“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. 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.
Moon Medicine Gathering | Women and Water : Turning the Tides
As we navigate global uncertainty, we continue to host 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, awaken our Shakti 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 and each other in these challenging times.
You are invited to gather in circle with social ecologist, water-woman, writer, film-maker, menstruality mentor and ocean leader with a PhD in Environment and Society Dr. Easkey Britton and eclectic folk musician Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia and a host of inspiring medicine women on October 1 .
Welcome to our guest luminary Easkey Britton and musician-in-residence Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia
Easkey is a powerhouse of surfing for social good. She is a lover of big waves, cold waves and of surfing in the ocean in whatever way she can. She is a force of nature who doesn't listen to the idea that things can't be done. She is also a writer, researcher, and she has made a short surf film that has already been winning awards, A Lunar Cycle. She will share her story as a global leader of women, her relationship with the sea and her belief in the power of the ocean to connect us to the natural cycles of our bodies and the natural cycles of our living world.
In her own words
“In a society that rewards ‘busyness’ I think understanding the influence of cycles becomes even more important. We all have them, men and women. We’re living beings influenced by our environment and are affected by the cycles of night and day, the moon, the seasons, the tides. As women, we are gifted with an internal cycle, our menstrual cycle – if we’d only been taught how to better listen to our bodies. Our body tells us when it’s time to act and when it’s time to rest. I’m beginning to develop a greater awareness of my cycle, and this is what I explore & creatively give expression to in A Lunar Cycle. This awareness helps me reconnect with my body in nature, understand my own inner ebb and flow, the high cost of being always ‘on’ in a society that fosters a toxic relationship with time, and the equally important need for stillness and reflection. The connection between Women and Water extends from our physical bodies to the body of the world and there are strong linkages between access to water, sanitation and hygiene, and gender equality. We are living in a global water crisis where 2.1 billion people around the world are without access to clean, safe water. Women are disproportionately affected by this water crisis, as they are often responsible for collecting water and spend 200 million hours every day collecting water for their families and homes. They often face an impossible choice - certain death without water or possible death due to illness from dirty water. Lack of water and sanitation lock women in a cycle of poverty if women are empowered around water they can change our world.”
Our next Moon Medicine Live Gathering takes place on ZOOM on October 01 at 7.00pm (Irish Summer Time / GMT+1 - Find Your Timezone) and is open to women from all over the world. ‘Women and Water : Turning the Tides’ will be hosted by Kathy Scott {The Trailblazery} and a very special guest luminary Dr. Easkey Britton with musician-in-residence Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia. Together, we will share stories, songs, music, practices, ritual and resources for the times we live in. Join us and tell your sisters .
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
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
Discounted Rate & Free Spots : we have a limited number of discounted rates and free places for anyone who needs them right now.
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Meet our August Guest Luminary & Musicians
About Easkey
Easkey Britton’s work explores the relationship between people and nature, especially water environments. She contributes her expertise in blue space, health and social wellbeing on national and international research projects including the EU-funded Horizon2020 project on Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Europe (SOPHIE). A life-long surfer, her parents taught her to surf when she was four years old and she channels her passion for surfing and the sea into social change. Named an ‘Agent of Change’ by Surfer magazine in their special Ocean Edition, her work is deeply influenced by the ocean and the lessons learned pioneering women’s big-wave surfing in Ireland and the sport of surfing with women in Iran, which led her to be invited to give an inspiring TEDx talk: Just Add Surf. Her ground-breaking journey to Iran in 2013 introduced the sport of surfing to women and local communities and is featured in the award-winning documentary film, "Into the Sea”. Passionate about facilitating creative & collaborative processes, she founded Like Water, a platform to explore innovative ways to reconnect with who we are, our environment and each other, through water. She uses the sea as an active metaphor to dive deep into the power of presence and embodiment of natural cycles. Easkey designs and delivers international summits and global leadership programmes specialising in experiential learning, nature connection, immersive embodiment practices, community engagement and social impact, including the annual Wavemaker retreat in Portugal and Move Like Water retreat for women
About Chloe
We are over the moon to welcome Rising Appalachia’s Chloe Smith, to our circle directly from the U.S. Introduced at a young age to folk & bluegrass, Chloe is a founding member, along with her sister Leah, of the band Rising Appalachia. After spending time in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, Chloe found a deeper sense of connection to the roots of her music and her sense of purpose. Along with their music, their grassroots activism advocates for social and racial justice, the environment, and indigenous rights, which is channeled in their songwriting and storytelling. They blend their casual beguiling sound and music with their mission to use their voices to sooth a world in distress.
“Rising Appalachia has come out of this idea that we can take these traditions of southern music – that we’ve been born and raised with – and we can rise out of them, creating all these different bridges between cultures and stories to make them feel alive,” Leah says. “Our music has its foundation in heritage and tradition, but we’re creating music that also feels reflective of the times right now. That’s always been our work.”
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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.