• Are you experiencing unexplained challenges in your mind and body?
• Are you unsure how to navigate the changes that are happening as you age?
• Feeling out of sorts, anxious, hot flushes, joint pain, weight gain, brain fog?
Come and spend a nurturing, empowering day with Danielle & Ruth as they share time-honoured holistic perspectives on this powerful stage of a woman’s life.
In menopause — the Second Spring — opportunities abound to make deep, positive shifts in how you feel, think, and show up in the world.
This unique workshop blends Traditional Chinese Medicine, therapeutic yoga, breathwork, meditation, and other nourishing tools to support a smoother, more harmonious journey through peri/menopause.
Your day will include:
• Breathing practice and guided meditation
• Therapeutic yoga tailored to peri/menopausal needs
• Holistic tools to ease symptoms (acupressure, nutrition, teas, essential oils)
• Understanding the menopause from Western & Eastern perspectives
• Holistic tools to ease symptoms
• Create your own personal essential oil blend
• A nourishing organic hot lunch made with love
Empower yourself with knowledge, connection, and tools to walk this transition as the wise, vibrant, way-showing woman you were born to be.
Sunday September 21st,
10am – 4pm
$230 – Includes hot lunch & herbal teas
$199 Early Bird price until August 21st
Ready to join us for this nourishing and transformative day? Hit the button below to claim your place.
RUTH MAYROZ –
Ruth Mayroz has been practicing Acupuncture and Chinese medicine for over two decades. She holds a Bachelor of Health Science from UTS and has studied acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine under the tutelage of various Masters in Australia and abroad (US & Japan).
After graduation she moved to Central Australia where she worked both in a busy private practice as well as in Central Australia Aboriginal Congress (a clinic run by and for local indigenous population) as an acupuncturist and herbalist.
Since 2006 Ruth has made the Blue Mountains her home where she has continued to run busy private practices, both in the Blue Mountains and the Central West of New South Wales.
Being passionate about making acupuncture and Chinese medicine accessible to people from all walks of life, she has also practiced in community settings and NGO’s. For a decade she practiced at the Blue Mountains Women’s Health and Resource Centre, working mainly with victims of domestic violence and women with complex trauma. Currently she is also working with a local community organisation, supporting people with cancer and their carers with acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
She is a passionate advocate and a life-long student of Chinese medicine.
DANIELLE O’DONOGHUE –
Danielle has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She holds a Diploma in Ryoho Yoga Therapy, having studied with its founder and creator, Andzej Gospadarczyk. She furthered her yoga and movement studies with trips to Oki-do Yoga retreats in Japan, Intensive trainings with Donna Farhi, Yoga for Kids teacher trainings with Lorraine Rushton, and other movement and energetic wellness systems such as Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Nei Gong and Feldenkrais.
She has also completed study with The School of Shamanic Womancraft, and has a deep interest in supporting women to live more fully connected to their divine and sacred selves as well as experiencing their rites of passage in positive, life enriching ways.
Wholefood nutrition and Food as Medicine philosophy is another one of her passions. She loves inspiring people to take greater care and awareness with the nourishment they take into their bodies. A diploma of Traditional Herbal Medicine from Dorothy Hall and a lifetime of self-study in various wholefood, natural health, dietary systems, along with experience in co-owning wholefood cafés and running a yoga retreat catering business allows Danielle infuses her classes with knowledge gained from these experiences.
Each season brings its unique energies, set of organs and meridians, and areas of focus. We run a three day non-residential cleanse or reset process every season to bring you into alignment with all these changing elements.
It’s a special time of personal reflection, a chance to cleanse and nourish your body with lovingly prepared seasonal food. Two therapeutic yoga classes combine with other powerful practices each day all working synergistically to bring great change to your body and mind in a beautiful environment that supports health, vitality and wellness on all levels. Gift yourself these life changing experiences to keep your wellness on track when the rigours of life and your overburdened schedule pull you askew.
Saturday October 4th – Monday October 6th
Spring is the season of fresh new beginnings. New shoots sprout from the ground and trees and the energy is a rising one of lightness, freshness and renewal. It’s time to set your vision on what you want to achieve this next seasonal cycle. Rise earlier with the sun, and utilise this extra morning time to do something new and revitalising that aligns with your vision.
Spring is the perfect time to look at new ways of eating and moving, to start new things, clean and clear your body and mind, and increase activity levels. Spring yoga focusses on lengthening and opening the sides, as well as twisting and bringing movement into the joints. We increase flexibility and adaptability, creating a feeling of grace and lightness.
Our focus in spring is the Wood Element. It governs the liver and gallbladder and their associated meridians and body systems, giving us the opportunity to access, strengthen and heal all these areas. In spring we can create improvements in:
OPTIONAL COLD DIP - Meet early for a jiggle jog down to a bush pool, skin brush and cold dip to stimulate the liver, colon and skin for maximum cleansing.
Back to the yoga studio for an hour of therapeutic meridian based yoga. Stay for miso and congee or take away. Leave with a delicious, organic, vegan lunchbox
Another therapeutic yoga class, followed by a light seasonal dinner. Finishing with a hot ginger compress to nurture your body and bring healing relief to any aches.
(Investment includes a $100 non-refundable booking deposit.)
CANCELLATION POLICY - Cancellations made before September 4th will be refunded, minus the $100 booking deposit fee. Cancellations made after September 4th will forfeit all monies paid, unless your place can be filled.
Deeply Relax and Rejuvenate
Once a month, Danielle teams up with Malachi, from Pranava Sound Therapy, to offer this blissful and regenerative experience. The healing ability of sound therapy, coupled with the simple, yet powerful practice of Yoga Nidra meditation, can be truly transformative.
Accessible to everyone, simply arrive, choose a soft mat, lie down, and cover yourself with the blanket and eye pillow provided. You will be led into a deeply relaxed state through the Yoga Nidra Meditation while Malachi provides a celestial, harmonious soundscape, bathing your body with healing vibrations.
The combination of Yoga Nidra and sound therapy combine to create:
Tickets – $40
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Photographs of Danielle, Steve and
The Octagonal Space by
Hayley Melrose – Soul Photography &
Elizabeth O’Donnell Photography
We acknowledge the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, as the traditional custodians of the Blue Mountains, the area where The Octagonal Space stands. The Darug and Gundungurra peoples have a rich and long history of deep connection to and care of country and we honour their cultures and customs that continue to nurture this land. We pay our deep respects to elders past, present, and emerging.
