“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 | The Witching Hour
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, 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 , each other and our world in these challenging times.
You are invited to gather in circle for Samhain/Halloween with two of Ireland’s creative powerhouses Olwen Fouéré and Wallis Bird and a host of inspiring medicine women on October 31.
Our next instalment is hosted by Kathy Scott {Founder of The Trailblazery} and features two extraordinary Irish women - both internationally acclaimed, award winning creatives Olwen Fouéré {actor, writer, director and theatre maker} and Wallis Bird {string-shredding singer-songwriter}
“I am over the moon to host Olwen and Wallis at our Moon Medicine Circle. It is a total dream to welcome them both at Samhain the first festival celebrated in the Celtic Wheel of the year, the feast of the dead in so many traditions. This is a time to retreat from the world and drop into the darkness – The Witching Hour.
A reviewer once said of Olwen that if she sat on a stage doing nothing it would still be utterly mesmerizing. She makes art that people find disturbing or unsettling and much of her extensive body of work is provocative and boundary pushing - the kind of art that makes you feel uneasy and stays with you for a long, long time. Her incredible adaptation and performance of the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake became the internationally acclaimed riverrun and I vividly remember seeing her in Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre's production of The Rite of Spring at the London Coliseum where she played The Cailleach - a crone with mysterious supernatural powers …”
In her own words
“I am attracted to these roles that allow the freedom to transcend everyday reality. To me, that’s what the theatre is there for. I never think in terms of character, but only in terms of energies or forces that work through us. Anything can be embodied in the theatre: it gives us the liberty to play. When I’m preparing for a role like this, I’m dependent on strong internal forces.. an internalised energy that goes beyond a particular acting method, beyond emotion.”
Wallis Bird has been described by the Irish Times as having enough energy on stage to be able to “kick start an entire economy”. Her live performances are visceral and spellbinding – she has been compared to a young Janis Joplin
In September 2019 Wallis released her sixth Album Woman which covers all of the major life changes since her previous album ‘Home’. Her tour was called The New Moon Tour “
In her own words:
“The World has changed a lot and I have changed with it #MeToo, Repeal the 8th, Black Lives Matter, Brexit, Migration, Trump, the Rise of racism and the environmental crisis”. Woman is my direct response to all of this. I’m calling the tour the New Moon Tour because of its symbolism; transition, femininity, the passing of time and new beginnings; the dark side of light. All of this amounts to how I feel at this point in my life. This is my new moon”.
Our next instalment of Moon Medicine, The Witching Hour, takes place online (zoom) at 7.00pm on Saturday October 31. We will welcome Samhain, the Celtic New Year - a time when the veil is thin. As we slip into the darkness in the northern hemisphere we remember the ancestors, the Otherworld and the invitation of the Cailleach – the divine hag and witch who was worshipped at this time. Together, we will share stories, songs, music, practices, ritual and resources for the times we live in. Join us and tell your sisters .
Meet our August Guest Luminary & Musician
About Olwen
Born in Ireland, to Breton parents, Olwen Fouéré is an actor, creator, producer and writer recent work for theatre includes the internationally acclaimed riverrun (her adaptation and performance of the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake) and her performances of Lessness by Samuel Beckett. Recent film includes The Survivalist written and directed by Stephen Fingleton.
Recent awards and honours include the Herald Archangel Award of the Edinburgh Festivals 2014, the Irish Times Special Tribute Award 2013 and an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy-Honoris Causa) from Dublin City University for her enormous contribution to the arts and culture in Ireland. Since the 1970s she has been working solidly in film and theatre and is best know for a powerhouse performance of Salome at The Gate and Riverrun, her own seminal work which evoked the voice of the river in Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and toured all over the world.
About Wallis
The Irish musician. Meteor Award winner and Choice Music Prize nominee, Wallis Bird mines personal relationships as well as acute observations on life and love for her rich songs. Wallis’ career has drawn respect from critics and audiences alike. She’s played hundreds of headline shows over the past decade or so all over the world. She’s a two-time Meteor Award winner (national Irish music prize), a two-time Irish Choice Prize nominee, and a nominee for Artist of the Year at the American-based Folk Alliance International Awards 2019.
“The sheer visceral energy of Wallis Bird could kick-start an entire economy.” - The Irish Times
“A tsunami of emotion… magnificent ” - Mojo, UK
‘Wallis Bird packs quite the punch.’ - Golden Plec
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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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.