Celebrate Your Period by Giving Your Blood Back to the Earth
Usha Anandi. 20 | NOVEMBER | 2023
Utilizing your period blood in a ritual is an opportunity to welcome more self-love, deepen your connection to your womb, and offer a gift of healing for the Earth.
Growing up in a society that regards period blood as dirty, shameful, or unholy… it is a deep rebellion to accept your period blood for what it is… sacred.
Your blood holds information that is the energetic, physical, and spiritual amalgamation of everything that’s taken place for you in the past month (or however long it’s been since your last bleed).
I didn’t grow up in a family, religion, or a culture that taught me my period blood was sacred…
I can still remember my mom throwing me a pack of thick cotton pads and saying, “Welcome to the club,” with a sarcastic sigh when I got my first period at age 14.
Let’s face it… Most of us didn’t receive a menstrual cycle education in school and missed out on much needed guidance from our elders.
This Womb Healing Retreat is for you if you long to…
Tap into your womb’s wisdom and awaken to the full depth of your juicy, overflowing feminine potential
Reconnect with nature, get away from the daily grind and nourish yourself with a slower pace and healthy mouth-watering ayurvedic food
Connect with like-minded womben who you don’t have to explain yourself to, because they’re walking the same path and just get it
If your answer is YES, you’re in the right place.
Now, on to the ritual.
How To Give Your Blood Back To The Earth
“This is disgusting”
“I’m unfollowing”
“So unsanitary”
“You’re a witch”
Well, okay — the last one is true. But these are just a few of the actual, word-for-word comments I receive whenever I share this ritual for the entire Internet to see.
It’s usually combined with a mass unfollowing and some pretty crazy DMs…
But I have no plans to stop. Because if a woman finally loving her body (and all that comes out of it) after years of shame, guilt, and hatred towards herself is so scandalous… Then we need a revolution, and stat.
To give your blood back to the Earth in a period ritual, follow these steps:
1. Set An Intention
Your intention is the energy that gives life to your ritual. Without a strong and clear intention, ritual is just another mundane act without meaning that we perform by going through the motions.
Utilizing your period blood in a sacred ritual is one of the most powerful ways to communicate to your unconscious mind that your period is sacred. With your intention, you can decide that this ritual will be the beginning of a shift in the way you view your menstrual cycle. You are choosing now to foster a deeper relationship with your womb, your blood, and the Earth.
2. Collect Your Blood
Rinse your menstrual pad, sponge, period underwear or tampon in a bowl of warm water and squeeze with your hands until the blood colors the water red. If you use a menstrual cup, pour the blood in your cup into warm water.
3. Dilute Your Offering
Plants are quite sensitive to the nutrient-packed essence of your period blood. For the health of your plant, be sure to add water to dilute any offering before use.
4. Choose the Recipient
Many of us only consider what we can extract from the Earth. But as our healing and the Earth’s healing are linked, it is in our best interest to give back as much as we take.
Take the bowl outside and pour your blood into the earth, a favorite plant, tree, garden patch, while saying internally or out loud, “Thank you” (in your Mother tongue).
Repeat every day of your cycle or as many times as you’re able.
It’s time to see your menstrual cycle as more than just a monthly nuisance. Creating ritual with your menstrual blood could be the shift in programming that enables you to…
- Look forward to, and even celebrate (!), the arrival of your period.
- Create a deeper relationship with your womb, your blood, and the Earth
- Get familiar with the messages that your menstrual blood is communicating, giving you a snapshot of the health of your whole body
Eastern medicine like Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine has long understood that the way a woman experiences menstruation is an indicator of her overall health.
Luckily, Western medicine seems to be catching up with this idea too. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced the importance of seeing the menstrual cycle is a fifth vital sign.
The length of your menstrual cycle, the amount of blood, and the feeling (i.e. do you double over with painful cramps every month or do you bleed without pain?) are all important indicators in determining one’s state of health, just as important as body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure.
That’s why GOOD Doctors will always ask you about your menstrual cycle (what’s the length of your cycle, is it regular, is it painful, etc.) at a regular physical exam or check up.
But what does this mean for you?
It’s time to stop viewing your cycle challenges as a nuisance or chalking it up to just the curse of being a woman. Instead, start viewing your menstrual cycle as one of the clearest ways your body can communicate with you.
If you want to deepen your connection to your body in this way or work with women to help them tap into a more aligned way of living, our 7-Day Womb Healing Retreat next spring will give you incredible tools and the space to find and use your authentic voice.
This Retreat isn’t going to load you up with more information that will give you another year to process and integrate…
No. This in-person Retreat is about INTEGRATION.
It’s about bringing the magic BACK. Remembering why we’re here. Rejoicing in how good it feels to hug each other, sing with each other, dance with each other.
This Retreat is centered around the notion that WE NEED EACH OTHER.
You will wake up to the sound of the Aegean Sea…
And dive into womb healing through a somatic, slow, earth-based lens…
Only to top it all off with the most luscious, life-giving, nourishing three hour ceremony in the evening as the sun sets over the Aegean Sea…
But more than that, you will be held. In real LIFE.
You will get to cry tears that have been locked away for fear of breaking and falling apart.
And sigh out a thousand breaths of relief in just knowing that you don’t have to keep it together.
In this space, we got you.
Does this sound like something you need?
We’re already at 60% capacity, but there’s still space for you right now, so if you haven’t filled out the application, I recommend you get started ASAP.
It takes 10 minutes.
