Remembering
Red Priestess:
Facilitator Training in Menstrual Ceremony through Feminine Reclamation
A three-day training for anyone called to guide young people and communities through meaningful, shame-free, menstruation-centered ceremony. This program weaves global mythology, Dark Moon teachings, and body literacy with deep personal healing work needed to guide the next generation. Participants are guided to unlearn patriarchal narratives, reconnect with the intuitive and ancestral power of the cycle, and cultivate the skills to create inclusive, trauma-informed rites of passage for menstruating bodies of all gender-expressions.
Next Training Dates:
Three Thursday Evenings 6:30pm - 9:30pm EST
January 8th, 15th & 22nd
via Zoom ONLINE
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
This three-day facilitation training is designed for people who feel called to support the next generation through menstruation-centered rites of passage. Rooted in global myth, Dark Moon teachings, and culturally aware body literacy, this training will help you unlearn the shame, silence, and colonial narratives that shaped how many of us first met our own cycles.
Through mythic storytelling, decolonial analysis, self-reflective and healing practices, you will learn how to craft ceremonies that honor menstruation as intuitive, psychic, creative, and deeply sacred. The training is gender-inclusive and acknowledges that menstruation occurs across many identities.
Participants leave prepared to guide young people through grounded, trauma-informed, empowering initiations—held with humility, cultural respect, and profound care.
Before there were calendars, kingdoms, or doctrines, there was rhythm.
The Moon dimmed to darkness and returned in her own time, unhurried, unwatched. People learned their bodies by watching, bleeding, dreaming, and listening to the inner tide that rose and fell in quiet conversation with the night sky.
In many cultures, the moment a young person first bled was not treated as a problem to be hidden, but a portal to intuition, creativity, and spiritual initiation through the body’s wisdom. Communities gathered. Elders guided. Stories carried the initiate across the threshold into maturity.
This training follows that lineage: the lineage of those who kept the stories alive even as patriarchy tried to silence them. You are stepping into a long thread of remembering.
Why this work matters:
Changemaking at the most intimate scale:
healing the body.
reshaping culture.
restoring ancestral memory.
shifting society.
We are living in a world where bodily autonomy is contested, where misinformation shapes young people’s understanding of their own physiology, and where the remnants of colonial and patriarchal systems still dictate whose bodies are seen as sacred and whose bodies are seen as problems.
Menstruation sits right at this crossroads.
For centuries, colonial and patriarchal forces reshaped ancient menstrual reverence into silence, disgust, and moral judgment. These narratives became policies. They became school curriculums. They became internalized belief systems that many adults are still unlearning.
Decolonial practice helps us understand how these narratives were imposed, and it gives us tools to start dismantling the harmful belief systems that sits within us. It teaches us that healing does not happen only inside the individual—it happens across generations.When adults reclaim menstrual wisdom, they interrupt cycles of shame.
Through our embodiment, young people learn the truth about their bodies in our stories, ceremonies, and community; they gain resilience, clarity, and emotional literacy that stays with them for a lifetime.
WHO THIS TRAINING IS FOR:
This training is for anyone who feels called to guide young people through menstruation-centered initiation
• Mentors, educators, guides, youth workers
• Caregivers, parents, aunties, chosen family
• Community facilitators and ceremony holders
• People reclaiming their own cycle and lineage
• Therapists, doulas, and somatic practitioners
• Anyone committed to decolonial, gender-inclusive rites of passage work
**No prior facilitation experience is required, only a willingness to learn, unlearn, and learn from deep listening.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
• How to design ceremony for menstruation using trauma-informed, inclusive methods
• How to unlearn patriarchal, colonial, and religious narratives about menstruation
• The global history of menstrual reverence—from priestess cultures to Moon lodges
• Mythologies of Dark Moon Goddesses from various cultures
• How menstrual cycles connect to intuition, dreams, psychic power, and emotional literacy
• How to teach teens about the cycle in gender-neutral, liberatory language
• How to weave myth, storytelling, and ritual into youth education
• How to cultivate humility, ethics, and cultural respect as a facilitator
THE SCHEDULE
Day One — Descent
The myths of darkness: Inanna, Ereshkigal, Persephone, Lilith, and the Dark Moon.
Unlearning shame. Understanding colonial histories of menstrual suppression.
Somatic grounding + ancestral lineage work.
Day Two — Remembering
Cycle literacy through a decolonial lens.
Myth-guided teaching practices for teens.
Facilitator ethics, harm reduction, trauma-informed spaceholding.
Symbolism, ritual tools, and cultural humility.
Day Three — Rising
Designing ceremony step-by-step.
Crafting rites of passage for diverse communities.
Integration, vows, and closing ritual.
By the end of the training, participants will:
• Understand menstrual cycles biologically, emotionally, spiritually, and mythically
• Be able to design and facilitate inclusive, culturally aware menstruation ceremonies
• Hold space with confidence, humility, self-reflective and trauma-informed skill
• Recognize patriarchal and colonial narratives—and actively engage in dismantling their internal belief system
• Reclaim their own cycle story and intuition
• Leave rooted in the global history of menstrual reverence
FAQ
Is this training only for women?
No. Menstruation occurs across gender identities, and this training welcomes women, trans people, nonbinary people, and anyone who feels called to this work with integrity and care.
Do I need to have menstruation to take this training?
No. While participants can be at any phase of their lives to participate, it is helpful for ceremonial facilitators to have experienced in menstruation.
Is this religious?
No. The training includes mythologies from many cultures but does not promote any religion or belief systems. Myths are used as symbolic tools for healing and education.
Will I become a “priestess” after this training?
No titles are conferred. This training emphasizes humility, cultural respect, and responsibility—not self-appointment.
Is this appropriate for teens to attend?
Teens can attend with a caregiver, but the training is primarily for adults learning to support youth.
Do you offer payment plans?
Yes. Please email us at minkalogistics@gmail.com
Do you offer scholarships?
No. We currently do not offer full scholarships for this program. However, we offer sliding scale tuition, as well as Work Exchange opportunities for those who wants to join the community. To ensure expansion of our BIPOC scholarship program to create access to all of our offeirngs, please consider sharing informaiton regarding our tax-deductible donaiton.
REGISTRATION INFO & LOGISTICS
Location:
via ZOOM online
Dates & Times:
Three Thursday Evenings 6:30pm - 9:30pm EST
January 8th, 15th & 22nd
Tuition:
Sliding Scale $350 - 650
Payment plans available
Includes:
PDF training manual, ceremony templates, resource library and one 30-min session to go over the ceremony plan with the facutly.