I BLEED Leah Manasseh

In this episode I interview Gemma Ireland, director and co-founder fo BodyFlow. We talk about the benefits of bodyflow reflexology and how it can help you have a better cycle.

Gemma Ireland has an incredibly extensive knowledge of the holistic body and has been working in alternative health for over 20 years full time. She believes that if we treat our bodies properly, we will be healthy, happy, confident and live long. Everything in moderation, a healthy balanced diet, exercise carefully, hydrate, breathe fresh air and visualisation will help you prepare for your days ahead. She has helped many clients over the years alter the way they lead their lives with superb life long results.

Gemma trained and qualified as a reflexologist at the Self Centre in Harley Street in 1999 and specialises in helping couples balance their systems to promote fertility and natural conception. This combined with her extensive knowledge of prenatal health gained from her five years as a birth doula enables Gemma to accompany her clients on their journey through pregnancy to the birth of their child with holistic advice on nutrition, pain relief, exercise, breast-feeding and positive thinking. She is also an acupressure therapist.

Gemma believes that many couples are encouraged to go down a 'medical route' (IVF) far too quickly without considering a holistic approach. She was told, at an early age, that she would find it terribly hard to conceive, if at all, which shattered her dreams of being a mother. She now has a wonderful son and reflexology helped her conceive like so many of her clients. This personal experience has motivated Gemma to specialise in fertility balancing and boosting amongst other reflexology ailments achieving remarkable results. She works with both the man and woman creating a healthy healed body.

Over the years Gemma has worked with many clients suffering from cancer, helping them relax as well as restoring energy levels after chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions. Gemma's positive energy and treatments benefit her clients' well-being by making them feel lighter, more energetic and happier.

She also works with a lot of sports injury problems, football teams, tennis players and running complaints...reflexology is so powerful, it opens the structural body, creating space and natural healing.  Reflexology works from within and continues to work after the treatment is given, providing outstanding results.

Gemma has been told on many occasions that she has 'Healing Hands' and that her clients feel a new 'Lease of Life' has been opened after receiving treatments. She is very passionate about her work and loves to help her clients in any way possible. Each client is treated individually and personally.

She specialises in fertility balancing, pregnancy, and postpartum care with amazing results. She treats men and women with any health concerns and has a very loyal and high profile client base, some of whom have given testimonials: Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, Felicity Kendal, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jamie and Jools Oliver, Phil Spencer, Alice Temperley, Nicola Elliot, founder of NEOM, Millie Mackintosh, Madeleine Shaw, Madeleine Thomson, founder of MT Cashmere, Rhiannon Lambert, Founder of Rhitrition, James and Christiane Duigan, Founders of Bodyism and many more...



Find out more about BodyFlow Reflexology here

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In this episode I interview, Ayurvedic practitioner Rachel Spillane.   We talk about her personal journey into Ayurveda and how it benefited her in regards to her cycle, and how Ayurvedic medicine looks and deals with the menstrual irregularities and how it understand the cycle and how some practises can improve and enhance a women's menstrual cycle on a monthly basis.



Rachel Spillane is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher and Board Member of the Colorado Ayurvedic Medical Association. Her practice, Saraswati Ayurveda, empowers women with knowledge, tools and support to heal naturally and feel happy, healthy and balanced.  She offers Ayurvedic consultations and wellness coaching, Panchakarma, Yoga and the Heal Your Gut online course. She loves veggie tacos, gardening and spending time in nature with her husband and two dogs.

https://www.instagram.com/saraswati.ayurveda/

https://www.facebook.com/saraswatiayurveda

www.saraswatiayurveda.com

IN this episode I talk to Cassandra Wilder, also known as the Menstruation Queen. 

Cassandra Wilder is a Naturopathic Doctor and the leading expert in women's cyclical health and menstruation. 

Cassandra has spent the last 10 years of her life helping  women get to the root of their hormone and cycle-related imbalances to find wellness and a true sense of empowerment in their healing.

Social media:

www.cassandrawilder.com

IG: @menstruationqueen

In this episode I interview Jasmine Alicia Carter about her journey into blood art.  We talk about her personal experience, the benefit of blood art, the technical side of it, the taboo around it, and the revolutionary aspect of it. 

Jasmine Alicia Carter is a Period Artist, a Menstrual Mentor and Sexual Mystic devoted to empowering women to heal and reclaim their true feminine nature. Started as a healing and self-discovering journey, now she inspires and educates thousands of women all over the world to love and nurture their menstrual cycles and their sexuality. Her favourite way to express the feminine wisdom is drawing with her period blood, a sacred art that changed her life in 2016 and that is spreading across the globe. Videos of her work have gone viral and she has been featured on major online news platforms like NowThis and News.com."

FOllow Jasmine on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasminealiciacarter/

or check out her website www.sacress.com

In this episode I talk to Mandi Tembo about period poverty, education, culture, and her experience in free bleeding and what it entailed.

Mandi Tembo is a PhD research fellow with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine doing a PhD in menstrual health and hygiene among young women in Zimbabwe. She has worked in implementation research for the past 5 years and holds an MSc in Global Health and Development from University College London and a B.A in Public Health (Biology) and Women Gender Studies. Most of her research work has been in sexual and reproductive health, community-based interventions, and women’s health.

Mandi is also the creator and content creator for The Bleed Read - a dynamic and comprehensive website that covers all things related to menstruation.

https://thebleedread.com/

http://instagram.com/thebleedread

In this episode I speak to Dr Purva Gupta,  about things that we can do to improve our skin according to where we are in our cycle.

Dr. Purva is a DHA certified medical practitioner, certified by Sharjah University in Aesthetic medicine, with over 12 years of international experience in Aesthetic, Functional-Integrative, Geriatric and General medicine and healthcare management in USA, UAE and India. She is a member of American Geriatric Society and is practicing at Cocoona Center for Aesthetic Transformation, Dubai.

Dr Purva has tremendous experience practicing skin care and cosmetic medicine combining her knowledge of medicine, dermatology and aesthetics to give the best possible results to her patients.

Apart from this, she is a passionate mother, wife, daughter and friend. She holds other talents like freestyle singing and dancing including Indian classical dance, swimming, racing, and blogging/writing about social causes to be able to help humanity and kids, specially.

You can follow or get in touch with Dr Purva on Instagram