Menstrual Cycle Awareness

Menstrual Cycle Awareness (MCA)

What is it all about?

Menstrual Cycle Awareness is a tool that all who menstruate can use to better serve themselves within their cyclical nature. As those who identify as women, we are cyclical beings. Much like the energy of the seasons, the tides and the moon, there are distinct changes in our energy and feeling as we move through our cycle. Within MCA, our cycle can be divided into four main stages: Inner Spring, Inner Summer, Inner Autumn and Inner Winter. These stages all correlate with the inner cycles of a womans menstrual cycle: Follicular, Ovulation, Luteal and Menstruation. Within MCA, we learn how to best serve ourselves as we navigate these phases of our cycles.

Menstrual Cycle awareness for me is a way of living more mindfully and more in sync with my own body. It is a connection to my innate power, my yoni, my shakti, feminine energy…all that encompasses who I am as a woman in this world.

Through an in depth course of study and Red Alchemy facilitator programme with Kitty Maguire, the most impactful thing I learned was how to live more in sync with my cycle, my emotions, my highs and my lows. To acknowledge them all and rather than resist, to embrace and support. I understand now more fully the different stages in my cycle and I continue to learn more about my body as I continue to acknowledge, track and honour my inner seasons. This awareness and knowledge allows me to become more in tune with the subtleties that reside within it.

Through embodying this work in my own experience, I feel I have a much deeper awareness of how my energy is depending on what season I am in. It is being more in tune with my body, nature and living my life in a way that is supportive of how I am doing physically, emotionally and spiritually. The differences I feel in myself simply by having a greater awareness of my cycle and making all kinds of life choices around it.