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51. The Myth, Magic and Metamorphosis of Menopause (Dr Sharon Blackie)
25 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
When you explore old European myths, it’s the elder women and grandmothers who run the world. In Greek mythology, there are the Fates - three elder women who make the world go round. In Eastern European mythology, the crone Baba Yaga initiates young people and facilitates transformation. In ancient Gallic mythology it is the Cailleach who created and shaped the land, from the beginning of time. Lees meer
In today’s episode we explore the gold that these myths and archetypes hold for us as we navigate the initiation of menopause and enter the second half of our lives as elders, with the brilliant writer, psychologist and mythologist, Dr Sharon Blackie.
Sharon illuminates the magic and potential of menopause as a shape-shifting crucible, which strips away all that isn’t essential - so we may know ourselves, and our Calling in a new way. She shares how she envisioned herself inside an alchemical process at menopause, how the natural world served as an ally through this initiatory time, and why the world needs more feisty, older women now more than ever…
We explore:
The Greek myth of the ‘Furies’, the sacred role of their rage, and the necessity of the comparable anger many of us feel in menopause.
Why our world doesn’t allow us the time to ‘do menopause properly’ and the impact this has for us on a soul level.
The Jungian archetype of the ‘Medial Woman’ who doesn’t define herself according to anyone else, is whole unto herself, and chooses to dive deeply into the mystery of the world.
You can now pre-order your copy of our new menopause book! Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging here: https://www.wisepowerbook.com
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Registration is now open for our live menopause course - Menopause: The Great Awakener. You can take your seat here: https://www.redschoolmenopause.com
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50. How to Fall in Love with Your Menstrual Cycle (Alexandra & Sjanie)
18 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
We want to create a world where everyone is in love with the menstrual cycle - not a perfect version of the cycle - but exactly the cycle you have. Because this love affair revolutionises our lives (and the world!). Lees meer
That’s why we’ve created our new FREE online course: Love Your Cycle: Discover the Power of Menstrual Cycle Awareness to Revolutionise Your Life where we explore the four phases or inner seasons of your cycle as a gateway to vitality, creativity, power and purpose.
Love Your Cycle is our invitation to you to get to know your cycle in more depth, to fall in love with your cycle, and to grow an intimacy with it that will transform your life - by amplifying your vitality, enhancing your creativity and activating your leadership.
In this episode we explore:
- Why falling in love with your cycle isn’t about having a ‘perfect’ menstrual cycle, but rather coming into relationship with the cycle you have (and how to actually do that.)
- How to make sense of cycle disturbances and hold ourselves as we heal menstrual pain and other health challenges.
- Four specific cycle awareness practices to harness the power of each inner season of your cycle.
You can register for Love Your Cycle for FREE here: https://www.redschool.net/love
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49. Trauma, The Nervous System and Menstrual Health (Lisa De Jong)
11 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
What is the connection between trauma, the nervous system and menstrual health? Lees meer
This week we’re speaking with Lisa De Jong, who shares in depth about her personal experience with a decade of chronic pain, an eventual endometriosis diagnosis, and her experience of trauma healing and nervous system regulation.
Lisa is a graduate of our Menstruality Leadership Programme and has infused the teachings with ground-breaking science and created a brilliant body of work around trauma, pain, healing and the nervous system.
We explore:
Why it’s harder to manage stress in the premenstrual phase (as well as perimenopause and menopause), and how our cyclical nature impacts our capacity to regulate our nervous systems.
How unprocessed trauma and grief can contribute to menstrual health challenges like PMDD and endometriosis, and how to find agency in the face of collective trauma due to patriarchy, racism and other forms of systemic oppression.
Nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory and what being in the ‘rest and digest’ mode of the nervous system can mean for healing and managing chronic pain, especially for highly sensitive people.
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You can now register your interest for our 2023 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: www.menstrualityleadership.com
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48. Perimenopause - What’s Actually Going On? (Alexandra & Sjanie)
4 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
In our 40s, many women and people with periods begin to experience a variety of health symptoms and challenges, as well as emotional and psychological shifts. Some call this perimenopause. At Red School we like to call it, the Quickening. Lees meer
In this episode - which is the fourth in our menopause summer series - we look at how the Quickening is slowly awakening new levels of power within us, and how to navigate this. Sjanie shares her personal experience of negotiating this transition over the past few years.
We explore:
How we receive a report card on the state of our health in our 40s, which is inviting us to up our self care and set ourselves up for a healthy post-menopause life.
Why the power that is awakening in us in the Quickening requires deeper responsibility as well as deeper self care.
How to handle your new, increased critical capacites (cynicism, discernment, judgement) wisely and cleanly, rather than use it to annihilate and destroy!
You can pre-order your copy of Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to awaken authority, purpose and belonging here: https://www.wisepowerbook.com
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The Healing Connection Between the Womb and the Voice (Shakirah Sabira)
28 juli 2022 · 59 min
Across the ages women and birthing people have been invited by midwives and doulas to relax their jaw and throat to support the opening of the cervix in labour. Lees meer
In today’s conversation we explore why this is so important, we explore the connection between our throats, our voices, and the emotional and physical health of our wombs.
I’m talking with Shakirah Sabira who is a doula, African womb healing practitioner, and the founder of Barakha’s Doula. Shakirah began her career as a doula serving women in the Middle East and West Africa, including seven months working in a rural clinic supporting the local midwife in the Mauritanian desert, a trip which profoundly changed her life, and guided her to her calling.
Through Shakirah’s story, and the experiences with her teachers and clients, as well as Sophie's own womb healing experience, we look at what it means to give your womb a voice, how release stagnant energy, express yourself and find a profound source of healing within us.
We explore:
How Shakirah sang her period back, after her menstrual cycle stopped following a traumatic relationship breakup and divorce.
The connection between trauma, the womb and the voice, and how speaking truth, singing and freeing up the throat can facilitate deep healing.
Why women and people with periods need to share our stories, to release our shame, and support each other to heal, simply by no longer feeling alone.
Registration will open soon for our 2023 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can register your interest here: https://www.menstrualityleadership.com
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How to Navigate the Initiation of Menopause *Wise Power Series* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
21 juli 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
In today’s conversation, we get practical, down-to-earth and real about the initiation of menopause and how on earth do we actually get through to the other side. Though, as we explore, it’s much less about doing and much more about being. And we have five alchemical powers that can help us along the way. Lees meer
This is the in third our Wise Power series where Alexandra and Sjanie have been waxing lyrical, sometimes crying, and often laughing their way through the teachings of their new book Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging, coming out on September 20th.
There’s a line in our new book, Wise Power: “Remember, it’s your birthright to have a dignifying and empowering menopause. Let’s begin to make that so.”
Let’s begin to make it so, together, here, right now…
We explore:
- The five ‘alchemical powers’ that can help you navigate the menopause transition.
- How to actully find ways to rest, when you aren’t able to take a menopause sabbatical year (that we deeply wish everyone could have!)
- The post-menopause magic that can occur when you trust the creative arc of your life, where ‘life becomes your business partner’.
Pre-order your copy of Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to awaken authority, purpose and belonging here: https://www.wisepowerbook.com
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The Power of Cycle Awareness for Menstrual Health Challenges (Alexandra Pope)
14 juli 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Do you suffer from menstrual pain, or other cycle challenges such as PMS, PMDD or managing irregular cycles? Lees meer
In this episode we explore how the practice of menstrual cycle awareness creates a ground for healing, helps us to take stand for what we need, and supports us to create a new relationship with the challenges we face, and to trust that something meaningful is at work.
Alexandra shares her personal story with a decade of menstrual pain, and what supported her to heal and eventually become pain-free. Sophie describes what supported her to transform chronic pain and pre-menstrual rage into a new relationship with her power.
We explore:
- The connection between our personal suffering and what’s happening in the collective and on our planet.
- How cycle awareness helps us to manage chronic stress, which can be the foundation of so many health challenges, and awakens our faculties of knowing; our gut intelligence, our heart knowing, and our ‘pelvic brain’.
- How your cycle is - as Lisa Hendrickson Jack says - your ‘fifth vital sign’, giving you important information about your overall health and stress levels, and how to approach healing if you feel you’re in perimenopause.
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Six Steps to Survive Menopause *Wise Power Series* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
7 juli 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
When you find yourself in the thick of the menopause transition, there’s no maintaining life as normal. How can we support ourselves to manage the day to day realities of life amidst the huge initiation of menopause? In this episode we explore the six steps of our ‘menopause triage’ and how they help you to dignify and honour what you’re experiencing. Lees meer
We explore:
The power of accepting the fact that you’re in menopause, and that you have a ‘new normal’.
The art of ‘snudging’ and why it’s the a key skill to cultivate in menopause.
The menopause superpowers that can help you to put these triage steps into preactice, including the power of No.
Pre-order your copy of Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging here: https://www.redschool.net/pre-order-wise-power
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How Cycle Awareness Can Prevent and Heal Birth Trauma (Tessa Sanderson)
30 juni 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
One of the big initiatory moments along the menstruality journey from menarche (our first period) to menopause is pregnancy and childbirth, if that is our path in life. Lees meer
In a world which has a lot to learn about how to support mothers and birthing people through this profound initiation, we need all the help we can get to prepare for and create a positive birth, or heal from a challenging or traumatic one. Enter menstrual cycle awareness - as a powerful tool to cultivate body sovereignty, guide us in the art of surrender, and teach us how to advocate for our needs.
Our guest today is pregnancy yoga teacher and mother of two, Tessa Sanderson. She’s a graduate of the Menstruality Leadership programme, as well as our Menstruality Medicine Circle training, and her insights today are based on hundreds of birth stories that she has received from her clients.
This is a big conversation, with lots of potentially triggering or stirring topics, so we invite you to take care of yourself as you listen, especially if you’re currently pregnant.
In this episode:
- We explore childbirth as a rite of passage, and how menstrual cycle awareness can prepare us for the inner journey and help to create a positive initiatory experience, however it unfolds.
- We define birth trauma - or perinatal trauma - and menstrual trauma, and explore how the two can be connected.
- We share our own birth stories and how cycle awareness helped us in these mother of all journeys, especially through the challenge of giving birth during lockdown.
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The New Story of Menopause *Wise Power Series* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
23 juni 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
It’s time to re-write the story of menopause. Lees meer
What if the critical, provocative energy of menopause is actually a sign that you’re coming to your senses?
What if menopause isn’t a health condition we suffer from, but that people in menopause you’re actually suffering from is a lack of recognition, respect and support for the profound initiation you’re going through.
What if, post-menopause, you are more needed than ever.
This is the first of our menopause summer series, in the run up to the launch of our new book, Wise Power.
We explore:
- The four old stories of menopause, and the new stories that honour and dignify this transition.
- The ‘emperor has no clothes’ moment that happens in menopause.
- Why our impulse to ‘burn the house down’ in menopause is actually very sane, and an important part of this initiatory process.
You can now pre-order your copy of our new menopause book! Wise Power: Discover the liberating power of menopause to awaken authority, purpose and belonging here: https://www.wisepowerbook.com
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Queer Menstruality - Creating a Culture of Belonging (Abi Denyer-Bewick)
16 juni 2022 · 57 min
One of the beautifully challenging things about cultivating an intimacy with our menstrual cycles, or menopause process, is that it opens us up to the world. Lees meer
To the beauty of life, and to the pain.
This quality of tender, unarmoured presence is real medicine for a world that can feel full of conflict, pretense, injustice and a lack of capacity to be with difference.
A devoted practice of cycle awareness helps us to see that we all belong; to ourselves, to the rhythm and flow of the natural world, and to each other.
Today we’re marking Pride Month, with a podcast episode about how menstrual cycle awareness can help us to be with difference, and create true cultures of belonging.
Our guest is Abi Denyer-Bewick, a queer menstuality educator and member of the Red School faculty. We chat about the menstruality learning session she recently offered our Menstruality Leadership Programme graduates on 'Inclusive menstruality', including:
- How to create a culture of belonging for women and everyone who menstruates.
- What life might look like for a trans, non-binary or gender expansive menstruator.
- How to work with the fear, trauma or other big emotions that may arise as we explore how to be with difference, together.We also share some guidance for how to take this belonging and inclusion work deeper, from a range of brilliant LGBTQ+ educators.
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How Food Can Nourish Menstrual Cycle Health (Naam Bachmayer)
9 juni 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Have you ever wondered what foods can support your cycle health as you move through the different inner seasons of the cycle month? Lees meer
In this interview with Menstrual Cycle Coach, and food-lover Naam Bachmayer, we explore her ‘Cyclical Nourishment Principles’ and how they help us to welcome in hormonal health, more pleasure, less stress and a deeper intimacy with our cycle process.
This isn’t a ‘how-to’ episode or a set of rules. Naam is very aware of how food can be complex for many of us, as well as the harm that diet culture causes. Instead, Naam shares a wealth of ideas which you can adapt for you and your body, including a delicious recipe for each inner season. Bon appetit!
We explore:
- Naam’s ‘Cyclical Nourishment Principles’ including ‘eating the rainbow’, listening to your body, and reducing inflammatory foods.
- How to adapt our nutrition and cooking style in the four phases of your cycle - including a delicious, colourful, healthy recipe for each inner season.
- What to eat in inner winter, including iron rich foods like oats and chickpeas to support your body as you lose blood, watermelon and cucumber to up your water intake and why chocolate can help with cramps (yay!).
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The Power of Menopause – Book Title Reveal! (Alexandra & Sjanie)
2 juni 2022 · 58 min
Menopause is an immense life event, a great initiation. Not only is it a complete hormonal shift in the landscape of your overall health, it’s also a psychological and emotional transformation. Lees meer
In today’s episode, we explore this incredible, initiatory power of menopause, and the great potential it awakens in us.
This power has been an obsession for Alexandra and Sjanie for most of the past couple of years as they wrote their long-awaited menopause book, and today we have an exciting announcement - we’re revealing the title of the book!
Today, we break down the title and explore:
What the writing of the book taught Alexandra and Sjanie about the truth of menopause (and how it kicked them up the backside along the way).
The number one thing we each need to learn how to get through menopause.
The liberating power of menopause… and how the book launch events we're dreaming into for September will invite us all into a meaningful experience of this power.
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10 (Surprising) Reasons to Practice Fertility Awareness (Jaspreet Kaur)
26 mei 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Today, we’re looking at menstrual cycle awareness through a different lens… we’re exploring 10 surprising reasons to practice fertility awareness. Lees meer
I’m talking with Health Coach and Natural Family Planning (NFP) teacher, Jaspreet Kaur who is a fresh, passionate voice in this field - she brings it down to earth and makes it accessible to everyone. We explore…
What fertility awareness is, and the many surprising ways it can profoundly enhance our menstrual cycle awareness practice (whether you’re trying to prevent pregnancy or get pregnant, or neither), and how to get started today.
We bust many myths, including the myth of the ‘late period’, and why knowing when you ovulate is such a game-changer for anyone who wants to plan their life and workflow around their cycle.
The importance of decolonising menstrual health and unravelling the legacy of menstrual shame that colonisation has created.
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Registration is open for our Your Cyclical Business Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.yourcyclicalbusiness.com
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How Your Cycle Unleashes Your Creative Expression (Lucy Peach)
19 mei 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
Are you currently working on a creative project that you’d love to infuse with your cyclical wisdom? Whether you’re writing a book, growing a garden, launching a business or making art, your cycle can be a profound anchor and resource. Lees meer
In today’s episode, we talk with someone who knows a thing or two about the menstrual cycles and creativity. Lucy Peach is a period preacher, author, and folksinger. She’s a graduate of the Red School Menstruality Leadership Programme and she has written a book, created songs, produced an award-winning theatre show, delivered educational programmes for teens and even created a TED talk, all about the menstrual cycle.
We explore how she has worked with her cycle to cultivate this epic creativity and shift the period narrative in our culture from one of shame to one of pride, including:
Lucy’s take on the four phases or inner seasons of the cycle: Dream, Do, Give, Take, and how they each support our creative process.
How Lucy’s cycle guides her creative collaboration with her husband, and how he experiences his own cyclical creativity, as well as how non-cycling men react to Lucy’s theatre show.
How to work with dreams to access your creative power, especially in the void just before you bleed as a powerful creative resource - Lucy and Sophie both share what a recurring nightmare has taught them about their power and creativity.
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Have you listened to our free webinar replay about how to channel your cycle's creative powers as an entrepreneur? You can watch How Your Menstrual Cycle Can Help You Create A Thriving Business here : https://www.yourcyclicalbusiness.com
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How We Run a Cycle Aware Business (Alexandra & Sjanie)
12 mei 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
The hidden agenda of the menstrual cycle is to help us become more fully ourselves. As we deepen our cycle awareness practice, it plugs us into our calling, our vision, our unique way of expressing our genius. The realising of this calling requires an outer structure, which often looks like a business. The beautiful thing is that the menstrual cycle can resource us along the way. Lees meer
We’re in the middle of launching our brand new programme, Your Cyclical Business which is designed to support you if you’re a teacher, healer or creative, a freelancer, or a purpose-led entrepreneur to channel the wisdom of your menstrual cycle to create a thriving business.
So in our conversation today we want to invite you behind-the-scenes of Red School to see how we work with our cycles (and for Alexandra her post-menopause process) to run our cycle-aware business.
We explore:
How resting and tending to your nervous system in inner winter is a key to managing overwhelm, and creating sustainable work rhythms without burning out.
How each inner season of the cycle works in a particular way to help us move from self doubt and imposter syndrome to trust in ourselves and our creative process.
How we bring the discerning energy of inner autumn to craft marketing strategies that allow Red School’s work to expand in an aligned way.
Join us for our upcoming Your Cyclical Business free webinar: https://www.yourcyclicalbusiness.com
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The Power of Cycle Aware Movement, Exercise and Yoga (Le’Nise Brothers)
5 mei 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Why do we need to adapt the way we move and exercise throughout the cycle? In today’s conversation we explore the physical and mental health benefits of cycle-aware movement, and how to adjust the way we exercise throughout the cycle month. Lees meer
Our guest, Le’Nise Brothers shares her own experience of using diet, exercise and lifestyle changes to improve painful and heavy periods, anxiety, depression and irritable bowel syndrome.
Le’Nise is a yoga teacher, and Nutritionist, specialising in women's health, hormones and the menstrual cycle. She’s the host of the Period Story podcast, and the author of the new book, You Can Have a Better Period which came out in March - a practical guide to understanding your cycle and balancing your hormones with nutrition and yoga, for a calm and pain-free period.
We explore:
How to move in each season of your cycle, including slow flow yoga in inner winter, strength training in inner spring, high energy exercise to channel your ovulatory surge in energy and mood stabilising exercise in inner autumn.
How can we move to support ourselves through pre-menstrual anger and anxiety?
How can movement help us if we’re experiencing menstrual pain, endometriosis, heavy periods, including healing yoga poses and even how to use orgasms as a form of pain relief.
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Get your copy of Wild Power: Discover the Power of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power. It's here in the shownotes: https://redschool.net/podcast/35
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Matrescence - The Initiation Into Motherhood (Amy Taylor Kabbaz)
28 april 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
Becoming a mother is a profound initiatory journey. Journalist and coach, Amy Taylor Kabbaz remembers exactly the moment when she split in two. Fifteen minutes after her child was born, she went from independent, ambitious, ABC journalist, career woman, to completely surrendered mother who would do anything for her child. Lees meer
That moment changed everything for her, and took her on her own personal pilgrimage to understand how motherhood initiates us.
She’s interviewed hundreds of authors, maternal health experts, and teachers. She’s been the anthropologist, in the trenches of early motherhood, trying to decipher why so many of us feel burnt out, overwhelmed, and addicted to being busy. And she’s emerged from that time knowing that matrescence is the missing link for truly understanding why women feel the way they do, and how we can revolutionise the way we think about and value motherhood.
We explore:
The fact that we’re not mothers at birth. Mothering is a verb - it’s a learnt act. And it gives us daily - hourly! - invitations to move from control, to surrender, if we are supported to cultivate the ability to trust our intuition.
How to hold onto the thread of ourselves as we to navigate the deep reorganising of priorities that happens in matrescence.
How to meet a world that doesn’t recognise the deep shifts that are happening within us, even as we’re inside this deep initiation of matrescence.
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Registration is open for our LIVE Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche. We start on May 2nd. You can check it out here: https://redschoolonline.net/p/mothering-your-daughter-through-menarche
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How to Guide Your Child Through Their First Period (Emily Stewart)
21 april 2022 · 58 min
Our first period is a big event. Today we’re exploring why it’s so important to support girls and young menstruators through this transition, as well as how we can resource ourselves as parents, aunties and carers so we can meet our kids where they are at and celebrate them . Lees meer
I’m talking with Emily Stewart, the founder of The Real Period Project. She's also a Celebration Day for Girls facilitator, and the creator of the Red School Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche programme. Her dream is to see a world where the menstrual cycle is seen as an ally and teacher, and talking about it is a normal part of life.
We explore:
- How to practically prepare for guiding your child through their first period, including ways to resource yourself, as well as age-appropriate books and other resources.
- Why it’s important to start sharing about periods when your child is young and receptive to exploring ideas, and before the teenage phase kicks in.
- Our upcoming live round of our Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche programme, how you can join, and how it will guide you step-by-step to nurture and nourish your child as they approach their puberty years and first period with curiosity, support and a readiness for the changes ahead.
Join us for a live round of our Mothering Your Daughter Through Menarche programme. We start at the beginning of May, and you can join us here: www.redschoolonline.net/p/mothering-your-daughter-through-menarche
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How to Navigate PMDD and Pre-Menstrual Rage (Chloé Caldwell)
14 april 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
When author, Chloé Caldwell turned 31, her experience of her menstrual cycle changed. Her monthly outbursts of pre-menstrual rage and anxiety began to dominate her life and compromise her relationship. Lees meer
Compelled to understand the truth of what was happening to her, Chloé researched menstruation throughout history, read everything she could about PMS and was eventually diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, PMDD.
In this episode Chloé shares honestly, generously and vulnerably about her journey through PMDD, and how —along with proper treatment— the medicine of self-acceptance, self-compassion, and transcending shame were the ultimate keys to relief.
We explore:
- Chloé's searching, galvanizing memoir about PMDD and how we must bring a multi-layered approach to managing and healing PMDD.
- PMDD and relationships - including practical tools and approaches to navigate PMDD with your partner, children or other loved ones.
- The “Jekyll and Hyde” nature of PMDD, why it is referred to as werewolf week, and how cycle symptoms, including PMDD can be a gateway to knowing ourselves and accessing our wildness and ultimately, growing into a fuller version of ourselves.
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How Cycle Awareness Cultivates Embodied Activism (Ruby May)
7 april 2022 · 59 min
Ruby May, the founder of Know Your Flow is an earth-lover, a truth-seeker, an edge-dweller and a mischief-maker passionate about how we can each midwife a culture of deeper connection – to our bodies, each other and our planet through menstrual cycle awareness. Lees meer
She writes: "We’re tired of living in a culture in which our worth is measured around how productive we are and nothing ever feels like enough.
Where stress, numbing ourselves and bypassing our body’s symptoms are so normalized, and creativity and play feel like elusive luxuries. And where intelligence is seen as something abstract in our heads, removed from the deep feeling, sensitivity and wisdom of our hearts and bellies.
We don’t want to be bystanders and continue the status quo. And we’re ready to be part of the solution."
In this conversation we explore:
How cultivating an intimacy with the rhythm and change of your menstrual cycle allows you to be an embodied activist - a change-maker who is rooted in cyclical intelligence.
How to work with your menstrual cycle as a tool for identifying internalised oppression and how Capitalism lives in your body, for example; by being addicted to endless productivity, feeling rushed all the time, and prioritising your head over your body wisdom.
The connection between revolution - or evolution - and community. As Ruby 'the world would be a better place if we tapped into the wisdom of our menstrual cycle' - don't create change. Bringing them into connection does.”
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How to End Period Poverty and Create Menstrual Equity (Chelsea VonChaz)
31 maart 2022 · 1 uur
Period poverty has a huge impact on women, girls and people who menstruate all over the world. Too many people don’t have access to menstrual products, safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them. This isn’t just a potential health risk - it can also affect their education, well-being, and sometimes their entire lives. Lees meer
One in 10 girls in Africa miss school because they don’t have access to menstrual products, or because there aren’t safe, private toilets to use at school. In India, approximately 12 percent of its 355 million menstruating people cannot afford menstrual products. In the US 23% of college students can’t afford to buy period products.
Thankfully, brilliant, passionate people like Chelsea Von Chaz, the founder of Happy Period are working to end period Poverty. Happy Periods distributes free period products to support 100,000 periods a year, through over 40 cities in the US.
We explore:
Why period products should be provided for free in all public bathrooms, just like toilet paper or soap, and especially in schools.
The long term effects of period poverty for women, girls and people with periods, and how this is amplified for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour as well as other marginalised people such as the LGBTQ+ community.
How we can all contribute to the movement to end period poverty and create menstrual equity, through education, improving access to period products, and advocacy for marginalised groups in need.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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My Year of Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Louise Ryder)
24 maart 2022 · 57 min
At the start of 2022, we invited you all to join us for a Year of Menstrual Cycle Awareness to enhance your vitality, creativity and leadership. Lees meer
To inspire you on your journey, today we're sharing this story from Fertility Awareness Coach and Menstruality Leadership Programme graduate, Louise Ryder about how a year of menstrual cycle awareness transformed her love life, her work life... her ENTIRE life.
This is a deeply personal episode and we're grateful to Louise for sharing so openly about her relationship breakdown, how her cycle awareness supported her grief journey, and how she came to understand her Calling - to bring cycle awareness into the workplace, globally.
We explore:
- How to follow the instinctive nudges you receive from your cycle tracking to make big decisions in your life, even if they clash with your logical, rational mind.
- How menstrual cycle awareness can support you to navigate periods of deep grief, and trust in a better future to come.
- How a steady practice of menstrual cycle awareness cultivates a deep trust in ourselves, our knowing, our instincts and our purpose.
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The doors for for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme close on March 31st. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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How to Access the Power of Menstruation (Alexandra & Sjanie)
17 maart 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
It’s incredible to witness the stigma around menstruation shifting in our world, with period policies in workplaces and more and more people practising menstrual cycle awareness. Lees meer
This de-shaming of the cycle, and especially our bleed, is opening up a gateway for an appreciation of the power of menstruation.
In this episode, Alexandra and Sjanie share stories, insight and teachings drawn from their map of the five chambers of menstruation, which are a powerful guidebook for people wanting to access and discover and embody the power of our periods.
We explore:
What gets in the way of us experiencing the ‘inner temple of menstruation’, and how can we support ourselves to manage life’s challenges so we can experience the power of our bleed.
How to follow the clues our body gives us, and slow down in the pre-menstruum and prepare ourselves to receive the power of menstruation.
Why it’s important to focus on receiving and surrender in menstruation, rather than taking action on your insights right there and then.
You can read the shownotes here: https://redschool.net/podcast/28
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The Power, Beauty and Soul of Menopause (Omisade Burney-Scott)
10 maart 2022 · 1 uur
Menopause is often portrayed as a disaster waiting to happen. Omisade Burney-Scott is a leading voice in the movement to change the conversation about menopause, as a powerful initiatory phase of life. Lees meer
Omisade is the creator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50.
In today’s conversation, she discusses the menopause ‘remedies’ she’s learned through creating the guide; including the medicine of self-forgiveness, vision, self-acceptance, and living your passion.
We explore:
How our identities can shift during menopause and how to navigate the shape-shifting process of our bodies, minds and souls. Omisade talks about how her depression in menopause was “her body trying to save her life”.
The power of taking a creative, menopause sabbatical to rest and renew your spirit.
How to include all people in the movement to normalise menopause, so we don’t engage in erasure and marginalisation, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community.
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Infertility, Cycle Awareness, Grief and Hope (Jennifer Robertson)
3 maart 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Infertility can be heart-breaking, anxiety-inducing and full of grief. Research has shown that people experiencing infertility have the same levels of anxiety and depression as those with cancer, heart disease and HIV. In this episode, Fertility coach Jennifer Robertson offers solace and guidance drawn from her own seven-year journey to motherhood. Lees meer
This one's for you if you’re looking for support, inspiration and friendship as you navigate infertility yourself, or if you’re working with people experiencing infertility, or since 1 in 6 people experience fertility challenges, if you’d like to play a supportive role for friends or family.
We explore:
Jennifer’s seven-year journey to create her family; through the infertility rollercoaster, multiple rounds of IVF, miscarriage, a long and challenging surrogacy process, and finally, an unexpected, natural pregnancy.
How each phase of the menstrual cycle presents different challenges on the journey through infertility, as well as different powers that can soothe and support us as we ride the rollercoaster.
How to navigate baby-making sex, manage pre-menstrual rage at the unfairness of intertility, and support ourselves through the profound grief we may feel each month when we bleed.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Befriend Your Inner Critic Through Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Alexandra & Sjanie)
24 februari 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
In this episode, Red School founders Alexandra and Sjanie get real, honest and vulnerable about the inner critic: what it is, how it shows up, its deeper purpose, and how to handle this challenging force in our lives. Lees meer
Learning how to manage and harness the power of the inner critic is almost always a real game-changer for our Menstruality Leadership Programme participants. This powerful, inevitable character has the potential to paralyse us into inaction, whilst also being a key catalyst for profound growth and transformation… if we know how to negotiate it.
And the good news is we’ve got the menstrual cycle on our side here. A key teaching we share today is how to restore your critic to its natural home - the pre menstruum, so you can get in on your side, receive it’s feedback and use it to live your calling.
In the episode we explore:
What is the inner critic? How do we know when it has turned up? (ie: Unease, thoughts speeding up, clenched jaw, procrastination, addictive habits etc). And how can we track the inner critic through our body, thoughts and feeling state?
Guidelines for handling your inner critic, such as; naming it when it shows up, taking your own side, using humour as an antidote, and importantly, seeking professional help where needed.
How the critic shows up in menopause - the winter of our soul’s journey.
Our upcoming Inner Critic online workshop on Monday 14th March. You can find out more and take your seat at redschool.net/podcast/critic
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Self Care in Menopause and Your Second Spring (Kate Codrington)
17 februari 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
What if we already know what will help us through menopause? What if it’s the self care we overlook, or don’t do enough off? What if we don’t need an expert to give us a top ten list to surviving menopause? Lees meer
Instead of perpetuating the myth that we need to give our power to an outside authority in order to feel better, Kate Codrington, author of Second Spring: A Self Care Guide to Menopause wants to place the power firmly back in our hands as we enter the often disorientating, challenging menopause journey.
In this liberating, culture-shifting conversation, we explore:
What is our Second Spring? Who are we after menopause? And how can we harness the wisdom we’ve gained from previous cycles and transitions to navigate this shift?
How menopause asks us, very intensely, to come into relationship with ourselves and keeps at us until we begin a more subtle kind self care that happens in small moments.
Why we deeply need to re-write the menopause narrative, and colour in the vibrant, creative life that happens in our Second Spring.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Your Cycle = Your Key to a Purpose-Filled Life (Alexandra & Sjanie)
10 februari 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
What is the connection between your menstrual cycle and your purpose in life? Today we’re talking about the hidden agenda within the menstrual cycle. Each cycle month - if we’re paying attention - our cycles are bringing each of us home to our uniqueness, to our genius, to a life full of meaning. Lees meer
In this episode, Alexandra and Sjanie, the founders of Red School, and authors of Wild Power, explore:
What is our Calling? How can we recognise it? And how does our menstrual cycle awareness practice help us to cultivate an intimacy with it, track it and learn how to embody it?
How the different phases of our life help us embody and realise our Calling, our ‘Wild Power’: starting with our first bleed at menarche, through our fertile years, and culminating at the great initiation of menopause.
How to ‘dock in’ to your Calling at menstruation, receive guidance about your next best steps and get clear about how to make them manifest in the world.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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How to Create a Positive Menstrual Culture (Jane Bennett)
3 februari 2022 · 1 uur 5 min
Whether you’re a coach or educator who is working in the menstruality field, or you’re guiding a young menstruator in your life as they experience their first period, or you simply want to deepen your connection to your own cycle, you’re likely to encounter menstrual shame in yourself and others… Lees meer
In today’s episode, we speak with one of the original pioneers in the menstruality field, founder of the Chalice Foundation and a Celebration Day for Girls, Jane Bennett about how to navigate this shame, so we can dignify the cycle and work together to create a menstrually positive world.
We explore:
How Jane learned to read her cycle in her 20s, got empowered to manage her cyclic wellbeing, and how this has positively impacted her life post menopause.
What Jane learned from gathering the stories and experiences of over 3000 women and girls about current attitudes to the menstrual cycle to write her book About Bloody Time: The Menstrual Revolution We Have to Have.
How can we each work in our own unique way to heal the menstrual taboo and play our role in the menstrual revolution.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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How to Feel Better in Perimenopause (Lara Briden)
27 januari 2022 · 57 min
A major transition happens in our bodies in the years that lead up to menopause, a kind of ‘second puberty’. Many people are left wondering if they’re going crazy as they experience a vast range of physical and neurological symptoms which can seem to come out of nowhere; including anxiety, depression, irregular or heavier cycles, heart palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, hot flushes, migraines, and breast pain. Lees meer
Today the “Period Revolutionary” Lara Briden joins us to demystify perimenopause. Lara is a naturopathic doctor and the author of The Hormone Repair Manual, Every Woman's Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40, a practical guide to navigating the change of perimenopause and relieve symptoms with natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, and bioidentical hormone therapy.
We explore:
The four phases of perimenopause and how to navigate them, including the ‘waiting room’ where your periods are very irregular, but you haven’t yet reached the 12 month point which defines the beginning of menopause.
The science behind this life transition and the hormonal events that can drive symptoms like irregular / heavier cycles, sleep disturbance and hot flushes.
The rescue prescription for peri-menopause and how it can help you to look after your whole being, and especially your brain and nervous system - Lara assures us that there is always a way to feel better.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Wild Power Immersion is now open. You can join here: https://www.wildpower.online.
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Nourish Your Creativity through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
22 januari 2022 · 42 min
Today we’re exploring how menstrual cycle awareness can serve your creativity, whether you’re writing a book, creating art, growing a garden, building a business, creating a family or bringing your creativity to any other aspect of your life. Lees meer
This is episode six of our special series, The Wild Power Retreat, where we want to inspire you to enhance your vitality, creativity and leadership in 2022, through the power of Menstrual Cycle Awareness.
We explore:
How your inner winter (menstruation) can be an otherworldly space where you have more access to inspiration, capacity to dream and visionary ability to know your next creative steps.
The importance of the innocent foolhardiness that comes in inner spring, and how it activates your creative projects.
The benefits of the critical discernment that arrives in the pre-menstruum, and how your inner critic actually helps your creative projects to shine and become the best version of themselves.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Wild Power Immersion is now open. You can join here: https://www.wildpower.online.
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Trauma, Healing & Finding Safety through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Kitty Maguire)
20 januari 2022 · 39 min
In today’s fifth Wild Power Retreat special we explore how to work in a trauma-informed way as you track your cycle, so you can harness the healing potential of the practice safely. Lees meer
*TW: This episode explores sensitive topics including sexual trauma and baby loss*
In the world of self development and healing, there can be a tendency to push ourselves too hard and too fast, in our desire to grow, expand our understanding and heal. Cycle awareness allows us to tap into the natural evolutionary impulse within us, which keeps us tuned into a pace that is truly healing for each of us.
Our guest today is trauma-informed yoga expert and menstruality mentor, Kitty Maguire. Kitty is a graduate of the Red School Menstruality Leadership Programme and is currently studying the Red School Menstruality Medicine Circle training.
We explore:
How holding yourself with tenderness and compassion in “the void”, just before you bleed has a healing impact for the rest of the cycle to come.
The challenge of cycle tracking when you’re having trouble conceiving, particularly in inner summer - the ovulatory phase, and how to heal from pregnancy loss.
Bringing humour to the judgmental, edgy parts of yourself that can be revealed in your inner autumn, premenstrual phase.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Wild Power Immersion is now open. You can join here: https://www.wildpower.online.
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Relieve Stress & Create Balance through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Nicole Jardim)
18 januari 2022 · 40 min
Today’s conversation is about how to honour your cycle at work, manage stress and set yourself up to lead, in our non-cyclical world. Lees meer
Our guest is Nicole Jardim, a Certified Women’s Health Coach, writer, speaker, mentor, and the creator of Fix Your Period, a series of programs that empower women and menstruators to reclaim their hormonal health. Nicole shares personal stories and tips for how to stay true to the energy of your cycle day in the world of work and how our cycles can help us to manage the stress that can arise when the world doesn’t play ball.
This special episode is session four of our free, online Wild Power Retreat, where we’re inviting you to make 2022 your year of menstrual cycle awareness.
We explore:
The science of the stress / menstrual cycle connection, how our cycles can be a resource when it comes to stress management, and how cycle tracking can help us mitigate the stresses of our day-to-day pandemic lives.
How to harness the powers of your inner seasons to make tough decisions at work, for example, Nicole has learned to only hire people in her ovulatory phase when her discernment and intuition are strongest!
How being aware of your strengths and challenges each day of your cycle month gives you a ‘crystal ball’ that allows you to work and lead from a place of empathy, authenticity and compassion for ourselves and others.
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Ground Yourself in Body Wisdom through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Natalie K Martin)
15 januari 2022 · 36 min
Today’s episode of The Menstruality Podcast is session three of our free, online Wild Power retreat, where we’re exploring how to make 2022 your year of creativity, vitality and leadership, through the power of menstrual cycle awareness. Lees meer
Period and Menstrual Cycle Coach Natalie K Martin guides us through the four cycle phases, inner season by inner season, exploring how to track the wisdom of your body through cycle awareness, and how to move in a cycle-inspired way that honours the energy of your current phase.
We explore:
The power of non-doing, rest and restorative yoga in inner winter (menstruation), and why silence is so key to accessing the powers of your bleed.
Strategies for winding down and creating space when you bleed, including longer toilet breaks, moving mindfully and adapting the way you work.
How to use music to enhance your cycle awareness practice, connect to pleasure, unleash your wildness through intuitive movement and harness the powers of each cycle phase.
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Transform Your Health and Vitality through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Lisa Hendrickson Jack)
13 januari 2022 · 40 min
Cycle awareness can be a powerful key turner when it comes to menstrual health as well as overall health. The menstrual cycle is a stress sensitive system, which means it can show us how and where we can course correct in order to feel more vital and healthy. Lees meer
In this episode we speak with Lisa Hendrickson Jack, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and author of The Fifth Vital Sign about how to translate the powerful feedback we receive from our cycle.
This is session two of our special Wild Power Retreat series, where we’re sharing inspiring conversations about how menstrual cycle awareness can help you enhance your vitality, creativity and leadership in 2022.
We explore:
How your cycle is your fifth vital sign and how it can guide you to better health.
The connection between menstrual health and overall vitality, and how to translate the feedback your cycle gives you into action to enhance your health.
What a healthy cycle looks like, and how to track your cycle when you have menstrual symptoms in a way which will support cycle healing.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Wild Power Immersion is now open. You can join here: https://www.wildpower.online.
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How to Access the Depth, Power and Wisdom of Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
11 januari 2022 · 39 min
Would you love to feel more healthy, more creative and more confident in your leadership in 2022? Today’s episode is part one of a special series - the Wild Power retreat - where we’ll share six 30-minute interviews over the coming 10 days, all to inspire you to enhance your vitality, creativity and leadership this year, through the power of Menstrual Cycle Awareness. Lees meer
You can register to be part of the retreat, and receive our emails, watch videos, download our Wild Power Creative Journal, which includes 12 cycle charts at redschool.net/wild-power-retreat.
We explore:
How to access the depth, power and wisdom of Menstrual Cycle Awareness from the women who coined this term, Red School co-founders Sjanie and Alexandra.
How you can work with dreams to deepen your Menstrual Cycle Awareness practice.
The Big Red Rule - stay loyal to your cycle experience.
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How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Transforms Your Life (Alexandra and Sjanie)
6 januari 2022 · 1 uur 1 min
At Red School our mission is to activate the vitality, creativity and leadership of a million people through the power of menstrual cycle awareness and consciousness menopause. And, this year we want to ignite you to make it your year of cycle awareness. Lees meer
To inspire and uplift and encourage you, today’s conversation is a deep dive into the many layers of this life affirming and life-altering practice. We explore:
How to actually live your cycle awareness in a non-cyclical world: how to yield the cycle you have on any given month… how to find creative ways to be true to your experience, and to lead from the wisdom of your cycle
A powerful example of this - how Sjanie learned to teach from the void of her cycle, and the powerful impact it had on her leadership.
How a commitment to cycle awareness cultivates our capacity to drop our patterns of control and be in intimate relationship with life, so we can grow new muscles of relational, sustainable leadership.
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If you feel excited about enhancing your vitality, activating your creativity and deepening your leadership through your menstrual cycle awareness this year, we invite you to join our Wild Power free online retreat Jan 11th - 25th.
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The Power of Rest for a Healthy Cycle, Menopause and Life (Karen Brody)
23 december 2021 · 59 min
In a world where rest is seen as laziness, one of the most radical and daring things we can do is lie down and do nothing. And in doing so, we can wake up and bring to consciousness all that is hidden under our busyness. Lees meer
Our guest today is Karen Brody - a mother, writer and author of the book “Daring To Rest”. She is one of the leaders in this movement to be radically well-rested, through her Daring to Rest Leadership programme, where she teaches Yoga Nidra for the modern world.
This conversation explores the quietly transformative healing power that rest brings to our lives.
How rest - in a similar way to menstruation - is the anchor that roots us into who we are, opening the door to ‘soul whispers’ which help us access intuitive wisdom and live our Calling.
How to take care of our frazzled nervous systems and ‘power down’ into truly nourishing deep rest, through the power of Yoga Nidra.
How to dare to rest in a world which perceives rest as lazy, weak and unproductive, especially during the transitional moments in life, such as menstruation, menopause and motherhood.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Karen Brody: @karen_brody(This is the final episode for season one of the Menstruality podcast. We're taking a week off on December 30th, and we'll be back on January 6th with season two! Thank you for listening this year - we're exciting to share more game-changing Menstruality conversations with you in 2022).
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Menstruality and LGBTQ+ Inclusion, Safety and Belonging (Adele Bates)
16 december 2021 · 1 uur 14 min
Today we’re exploring themes that are right at the heart of the emerging menstrality movement; love, belonging and an invitation for each of our experiences to be dignified, and honoured, exactly as we are. Lees meer
I’m talking with LGBTQ+ inclusion consultant, Adele Bates, whose day job is as an education and behavior specialist - just release her first book “Miss I don’t give a sh*t: engaging with challenging behaviour within schools” - we’re celebrating you Adele!
Adele is a graduate of our Menstruality Leadership Programme and has been a profound resource as an LGBTQ+ educator in the Red School community. Today we ask how we can move towards more genuine inclusion in our work as Menstruality pioneers, looking at the questions such as:
- How is menstrual cycle awareness different when you’re in a same sex relationship?
- How can we ensure that non-binary or gender fluid people and trans men feel safe, honoured and a sense of belonging in menstruality work?
- How might a trans woman experience menstruality?
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How Menstrualism Can Birth Social & Environmental Change (Kate Shepherd Cohen)
9 december 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
Are you a menstrualist? Do you want to create a world where we all prioritise the menstrual cycle? Would you like to know how to work with your cycle to enhance your work as a changemaker? Lees meer
Today’s guest is spear-heading the menstrualism movement. Kate Shepherd Cohen is a menstrual health pioneer, an author, activist, climate campaigner and CEO of a health tech start up. Since graduating from the Red School Menstruality Leadership Programme, she’s revolutionising menstrual healthcare in the UK, and is the first person in the world to offer a Menstrual Cycle Support programme on social prescription through the NHS.
Our conversation moves from the practical details of how to create change as a menstrual health advocate, to the visionary exploration of menstrual dreaming as a key tool for all social and environmental change work.
We explore:
Kate’s recent TEDx talk: “Period Problems - and Why There Is Hope”.
What a menstrualist is, why menstrualism is the most important movement of the 21st century, and how we can move through menstrual shame to claim our place in this social and cultural movement (whether we cycle or not).
Why menstrual rest is the foundation for any menstruator wanting to birth meaningful change, and how on earth to get it, as well as how we can practice menstrual dreaming to receive visions that guide and inform our work.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Period Poetry, Cyclical Creativity and Artistic Activism (Nikki Tajiri)
2 december 2021 · 57 min
This week we meet The Period Poet herself, Nikki Tajiri who is the author of “She Dreams When She Bleeds” which weaves original menstrual art with cycle-inspired, rebellious poetry and has reached women and menstruators all over the world, as well as Murmur, rumble, roar, an emotional exploration of the space where climate change meets inner transformation. Lees meer
Nikki gracefully translates her intimate cycle awareness into artistic expression, and this episode is a soothing, gentle, lyrical exploration of how we can each express the magic of our cycles and activate our creativity, in our own unique way. Through the lens of her poems and her creative process, we explore:
How to follow the creative impulses that arise from the menstrual cycle, even when our inner critic tells us they’re crazy.
Why our world needs artists and creatives who dare to channel the fierce, truth-telling energy of inner autumn.
Why embracing the life-affirming rhythm and flow of our cyclical nature is so critical to solving the environmental crises we face.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Cycle Wisdom for Pregnancy and Birth (Jady Mountjoy)
25 november 2021 · 1 uur 5 min
The inner seasons of the menstrual cycle are often mirrored in pregnancy, and in this episode with doula and Red School Leadership Mentor Jady Mountjoy, we walk through the three trimesters of pregnancy, learning how to harvest your cycle awareness experience to hold yourself through all the huge changes happening in your body and psyche. Lees meer
Drawing on her experience of guiding pregnant and birthing people over decades, Jady shares how cycle awareness prepares you for the initiation of pregnancy and birth, how the deep intelligence of the trimesters builds the skill base we’ll need for parenthood, and how to move from your forebrain to your more primitive, instinctive brain as the energy of birth begins to court you.
We explore:
The medicine of the first trimester and how to create a soothing cocoon - even with physical symptoms - slow your life down, and tend to your needs in the vulnerability of the initial phases of pregnancy.
The ‘blossoming’ that can arise in the second trimester and how it correlates to inner summer, creating a kind of anchoring, and guiding us into a journey of allegiance to ourselves.
How the ‘descent’ of the third trimester can mirror the inner autumn, inviting us soften into the energy of birth, and start to allow ourselves to be beautifully dismantled in preparation for the surrender of labour.
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Jady is one of the Red School Leadership mentors who guides participants through our Menstruality Leadership Programme. Registration is open for our 2022 cycle and you can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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How Cycle Awareness Unlocks Your Creativity (Alexandra & Sjanie)
18 november 2021 · 1 uur 9 min
Alexandra and Sjanie take us behind the scenes of their menopause book writing process to explore how menstrual cycle awareness can help each of us cultivate intimate connection to our own unique creative process, whether you’re bringing your creativity to work, art, healing, parenting, nurturing, activism or any other form of expression. Lees meer
They share how they’ve each been tutored by their cycles as well as Alexandra’s menopause process to navigate a wide array of creative challenges, harness the powers of each cycle phase and fully express their Calling.
We explore:
How to manage the inner critic - especially when it hijacks the early phases of a creative project - avoid the trap of procrastination and heal the layers of shame that can block our creativity.
How to harvest the innocence, playfulness and improvisational strengths of inner spring (pre-ovulation) to trick yourself into creative expression, swim in the unknown and bring brand new ideas into the world.
How to honour the energy of inner autumn (pre-menstruum) to polish the rough diamond of your work through constructive critical feedback, and get to the essence of what you’re trying to express in the most potent way.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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How to Harness Cycle Awareness for Sustainable Activism (Vianney Leigh)
11 november 2021 · 1 uur
Towards the middle of 2020, Cycle Alignment Guide, Vianney Leigh saw the extent of the burnout in her community, and decided to take action. Lees meer
In the weeks following the Black Lives Matter uprising, she used her own cycle awareness practice to create Period Power Activism, a coaching program that supports advocates and activists to align with the cycle and create sustainable change whilst making room for rest and sustained energy levels.
We celebrate the many passionate activists in our community. Whether you’re working to dismantle systemic racism, make the Menstruality field more LGBTQ+ inclusive, decolonise yoga, end period poverty or fight for climate justice, we hope these groundbreaking teachings about cycles and activism support you to speak truth and stand for your values without burning out.
We explore:
How each inner season of the menstrual cycle can support sustainable activism, help you manage burnout, guilt and anxiety, cultivate more confidence and receive more cyclical wisdom and inner guidance.
How Vianney harnessed her creative inspiration and natural capacity to connect with her audience in her inner summer, as well as the potent focus and instinctive impulses of inner autumn to craft her Period Power Activism course.
The Black menstrual health crisis, Black maternal health crisis and Black mental health crisis and the extent of the social justice work that is needed.
… but first Vianney began by generously and vulnerably sharing her story of working with a PMDD diagnosis and how her cycle initiated a profound spiritual awakening for her.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022
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Let's Talk to Men about Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Dominick Quartuccio and Bryan Stacey)
4 november 2021 · 1 uur 3 min
Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA) is life and world-changing for everyone, whether you have a cycle or not. In today's episode, we explore this with Dominick Quartuccio and Bryan Stacey, the hosts of The Great Man Within podcast. They’re a breath of fresh air in a world which can feel full of toxic masculinity. Brave and vulnerable in their desire to break new ground for men and masculinity, they’ve interviewed Red School’s co-founders Alexandra and Sjanie not once, but TWICE. The first interview “A Man’s Guide to the Menstrual Cycle", has since become their most downloaded episode ever! Lees meer
We explore:
Innovative, sensitive, simple ways to introduce cycle awareness to your male partner, colleagues, family members or friends, and how to enlist their support to ‘drop your bundle’ in inner winter (menstruation) by giving them a way to ‘be a hero’.
How cycle awareness provides a ‘surfboard’ to ride the relationship waves that can happen in inner autumn (premenstruum), and how to bring your truth-speaker in a way that can actually be received.
How to have period sex with a male partner, to move through taboos around blood, and cultivate sexual intimacy during menstruation so you can enter the “Holy Grail” together.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. (https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022)
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5. How to Channel your Cycle’s Superpowers in Work and Business (Claire Baker)
28 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 4 min
Period Coach, Claire Baker has built a wildly successful, impactful, vision-led business as an author, teacher and leader in the menstruality field. In this episode we go behind the scenes of her business, exploring how she works with the superpowers and vulnerabilities of her menstrual cycle to create potent programmes, manage her team skillfully, lead with integrity and find the pleasure in her creative process. Lees meer
We explore:
How Claire rides off the momentum of inner spring, paces her workflow to protect her vulnerable new ideas, and invites her playful, innocent maiden self to explore and experiment.
The natural magnetism of inner summer, and how to harness our capacity to be seen in this phase to create connections, nurture relationships and express ourselves with confidence.
How Claire manages her inner critic and imposter syndrome in inner autumn, uses the power of discernment to evaluate and wrap up her work and crafts space to be in her creative cave.
Practical guidance to create space for visioning in inner winter, to receive insights, be your own ‘oracle’ and clarify the most potent next steps for your work.
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Registration is open for our 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme. You can check it out here. (https://www.redschool.net/menstruality-leadership-programme-2022)
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4. Finding Your Voice, Busting Myths and Coming Home to Yourself in Menopause (Karen Arthur)
21 oktober 2021 · 59 min
Karen Arthur lives her life in full colour, and her rebellious spirit is catching. A fashion designer, host of the ground-breaking Menopause Whilst Black Podcast, and a leading voice in the global conversation to rewrite menopause, she busts menopause myths and shares refreshing ideas to manage menopause challenges with a rare kind of honesty, fire and wit. In this episode we explore: Lees meer
How Karen made the bold transition from teacher to fashion designer, moved through depression to creative expression, learned that NO is a complete sentence, and found a new freedom in her voice through menopause.
Her powerful work to make menopause diverse, amplify the voices of Black British women in menopause, and tell a new story of menopause as a pathway home to yourself (rather than something to dread).
Why ‘wearing our happy’ is a powerful antidote to menopause challenges, and how it felt to invite Davina McCall into her fashion design studio for the Channel 4 ‘Sex, Myths and the Menopause’ documentary.
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Registration is open for our 2021 Menopause: The Great Awakener is now open. You can check it out here: https://www.redschool.net/menopause
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3. How to Transform Menstrual and Menopause Shame (Jane Hardwicke Collings)
14 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
Wise author, grandmother and revolutionary Jane Hardwicke Collings is passionate, provocative and also funny - even as she busts through taboos, heals collective wounds and creates a roadmap for a positive menstrual and menopause culture. We explore: Lees meer
The roots of menstrual shame and its impact on our cycles and our bodies.
How to live and bleed shamelessly through the spiritual practice of menstruation.
How to heal the menopause shame (and a surprising fact about the five other mammals who go through menopause, and how it serves their offspring and communities.)
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Registration is now open for our 2021 live round of Menopause: The Great Awakener. You can explore the five phases of menopause here: www.redschoolmenopause.com.
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2. How Menopause Initiates us into Leadership (Alexandra & Sjanie)
7 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 8 min
This episode re-writes the collective story of menopause from a looming disaster to an initiatory pathway into your unique way of leading; in your family, community, and work in the world. Lees meer
If you’re entering menopause, or find yourself in the midst of this initiation, this conversation with Red School’s co-founders, Alexandra and Sjanie will dignify you, affirm your experience and give you insight into the deep process at work in you. (It’s also a resource for any person who menstruates who wants to prepare for the transformational power of menopause.)
We explore:
The ‘Ground Rules for Initiation’ that allow you to craft your own form of menopause sabbatical - even amidst the responsibilities you hold, using the 1% change rule.
The menopause leadership superpower of discernment, and how to practice your ‘NO’ (without justifying it).
How menopause makes you into an organ of intelligence, anchoring you in deep time, transforming your loyalties and plugging you into a bigger consciousness.
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Registration is now open for our 2021 live round of Menopause: The Great Awakener. You can explore the five phases of menopause here: www.redschoolmenopause.com.
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The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net
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