Menstrual Cycle Oil Ritual
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Your Cycle, Your Ritual.
The menstrual cycle oil is designed to help you cultivate a ritual that helps you tune into you - and form a loving, compassionate relationship with your cycle.
When you create space to listen to your pain with love and compassion, you invite new healing cycles within your body. Massaging natural herbs—combined with mindfulness and intentional breathing—into the painful area allows for deep, loving self-awareness. This ritual helps you grow through the pain rather than numb it. This is not an overnight process, as is anything rooted in nature. But if we address the roots we allow for real, sustainable change and cultivate new growth.
If you don’t experience excessive cramping, and currently have a healthy cycle- this is still a lovely ritual to help you honor your monthly bleed and listen to your body.
Cultivate whatever ritual feels best for you, but I suggest the below if you want a suggestion to get started.
1. Roll
Begin your ritual with a gentle connection to your body. Roll the oil on your lower abdomen while taking 4-8 mindful breaths. As you do this, tune into your womb space with loving awareness, noticing any sensations that arise with gentle curiosity.
2. Massage
Next, transition into a nurturing massage. As you work the oil into your skin with tender care, let this act of self-touch become a healing practice. Send loving energy to your body, acknowledging the profound benefits that mindful, compassionate touch can bring over time.
3. Breathe
Once you've finished massaging, bring your oil-touched hands to your nose. Take slow, deep breaths, allowing the calming aromatherapy benefits of the natural essential oils to wash over you. Let their soothing properties begin to take effect.
4. Listen
Lastly, find a comfortable restorative position and rest for at least 5 minutes. During this time, the warming oils will work their magic, offering comfort and naturally reducing inflammation. Use this peaceful moment to set positive intentions for your cycle. As your body relaxes, listen deeply to its wisdom and honor what you need during this time. The essential oils will continue working for about 20 minutes, helping to ease any discomfort naturally. Option to add our heating pad for additional comfort and to help the oils absorb into the skin more.
Nature wants us to be happy and healthy
A note from the founder Brooke Stewart
The inspiration for launching Analog Nature came through my own healing journey, beginning with a desire to find natural solutions for my period pain and anxiety.
The ritual I practice while using our menstrual cycle oil has been a key component in finding grace, healing, joy, and the power that lives within my menstrual cycle.
In 2020, I began experiencing extreme overwhelm and anxiety around my cycle. I had always suffered from terrible menstrual cramps that I numbed with ibuprofen, but in 2020 I started experiencing cyclical anxiety and depression around my period. I had always thought painful periods were “normal” but when these new symptoms appeared, I decided to get curious about my cycle and began to shift my perspective.
I've learned many healing tools from various wellness professionals, all of which have been invaluable. However, the most important element was tuning into my own body and truly listening to what it needed from a place of love and respect. All of the answers were—and are—within me, and the same is true for you. This oil is created with the intention to help you cultivate a ritual that helps you tune into yourself and form a loving, compassionate relationship with your cycle.
When I first started doing this ritual-it was incredibly difficult to shift that inner dialogue that had sounded like some variation of: “why are you causing me so much pain, I hate this, I hate you.” to “I love you, what is wrong? How can I better support you.” But over time, and with the natural warming, anti -inflammatory, stress reducing properties the oil provided the pain lessened and it became easier to listen and feel the power on the other side. 5 years later I do this ritual every cycle and around year 3 my cycle synced with the moon.
Nature wants us to be happy and healthy, and this all natural menstrual cycle oil paired with your own ritual is a powerful tool in not only helping to reduce immediate solutions, but also helping to cultivate a positive long term relationship with your menstrual cycle that helps put you in harmony with natures cycles. To learn more about the ingredients and there natural healing properties, you can check out the menstrual cycle product page.
