Menstrual Cycle Stewardship: rewild your cycle, reclaim your rhythm and restore your power
a body-based approach to honoring the inherent wisdom of the cycle
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.
In a patriarchal culture that encourages disconnection, shame, and control over the 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 tend with devotion
In a culture that teaches us to hate, shame, fix, or ignore our cycles, these practices are a radical return to the wisdom of our inner wild.
Cycle Stewardship asks: What does my body know that I’ve been taught to ignore? And how might I live in deeper alignment with what is already true?
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 no longer bleeds but still resonates with cyclical living
Someone who’s 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 instructions
A deeper capacity to hold space for yourself and/or others throughout their cycle
The "whys" for cultivating menstrual cycle awareness
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