The Soft Rebellion Podcast
by Flurina Thali
A homecoming, a return, and a (re)discovery of the creative power of your female body.Our world uproots us from the gifts of the Feminine; the intuitive, the instinctual, the cyclical, the soft. What is the result? Patriarchal cultures of perfectionism, shame, and disconnect that leave us constantly running, never arriving. Imagine a world of women softly rebelling; claiming our cyclicity, our weirdness, and our rest as we courageously cultivate a deep and delicious relationship to our female bodies. My name is Flurina, I’m an Osteopath, dancer, writer and coach, I’ve been on my own journey sparked by an eating disorder to come home to the wild, poetic anatomy of my female body and awaken my creative power… and I invite you to join me and my guests, trailblazing teachers, healers and creatives as we each reclaim our own soft rebellion. flurinathali.substack.com
Episodes
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Dr Bee Hugh on Menstrual Art, Embodied Knowledge & Living Beyond Binaries.
Dearest Listener, I hope this message finds you well - in good health and spirit and that you are able to enjoy this gorgeous and heart-warming autumn sun today! I am sending you a new podcast episode. In this conversation, I’m joined by Dr Bee Hughes (they/them), an interdisciplinary artist and...
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Ep. 89: Cycles, Loops & Embodied Knowledge: What Unravels When We Linger – Franzi Böhm
In this conversation, we follow loops and cycles: menstrual cycles, breath cycles, artistic processes, patterns we inherit, and the things that begin to unravel when we stay with discomfort rather than rushing to resolve it. I’m joined by scholar, artist, musician and dancer Franziska Böhm, whose...
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Ep. 88: Sexual Freedom: Pleasure as a form of Resistance - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
What if sexual freedom isn't about becoming someone new, but remembering who we've always been? In this episode, I sit down with author, activist, and cultural visionary Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah to explore pleasure as a form of resistance. Together, we discuss African wisdom traditions, the cyclical...
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Ep. 87: Where are your words coming from? A conversation about grief, longing and homecoming - with Tanya Forgan.
Dearest listener, dear community, Welcome back to the Soft Rebellion. I hope this message and new episode finds you in a good health and spirit and I wish you a WONDERful week ahead. The conversation I share with you today was one of those rare, deeply honest, intuitive exchanges where each...
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Ep. 86: Notes on a Wild Fluidity: Rethinking Menstruation, Bodies, and Becoming - with Natalie Rose Dyer
In this episode, I sit down with poet, essayist and academic Natalie Rose Dyer to explore the ideas behind her groundbreaking book The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature: Notes on a Wild Fluidity. We begin with Natalie's own journey into this work - what drew her to menstruation as a site of...
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Ep. 85: Untamed Pleasure: Unleash your true erotic nature - with Carly Mountain.
“Our bodies are made for pleasure”, yet we are tamed and shamed into cages that domesticate our sexuality and relationships. - Carly Mountain I am so excited, grateful and honoured to welcome Carly Mountain back to the Podcast! Since our last conversation a year ago, Carly has completed her…
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Ep. 84: Your Body Isn’t Broken: Decoding Vaginal Symptoms with Acupuncture - with Claire Dabreo.
Have you ever wondered if your body is speaking a language you’ve just never been taught how to understand? And what if your hormonal or pelvic health challenges were actually an invitation into deeper alignment with yourself? In today’s conversation - the final round of the Healthy Vagina…
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Ep. 83: Birth is physical: What we’ve forgotten and how we can remember - with Natalie Meddings.
Dear Listeners, The Healthy Vagina Project is gradually cycling itself to an end … but not quite! Today I have the great joy to introduce you to Natalie Meddings! She has been supporting women through birth for over twenty years as a mother, doula and active birth teacher. She is also the author…
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Ep. 82: How Medical Herbalism can support your menstrual health and beyond with Melinda McDougall.
If you’re curious to explore natural approaches to support menstrual health challenges today’s episode is for you. My guest, Melinda McDougall, is a registered Medical Herbalist specialising in women's health and runs a busy online clinic seeing patients across the UK and beyond. She combines the...
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Ep. 81: Periods Aren’t Meant to Bloody Hurt: Reclaiming Menstrual Health with Gemma Barry
Painful, heavy, chaotic periods have become so normalised that many women are told to simply “get on with it.” But what if that narrative is wrong? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Gemma — former NHS nurse, herbalist and founder of The Well Woman Project — to challenge the deeply...
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Ep. 80: How to Transform Menstrual Shame and Reclaim Your Blood Mysteries - Jane Hardwicke Collings
Yes, how do rites of passage shape women’s lives? In this episode, former homebirth midwife, teacher, writer, and menstrual, childbirth, and menopause educator Jane Hardwicke Collings joins me to explore how menstrual shame, birth trauma, and menopause have shaped women’s identities for…
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Ep. 79: Radical Care: Birth Work, Abortion & Reproductive Justice - with Sara Bakr.
In this grounded and liberating conversation, we speak about birth work, abortion, and reproductive justice through the lens of doula work, activism, inclusivity, and embodied experience. My guest, Sara Bakr invites us to rethink who birth support is for, what care can look like, and why bodily...
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Ep. 78: How to reconnect to your body and heal pelvic pain through somatic movement, Part 2!
Dearest listener, dear community, THANK YOU for all your feedbacks and messages for the health vagina project - it is my absolute pleasure! 💜 In this episode together with Dunya Ntinizi we continue and deepen the conversation about how somatic movement practices can support us in healing pelvic...
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Ep. 77: How to reconnect to your body and heal pelvic pain through somatic movement - with Samara Concepción.
Welcome to the fourth conversation of The Healthy Vagina Project - through the lens of Somatic Movement and Birth Work! This conversation follows a golden thread woven through the landscapes of this project: the cyclical nature of the pelvis, sensation, movement, and life itself. The pelvis as a...
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Ep. 76: Speaking From the Pelvic Bowl: Touch, Grief, and Women’s Health - with Avni Trivedi
What does it mean to truly listen to the body — especially the pelvic bowl — rather than trying to fix it? In this conversation with Avni Trivedi, we explore women’s pelvic health through touch, osteopathy, grief, and embodiment. Together, we speak about how personal health journeys shape our…
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Ep. 75: Yoga Through a Woman’s Lens: Soft Strength, Fluidity and Care - with Lynn Murphy.
Have you ever wondered what it truly means to practice yoga through a woman’s lens — one that honors the body’s wisdom, its fluid nature, intuition and (hormonal) life transitions? In this episode, I’m joined by Lynn Murphy, an experienced practitioner and teacher in women’s yoga, the active…
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Ep. 74: Why your vagina is a truth-teller: A conversation about intimacy, sexual energy and healing with Daven Lee.
I am so excited and deeply grateful to be launching The Healthy Vagina Project with this conversation. This project has been living in my body and heart for a long time, and it feels incredibly meaningful to begin it with a topic that is so often unnamed, misunderstood, or shamed: Intimacy,...
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Ep. 73: The Wintering Body: Rewriting Illness, Rest, and Healing with Asha Frost
In this end-of-year (and Christmas 🧑🎄) conversation, I’m joined by Asha Frost for a deeply grounding and timely exploration of cyclical wisdom, rest, and healing. As we move toward winter solstice and the intensity of the holiday season, we speak about slowing down, honouring ancestral...
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Ep. 72: Mapping Menstrual Activism with Dr Chris Bobel
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Chris Bobel, one of the most influential (scholarly) voices in menstrual activism and critical menstruation studies. For more than twenty years, Chris has been pushing the boundaries of how we understand menstruation - not just as a biological event, but as a...
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Ep. 71: Why Menstruation Matters — A Conversation about Activism, Economics, and Wholeness with Dr. Lara Owen
What might change if we treated menstruation not as something to hide, but as a source of knowledge - about ourselves, our society, and the systems we live in? What if the way we relate to the menstrual cycle could teach us how to build a more humane world? Could paying attention to menstruation…
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Ep. 70: Softening into the Underworld: The Medicine of Descent & Rising.
What if descent wasn’t something to fear, but a sacred invitation — to soften, to surrender, to remember who we truly are beneath the noise? This conversation with Carly Mountain felt like sitting beside a fire, slowly warming the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden away. With tenderness and deep...
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Ep. 69: Where the Body Speaks: Trauma, Truth & the Divine Feminine with Coco Oya Cienna-Rey
What if the act of creating — a book, a poem, a life — is also an act of soul retrieval? In this tender and powerful conversation, Coco invites us into the deep terrain of trauma, healing, and divine remembrance. Her voice carries the wisdom of one who has walked through fire and returned with...
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Ep. 68: How Matrescence is a Portal to Heal Yourself and the World - with Naomi Glass.
What if motherhood isn’t just a role we step into — but a rite of passage that invites us to heal, transform, and reconnect with the cycles of life? In this rich and nourishing conversation, Naomi Glass shares her journey from disconnection to deep embodiment, from inner patriarchy to cyclical...
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Ep. 67: The sacred space of shame and empowerment with Dr. Cacky Mellor
In today`s episode I`m talking to Dr. Cacky Mellor who invites us to reframe shame as a sacred space - a place where healing begins, stories are reclaimed, and the body becomes a source of power rather than pain. We explore how trauma, illness, and cultural conditioning shape our inner narratives…
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Ep. 66: Your Body Is a Portal: Activate Your Female Power and Unfold Your Full Potential - with Dr. Sharon Moloney
Have you ever wondered what it really means to be female? Do you sometimes resent being female in a man’s world? Do you feel like something is missing in your experience and don’t know what it is? Today’s guest, Dr. Sharon Moloney, has spent a lifetime exploring and writing about exactly these...
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Ep. 65: The Alchemy of Menopause: A Journey Into Power, Spirit & Self-Care.
What is our Second Spring? Who are we after menopause? How can we harness the wisdom we’ve gained from previous cycles and transitions to navigate this shift? AND how can the wisdom of menopause plug us deeper into our cyclical summer years too? This is what I talk about in today’s episode with...
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Ep. 64: The Wild Woman’s Way: Returning to Sensation, Instinct, and Pleasure - with Michaela Boehm.
You are never not embodied. You are a body — a treasure trove of wisdom and native intelligence. There’s a bubbling abundance of insight within you, but it’s not something you can access through the mind alone. That’s why we’re called to give authority back to the body — to let her know she can…
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Ep. 63: You are the portal. Exploring ancient secrets of female power with Liz Childs Kelly.
The Sacred Feminine is about your power, my power, and the deep, ancient wisdom that guides us toward authenticity, healing, and transformation. Herstory and mythology - often erased or forgotten - reveal that women have always been undeniable forces of nature. These stories offer us new…
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The mother in the mother: Unearthing Hidden Stories with Pippa Grace
We all come from the feminine — from the mother. You and I have unfolded from bodies within bodies. (Did you know the egg that created you was already in your mother’s ovaries when she was still a fetus in your grandmother’s womb?) And yet, we often take her — the mother — and her story for...
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Ep. 61: Coming home to the body through voice, circle and midlife wisdom - with Phoebe Rose.
What if midlife wasn’t a crisis - but a calling? In this soul-stirring episode, I sit with Phoebe - heart-centred women’s coach, women’s circle facilitator, and voice activation guide - to explore the initiatory nature of perimenopause, the power of voice, and the transformative healing found in...
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Ep. 60 - I invite you to soften. A little.
Over the last few weeks I have landed with a new question to start my days; when I wake up and emerge into the potent liminality of the early morning hour, I ask «Mother Earth, who do you need me to be today?» This question is inspired by one of my dearest teachers, Jane Hardwicke Collings who...
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A conversation on feminine wisdom, creativity, and how to trust your inner voice - with Alice Grist.
What does it mean to rebel softly — to walk a spiritual path that challenges, heals, and liberates, to let go of the costume which no longer fits you, feel an intuitive sense of flow to life and trusting your own experience? In this soulful episode, I sit down with the amazing (and ever so...
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How womb healing can liberate your leadership. With Tumelo Moreri.
What if your womb is the creation portals for your leadership? And the transformed leadership we want for our world and communities will be born through our wombs, and the work of tending to our wombs and bodies? Today I am talking about womb healing and leadership with Tumelo Moreri who is an...
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3 questions to nurture your inner rebellion - with Flurina Thali.
New solo episode out! Join me as I share with you how the Soft Rebellion has shown up in my life recently- pitching bloody miraculous article ideas! - and hear what 3 questions guide me through my daily meditation and journal practice to hear the voice of my inner rebel and act upon it! This is a...
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Inquiry & Unity Consciousness – The Path to Freedom with Evie Gibbens.
Four years ago, I read a book called "Loving What Is" by Byron Katie and learned about a process called The Work, which became a catalyst for my homecoming journey. This process gifted me with what I call "the poetry of truth"—so deeply meaningful, liberating, and full of joy. As part of that...
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The dance of your womb. With Anja Gysin.
What does your womb mean to you? How do you relate to her and nurture your connection? What if you were invited to tune into her movement and join her dance? What if our journey of homecoming is about learning to perceive the anatomy of our very selves (not a textbook!) through the lens of our...
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From silence to connection - the power of talking about the menstrual cycle in public.
What if the journey of homecoming to the female body begins with sharing our experiences of inhabiting a female body? In this solo episode I share with you a recent so magical, joyful and bloody powerful encounter in my favourite coffee shop in South East London in which a “business” meeting...
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The power of menstruality to dismantle inequalities within ourselves and the world. Dr. Cre Dye
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...
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The joy of dropping it all & tasting waves of homecoming.
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...
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The embryo in us: A deep dive into questions about the meaning of human existence - Jaap van der Wal
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...
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How to navigate being highly sensitive. With Jo Sheppard.
How can being highly sensitive be a gift rather than a burden, and how do we learn to embrace and navigate that sensitivity in our lives and work? In this episode, we dive into the world of bodywork and healing. Jo is an experienced Osteopath whose journey has taken her beyond physical health and...
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Breaking free from toxic productivity: A journey of healing and renewal. Tamu Thomas.
Do you catch yourself measuring your worth by how much you do, and how much what you do benefits others? If so, you’re not alone. As my guest today, Tamu Thomas, says – it’s not your fault. Tamu Thomas is the author of the groundbreaking book, Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic...
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Menstrual activism: Indulge the impulse to resist & let your anger guide you home. Dr.Breanne Fahs.
How do you meet resistance and anger in your lifeCheck if cnava left account twice ? How often do you say yes when you mean no? And how often did you betray yourself by neglecting the power of your female body to fight back? I am so excited to have had the amazing Breanne Fahs as guest on the...
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This is my vision. Will you join me?
In this short solo episode, I share my vision — the why behind all the work I do, from writing and coaching to research and teaching. This is more than just a declaration; it’s an invitation to join me on this softly rebellious quest to expand this vision into a larger energetic container where…
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An abundant trustful yes: Embracing enoughness and navigating transitions.
Welcome to the first solo episode of The Soft Rebellion of 2025! In this moment of transition—from my personal wintering season into spring—I’m sharing an intimate look at my journey as I step back into the creative flow of this podcast and my life’s work. Over the last two weeks, I’ve navigated...
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How to turn 2025 into a radical act of Self-care - with Valentina Thayer.
Imagine a world where women meet with other women as the year comes to an end, together they reflect, process and collectively lean into their dreams and wishes for the new beginning, and because they do, the collective space holding and honoring awakens and plants the seed of their greatest…
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The softly rebellious call to winter - see you in January!
Sometimes we just need to let go. For the time being. And trust that the arising emptiness will birth effortlessly what we have been working towards so hard. I am feeling tired. I have a strong calling to invite women home to their soft healing power of their bodies … and reclaim their very own...
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Unlocking the mysteries of the female body: An evolutionary perspective. Dr. Deena Emera
What’s the story of the women’s bodies? And what can the evolutionary biology of the female body teach us about our health, agency, and creative power? The functions of the female body have always been shroud in mysteries, and often myths and misconceptions. As our understanding of our own…
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Let's talk about ovaries. A wildly poetic exploration of the ancient landscapes of the feminine.
Welcome to The Soft Rebellion Podcast, I am so happy that you are here. In this episode I invite you onto a journey exploring the wildly poetic anatomy of your ovaries, `wombscapes` and the body of the egg. Yes, you knew and sensed ovaries before anything else, ovaries have been your first human...
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Effortless effort: Healing and embodied presence through dance - with Lizzy Le Quesne.
Welcome back to the Soft Rebellion Podcast. I feel so excited, touched and moved sharing this conversation with you during which I felt like I am arriving in every moment, from anew, and deeper. Thank you, Lizzy. Skinner Releasing Technique is a somatic dance practice and in this episode you will...
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A homecoming, a return, and a (re)discovery of the creative power of your female body.Our world uproots us from the gifts of the Feminine; the intuitive, the instinctual, the cyclical, the soft. What is the result? Patriarchal cultures of perfectionism, shame, and disconnect that leave us constantly running, never arriving. Imagine a world of women softly rebelling; claiming our cyclicity, our weirdness, and our rest as we courageously cultivate a deep and delicious relationship to our female bodies. My name is Flurina, I’m an Osteopath, dancer, writer and coach, I’ve been on my own journey sparked by an eating disorder to come home to the wild, poetic anatomy of my female body and awaken my creative power… and I invite you to join me and my guests, trailblazing teachers, healers and creatives as we each reclaim our own soft rebellion.
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