Women's Mysteries

* Women's Mysteries Five-Day Residential Retreats
* Women's Mysteries One-Day Events
* Ongoing Programs
* Therapeutic and Healing Arts Workshops
* Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
* For Everyone

Women’s Mysteries Five-Day Residential Retreats

Women's Mysteries is a five-day residential retreat, which takes women into the mysteries of the feminine and touches upon the significant points throughout a woman's life cycle. It is a spiritual initiatory process into ancient women's knowledge. As a woman comes to understand her own journey she is able to complete the unfinished transitions of the past that have been barriers and interferences to her natural unfolding. Women with babes-in-arms are welcome on the retreat.

The retreat offers an opportunity for you to take a few days out, simply to be with your self, to regroup your thoughts, to explore your inner life as a woman. In Women's Mysteries, through meditation, music, stories, sharing and laughter, you will sit with a group of women and delve into many areas concerning our lives as women, - birth, fertility, relationship, sexuality, work and creativity, and many many more of life's experiences.

Dr. Sarah Buckley ˆ GP, mother and author of 'Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering' says of Rachana's work -
'Rachana has been my friend and teacher for almost 14 years. Her work is unparalleled in my experience, and is the foundation of my own work as mother, lover, writer, and healer. She creates an amazing opportunity to dive into the feminine, experience the mystery and magic and, if you want it, profound healing. As my sister-in-law told me 'five days with Rachana is like five years of psychotherapy'.

If you would like further information on the course content or to receive a brochure or registration form please contact Anna on (03) 9718 1239, or Email anna_urbanski@yahoo.com.au, or visit www.womenofspirit.asn.au and go to the Women's Mysteries page.

Women's Mysteries One-day Events

1. Conscious Conception To conceive or to be conceived consciously is the greatest gift we can give or receive. This day explores these possibilities and is an opportunity to heal trauma from past conceptions and to prepare for future ones - your own and your children's.

2. Women and Sexuality Your sexual self. Your essential self. Unveiling it to yourself in a safe and nurturing environment.

3. Wise Blood Gain a fuller understanding of the potent changes that occur around times of ovulation and menstruation. Learn to tap deeply into your feminine wisdom and creativity. When we flow with our true nature, life becomes more rich and harmonious.

4. Your Birth Your Choice Taking responsibility for the birth of our children is a challenge with many options available. Ensure that your choice is a fully informed one. This day provides information that you will find vital in making decisions that will have lifelong impacts. Also looking at the pleasure and pain of birth. What is your role in the natural process? An opportunity to heal the past and plan for the future.

5. Mother and Daughters A day for mothers and daughters to explore and open to new possibilities in a relationship often fraught with difficulties. This primal relationship is a most powerful gateway for healing and growth.

6. Journey Around My Father A day in which we explore, heal and move to deeper appreciate this journey which is the foundation of our future relationships with men.

7. Sisters and Siblings Fraught with tears and joy, these early relationships set the pace for future encounters. A time to remember and resolve.

8. Menopause Is it madness or is it mystery? A doorway to be reviled or one to be entered? Will you embrace the crone or race for a facelift? A day of revelations and deep insights.

9. The Grandmothers Speak A time of sharing from older women to younger women. We look at the customs of other places in relation to their elders and at our attitudes to aging as women in our culture. How can we benefit from the wisdom our elders possess and how can we grow into elders who are able to relate to and nourish generations of the future.

Ongoing Programs: Spiritual Midwifery

Explore in depth your relationship with the birthing process and learn techniques to facilitate labour more effectively. An innovative and very exciting six week course.

Therapeutic and Healing Arts Workshops

Individual consultations and introductory sessions are available throughout the year.

Women's Healing Circle

A gentle and profound introduction to meditation techniques and ways of nurturing the body and the soul. Excellent for beginners and those wanting ongoing support in their life.

Body Transformation

Body Transformation is an approach to whole being transformation through working with the body. It involves systematic, step-by-step releasing and realignment of the entire muscular system. Body Transformation recognises that our body is inseparable from our conscious and unconscious mind, and our emotional, mental and spiritual life. The extraordinary power of this approach is its capacity to work on many levels at the same time.

Rebirthing

Rebirthing is a healing process using a simple breathing rhythm. It aids in releasing physical tensions and emotional traumas and restores the power of the breath to revitalise and energise the mind, body and spirit The result is an expanded sense of self- love, creativity and joy.

Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond Knowledge

Support and practical training for pregnancy, birth and parenting are provided by these services and programs.

Women Power and Birth

A series of open forum discussions covering many issues relating to pregnancy, birth and parenting. E.g: Imrnunisation, Birth & Culture, Waterbirth, Birth Options, etc...

Dial a Doula

A Doula is a woman who provides physical, emotional and informational support to women and their families before, during and after childbirth. The doula can provide labour support, massage, childcare, light domestic support, relaxation techniques, aromatherapy and breastfeeding support. The more a mother is cared for the more easily she can care for her baby.

Childbirth Preparation

For pregnant women and their partners. This course will assist you to make a fully informed choice about what you want for your baby's birth. Many aspects of pregnancy, birth and parenting will be considered. Three 5-hour sessions over a 6-week period. Techniques for labour are taught during this program.

Parentcraft

How to care for your baby. Basic practical skills and support for being a parent. These regular classes can be taken at any time by everybody. Natural Fertility Management This program will introduce the Natural Fertility Method and how it can be used to avoid or achieve pregnancy. Using a comprehensive system that includes the ovulation method, Basal temperature and Lunar phase cycle, you are able to accurately detect your fertile times. This knowledge is adaptable for all phases of a woman's reproductive life.

Meditation

We offer and teach a variety of meditation techniques, from quiet, inner practices to dynamic, active processes.