Welcome to The Soft Rebellion Podcast.
What becomes possible when we listen to the womb, pelvis and menstrual cycle as archives of unacknowledged creativity, and even compasses pointing us towards feminist and decolonial futures?
My name is Flurina, I’m an osteopath, holistic pelvic care practitioner and dancer doing a PhD on the moving body, imagination, health and the menstrual cycle (this week anyway).
The Soft Rebellion is my playground - a research-led podcast, where my guests join me for an embodied (re)discovery of the cyclical body as a source of healing, belonging and activism.
These trailblazing conversations are rooted in Black feminist theory, creative and healing arts, indigenous wisdom and critical menstrual studies, to expand beyond a medical, pathologising, wellbeing framework into an understanding of the menstruating body as a wellspring of softly rebellious knowledge.
With the Soft Rebellion Podcast I am aligning to an existing momentum which has found a new language through me and I invite you to align with that momentum too and find your own way with it.
I would love to hear from you, what does the term soft rebellion mean to you, what is your personal soft rebellion and what are you rebelling for?
How has your body guided you to live your calling and to meet your soft rebellion?
Send me an email at softrebellion@flurinathali.com
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Ep. 83: Birth is physical What weve forgotten and how we can remember - Natalie Meddings
Ep. 84: Your Body Isn’t Broken: Decoding Vaginal Symptoms with Acupuncture - Claire Dabreo
Ep. 82: How Medical Herbalism can support your menstrual health and beyond with Melinda McDougall.
Ep. 81: Periods Aren’t Meant to Bloody Hurt: Reclaiming Menstrual Health with Gemma Barry
Ep. 80: How to Transform Menstrual Shame and Reclaim Your Blood Mysteries - Jane Hardwicke Collings
Ep. 79: Radical Care: Birth Work, Abortion & Reproductive Justice - with Sara Bakr.
Ep. 78: How to reconnect to your body and heal pelvic pain through somatic movement, Part 2- with Dunya Ntinizi.
Ep. 77: How to reconnect to your body and heal pelvic pain through somatic movement - with Samara Concepción
Ep. 76: Speaking From the Pelvic Bowl: Touch, Grief, and Women’s Health - with Avni Trivedi.
Ep. 75: oga Through a Woman’s Lens: Soft Strength, Fluidity and Care - with Lynn Murphy.
Ep. 74: Why your vagina is a truth-teller: A conversation about intimacy, sexual energy and healing with Daven Lee.
Ep. 73: The Wintering Body: Rewriting Illness, Rest, and Healing with Asha Frost
Ep. 72: Mapping Menstrual Activism -with Dr Chris Bobel
Ep. 71: Why Menstruation Matters — A Conversation about Activism, Economics, and Wholeness with Dr. Lara Owen
Ep. 67: Softening into the Underworld: The Medicine of Descent & Rising - with Carly Mountain.
Ep. 69: Where the Body Speaks: Trauma, Truth & the Divine Feminine with Coco Oya Cienna-Rey
Ep. 68: How Matrescence is a Portal to Heal Yourself and the World. With Naomi Glass.
Ep. 67: The sacred space of shame and empowerment with Dr. Cacky Mellor.