The Menstruality Podcast - Nourish Your Creativity through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Episode Date: January 22, 2022Today we’re exploring how menstrual cycle awareness can serve your creativity, whether you’re writing a book, creating art, growing a garden, building a business, creating a family or bringing you...r creativity to any other aspect of your life.This is episode six of our special series, The Wild Power Retreat, where we want to inspire you to enhance your vitality, creativity and leadership in 2022, through the power of Menstrual Cycle Awareness.We explore:How your inner winter (menstruation) can be an otherworldly space where you have more access to inspiration, capacity to dream and visionary ability to know your next creative steps.The importance of the innocent foolhardiness that comes in inner spring, and how it activates your creative projects.The benefits of the critical discernment that arrives in the pre-menstruum, and how your inner critic actually helps your creative projects to shine and become the best version of themselves.---Registration is open for our 2022 Wild Power Immersion is now open. You can join here: https://www.wildpower.online. ---The Menstruality Podcast is hosted by Red School. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email info@redschool.net---Social media:Red School: @red.school - https://www.instagram.com/red.school
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Welcome to the Menstruality Podcast, where we share inspiring conversations about the
power of menstrual cycle awareness and conscious menopause. This podcast is brought to you
by Red School, where we're training the menstruality leaders of the future. I'm your host, Sophie
Jane Hardy, and I'll be joined often by
Red School's founders, Alexandra and Sharni, as well as an inspiring group of pioneers, activists,
changemakers, and creatives to explore how you can unashamedly claim the power of the menstrual cycle
to activate your unique form of leadership for yourself, your community and the world.
Hey, welcome back. So great to have you with us today. This is part six of our special series,
The Wild Power Retreat, designed to inspire you to enhance your vitality and creativity and leadership in 2022 through the power of menstrual cycle
awareness. You can still register to be part of the retreat, to receive the emails, to watch the
videos, to download the journal and to attend our free live event which is coming up next week,
our closing event. You can register at redschool.net forward slash wild-power-retreat. I'll drop the link in our
show notes. So today we have session six, nourish your creativity through the magic
of menstrual cycle awareness with Alessandra Pope and Sharni Hugo-Wurlitzer.
Welcome back to the Wild Power Retreat. This is our final session in our series of conversations
to inspire you to make this year your year of menstrual cycle awareness to enhance your vitality
and creativity and leadership. And creativity is the name of the game today. I'm back with
Sharni Hugo-Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope, two incredible, incredibly creative beings.
They're the co-founders of Red School.
For those of you that don't know them, they're the authors of Wild Power.
And they really worked the creative teachings of menstrual cycle awareness to create that book and the book that they're writing right now about menopause.
They're also your guides for the wild power immersion which is coming up on
february the 8th and the teachers of the menstruality leadership program which follows in
april so this conversation is really exciting it's about how menstrual cycle awareness can serve your
creativity and serve your creative project you know there's so many ways that menstrual cycle
awareness can benefit our lives and this is such a practical one it can support your creative
projects so with whatever you're creating in your life it could be your business it could be a book
it could be a home and hearth for your family it could be a creative project for your community, your garden, your baby, anything that you're birthing and manifesting and wanting to realize in your life your menstrual cycle awareness practice can support it.
So I was going to ask you an introduction story, you two, about how cycle awareness has supported your creative process this year but
then I realized we're probably going to weave this into the conversation because we're going to go
in a season by in a season looking at how the powers of that season can support you in a
creative project so why don't we kick it off with in our winter how can menstruation support our creative projects shani do you want to take it away yeah i'll start and i i love what you have to say about
this territory alexandra so um i'll start by saying that every creative project um comes to us from somewhere else.
The muse, you know.
I love how ideas and inspiration seem to come to us from another place.
And the more we can create the conditions to let inspiration land,
the more creative our lives are going to be. Now, the inner winter, the time of menstruation, is one such portal to an empty space or a otherworldly space where you have more access to inspiration coming in.
So your inner winter can be a place where you can dream and receive and channel and vision ideas and inspirations for your life and for what you want to create
and it all rests on your ability to i want to say slow down, but more than slow down. It's to take your hands off the wheel and to drop trying to make anything happen.
In a sense, to let yourself just kind of chill, rest back, take space, let your mind wander so the more emptiness you can create and the less input you have coming in
and the less drive you're trying to like you're trying to make things happen the more you can
open yourself to things landing so um yeah so that that's the inner winter. And Alexandra, you are, of course, post-menopause,
and I think to some degree just occupy this place permanently, don't you?
Yeah, yeah, because it's an expanded consciousness.
You step into a menopause that you hold afterwards,
which is, you know, menstruation, you are going into an expanded consciousness.
So you've got a wider channel for tapping into things
at menstruation but i think you articulated it so beautifully shani to access that wider channel
you have to kick back you have to drop your agenda and the power of rest and doing nothing
with no input i mean this is so wild.
It's not, you know, lying there,
scrolling through blah, blah, or whatever.
It is actually switching everything off,
daring to be bored,
because that might be the initial thing.
But when you're menstruating,
you're just sort of seized by something anyways.
And menstruation sort of seizes you and pulls you,
if you're following it,
it pulls you into the underworld. and if you can trust that movement and just rest rest all the agendas just rest all the agendas you have for your life give up do nothing and then some
kind of magic could happen but you've got to just not be expecting anything
it is but menstruation is so extraordinary how it can gift um but it is this key of resting
and surrendering and what has that looked like for you this year with this incredible book baby that you've been birthing so another piece of this kind of
blessing of menstruation in terms of our creative projects not only does it let us let inspiration
and vision and ideas come it also helps us to stay really close to um the kind of deep heart of what we're doing and what really matters in
what we're doing, like the kind of soul of our creative ideas.
So you know, for me, when I've been bleeding throughout this year, although I haven't actually
been thinking about the book,
or all I sort of have been because it's been so activated in my sphere, you know, we've been
eating, sleeping, breathing it, but I've stepped away from it and in that space I've felt
really the why, like why, because at times, you know, creating anything can be really hard at times.
And honestly, there are moments where I'm just like, why?
And then what happens when I'm bleeding is like,
oh yeah, that's why.
And it taps me into, well, firstly,
how much I care about what I'm doing but also this deep well of
resilience in me it's like oh yeah this really matters to me and it matters because
not just for me but for others and for life and for the world. So I really feel the, I guess, the power, the potential of the vision,
the magnitude of the vision.
I get kind of tapped into the bigness of that.
And when you've been in the minutiae of something,
it's something about just like opening up to like, oh, right,
this is why we're doing this.
That brings me a new lease on life and a kind of reinvigorated
care and commitment, in a way reinvigorates my commitment to the book. So that's been a big part
of it for me. And I know, Alexandra, like you take empty space a lot and I've noticed how
your relationship to the book has almost been potentized whenever you step away from it so
yeah it's where the ideas come yeah you know especially if I'm struggling with something
I don't struggle I I just let myself stay with it and I just go into a kind of dream state with it
and just allow it.
And it might be a number of days.
It could be weeks, you know, of just holding something,
letting something rest in me.
But just I love the power of the empty space, you see,
because something gets reorganized.
When you drop, your psyche just can reorganize itself.
And so you get a fresh start on something.
So I want to just add here that if you don't get any brilliant ideas or visions at menstruation, don't worry.
Because just the act of just the blobbing out forgetting everything and
just feeling like a complete whatever it is I can't think what the word is now
for blob and then gradually you find yourself coming back to life and energies
returning and you sort of set off and no you don't have any brilliant idea or
something but you find yourself responding to whatever you're working on
creatively I mean I'm Marvel at that actually how that happens and so don't
get hung up on whether you've had a vision or not but just sort of trust the
awakening energy that there's something coming through and that in a way segues
us into the next season doesn't it it, Shani? It does.
It does.
And you've just brought in one other piece, which I think is really important,
is because it's not always that inspirational vision or ideas come when you're bleeding.
But what does always come is repair and restoration.
And that's like the foundation of your creativity, like your wellness and you feeling rested. I mean, you you know we've all been tired in our lives and
you know when you're tired it's like it's it's um creating anything is tedious hard it just does
nothing nothing flows so the engine of your creativity is your well-being your well-rested
self so even just on that level,
rest administration is going to serve your creative life.
Thank you.
I'm wanting to bring this back to the practice of cycle awareness and cycle tracking.
So in order to make some,
in order to get the rest and repair,
there needs to be some space so I think
this is where cycle awareness and cycle tracking can be so meaningful you can look ahead and go
okay it's day 25 26 what however it works for your cycle I know I'm heading towards my inner winter
how can you how can I carve out even if it's only 10 minutes where i know i've got no responsibility
and i can blob out as alexandra said and let it all go that's where our cycle awareness
practice can really serve this process of if not receiving a vision then receiving the rest
and renewal that's such a good point sophie. Yes. So, you know, thinking about this now, in terms of cycle awareness, I'm just sort of feeling into this as we as you emerge into the spring of your cycle.
The importance of it. So if you're doing cycle awareness, one of the things to pay attention to is that when you're coming out of menstruation you're also a bit vulnerable here
you don't come out fully ready for the world you have to sort of grow a skin so it's worth you know if one has the luxury of time or just can structure one's schedule accordingly to be able
to move out a little bit tenderly with oneself um particularly if you've had a very sort of big vision at menstruation because the
moment you start to emerge because it's all perfect at menstruation it's all perfect I love
this about business and then you start to come out and into the world again into the sort of light of day. And suddenly you think,
the critic will come in here if you're not careful, you see.
So you've got to be mindful of that
because the critic does not belong here,
belongs over in the altar.
But suddenly your idea doesn't have the protection it had
in the perfection of menstruation.
And so it doesn't look quite so brilliant or or you could be overwhelmed with oh jeez how on earth do i
manifest that so this springtime energy is just so important isn't it shiny for whole for how you
negotiate the spring and and drawing on the spring energies of your cycle so you can take a thread
from because the vision is massive so you're going to start to find some small threads that you can
start to work with and one of the things about the spring energy for me i remember was this need not to overexpose myself so to have a degree of sort of privacy
and intimacy with myself still and that also meant just holding my ideas close to me i mean it's like
yeah you've had a brilliant idea but don't come and blurt it straight away that the spring energy
is tender and if you blurt it you are going to get feedback folks I'm just
letting you know the world loves to give feedback and by feedback I mean critical
comment so if you're not ready for that critical feedback yet on your lovely
tender idea don't blurt it everywhere or just share it with someone you
know will lovingly cherish it with you. So that, you know, we think of that spring energy, isn't
it, Shani? It's so much about really being sweet and cherishing oneself and really just pacing
one's energy. And what you're sort of discovering yourself again and what you're doing with your
creative projects here is you're going
what if how could it be you're playing with it that lovely spring energy of play and experimentation and possibilities so you're not getting too practical you're staying in a somewhat magical
realm i think yeah maybe what if if i could blah blah blah, you know, that sort of thing. Yeah, you're just playing with
it. And there isn't a great pressure to produce. This is actually quite important at this point.
Or if you are producing, it's experimenting. You know, let's just try it like this.
So when Charlie and I are working together, you know, we really in that tender space, we just take all ideas. No, no idea is a bad
idea.
Yeah, that reminds me because with any creative project, we
have the we have the brilliant idea. And it's definitely
brilliant, because otherwise, we wouldn't sort of bother with it.
We have the brilliant idea.
And then the process of going, OK, well, how am I going to realize this is quite a bumpy negotiation.
And in a sense, you're always starting with a blank slate.
Like once you've had the brilliant idea, then there's the blank page, the blank slate.
They're like, OK, so, you know know how the how am I going to do this and that moment in any creative project can
scare most people off right it's just so intimidating it's so overwhelming terrifying
in fact on some level and this energy that we feel in our inner spring has a kind of innocence
about it sort of you know it's like you're not really you're able to not take yourself quite
so seriously and as alexandra you described this you sort of in this little bubble of i guess let's
call it naivety for want of a bit of word, but I'm not really going to create, you know, Alexandra and I do this. We're not really
going to write this book. You know, we're not really going to write it. It's just an idea.
It's just an idea. So, but if we did write it, what would we say? So that whole, that whole that whole playing without commitment you've really got that energy
and there's also you know in your inner spring often your energy rises there's more motivation
and and it's that um liveliness that you feel in your system that's really good to use for exploring
possibilities and but not nailing anything down you know I like to think
of this as foreplay you know before you're like before you're really committing to anything or
you know putting the ring on the finger or whatever is this is just you want to have some
foreplay with your creative project and just like tease each other and like who did this how would that be
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I think this is why the practice of every day what day am I on how am I feeling how is my mood
and then if you're wanting to really work with a
creative project through your cycle how am I feeling creatively today in a spring can be such
a time when people go okay I've got energy again let's go go go go go go and they can somehow
instead of bringing that cherishing energy they can sort of maybe crush a natural creative flow
that wants to happen so the practice the the
dedicated practice of oh hang on i'm on day six seven eight nine ten whenever it is let's bring
some playfulness this is for playtime it's so meaningful and it can make all the difference
cycle after cycle after cycle in terms of birthing something creative fresh and brilliant exactly so if we don't want to force the flowering of anything and we can use that awareness of that
springtime energy to really let our idea grow some some strength some yeah and as i like to say
you know as the spring builds you've reminded me of this shani um you, that momentum of spring is so freaking powerful. You know, it starts off,
you're a tender little thing, but then suddenly it's got real force to it. And it's actually,
that's the thing that's going to get you across the line, you know, to actually doing something
is that element of risk that we have, you know, there's a foolhardiness. And I always say
that if it weren't for foolhardiness and I always say that if it
weren't for foolhardiness nothing would never get it would ever get born in the world I know
because every time I start out on a creative project I go I mean yeah what could possibly
go wrong let's just and then you know as Shani said when we're sort of deep in it, we go, what the, why did we agree to that?
So the spring energy is the thing that's actually going to get you over the line and you actually doing it.
Because, you know, the spring changes, you move through different phases of your cycle.
So now we're kind of at the top of spring and in a way it kicks you into the summer of your cycle so now we're kind of at the top of spring and we're in a way it kicks you into
the summer of the cycle and the summer energies wow you want to capitalize on them don't you
shani exactly yes so you could use that innocence of spring to for example sign the brook proposal
and then regret at your leisure.
So, yes, the inner summer.
How can the inner summer support our creative projects? Well, for most of us, and I recognize this isn't true for everyone,
and this is where you have to work with the cycle
you have but for most of us we're experiencing a um a sort of plateau of energy
in a good way like our energy is steady and consistent and um there's more kind of vitality in our tank and more resilience.
This is one of the kind of main things that can resource you is this resilience. I don't want to
call it a thick skinnedness, but you just have much more buffering. And I guess it's easier to feel safe in your own skin in the inner summer and
and in terms of your creative project
like I notice when I'm in my inner summer my relationship to my creative project is um uh it's harmonious it's harmonious it's like you know it's like we've been in a love
affair for a long time we know each other's bodies we know what turns each other on there's just this
lovely you know familiarity and comfort and flow between me and the creative project and in some ways this you can use this
to really get stuck in to some of the actual nuts and bolts the doing you can really get down to
business when you're in the inner summer of your cycle you can use that ease that you tend to feel to just go ahead and create, to just actually
do something. So this is the doing part of the cycle. And it's good to capitalize on that because
so often if you've gotten over the line of, you know, if you've received the inspiration or the
vision and you've kind of gotten over that sort that sort of blank page blank slate and you kind of played with some ideas then the next step which you know cripples many of us is actually
taking action and then cracking on and doing some work in other words showing up um and and for us
you know we had a very strong discipline around this didn't we alexandra we showed up every damn day to this book um to you know just see what would come through you know
just to like show up and just write stuff so this is a very good way of using this inner summer
energy is just to allow whatever's there to actually come into action and in the case of
writing it's like just whatever's coming to me,
I just write, write, write, write, write.
So there's this quality of allowing what's there
and taking your foot off the brakes
and just really going for it.
However that looks in your life.
Yeah, what do you want to add to that, Alexandra?
Well, I think you've said it actually.
I just want to use that word indiscriminate, you know discriminate I don't I don't it's not about reflecting on what
you're doing you just get it down on the page if you're writing a book you just do things you just
do do do you try it out and this there's a courage there and you've got that buffering is very important because you can keep critical voices at bay because of that.
And that can just really allow you to produce stuff because then you can do something with that stuff.
Yeah. Yeah. You've got to use that energy to actually do things.
Otherwise, what comes next is not going to be pretty.
It's not going to be pretty it's not going to be pretty speaking of the critical voices
let's let's move on to the inner autumn then how can because a lot of people will think well
there's no way that my in awesome can serve my creative process because I get crippled in this
phase you know by by the critic by the critical voices but how can the powers of the inner autumn
actually serve us creatively well the thing i'd like to really bring in a cycle awareness point
here really which is really clocking when you're crossing into your inner autumn knowing about that
crossover moment because in a sense it's just being prepared i mean
shani and i are very seasoned now about creating stuff and we just know the inevitability of having
to front up to that and you know shani's very familiar with her cycle and shani has a fabulous
creative energy that um critical energy that comes through in the autumn and um but you have to be ready for it i have to
feel ready for it by the way i just need to say that i have a critical energy that is freaking at
work most of the time too it's like my critic and her critic have opinions at this point very
strongly so there's conflict that could happen, but it's creative.
But when you know about it and you know the necessity and value of it, it has just, you are
just complete, it's just a completely different thing. It just becomes creative and useful and
functional, you know. So here we are talking about the critic. The critic is the archetypal energy, the strongest energy within the autumn.
There are many. There are other energies, too.
So what this means is you're going into a reflective stage of the writing.
So you've of your creative project. So you've done all this work.
You've produced some stuff in a sense.
What you're doing now is you're sort of stepping back a bit.
The autumn energies sort of stepping back a bit the autumn energies
sort of expand our awareness of things and kind of open up our vision and then we can see things
that we weren't seeing before it's so fascinating isn't it shiny how that happens it is really
fascinating i mean it just wanted to meet my mind every time. It was miraculous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What you said there, Alexandra, I think is just such a crux here because I've noticed,
and I'm sure others, you know, if you're listening to this, you've experienced this,
where you would be in that lovely inner summer energy creating something and it all seems great.
Yes.
Suddenly, you kind of look at what you're doing
you're like oh actually this isn't working now what was i thinking anyway then this is like
oh this is shit and you haven't clocked that the gears have changed in your psyche being system
and now you think really you just think the thing you're doing is shit. But what Alexandra's reminded us is if you're aware of your cycle, you'll realize you've
changed gears.
And rather than that being a destructive force that comes in, you can really capitalize on
it to actually step back and go, okay, I've done this work.
And here's the key is like, I've done this thing.
Yay.
Me, I put all these words on the page or me, I like,
you know, planted all these seeds in the garden or yay me, I like decorated some walls in my house
or whatever. So I've done this thing. Yay me. Now, how's it going? Like, how is this work? Is this
working? And the moment you make that more conscious thing um you immediately
create a little bit of space between you and it and um that takes a bit of the sting out of it
because before it was shit you were shit the whole thing was shit and now it's like how's this going
so far it's a very different type of approach how house is going to follow where do i need to course
correct what needs to change is this working and that's a very creative energy that discernment is
so refining and fine tuning and and as you were saying alexandra when this critical energy comes
in it's like the veils lift and you actually see levels of precision and refinement that other people don't.
And in the end, it's that acuity that you have in your inner autumn that is going to ultimately make what you create really special, really potent in the world it's in the it's in the the detail is what's going to allow
you know the exquisiteness of your vision to to to shine and like this is what we've experienced
with our book uh we think we've written a brilliant first draft you know this is like
we're in that kind of summer yeah it's amazing and then
it goes through the whole editing process and we see all the shit and all that and it's all
there's just so much to fix and change and fine-tune but because of that whole reflective
process it comes out in the end just we we we've said for example about our book wild power there isn't a word there that was
wasted or that we would change not a word because we fought over every word didn't we oh god yes
so the end it's um
every every piece of it matters every piece of it's had your care.
And that changes everything.
Oh, Shani, as I'm listening,
I can barely contain myself as you're speaking.
I just feel so, I realise how moving this phase
of the creative process is because it gets you to the jewel.
The jewel, that's it.
Yes, it gets you to the jewel in the end.
You have to go through numerous rounds.
But I really want to go back and reiterate what you said about that crossover from the summer to the autumn.
And you going, I really celebrate myself.
Because I was thinking about that.
It's the thanksgiving moment it's like you you really have to claim yourself in that
moment so that that critic does not completely novel you because there's always going to be a
sting every time i get feedback there's a sting but i have another part of me that holds another
position so i can watch the sting happen as i hold the bigger picture and then
i get over the sting very quickly because then the creative juices kick in don't they
because the other element of the autumn is i've always i always found this i found the
the inner autumn of when i was cycling menstrual cycling i'm still cycling but normal cycling was I had a drive that could
really go through difficult problems so if there were things I'd been avoiding
you know in the summer of the psych I think oh no I have no idea how to solve
that problem now I won't even go there and then I come into the autumn and then
there's this added sight you get and And then suddenly I'd see, oh, yeah, but not only would I see how I might tackle it,
but also I had a kind of grunt in the engine.
It's like a drive in me that would go, we're going to we're going to bloody do this one.
I'm going to figure out how to do this.
So there was this kind of push, this drive in my system to deal with the difficult issues.
And that is a really fabulous gift of the autumn, as well as that sort of critical energy.
If you're aligned with that energy, you've got a willingness to turn up.
Yeah. And so I feel like I want to just finish this conversation by coming back to the inner winter,
following on from what you've said there, because Alexandra, that grit, yes,
you can deal with the difficult problems in your creative project,
but there will also be problems that you actually can't deal with. Yep.
You know, where you hit a wall that is unsolvable, you know,
it happens and that this is where your inner winter takes you by the hand and says come
come with me we're walking away from that project we're going to forget as best we can
about the problem the thing we're doing and we're going to go and rest
and all that refinement that's happened
through your inner autumn and all that problem solving and nutting things out that's happened
it's going to go through a next level
potentizing when you walk away through a next level of like polishing when you go away and do nothing and just leave it all be the creative project itself
is like oh i just i can almost imagine it kind of going okay let me find my way now that you've
left me alone you've stopped like poking at me i'm just gonna i'm gonna find my way into my own
skin it's like the creative project itself almost settles down and potentizes and all the elements of it just kind of land you're off away and then at some
point when you come out of your inner winter you meet it again in its like bejeweled new
problem solved way it's like it comes it comes back to you it's like ka-ching a jeweled, new, problem-solved way.
It's like it comes back to you.
It's like, ka-ching, door open, get it all out.
It's what happens.
It's amazing.
So I had to bring it to the end of the other one today
just to complete the story.
I mean, that's perfection.
I absolutely love that about the empty space.
It's beautifully expressed, Shani. I'm just loving it.
Yeah, I love it. I love hearing you both speak about this because the potential of this is so huge because it's a complete antidote to the crazy way that our culture is designed to push, push, push, you know, do, do, do,
take, take, take. And it's, this is sustainable creation, you know, which leads to sustainable
life, which is what we need in our world. So I just, I think the potential of this is so huge.
And I, it's one of my favorite things actually to hear you two speak about is transmuting that critical energy into the love and the potentizing.
Gorgeous. We have a longer podcast episode about this, actually, that I'll link to in the show notes for this if people want to go deeper.
And as you were talking, I was thinking about how in the wild power immersion, it's an amazing place to practice this to actually hone these different powers so if they if people
are listening and there is something they're wanting to create come and join us in the wild
power immersion because you get to really meet your own version of this and have the power of
the cycle work work the power in you to be able to become more um more potent more creatively potent
is there i mean it's been so bejeweled but is there a golden nugget that we could harvest
from this conversation is there a final word that you'd like to leave us with about how
our menstrual cycle awareness can support our creative endeavors i just want to say respect your cycle awareness practice it's got your back
like that discipline of cycle awareness is going to give you a real discipline around meeting the
creative process it'll help you to be boundaried around all the different elements that have to happen so um really yeah love that cycle awareness practice
because it's good it's it's packed packed with creative jewels for you yeah so similarly uh
echoing what you're saying in a slightly different way alexandra which is um a suggestion that as
you're practicing cycle awareness if you're involved in a creative
project just ask yourself the question how can the place I'm in today serve my project how can
I use the resource and the power of the place I'm in to serve my project or whatever it is I'm
working on and if you bring that question into your cycle
awareness practice you'll notice I imagine something quite staggering that is unleashed in
you and we'd love to hear we'd love to hear how that goes because in our experience it's quite exciting to work with your cycle in this way
thank you both right so that wraps up our series of conversations for the wild power retreat
but the retreat continues on january the 25th in a few days where we invite you to join us live
for our encounter your wild power event which will be guided by
alexandra and shani they're going to guide you to meet the wild power that lives in your inner
winter in menstruation and we'll also explore and share with you how you can continue this year of
menstrual cycle awareness by joining our wild power immersion which is starting on february 8th
okay can't wait for that that's going to be beautiful and um i'll see you both
soon thank you so much for everything you shared today bye
thank you for joining us for part six of this special podcast series the wild power retreat
as i mentioned our closing event is happening on tuesday the 25th of january encounter your wild
power which is a live online event where you'll take a guided journey into the wild power that
lives in your inner winter your menstru, so you can reclaim your menstrual
cycle as your personal path to power. You can register to receive the Zoom link to join at
redschool.net forward slash wild dash power dash retreat and I'll drop the link in the show notes.
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