Menstrual Education

Expressing and protecting what is sacred begins, for me, with remembering the wisdom of the body. Menstrual awareness and education is one of the ways I choose to do this. For far too long, menstruation has been forgotten, shamed, silenced, and treated as something negative, a nuisance, has even been called the ‘the curse’ — a pattern shaped by generations of gender violence and power, cultural discomfort and disconnection from the female body’s cyclical intelligence.

Yet its vital importance is returning, not only for women and people who menstruate, but for everyone, and for the earth itself. There is much to learn from the rhythm, the power, and deep intelligence of the menstrual cycle. It is part of the reproductive cycle — but it is also far more than that.

My approach is grounded in positive menstrual literacy: teaching the whole menstrual cycle as a vital sign and a source of meaningful information about the body. Through knowledge, curiosity, gentle guidance and tailored material, learners are supported to recognise the uniqueness of their own cycles and to grow confidence in understanding what their bodies are communicating.

At the heart of this work is a positive, reverent view of the body — the body as a site of power, pleasure, and potential, as the wonderful Dr. Chris Bobel explores in her work. I invite learners to see themselves as active agents and knowers of their own embodied experience, capable of forming a deeper, trusting relationship with their own unique cyclical rhythms, their own Potency - my suggested fourth “P”. Power. Pleasure. Potential. Potency.

Positive menstrual education cultivates curiosity, respect, and reverence. It creates a safe space to nurture shame and silence, to listen deeply to the body, and to recognise menstruation and cyclical change as meaningful rites/rights of human experience.

Curriculum note:

My suite of workshops and programs supports learners from Menarche through Menstruation to Menopause.

My approach blends education with community cultural development principles — working alongside the people I serve — their voice and experience at the centre- and use a range of creative practices such as art and storytelling to make learning both deep and joyful. Programs are age‑appropriate, inclusive and welcoming to all, including those who do not menstruate but wish to support the people in their lives who do.

Each program is designed to be accessible for learners from eight years old to adults. The core teachings remain the same — honouring the menstrual cycle as a source of wisdom, body literacy, and wellbeing — but the way the material is offered is thoughtfully tailored to meet the developmental needs of each age group. So many teenagers say the menstrual education they receive comes too little and too late. Beginning earlier allows them to meet their cycle when it arrives with knowledge and confidence rather than confusion and most often in isolation.

In my programs, younger learners receive clear, simple, supportive foundations; teens are invited into deeper curiosity and agency; adults are welcomed into remembrance, reclamation, and cyclical understanding. The heart of the work stays constant: reverence for the body, respect for lived experience, and an invitation to see the menstrual cycle as a site of power, potency, pleasure, and potential.

Each program is currently moving through its own seasonal renewal — a cyclical review. Updated workshops and programs will be shared here in late Spring. If you feel called to work with me, please connect with me directly via email, or subscribe to my newsletter to receive updates as the curriculum unfolds.