Céline Marie Vidal
Menstruality
When enough women listen to the sacred song of the temple, humans will find balance with nature again,
and the great river of Life will flow unbounded.
The Temple's Secret
There is an innate intelligence within our bodies that has been silenced by the culture of separation from nature. Our wombs or womb body (the space alive in us whether we have or no longer have a womb) allows us access to emotional, spiritual and archetypal wisdom. When we restore, engage with and align to the inner voice of this oracle, balance is restored in our lives and the environment.
Living with a cycle: Introduction to cycle awareness - workshop series
This series consists of three workshops that run over 6-9 months and aims to explore cycle-aware daily living using (Menstrual) Cycle Awareness (MCA) as offered by RedSchool founders Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer. It reveals intuitive and personal tools to reclaim one’s own feminine leadership skills, creativity, and wellbeing.
The series includes
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Workshop 1: Introduction to cycle awareness (MCA)
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Workshop 2: the two cycle maps
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Workshop 3: the map of menstruation
The 2024-2025 Workshop series for members of the University of Cambridge (students and staff) starts on Thursday 5 December 2024 at Fitzwilliam College, from 6.30 to 8.30 pm in the Reddaway room. Contact me to register.
The 2025 series for everyone will start in January 2025 at Satyam Yoga Centre (Chesterton) - details coming soon.
If you would like to run these workshops in your company/institution, get in touch through the contact form
Excerpt from The Temple's Secret, an illustrated children's book by Dr Céline-Marie Vidal and Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné.
You are born in this world cloaked in the innocence of forgetting, unaware of an ancient secret long lost.
A secret that has slipped from the collective memory of women and men of our civilization.
[...]
Yet this secret is locked inside of you, of me, and all women.
We carry this secret without knowing it.
It is precious for it holds the key to the survival of our species, and of all that is alive on Earth that we depend upon.
Since it has been forgotten, humans are lost.
They have left nature, leaving it to die and dying slowly with it.
You carry a temple inside of you.
It is small but magical.
It is delicate but powerful.
It holds the secret of creation.
The key of Life.
You can feel this Temple it inside.
All the way down into your belly.
[...]
From the day you were born, your temple has grown with you.
And one day, your temple will be ready to help you create.
It will be your guide to be a woman in the world.
When this day comes, your temple will do a deep clean and pour everything into a dark red river.
[...] This day is the very first day of your first cycle.
[...] There will be days when you feel vulnerable, days when you feel very strong, days when you want to break everything, days when you feel sad, and days when life seems so beautiful there will be tears of joy in your eyes.
There will even be days when you feel like you’re dying, and others when you feel you are born again.
Sometimes you will want to be with nature, sit against a tree, roll in the grass, jump in water, dance, sing, or hug someone you love very, very tight.
In those moments you will understand in your body the great secret of Life: you are connected to all living things.
Earth.
Sky.
Stars.
Rivers.
Plants.
Animals.
Rocks.
Your human sisters and brothers.
The red river will come back at each cycle like the moon appears and disappears from the sky, at the rhythm of your temple.
And each cycle you will feel all the seasons of nature within you: winter, spring, summer, autumn.
If you listen to your temple’s messages each day, you can feel when to say ‘yes’ and when to say ‘no’, when to fight and when to surrender, when you have energy to do many things and when to rest.
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Your mission is to listen to the song that rises from your womb.
It will guide you all your life.
It will always be with you.
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When you share how to live in tune with the sacred song of the temple, you can inspire those around you who don’t know this secret.
Someday, when enough women listen to the sacred song of the temple, humans will find balance with nature again, and the great river of life will flow unbounded.
Copyright Céline-Marie Vidal 2024