Life & Soul – MenoPAUSE Circles: Power Animal
Fri, 15 May
|Marrickville


Time and Location
15 May 2026, 6:15 pm – 10:15 pm
Marrickville, 142 Victoria Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204, Australia
About the event
This is not a beginner’s circle. This is a remembering.
A space for women who feel the call to reconnect with their power, not as an idea, but as something that lives in the body, in the bones, in the womb, and in the lineage that came before us.
In this circle, we honour the ancient wisdom of animal power through shamanic ritual. We reconnect with the guides that walk with us, the instincts that have been silenced, and the deep knowing that has always been ours.
We gather to honour the women who came before us: our mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, who paved the way for the freedom we live today. And we stand in responsibility for the women who will come after us.
This is a space to ask:
- What is ready to be reborn in you?
- What are you here to create?
- What stands between you and your truth?
- And who walks with you on this path?
This series are devoted to women in rites of passage.
Peri-menopausal women, menopausal women, and those moving through deep transitions in life.
Because this phase is not an ending. It is a rise.
What to bring:
Yoga mat
Journal and pen
Water bottle and/or tea mug
Comfortable clothes for movement (layers recommended)
Eye mask, socks, pillow and a cozy blanket
Cushion or seat for floor sitting
The BCC café will be open for light food and snacks before the circle. We recommend arriving early and eating beforehand, as there will be no break. Herbal tea will be provided.
Spaces are limited.
Hosts
Emilie da Silva Stratford is a mentor, integrative counsellor, and founder of Life & Soul. She brings together mindset, spirituality, and deep inner work to support women in reconnecting with their truth, intuition, and inner power.
For over a decade, Emilie has been holding women’s circles and retreats, creating safe and transformative spaces for reflection, healing, and growth.
She is also the founder and CEO of CASA, a social empowerment organisation founded by women, supporting families in Brazil through compassion, action, and community.
Emilie is a mother, a wife, a sister, and a woman devoted to walking this path alongside others.
Thais Ingrid is a clinical naturopath, medical herbalist, tantric practitioner, and sexologist, as well as the founder of Naturotantra. Her work bridges science, nature, and the body guiding women into deep connection with their vitality, sensuality, and inner truth.
For over 15 years, Thais has been holding one-on-one consultations, as well as retreats, workshops, festivals, and circles, creating grounded and transformative spaces where healing happens through the body, the breath, and the wisdom of the elements. Through movement, dance, and the raw intelligence of the body, she invites women to reconnect with themselves through a living experience of Nature.
Weaving holistic health, ancestral and shamanic traditions along with sacred sexuality, her work becomes an invitation into the body as oracle, into pleasure as medicine, and into a life fully felt, expressed, and alive.
Thais is a mother, a woman, and a guide devoted to walking this path alongside others, with presence, depth, and truth
Giving Back
10% of all ticket sales will be donated to CASA.
CASA is a charity led by women, supporting vulnerable families in Brazil through food relief, education programs and mental health projects in Australia. Our initiatives are here to reduce social inequality with a strong focus on dignity, empowerment, and long-term change.
