Red School

Red School - Restoring the power of the menstrual cycle and menopause

We offer a new paradigm in women's development that is central to girls' and women's health, psycho-spiritual growth and women's leadership. Our radical new approach is based on the inner knowledge of the menstrual cycle and the developmental journey from menarche to menopause and beyond.

13/10/2026

Come and join us for day two of our Spiritual Power of Menopause conversation series - today our guest is Soul Midwife and Legacy Catalyst, .kalila

Elayne began her professional life as a theater actor, and director, and then became as expressive arts therapist with a speciality in working with women in recovery from trauma, sexual and substance abuse, and survivors of war and genocide. She is now an ordained priestess and founder of the Priestess Presence Mystery School and Temple.

In her conversation, titled: Trauma-healing, Letting Go and the Ancient Menopause Wisdom, Elayne explores:

🔥 the phases of the alchemy of her decade-long menopausal dark night of the soul

🔥 how she navigated an intense healing of early life trauma in perimenopause

🔥 the ground-breaking science that helped her make sense of her menopause anxiety

Thank you so much for sharing your story and wisdom Elayne.

You can register to hear Elayne's conversation, as well as the whole Spiritual Power of Menopause series at redschoolmenopause.com - or see the link in our bio.

12/10/2026

It’s day one of our Spiritual Power of Menopause conversation series, and today our guest is internationally-acclaimed yoga teacher, author, and public speaker,

Seane has been at the forefront of yoga, activism, and community service for over thirty years. She’s now dedicated to challenging cultural narratives about menopause, reframing it from a physical decline to a sacred spiritual initiation and rebirth.

In her conversation, Seane explores:

🔥 How she confronted internalised misogyny around midlife and aging

🔥 How her Yoga practice supported her to do the menopause shadow work of releasing outgrown identities

🔥 How the alchemy of the menopause process awakens our intuition so that we can step into new levels of mentorship, artistry and leadership.

Thank you so much for all the wisdom you shared, Seane.

You can register to hear Seane's conversation, as well as the whole series at redschoolmenopause.com - or see the link in our bio.

09/10/2026

We're over the moon that over a thousand of you have registered for our free conversation series next week about the spiritual power of menopause.

We have gathered a brilliant group of women for the series, and we loved our own conversation with Sophie where I (Alexandra) teased out the spiritual gifts that I received from my own menopause journey, and how they are supporting me now in my seventies - my third act.

The series starts on Monday - if you'd like to be part of this movement to re-write the cultural story of menopause, we'd love to have you with us. You can find the link in our bio.

08/10/2026

Menopause is largely viewed as a health condition that we ‘suffer from’ or ‘cope with’. But in fact, it’s a normal, organic transition that marks the end of our menstruating years and our graduation into the next chapter of our life.

We’re fortunate that extensive health resources now exist to address menopausal symptoms, and that menopause itself is being discussed more widely in the media, in the workplace and even in political circles.

But still, there’s an underlying notion that menopause is a problem from which we need to be rescued.

However, the deeper truth is that you don’t need rescuing. You’re not suffering from a health disorder, even as you may be experiencing some unpleasant, perhaps very distressing, symptoms.

Instead, you’re suffering from a huge lack of recognition of and respect for the spiritual process you’re undergoing.

You’re suffering from a lack of time, space and support to acknowledge and follow your inner imperative to tend to your own needs. And from the absence of dignified framing and language to name the power that’s erupting inside you and the enormity of what it demands.

Your inner holy self is calling, and you aren’t being sufficiently supported or resourced to follow that call. It’s both a call Home to yourself and a call from the future, the yearning of Life. For you to bring your unique contribution in service of all. It’s the call of Love.

We invite you to come and join us next week for a series of conversations exploring the spiritual power of this big life transition.

The Spiritual Power of Menopause series runs from October 12th - 18th - come and join this vibrant conversation, and help re-write the menopause story, please see the link in our bio.

07/10/2026

We want to re-write the current cultural story of menopause, to honour this transition as a profound spiritual initiation.

So, next week, we’re delighted to be sharing seven conversations which illuminate the spiritual power of menopause.

The conversations explore trauma-healing, creative renaissance, sexual awakening, surrendering old identities, alchemising attachments, symptoms as messengers and more.

Thank you to Seane Corn Elayne Kalila Doughty Arianna Sholes-Douglas,MD |Menopause|Perimenopause Bethany Webster | Author, Speaker & Coach Prune Harris 🕊️ Womb Wisdom with Shavita △ for sharing your stories.

We're rounding off the series by sharing our own stories of what menopause is awakening (for Sjanie) and has awakened (for Alexandra) in us.

The series runs from October 12th - 18th - come and join this vibrant conversation, and help re-write the menopause story here: www.redschoolmenopause.com

06/10/2026

The menopause initiation blows us open, dismantling barriers, assumptions, unconsciousness, defences and naiveties and exposing our shadow side.

And because you let yourself be weathered by this – daring to see into the
dark, into the underbelly of you and life and chose to feel and recognize yourself – you create the conditions by which you can take responsibility for this new, unbridled potency more wisely.

Undergoing this initiation creates new faculties of knowing, power, and above all, care – care for the life you have and care for Life – that make you a more effective and powerful leader.

These new faculties are what we call the elements of your Wise Power.

The elements of your Wise Power form a bedrock, moral compass and holding for the mastery, agency and manifesting power you’ve already acquired in your life.

They’re the new powers of your leadership in post-menopause life.

Your journey through your post-menopause years is one of growing into these new faculties ever more.

Come and join us next week for a week of conversations about the spiritual power of menopause - we start on October 12th.

We'd love to hear from you: Which of these powers do you recognise from your own personal experience of menopause, or witnessing menopause in your loved ones, friends and colleagues?

01/10/2026

Menopause is an immense life event. Not only is it a complete hormonal shift in the landscape of your overall health, it’s also a psychological and emotional transformation.

All this means you’re going to change. Profoundly. Think 'death and rebirth'.

Ar Red School, we're passionate about re-writing the cultural narrative of menopause, and we believe that it's vital to hear stories from others who are navigating menopause as spiritual initiation.

So, next week, we invite you to join us for our Spiritual Power of Menopause conversation series, featuring a group of wise teachers and guides for a series of honest, intimate and vulnerable conversations about the spiritual insights that their menopause initiation has awakened in them, including:

Seane Corn - Yoga teacher, public speaker, activist and author

Elayne Kalila Doughty - Soul Midwife and Legacy Catalyst

🕊️ Womb Wisdom with Shavita △ - Shavita Kotak - author, speaker and guide.

Arianna Sholes-Douglas,MD |Menopause|Perimenopause - integrative healthcare practitioner and women’s health visionary

Bethany Webster | Author, Speaker & Coach -Bethany Webster - speaker, coach and author

Prune Harris energy expert, consciousness educator and soul activist

And Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, co-founders of Red School

The series is happening From October 12th - 18th, and you can register to watch all the conversations for free at: www.redschoolmenopause.com

30/09/2026

Your postmenopause leadership isn’t just serving the here and now. It holds the past and works for the future with equal value and care.

This is Cathedral Thinking leadership.

In medieval times, it took architects, stonemasons and artisans decades to plan and build a cathedral, and they wouldn’t see its completion in their lifetime.

Today our ‘cathedrals’ – the great changes that need to be made for the sake of the planet – will come about from all the myriad subtle, small and grand individual acts of care and commitment we each make.

You do get to see something of what’s built, but you do it for the times yet to come.

Your experience of navigating menopause brings you into a profound connection with the ecology of life. You bring your life experience, imagination and power to nourish and build the next generation.

You’re in service to the intelligence of Wildness, the power of the Feminine.

Your postmenopause years are ones of growing down into the revelation
of menopause – this interdependent, ecological consciousness – ever more
deeply.

And in particular to see and experience the detail of the singular
expression or role you now serve for future generations.

24/09/2026

How do you know when it’s really, really ‘it’? It’s the million‐dollar question, for which we have a somewhat unanswery answer: when you’re finally in it, you’ll just know.

If you’re asking yourself this question, it’s probably still not quite ‘it’ yet. We don’t pretend it’s not nebulous.

You’ve probably been courted by menopause for some time and are showing sure signs of change that are ruffling the feathers of those around you.

The following are some of the ways that you know they’ve entered menopause. You might discover a different moment of knowing or recognize a version of one of these in your own experience. If you do, please let us know in the comments.

23/09/2026

Your experience of menopause can reveal the interconnectedness of everything.

In the breaking down you can become more sensitized and aware of all the elements of your life, and how exquisitely connected and purposeful they are.

In seeing this, you can receive a wash of meaning. Your life starts to make more sense. Who you are makes more sense.

Menopause not only reveals the meaning at work in your own life but also the interplay, togetherness and interconnectedness of all life.

It pierces the illusion of your independence and awakens you to interdependence – the true reality of your life and all life on Earth.

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