Menstrual Cycle Stewardship:

rewild your cycle, reclaim your rhythm, restore your power

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To “steward” something means to tend to it with attention, intention, and respect.

Stewardship is a form of relational responsibility. It’s a way of being in connection to something vulnerable that has been entrusted to our care. It’s a practice of showing up with devotion and integrity. Traditionally, stewardship is about understanding, sustaining, and restoring land and its inhabitants to a state of balance.

Cycle Stewardship is a practice of listening to the body's cyclical intelligence and responding with curiosity, compassion, and aligned action.

Cycle stewardship is not about forcing, fixing, managing, or controlling the menstrual cycle. It is not about perfecting the cycle or making the body conform to expectation. It is about building a relationship rooted in trust.

Grounded in somatic and mindfulness-based approaches, this work invites a return to the body as a source of inner knowing. In doing so, cycle stewardship supports those who bleed in attuning to the subtle signals, seasonal shifts, and cyclical invitations that arise across the menstrual cycle.

Cycle stewardship is a healing path back to our bodies.

Cycle Stewardship is a framework that regards the body as a sacred guide. It shifts the mindset from, “This body is mine to use” to “I am in relationship with this body, and I have a responsibility to tend it.”

It emphasizes reciprocity: you care for your body, and it supports your life in return.

Cycle Stewardship includes:

  • Learning how to track the cycle by paying attention to the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual changes that emerge across time

  • Listening deeply to the cycle’s signals and messages instead of dissociating, numbing, or overriding them

  • Responding with reverence rather than reaction or resistance

  • Supporting the cycle’s needs (like rest, stillness, movement, expression) instead of pushing through

  • Nurturing rather than trying to pathologize, change, or fix

  • Honoring that the cycle’s natural rhythm isn’t yours to control—but it is yours to treat with devotion

In a culture that teaches us to hate, shame, fix, or ignore the cycle, these practices are a radical return to the wisdom of our wild rhythms.

Cycle Stewardship asks: What does my body know that I’ve been taught to ignore? What becomes possible when I slow down and listen?

Cycle Stewardship is for everyone.

Whether you're a therapist or healer looking to bring menstrual cycle awareness into your client work, someone who wants to understand how the cycle influences those around you, or someone longing for a more grounded, embodied connection with your own cycle, this space is for you.

You might be:

  • A somatic or talk-based therapist, coach, or nurse practitioner who wants more tools for supporting clients through the cycle

  • A non- bleeding person who wants to better understand how to better support those who do

  • Someone who menstruates and feels disconnected from your body's signals

  • Someone who menstruates and feels antagonistic towards your cycle (maybe because it is irregular, painful, or a source of gender dysphoria)

  • Someone who’s transitioning into perimenopause or menopause and wants support in navigating the journey

  • Someone who no longer bleeds but still resonates with cyclical living

  • Someone who’s curious about learning how you can more lovingly work with your body, not against it

Cycle Stewardship welcomes you, whoever and wherever, you are.

What you’ll take with you:

  • Skills and practices for listening to the body’s signals

  • A deeper capacity to hold space for yourself and/or others throughout the cycle

  • Knowledge about “regular" vs "irregular" cycles

  • Basics about the menstrual cycle (i.e., what we should have learned in health class) including the phases of the cycle as seasons and how to track them

  • An in depth look at each phase of the cycle (menstrual, follicular, ovulation, luteal); what's happening hormonally, physically, mentally, and emotionally

  • Tools to work with the physical, mental, and emotional experiences that arise in each phase of the cycle (therapeutic + somatic practices for clients, as well as other care practices including diet, herbs, exercise, sleep, etc)

  • How to support “irregular” + painful cycles

  • An understanding of the impact of trauma on the cycle and the ways the nervous system changes throughout it

  • How to weave this information into day to day life to create a greater sense of empowerment + ease 

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  • "I felt inspired, invigorated, and validated. Excited to bring this to work with my clients and to have my own cycle stewardship."

  • "It was nice to learn how unique and important each phase of my cycle is, and how I get to honor the seasons taking place within me instead of fighting them."

  • "I learned SO MUCH."

  • "This was so helpful for understanding more about luteal.. It feels comforting and grounding to know that I am actually exactly where I need to be in terms of being with myself.. knowing that old wounds resurface during this time has provided me the context that I need to tend to myself and be more compassionate."

  • "I was an attendee at your workshop yesterday and wanted to thank you again for your amazing workshop. It was so wonderful and I found myself in the after-energy of the workshop for the remainder of the day. I am eager to attend your next ones and hope you will continue to share your wisdom with the world. "

  • "Yesterday helped me to feel safer and more excited to repair and reconnect with my own cycle. I was diagnosed with PCOS as a young girl and my hormonal landscape has been a frightening and untrustworthy place for a long time.. I have been feeling the pull to turn toward this work for several months and your offering felt so synchronous for myself and those I walk with as a therapist. Thank you again for the supportive space to explore, feel, and re-open."

  • "Thank you, what a beautiful and helpful workshop, I'm looking forward to attending more! I was already able to use some of these resources to help a client today who has endometriosis and very difficult luteal phases, she was so thankful."

  • "Truly a great workshop. Very good mix of background, mindfulness / somatic practices, connection, and practical information. You have a very calming and sure presence while presenting. Great job, Angelina & thank you so much!"

  • "The fruits of your work professionally and personally certainly impacted me and I am eager to share the wisdom with my clients and peers."

  • "[This workshop] made me feel excited to be a person who menstruates- can't say I ever felt that before. I am looking forward to integrating these practices into my life, being more connected with my body, and celebrating it."

  • "[This workshop] made me really think about the times other than the menstruating phase and how I can be more intentional with finding balance with myself and what I commit to."

  • "[What stood out to me the most] was the concept of cycle stewardship- playing an active and nurturing role during my cycle felt like a lightbulb to me. I was taught that it was something that just happens and that there isn't anything we can do about it. Not that I need to "fix it," but to be an active participant in my body and its experiences during the cycle.

  • "You truly are opening up so much for me and my clients by putting your knowledge and experience with the menstrual cycle out into the world in this way. The presence you bring to your trainings is so soothing and energizing at the same time."

  • "The part 1 workshop was incredibly helpful for me in so many ways. I am sad that I didn't have this perspective before but grateful you are helping to bring more awareness to this very foundational piece of our lives as menstruating beings."

  • "I'm so grateful I was part of your workshop. It was incredibly helpful, with so much information to think about and connect with- for myself and my clients."

  • "Highly recommended, her guided somatic check in and tracking are phenomenal resources for self and clients, along with a wealth of wisdom! I wish I had been introduced to this perspective much earlier in my life."

  • "The workshop on perimenopause felt incredibly validating and empowering. I love working with those in this phase of life, and your perspective expanded and deepened that for me in such a meaningful way."

  • "I have already used the information I learned in your other two workshops with so many of my female-identifying clients, and they are all expressing such gratitude for the information. Thank you for helping me make such an impactful difference in these clients' lives!!!"

  • "The workshop was fantastic - I loved the IFS lens, as well as you showing up in your own Self energy for the training.."

Looking for a next step? Come share, drop- in, ask a question, or connect.

Join The Rewilding Circle.

The Rewilding Circle is a space where you can bring questions, reflections, and/or whatever is alive in your cycle or your work with others. Think of it like a fireside “office hours”… except there won’t be a fire. Instead, we’ll be warmed by the hum of our computers and each other’s company! Bring a snack or a beverage, and an open heart. Together, we’ll attune to the rhythms that are guiding us home.

Please note: This is not a workshop or a lecture, more like a community Q+A.

Details:

  • Last Friday of each month at Noon MST | 2 pm EST

    • Upcoming circle dates: April 24, May 29, June 26

    • You do not need to stay for the entire time. You do not need to arrive as it begins. The door is open. Come and go as you wish!

  • Free. Yes, free! You do not need to pay anything, just RSVP.

  • All are welcome! You do not need to be my client, know me, or have participated in a workshop to join. You’re invited just because you exist!