THE POWER OF CYCLES
YOUR BODY IS A COMPASS
simple tools to understand and integrate the wisdom available in your body
a free, online class to tap into the power that lives in life’s cycles
Do you have a sense that there is a deeper wisdom in your body? Are you wanting to access that wisdom?
The menstrual cycle is a very powerful gateway for our individual and collective health.
Still, many of us ignore this gateway because of the cultural messaging we have internalized.
Your attention to cycles - whether you are living the menstrual cycle in your body or not - is a foundation upon which you can read the universe, understand what is going on around you and how to best use your energy.
The cycle that lives in the womb is the source of life, yet we often don’t give it the time or attention needed to truly embody its power.
And for good reasons. Most of the messaging around the menstrual cycle is very limited and leads us to believe that the only reason for the cycle’s existence is so that we can become pregnant. This messaging also often teaches us that menstruation is dirty or impure.
Reclaiming your relation with cycles allows you to access the wisdom that lives in your body, and in the natural world. This is necessary for health.
In this workshop we:
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walk through the physical and energetic aspects of the four phases of the menstrual cycle so that you can understand and align with the power available in each phase
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learn about cycles as a gateway to more authentic relations with other humans and with all of life
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practice being present with cyclicality in a healthy way so that it can nourish us and serve as fertile ground for rebirth
There will also be time to share and discuss, together.
This class is open to all genders. The menstrual cycle is relevant for us all.
Our bodies are speaking…but cultural messages have often drowned out these voices. Returning to listen to the wisdom that lives in us is our natural right.
A few words from a participant in a recent workshop:
“In your guidance I feel safe, I feel seen and I feel interconnected with something greater. Thanks for the inspiration.”
-Rikke Libak, 49
About Naomi
As a young woman, I learned that my body is an object, public property, for others to look at, judge and use. My body didn’t look like what I thought it was supposed to, so I separated from it - we became two entities, Naomi and Naomi’s body.
That separation led to me essentially abusing my own body, particularly by engaging in sexual encounters that I didn’t actually want. I thought that doing so would make me feel better about my body. I have spent years working with women and girls, and I know that many of us share similar experiences of detachment from our bodies.
About ten years ago, I completed an initiation with my teacher, Carmen Vicente, a medicine woman from the high Andes. She shared practices of the women of her community; under her guidance I retreated for four days and four nights every month, during the time of my bleeding, over the course of one and a half years.
During this time, I slowly learned to listen to the cycles in my body. I bridged the gap between the two entities we had become in my adolescence and reconnected with the wisdom that flows from the universe through my body. This reconnection has changed my life.
For the past 25 years, I have worked with hundreds of women and girls to reclaim our relations with our bodies and our innate wisdom in countless women’s and girls’ circles, retreats, workshops and ceremonies as well as through 1-1 mentoring. In 2014, I published Beautiful, a guide for adolescent girls and the adults who support them.
The Details
Monday, April 13
12 PM ET/6 PM CET
Zoom link will be sent to everyone who registers.
If you can't make it live, don't worry. We will send a recording.
How to Join
Register using the form below. You’ll get access to what you need.
Although this topic is related to many of my other offerings, I am not trying to sell you anything. I deeply believe that we all deserve to have a healthy relationship with our bodies and I want to offer this in support.
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