“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 2021. This is an invitation for women who are ready to harness their inner power and reclaim their wild feminine nature. Our mission is to support women to rise and lift each other up along the way. Thank you for answering the call and walking this path with us.
As we navigate global uncertainty, The Trailblazery are hosting a series of curated online experiences for women who need inspiration, encouragement and connection in the times ahead.
Moon Medicine is a circle that keeps on giving and we have hosted incredible women from over the world for our online Moon Medicine gatherings. As women and sisters, as mothers, daughters and granddaughters - this is the time to celebrate our feminine creative life force and midwife a future that serves all beings.
At Moon Medicine we are here to empower and elevate women from all walks of life. Everyone is welcome. We will open space for you to bring whatever is alive for you and together we will explore how we can be of service to ourselves , each other and our world in these challenging times.
You are invited to gather for Reclaiming Our Sovereignty our first gathering of 2021 with our host Kathy Scott and Caelainn Hogan {Writer, Journalist, Activist and author of Republic of Shame - stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women'. Jess Kavanagh {Singer, Activist, Writer, Poet}, Loah , Sallay Matu Garnett, {Singer songwriter of Sierra Leonean / Irish origin who grew up between Maynooth and West Africa} and a circle of inspiring medicine women from all over the world on Jan 27 at 7pm GMT.
“At least in The Handmaid’s Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here.’ ”
Despite the recent publication of the Mother and Baby Homes report, for countless people, a search for answers continues. We do know that over 56,000 women were incarcerated, 5,616 of them under 18. Some were as young as 12. Approximately 9,000 of the 57,000 babies born in these homes died. Ireland had the world's highest proportion of women sent to mother & baby homes in the 20th century.
Republic of Shame, is a compelling first book by Caelainn Hogan. It excavates a core wound that lies at the heart of our collective experience in Ireland. This story is part of our collective trauma inheritance. This wound lives in our collective nervous system today.
We look forward to welcoming you to Reclaiming Our Sovereignty our opening Moon Medicine Live experience of 2021. We will gather together in circle to share stories and practices to support, resource and empower ourselves in the wake of this cultural shadow. This is an invitation to participate in a healing circle to honour all who have suffered and to welcome a new chapter in our collective evolution on this island and beyond. Reclaiming Our Sovereignty explores new pathways out of the wilderness for women everywhere who carry the legacy of transgenerational trauma….
Kathy Scott, Founder and Creative Director of The Trailblazery shares;
“ I am honoured to welcome Caelainn to our circle as our opening luminary of 2021. Moon Medicine was initiated as a space where women could remember, embody and reclaim their authentic powerful selves so that together, they can rise and lift each other up along the way. The cultural legacy of the oppressive regimes inflicted on women on our island continues to haunt the Irish people today. It is the ghost in the machine. We are still living in the intergenerational shadows of these cruel repressive systems. . Caelainn Hogan has delivered an extraordinary account of this chapter of Irish history to our attention with clarity, care and compassion. She is a truth teller, a trailblazer and powerful Moon Medicine luminary”.
Meet our January Luminary
About Caelainn:
Caelainn Hogan is a writer and journalist with work published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, VICE, The Guardian, The Dublin Review and others. Her book Republic of Shame was published in September 2019 by Penguin Ireland and received outstanding reviews.
About Jess:
Jess Kav has been a prominent influence in the emerging Soul, Jazz and Funk scenes in Ireland for several years. Jess was raised by an Irish-Nigerian mother and Soul enthusiast who fed her a musical- diet of Motown, Jazz and Irish Indie. After studying at London’s Institute Of Contemporary Music Performance and The Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Jess has focused on songwriting, as well as touring, recording and activism. Jess has toured extensively with The Waterboys as a backing vocalist and is writing and releasing music with collaborative project, BARQ. Previously, Jess has worked with top international and Irish artists, such as Hozier, Villagers and Kodaline. Over lockdown Jess has been working with The Irish Times, RTE Arena, Hot Press and Pantisocracy as a guest and contributor.
About Loah:
Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, a singer-songwriter of Irish /Sierra Leonean descent. She performs her unique blend of Afro-folksoul across solo projects and with collaborators including Hozier, Lisa Hannigan, Fehdah, and Bantum, and most recently during quarantine, Queens rapper Bas and Ron Gilmore (J Cole, Ari Lennox). She starred as Mary Magdalene in the 2019 Barbican production of Jesus Christ Superstar.l.
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:
We believe that Moon Medicine should be available for women from all walks of life especially in these circumstances so we have created a range of sliding scale payment options for anyone who needs support. Advance booking is recommended as spaces will be limited. We appreciate your support in these times so please pay what ever feels appropriate. Please click on link below or book your spot here.
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.
Special Rate €25 euros : drop-in rate per gathering
Free Spots : we have a limited number of free places for anyone who needs them right now.
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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.