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If you’ve ever seen a Chinese Medicine practitioner we will ask you extensively about your menstrual cycle. At Angea, it is one of the most important questions we ask a woman!
Our menstrual cycle is absolutely everything when it comes to women’s health. We spend just over a 1/3 (34.7 years) of our life bleeding each month. Our menstrual cycle is our 5th vital sign, our monthly report card. It is the gateway to our fertility and overall health.
Our menstrual cycle offers us so many insights as women. It is our monthly biomarker. In Chinese Medicine your period should arrive each month with ease, no pain, a healthy volume of colour, flow and texture. I know for many of you this is not normally the case!
We are here today to break it down so you can start to build a trusted relationship with your menstrual cycle and flow so you can truly understand your MENSTRUAL PATTERN.
Young ladies will start their first menarche between 12 -14 years. A normal menstrual cycle will range between 26 -35 days.
There are 4 distinct BIO-MARKERS to help you understand your period. When menstruating, you can take note of the following.
1️⃣ Regularity of menstrual cycle (total length of cycle 26-35 days)
2️⃣ Duration of Menstrual flow (2 -5 days)
3️⃣ Volume of Menstrual flow ( light – heavy)
4️⃣ Colour, texture, odour of menstrual flow.

In Chinese Medicine the volume, colour and texture of menstrual blood is SO important. A normal menstrual flow volume ranges between 50-80ml, while the colour should be a fresh red, without blood clots and without any odour.
You can read more on insta post ‘FLOW GOALS’. Each month your period shares so many clues as to what is going internally. We encourage our patients to pay close attention to their monthly bleed so they can start to build a healthy relationship with their body, menstrual cycle and fertility. 🩸🩸 If you’ve never really paid attention to your bleed before, I encourage to take note of what you see and the changes you feel and notice throughout your cycle. You might just be surprised to what you find. 🥰🤓 Do you track your cycle and note down the quality of your monthly bleed?

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We've been looking for a yoga-home for @mindfulpregnancyogatraining for some time & like many collaborations at Angea, our partnership with @willowurbanretreat was one of true serendipity.
The moment you step into the walls of @willowurbanretreat it feels like you've been transported to another world with your worries left with your shoes (at the entrance!) As you float bare foot through the zen-like hallway & upstairs to the retreat room, your entire body is met with sensations, with every element seemingly thought of. The retreat room is an intimate studio space for you to feel supported to explore your body & connect deeply. Launching Feb 3, we will be running our signature pre-natal, women’s yoga & fem-in-yin classes.
To celebrate not only the launch of MPYT classes but also our MOVE into Endo event, we're so honoured to announce that we will be giving away a 10 class pack to @willowurbanretreat at our MOVE into Endo event on Saturday 14 March.
I know firsthand how important yoga & movement has been on my personal journey with #endo which is why I am so thrilled that one lucky attendee will have the opportunity to move & flow with their body at arguably one of the most stunning studios in Melbourne.
Tickets in bio x

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Did you know we follow the moon cycle? We too, as women follow the ebbs and flow of nature, just like the moon and tides. Ovulation would fall around the full (fertile) moon, and menstruation the new moon or dark moon. Women in the sages would be guided by the moon to know where they were in their menstrual cycle. This is where the origin of our “moon time” comes from. 🌜🌛🌑🌕! So cool
In the sages, women, communities would all menstruate together. The red tent was a place where women could retire and let their bodies naturally cleanse. They would share stories, laugh and have sacred ceremonies. The red tent was a monthly ritual. A sacred space where every girl transitions into becoming a woman. The root work ritual comes from the Sanskrit work “R’Tu” which means “Menstrual Creator”. 🩸🩸🩸
I absolutely love this! It empowers us to know that we are capable of creating anything! 💪 *
In many cultures women were honoured during the bleeding days and would go to a special place within the village to connect with other women. Sometimes this place was called the women’s lodge, the moon lodge, the menstrual hut, or the bleeding lodge. These spaces all had great power and significance because it was the space where women bled together and shared their wisdom. It was in these spaces women passed down their traditions and shared their aural history — their stories and their mythology. It was in these sacred dwelling that women connect to their own inner power — in particular the intuitions and visions that came at the time of bleeding. It was in these spaces that women helped guide young girls into womanhood and were themselves guided by their elders. Move into Endo is a special event to honour our sisterhood in a specially curated morning that honours ancient traditions and ceremonies through meditation, breath work and gentle movement. This will be a collective healing for all our sisters. 🌸🌸🌸 Lets gather together and create history brining 200 women together. This event is also open to our sisters with adenomyosis, PCOS and amenorrhea.
We can’t wait to see you there R’TU - menstrual creators! 🩸🎗

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Balasana (child’s pose) is a gentle and restorative pose that enables the body to seek balance and to release tension. It relaxes and calms the mind and body while lengthening the entire spine. Initiating the relaxation response in this pose releases lower back tension, menstrual cramps, PMS, painful periods and helps to normalise blood flow throughout the entire body. ✅
Child’s pose can be done throughout your entire reproductive cycle. 😌
After a stressful day relax into child’s pose with 10 deep belly breaths to activate the vagus nerve and your relaxation response. 👌🏻 REST + NEST + DIGEST

Tickets 🎫 are moving for our MOVE into Endo #moveintoendo

Endometriosis causes a disconnect within our bodies as we shut down as a result of the pain. MOVE into Endo is aimed at creating a whole body approach to treating endometriosis with mind, body and movement. Join us alongside our community of women for an epic morning to shift, transform our story, pain and endo journey 🎗

A sneak peak into our movement 💛

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Supta Baddha Konasana is an essential posture for ‘Women’s Pelvic Health’. It is a gentle, restorative posture that opens up the energy of our pelvic girdle, stretches out our inner groin and thighs, opens our heart and calms the mind. The essence of this posture is to create space and openness both physically and mentally.

The pelvic girdle is a part of the body where we store and hold emotions. There is a lot of connective tissue that forms a web of forgotten memories and repressed emotion. When we release tension in this area with breath, we allow circulation to flow. Fresh blood can circulate into the pelvic region and reproductive organs, softening connective tissue and fascia.

The pelvic girdle is also the seat of svadhisthana the second energy charka. It includes the hips, sacrum, genitals, lower back, womb and bladder. This charka is associated with the task of allowing emotional and sensual movement into our life. This pose gives us permission to feel. When we learn to open the energy of this charka with movement and breath we can experience pleasure, sensuality, sexuality, emotions, orgasms, intimacy and desire. Yes please!
This is one of my favourite poses I prescribe for my endo patients! 🎗

As you breathe into Supta Baddha Konasana you breathe into honesty, space, opening, softness and flow.
Releasing tension breath by breath allows freedom of movement into the pelvis. We recommend to practice this pose during menstruation, ovulation and the two week wait. 🩸❤️🥰 Head to the link in our bio for tickets to #moveintoendo a morning to bring our community together through meditation, mindfulness and movement to journey us back to an embodied state. 🎗🎗

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Vipariti Karani is considered the ‘jewel’ pose for women’s health and hormones.
Ladies get your feet up the wall. This asana is known as ‘inverted lake’. This supported inversion allows the pelvis to be above the heart and pools the energy like a lake into your pelvis, calming your heart and mind. Great to do after sex!
This pooling effect not only helps increase your chances of conception but also induces the relaxation response, calming your central nervous system and restoring your body.
We recommend this posture when stressed, during an IVF cycle, after egg retrieval and ovulation. It helps alleviate bloating, anxiety and distension when undergoing ovarian stimulation.

Feet up the wall is also an absolute jewel, when experiencing leg pain during your period. 🩸

Place your pelvis on a pillow and put your legs up the wall- as seen in the image.

Connect into deep belly breaths for 20 rounds. Place right hand on heart and left hand on your womb. 🌸🌸 Tickets 🎫 are selling for our #moveintoendo event in March. Bring your endo sisters and let’s heal collectively through mindfulness, meditation, pelvic floor and movement. 🎗💛 tickets in (bio).

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