...Our Online Menopause Women's Circle Membership, to share and explore the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the upside downs and the inside outs of this powerful female Rite Of Passage of Menopause.

Meno-Portal is a Light-Touch Mini Membership, and a place to connect with other women who are also transitioning through this Gateway of Wisdom, sharing our experiences with each other and strengthening the threads in our web in a gentle and non-demanding way!

Lets talk about some of these issues that affect Menopausal women…

Some of the classic symptoms that many women experience are…

• Hot Flushes

• Wild mood swings

• Irregular and extreme menstrual cycles before they stop altogether

• Insomnia and disruptions to sleeping patterns

• Peaks and troughs in energy levels

• Brain fog and challenges in concentration

• Changes in libido, sexual needs, desires and expressions

• Changes in our physical looks and appearance

• Weight gain, wrinkles, silver streaks and saggy bits

• Increasing health challenges

• Big changes in personal relationships

• Separation or divorce 

• Death of spouse or long-term partner

• Deaths of parents, friends and siblings

• Empty nests

• Loneliness

• Shifts in priority around careers or work

• Demands of caring for children or parents

• Desires to change our lifestyles, locations and pace of life

• A reduction in our ability to tolerate bullshit

While in an ideal world, we may want to go and live in a cottage in the woods on our own for several years, as we make this transition through Menopause, the responsibilities and logistics of our lives may not allow us the luxury of this time and space to go through this metamorphic process undisturbed.

And so often the overwhelm of juggling too many balls, spinning too many plates, carrying too many people, holding down our work whilst doing a lot of emotional labour can tip us over the edge of ‘Too Many Things’ - when all we really want to do is run away from everyone, go full Cave Witch, potter in the garden, paint, read, dance, or simply be in peace, stillness or nature.

We may also be called to dive deeply into our own inner world to sort and sift the many experiences of our lives thus far, deciding what we need to let go of, and what we wish to keep as we step through this Gateway into our Wise Woman years.

If any of this is resonating, and you want a place where you can express your experience without judgement or shame, without anyone trying to fix you, and listen to the stories and experiences of other women who get it, because we are all running our own gauntlet through this Rite Of Passage, then perhaps Meno-Portal is for you.

I was an adult woman without children when I first started holding space for Women in Circle, trying to find my path in the world after experiencing the brutal violations of the Maiden, processing these experiences and delving deeply into healing practises to soothe my soul and re-build my shattered self.  

When I became a Mother, this huge, new and daunting transition blessed me with an abundance of other Women also navigating this relatively new journey of Motherhood, and together we set up the Red Tent Women’s Circles to share and support one another as we figured out how to raise tiny new humans whilst still trying to nurture our own needs. 

We shared the joys and pains of the Mother, through pregnancies, childbirths, and toddler tantrums, often whilst trying to carve out or maintain careers and trouble-shooting our inter-personal relationships.

And then the wheel of life turned again…

My next chapter brought huge external life transitions; immigrating for the third time in my life to a different country and culture, losing my partner and the father of my children, first to alcohol, drugs and other women, and then to suicide, I find myself at the precipice of my final Female Rite Of Passage, that of the Crone or Wise Woman.

And my soul yearns to sit in circle once more with other women taking this next step of the journey.

To bare our souls, to speak the words that we never speak in any other place other than a sacred circle of women, to hear and resonate with the stories of other women, to laugh and cry, share and support.  Opening ourselves once more in this vulnerable process of transformation, as we experience ourselves in the goo of the cocoon, no longer a caterpillar, but not yet a butterfly.

Learning to find the Zen in the goo has become a focus and aspiration for me!

Last month I bought a guitar. 
I have never been musical in the slightest!!

But now I pluck the strings and transport myself into a place of peace while the world around me goes increasingly crazy.  Sometimes I go a bit crazy too!! 

Perhaps our Mother Earth is going through her own Rite Of Passage as well?

And as this idea bubbled of initiating a new Circle of women transiting into their Wise Years, I felt into what this gathering wanted and needed to be.

No longer satisfied with people flitting in and out of life, a deep desire for commitment and consistency arose.

Not a drop-in drop-out scenario, but a gathering of women who seek the stability and depth of a stable community that is regular and reliable, comfortable and dependable.

Where we can also distill the wealth of our lived experiences into Wisdom for ourselves, our families and our communities.

And where we can write new stories into our culture around what it means to be a Wise Woman Elder.  

Always prioritising the twisted shadow Masculine values of wealth and power accumulation over and above the well-being of just about everyone else on the planet ?

Isn’t it about time we re-grouped the Wise Women, to swing the balance back to the Matriarchal focus of the well-being of all ?

As mothers, we have had to learn how to balance the needs of all members of the family, trying to navigate, negotiate, and advocate with truth and justice, to try to facilitate the needs, desires and dreams of all the unique expressions of our children.

I have three strong-willed children, and some days are like on-going court room battles, over who did what, who said what, who hit who or took the other ones things.  The problem resolution skills that mothers of multiple children have to cultivate are the backbone of a happy family. 
Otherwise it is just all out war and chaos !!

As Wise Women, one of our tasks is to take that skill and apply it to our communities.

Except over the last few thousand years, the role of the Matriarch has been usurped. 

She was bound and gagged and chained in a dungeon, the songs of our Matriarchal Grandmothers drowned out by the rape and pillage of our Mother Earth.

It is time to remember and apply the female wisdom and skills that we carry, and create time and space to let the wisdom brew, like a herbal elixir, to bring healing and balance to our world once more. 

Perhaps to midwife her through these labour pains that are rocking her big beautiful body, as she pushes to re-birth herself into a New Paradigm.

I invite you to join me, within a Circle of Women who are all re-birthing themselves through the Meno-Portal, and into the next amazing version of themselves.

Wise Women, I sing my song to you, calling you home, calling you to gather with me, so that we can find and carve out our true place once more.

If my song reverberates through your inner knowing and speaks to the ancient wisdom that you carry in your blood and bones from your own Mothers and Grandmothers, come and join me in the Meno-Portal.

• Live Monthly Group Zoom Calls
  THIRD MONDAY of every month,
  Midday-2pm CST,
  6-8pm UK Winter Time
  7-9pm UK Summer Time

• Private Online Community Membership Group to connect with Meno-Portal Members 

• BONUS - 10% Discount Code for ALL One-To-One Shamanic Session Bookings with Joanna Joy

You can come for the whole 2 Hour Zoom Call, or you can drop in and out of the Call at your own convenience, depending on your own life demands and responsibilities. 

• We will have...

• Check-in and sharing time

• Monthly topic for discussion

• We will finish up with a Drum Journey for personal or collective healing, depending on the themes that arise through the Call

• None of it will be recorded and there will be no Replays!!

• Our Private Online Membership Group will be there to bridge the gap between the Monthly Zoom Calls

Whether you are Peri, Mid or Post Menopause, this Online Women's Circle Membership is for any women who are transiting through this Rite of Passage and Gateway of Wisdom. 

Let us share this Wise Woman journey together.

If this Circle calls to you, then I look forward to meeting you in the MENO-PORTAL soon !

Much Love

Joanna Joy xx