The Menstruality Podcast - Nourish Your Creativity through Cycle Awareness *Retreat Special* (Alexandra & Sjanie)

Episode Date: January 22, 2022

Today 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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,
Starting point is 00:01:03 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
Starting point is 00:01:54 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
Starting point is 00:02:39 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
Starting point is 00:03:54 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
Starting point is 00:05:48 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
Starting point is 00:06:33 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,
Starting point is 00:06:59 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
Starting point is 00:07:55 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?
Starting point is 00:08:55 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.
Starting point is 00:09:33 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
Starting point is 00:10:20 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.
Starting point is 00:10:52 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
Starting point is 00:11:32 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
Starting point is 00:12:07 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,
Starting point is 00:12:43 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
Starting point is 00:13:51 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.
Starting point is 00:14:37 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
Starting point is 00:15:35 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
Starting point is 00:16:22 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
Starting point is 00:17:15 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
Starting point is 00:17:59 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
Starting point is 00:19:01 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 if this conversation is inspiring you to deepen your menstrual cycle awareness practice this year and you'd like support from alexandra sharni and a community of like-minded cycle aware people we invite you to visit wildpower.online where you can find out more about our 2022 wild power immersion this is six weeks of inspiring teachings live coaching sessions with alessandra and sharni a supportive community to help you
Starting point is 00:20:01 awaken to the inner architecture of your cycle so that you can embrace the full force of your cyclical intelligence and create a new power story for yourself and the world we're really excited we've totally redesigned this program this year to help you better encounter and embody and activate your wild power through the magic of menstrual cycle awareness you can find out more at wildpower.online that's wildpower.online 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
Starting point is 00:20:51 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,
Starting point is 00:21:48 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.
Starting point is 00:22:37 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
Starting point is 00:23:25 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
Starting point is 00:24:48 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
Starting point is 00:25:57 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?
Starting point is 00:26:21 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
Starting point is 00:27:06 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
Starting point is 00:27:57 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.
Starting point is 00:28:50 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.
Starting point is 00:29:25 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
Starting point is 00:29:51 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,
Starting point is 00:30:28 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
Starting point is 00:31:21 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
Starting point is 00:32:29 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.
Starting point is 00:33:02 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
Starting point is 00:33:33 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
Starting point is 00:34:22 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,
Starting point is 00:35:08 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
Starting point is 00:35:45 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.
Starting point is 00:36:45 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.
Starting point is 00:37:03 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
Starting point is 00:38:12 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
Starting point is 00:39:16 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
Starting point is 00:40:14 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
Starting point is 00:41:07 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. If you loved this podcast, please subscribe and leave us a review. It really helps other people to find us. Okay, see you next week when we're back to our usual weekly schedule. And until then, keep living life according to your own brilliant rhythm.

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