Menstrual Somatics

Your Menstrual Cycle is a Healing Ally

The menstrual cycle is often viewed through a purely physical lens and is often seen as a limitation to be overcome, while its deeper potential as a powerful healing ally is overlooked. It’s not just about menstruation, but about the intricate rhythm, wisdom, and healing potential woven into each phase of the cycle.

Menstrual somatics is a holistic, body-based approach that supports healing from menstrual challenges and other cyclical pelvic challenges and trauma by gently guiding you back into relationship with your body and cycle.

It offers a powerful alternative to purely medical or toxic pharmaceutical solutions—especially for those navigating chronic menstrual pain, cycle irregularities, or recovery after gynecological procedures. Unlike conventional treatments that often focus solely on symptom management, this approach acknowledges the whole person behind the diagnosis. Menstrual somatics brings together embodied movement, breathwork, trauma-informed bodywork, and menstrual cycle awareness to support deeper healing.

Instead of viewing the menstrual cycle as a problem to fix, menstrual somatics invites you to attune to cyclical signals and tap into your body’s innate intelligence and potential.

How It Helps with Menstrual Pain and other Cyclical Challenges

Menstrual pain is often seen as purely physical or “hormonal”—but pain can also be influenced by chronic stress, tension, trauma, relationships, and disconnect from the body. Menstrual somatics addresses this by:

Rebalancing the Nervous System: Calming the fight—flight—fawn response that can cause or worsen cycle disruptions.

Releasing Pelvic Tension: Gentle movement and breath techniques help release chronic holding patterns in the pelvic bowl that contribute to menstrual challenges.

Building Body Awareness: Learning to feel subtle cyclical shifts can reduce stress and empower informed lifestyle choices, creating more easeful cycles.

Reframing Pain Narratives: Through guided practices, education, and enhanced menstrual cycle awareness, clients can shift their relationship to menstrual pain, often reducing perceived intensity and duration.

For those with endometriosis, menstrual somatics provides tools to gently reconnect with your body in ways that feel safe and empowering—even when pain is present.

Support After Medical Procedures

Your body remembers. Surgeries, procedures, and exams can leave behind invisible trauma—numbness, tension, distrust, or disconnection. Whether you've experienced a laparoscopy, hysterectomy, biopsy, IUD insertion/removal, fibroid surgery, birth trauma, pregnancy termination, or other gynecological intervention, recovery is not just physical—it's also emotional and energetic.

Menstrual somatics blends somatic therapies and trauma resolution techniques with gentle pelvic reconnection practices to help restore a sense of safety, sovereignty, and wholeness in your body.

Menstrual somatics can help you:

Reconnect with the Pelvic Bowl - Many people feel numb, disconnected, or unsafe in their body post-procedure. Menstrual somatics gently rebuilds sensation, connection, and trust.

Integrate Trauma and Emotions - Medical procedures can deeply affect the nervous system and also trigger feelings of fear, grief, or loss. This work creates a compassionate space to process and integrate medical trauma.

Re-establish Healthy Cycle Patterns - After hormonal interventions or surgical disruptions, menstrual somatics can gently integrate the experience and re-establish healthy rhythms.

Empower Your Healing - Recovery isn’t linear. With menstrual somatics, you learn to listen to what your body actually needs rather than an arbitrary post-treatment protocol that doesn’t account for your unique constitution and personal history.

Is Menstrual Somatics Right for You?

Whether you’re dealing with endometriosis, painful periods, post-surgical recovery, or other cyclical challenges, menstrual somatics offers a gentle, personalized pathway to healing.

Knowing how to read and honor your cycle and attune your life to your innate rhythm is a primary tool for resolving menstrual challenges and accessing the cycle’s many gifts. Menstrual challenges are rarely purely physical in nature. The cycle is a continuous stress-sensitive feedback loop that reflects not only the health of your body but also your emotional, relational, and even spiritual, well-being.

Schedule a Complimentary Consult to learn more about how menstrual somatics can support you.