Podcast Series for Women

In our Western Culture Menstruation is often viewed as shameful, dirty, and something to be secretive about.

This narrative sets the scene for other major life transitions that women move through including their fertility & conception journey, pregnancy, birth & motherhood.

In this episode we explore the narratives around these life transitions and how they impact our relationship with our body.

We highlight how each of these phases offers women an in invitation to deepen their relationship with their body, and provide practices that can help us to embody our innate wisdom.

To accompany each episode of this series we offer some reflective questions to contemplate. Reflecting upon your relationship with your cycle.

In this episode we explore creativity and sacred art. We dive into:

• Defining Creativity and the many forms of creative expression

• How we lean into creativity from an intuitive sense, for the purpose of self expression and self reflection and how this looks and feels different to creating for the purpose of a particular outcome.

• How embracing our innate creative nature can lead to expansive self expression in all aspects of our life.

• What sacred art is and how the process of creativity looks and feels different when we are embracing our feminine and masculine nature.

• What stifles our creativity

• How disconnecting from our creative nature stops us from fully expressing ourselves in our life

• How the process of creativity gives us clarity

• How we can use creativity and sacred art as part of our healing journey.

This was such a dynamic topic of conversation that we had to spread this conversation over two parts. In part 1 of Sex & Sensuality we talk about:

• The interconnectedness of how women experience their bodies sensually and sexually – how our our relationship with our body and our self, affects our experience of sex

• Sexual and sensual energy, how they are different, and why connecting to your sensuality lays the foundations for better sex

• Sensuality and pleasure & exploring pleasure & joy within your body

• How women would like to experience sex & the divide that can exist between how we are actually experiencing sex & how we would like to experience sex

• Exploring your own values and beliefs around sex

• Finding safe spaces to explore and connect with our sensuality and sexuality

• How we can feel more comfortable in our communication about sex with our partners

• The cyclical nature of a women, and how our experience of sex can be different across different phases of our cycle

• Sex and intimacy during different phases of our life cycle – menstruation, conception, pregnancy, motherhood & beyond.

This was such a dynamic topic of conversation that we had to spread this conversation over two parts. In part 2 of Sex & Sensuality we dive into:

• How a woman’s experience and views of sex & sensuality change over the lifecycle.

• How we can change our relationship to sex & intimacy.

• The effect of trauma (birth trauma, surgical/medical trauma, sexual trauma) and how we can regain our connection to our body so that we can feel more present and safe during sex.

• How connecting with your body personally can change your experience of sex with a partner.

• How we can step into deep acceptance and celebration of our sensual and sexual self.

In this bonus episode we share with you an audio recording of our Cycles & Seasons Wisdom Offering from our Into The Wild Immersion. In this episode we share the transitions a woman moves through across the life cycle & the wisdom we gain as we move through these phases.

Kate talks specifically to Yogic Philosophy & the understanding of the The Feminine Siddhis including:

1.  Menarche & Menstruation,

2. Sexual awakening & female orgasm,

3. Conception, pregnancy, & miscarriag

4. Labour & Birth

5. Lactation

6. Menopause

We also share our own personal experiences of moving through some of our most challenging life transitions as women, what these experiences taught us, and how our relationship with ourselves & our world has changed because of them.

As this is an excerpt of our Into The Wild Immersion, we make reference to other resources that are included in the program. For more details on the Into The Wild Immersion visit: 

https://higherstatesofyoga.com/wildwoman/

In this conversation Kate & we talk about women’s creativity.

Specifically, I share the process of writing Body Conscious: A woman’s guide to holistic pelvic wellness & feminine embodiment. 

Integrated Women’s Health – Here we talk about:

• Why an integrated approach to women’s health is vital in improving how women feel in their body
• My pelvic health journey and how I came to create a more integrated holistic approach to women’s pelvic health
• The challenges we face as practitioners and allied health professionals in creating a holistic approach to wellness
• Stepping out of the box as a practitioner and creating your unique way of working with women
• How we can integrate scientific evidence-based practices with eastern medicine
• The importance of seeing the whole person as a therapist and how the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual aspects of a woman impact health and wellness.