For herbal clinicians and other practitioners, the menstrual cycle can serve a vital sign or indicator for the patterns of health and imbalance in the whole body. In this three hour class, we'll use pattern assessment to explore how the menstrual cycle can tie in to supportive strategies for generative and reproductive health.
We’ll begin with an in-depth review of menstrual cycle physiology. We’ll discuss common symptoms, patterns and experiences of a menstrual rhythm as well the ways that stress, trauma, environmental exposures and sleep can impact and alter that rhythm. We’ll develop energetic assessments of the common menstrual pattern/symptom clusters, and investigate how to track changes and support balance. Finally, we’ll cover herbs and supportive strategies, including timing, dosage and formulation for individualized generative, reproductive and energetic care.
This class is for all genders and bodies, and will be taught with a trauma-informed lens and with a commitment to bodily and collective autonomy.
Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck (they/them) is a community and clinical herbalist, Certified Professional Midwife and a poet. Tessa graduated from VCIH in 2019 and from Birthwise Midwifery School in 2021, and has been working in generative care and full spectrum reproductive health for over a decade. Tessa currently sees clients, catches babies, teaches classes, and walks with their dog on unceded Abenaki land (central VT/northern NH). They spend lots of time with hands in the dirt, in somatic inquiry and working to build sustainable, liberatory models for collective healing, and organizes with the The Rose Core Collective. More about Tessa’s work can be found at moonrootmedicinals.com or thresholdcommunitymidwives.com.
This is a recorded class. Once you register, you can access the course content from your student dashboard. You'll be able to view the video replay and download slides and handouts for one year from registration date.