13 allies for menstruation – #4 Sacred
Part 4 of 13 One of the most powerful things you can do is to begin to make your whole menstrual cycle experience a sacred process. What we mean by this is to see your cycle beyond ‘just’ a biological function…
The Women’s Wisdom Dial: the World’s 1st Menstruation and Moon Clock
This beautiful, battery powered wall-clock tracks your menstrual cycle and the moon phases by rotating its hands once every 29 days. You set the hands to align with your menstrual cycle and the moon phase once a month. The Red…
13 allies for menstruation – #3 Simplicity
Part 3 of 13 Simplicity can be a number of things—reducing your workload; reducing your environmental load on the planet by living more sustainably (hint: honouring the cycle is the number one sustainability practice); it also holds a quality of gentleness,…
13 allies for menstruation – #2 Softness
Part 2 of 13 Since we are dealing with the critic this month we thought we’d practice the ally of softness, and what that means is being kinder and more gentle with yourself. We’d recommend that you give yourself a break…
13 allies for menstruation – #1 Slowness
Part 1 of 13 Menstruation is the inner temple, a holy space, where you can experience great depths of awareness and feeling, feel held by the divine, and vision for yourself and the world. Want to experience more of…
The feminine spiritual practice
For a long time here at Red School we have argued that many spiritual practices while worthy and great can sometimes miss the mark for us as women. They were largely evolved by men and meet the needs and psychology…
The Bliss of being you
Along with the utter importance of the foundational practice of menstrual cycle awareness which we outline in our Menstrual Cycle Literacy course, we have developed a new process that we call the Menstrual Medicine Circle (MMC). It is designed to…
13 powerful reasons to love your period – part 2
Well it looks like we've kick started a mini revolution with Part 1 of the 13 Power reasons to love your period (and menstrual cycle). Thanks for reading and sharing it so widely, we expect these ripples will go a…
13 powerful reasons to love your period and your menstrual cycle – part 1
We’re tired of the cultural edge around all things menstrual, tired of being careful about how we speak of it so as not to embarrass, offend or cause discomfort, sick of hiding this awesome power we hold in our bodies, over it…
Four reasons why you ‘procrastinate’ and how to develop the skills to overcome it
I am not a procrastinator. Yes, I can stall, hesitate, shy away from and fail to do things altogether. However I have never called myself a procrastinator. The term procrastinator has a pejorative tone. It’s the inner or outer critic…