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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.”
Aug 1, 2006 · The first ten chapters in Part I focus on medical understandings of menstruation in cultures from ancient Greece to the present, while the nine chapters in Part II consider representations of menstruation in literature and popular culture, although these discussions are not mutually exclusive.
- Elisha P. Renne
- 2006
They viewed menstruation as a form of purification and believed that menstrual blood had medicinal properties. For example, some ancient texts suggest that menstrual blood was used in potions or healing rituals, highlighting the complex and often contradictory attitudes towards menstruation in early cultures.
Apr 1, 2017 · The ultimate goal is to be able to provide women culturally sensitive and medically appropriate therapies for their menstrual disorders. This biocultural approach to menstruation management is desirable in contemporary medical practice.
- Delfin A. Tan, Rohana Haththotuwa, Ian S. Fraser
- 2017
May 28, 2019 · Dignity Without Danger is a British Academy and GCRF-funded project on the origins of menstrual beliefs and practices, which explores the diverse range of beliefs, practices and historical and cultural roots that underpin menstrual health customs in all seven provinces of Nepal.
Nov 5, 2017 · Menstruation is a natural bodily function that has been shrouded in myths, imbued with both good and bad symbolisms, and is the object of diverse taboos and rituals in all traditional cultures from as far back as historical records are available.
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Jul 25, 2020 · While discarded socially, these restrictions still have religious significance; menstrual taboos are only relevant in relation to performing rituals, but are not seen as necessary in everyday life. What are the religious bases for beliefs that influence menstrual practices?
