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The Menstruality Podcast
How can menstrual cycle awareness and conscious menopause enhance your health, creativity and leadership? That's the question we'll explore together in the Menstruality Podcast, brought to you by Red School, where we’re training the menstruality leaders of the future. Your host, Sophie Jane Hardy will be joined often by Red School’s founders, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, as well as pioneering thought leaders, troublemakers and culture-shifters to discover 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.
Episodes
196 episodes
195. Part Two: How Cycle Awareness Helps you to Manage your Energy (Q+A w/ Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re in conversation with the brilliant community gathered around this work and podcast in our part two episode about how to work with menstrual cycle awareness as our own in-built energy management system. This con...
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Season 14
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Episode 195
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194: How Menstrual Cycle Awareness Helps you to Manage your Energy (Alexandra & Sjanie)
We’re experiencing an epidemic of chronic fatigue and burnout, especially for women, and people with marginalised identities. It’s part of our modern day polycrisis, and in many ways the exhaustion we’re experiencing in our individual bo...
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Season 14
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Episode 194
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1:03:59
193. Cultivating Resilience and Preventing Burnout in Perimenopause (Jolinda Johnson)
When we enter the autumn of our menstruation years in our 40s and start to experience what many call perimenopause, we can easily think we should keep pushing through even though our bodies, minds and emotional landscape are transforming...
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Season 14
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Episode 193
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56:45
192. Part Two: Beginner’s Guide to Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Q&A with Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re continuing our exploration around the fundamentals of the practice of menstrual cycle awareness, through the lens of some of the frequently asked questions from our community, such as what to do if your menstrual cycle doesn’...
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Season 14
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Episode 192
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1:01:10
191. How to Retire Superwoman and Honour Your Needs in Perimenopause (Dr Joanna Martin)
In our forties, many of us hit a wall. It can be a time when our responsibilities are at an all time high, just when our bodies are telling us - sometimes very loudly - that it’s time to change the way we’ve been living and working so fa...
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Season 14
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Episode 191
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57:04
190. A Beginner’s Guide to Menstrual Cycle Awareness (Alexandra & Sjanie)
When people hear about menstrual cycle awareness, they’re often surprised, confused and baffled by the idea that there could be a connection between the menstrual cycle and your creativity, power and wisdom. It’s no surprise given curren...
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Season 13
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Episode 190
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1:05:13
189. The Wisdom of Indigenous Andean Moontime Practices & Woman Medicine (Dr Cynthia Ingar)
In many indigenous communities across the world, people have long honoured menstruation as a sacred time. Today we’re lucky to be exploring the beauty and wisdom of the ancestral moontime medicine of the Andean people, and our guest is D...
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Season 13
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Episode 189
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59:53
188. The Womb as a Portal to Personal, Collective and Ancestral Trauma Healing (Dr Jeevan Singh)
Befriending our menstrual cycles and wombs and coming home to the root of our body, and to our pelvic bowls often means negotiating any trauma that we’ve experienced in that part of our bodies, or other traumas that we hold in this part ...
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Season 13
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Episode 188
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57:21
187. How Inner Spring Evolves our Leadership Skills - Replay (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Spring is just beginning here where Alexandra, Sjanie and I are in the UK, and due to popular demand, this time two years ago we rode off the springtime momentum to create a couple of podcast episodes all about the inner spring - the pre...
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Season 13
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Episode 187
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1:03:03
186. Menopause as a Gateway to Magnificence: Wise Power Series (Prune Harris)
Today we’re exploring the immense capacities that open up to us as we move through menopause, and it’s a special episode as Alexandra, the co-founder of Red School is your host, and it’s our next Wise Power series conversation...T...
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Season 13
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Episode 186
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58:44
185. Perimenopause - What’s Actually Going On? Replay (Alexandra & Sjanie)
In our 40s, many of us begin to experience a variety of health symptoms and challenges, as well as emotional and psychological shifts. Some call this perimenopause. At Red School, Alexandra and Sjanie call it, The Quickening… <...
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Season 13
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Episode 185
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1:02:16
184. Our Wombs, Cycles & Menopause as Doorways to Spiritual Power (Uma Dinsmore Tuli)
As many of you will know, Uma Dinsmore Tuli has been a powerful force for good in many fields for decades, including Yoga, Menstruality, and women’s health. She describes herself as a writer, an educator, a Hyperactive Yoginī, a mother o...
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Season 13
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Episode 184
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1:03:15
183. The Connection between Cycle Awareness, Witchcraft and Magic (Mimi Young)
Many of us feel more intuitive and connected to the mystical and the magical in the second half of the menstrual cycle and today I’m directly exploring the connection between menstrual cycle awareness, witchcraft and psychic capacities.<...
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Season 13
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Episode 183
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58:48
182. Worshipping the Menstrual Cycle as a Gateway to the Sacred Feminine (Sarah Jenks)
When our guest today, Sarah Jenks was in her 20s, striving to get it all right, and be a good girl, she quickly found herself feeling exhausted, empty and struggling with emotional eating. One day, she stumbled upon sacred feminine cerem...
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Season 13
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Episode 182
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58:42
181. The Spiritual Power of our Wombs and Menstrual Cycles (Usha Anandi)
We live in a world where we so often feel that we need to live like men, work like men, and push ourselves like men in order to be valued. When the truth is that we are more-or-less twenty eight different women each month, and there is i...
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Season 13
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Episode 181
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57:46
180. How Your Cycle Can Help You Realise Your 2025 Visions (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Happy New Year! Today we’re back with our first live episode of 2025, and we’re trying out something new and fun - we hope you love it: a ‘power card’ reading for the year to come. Our theme for today is how menstrual cycl...
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Season 13
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Episode 180
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1:07:54
179. How to Begin the Year, and Everything Else, with Cycle Awareness - Replay (Sjanie & Alexandra)
As we enter 2025, we explore what menstrual cycle awareness can teach us about how to begin things well. This is an episode we recorded a couple of years ago, when we were each navigating a bumpy beginning to the year, and we used this a...
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Season 13
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Episode 179
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57:43
178. How to End the Year, and Everything Else, with Cycle Awareness - Replay (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re sharing a conversation we had a couple of years back at the close of the year and it’s all about what cycle awareness can teach us about all of life’s endings; the smaller, more surface level ones like the end of the year we ...
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Season 13
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Episode 178
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58:03
177. How Inner Winter Awakens Feminine Leadership - Replay (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’re sharing one of our most popular episodes from the archives - to tune into the outer winter here in the northern hemisphere… it’s all about how the inner winter of the menstrual cycle awakens feminine leadership…So t...
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Season 13
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Episode 177
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1:00:07
176. Why We’re Taking a Sabbatical - and How You Can Too! (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Guided by the wisdom of deep rest at menstruation, Alexandra and Sjanie do a 'Big Bleed' retreat for Red School every year, a kind of short sabbatical. Even though Red School is a big eco-system, with a community of 1000s of people and a...
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Season 12
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Episode 176
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1:07:03
175. How Chinese Medicine Can Support You in Perimenopause (Kris Gonzalez)
In Chinese Medicine, life progresses in seven-year cycles for female bodies, and each of these phases correlates to one of the five elements; water, wood, fire, earth and metal. Today Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Kris Gonzal...
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Season 12
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Episode 175
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1:07:35
174. The Future is Menstrual (Alexandra & Sjanie)
Today we’d love to invite you to dream with us for a moment… Imagine we could look ahead twenty years, to a world which fully honours the power and magic of the menstrual cycle and menopause… a world where the menstrual taboo has ...
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Season 12
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Episode 174
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1:05:01
173. Cycle Awareness and Ending Violence Against Women & Girls (Tamsin Fagan)
Menstrual cycle awareness has the capacity to create meaningful change in all areas of life, and today we’re exploring an aspect of our collective human experience which isn’t talked about enough...In a couple of days, it will be ...
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Season 12
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Episode 173
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56:15
172. How Cycle Awareness Grows Your Intuition (Alexandra & Sjanie)
In a world that can overly prioritise the linear and rational, so many of us long to connect with and express our instinctive, intuitive knowing, and today we’re exploring how the practice of menstrual cycle awareness can help us to hone...
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Season 12
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Episode 172
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1:04:23
171. Mothering, Matrescence and Perimenopause (Amy Taylor Kabbaz)
What do we do when we’re experiencing significant changes physically, emotionally and spiritually in the years running up to menopause, all we want to do is run far, far away, but we still have kids at home who need our care and support?...
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Season 12
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Episode 171
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59:40