Inner Temple

As I step closer to officially studying the menstrual cycle next week, I have over the last week encountered several interactions with women about cycle awareness and the embodiment and awareness of the cycle.

This conversation is certainly not exclusive to bleeders, but it does resonate more deeply as an embodied experience with the menstrual cycle being (or has been) a prominent part of everyday life.

I have had shared experiences with those who don’t bleed and there is still a connection there, after all, we are cyclical beings, yet for those who embody the lived experience of a menstrual cycle, the sensitivity of its cyclical nature, is more deeply felt.

The connection makes sense to me. We inevitably live in a cyclical world. Nature has its seasons, day and night, the moon waxes and wanes, the oceans rise and fall, animals, plants, insects, death and birth – everything follows a cycle and pattern, which is inherently unique.

But for humans, becoming so detached from our own senses and awareness in a society that promotes achievements and accomplishments over rest and much needed down time, when will be able to carve out the time to reflect, reassess and dream, feel into our own personal rhythm as well as to what may be arising within us? Can we come to accept what is arising and see it for what it is, the nuances, the hard critic and the gems hidden therein?

Is there something to learn in what feels like a dark void?

Read more here:
https://www.innertemple.com.au/post/getting-closer-to-officially-studying-menstrual-cycle-awareness