Moving through the waves: Somatic dance and your menstrual cycle

This was raw but something I feel should be shared. Most of the time I don't move or dance during my bleed. Usually during the winter part of my moon cycle, I'll walk or maybe womb yoga, but this particular month, this cycle, this moon cycle felt big.

Since I've been using somatic dance as one of my 'tools' to manage my mental, physical and spiritual health, everything moves through my body much more and with fluidity but that doesn't mean I feel it any less deeply (especially being Aquarius sun with a Cancer moon, I certainly feel things deeply!)

This cycle, I felt the longing and the anger and the torment in my heart which had led me to my beloved dancing to my favourite music. The more the song built, the more I was able to release in these huge movements. I was swinging my arms as widely as they'd go and my body began stomping my feet too. I let the dance move me, rather than me creating dance. Alongside my bleed and the movement, I was able to shift what was no longer serving me.

Bleeding is a way women release. If we can work with it, not against it and begin to understand it, we can release what we've held for that month, that cycle. We(women) hold onto so much and we pick up from others, from the earth and the collective too.

But we're not releasing it, we've been taught to hide it, cover the smell, hold in your emotion, mask it and push it down, waay down.

And this is as a collective, not just individually.

The process I describe here wasn't just my own pain.

Towards the end, I calmed down and I was able to hold myself, because I was able to move through it and have compassion for myself thanks to the somatic dance.

If this process sounds like something you might like to try for your menstrual cycle, reach out for a free 15 minute consultation and we can see if working together is right for you.