A unique and practical guide to support women through the complexities of the menstrual cycle and the journey of womanhood
Drawing from the ancient wisdom of the Great Goddesses, Agnieszka Drabek-Prime reclaims the cycle of menstruation and the journey of womanhood as a sacred spiral of life, death and rebirth, encouraging women to understand their cycle as a vehicle for wisdom and strength.
For centuries within Western society, the menstrual cycle has been connoted with feelings of shame and dirtiness, rarely acknowledged outside of medical circumstances. Women across the world move through life without a proper understanding of the monthly cycles of their bodies, hating themselves for feelings of irritability, tiredness and depression.
Dancing with Goddesses reveals the archetypes of the great Goddesses and provides a guide for women to work with them in unravelling and strengthening the energy and feelings of their own cycles. Drabek-Prime also includes information vital to all women, explaining the workings of a healthy menstrual cycle and information cycle tracking.
Offering a range of practical methods to work with
from meditations and rituals to seasonal journeys or moon guides
Dancing with Goddesses will appeal to all women, both old and young.
In this unique exploration of mythology and womanhood,Dancing with Goddesses invites women to re-connect with their menstrual cycles and feminine power.
By working through this book, readers will be able to transform the previously negative aspects associated with the menstrual cycle, instead reclaiming them as a vessels forstrength, wisdom and clarity in daily life.
By:
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime
Imprint: Aeon Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781801521635
ISBN 10: 1801521638
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 24 June 2025
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
FOREWORD INTRODUCTION The healthy menstrual cycle Cycle within cycle Cycle tracking Why Goddesses? How to work with this book PART ONE: WINTERING IN MENSTRUAL WISDOM CHAPTER ONE: THE WISDOM OF THE VOID Message from the Void What is the Void? The Void meditation Question to journal with Goddess of the Void – Dancing with Hekate Void meditation with Hekate CHAPTER TWO: MENSTRUAL WINTERING The wintertime Wintering of menstruation Dark feminine CHAPTER THREE: Dancing with Goddesses Lilith Get to know your blood Hekate Conscious birth ceremony Kali Question to journal with Fire practice Including the masculine PART TWO: THE RISE OF THE MAIDEN CHAPTER FOUR: THE WISDOM OF TRANSITIONS Question to journal with Potions for transition Herbal infusions CHAPTER FIVE: MAIDEN UNLEASHED The Springtime The Maiden Menarche Ceremony The Young Goddess CHAPTER SIX: DANCING WITH GODDESSES Artemis/Diana Questions to journal with Sacred gathering Cordelia Questions to journal with Yoni Gazing practice Idunn Connecting to the Maiden-self meditation PART THREE: JOURNEY FROM LOVER TO MOTHER CHAPTER SEVEN: BREAST WISDOM Breast self-examination CHAPTER EIGHT: THE JUCINESS OF OVULATION Summertime The Lover and the power of ovulation Journey from Lover to Mother CHAPTER NINE: DANCING WITH GODDESSES Aphrodite Questions to journal with Rediscovery of pleasure practice Freya Temple of beauty practice Gaia The spiral walk PART FOUR: ENCHANTRESS – THE POWER OF THE SHAPESHIFTER CHAPTER TEN: PLACENTA – THE GIFT OF LIFE Conscious birth meditation Placenta burying ritual CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE SHAPESHIFTING ENCHANTRESS The beauty of Indian Summer Shapeshifters’ powers and the gifts of post-ovulation Lover, Enchantress, and Sage intertwined CHAPTER TWELVE: DANCING WITH GODDESSES Hathor Inner balance meditation Circe The Enchantress potions Sedna Beautiful cleansing bath PART FIVE: WISE WOMAN AND THE WISDOM REGAIED CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MENOPAUSE AND THE CYCLE REMEMBERED Why are we so afraid of menopause? The great awakening of menopause CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WELCOMING THE WISE WOMAN Autumn Crone, Sage, or Wise Woman? Wisdom of the Crone CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DANCING WITH GODDESSES Innana The descent meditation Persephone Dancing with your shadow Baba Yaga Questions to journal with Wise Woman Manda CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE ELEMENTAL WOMAN The Earth Woman The Water Woman The Fire Woman The Air Woman Working with the Earth element Working with the Water element Working with the Fire element Working with the Air element EPILOGUE Bibliography Useful links
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime is a teacher, Womb Medicine Woman, and Sacred Weaver. Through connection with the Spirit, from threads of different traditions as well as from the wisdom of her womb and the Sacred Feminine, she weaves the sacred into everyday life. Agnieszka is the author of the children's novel The Secret of the Underland and has been published in the women's collaboration Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy: A Womancraft Publishing Compendium. Originally from Poland, she now lives with her husband, son, and dog in Cambridge, UK, teaching, seeing clients, organising ceremonies and courses in person and on-line.Her website is https://primetherapy.co.uk/
Reviews for Dancing with Goddesses: An Archetypal Journey Through the Menstrual Cycle
""Reading Dancing with Goddesses is like sitting with a women’s circle remembering the vital truths of our bodies and our wisdom. Agnieszka Drabek-Prime has created a work that is both poetic and practical, mythic and deeply embodied. Her voice is one of remembrance, reawakening the sacred rhythm of the menstrual cycle as a spiritual path—a path of initiation, power, and profound listening. It speaks to the cyclical wisdom that lives in the blood mysteries. Through practical knowledge and the power of myth, Agnieszka brings the reader back into relationship with the womb as oracle, the body as altar, and the cycle as a teacher. For those tending sacred women’s mysteries, this is a companion you will return to again and again.” Ariella Daly, Natural Beekeeping and Dreamwork facilitator “In Dancing with Goddesses, Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves insightful connections between elemental feminine archetypes and goddesses and the powerful journey of inhabiting a menstrual body, packed full of helpful practices and meditations.” Lucy H. Pearce, author of Moon Time and Burning Woman
