Time & Location
Nov 03, 2024, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Canopy Studios, 1723 9 St SW, Calgary
About the event
Similar to the four seasons, your menstrual cycle has four phases. We can imagine it as: Winter, spring, summer and autumn. Each phase affects and offers a unique set of physical, emotional, hormonal, and psychological gifts. When we understand these changes, we can eat, work, love and play according to our natural flow and we get better at working with our cyclical rhythm and feminine power rather than against it.
The goal behind this art therapy and yoga workshop is to feel more connected with your inner guidance system, finding your cyclical rhythm, and finding your OWN individual organic routine. It’s all about what matters to you, and meeting your needs. Menstruation can sometimes feel like journeying in the dark, you can’t always tell where you’re heading or what’s going on. Our goal is to provide the tools, education through art therapy and yoga to develop your own relationship with your monthly cycles. This would encourage positive connection with our bodies, eliminate shame, potential stigma, create healthier and stronger relationships with their future partnership, advocating for their needs, and a stronger work ethic.
This is not about perfecting anything, but learning about the ebbs and flows of your cycle. How you feel as it changes, and getting more attuned with your body.
Cost
(We offer a sliding scale to make this as accessible to everyone!)
Tickets are $70 but if you can afford that you can join us for as little as $45.
Meet your Guides
Hannah Marie: Social worker and registered counselor and therapeutic arts practitioner
Jaiden Koochikum: Trauma-Informed Yoga instructor
Hannah Marie
Hello! I’m Hannah.
I am a Registered Counselor, Social worker, Somatic Therapeutic Arts practitioner and Art therapist. I have over 10 years of experience working with diverse populations. My two passions are people and art, the goal has always been to blend healing and art together. Through my time working with trauma patients, I realized there was something missing, that using verbal expression and talk therapy was not always the first step. That is when I discovered how revolutionary art therapy was. It provides a way to externalize feelings in a safe way, regulating the nervous system and supporting embodied integration. Using imagery, as part of this creative therapeutic process, feelings and emotions can be expressed that would otherwise be difficult to articulate.
Jaiden Koochikum
"Oki/Tanisi/Hello, My name is Jaiden Koochicum. I am Cree from Peepeekisis First Nation in Saskatchewan, and Blackfoot from Siksika First Nation in Alberta. I am situated on my ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Mohkinstsis, otherwise known as Calgary.
I was called to yoga during my undergrad to support my well-being as I navigated the stresses of a colonial system. Yoga ended up being a lot more than stress mangement for me. Over the years yoga has been a practice I continually go back to because it connects me to my community, myself and the land. Yoga is ceremony for me.
I recently completed my 200-hour yoga training through Yoga Outreach. My approach is very holistic, weaving in ceremony, acknowledging the roots of yoga, the ancestors, and the land we are living on. I focus on the connection to breath and gentle movements that are accessible to everyone. I integrate a trauma-informed approach by emphasizing choice and invitational language. I am here only as a guide and to hold space for others to befriend and nurture their bodies, minds, and spirits."