You reach that point in your 40s when you start to question your sanity
Category: Menstruality
Can you feel the passion?
Once you invite Menstrual Cycle Awareness into your life; once the light bulbs go on; when the embodiment of connecting to your cycle gives you clarity and insight, the passion is deeply stirred! Julia Davis of Finchley Yoga chats with Leora about bringing Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA) into her work as a yoga teacher and Read More…
How to be a powerful woman
I talk to mentor and yoga teacher Alison Goodwin about how menstruality can enhance your power in the world, we talk: How cycle awareness helps women in leadership positions How to weave authentic productivity into the corporate world How to use cycle awareness as a management tool, even for men! Why women need encouragement to Read More…
The Fruits of Menstruality
Menstruality works us in such unexpected ways! When I undertook the Women’s Quest Apprenticeship with Red School in 2016, I knew how much it would feed the work that Kate and I offer and share here at Woman Kind, there was an inevitability about that. But the personal work? How deeply we are taken into Read More…
Not Now Darling! How can we be kind to ourselves with small children?
If ‘all’ mothers had to do was to look after their children, it would be challenging, but just about do-able. But current expectations of mothers are ridiculously high, as well as stopping our children from injuring themselves, we must also: Educate them Nourish their emotional lives Stimulate them Soothe their nervous systems Boost their immunity Read More…
Changing the Story of Menstruation with Melonie Syrett
Wouldn’t it be bloody awesome if the next generation grew up without menstruation being shrouded in taboos and shame? Melonie Syrett shares with Leora her empowering work with girls. Plus her latest collaboration, taking a whole new story of menstrual education into schools. For therapy, ceremony, and menstrual education work with Melonie, find her website Read More…
Movement (we’re so ditching the word exercise!) and your menstrual cycle
Do you feel pushed to stick to the same exercise regime over the course of your cycle? Leora chats with Yoga Teacher and fellow menstrualista Tessa Sanderson, discovering how she brings together yoga and menstruality, and how this has deeply changed her work and her own practice. Plus a whole host of wisdom guiding Read More…
An introverts guide to mentstrual cycle awareness
Dearest introverts! Ever reached the end of a conversation and been hit by the feeling that nothing you’ve said has been heard? As a natural listener, with a leaning towards introversion, there’s only a handful of people with whom I feel comfortable expressing my deepest thoughts and feelings. When the feeling of not Read More…
How Cycle Awareness Supports Your Business
If you are self-employed as a therapist or running a business you’ll want to be more productive. I bet you long for more kindness to yourself too, but how can we honour both needs? This video with Rachael Crow will give you heaps of ideas about how cycle awareness can help you to: Set good boundaries Help Read More…
What to do when you can’t get a duvet day
What do you do when you’re deep in your inner winter, either menstruation or menopause, and the world comes knocking with its demands? When you can’t get a duvet day. Children, bosses and deadlines sneer at our inner winter as totally irrelevant; “We need you now and make it snappy!” How you respond to Read More…