I am so excited to announce the launch of my Medicine Women Mentorship 2024. This is a journey I did not think I would take again; the journey of leading a group of Medicine Women to Remember their Medicine.
When I ran my initial Mentorship in 2021 and we co-created the You Are The Medicine card deck it felt complete; a done deal. Yet when I meditated at the start of this new year, there it was: it is time to run it again. So here I am again, being asked to be keeper of this precious Medicine; the Medicine of knowing oneself fully and truly, without the layers of conditioning, expectation or wounds.
Like any important journey we take in life, it takes courage, investment, time and patience. This one is no different; but unlike most, this is a journey inwards, a journey into ourselves to find something half remembered, buried underneath all the doing - something so important that when you find it again you will feel like a veil has lifted, like you are meeting an old beloved friend; you will feel like the youest part of you.
What is the Medicine Women Mentorship?
This project has been born out of my 25 years as a holistic/integrated fertility specialist where I have been a keeper of women’s stories. It is also a representation of the evolution of my work through my own healing. As I have spoken about before, during lockdown I went through a stripping back where everything I identified with seemed disintegrated: my practice (in its physical manifestation as a clinic), I developed doubled vision from a tumour, my hair, my ability to drive, my independence etc. It has been an intense process. Yet I have come back again and again to the same theme: You Are The Medicine.
Interestingly, at some stage shortly after I developed double-vision, I was in communication with a Death-walker (like a death doula or midwife). Without knowing or seeing me, she asked me about my eyes; I explained about the tumour she explained that, spiritually speaking, I had the ability to see both sides, to see beyond the veil. This went some way to explaining why I have such a strong connection with children not yet born and my ability to see to the heart of the matter. Throughout time it is largely reported that healers and Medicine Women are often the ones who meet with hardship, illness, or great losses. This is because they are being asked to lead others, to raise their vibration and discover their Medicine.
Sometimes our challenges are our greatest gifts.
My influences are Nature and the cycles of life, traditional Chinese Medicine and the five elements: Wood, Earth, Fire, Metal and Water, from which my five Pillars of FERTILE were born: Flexibility, Nourishment, Creativity, Transformation and Trust (this are explored in my Fertile Enquiry sessions). I am inspired by Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry, meditation, archetypes, crystals, frequency medicine, Jungian Shadow Work, Shamanism and other traditional healing arts.
The images and stories of each Medicine Woman that you will learn about and journey with are very layered, containing elements of all my influences and the Medicines I have worked with.
This Mentorship is a journey we will take together – although I will be your guide and create the space, you already carry this wisdom, this medicine, and it is time to bring it to the world - your ultimate journey will be alone.
The cards, illustrated by Josie Wren, are stories in pictures of all the incredible women who have found the medicine within themselves and by doing so have become Medicine Women. I am indebted to them as by being a witness to their stories, they have become my beacons through the often dark and murky waters of healing.
I cannot wait to take this journey together again.
“Such an amazing experience and beautiful community - I found the journeys incredibly powerful - like nothing I've ever experienced before. Having those places to return to and the gifts from the Medicine Women has been so amazing - such a beautiful resource. ”
Why Now?
The notion of this is that there is something beneath our ailments, illness, and symptoms; be it personal, collective, ancestral or a reflection of the environment in which we live. It is the moments that we find our way out of the darkness, the road we are stuck on, the life we thought we were meant to be leading. The times when we allow ourselves to look at things in another way and discover that all along the medicine was inside ourselves.
Within each of us lies a spark of magic, our own unique miracle or gift, and it is when we are truly challenged that we either lose ourselves completely or we are able to rediscover a lost part and return to wholeness. Through these difficult times we will need support, someone who can help us get to the root of our trauma, someone who is skilled in reading the body and knows how the emotions impact our health. Someone with the courage to hold us through the darkness and understands what suffering is. Someone who sees us as more than our body, our blood tests and our dis-ease. Someone who can help us access the Medicine within us.
I have been lucky enough to have people like this in my life; really deeply skilled Medicine men and women who have helped me to personally evolve and heal. I have also had the honour to be that Medicine woman for others. I cannot begin to describe the depth of gratitude I feel to having lived this life; a life dedicated to healing myself and leading others to a place of healing. It is not an easy path, yet it is a rich and magical one.
“Your 50 Medicine Women have and will continue to enable such healing. It is such a brilliant and easy to follow system.”
Who are the Medicine Women?
Medicine women see the world in different ways: they see patterns, they make systems work better, they pick up on energetic disharmony. They look for the spiritual signs for guidance and find meaning in things others find meaningless. She believes in magic and creates magic in her life. She is the great transformer of energy, the mover of stagnation, the shape-shifter who believes in the cyclical nature of all things. Change is part of evolution - not failure. The only failure is to fail to evolve or grow. She knows that nothing can stay the same and that pain comes from our struggle to keep things as they are and liberation is in the acceptance of things as they are.
Medicine woman is not afraid to speak truth, she uncovers injustice and untruth. She is not afraid to sit with you in the shadows; be with grief, rage, fear. She teaches us to transform these energies, to use them as teachers to help develop our soul’s purpose. She is a revealer of what is no longer serving us. She will not fix you – because she does not believe you to be broken. She will be by your side while you navigate your own way through and tell you stories to help guide you.
Medicine woman is connected to Nature. She is the divine feminine nature of Medicine and healing, that is so needed to balance the patriarchal system of Medicine that has become mainstream. She is the soothing balm, yet she will not allow you to hide from your deepest pain. She teaches to LOVE IT ALL, accept what is, adapt to what life gives us and to surrender to the transformations, even when they come so fast you can barely catch your breath. She is the one whispering in your ear: “Let go, surrender, surrender”.
She lives between Heaven and Earth.
“I adore it! Carving out the time for myself is glorious, I'm learning so much too. Each pillar is unique but also so deeply connected to the other. Emma, I feel you've managed to weave all your expertise onto a new platform and it's really special.”
If you are interested in joining the rerun of my Medicine Women Mentorship 2024, it will be running from Feb-April. It will include two live collective Zoom sessions a month (six total - 12 hours of live) and you will receive access to all of the resources, recordings, toolkits, worksheets, meditations, masterclasses from the original Mentorship. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to have collective healing time with Emma and perfect for any practitioner, healer, therapist to experience Emma’s guidance, or anyone looking for deep dive healing and a new path. If you are not a practitioner but have purchased the cards - you are also welcome to join (your vibration will be high enough).
Certificates will be provided on completion.
Investment: £999 (inc. VAT)
Please email clinic@emmacannon.co.uk with your interest.
The investment for those who have already invested in the initial recorded version is £666 (inc. VAT).
I’m so excited to create magic with you.