Jane Hardwicke Collings - From Menarche to Menopause; how every rite of passage matters

Today on the show I speak with former homebirth midwife and women’s mysteries teacher - Jane Hardwicke Collings. I was so excited to chat to Jane as her work totally resonates with me and the way I think. I love her Aussie, no bullshit approach! And I must admit I am a total fan girl of hers. We chat about her life to date and her journey from studying midwifery, becoming a homebirth midwife, then to the birth of her first child, a planned homebirth turned c-section, and then her subsequent home births for her next two babes. We also chat about what lessons are learnt from each birth and how this lesson needs to be brought to parenting that child. She talks about the growth from each birth and how massive that is and how she thought you could never have any more growth than that… until she went through menopause. We really touch on every rite of passage for women from menarche to menopause. Jane is an intelligent spiritual leader for this time and has so much wisdom and understanding of this world - particularly birth. I came away so inspired from this chat and I know you will do too.

About Jane: Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years,

teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops in Australia and

internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual

practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and

menopause – a modern day Women’s Mysteries Teacher.

Jane practised as a homebirth midwife for 30 years, this work from her late 20’s to

early 50’s informed her worldview and brought focus to her knowing of what’s

possible when women feel safe. Through her own life experiences, her learning and

research of ancient and modern shamanic practices, evolutionary biology, psychology,

spirituality, the ecology of the Sacred Feminine, and as a student of the Earth, she has

found a common thread that weaves and connects our lives from one moment to the

next and to each other, everyone and everything. With this awareness and her

teachers’ guidance and help she developed a way to teach this.

Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international

Women’s Mysteries School. The School, through Jane and other graduate Teachers

offers year, and two year long, in depth immersions into the self and one’s

relationship with all that is. The program offers a focus on ‘Know Thyself’ and is

more than anything a grand awakening for each individual woman as she comes to

know who she really is when she separates her self from the misogynist, power over

paradigm of the patriarchal culture. A profound and epic healing happens when

women reclaim their body and their functions and remember that they do not visit

Nature, they are Nature.

Reclaiming Feminine Power, through Reconnection with the Women’s Mysteries…