Free Live Class

Date: March 12, 2026

Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (recording available to those who register in advance)

Cost: Free (donations accepted)

Should you care about menopause if you’re not there yet?

It might feel distant — abstract, irrelevant, or “something to deal with later.”

But the truth is: the quality of your peri/menopausal transition is shaped long before your cycles begin to change.

In this workshop, we explore why menstrual cycle awareness is one of the most powerful preparations you can make for the thresholds of perimenopause and menopause, and how it helps carry you through them. 

And if your cycles are already changing, you are in the work.

Perimenopause is not the end of cyclicality — it is a deepening of it. Attuning to your Inner Seasons now can transform confusion into coherence, and turbulence into meaning.

Menopause doesn’t simply “happen.”

It is a long crescendo - a gradual unveiling that reveals and amplifies the patterns you’ve been living inside for decades.  And within that unveiling is a rare opening —a profound opportunity to recalibrate, reclaim your authority, and step into a more aligned chapter of life.

When you tune in more deeply to your unique menstrual cycle, you don’t just “prepare” for peri/menopause — you change the trajectory of how your body will carry you into and beyond this potent and meaningful transition. You set the foundation for the rest of your life.

Future You will thank you.

What We’ll Explore

• Why your cycling years matter more than you think

How the patterns you've lived quietly shape your future transition.

• The Inner Seasons as lifelong training

How each menstrual cycle rehearses the skills the menopause process will ask of you.

• What gets amplified at midlife

Why nervous system load, chronic stress, suppressed emotion, hormonal strain, and misaligned life structures tend to surface during perimenopause — and how to begin working with them now.

• How cycle awareness builds nervous system resilience

How attuning to your unique rhythm builds pacing, boundaries, self-trust, and capacity — the foundations of a resilient nervous system and a steadier transition.

• Perimenopause as revelation, not malfunction

Understanding changing cycles as meaningful rather than random chaos or decline— and learning how to interpret the signals.

• Recalibration instead of crisis

How to approach this phase as a conscious threshold — one that can reorganize your life around truth, vitality, and creative power.

• Laying the foundation for the rest of your life

How cultivating cyclical intelligence now changes the trajectory of how you age, lead, create, and inhabit your body in the years to come.

Free Live Class

Date: April 7, 2026

Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (recording available to those who register in advance)

Cost: Free (donations accepted)

Bridging Science and Lived Experience

From a scientific perspective, we are only just beginning to understand how stress and trauma live in the menstrual body.

For decades, trauma research centered on things like war, accidents, and male nervous systems. Meanwhile, the cyclical body was largely left out of the conversation.

That is changing.

Emerging research suggests that stress and traumatic experiences — especially interpersonal and childhood trauma — may shape menstrual health across the lifespan. From PMS and PMDD to endometriosis, fibroids, fertility challenges, and menopausal symptoms, the nervous system and reproductive system appear far more intertwined than the western mind once understood.

While the research is only beginning to map these connections, many women have felt them in their bodies for years. Long before peer-reviewed studies examined cortisol patterns or trauma exposure, lived experience told us that stress can shift a cycle, that certain memories return at certain times of the menstrual month, that pain can intensify when something deeper has not been resolved. Our bodies have been speaking this language all along. Science is now catching up to what cyclical beings have quietly known: the "nervous system" and the "reproductive system" are in constant dialogue, and our histories shape how that dialogue unfolds.

In this workshop, we will explore the connections between stress, trauma and the menstrual cycle. 

We’ll look at why the luteal phase can heighten emotional memory and stress reactivity, why unprocessed trauma or stress conditioning may resurface cyclically, and how cultural stigma and silence around the luteal phase and menstruation compounds physiological vulnerability.

But this is not just about so-called pathology.

It is also about possibility.

If stress and trauma can disrupt the cycle, the cycle may also become a site of repair.

We will explore:

The evolving science linking stress and trauma history with menstrual and reproductive health

Why certain phases of the cycle intensify stress sensitivity 

How dissociation and suppressed memory/emotion may manifest as cyclical symptoms

The relationship between early life adversity and conditions such as PMS and endometriosis, or even menopause challenges

The role of shame and silence in internalized stress and trauma

How menstrual cycle awareness can become a resource for unveiling and healing patterns of stress and trauma 

This workshop bridges research insights and embodied understanding.

It asks a powerful question:

What if things like pain, mood shifts, or irregular cycles are not random malfunctions — but meaningful signals?

And what might change if we learned to listen differently?

Free Live Class

Date: April 23, 2026

Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (recording available to those who register in advance)

Cost: Free (donations accepted)

As we move through our 30s and 40s, the body begins communicating with a new kind of intensity. 

What the western medical system calls “perimenopause” is not a pathology — it’s a spiritual and cyclical initiation, a transitional phase where unresolved patterns, energetic obstructions, and unmet needs rise to the surface. 

These expressions aren’t random or inconvenient. 

They aren’t “just symptoms”.

They are signs — invitations to tend what needs healing, reorganizing, or releasing long before crossing into the threshold of menopause.

Join me for a transformative live class grounded in the Menstrual Somatics Method, where we will explore the deeper meaning of perimenopausal changes — from shifts in bleeding, mood, sleep, and energy to pelvic tension, anxiety, and new cyclical or other health challenges. 

You’ll learn why these experiences are not inevitable signs of aging or evidence that your body is “breaking down,” and how cycle-informed somatic and energetic practices can restore fluidity and ease — and foster healing, resilience, and meaningful growth — during this pivotal time.

This class is for women who are ready to understand perimenopause not as a problem, but as a sacred initiation — and also for women of any age or life stage navigating persistent or cyclical health challenges who sense that what is arising in their bodies is pointing them toward deeper healing, release, and spiritual maturation.

Healing with Menstrual Somatics

(Free Live Class)

Date: Coming soon in 2026

Time: TBA

Location: Online via Zoom (recording available to those who register in advance)

Cost: Free (donations accepted)

If your menstrual symptoms never seem to shift — no matter what supplements you try, what diet you follow, or how many tracking apps you use — there’s a reason.

Your cycle isn’t broken. It’s communicating.

Beneath PMS, pain, fatigue, irritability, breast tenderness, emotional turbulence, or perimenopausal spirals, there are deeper stories held in the body: patterns of tension, survival strategies, energetic blocks, and unresolved experiences that shape how the cycle unfolds month after month.

In this free class, you’ll learn how Menstrual Somatics works at the root — not by managing symptoms, but by helping you understand why they’re arising and how to work directly with the underlying somatic and energetic patterns.

We’ll explore:

• the connection between menstrual symptoms, trauma imprints, and unresolved stress physiology
• how menstrual awareness reveals the deeper patterns you’ve been carrying
• why certain cycle phases amplify old wounds, and how this can become a doorway to healing
• the three core steps of the Menstrual Somatics Method
• a guided practice to help you deepen into the underlying intelligence of your cycle — the place where true healing begins, and

• an invitation to continue this work.

Whether you’re brand new to cycle awareness or you’ve been tracking for years, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of your body’s language — and a grounded path for working with your cycle instead of against it.

This is a trauma-informed, root-cause approach to menstrual and whole-body healing — grounded, accessible, and designed to meet you exactly where you are.

Nothing is wrong with your body. It’s speaking.

Come learn how to listen.

What the Body Reveals: Reading the Signs, Restoring Your Rhythm

(Free Live Class)

Date: January 8, 2026

Time: 11AM-12:30PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (link provided following registration)

Cost: Free (donations accepted)

Register via link below.

As we move through our 30s and 40s, the body begins communicating with a new kind of intensity. What the western medical system calls “perimenopause” is not a pathology — it’s a spiritual and cyclical initiation, a transitional phase where unresolved patterns, energetic obstructions, and unmet needs rise to the surface. These expressions aren’t random or inconvenient. They aren’t “just symptoms.” They are signs — invitations to tend what needs healing, reorganizing, or releasing long before crossing into the threshold of menopause.

Join me for a transformative live class grounded in the Menstrual Somatics Method, where we will explore the deeper meaning of perimenopausal changes — from shifts in bleeding, mood, sleep, and energy to pelvic tension, anxiety, and new cyclical or other health challenges. You’ll learn why these experiences are not inevitable signs of aging or evidence that your body is “breaking down,” and how cycle-informed somatic and energetic practices can restore fluidity and ease — and foster healing, resilience, and meaningful growth — during this pivotal time.

This class is for women who are ready to understand perimenopause not as a problem, but as a sacred initiation — and also for women of any age or life stage navigating persistent or cyclical health challenges who sense that what is arising in their bodies is pointing them toward deeper healing, release, and spiritual maturation.

“Misunderstood, Mindful, Muse”

A series of three circles to dig into the rich depths of Inner Autumn (aka the luteal phase). Each circle will include education, embodied experiential exercises and Q&A. Learn how Menstrual Somatics can support you to navigate the Inner Autumn with greater integration, ease, and flow.

November - “Misunderstood” - Learn about the archetypal energetics of the Inner Autumn that are so often misunderstood and practical tips for working with these energies to harness their power.

December - “Mindful” - Explore concepts and practices to help you make the Inner Critic your ally and work with the Inner Autumn energetics of discernment and holding the tension.

January - “Muse” - Tap into the energies of Inner Autumn to elevate your creative and sensual life.

Dates: Nov 17 & Dec 4, 2025 and Jan 22, 2026

Time: 5:00-6:30 PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (link provided following registration)

Cost: $60 for the full series

Click “Register” below, and then scroll down to “Group Events” on the page that opens. Registration for Nov 17 will give you access to all three circles.

This month’s gathering will include guided meditation and gentle movement practice to support connection with the rhythms of the menstrual cycle. Together, we’ll also explore the co-creation of a future community offering. Learn about the Menstrual Somatics Methodᵀᴹ and receive a glimpse into Melany Birdsong’s forthcoming research on transforming menstrual challenges into pathways of healing.

Come as you are, and be part of this living, breathing practice of cyclic connection.

Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Pacific

Location: Online via Zoom (link provided following registration)

Cost: By donation

Register via link below (scroll down to “Group Events”).

Menstruality: the womb continuum from menarche through menopause and beyond.

These monthly circles support our shared experience as a unified community of women and provide a healing space in which to explore the full spectrum of divine femininity.

In February we will explore the relationship between the menstrual cycle and menopause, specifically, how each menstrual cycle prepares you for this potent biopsychosocial/spiritual initiation.

This circle will also feature womb-centric art by local women.

Date: Friday, February 2, 2024

Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific

Location: Sacred Groves, Bainbridge Island, Washington

Cost: By donation

Break the cycle of silence and shame.

Whether you've experienced abortion, or are considering or preparing for abortion, this is an invitation to share your story, learn from other women, and receive compassionate listening and non-judgmental support in a confidential container.

This circle will also feature womb-centric art by local women.

Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024

Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Location: Sacred Groves, Bainbridge Island, Washington

Cost: By donation ($15 donation suggested)