Welcome to The Soft Rebellion!
Welcome to a softly rebellious journey to your body through your body – bloody pragmatic and gloriously poetic. This journey is like a wild endeavor permeating through your hard armor and into the softly round hilly fields of your core. Let us awaken to the beauty and power of our female bodies, remember our true hunger, and indulge our calling.
The Soft Rebellion is my guiding light, and I feel called to grow, nurture and hold the space for a movement of women softly rebelling. This movement is the Soft Rebellion. I am aligning to an existing momentum which has found a new language through me, and I invite you to align with that momentum too and find your own way with and through it. I hope that my substack offers you a landscape to unfold, unfurl, breath and call out your very own version of the Soft Rebellion.
Hi, I am Flurina.
Let`s start with sharing about how I discovered my calling. I was born into pink fluffy clouds of love. Clouds which soon didn`t feel so safe and pink anymore but burst into the cold grey of apparent reality, being bullied at school, pushed away as the weird one, the freak, the uncool kid, the one too tall, with too red cheeks, the one who is not being part of the group.
And so, I grew into complex and powerful constructs of my mind letting me know that surely, I am not good enough, and therefore my body is not good enough too. I started pushing my own body away, starving this source of wisdom, until I couldn`t push her any further. That was the beginning and the continuation of a story which later gave rise to my calling – the story of enough-ness and supporting women across the globe to taste their true hunger and come home to their female body.
I studied dance, trained as an Osteopath, graduated from anatomy trainings, learnt to teach yoga in India, became an eating disorder recovery coach and immersed myself into the field of menstrual cycle awareness. On a quest to gather the puzzle pieces needed to make a living with what I always wanted to become, back then, when my menarcheal self poured wonderful dreams into my life: A wise movement woman, a weird anatomy storyteller, an embodied embryologist, a joyful leader. For completion, I also wanted to become a member of the Swiss federal council too, earn lots of money and gift my sister with the horse she always dreamed of.
Over the last years I have let the question of my calling – what does it mean to come home to the female body? – become my heartbeat and pulse and with every beat …. grew stronger, planted a seed, which unfolded into a tender sapling and a strong tree to trust.
My substack is my place to celebrate my wisdom and weirdness and invite you to celebrate yours too!
Here I`ll write about:
My academic research into the menstrual cycle – I am currently on a PhD journey about “Dance, health and the bleeding body: A feminist autoethnography”.
My Osteopathic practice – as an Osteopath I work with women from all ages and (menstrual) life stages, supporting them to come home to their female body and awaken their own medicine. I meet my own body deeper with every woman I work with, and I share from these wildly poetic experiences, offering their essence to you because there are gifts for all of us. I bow with respect and gratitude to every encounter and the intelligence it draws out in me.
My personal experience / life – I share from my lived experience as a cyclical being devoted to the wisdom of my menstrual cycle, I share how the Soft Rebellion shows up in my life on a daily basis - the joyful glory and gunky discomfort!
Here you`ll also find:
My Podcast – I am the mama and host of The Soft Rebellion podcast – a homecoming to the creative power of the female body. I invite you to join me and my guests, trailblazing teachers, healers and creatives as we each reclaim our own soft rebellion.
Community – I nurture a growing community of women softly rebelling. I notice, sense and feel that we don`t need more rugged individualism but co-creative emergence to find our way through the mess we find ourselves in! Your words are as important as mine, I am offering a space for exploration and I always look forward hearing from you. I welcome you to come and claim your seat in this growing circle of the Soft Rebellion!
Softly rebellious facts about me:
I notice the pace of the world and I ignore it! My menstrual cycle is my best coach, guide and sets my rhythm - always.
I no longer define myself by the way I look but the way I feel …
… and I often let that be wildly reflected in the colour combinations of my clothes 😊
I dream the dreams which feel impossible to achieve and the ones which do not make any sense to anyone apart my mind and I go for it … because it makes me feel alive!
I nurture my unique and weird wonderful self by taking my inner artist onto weekly dates - to play!
My morning muesli? More like a salad - Beetroot, carrot, 5 different spices, abundant fruits, loads of cacao nibs and macadamia nuts.
Connect with me:
- Find my Webpage here.
- Find me on Instagram here.
- Find my podcast on Spotify here.
