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 20, 2021
- 3 min
Emotions as allies
Every year I get braver and braver in meeting my emotions and it seems the more resilience I develop the more challenging the emotional...
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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 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
- Jun 18, 2020
- 3 min
I might just burn down the world and start over...
Menstrual Cycle Awareness is a potent practice for connecting to the many different expressions of power we have access to as people with pe
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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 12, 2020
- 4 min
Confidence, cunts and congruency
A couple of years ago it seemed as though vaginas suddenly got a revamp, all of a sudden they were 'yonis' 'cunts' or 'v
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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 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
- Apr 16, 2019
- 3 min
Softening to the possibility of the moment
Two weeks ago I took myself to the lake on our land for a few hours to drink cacao and meditate in nature to harness the often insightful...
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Carly Slade
- Mar 22, 2019
- 5 min
The wisdom of the seasons
I was listening to Aubrey Marcus' podcast this week (big love to my man for introducing me to this gem) and he said something like...
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Carly Slade
- Feb 24, 2019
- 4 min
Rejecting the menstrual cycle is a rejection of ourselves
When we are taught to suppress, deny and ignore our menstrual cycles it serves only to reinforce the already ever-present feeling within...
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