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This episode is a follow-on from last week's conversation about the womb as a compass and it goes even deeper.Because once we understand that the womb is our energetic centre, the next step is learning how to actually work with it. And that begins with understanding our cycle: Not just the biology of it, but the energy, the wisdom and the rhythm that moves through each phase.In this episode I walk you through the four phases of the menstrual cycle — inner winter, inner spring, inner summer and inner autumn — and what each one is really asking of you energetically. I share what these phases can feel like, what they are inviting you to release, create, express and act on and how to begin working with them rather than against them.I also share honestly how my own cycle does not always follow the book because yours might not either. And that is exactly the point. No two cycles are the same, which is why the single most important thing you can do is start tracking your own. Not with an app. On paper. Every day. Because the patterns are there, you just need the data to see them.If you have ever felt like your energy, your mood or your creativity makes no sense, it probably makes perfect sense. You just need the map. This episode is that map. I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

This is a short bonus episode, a gentle two minute guided practice to help you slow down, place your hands on your womb space and simply connect.There is nothing to do here and nothing to fix. Just an invitation to breathe, notice, and come back to yourself.This practice was originally recorded as part of the episode The Womb as a Compass: Your Way Back to Yourself and works beautifully alongside it or completely on its own whenever you need a quiet moment to return inward. I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

We have been taught that the womb is just an organ. And in the very same breath, we have been taught to override it.In this episode of Silk and Soil, I am exploring something that I believe is one of the most profound and overlooked aspects of our femininity: the womb as an energetic compass. Not just an organ. Not just a place where life is grown and birthed. But a deep, intelligent centre that holds your stories, your desires, your creativity, your conditioning and the wisdom of everything you have ever suppressed or been told not to feel.I talk about the energetic connections between the womb, the heart and the throat and why understanding these connections changes everything about how we listen to ourselves.I share why so many of us have lost touch with this inner compass entirely and what it actually looks like to begin coming back to it. And I guide you through a simple but powerful practice to start connecting to your womb space, one you can return to again and again whenever you are at a crossroads, seeking answers, or simply needing to come home to yourself.This is not about doing more. It is about slowing down enough to finally listen to what has been there all along.If you have ever felt like you do not know how to hear your own inner voice, or you hear it but do not trust it, this episode is where we begin.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

There are things we talk ourselves out of sharing. This episode is one of them.Today I am doing something that feels deeply uncomfortable: I am sharing my million pound vision out loud. Not because I have it all figured out. Not because I am anywhere close to it right now. But because something inside me kept nudging me to say it and I have learned to trust those nudges even when - especially when - they scare me.This is not an episode about strategy or a step-by-step roadmap to a seven-figure business. It is something far more honest than that. It is about what a vision like this actually stirs up: the conditioning, the contraction, the voice that says who are you to want that? And it is about why I believe that voice is exactly the reason to keep going.I talk about what this vision is really rooted in, because it has nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with impact, resources and the life I know is possible. I share what it feels like to hold a vision that your current reality does not yet reflect. And I open up about how I am learning to run a business that moves with my feminine rhythm rather than against it, even when every piece of conditioning I carry is pulling me in the opposite direction.This episode came through as a transmission. I had no plan for it and no idea where it was going. But I know it needed to be said and I have a feeling it needs to be heard.If you have a vision that scares you, one you have been talking yourself out of sharing, this one is for you.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Your body has never stopped speaking to you. The question is: Have you been listening?In this episode I am sharing my own story of disconnection: years on the mini pill, living in a relentlessly linear and masculine way, powering through exhaustion, ignoring every signal my body was sending and wondering why nothing felt quite right. I talk about what it actually took to start coming back to myself, what that shift looked like in real and unglamorous terms and why it is not a quick fix, no matter how much we live in a world that tells us it should be.I also share some of the simplest, most accessible ways to begin listening to your body again. Not because I am here to tell you what to do but because I genuinely believe that the answers you are looking for are already inside you. They always have been. We have just been taught, over and over again, to look everywhere else first.This episode is for the woman who feels disconnected from herself and does not quite know where to start. It is for the woman who has spent years going at life like a machine and is starting to wonder if there is another way. And it is for anyone who needs a reminder that your body has been trying to talk to you all along and it is never too late to start listening. I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

In this episode, I'm sharing something that has genuinely shaken me to my core this week, in the most beautiful, grounding, world-expanding way. It started with a conversation with my shamanic healer about lineage and gifts and it sent me down a rabbit hole that I am still processing as I sit down to record this.It turns out I was born in one of the most ancient cities in all of northern Europe. A city founded by the Celts. A place where the veil between worlds has been thin for millennia. A place deeply connected to an ancient healing tradition called Braucherei, one where women who practised it were so often called witches. And as I started pulling on that thread, more threads appeared. Connections to France. To the Cathars. To the sacred feminine. To the land we now call home. Even to my daughter's name.Layer upon layer, it all started to make sense. The ancient knowing I have always felt but never been able to explain. The memories that live in my body that are not my own. The gifts I have always had but struggled to find the words for. All of it, finally, clicking into place.In this episode I talk about what it truly means to trace your lineage, not through names and dates, but through energy, memory and land. I share what the concept of a Völva is and why it stopped me in my tracks. I explore Braucherei and why discovering it felt like finally finding the word for something I have been doing my whole life. And I open up about the very real, very vulnerable business decision I made this week, to close a container that no longer felt in integrity with who I am becoming, and why sometimes honouring yourself means making the hard call.This episode is raw, wide-ranging and honestly a little bit all over the place, because that is exactly where I am right now. My world is being turned upside down and rebuilt from the foundations up and I would not have it any other way.If you have ever felt like there is a part of you that you just cannot quite reach or a knowing inside you that you cannot explain or a pull toward something you do not yet have the words for, this episode is for you.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

What if your perimenopause symptoms weren't something to push through but something to listen to?That is the question sitting at the heart of today's episode and it's one I'm exploring very much from the inside out. Because right now, I am in it. And what this threshold is revealing to me is more than I ever expected.Over the past few months, my body has been speaking louder than ever before. Extreme hunger that felt almost unbearable. Exhaustion so deep that whole days disappeared. Skin so dry that nothing touched it. And as I've sat with each of these symptoms, really sat with them, rather than overriding them, I've started to see a pattern. Not just hormonal shifts, but a deeper story being told.Every symptom, I believe, is a mirror. A reflection of where we have pushed too hard for too long. Where we have nourished everyone else and forgotten ourselves. Where we have lived on autopilot, following the rules we were handed and quietly abandoning our own needs along the way. Perimenopause, in all of its intensity and unpredictability, has a way of making that impossible to ignore anymore.In this episode, I'm sharing what my own symptoms have reflected back to me, including years on the mini pill, decades of powering through, prioritising convenience over nourishment and putting myself firmly at the bottom of the list. I'm talking about what it means to finally stop and listen to your body rather than override it. I'm exploring the sacred nature of this threshold, the crone archetype and why this energy and this kind of deep inner listening is something every woman can access, regardless of where she is in her cycle or her life.I'm also sharing the three foundations I'm putting in place for myself right now, simple, unglamorous and completely necessary and why I believe that the more inner work we do before perimenopause, the more we are able to meet this threshold with openness rather than resistance.This episode is not a guide. It's not advice from the other side. It's a real, honest, in-the-moment conversation from a woman who is walking this path consciously and wants you to know: you don't have to walk it alone and you don't have to be ashamed of any of it.Because we need to start talking about this. Openly, honestly, and without apology. 🌿I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Today is my birthday, so I'm sharing something really special with you:My birthday ritual. It's a gentle, embodied space to meet yourself at the threshold of another year.This is an invitation to pause, soften and return to what is real within you.Listen to this as if you are sitting in ceremony with your own life.Inside this episode, you are guided through: An opening arrival into your body and space  A short inner journey to meet your deeper self  Reflective journaling prompts for truth and clarity  A release practice to let go of what has completed  A closing devotion to anchor your next becoming This is not about fixing, planning or becoming better.It is about remembering who you are when you come back into rhythm with yourself.Let this be a quiet moment just for you, a pause between what has been and what is beginning to emerge.BIRTHDAY OFFER:Join "Journey to the Womb" for 43% off.Journey to the Womb is an 8 months journey to return to your body, your womb and your rhythm  so you can hear yourself clearly and trust what you hear. Find out more: https://jenanthony.com/journey-to-the-womb/Pay in Full: £190 https://book.stripe.com/cNidR84Vta8d2Ki2GqbAs0WPay in 8: £23.75 https://buy.stripe.com/cNi28qafN6W1fx41CmbAs0X I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

In this episode of Silk and Soil, I explore the concept of ancient intelligence. The deep, embodied wisdom encoded in our DNA through generations of lineage, emotion and lived experience. In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence and overthinking, many of us have lost touch with the intelligence that has always lived within us. Tune in as I dive into what ancient intelligence actually is, why we've become so disconnected from it and simple practices to begin unlocking it again. If you want to reconnect your own ancient intelligence, then my 6-month 1:1 journey 'The Woman Within' is your place. Apply now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJBJzEe0tUoTB3aBwGN86vBLWcjxFU4z4Tut2DO6-ecaA4Aw/viewform?usp=headerI'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Join me today for an honest conversation about how I'm building my business around my daughter, being the default parent and feeling like I have to hold it all. I talk about the differences on how I used to run my Yoga business in 2018 and how I'm running my business now.In the business world there is a lot of emphasis on being perfect, having the perfect grid, but as a mother, that's just not my reality. I started this business to work around my daughter and this is a conversation about what this truthfully looks likeI'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

When you get asked "How are you?", how quickly do you answer "Fine" or "OK" without really thinking about it?Join me today for a deeper conversation of how you are really feeling in motherhood and how to get away from our autopilot answers.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

So many women get lost in the trenches of motherhood, especially in the beginning. Join me today for different ways of finding your way back to yourself in motherhood, without overhauling your life.It's all about the little things that you can do now to reconnect to the woman inside.In this episode I share different ways of what I do.But this is not about copying what I do, it's you finding your own ways of reconnecting with yourself.I hope that this episode inspires you to take small but mighty action so that you feel more like yourself again.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

I'm so excited to be sharing today's womb healing meditation with you.All you need is 20 minutes, a comfortable space, maybe have a journal or something to write next to you and then just press playIn today's deep healing meditation, we connect to the womb, your inner landscape, feelings and emotions to connect to the woman within.No experience needed, just relax, close your eyes and listen.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

After a lot of resistance within me, I made a decision about who I'm here to serve. I love serving women, but something always felt amiss but couldn't quite put my hand on it.Join me today to talk about what has been going on behind the scenes and the direction I'm moving into going forward.This is such an exciting time for me. Please share this podcast with any mums that could benefit from it.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

What happens when the worst happens?And what happens when you play with your 10 month old daughter on the living room floor and get a call from your husband to say: It is cancer.Join me today for a very heartfelt conversation about Cancer, grief and how they put me back on my path.My world fell apart both times but it also rearranged itself again on a whole different path that I didn't know was there but was fully mine.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Today's episode is a very special episode. I am sharing with you my Womb Waters Meditation.This is a meditation that has been trying to come through for quite some time, but the words never seemed to fit. Until one morning I got the message that this is not meant to be transmitted with words.Get comfortable, close your eyes, place one hand on your womb and let the sounds just take you away.I suggest for you to have a notebook or something to write close by as this transmission is powerful and a lot of energy will be moved through it. I'd love to know your feedback on this, please leave a comment here, email me on [email protected] or send me a DM on Instagram @itsjenanthonyI'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

For centuries we, as women, would come together to share our insights, wisdom, knowledge and just share from a place of connection.Over the years, especially as our world got a lot more busy and hectic, we seem to have lost this art of women coming together.Join me for a conversation, inspired by a sharing circle I joined, all around coming together as a way of sharing our wisdom.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Join me today for a conversation about AI and what impact it has on the connection to your truth, wisdom and feminine energy.In this episode I share honestly (always) and openly how I have used AI in the past and what has changed for me since I stopped using it as well as practices that you can do to come back to yourself.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Peri-Menopause for me is a sacred time to really pay attention to my body and my inner landscape as I'm starting this decent.Today I am sharing all of the feelings, the emotions, the thoughts that are coming up (and there are many)For the first time in my life I feel like I'm entering a threshold very intentional and consciously. This is what this episode is all about.If you are interested in joining a Peri-Menopause Circle, here is the waitlist for you to add yourself to: Peri-Menopause Circle WaitlistI'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

There is a lot of talk about feminine energy, flow, wisdom and rhythm. But where do you even start with this, especially if you've never witnessed a female figure connecting to her feminine energy when you were growing up.If you grew up in the same era like me, you probably not been able to witness what it means to be in the feminine, to be connected with the feminine flow, your own rhythm, you body.This episode is the starting point for exactly this.It's all about connecting to your body, your feminine rhythm and come back into flowJoin me for today's episode where I tell you exactly where to start your inner journey. Grab your cuppa, get comfortable and let's dive in.Get my Sacred Cycle Womb Healing Meditations to help you connect to your cycle deeper. Download them hereI'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.

Welcome to 'Of Silk and Soil', I am so happy and grateful you are here.Get yourself a cup of tea or cacao, get comfy and let's go on this journey together.This is your weekly ritual to connect to your feminine rhythm, truth and inner knowing. It is a space to soften back into yourself, to root into what’s real and rise from a place that feels true. A blend of soul, embodiment and feminine remembrance.This is your home for honest conversations, rituals, guided womb journeys, feminine insight and so much more. Grab your cuppa and get comfortable.I'd love to know what you thought of today's episodeSupport the showThank you so much for listening to this episode of Of Silk and Soil.If this resonated with you, I'd love it if you'd leave a review, it helps more women find their way here.If you're ready to go deeper, I have a free Everyday Womb Meditation waiting for you here: https://subscribepage.io/1vpvfu  It's a simple practice to help you come back to yourself.