This session draws upon the wisdom of Winter to help offer support when we are in this time of year or feeling in need of a REST.
I love the concept of dividing the menstrual cycle into four different seasons and embracing the different phases rather than pushing through. Working with and tracking my own cycle has been an opportunity to tune into each season and apply it to my practice. Training in Well Woman Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author of Yoni Shakti. Maisie Hill’s Period Power (the book and the podcast) and Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and have all been incredibly helpful resources on this journey.
Creating a sensory space really holds me in my practice and adds another layer of connection to each season and to my body and spirit. For this wintery practice I walked down my garden and picked sage to make tea-I just give it a rinse add boiled water and a spoonful of honey, the smell is so comforting to me and apparenty Sage comes from the Latin word for ‘Safe’.
A hotwater bottle and a sheep fleece made by my Aunty (she felts the back so the sheep can go on to live long happy lives!) made me feel extra cocooned in my wintery rest space.
