Last couple of years I've realized how much of my focus, my energy, my life force goes into masculine. Work, goals, deadlines, schedules, responsibilities. My feminine behind all of it has been softly and subtly letting me know that if I don't listen to my body I literally get sick. When I heard about you ladies (Sira and Eli) organizing the Moon Cycle Circle, something just clicked. I knew this is my starting place. To come back to trusting my intuition, to honor my body and the phases it goes through. I knew little about the seasons but I had no idea about the knowledge and wisdom you guys brought. I knew nothing about the superpowers and challenges each season brings. I didn't know about the proper nutrition and movement my body needs in different phases. All this including the journaling about my cycle helped me realize how my body is constantly talking to me through signs and symptoms which I never listened to. I didn't know how.

Although we just finished the circle couple of weeks ago I already see a huge change of how I notice myself, my cravings, my need for rest or movement and how this aligns with my particular season. The best thing is that it inspired me go more into deep with the topic. Do my own research and also have tons of conversations about this with my girlfriends, mom, and also with guys.

My biggest takeaway is that this should be taught at schools, this should be published constantly for women to have easy access to this knowledge. So no women would feel inferior to speak up when they are in pain and bleeding. And that our men would learn about it and supported us as well.

I took my 21 y.o sister, sat her down, and shared everything you beauties taught me. And she loved it!!

Thank you girls for reminding me that we are all almighty bleeding powerful women.

When I heard Elli was planning on doing a series on the feminine cycle for the first time, I already knew I would join.

Not because I don't know much about it, but because I wanted to apply my knowledge with the help and accountability of my sisters.

It's easy to read a book about women's health and often the words keep being words. The part that is tricky is to apply it and stick to it.

And this is what the circle Sira and Elli facilitated gave me. It was a great reminder of all the important things to remember concerning my cyclic being, and for me, foremost a place I could regularly share what was going on with me and how my cycle is influencing all of my life.

Hearing my sister’s stories and struggles around the cycle was so humbling and sacred for me. I could really feel that we women are so inherently connected through our cyclic wombs.

That is how the red tent must have been when all women of a tribe gathered for new moon to bleed together.

I loved the accountability groups. I finally got the hang of tracking my cycle daily, something I wanted to do for ages. Now it became a habit and I'm still tracking, which brings me much closer to the wonders that go on each minute in my female body.

My biggest takeaway (besides getting the tracking habit) is the wonderful emotional connection I had with these women during the program. Reading about the cycle is the first step, a whole different level is vulnerably sharing the process with other women and connect to them and to this feeling that this is what we used to talk about when women were united in the past. This is how we used to hold each other and how it should be again.

I wish I somebody would share this with me when I was a little girl!

Thanks to the Cycle workshop I gained a deep understanding of my body, my own cycles and how to live my life accordingly. I always thought there was only 1 part to it, when actually there are 4!!! And each of them with superpowers, different foods to eat, practices, etc.

I am in owe for how much information I received and that I get to include in my daily life to honour my body and myself as a woman.

This has been by far the best investment in myself I have done this year. Very thankful for the sisters who created this workshop, gathering all the information and wisdom for other sisters to understand, love and honour ourselves more and more every day.

Thank you sisters ❤️

I hope more and more women, since very early age, can access information like this.

Shifted from feeling overwhelmed to being fully in control.

I didn’t what I was signing for when I registered for this course, and little I knew about the surprises and shifts that were awaiting me :)) Thanks to the information I learned I literally shifted in a matter of days from feeling powerless and drained of any energy, to feeling resourceful and positive about my situation as a mother, wife, girlfriend & women. The insights on my body development and cycle are mind-blowing, and I gained with it also more understanding and ownership of my wellbeing.

I’m both surprised and relieved to see how much understanding & care I’m getting now from my husband, after introducing him to the basics of the women's cycle. The shift I got in terms of mindset had also a huge impact on my parenting-relation as well. Not only are they enjoying a much calmer mommy, but we get to spend much more time playing and having fun. Such a blessing!

I am deeply grateful to the two authors, Sira and Elli, for their huge dedication and work, for the space they held for me and the many other participants, for the trust they help us built, and for their friendship. This is one of the courses that every woman need to do, at the earliest time possible.

All my life I've hated my cycle. I grew up in a chaotic world so I developed a deep respect and craving for structure and predictability growing up. Then I hit puberty and the biggest chaos seemed to be in my own body. My mother had a very punishing relationship with her own body so she was no help. I hated my roller coaster of emotions and body changes, how long and how heavy my period was, and that it made me feel angry and weak. I resented my PMS and how this part of the female anatomy was regarded in society as weak, as a reason for lower pay, as a ground for all sort of ridiculous superstition and taboo (just as one example of hundreds, I had to fight my village-raised mother every single day of the period during my teenage years for the right to shower, as washing was obviously super important to me but she was raised to think that having your vagina in contact with water during your period would dry it up and cause unbearable period pain next month, as was common belief in many women of her generation). I hated wanting to take off a "sick" day if my pain was too strong, or having to soldier through it for fear of perpetuating the "weak woman" stigma. I started taking contraceptive pills, then the vaginal ring simply because "ain't nobody got time to have a woman's body". How dysfunctional was that thought?

Then I met Siranush and Elisabeth and a sisterhood of brave, unapologetic women who were more attuned to their bodies than I had ever considered possible, and they were so strong and sensual, and feminine, and raw, and vibrant, and I opened up to the possibility that maybe I had refused my body a chance to talk to me properly and be my friend. I went off the contraceptives and a few months later, Sira and Eli created the Cycle workshop.

I knew I had to take it and it exceeded all my expectations: beautifully crafted, thoroughly researched, and covering everything from a very clear explanation of why our bodies and minds feel so different throughout the various stages, or "seasons" of our cycle, to advice on nutrition, cooking methods, exercise and workflow for the entire month!! I was astonished to learn so much in these lovely sessions.

I have just completed my first full cycle since completing the workshop and already I feel so different. I took the nutrition tips and my PMS and breast tenderness magically lessened. In one cycle!! And my period was as manageable as during my contraceptive years. I'm stunned. I feel like I'm getting to know a long-lost friend that had been waiting for me all my life: my body. I have the deepest gratitude to Siranush and Elisabeth for creating this course and sharing it so skilfully with us all. I highly recommend it!!

My biggest takeaway is to really honor our cycles and understand how to leverage them to our advantage. I've really enjoyed learning how to tap into each phase of my cycle and am applying new simple methods in my every day and reaping benefits from them. I also really enjoyed the sister group we created which felt like a safe space where we could share our stories, doubts, emotions, and celebrations. Thanks so much, Elli and Sira, you both rock ❤️