Heya! I’m Lazola MaDuka

This, along with a background in dance and theatre, my first profession was as a physical theatre practitioner — movement is my first language, which sparked a lifelong calling to use expressive movement as a language for healing, communication, and self-exploration. All of which are now embedded in my menstruality work:

  • Seven years ago, I trained as a Red Tent Facilitator — a powerful activation in sharing this work.

  • Since then, I’ve trained in African Womb Healing with Mar Sophia, completed the Menstruality Leadership Programme (MLP) with Red School twice (2021–2023), and curated spaces for women to harness the menstrual cycle as a tool for self-realisation, growth, and liberation.

  • I now mentor and consult on several of Red School’s courses, including their flagship Menstruality Leadership Programme (MLP).

  • I love hosting spaces for connection — from retreats, ceremonies, and Red Tent gatherings to live music and dance parties in our garden, always rooted in joy and shared nourishment.

  • I’m committed to making menstruality education accessible and empowering for all. My work centers on cycle education and embodiment — offered through retreats, one-on-one sessions, youth workshops for NGOs, and soon, public schools and corporate South Africa.

Living on a homestead and practising biodynamic farming deeply informs my approach — a way of life that honours rhythm, seasonal change, cosmic forces with agriculture, the farm as a living organism and the innate intelligence of the earth and essentially the body.

My work is also shaped by my african perspective, the UBUNTU consciousness, inclusivity, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) perspectives and wisdom, which are rooted in nature-led ways of being and leading.

Lastly, I am my mother’s daughter, from a long lineage of herbalists and traditional healers — what we call Amagqirha in the IsiXhosa language here in South Africa.

From South Africa, Garden Route. My world revolves around our biodynamic homestead, menstrual cycle education, my medicinal tea garden, and somatic movement.

I’m a certified Red School Menstruality Mentor (x2), dedicated to holistically supporting women — physically, emotionally, and psycho-spiritually — through evidence-based menstruality education. I’m currently a postgraduate at the Red School’s two-year Apprenticeship, deepening my practice and refining my skills to serve with even greater alignment — locally and globally. As a graduate of Red School UK, pioneers of the world’s first leadership training for change-makers to step into their full authority through the power of their menstrual cycle, my wish is to expand this work here in Africa, Southern Africa — rooting it in our context and culture, shaping it in ways that truly speak to our lived experiences.

I’ve been practising menstrual cycle awareness for over a decade, using Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) not only as birth control but as a way to build agency and body literacy.

My Approach

My approach offers practical ways to work with your cycle, shift patterns, and deepen self-awareness. Drawing from 10 years of conscious cycle practice, training at Red School UK, Red Tent SA, and Natural Fertility Awareness Methods, I support women in navigating life transitions and discovering their soul’s work through the intelligence of their unique menstrual cycle.

The one-on-one work I offer is the culmination of those years of study and practice, integrating Red Tent training, the language and resources of Red School, and tools from Fertility Awareness Methods. These teachings are constantly evolving ~ shaped not only by my studies but by each and every person I work with.

Your experiences continue to inform and expand my approach, and for that, I am deeply grateful.