DENBY SHEATHER

Medicine Woman
Menopause Mentor
Podcaster
Writer

menopause is not a diagnosis.
It is an initiation.

There comes a moment—often in midlife—when the strategies that once kept everything functioning no longer work. The body speaks louder. Emotions feel less negotiable. Old patterns resurface with urgency. What once felt manageable now feels intolerable. This is not a breakdown. It is a call to return to yourself.

I’m here for women standing at that threshold.

However, nobody can heal you. That is your job and your choice.

You just need to be ready to do the work. Physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

My work exists for those who sense that healing, growth, and purpose are not problems to be solved, but intelligence to be remembered. Especially in perimenopause, menopause, and the Mother-to-Mage transition, when the body withdraws consent from self-abandonment and demands a deeper kind of listening. This is not about fixing yourself—it’s about restoring inner authority, embodied truth, and trust in your own knowing.

Through Mana Yoga Medicine (MYM), I work at the intersection of physiology, nervous system regulation, energy pathways, and lived experience. MYM is not a style of yoga or a mindset practice—it’s an integrative framework that honors the body as the primary site of wisdom. We work with hormones, emotions, meridians, inherited patterns, and the subtle ways trauma lodges in the tissues and nervous system. Nothing is bypassed. Nothing is forced. Everything is met with precision and compassion.

My courses and containers are designed for women who are done outsourcing their authority—to calendars, diagnoses, productivity culture, or spiritual ideals that override the body. Whether you are navigating perimenopause, menopause, identity shifts, chronic fatigue, emotional overwhelm, or a quiet but persistent sense that “there must be more than this,” the work supports you to come home to yourself in a way that is grounded, intelligent, and sustainable.

Offerings include online courses, live circles, seasonal rituals, and deeper initiatory pathways such as Putting the ME back in Medicine and Mana Yoga Medicine. Each container is intentionally paced, embodied, and practical—supporting real nervous system change rather than temporary inspiration. This is work that meets you where you are, honors where you’ve been, and supports who you are becoming.

If you feel the stirring—that sense that something in you is ready to shed what no longer fits—you’re in the right place. You don’t need more information. You need the right conditions to listen, integrate, and choose from truth rather than habit.

this work is for you if you are:

* Experiencing eating disorders, anxiety and self-care challenges

* Menstrual imbalances, blood irregularities

* Caring for an aging or ill parent (or person)

* Feeling disembodied and/or rejecting your femininity

* Experiencing burnout, inflammation, or nervous system overload

* Carrying womb trauma - due to both inherited and current life circumstances

* Sensing that menopause is asking something deeper of you
* You are tired of holding everything together
* You want healing that respects your body’s pace
* You feel called to depth, not quick fixes
* You are ready to step into the next chapter of your life with integrity

This work may not be for you if:

✖ You are looking for rapid transformation or hacks
✖ You prefer purely cognitive approaches
✖ You are unwilling to slow down

Heal your body.

Protect your energy.

Break ancestral cycles.

All without abandoning yourself.

As a woman in her guardian phase, I have no qualms confessing that I have lived one crazy and colourful life so far, but it’s the life that has made me who I am today, so I wouldn’t change one chapter. I’m no saint and I certainly haven’t been the “perfect” anything, but I have been authentic, and I have lived with heart. I have chosen many challenging and wonderful experiences for myself, and no doubt frustrated and disappointed many people along the way, especially during those times I was moving from lower and denser vibrations of consciousness, but, just like everyone else on the planet, it’s my life to live and I am proud of how I have navigated and integrated it all.

I know what it’s like to be in debt; to be a single working mother; betrayed by a soul mate; cursed by a witch; to be mentally and emotionally abused; to live with and heal an eating disorder; to resolve pain around being an ACOA; to terminate and miscarry; to be dumped by your best friend; survive a divorce; to be ostracized and ridiculed by peers; misunderstood by family and treated like a social leper because of (perceived to be “unorthodox”) beliefs and skills.

I have lost dear ones to cancer, drugs and suicide; a family home to bush fire; sacrificed career opportunities for relationships; (temporarily) lost my faith in humanity (and myself) and doubted my own sanity. I even eroded my self-respect and better judgment into (almost) non-existence several times because I believed “playing small” and “being a good girl”, was the safe and sensible way to go. Little did I know, back then.

I get suffering and I understand lack, loss and pain, yet it’s because of these very experiences that I have learned how to transmute my “wounding into medicine”.

You’re warmly invited to explore the offerings, join a circle, or begin with a course that speaks to this season of your life. Nothing here asks you to become someone else.

Everything here supports you to remember who you already are.

You are not broken, dear heart. You are crossing a threshold.

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Coming Back to the Body

A weekend of Mana Yoga Medicine to re-treat and revive... when life has taken too much.

Format:

1 – 3 days (flexible, repeatable)
Self-paced
Same practices each day
20 – 40 minutes total per day
No journaling required
No emotional excavation

This is not about healing everything.
It’s about remembering how to be here again.

$69AUD

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The Womb Well

Reclaiming Your Sacred Vessel

Learn how to cultivate habits that empower you to fill your own cup first, enabling you to serve others with greater presence, energy, and joy.

Five life-changing days:

Seasonal Yoga practices
Self-care rituals
Shamanic Women's Healing Rites
Medicinal Food Remedies
Elemental Meditation MP3s.

$369AUD

mana yoga medicine 6-week container

Mana Yoga Medicine is a unique transformational journey that guides you through the four layers of the Mother Wound using Traditional Chinese Medicine's Five Element Theory. Through yin yoga, elemental meditation, shamanic women's rites, food medicine, and sacred self-care rituals, you'll move from exhausted Mother to embodied Mage.

You'll receive:

5 live weekly sessions (75 mins each) incorporating yoga and fascia maneouvres
5 elemental meditation MP3s
BONUS WEEK 6 for Integration support and Image Rehearsal
30-Day Integration Guide to sustain your transformation
Private community support with women walking this path alongside you
Lifetime access to all course materials.

This isn't about "managing" menopause. This is about transforming it into the most powerful initiation of your life—breaking ancestral patterns, dissolving cultural conditioning, and becoming the sovereign woman you were always meant to be.

The healing begins with Earth. The transformation ends with Fire. And you? You become the medicine your lineage has been waiting for.

By enrolling now, you:

Secure your place (only 8 available)
Receive lifetime access to all MYM content
Begin the new year with a grounded, supportive path already in place.

$3,369AUD

Applications are now open for February 2026

SAID WITH LOVE

“Denby is the real deal”

To experience Denby’s healing is a blessing. She is the real deal. Her understanding of the energetic being is masterful. I have witnessed her power first hand, many times. She can hone in on my ailments and then use her metaphysical wisdom, therapeutic training and years of experience in deep healing work, to transmute and shift what needs to go. A rare practitioner for the times. Her work is transformational. She recently helped to guide me through a major shift, from one timeline to the next. Messages I needed to receive came through and old wounds and stuck energy were released and shifted. Denby is guided by ancient wisdom, a master of her craft.

TANYA