B L O S S O M MEET & GREET
MAY 7th @ RIVERSIDE CAFE FROM 3:30pm-5pm
Do you have a young girls in your household that is beginning to venture through her pubescent years?
Are you or her feeling a bit bewildered & uncertain about the journey ahead?
Are you deeply wishing for her to experience less shame, embarrassment, confusion than maybe you or your friends did at that age?
And instead are longing for her to traverse into young adulthood feeling confident, connected & nurtured through this biological rite of passage?
Then you may well be interested in joining BLOSSOM : empowering young girls through puberty & into menarche!
Come meet Kassandra, the BLOSSOM creator & facilitator @ Riverside Cafe on May 7th from 3:30pm - 5pm to hear all about this coming BLOSSOM program beginning May 13th at Riverside community, Thursday evenings for 7 weeks.
Mothers, Fathers, Aunties & Daughters; any whanau that has a young wahine in their life are welcome to join in this korero about tending to the female youth of our communities.
We will be discussing periods, puberty & all that can be expected through the BLOSSOM program, you don’t have to be comfortable with these topics to join, that is what this program was created to support. All of your questions & curiosities are welcome!
BLOSSOM is for girls aged 9-12yrs & begins May 13th and completes June 20th.
EARLY BIRD price available until May 7th.
BLOSSOM is a warm, nurturing, safe space for young girls (aged 9-12) to gather weekly to be educated, empowered and connected to their transition from young girl into blossoming young woman. Where they will learn the seasons of nature and how they will come to embody these seasons within their menstrual cycle. How they can take care of their physical and emotional wellbeing as they grow. The basic anatomy of their pelvis and the organs involved in healthy female maturation. How to lovingly remain connected to themselves, their friends, their family and their world as life begins to blossom.
Throughout the program they will be offered tools, uplifting experiences and stories that will open the doors to connecting to their expanding emotional capacity of new hormones in the body, how to tend to their growing female form with kindness and care, all while building trust with self, sisterhood and the female community in their life.
WHY B L O S S O M ?
“The female youth of the world are so incredibly important to everyones future, they are our future..”
Providing this space for young girls is one of the ways I wish to support the next generation. I wish I had had it. I know I would have experienced a much more graceful, enriching youth if I had. And after my years working with mothers, families and women of all walks, it has become clear to me that there is SO much women's wisdom that has been lost throughout the years of colonisation that we desperately need to bring back into our culture. The young girls of our community need access to spaces, experiences and information that will assist them in navigating this increasingly changing world. It is imperative that this begins with a fruitful and nurtured experience of blossoming into womanhood, into their own bodies so as to offer them a solid inner foundation to grow & navigate from. I believe it is of grave importance to the overall health of our next generation that we ensure that they are educated and empowered to be able to know themselves with a solid connection to the wisdom of their bodies through simple, enjoyable practices & experiences that will ensure a life rich with knowledge and understanding so they may confidently hold themselves in this world.
FACILITATOR
Kassandra Angus is a Traditional Reproductive Therapist who has been passionately working in the world of womens wisdom since her early 20's. Over the years working one on one with women to heal their bodies & come into a place of softness, self trust & empowerment she has expanded her work into holding group journeys & explorations for women to experience their own inner wisdom & land in a greater sense of self nourishment.
Presently in Motueka, Tasman, she has been weaving offerings together for the younger female community so they may grow rooted in their own well of love and wisdom.