“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 2020. This is an invitation for women who are ready to harness their inner power and reclaim their wild feminine nature. Thank you for answering the call and joining forces to walk this path with us.
☾✩☽ Moon Medicine Gathering | International Women’s Day | March 08 2020 ☾✩☽
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing….”
Arundhati Roy
The Trailblazery join forces with Herstory to present Women Rising a unique International Women’s Day Gathering on March 08. This Moon Medicine special experience is dedicated to shining a spotlight on some of the inspiring international trailblazing women activists living in Ireland today.
Women Rising takes place at the famous Pillar Room within the Rotunda Hospital site with host Kathy Scott {The Trailblazery}, collaborator Melanie Lynch {Herstory} and guest luminaries Razan Ibraheem {Irish-Syrian journalist and feminist and UN refugee speaker} and Salome Mbugua {researcher, gender equality activist and human right advocate}. We will also be joined by our musician-in-residence artist, Afro-Irish singer and songwriter Tolü Makay. Together, they will share their stories as women from a range of cultural backgrounds who are advocating for social justice, gender equality and human rights in the world today.
Kathy Scott, founder and creative director of The Trailblazery shares
Moon Medicine is an invitation for women in Ireland and globally to come together, share stories and celebrate our creative feminine life force. We are here to empower and elevate women from all walks of life. We are delighted on International Women’s Day 2020 to collaborate with Herstory to create a platform for a host of multicultural female activists whose courageous stories need to be heard witnessed and felt in Ireland right now
Melanie Lynch, founder and CEO of Herstory added
Herstory is exploring the insight and fact that emigration and immigration are two sides of the same story. To be human is to migrate, share stories and our common humanity. In the Herstory: Ireland’s EPIC women TV and podcast series we share the lives of fascinating Irish women, many of whom had to leave Ireland to find work and a better life for their families. Herstory is delighted to collaborate with The Trailblazery for a special IWD Moon Medicine event that will give the stage to awe-inspiring women from diverse cultures who now call Ireland their home and enhance Irish culture with their energy, compassion, and wisdom.
About Moon Medicine
Moon Medicine was initiated by The Trailblazery {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
About Herstory
Founded in 2016, Herstory is a cultural movement that tells the stories of women - past, present and future. Herstory’s mission is to give the public authentic female role models and a game-changing education programme, inspiring countries around the world to start their own Herstory movements.
Herstory has partnered with RTÉ, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and Underground Films to bring you the Herstory 20/20 project. This is a storytelling platform like no other, uncovering forgotten but fascinating women’s stories from history and modern culture. Herstory 20/20 features the 2020 International Herstory Light Festival, the Herstory: Ireland’s EPIC women TV and podcast series produced by Underground Films; Who’s your heroine? animation project commissioned by RTÉJnr; Melting Pot gatherings, schools workshops and a campaign to make Brigid’s Day a national holiday. In 2020 we brought Nollaig na mBan into the 21st century with Melting Pot, our new initaitive co-created with Ellie Kisyombé and Our Table, inviting people from all cultures to come together in celebration of our new multi-cultural Ireland. Herstory 20/20 is a legacy project and a permanent digital educational resource that will give students and the public awe-inspiring female role models for generations to come. www.herstory.ie
Investment:
€35 euros : drop-in rate per gathering. Advance booking is recommended as spaces will be limited.
☾✩☽ Moon Medicine Special Offers ☾✩☽
We have extended our Bestie Bundle offer for you so that you can bring your best pal along to the proceedings. To avail of this offer click here.
We believe that Moon Medicine should be available for women from all walks of life no matter what your financial circumstances are so we have also created a selection of Welcome Bundle offers per month for people who may need support.
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Meet our March Guest Luminaries
About Mel: Founder of Herstory, Melanie is a social entrepreneur and award-winning creative with a passion for justice, equality and storytelling. Starting a degree in Mathematics & Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, she decided to take a detour and enrolled in art college, leading to a career working for some of the world's best advertising agencies.
As an intern at Bartle Bogle Hegarty London she penned 'Life Story', the most successful Barnardo’s campaign to date, which increased donations by £2million and volunteering applications by 50% during the recession. Across the pond in Paris, she worked for Fred&Farid, SIDLEE and Saatchi's. Despite the fact that she’s only 3% French, Melanie was chosen to represent France in the 2013 Global Cannes Young Lions Competition. The advertising industry is a strange place for a born socialist, but as Steve Jobs once said, ‘You can’t join the dots looking forward, only looking back.’ In 2014 she found herself in Kenya, where some soul searching sparked a new career direction that would enable her to apply her creativity and communications skills for the good of humanity. Back home in Ireland, she was working as Creative Director of the Heart of Ireland (Hi) Festival when a number of discoveries inspired the inception of Herstory and the rest is history, or rather herstory! In her free time, Melanie loves swimming in the sea, hiking, dancing, marching, yoga, meditation, reading, and spontaneous adventures with her soul sisters.
ABOUT HERSTORY: Founded in 2016, Herstory is a cultural movement that tells the stories of women past, present and future. Herstory’s mission is to give the public authentic female role models and a game-changing education programme, inspiring countries around the world to start their own Herstory movements. Herstory has partnered with RTÉ, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum and Underground Films to bring you the Herstory 20/20 project. This is a storytelling platform like no other, uncovering forgotten but fascinating women’s stories from history and modern culture. Herstory 20/20 features the 2020 International Herstory Light Festival, a major TV documentary series and podcast series produced by Underground Films; Who’s your heroine? animation project commissioned by RTÉJnr; Melting Pot gatherings, schools workshops and a campaign to make Brigid’s Day a national holiday. Herstory 20/20 is a legacy project and a permanent digital educational resource that will give students and the public awe-inspiring female role models for generations to come. www.herstory.ie
About Razan : Razan Ibraheem is an Irish-Syrian journalist and activist. She came over to Ireland to do her MA (ELT) at the University of Limerick. The escalating violence in her country made her seek stay on in Ireland. She works as an assistant editor and a senior journalist in a leading social media news agency, Storyful. Her deep sorrow for the tragic situation in Syria has made her volunteer to go to Greece to help refugees. The people she met and the stories she heard from Syrian refugees there changed her perspective in life. She gave a speech with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. On 2015, she was invited by the UN to a high-level meeting on global responsibility sharing through pathways for admission of Syrian refugees. She has also been involved in projects with RTE, Amnesty International, Brighter Futures and Immigration Council. Razan was rewarded the International Woman of the Year by the Irish Tatler in 2016
About Salome: Salome Mbugua has been Head of Operations and Strategy with AkiDwA since September 2018. She is a researcher, gender equality activist and human rights advocate with over 20 years’ experience of working with under-represented groups, in particular with women, children, and young people, in Europe, Africa and internationally. In June 2018 Salome was appointed by the Tánaiste to chair the working group on Ireland’s Third National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security . In September 2018 Salome was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission by the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins.
Salome has extensive expertise and experience in areas such as organizational management, policy development, strategic planning, human resources management, project development, conflict resolution, gender and migration, Gender Based Violence, civic engagement, health and Economic Empowerment and Feminist approach to research and analysis. Her strong believe in equality and justice has shaped her career, leading to engagement with policy makers at National, European and International level. Salome has been involved with various Irish Government Departments in the development of several policies and strategies focusing on economic, social and political development.
About Tolu: Born in Nigeria and raised in Ireland since the age of 5, Tolü Makay is an artist with a gifted voice. With every song, every note, every melody she sings, combining her passion for writing about her experiences, she effortless draws people into a world of sensation. In 2019, Tolü was selected as one of Ireland’s “ones to watch” by Dave Allen. Soon after she worked with the Irish singer-songwriter delush and his record label (Welcome to the New World) to be the featured artist on his single ‘The Greatest Gift’. This led to her signing with the Berlin-based record label right afterwards. 2020 is a year of growth and staying true to the theme of writing her experiecne, Tolü Makay is now working on an EP about personal growth in confidence and stages of self-love.
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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 2020 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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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.