What does social justice and inclusion mean to you? What stories of your past make you to notice, sense and feel racial injustice? Where in you does personal injustice live? And how do you feel you can use your practice of menstrual cycle awareness to dismantle inequalities within you and the world?

In this episode I am embarking on a racial injustice inquiry with Dr. Cre Dye, a dear friend, teacher, mentor, sister and such an incredible woman! Yes, we are the daughters of our stories and the stories that inform who we are, are the seeds of our revolutionary work. So let us look deep within and do the work! I am truly excited and honoured to share this conversation with you.

About Cre:

The theme of social justice and inclusion is a red thread in Dr. Cre`s Soft Rebellion journey and is how she is guiding herself and others back to the body, back home to belonging, and how she helps us understand how can be be together and support each other as a community and as human beings.

Dr. Cre is an Associate Professor, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Supervisor and Registered Yoga Teacher/Trainer – 500. She has served her local, national, and international communities with heart, mind and body activism for over 25 years as a mental health therapist, yoga teacher / trainer and university professor. She is also part of the Red School team as a Menstruality Justice and Inclusion Educator, facilitating inner change for social change on our Menstruality Leadership Programme, supporting us all to work with the power of the cycle in a way that is just and inclusive.

In this conversation we explored:

- Dr. Cre Dye`s journey of being born into a family of a white mother and a black father, how she grew into a world of difference and how this work (of social justice and inclusion) has birthed her. We explore how the environment we grow into shapes our believes about the world around us and how the concept of cognitive dissonance helps us to wake up from veils of illusion.

- Why inner change equals social change. Dr. Cre Dye shared with us why feeling guilty for being privileged isn’t the way forward but becoming conscious about differences in our lives and using our privileges to “fill the gap” and and create opportunities for others, thereby fostering a more equitable and compassionate society.

- How we can use the practice of menstrual cycle awareness to dismantle inequalities within ourselves and the world. Our menstrual cycle is our greatest guide to become aware of the different aspects within ourselves and perspective around us, empowering us to challenge the societal norms that perpetuate imbalance.

Enjoy!

Receive my free mini course: From body shame and disconnect to joy and into the fullness of your creative power: - www.flurinathali.com/

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Links:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com

Cre Dye: www.indrayogainstitute.com, Instagram: @credyeyoga

Credits:

- Intro/outro music – ‘Hymn for Jim’ by Aspyrian: Robin Porter – saxophone, Jack Gillen – guitar, Matt Parkinson – drums, composed by Robin Porter, listen to the full track here.

- Graphic: Annina Thali, for more information click here

How often do you hide the truth of your female body and neglect her cyclical rhythm (and the magic that comes with it)? When was the last time you completely let go, dropped your bundle, and surrendered to the need to rest—unexpectedly, out of the blue—because your body was asking for it in that very moment? And when did you last fully surrender to your desires, with a big smile in your heart, without judging yourself for it?

In this episode, I invite you to join me on a walk along the Ravensbourne River in South East London. Let’s sit together on a bench as I share the story of my recent experience on day 25 of my menstrual cycle, which unexpectedly transformed into a day 1 experience. In that shift, I turned shock and frustration into profound surrender, unveiling golden nuggets of wisdom along the way (which I can’t wait to share with YOU). It felt like waves of homecoming, and I want you to taste that, too.

P.S.: I’m so excited to be back with a solo episode! I’ve missed connecting directly with you, my wonderful, softly rebellious community. I can’t wait to hear your takeaways from this short episode and learn where you are on your Soft Rebellion journey, and how she's showing up in your life right now.

This episode is so wildly poetic and so bloody real. Like the Soft Rebellion.

In this fascinating episode, I am joined by Dr. Jaap van der Wal, Ph.D., a medical doctor and renowned expert in embryology and anatomy. Gradually, he developed into a teacher of philosophy of science and medical anthropology and today he calls his teaching “Embryosophy” as he finds in the embryo tentative answers to questions about the meaning of human existence.

Jaap van der Wal has been a teacher of mine in the past and I follow his work with deep respect, admiration and fascination. Whilst feeling very nervous (and aware of the vastness of this topic and my yet little “knowledge”) it was such a delight to talk with him about the Embryo. We were all embryos once, right? This episode guides us to really deeply appreciate that!

The Soft Rebellion is she who awakens to the embryo within her, acknowledges that her being is an embryonic way of life, her adult body a process, always, and allows those forces to keep shaping her being. And dreams.

Enjoy!

Receive my free mini course: From body shame and disconnect to joy and into the fullness of your creative power: - www.flurinathali.com/

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The Soft Rebellion Podcast is created and hosted by Flurina Dominique Thali. I love hearing from you. To contact me, email softrebellion@flurinathali.com.

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Links:

Flurina Dominique Thali & The Soft Rebellion: @flurina.thali / www.flurinathali.com

Jaap van der Wal: www.embryo.nl