Living with a Cycle - an Introduction to Cycle Awareness

This workshop series of three practical sessions aims to explore cycle-aware daily living using Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA). This practice (introduced by RedSchool) reveals intuitive and personal tools to reclaim one’s own feminine leadership skills and creativity, as well as to organise daily life in a more balanced way. There is an innate intelligence within our bodies that has been silenced by the culture of separation from nature. From menarche (first period), the womb or womb space (when we no longer have a womb) opens access to ancestral, emotional, physical and spiritual feminine wisdom. When we restore, engage with and align to this intuition, balance is restored in our lives and our environment.

Who is it for: primarily menstruators, but also open to women going through or post menopause as cycle awareness remains a useful tool.

These workshops won’t provide hormonal health fertility/birth control advice. Although MCA relies on the cyclic biological nature of the female body, it does not focus on chemistry but rather aims to cultivate intuition.
Dr Céline Marie Vidal is a certified Menstruality Mentor at RedSchool, facilitator of women united as medicine circles, volcanologist,  geography lecturer, artist and yogini.

 

Workshop 1: introduction to cycle awareness (MCA)
During this first session, we will outline the challenges of living with a cycle in a cycle illiterate world. We will explore the map of life cycles of the female body and its edges, and introduce the principles of (Menstrual) Cycle Awareness.

This session will include general information about MCA and practical interoception exercises (body awareness), an introduction to charting and guidelines to go ahead. 

The two follow up workshops will introduce the maps of the cycle and menstruation and the keys they bring for a cycle-aware daily living. After the introduction session, participants can decide to sign up for the two following workshops.

 

Workshop 2: the two cycle maps (date tbc)
During this workshop, we will explore the two cycle maps that help navigate and understand the nature of the cycle, its shifts and needs: the map of the seasons (for menstruators) and the map of the vias (menstruators and after menopause) designed by RedSchool.

Participants will be invited to reflect and share about their charting experience over the past month and how it resonates with the maps.

Workshop 3: the map of menstruation (date tbc)
This last session will be an introduction to the map of the five chambers of menstruation and their secrets. We will look back at the last two months of charting and focus on menstruation.
In a guided meditative exercise, participants will self-reflect on their experience of menstruation from menarche (first period) to present in order to identify their key individual needs to empower their menstruation.

After over six months of charting and integration of the cycle maps, participants will be empowered to embody cyclical living and navigate daily life in the academic environment with reverence to their body’s wisdom.

 

£45 (standard rate) / £35 (support rate)

Please contact us for solidarity rates.

Resources
For all menstruators: Pope, A. and Wurlitzer, S.H., 2017. Wild power: Discover the magic of your menstrual cycle and awaken the feminine path to power. Hay House, Inc.
From age 35 onwards: Pope, A. and Wurlitzer, S.H., 2022. Wise power: Discover the liberating power of menopause to awaken authority, purpose and belonging. Hay House, Inc.
RedSchool: https://www.redschool.net/
The Menstruality Podcast: https://www.redschool.net/<wbr />podcast and on mainstream platforms