9. Honor The Bleed: Connecting with Our Sacred Cycles with Leanna Pareja
Ancient cultures have celebrated the coming into womanhood with ceremony and ritual. But we have lost this connection to our bleed, to our cycles, and we have forgotten the powers within us, the sacred energy we harness that can only be accessed by connecting to our natural rhythms. That of our blood, our womb, and the moon. In this week's podcast Mat and Ash interview Leanna Pareja, the co-creator of Spirit Woman, which is both a community and educational space for woman to reconnect with the divine feminine, sacred ritual, ceremony, and ancient traditions that connect us with our bleed and sacred cycles. Leanna talks to us about what it means to become a woman through rite of passage and explains why we might be disconnected to our cycles. Through our cycles, we as woman have access to our super powers of intuition, creativity, foresight, and many other extra abilities. But our cycles are not just during our bleed, they last a full lunar cycle. How does the moon affect our cycles? What types of transformations are we actually experiencing during a 28 day period and how do we tap into the deeper powers of our bleed? What are the four seasons a woman goes through each month? How do we honor each season and make the most of being a goddess? How do we track our cycles and why should we? Even Mathew shares how this new knowledge has transformed his relationship with Ash and enhanced their lives together! This podcast is basically bad ass and everyone, man and woman needs to hear this!