Celebrate Your Cycle: A Holistic Approach to Self Care, Periods and Pleasure for Teens + Moms

A five week online course with Certified Ayurveda Health Counselors Maria Gabriela Guevara & Shannon Sabol

Remember the awkwardness and confusion of puberty?
It was a strange and overwhelming time for most of us! And now, having the "your body is changing" conversation with your daughter can feel equally confusing. Maybe you feel unprepared, embarrassed, or faced with reliving your own difficult memories of that time.

What if you could change the narrative for your daughter? Transform the “your body is changing” talk from cringe-worthy to celebratory?

Empower your daughter, deepen your bond, and revolutionize how you view women’s health!

Does this sound familiar?

You're dreading the "puberty talk" with your daughter. I mean, you still remember so clearly when she was a baby! You want to be supportive, but you're not sure where to start. Maybe your own experience was less than ideal, and you're determined to do better for her. You know this is a critical time in her life, but you feel unprepared and overwhelmed.

What if there was a way to approach this conversation with confidence, armed with knowledge and tools to make it a positive, empowering experience for both of you?

That's exactly why we created "Celebrate Your Cycle" - to help you and your daughter navigate this transformative time with grace, understanding, and even excitement. Our course is designed to shift the perspective from shame and embarrassment to one of empowerment and positivity.

Start your journey towards a more open, honest, and celebratory approach to women’s health with us!

Introducing Celebrate Your Cycle: A Holistic Approach to Self Care, Periods and Pleasure

A 5 week online course for mothers and daughters to experience together.

  • Comprehensive, age-appropriate education on women’s anatomy, the menstrual cycle, and self-care

  • Safe, supportive environment for open and honest conversations

  • Natural, holistic approach connecting mind, body, and spirit

  • Practical tools and techniques for lifelong well-being

  • Inspiration, love and encouragement for the fertile years of womanhood

Right now, you might be struggling with:

  • Uncertainty about how to approach the "puberty talk"

  • Fear of not being informed enough yourself

  • Concerns about your daughter's self-image and confidence during this time

  • Worry about perpetuating negative cycles or experiences from your own youth

  • The effects of social media and how they perpetuate unrealistic standards

  • Confidently guiding your daughter through puberty with knowledge and compassion

  • Creating a safe space for open, honest conversations about body changes and emotions

  • Helping your daughter develop a positive, empowering relationship with her body

  • Setting the foundation for lifelong health and self-care practices

  • Deepening your relationship in the process

Imagine instead:

Hi, we're Shannon Sabol & Maria Gabriela Guevara, the creators of Celebrate Your Cycle.

As Ayurveda Health Counselors with a passion for women's health, we've dedicated our careers to empowering women and girls to embrace  their bodies and the different phases of womanhood– from puberty through menopause! 

We created this course because we saw a need for more holistic education around puberty, menstruation, and self-care for girls.

This is the stuff we wish we’d been taught as teens ourselves. 

Our goal is to change the conversation around the “pains” of being a woman, including the recognition of the beauty and power of the menstrual cycle.

Maria Gabriela  is a certified Ayurveda Health Counselor, a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.), a 200 hour certified yoga teacher, and founder of Intuitive Ayurveda. She specializes in helping women prepare for, celebrate, and manage the transition into menopause. The eastern and western perspectives of medicine each have something to offer us, and Maria Gabriela understands this dance. Her goal is to educate on Ayurvedic tools that can (and should) be individualized to each complex person. She strives to help her clients tune into the messages their bodies are sending them. Ultimately, she believes that every person is the expert on what is best for them, and can be empowered to hone in on which tools they need to support themselves in mind, body, and spirit. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her beloved partner.

Shannon is an Ayurveda Health Counselor, Yoga Teacher, and Retreat Facilitator navigating the wild ride of motherhood with a tween and teen in Lakewood, Ohio. She focuses on whole-family wellness and supports overstimulated, overscheduled, and overwhelmed parents of tweens and teens—guiding them to realize that the best way to care for their children is by starting with themselves.

Shannon believes that the home environment plays a powerful role in a child’s health and well-being. When parents prioritize their own self-care, they not only feel more balanced and resilient—they also model for their children what it looks like to live with intention, compassion, and calm. Parents have the opportunity to show their kids that taking care of yourself is not selfish, but essential.

Through holistic diet and lifestyle tools, Shannon helps shift parents from busyness to balanced rhythms, burnout to brave body-listening, and boredom to everyday moments of bliss. She believes in bringing sacredness into daily life through greater awareness, presence, and self-love.

This course is designed for moms and girls ages 10-13, whether or not they’ve started their period. It’s for open-minded moms and daughters who believe that mind, body, and spirit are connected.

This course is for you if:

  • You want to give your daughter more than what school offers—maybe more than what you got as a teen!

  • You’re looking for support navigating those sometimes awkward but essential conversations around body changes, periods, and self-care

  • You're ready to shift how you and your daughter relate to your menstrual cycles

  • You’re seeking a deeper connection with your daughter, especially during this transformative time in her life

  • You’re not a mom, but an adult woman who wants to get more in touch with her own body (anatomy, menstrual cycle, self-care)

  • You have a teen in your life who you mentor and would like to join the course (with parental permission)

 

This course is NOT for you if :

  •  You’re looking for an abstinence-only approach. We won’t be focusing heavily on sex or intercourse, but we will keep the conversation open about pleasure and body awareness before marriage

  • You’re a man or father; at this time, we want a sacred feminine circle, however, you are welcome to send your teenage daughter without an adult (permission waiver required) 

  • You already feel completely comfortable with the education you’ve provided your daughter on her period, self-care, and pleasure

  • You don’t agree or want your daughter to have conversations around self-pleasure. Though we will be talking about pleasure in a broad sense—from food and sensuality through the five senses to relationships and consent— we won’t explicitly omit talk of masturbation

We start again in Fall 2025

Dates:

TBD- will be on Sunday afternoons, likely in October! Sign up for the waitlist to be the first to know, and grab a special early bird deal!

  • Five weeks long, two hour sessions, Sunday afternoons

  • One mother/mother-figure only session

  • One teen only session

  • Last session is a First Moon Ceremony

The Practical Details

Week 1- We are Nature

  • Explain how we are connected to the cycles of nature— daily, lunar, and seasonally

  • Introduce Ayurveda through the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, ether)

  • Explore connection of body to mind & spirit, and how the body is always communicating with us

  • Experience a meditation with nature (regardless of where you live!)

Week 2- Moon Cycle + Female Anatomy

  • Describe in detail the menstrual cycle & a woman’s “inner seasons,” aligned with the moon phases

  • Understand and learn to cultivate a balanced, normal (not common) menstrual cycle

  • Review female anatomy & normalize a woman’s many parts & body hair

  • Experience a relaxing & rejuvenating yoga nidra practice

Week 3-  Digestion + Pleasure

  • Discuss how we need to digest everything we take in through our five senses

  • Explore sensuality by tuning into all of our experiences with mindfulness + the senses

  • Examine importance of who you share your energy with

  • Define the stages of womanhood

  • Describe briefly consent for touch from another person, & choice in sharing your body with another person

Week 4- Self-care= Self-love

  • Discuss simple daily routines designed to decrease stress/anxiety of life

  • Review Ayurvedic healthy eating guidelines (the how + the what)

  • Notice how the mind’s inner dialogue affects energy levels

  • Practice positve + loving affirmations

Week 5- First Moon Ceremony!

  • A ritual to welcome a girl’s first moon blood, regardless of whether she has started bleeding

  • Expect meditation, journaling + movement

  • Open discussion and Q&A

Investment

Includes mother (or female mentor) + daughter

Prices from Spring of 2025- Subject to Change

Enroll by December 2, 2024- $697 or two monthly payments of $350

Enroll by February 1, 2025- $797 or two monthly payments of $400

Enroll by March 1, 2025- $897 or two monthly payments of $450

Enroll after March 1, 2025- $997 or two monthly payments of $500

Add an additional daughter or bring a friend for $200 more. Please note that a parental permission waiver will be required for any girl under 18.

Please note that once purchased, no refunds will be issued for any reason. The course material and recordings will be available for one year post the completion of the live course.

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • No, we will start with the basics and keep it practical and applicable to you and your daughter’s modern lifestyle.

  • We will meet for two hours each week x 5 weeks. Nothing additional is required to be completed outside of our time together!

  • All course weeks will be recorded and available to view for one year after completion of the live course. You’re also welcome to submit questions for us to answer during a live call if you cannot attend that week.

  • Yes! We welcome our sisters without daughters at any age to join.

  • No, at this time we would like to keep this as a sacred feminine container. You’re welcome to send your daughter on her own (permission waiver required) or with a trusted adult female friend.

  • No, she does not need to have started her period

  • Our program is designed for girls 10-13 years old. You’re welcome to bring a teen daughter that is older who you feel could still benefit from the material, but it may be a little less “mature” content

  • No. We won’t be focusing heavily on sex or intercourse, but we will keep the conversation open about pleasure and body awareness before marriage.

  • The first payment will be charged immediately, and one month after on the same day, the next payment will be automatically charged to your credit card.

  • Once the course is purchase, no refunds will be issued for any reason. The course and its contents will be available for one year post the completion of the live course.

Need more information or want to meet us and get a taste of what’s inside the course?

Free 60 min workshop + Q&A: Balancing the Masculine & Feminine Qualities in Ourselves and Our World

In this 60 min workshop, you’ll come away being able to:

  • Recognize the qualities our culture values

  • Examine how these qualities show up in your life 

  • Understand how nature balances us 

  • Experience a balancing practice 

We will also spend time walking through the course content and answering any questions you have!

We will offer this again at the end of the summer! In the meantime, if you want to be the first to know the details, join the waitlist below.

If you can’t make it live, register anyway and send us your question— we will answer it and send you the replay!