You can trust the growing pains of your transformation
The moon waxes into light as effortlessly as she surrendered to the darkness that came before. She has done this countless times before...
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Carly Slade
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Why I do what I do
From addiction to obsession Before I discovered yoga I was in survival mode. I went from work to sleep to work and from addiction to...
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Carly Slade
- Jan 4, 2021
- 5 min
Outgrowing our stories
I used to think January 1st was a funny time to start a year but as I've more closely observed nature I see that it is less arbitrary...
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Carly Slade
- Oct 28, 2020
- 4 min
We deserve to be valued in all our seasons
You can’t have spring without autumn and people with periods deserve to be valued, loved and accepted when we’re 'nice' and ovulatory as...
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Carly Slade
- Aug 28, 2020
- 7 min
The forest has wrapped us in a promise
Nature is at the very heart's core of everything we are and everything we do. In this piece I share some thoughts around the principles of n
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Carly Slade
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
Learning to harvest the crop and settle in for winter
Living close to nature and on a farm keeps me deeply connected to the seasons and cycles of nature, which in turn serves as a daily reminder
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Carly Slade
- Jul 31, 2020
- 8 min
Don't we all deserve a life worth living?
The last few months have really had me reflecting even more deeply than usual on cyclical living and the pace of modern life.
A couple of
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Carly Slade
- May 3, 2020
- 5 min
Yoga and obsession
I started yoga at 17 because I was obsessed with exercise and the Power Yoga VHS I used pushed me hard and kept me out of my body. I exerci
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Carly Slade
- Apr 22, 2020
- 4 min
Rest is Radical a Rhythmical Rebellion
It’s taken a global pandemic to give many people the rest they’ve needed for a lifetime. A recent study even showed that of the participants
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Carly Slade
- Mar 10, 2020
- 5 min
A society of wakists
As a society of ‘wakists’ we don’t generally give equal value to sleep, rest or other restful states on the consciousness spectrum. We are t
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Carly Slade
- Mar 8, 2020
- 6 min
What happens when I say period in class and why I keep doing it anyway…
What happens when I say period in class and why I keep doing it anyway… I came away from my Well Woman Yoga Therapy training empowered to...
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Carly Slade
- Mar 8, 2020
- 2 min
Autonomy and freedom
Depending on my environment, who is around me and what is happening I can show up gregarious, defiant and rebellious or muted, meek and...
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Carly Slade
- Mar 2, 2020
- 2 min
Linear consistency isn’t sustainable & pleasure is our birth rite
Day 13 can be a tricky day for me (I usually ovulate around day 11/12 so this is a post ovulatory day for me) if I’m overstimulated, overwor
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Carly Slade
- Feb 2, 2020
- 1 min
Dirty, hairy, happy
If women are always shaving, cleaning, tidying, putting on make up and feeling exhausted from dieting and pretending our periods don’t exist
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Carly Slade
- Jan 2, 2020
- 2 min
Permission to emerge slowly...
'I don't want new year new me, I just want to eat toast.'
I think I share this every year because it is truly one of the funn
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Carly Slade
- Dec 24, 2019
- 3 min
Remembering the old ways, the wild ways
This weekend we celebrated the longest night of the year at Winter Solstice. An invitation to soak up the healing balms of winter darkness a
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Carly Slade
- Jun 11, 2019
- 2 min
Self understanding is a precursor to self love
To understand what is happening the body and why is a basic human right. We should be taught from before our very first period how we can gl
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Carly Slade
- Jun 3, 2019
- 1 min
I dream of a world...
~ I dream of a world where all women have access to toilets and sanitary materials
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~ I dream of a world where women can take period days a
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Carly Slade
- May 30, 2019
- 3 min
Lives ruled by time
Recently I was thinking about how time rules almost the entirety of our lives. An alarm to wake up at a particular time, taking waking temps
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Carly Slade
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
Wildlife & the 'Wild Woman' are both endangered species...
Our expectations of women are closely mirrored in our expectations of earth and for too long we have expected too much of both. We have expe
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