Our wombs reflect the pain of the world. What is happening to the world, can in fact also be reflected in what has been happening to women over centuries – exploited, dominated, hushed and silenced.

We’ve often been taught to be sweet and not heard, to ignore our feminine instincts and to hide our natural cycles as women. Is there any surprise in the growth of women’s health conditions? Perhaps that pain is there to get our attention into a much deeper message?

During my menstrual cycle my yoga practice is a harmonious movement. It’s slow. It’s nourishing. It’s gentle. It’s divine. 

Here’s a video with postures for your menstrual cycle. Here you’ll find detailed descriptions explaining how to get into each posture and what to do when you’re there.

On a scale of feeling like you're living in constant warfare to being fully in harmonious flow, where do you sit?

Most of us can often feel at the top end of this battle mode as stress and anxiety levels are at an all time high. But what's the relationship between stress and our menstrual cycle? How does this affect us? And does it impact our fertility?

One thing is clear: the way we’re working isn’t working.

The system in which I and so many other sisters struggle is not nourishing us. The structured environment that has, over time, become so path-dependent doesn’t allow us to honour or nurture our femininity.

It exhausts our minds. It exhausts our bodies.

I wonder why we see so many women’s health issues. Are they recalling our attention back to our roots?

I couldn’t leave the house without panic. I felt completely alone, even in my own home. I felt suffocated and trapped in my own mind.

The depth of each moment was a downward spiral of pressure resting on the belief I needed to overcome this alone...