Before I discovered cycle awareness, l inhabited a strange half life, trying to be someone I clearly was not. Like many women before me, I had absorbed the notion that to be taken seriously I needed to be rational, sensible,…
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…
This is great piece by Kate Megeary about the amazing revelations that can come when you can really give time to bleed. Kate lives in Cornwall and has been exploring her menstruality with Red Tent Cornwall for the last two…
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…
What we call the Void is that space just before bleeding, it might be a few hours or for some women 2 - 3 days long. You no longer feel in ‘normal’ life, possibly a little detached, dreamy and blissed…
Beware the Ides of March (march 15th) the soothsayer said to Julius Caesar. He was murdered that day. Unwittingly we chose March 15 for our Period Policy event with CoExist—a different kind of blood spilt this time all over…
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,…
My name is Livnam Kaur, and as of the writing of this, I have just turned 28 years old. I was born 15 weeks prematurely, and during my last 5 weeks in the womb, I was without the amniotic fluid.…
Jane Legge, a Red School Mentor, is heading to North America with her Magical Menstrual Tour. She is travelling around the US, but I bet she wouldn’t say no if she was tempted over the border into Canada as well! Here’s…
We often think of generosity as something for others but it's one of the sweetest things we can offer to ourselves. And when we do, giving to others can be such an effortless act free from agenda. Generosity is a power…