Living a lunar-led family life with Nicolette Sowder
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Today's guest is Nicolette Sowder, and she is the founder of Wilder Child and Wild Schooling, representing one of the largest global online communities of nature connected parents and educators. Her experience as a teacher in a traditional classroom strengthened her resolved to help design nature bonded visceral learning experiences outside of those four. She is committed to furthering the outdoor education movement through her work as a forest based educators at strong roots natural learning community, and she finds her center inspiration and a lot of eggs on her 60 acre farmstead in Michigan where she wild schools, her two daughters.
So in our house, we are enthusiastic members of Nicolette's Kids Moon Club, and we're also passionate proponents of lunar led living. Connecting with the cycles of the moon is such a wonderful way to connect more deeply with our own cycles, with the cycles of the earth and with each other as a family. It can also give non menstruating family members an embodied experience of cyclic living. So we're talking about all of that and so much more in this episode, including some simple tips for beginning to honor the moon cycles in meaningful ways with your family. Let's dive in. Hi Nicola. It's so lovely to have you here today.
In this episode, we talk about:
✨ What had to fall away for Nicolette to fully immerse herself in the natural world
✨ The event that led to an epiphany around co-parenting with nature
✨ The journey that led to Nicolette and her family moving to a 60-acre homestead
✨ The healing that comes from building a relationship with the land
✨ The vitalist tradition and learning to observe what is emerging in our lives
✨ Working with the energies of our cycles and finding the power in it
✨ What it looks like for Nicolette and her daughters to work with the energies of the moon phases
✨ Creating "family moon names"
✨ How lunar-led living can prepare children for the experience of having a menstrual cycle, if they are going to
✨ Simple practices for connecting with the moon and with the land where you live
✨ The inner balance that comes from knowing where we are in our cycles and where the moon is in her cycle
✨ Helping children set and work towards "emotional intentions"
✨ Honouring the lunar cycle and your menstrual cycle when they might be quite different phases
In this episode, we mention:
✨ The Moon in You by Alexandria King
