Name: Initiation into Menopause - Ceremony with Sandra Luz
Start: 2026-06-13T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-13T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Ivana Gundulića 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

INITIATION INTO MENOPAUSE - Ceremony with Sandra Luz
“Menopause is not the closing of life’s creative force — it is the flowering of inner knowing.”
When we started bleeding for the very first time, most likely we didn’t go through the celebration of the rite of passage, or received any kind of ceremony of becoming women.
But the end of that journey we can celebrate, and receive what we missed at the very beginning.
This ceremony is a sacred rite of passage, honoring the transition into menopause not as an ending, but as an initiation into the wise woman phase of life. It is a space to pause, reflect, release, and welcome the next chapter with celebration, reverence, and inner power.
The ceremony weaves together elements of feminine spirituality, earth-based rituals, and ancestral remembrance. It creates a gentle container for transformation, healing, gratitude, and renewal.
Through Andean rituals, Womb Blessing, and the creation of a Despacho offering, I am inviting you to reconnect with the wisdom of your body, honor the cycles you have lived, and step consciously into a new way of embodiment of womanhood.
In this women's circle we will honor the Journey of being a woman, and reflect on our menstruating years — the joys, creations, losses and griefs, lessons, and transformations carried within the womb space and the feminine body. This will help us releasing old identities and expectations, transforming grief around aging or fertility changes, reclaiming feminine power and inner authority, welcoming vitality, sensuality, self-trust, and entering the archetype of the Wise Woman.
Together we will create a Despacho — a sacred offering to Pachamama made with flowers, seeds, herbs, sweets, prayers, and symbolic objects placed with intention and gratitude.
The despacho becomes a living prayer for balance, harmony, healing, and renewal. It is later ceremonially offered to the Earth or fire as an act of reciprocity and transformation.
This rite of passage is an invitation to every woman in perimenopause or menopause to:
- Honor menopause as sacred initiation
- Reconnect with feminine wisdom
- Celebrate maturity, freedom, and embodied power
- Release shame and cultural conditioning around aging
- Step into a new cycle with grace and purpose
I am warmly welcoming you exactly as you are!
Sandra
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Info: [email protected]
Investment of 50€ confirms your spot (places are limited!)
This ceremony is also held individually by reservation.
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Sandra Bio:
Sandra Luz (Đidara Bianco) is a pioneer of dynamic yoga in Croatia, an Energy Medicine therapist, a Mesa carrier and a lifelong seeker and guide on the path of conscious living. With over two decades of experience in yoga, healing, and inner development, Sandra's work is rooted in deep presence, ancient wisdom, and a heartfelt mission: to awaken living with purpose in others.
Her journey began not in a studio, but in spirit — sparked by a profound encounter with her spiritual teacher in 1995. Since then, Sandra has walked a path of awakening that has taken her through years of formal study in personal development in Italy, advanced shamanic training grounded in Toltec and Essene traditions, and initiations in the sacred healing arts of the Andes and the East.
She is the founder and lead teacher of GaiaYoga, a school that has shaped generations of yoga practitioners and teachers. Certified at the highest levels (YT 1100, E-RYT 500, RPYT, YACEP), Sandra launched Croatia’s first teacher training program in dynamic yoga in 2006—sharing Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and the deeper philosophy of yogic living with depth and devotion.
She has been initiated in the Munay-Ki rites by Marcela Lobos, trained in Energy Medicine of Q'eros, and is a passionate student of the Qanchis Ylla (Rainbow Lineage) of the shamans of the High Andes. Her retreats, trainings, and ceremonies create sacred space for people to rediscover themselves—to heal, expand, and remember who they really are.