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- Create a menstrual altar. Set up a special space in your home where you can honor and celebrate your menstrual cycle. This can include candles, crystals, or other objects that hold personal significance.
- Practice menstrual self-care. Self-care rituals tend to involve taking time to care for yourself during your period. This may look like taking a relaxing ritual bath with essential oils, practicing some gentle yin yoga or meditation, or simply taking some time to rest and reflect.
- Free bleed. Free bleeding is a practice where a woman chooses not to use any menstrual products, and instead allows her menstrual blood to flow freely and uncontained.
- Give your blood back to the earth. There’s an ancient Hopi prophecy that goes: “When the women give their blood back to the earth, men will come home from war, and Earth shall find peace.”
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Periods can bring physical discomfort, but they can be even more painful if the community around you doesn’t celebrate them. Some of us just bide our time in silence, shaming ourselves for wanting to lay down and eat all the snacks. We spend time away from friends, family, or coworkers to spare them the wrath of unpredictable mood swings. And some ...
In some cultures, menstruating individuals are shunned and isolated due to deeply ingrained fear, religious beliefs, or superstition. While this pattern often manifests in oppression, for Ojibwe women, self-isolating during menstruation is seen as a restorative and valuable practice. The Ojibwe are indigenous peoples whose communities are scattered...
For four days during monsoon season, temples close and all agricultural work is forbidden in Assam, a state in northeastern India. It is believed that the goddess Kamakhya is menstruating during those four days – so the temple is closed as a sign of respect. 2 Kamakhya’s devotees wait patiently outside the temple doors while the rest of the town pu...
In the Philippines, it’s believed that wiping your face with your own period blood can prevent breakouts. 3Some people get tricked into doing this. While washing your period-stained underwear, for example, an elder might tell you that there’s a fly on your face so that you unintentionally wipe the blood all over yourself in the process. Is it total...
The Tikuna Tribe of Brazil – deep in the Amazon rainforest – has a unique way of commemorating first periods: When a young girl first menstruates, she is sent to live in a house alone for one year. She’s only allowed one visitor: her grandmother. In that time, her grandmother teaches her many traditional skills, including weaving, identifying medic...
In the land we know as northwestern California, the Hupa Tribe still upholds its coming of age traditions for young girls. The tribe believes that menarche (the first period) is incredibly powerful – so they celebrate it with the Flower Dance, or Ch’ilwa:l, which can last for several days. 8 The kinahldung — the girl whose menarche is being celebra...
Discover the diverse cultural practices surrounding menstruation across the globe. Learn how societies from India to Japan and Africa to Native American tribes view and practice menstruation. Explore the Western world's efforts to break menstrual taboos and promote menstrual equity.
- Rest. Honour your body, mind and spirit by resting. Make the effort to consciously slow down and take it easy on your period. This won’t only alleviate many common premenstrual syndrome symptoms, but it’s an act of resistance in society that was never made for women.
- Stretch and move. Gentle stretching will not only relieve period cramps and other bodily pain and PMS symptoms but will connect you to the nuances of your body.
- Spend time in nature. Whether you go out walking in a park, or sit beside a peaceful body of water, get outside! YES, it can feel like snuggling up indoors is all you want to do.
- Walk barefoot. Walking barefoot allows the transfer of electrons from the earth into the body and the health benefits are especially potent when you have your period.
By incorporating these rituals into your life and adapting them to your personal preferences, you can transform menstruation from a monthly inconvenience into a powerful source of healing, renewal, and self-connection.
Jun 24, 2020 · Please enjoy these sacred rituals for honoring your own sacred moon time, share them with your sisters and daughters, and please do share with us in the comments any of your beloved menstruation rituals.
Embrace and honour your menstrual cycle with rituals that connect you to the divine feminine, fostering reflection, healing, and empowerment.
