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The Wisewoman Way

A 3-day Initiation for Menopausal Women

An Inner Journey to your power and purpose through menopause and beyond...

Next dates: October 2026
10 Spaces available

Are you navigating the turbulent waters of perimenopause, feeling hopeless, adrift and uncertain?

Or maybe you've already crossed the menopause threshold but are still struggling with the changes you've gone through? 

Introducing...

The Wisewoman Way

Menopause as a Spiritual Pathway to Power and Purpose

The Wisewoman Way is a unique 3-day journey designed to help you navigate the powerful yet turbulent time of menopause and to set yourself up for a positive menopause experience.

Stepping through the portal requires significant and often uncomfortable change on every level - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Often we focus simply on the physical changes, because we don't know how to address the mental, emotional and spiritual changes that may arise.  

But, to become our most intuitive, creative and powerful Wisewoman Self, we are called to face unresolved shadows such as:

-letting go of old roles and identities
-grieving what’s been lost or never lived
-breaking free of the cultural youth-centric conditioning

Menopause is an important step on our "journey of becoming" and The Wisewoman Way will give you a "map" which will support you in shedding the old skins so that you can create a new and exciting future for yourself for years to come.

Held at The Witches' House of Healing Arts, Lancaster, the weekend is designed as a journey through the world of six ancient wisewoman archetypes. You'll be guided in a held space to "clear out the old" and welcome in a new vision for a powerful menopause chapter. 

The weekend will consist of group sessions designed to guide you through a unique and transformational experience, held in a therapeutic space and tailored to your personal needs. 

The itinerary will include:

  • Sacred Circle time – held spaces for sharing in a supportive sisterhood
  • Guided visualisation and drum journeying – to seek guidance and insight from within
  • Creative Rituals – through art, crafts, and storytelling
  • A Grief circle – to honour and release the sorrows you’ve carried
  • Singing, drumming and dancing – to awaken your joy and life force energy
  • Medicine Walk – to seek what you need through the mirror of Nature
  • Sacred Ceremony - to honour who you have been and who you are becoming
  • Free Time – spacious mealtimes giving you time to reflect, connect and create

Everything is an invitation and you will never be asked to go anywhere or do anything that doesn't feel right for you. 

The Wisewoman Way is for you if:

  • You’re in the menopause transition and want to embrace it as a sacred rite of passage
  • You've tried medication and/or herbs but still need more support
  • You feel the need to shed old skins, and do the inner work necessary to step into your Wisewoman Self
  • You need help or guidance with the challenging emotions that are surfacing - especially grief or rage
  • You know you have past trauma to heal and want to write a new story for your menopause chapter
  • You feel the fire in your belly and ready to step up into your Menopausal power!
  • You want to be with other women who are on a similar journey and experience the support of a healthy sisterhood
  • You’re ready to call in your Ancestors and create a magical life guided by your innate wisdom and spiritual connection
  • You're ready to live your best life!
  • You’re not sure why, but you just know you’re meant to come!

Practical Details:

  • Venue: The 3 days are held in The Witches' House of Healing Arts, a private and dedicated healing space situated in The Storey, opposite the Castle in the heart of Lancaster, UK.
  • Timings: (with lunch and dinner breaks built in to each day)
    • Friday - 11am-9pm
    • Saturday - 10am-9pm
    • Sunday - 10am-5pm
  • Dates: October 2026 (details soon)
  • Food: Plan to eat out or bring packed lunches. There are many eateries around and about, including the Printroom Cafe on the Ground floor of the Storey. Plenty of time will be built into the schedule to allow for both lunch and evening meals. 
  • Accommodation: If you're local to Lancaster, you're welcome to head home each evening to sleep. If you're travelling from afar and need overnight accommodation there are plenty of places to stay in Lancaster.
  • Price: Early bird ÂŁ299, ÂŁ350 thereafter. Payment plans available. (Price include 3 days of tuition, guidance, and creative materials. Accommodation and meals are NOT included).
  • Spaces: Limited to 10 to ensure a safe, intimate and held space for the deep healing work to happen.

Please note, this isn’t a "relaxation" retreat! It’s an initiation into your Menopausal Self! It's a therapeutic experience and as such you’ll be invited to face a few shadows and expand your comfort zone should you feel it's right for you to do so. Some prior experience of inner work would be helpful although not essential.

Once you've booked your place you'll be sent a welcome email with questions to complete which will ask for information on specific needs you may have. You'll also be sent more detailed information about what to bring and what to expect.

I'm Cali White

I am a psychotherapist, ancestral healing practitioner, group facilitator, and artist.

My own perimenopause journey began in my mid-forties and caught me completely by surprise. It crept up on me and took me out! My marriage ended. My work collapsed. My body crashed. But in the middle of that upheaval, I was given the biggest gift - the time and space to listen.

For 15 months I rode the rollercoaster of peri-menopause — through the confusion, grief and chaos — until I began to discover the magic on the other side.

To mark my arrival into menopause, I followed an inner calling to travel the UK and Ireland in my campervan on a 13-moon pilgrimage. That journey changed my life. It showed me that menopause was not a time of ending. It was a threshold.

The Wisewoman Way is the weaving together of everything I learned from my own journey, alongside my work in psychotherapy, ancestral healing and the healing arts. I created this because I believe women deserve a different story. A story where menopause is not something to fear but one in which we are supported to step into the wisdom and possibility of a new powerful chapter.

Here are a few testimonials from women who have taken the journey before...

A.E.

"Powerful, moving, and deeply emotional – I don’t think I’ve ever laughed and cried so much in just four days. The care, compassion, and nurture that held us throughout the retreat was truly extraordinary –
you could feel it in every moment.
The work we did was insightful, held with such skill and sensitivity. I felt safe, supported, and seen. It
was expertly facilitated, and always with warmth and humanity.
The food was an absolute dream – nourishing, delicious, and plentiful! Everyone’s needs were thoughtfully catered for. And the setting…just breath-taking. The peaceful countryside wrapped around the whole experience like a soft blanket, adding even more depth and beauty to an already incredible few days.
I’ll carry this with me for a long time."

J.P.

"The whole experience was something exceedingly special. I heard repeatedly from many of the women that this was the most welcoming and safe feeling retreat they had ever been on, and life has taught me to be careful on that front, so it was a life affirming experience. Working with the archetypes was powerful and since returning home, I've felt much stronger and yet also more emotional - even though emotion is something I've learned to stuff down and avoid where possible. Now I appreciate the wisdom in it and feel even more defiant towards the powers that be, and ready to forge a new way forward on my own terms."

N.B.

"I started the journey with the online course but this face to face/in person time really cemented my appreciation of the life available to us women into and post-menopause. I no longer feel dried up. I can really feel that this coming season of life has the potential to be amazing. The best. With purpose, meaning and careful deployment of energy and focus. In power, not on the treadmill. The Wisewoman Weekend - an essential rite of passage for each and every woman. Attendance should be mandatory and available on prescription. The time to be master of your own power is now. The time to live consciously and with meaning is now; to make your last incarnated decades count, is now. Heal yourself in the sisterhood, know your power, and maybe even think clearly for the first time. The healing might not always be pretty, but the location is!”

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The Wisewoman Way

A 3-Day Retreat for Menopausal Women

October 2026
At The Witches' House of Healing Art, The Storey, Lancaster.

Registration Opening Soon...

Early Bird Single Payment

ÂŁ295

Standard Price Single Payment

ÂŁ349

Early Bird Payment Plan

ÂŁ159

2 payments of ÂŁ159 (ÂŁ318 total)

Standard Price Payment Plan

ÂŁ179

2 payments of ÂŁ179 (ÂŁ358 total)

PRICING:

  • If booking the payment plan, the first payment will be taken at the time of booking, the second payment will be automatically debited from your account on the same day of the subsequent month. 
  • Your payment includes tuition, facilitation and creative materials. It excludes accommodation and meals.

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