“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 2022. As we navigate global uncertainty, we host a series of curated online experiences for women who need inspiration, encouragement and connection in the times ahead.
“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived”
On Monday January 17 at 7pm Irish time, The Trailblazery presents “The Art of Mothering ourselves, each other and this Earth we call home”, featuring Layla O’Mara, writer, acupuncturist, motherhood and matrescence guide.
Layla works with women navigating the rite of passage that is motherhood, helping them to shed what is not theirs to carry and to reclaim the skills, tools, competencies and sacred feminine energy that motherhood can engender. Her online platform NuaNua runs courses for mothers, helping them to navigate the rite of passage known as matrescence and to explore how we as mothers can have a catalysing role to play in the axis shift our planet is going through.
At Moon Medicine, Layla will share her story as a rising Irish voice in the world of Mothership and Motherhood and will lead us through a practice to support us in the art of mothering ourselves and eachother and connecting to Mother Earth.
Hosted by Kathy Scott, Founder of The Trailblazery, this very special online event will also feature music from Layla’s husband and partner, Brian Crosby, pianist, producer & film score composer. We are delighted to welcome Brian as our first male contributor to our Moon Medicine series.
If you can’t attend the call live, it will be recorded and the replay will be sent to you by email within 24 hours.
Kathy Scott, Founder and Creative Director of The Trailblazery shares:
“I am completely ‘over the moon’ to welcome Layla to our circle. We have moved in similar circles for many years, originally in the worlds of arts and culture and now in the women's wellbeing community in Ireland. In more recent years, we have forged a deeper sisterhood in the wilds of the Wicklow mountains. Layla is a force of nature and blends motherhood with the care-taking of mothers via NuaNua. She is a powerful creatrix, community leader, writer and wellness advocate. Beautifully aligned with our mission at Moon Medicine, Layla is a woman supporting women and it is a huge honour to host her and her husband Brian Crosby as our opening luminaries of 2022”.
About Layla O’Mara
Layla is a writer, five element acupuncturist and motherhood and matrescence guide. Layla also treats women on a body, mind and spirit level as an acupuncturist from a tranquil treatment space beside her home.
Layla has recently completed her first book, a memoir titled My Octopus Womb, which explores her motherhood journey as well as her relationship to her own womb (which she had removed earlier this year), the womb space as a collective energy and our connection with the more than human world in which we are all cradled. Layla lives and works at the foot of the Wicklow mountains with her husband, composer Brian Crosby, and her three children.
Layla’s website NuaNua website IG @nuanuaonline
About Brian Crosby
Brian is an Irish pianist, producer & film score composer. His music career started at the age of 16 when he and Damien Rice started playing music together in school. This led to them forming the indie band Juniper and then later Bell X1. In 2006, Brian formed The Cake Sale, a band featuring an eclectic collective of artists. In 2008, Brian moved to Berlin where he converted an old factory in Kreuzberg to a studio complex which would become home to the heart of the Berlin film music scene. It was here that he collaborated with fellow studio residents Dustin O’Halloran, Hildur Guõnadóttir, Rutger Hoedemaekers and the late Jóhann Jóhannsson on numerous Film and TV scores. In 2017 Brian moved back to Ireland with his family and built The Treehouse Studios where he continues to write music for Film and TV as his own solo work.
Brian’s website
About Moon Medicine
Moon Medicine was initiated by The Trailblazery {Hedge School, Census of the Heart, We Need to Talk About Ireland, Rites of Passage} in 2018 in the light of Repeal and the rising momentum of women worldwide speaking out, stepping up and reclaiming their power. Our mission is to help women to remember, embody and reclaim their authentic powerful selves so that together we can rise and lift each other up along the way. In 2019 the Moon Medicine Global Academy was launched - a year-long online training programme for women which expanded our Moon Medicine circle to include women all over the world.
Our live Moon Medicine gatherings weave together a range of feminine teachings blending ancient wisdom with cutting edge developments in the fields of epigenetics, quantum physics and neuroscience. We explore the gifts of the lunar cycle as a map of empowerment for women’s wellbeing. We draw from a deep well to find practices and resources that support women’s self care and the care of this place we call home. To find out more visit TheTrailblazery.com
Investment:
Special Rate €25 : drop-in rate per gathering
Free Spots : we have a limited number of free places for anyone who needs them right now.
You will be sent your zoom link on booking your spot for the gathering. Please keep it safe as you will need it to join the event.
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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.
You are warmly invited to join our free Discovery Circle ahead of Tending our Roots: a 3-week immersive online journey through the season of Imbolc, or i mbolg which translates as ‘in the belly’. Bígí linn - Join us.