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We're starting an online, guided journey through the inner seasons of the menstrual cycle soon - would you like to join us?

It's called Cycle Power and we'll be together for six weeks, as a global community of people who want to live cyclically and embody the wisdom of the cycle.

Together, we'll explore how to:

❄️ Inner winter: Yield to the call of surrender during inner winter (menstruation) so that you can heal burnout, receive the Mother Hug and experience rested power.

🌸 Inner spring: Move tenderly with inner spring (pre-ovulation) and come to relish your pace, your uniqueness and the playfulness and possibility this awakens within you.

🌻 Inner summer Allow yourself to be unashamedly YOU. Unleash your full expression in inner summer (ovulation) and experience the great pleasure of sharing your gifts in the world.

🍁 Inner autumn: Slow down and hold yourself through the fire of inner autumn (premenstruum) so that you can tap into intuitive knowing, claim your authority and stand for what truly matters to you.

We start in April and you can see the link in our bio to find out more, and to register for our free upcoming workshop: awaken your cycle power on April 1st.

Day 25 anyone?

In a world which pushes us to ceaselessly do-do-do, there are those of us who know the power, wisdom and sanity of cycle awareness, and long to embody it fully… to embrace our Cycle Power. If this sounds like you, please join us for Awaken Your Cycle Power on 1st April

Comment POWER and we'll send you the link to join us

www.redschool.net/cyclepower

We'd love you to join us for our upcoming, free, online webinar: Awaken your Cycle Power

We'll guide you in a journey into the gifts of the inner seasons of your menstrual cycle and it's happening on Wednesday 1st April at 11am New York / 4pm London

We’ll gather for 1.5 hours to explore the power that lives in your cycle, how you can awaken it through befriending your inner seasons, and how you can embody it, to transform everything in your world.

Are you coming? Please let us know in the comment thread. (And make sure you register using the link in our bio!)

With love, Alexandra and Sjanie

In the premenstrual phase of the cycle, many find they’re very creative at this time.

You can be a pure channel, calling down inspiration, insight and knowing that seeks to be born into the world.

You can be a midwife for the unspoken and unmanifest.

The power here is one of deep embodiment, using the aliveness of your own presence to sense and feel what’s beyond everyday awareness; to be a
tuning fork for the subtle forces that shape the material world.

To ‘see’ the energetic precursors and past patterning that underpin everything.

These powers, often feared and misunderstood, can put you in contact with the spirit of elemental life and the healing force of the natural world.

We'd love to hear your experiences with this - please share in the comments.

It’s crucial now that we all come together to serve the planet in our own unique ways.

We believe that your 'menstruality' is a deeply internal process that can take you into the most intimate places in yourself, and within that reveals the World, the Whole, and our role in serving it.

Your cycle is coded with our particular gifts, and menopause is the ultimate moment of bringing us into alignment with yourself and these gifts so that you may be a potent and effective agent of change.

Let’s reclaim our menstruality as our path to power and leadership!

Leave a 🔥 in the comment thread if you're with us.

We have a lively, intelligent and compassionate community at Red School who are actively participating in making real this new story.

Join us for camaraderie and support and to participate in the conversation that’s turning the tide.

Yes!

Thanks to Veronica from both for sharing this powerful post, and for the incredible wisdom she shared in her Menstruality podcast episode which went live today - episode 228: The Menstrual Cycle and the Female Nervous System.

Veronica is the founder of Soma School and has devoted over 40,000 hours over the past seventeen years to trauma resolution. In the conversation today she explores the female nervous system including;

🌀 How women and those socialised as female experience trauma differently inside a patriarchal culture

🌀 Why somatics and wellness need to be less focused on regulation for women, and more about being with and softening into what’s happening in our bodies, and acknowledging that we fluctuate more consistently, due to our third biological, rhythm - the infradian rhythm.

🌀 The role of oxytocin in the trauma response, why women experience trauma relationally, and the importance of cuddle puddles.

.. and so much more.

You can listen here: www.redschool.net/podcast/228 wherever you listen to podcasts.

Many in this community working with menstrual problems, and for some of you, they are quite extreme. If you feel a little bleak and hopeless as your approach the practice of menstrual cycle awareness, that makes sense.

But we invite you to take heart – menstrual cycle awareness offers a vital remedy that, combined with other natural health approaches, have helped many to transform their menstrual experience.

We believe that our menstrual suffering has its roots in cultural denial of the cycle. Over centuries, consistently denying, interrupting and overriding this menstrual knowledge has caused a subtle insult to the integrity of our being. It continues today, and will do so as long as we deny the cycle’s reality.

Ignoring the cycle puts a strain on our being – psychologically and physically. It’s as though we all suffer from low-grade stress in our systems because we continually have to override something.

Begin to restore the power of the cycle, however modestly, and over time you reshape your experience of yourself; you soothe your whole system, release this subtle ‘trauma’ and ease your symptoms.

For some the effect is immediate, for others it’s a slower process and needs to be
combined with other self-care practices. And for others still, the answers are more complex and may require considerable input from the many health modalities available today.

Regardless of the level of your suffering, with the restoration of awareness of the cycle’s power comes meaning. A glimmer of empowerment can stir within the powerlessness you may feel.