The #1 Menstruation Ritual I Share With All Womben
RECLAIMING MENSTRUATION:FROM SHAMEFUL TO SACRED SERIES Ritual: Offer Your Life Blood Back to the Earth Besides taking deep rest, this is the one ritual I share with every client because it has the capacity to heal our relationship with our blood and all that is symbolizes for us. I first learned it from my dear […]
Does Your Womb Have a Grief Story?
Dear Sister, Does your womb have a grief story? I write to you from bed, as my womb sheds layers of old identities and past pains to say: there is a dark side to the womb. Our descent into the womb cave of inner winter (menstruation) can be a dark journey full of mourning and grief. As […]
Honour Your Womb with Rest & Ritual
Creating a ritualized container of rest This reflection offers a menstrual cycle awareness practice for those seeking rest, grounding, and deeper relationship with their cycle. Creating a container of rest during menstruation supports physical replenishment, emotional regulation, and intuitive listening, especially in a culture that rarely pauses. Here is my #1 tip for reclaiming the […]
Your Cycle & Your Relationships
PrefaceThe following work is written through the lens of someone who has been in a long-term, heterosexual romantic relationship. I have attempted to be as open with my wording as possible to include the myriad lenses we might look through when it comes to relationships. We may be in a relatively new relationship (which has […]
Women’s Spirituality and Womb Wisdom
Spiritual ・ relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical thingsSovereignty ・ supreme power or authority; self-governing The womb is our greatest teacher and source of power. The womb has no personal agenda; she simply moves to the rhythm of Nature. Because of her self-less, embodied connection to Nature – to […]
Self Love and Cycle Awareness
Understanding the menstrual cycle through compassion, presence, and acceptance. This reflection explores self love through the lens of menstrual cycle awareness, inviting a compassionate relationship with the emotional, physical, and energetic shifts that arise throughout the cycle. Rather than fixing or overriding the body, cycle awareness offers a practice of presence, acceptance, and deeper listening, […]
Outer Rhythms, Inner Harmony
The Big Moon OutsideWomen have a special affinity with the moon because of our womb. The moon is an ancient symbol of femininity; waxing and waning and turning in cycles is a feminine way of being in the world. Interestingly, many women bleed either at the new or full moon. This reveals just how connected we […]
Women’s Plant Ally: Red Raspberry
As I slowly emerge from the retreat of inner winter into inner spring, I harness the natural rise in energy levels to deeply nourish myself. This is a potent time to revive the self-care rituals that may have been left scattered in the autumn winds and buried under the heaviness of winter. As I slowly […]
The Art of Menstrual Cycle Awareness
Awakening to Your Cyclical Nature The menstrual cycle is happening within you regardless of whether you are paying attention to it or not. It’s like breathing: it’s going to happen unconsciously either way, but the moment we bring consciousness to it, magic happens. If you don’t already track what day you are on in your […]
Are You Afraid of the Dark? A Winter Reflection
In the Jivamukti focus of the month for November, Martyna Eder writes a story of a dialogue between the Moon and Shiva, the Destroyer. The conversation takes place under the light of the moon in the present age. The Moon laments the current state of the world. She has a heavy heart and wonders whether […]