The Wisewoman Way
A 3-day Retreat for Menopausal Women
Take a Journey through the World of the Wisewomen and Claim your Menopausal Power
12-14th June 2026Â
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?
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Introducing...
The Wisewoman Way
A 3-Day Retreat for Menopausal Women
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.
To become our most intuitive, creative and wise Selves, we are called to face unresolved shadows; to let go of old roles and identities, to grieve what’s been lost or never lived, to face our own mortality, and to break-free of the youth-centric conditioning that has up till now directed our lives.
Menopause is an important step on our "journey of becoming" and The Wisewoman Way 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.Â
The 3 Day Journey takes the form of a traditional 3 stage rite of passage:
As a small circle of 10-12 women we will draw from both modern and ancient practices and from the teachings of 6 Wisewomen archetypes for insight and understanding. Through creative ritual and ceremony you'll be guided to embrace your menopause chapter as the Wisewoman you were always destined to become.
Friday - The Letting Go
- We'll begin with an Opening Circle and set intentions for the journey ahead. Then around the ancestral fire we'll meet the 6 Wisewomen Archetypes we'll be visiting over the weekend.
- We'll enter the Dark Forest, home to Baba Yaga with her trials of initiation and seek her guidance through the unknown. Then we'll journey through the Underworld with Hecate to release and grieve what is ready to die.
Saturday - The Threshold
- This day is all about deep listening in the liminal space. We'll call on Grandmother Spider for guidance about the beliefs and stories that will take us powerfully into our menopause chapter.
- Then we'll embrace our inner healer and gather the medicine we may need to support the menopause changes we may be experiencing with Ix Chel.
Sunday - The Homecoming
- We'll reconnect our ancestral lineage and call in our Ancestral support team with An Cailleach before reviewing the whole journey and clarifying our menopause visions and action steps for the coming weeks and months.
- Then we'll take the Morrigan's throne and make personal vows as we're crowned the Wisewoman we were always destined to become.
The weekend will consist of indoor and outdoor group sessions during which you’ll be guided through a unique and transformational experience, based in a safe therapeutic space and tailored to your personal needs.Â
The itinerary will include:
- Sacred Circle time – held spaces for sharing in a supportive sisterhood
- Shamanic 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
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 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 from the menopause transition - 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:Â 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:Â
- Friday - 2pm-9pm (dinner break 5pm-7pm)
- Saturday - 10am-9pm (lunch break 1pm-2pm, dinner break 5pm-7pm)
- Sunday - 10am-4pm (lunch break 1pm-2.30pm)
- Dates:Â Friday 12th - Sunday 14th June 2026
- Food:Â 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.Â
- Accommodation:Â If you're travelling from afar and need overnight accommodation there are plenty of places to stay in Lancaster. Please get in touch if you'd be interested in booking a shared AirBnb and I'll happily help sort something centrally if there are enough women who would like this.
- 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:Â Limited to 12 to ensure a safe, intimate and held space for radical transformation 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.
It's Great to Meet You...
I'm Cali White
I am a psychotherapist, ancestral healing practitioner, group facilitator, and perpetual student!
My peri-menopause came in 2015/6 when I was 44. I wasn't expecting it so soon! It crept up on me and then took me out - big time! With no husband, kids or job I had the luxury to be able to embrace and navigate it consciously. For 15 months I rode the rollercoaster through the madness and mayhem...and then I reached the magic!
To mark my menopausal year and to step with strong intentions into my menopause chapter, I travelled the UK/Ireland in my campervan on a 13 moon pilgrimage. It changed my life and gave me my life's purpose. So far, this menopause chapter is the best chapter of my life!
I'd love for menopause to be the best chapter for every woman! We've been lied to so deeply about it - and for good reason! It really is a powerful time! So I want to share what I learned and help other women navigate their menopause as the sacred and powerful change it is; and a whole new chapter full of surprises and treasures!
The Wisewoman Way Retreat is a weaving of what I learned on my own journey combined with my psychotherapeutic and healing arts training. It's going to be a time of sacred space, creative ritual, story and song, beautiful surprises, deep-diving, medicine and magic, tears of joy and sadness, and of course wisewoman wildness!
I hope you're called! I'd be honoured to guide you on your sacred journey.
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!”
ARE YOU CALLED?
The Wisewoman Way
A 3-Day Retreat for Menopausal Women
12-14 June 2026
At The Witches' House of Healing Art, The Storey, Lancaster.
Limited Spaces - Book Early to Save your Place!
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.Â
- Your payment includes tuition, facilitation and creative materials. It excludes accommodation and meals.