“Remember to find the Lighthouses”
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The Trailblazery presents Moon Medicine – a monthly gathering for women to coincide with the Full Moon cycle of 2024. As we try to bear witness to the unbearable human suffering intensifying and escalating in Palestine we have decided to host a Moon Medicine gathering in solidarity (in dlúthpháirtíocht) and in service. We will gather together in circle to listen and learn, share stories, sing songs, shed tears, seek refuge, rage, rest and everything in between. All are welcome.
This will be a free experience offered as a support and resource during these dark and troubling times. In return, we ask that you make a donation. We have designed three donation options to cater to different preferences and financial capabilities. You can choose from tickets starting at €25, a second option at €50, and a third option where you can select your donation amount according to your ability for a more generous contribution. Funds raised will be sent as direct supports to fleeing and displaced families, via trusted friends who have worked on the ground for many years.
As the next Full Moon approaches, we extend our heartfelt invitation to gather with us online on Monday, February 19 at 7pm Irish time (2pm EST/11am PST) for a special Moon Medicine gathering “Keepers of Kinship”. Our intention is to create a space where we can co-sense the intergenerational, intersectional collective trauma that is happening right now in our psyches and in our bodies, on our planet and on our watch. Together we will seek pathways towards collective healing and restoration. Together we will remember that we are the ones we have been waiting for.
This online event will be hosted by Kathy Scott, Founder of The Trailblazery. Our guest luminaries for the evening will be Farah Nabulsi (Filmmaker, Director and Human Rights Advocate), Roisin El Cherif (Irish-Palestinian artist and activist) and Caoimhe Butterly, (Human Rights Campaigner, Psychotherapist and Trauma Worker).
Note: If you can’t attend the call live, it will be recorded and sent to you by email within 24 hours.
Caoimhe Butterly shares:
“In times of us all witnessing - and trying to respond to - so much collective grief and trauma, it is vital to also focus on the lighthouses of hope- on people mobilising across the world to say 'Not In Our Names'. Because even amidst this storm of systematic violence, oppression and so much pain, there are lighthouses signalling clarity, courage and deep care. We need to find them, and be them- to keep the collective, powerful lighthouse of conscience brightly lit.”
The February Full Moon is in the archetypal sign of Virgo - the Virgin Holy and Whole. This moon is a call to sacred work.
Virgo invites us to stay with the trouble. To pray with it and ritualize it. To see and be in the messiness of life, and embrace it as pure.
Virginia Roenberg
This Full Moon brings revelation through dreams, creative vision, and emphasises the balance and integration of the spiritual and practical dimension of experience. This Moon holds the medicine of the sacred and the profane. In the Irish Druidic tradition this moon is known as the Ash Moon. The ash tree is one of three trees that the pre-Christian Celts held sacred (alongside oak and hawthorn) and according to Norse tradition, Yggdrasil, the “world tree”, was an ash tree from which all life was birthed.
Kathy Scott, Founder and Creative Director of The Trailblazery shares:
“I am honoured to invite these three extraordinary women to our Moon Medicine circle. I met Farah in Palestine when she was filming her Academy Award Nominated and BAFTA Award Winning film The Present. She has been blazing an incredible trail and now her debut feature film The Teacher shot in the West Bank is a powerful exploration of the human condition.
My path first crossed with Caoimhe when I started to visit Palestine and became dedicated to understanding more about healing individual, collective and intergenerational trauma. She is an inspirational activist and educator. I remember reading about her being shot in Palestine when she was just 23. I am delighted to now call her my friend.
Roisin El Charif is a Galway based singer-songwriter and a powerful force of nature. Half Irish and half Palestinian, you can hear both influences in her music. I am grateful to invite her here to share her story and songs with us at this terrible time”
About Farah
Farah Nabulsi is a Palestinian British filmmaker and human rights advocate. She writes, directs and produces creative short films on Palestinian life under occupation. Her work has been screened internationally at film festivals, universities and at the United Nations. Her 2020 film, The Present, underscores the importance of freedom of movement as a basic human right. Farah uses the power of storytelling to share the Palestinian experience with Western audiences. She created Native Liberty, a non-profit production company, through which she produces short films that help others understand and feel what Palestinians experience. She created a digital resource to deconstruct the occupation in a way never done before. Farah has spoken and screened her work internationally at film festivals, universities and at the United Nations. Her novel approach has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, Hanan Ashrawi, John Pilger, Ken Loach and others.
web ☞ farahnabulsi.com
social ☞ @farah.nabulsi
About Caoimhe
Caoimhe is an educator, psycho-social worker, human rights activist, documentary-maker and therapist. She has worked with refugee, displaced and undocumented communities for over 20 years in Lebanon, Palestine, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine and in refugee camps in Lesvos, Greece, Calais & elsewhere. She lived in Gaza during other onslaughts, working with Palestinian ambulance crews as a volunteer First Responder. She is currently working on trauma-informed MHPSS & Care for the Carers for sea Search & Rescue teams and those working to support Palestinian families and communities. Caoimhe is also parent to 12-year old Tadhg.
social ☞ @caoimhebutterly
About Roisin
Roisin El Cherif is an Irish Palestinian artist from Galway who came onto the Irish music scene as a singer/songwriter in 2016 with her first offering, ‘Kerosene’. Following this successful release, Roisin graced the stages with notable performances around Ireland, including music festivals Body & Soul, Electric Picnic, and Sea Sessions. In 2018, Roisin's EP ‘Glass House’, a mixture of ambient pop and haunting vocals, was well received. Citing Florence & the Machine, Stevie Nicks, Daughter, and Tracy Chapman as influences and a background in film production, Roisin has built a distinctive visual style to go with her ethereal sound, drawing on mythology and magic.
social ☞ @roisinelcherif
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
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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.