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In the Flow: Embracing the Cycles of Womanhood is designed for girls age eleven and up, teens, women, mothers and grandmothers who want a positive relationship with their menstrual cycle; create a healthful peri-menopause; and create new family traditions. Women of color are encouraged to attend.

• To learn about the wisdom of the menstrual cycle which is a mirror of earth's seasons
  and the moon's cycle
  
• To experience the empowerment that comes from rooting yourself in the essence of your
  true, deep feminine nature
  
• To strengthen your self-esteem as a girl or woman, helping you avoid exploitation and manipulation
  from the media, politics and relationships
  
• To enhance your relationships with the people in your life by sharing a positive
  menstrual and menopausal attitude
  
• To understand the cycles of life that help encourage your participation in activities that support
  both community and environmental issues.

“How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you
...a place of women, where you were received and affirmed?" ~Judith Duerk

• Create a safe, dynamic space for girls and women to receive information and explore their menstrual cycles through body, mind, heart and spirit
  
• Bring conscious awareness to the monthly menstrual cycle, which in many cultures historically has been hidden, or considered unclean,
  
• Talk openly about body changes, pain and discomfort along with choices of relief.
  
• Model the innate beauty, honor and body wisdom found in the menstrual cycle through the use of music, yoga, hula, ritual, film, creative expression, storytelling, lunar cycles and herbal knowledge
  
• Re-awaken women to their role of assisting girls to enter womanhood, helping them to discover their inner beauty, strength and wisdom through the flow of the menstrual cycle in its connection with nature
  
• Re-member the eternal connection among women through the menstrual cycle

• Come early for morning refreshments
• Shop in Atrium Bazaar for jewelry, clothing, books, and more (vendor applications below)
  
• Hear author Carol Lee Flinders Keynote
  "When Black Jewel Girl Comes Running --Mother-Lines of Spirit and Flesh"
  
• Choose from 18 work and playwhops in six tracks
  
  • Mother/Daughter & Girls
    
  • Observing Cycles--Yours and Nature's
    
  • Menopause
    
  • Taking Care of Yourself
    
  • Cultural Experiences
    
  • Celebrate Your Body

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ASK, LEARN, GET ANSWERS How can your menstruation be a celebration? Why is menstruation still taboo? How can we talk about girls' and women's bodily changes? How can we honor women's diverse menstrual choices?

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*Tents, lodges, and huts have been used across the globe and throughout time, where women would gather during their bleeding time or moontime, to rest, restore, share stories, and teach girls and young women about womanhood. In this day a safe, dynamic space will be created for you to receive information and explore all the cycles of womanhood from beginning to end.

For more information, click on name to contact Executive Director - Anna Yang