A Body That Listens

The Living Core explores what changes when menstrual, hormonal, seasonal and life cycles are treated as sources of information rather than inconveniences to overcome.

This strand is growing alongside my Peaceful Periods Facilitator training in holistic womb care for teens. I am interested in how cyclical awareness might reshape education, care, creativity and working life—particularly within environments organised around consistency, constant availability and linear productivity.

The inquiry brings embodied experience into conversation with research, cultural knowledge and contemporary menstrual-health frameworks. It does not assume that one rhythm, method or account will apply to every body.

See below for more about our spotlight: In the FLO — Alisa Vitti

In the Spotlight

Cyclical knowledge, holistic womb care and resources for understanding the rhythms we live and learn through.

In the FLO — Alisa Vitti

Vitti presents her Cycle Syncing Method, which proposes adapting aspects of food, movement, work and rest to different phases of the menstrual cycle.

Why it caught my attention: The book gave language to something I had already begun to sense: the expectation of identical energy and output every day does not reflect every body’s lived reality. I am less interested in turning cyclical knowledge into another system of optimisation than in asking what education and wellbeing might look like if changing capacity were taken seriously. I hold Vitti’s framework as a starting point to examine alongside research, cultural knowledge and lived experience—not as a universal prescription.

Check out the other themes:

  • Education & Inquiry gathers short reflections, talks and other resources that complicate familiar ideas about teaching, authority, progress and belonging.

  • Books in Conversation is a space for reading across traditions rather than placing a single author or discipline above the others.

  • Films in Conversation aims to examine what the story asks us to accept and whose life remains at the edge of the frame.