Lily Owens – Tulsa Oklahoma – First Moon Circles

Lily Owens leads First Moon Circles, helping girls learn about their bodies, connect to their own knowing within, and enter menstruation with knowledge and confidence.

Leigh Patton Smith – Oklahoma City – First Moon Circles

Hello beautiful people, my name is Leigh Smith, and I am an art therapist, educator, and mother who has spent over 20 years walking alongside children and adolescents through many seasons of growth. I currently teach handwork at Back to Earth School, and also lead parent-child playgroups and therapeutic art classes at Peppers Ranch for foster children. My work is rooted in Waldorf philosophy, ritual arts and deep reverence for the rhythms of nature and the soul.

Moonbeam Art Circles are a mondern coming-of-age art circle for girls held in Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. It is a safe and creative space where girls gather in sisterhood to explore who they are becoming through:

Art Making & creative expression
Gentle Rites of Passage & Ceremony
Storytelling, reflection, and lunar wisdom
Building trust, beauty, and belonging
Each circle honors the changing inner world of girls as they grow- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Together, we create space where every voice is heard, every phase of the moon(and self) is welcome, and every child seen in her unique becoming.

Let’s raise them in heartfelt rhythm-with art, wonder, and wise community.

CONNECT WITH LEIGH

WEBSITE: www.groovybluemoon.com

EMAIL: happyhandsheadheart@gmail.com

INSTAGRAM: @groovybluemoon

Priya Manohar – Adelaide, Australia – First Moon Circles

Priya is an Adelaide-based First Moon Circle facilitator and paediatric speech pathologist offering inclusive, gentle, and culturally sensitive circles for girls.

Angelina DeWeese – California – First Moon Circles

Georgia is a First Moon Circle Facilitator, Somatic Dance Facilitator, and counseling student who weaves embodied wisdom, creativity, and holistic menstrual education into her work with girls and mothers. Through mythic storytelling, cyclical living, and rites of passage, she creates safer, empowering spaces for youth to explore identity, body literacy, and emotional wellbeing.

Allie Bishop – Indianapolis, USA – First Moon Circles

Allie Bishop is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and trauma-informed art therapist who leads heart-centered First Moon Circles. Through body literacy, emotional education, creative expression, and ritual, she supports girls and families to navigate puberty with confidence, connection, and a shame-free approach to menstruation.

Emma Watt – Mildura VIC Australia – First Moon Circles

Emma Watt from Side by Side Tribe is a First Moon Circle Facilitator supporting girls and mothers through menarche with gentle guidance and connection to nature’s cycles. She is also a Reiki Master, yoga teacher, and circle facilitator creating safe spaces for movement, meditation, sound, and self-exploration.

Georgia Todd – New Zealand – First Moon Circles

Georgia is a First Moon Circle Facilitator, Somatic Dance Facilitator, and counseling student who weaves embodied wisdom, creativity, and holistic menstrual education into her work with girls and mothers. Through mythic storytelling, cyclical living, and rites of passage, she creates safer, empowering spaces for youth to explore identity, body literacy, and emotional wellbeing.

Giselle Rouvier – Madrid Spain – First Moon Circles

Giselle, a Brazilian mama in Madrid, is passionate about menstrual cycle awareness and empowering girls. Join her First Moon Circles in Madrid or online, in English or Portuguese, to celebrate bodies, build confidence, and embrace the magic of growing up.

Stacey McKenzie – Ballarat VIC Australia – First Moon Circles

I am the Founder of The Yoga Treehouse Ballarat. I am a certified 95 HR Children’s Yoga
Teacher with a specialty in Children’s Yoga Therapy. I am a certified Yin Yoga Teacher, Nutrition Coach & for over 20 years I have been practicing many forms of yoga & meditation for personal wellbeing and health. I am a certified First Moon Circle Facilitator.

MY STORY

Three years ago a friend introduced me to a book called Wild Power, Discover the Magic of your menstrual cycle and awaken to the feminine path to power. I was so excited to learn the wisdom of my own menstrual cycle and at the same time, in disbelief and disappointed that I had not been taught this valuable information earlier. After practicing menstrual cycle awareness for a few more years I realised the impotance of bringing this knowledge to young girls. I want to empower girls to recognise that their bodies are sacred and how to work with their own powerful energies for a more connected cycle experience.

Cara munn – Alice Springs, NT – First Moon Circles

Cara Munn is a First Moon Circle Facilitator located in Alice Springs Northern Territory. Cara has been hosting camps and adventure tours through central Australia for the past 15 years and would love to guide your daughter through her rite of passage on country. Let’s celebrate Her Nature Journey together.

Nóra Szőllősi – Budapest Hungary – First Moon Circles

Nóra Szőllősi is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Budapest, Hungary

Nora is a 37 years old menstrual cycle awareness educator who lives in Budapest, Hungary with her daughter and husband. Her interest in menstrual cycles came after she spent a weekend with other women on a retreat that focused on this subject. She had a huge AHA moment, as she heard and understood the term menstrual cycle for the first time in her life, and she was already in her late 20’s. To say that she got interested is an understatement. She dove into the topic, found international online courses about menstrual cycle, one teacher and wise woman led her to the other. 

That is how she ended up doing Claire Baker’s Cycle Coach School and got to know Charlotte Pointeaux. When she started to learn about her own cycle she had the idea of sharing her newly found passion online. That is how the Ciklus mesék IG profile came alive! It means Cycle Tales in Hungarian. People started to follow and the community grew organically but rapidly and now she has more then twenty-one thousand followers. 

She’s holding workshops, circles and lectures to women and men about menstrual cycle awareness. By choosing this path as her work and passion she realised that it healed a long lasting transgenerational trauma in her family that was passed on from mothers to daughters. One of the biggest joys in her life is that her daughter is now raised in a period positive environment where she will get to learn how her body works and build trust in herself around it. 

She strongly believes that without this foundation and the knowledge that menstrual cycle awareness provides the lives of menstruators wouldn’t be as full as it could be. That is why she is eager to bring this knowledge to the youngest, and help them build a positive connection with their mind and body! Her strengths are honesty and authenticity, she is not afraid to talk about topics that are naturally part of our lives, but still are considered as taboos.

CONNECT WITH NORA

EMAIL: ciklusmesek@gmail.com

INSTAGRAM: @ciklusmesek 

Debra Pintley – Macarthur Region – First Moon Circles

Hi, I’m Debra Pintley. Over the years, as a doula and birth educator, I have studied the relationship between a woman’s experience of her menstrual rite of passage and how she experiences birth. This is one of the key reasons I am so passionate about guiding young women through one of their most significant rites of passage: their first period.
Through First Moon Circles, I provide a warm, welcoming space where girls and their parents can learn about puberty, self-care, and menstrual cycle wisdom. These circles are designed to empower young women with knowledge and confidence while fostering a deep sense of connection, ensuring they feel prepared and supported as they enter this new phase of life.

Grace Morrison – Toronto, Canada – First Moon Circles

I am the daughter of a wild naturalist and breastfeeding advocate and am a Circle Holder and a Menstrual Health Coach living in an urban metropolis.

Susie Gow – Murwillumbah & Tweed Heads – First Moon Circles

Susie Gow is a trained First Moon Circle Facilitator in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads NSW Australia.

Jo Goddard – Brisbane QLD Australia – First Moon Circles

Jo Goddard is a First Moon Circle Facilitator in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. She is the founder of ImHER Women’s Well-being, a space devoted to helping women reclaim their joy, confidence, and connection to themselves. As a pleasure, intimacy, and sensuality mentor, certified Kahuna bodyworker, Reiki Master, and sexological bodyworker, Jo’s work blends deep care with a joyful, down-to-earth approach.

Her passion for supporting women began after her own journey of self-reclamation, and she believes these conversations should start early—long before adulthood—so girls can grow up feeling empowered, informed, and proud of their bodies.

Jo sees First Moon Circles as a powerful way to help young women and their mothers feel connected, confident, and open in talking about periods, body changes, and emotions. She creates a safe, nurturing, and joy-filled space where girls can learn practical cycle wisdom, ask questions without embarrassment, and celebrate this rite of passage as a beautiful part of growing up.

When she’s not facilitating circles or working with women, Jo can be found collecting sea glass along the waterfront at Margate, reading dark fantasy novels, or dancing in the kitchen with her three children while baking something choclatey.

Julia Simon – Paris France – First Moon Circles

Julia Simon is a Paris-based facilitator, author, and women’s coach who has been holding space for women’s transformations for over a decade.

As a mother of two daughters (and lucky human to a cat), she believes every girl deserves to step into womanhood feeling proud, supported, and celebrated. She offers Premières Lunes (First Moon) circles in Paris and is also available to travel across France to offer this special experience.

Alongside her circles, Julia leads retreats and programs that guide women back to their inner wisdom, honouring the cycles and milestones that shape a lifetime. She is also the author of Bien vivre le quatrième trimestre au naturel, often referred to as the go-to guide for the postpartum journey, another profound rite of passage for women.