of Elena Brower, Rod Stryker, Paramatma Siri Sadhana, Michaela Boehm, Thomas Hübl, Tara Brach and many more luminaries on and off the mat. I recently designed Rising Feminine Medicine - an ongoing alchemical practice inviting women to free their mind, open their heart, come home to their body and reclaim their wild feminine nature. I am currently participating on an ongoing tantric training with Michaela Boehm called The Wild Woman’s Way.
I am the curator and founder of many creative projects and enterprises in Ireland including The Trailblazery, the ireland : iceland project, The Wonderlust Stage at Body & Soul. I am currently creative-in-residence at Trinity College Dublin. I support creative entrepreneurs to clarify, strategize and share their unique vision with the world by offering a professional mentoring programme that activates and elevates their trailblazing enterprise. I recently trained with Thomas Hübl as part of The Pocket Project – a global movement dedicated to deepening our understanding of collective and intergenerational trauma.