What is Fertility Awareness?

So, what exactly is fertility awareness? I like to define it as a deep, intentional practice of tracking your menstrual cycle - giving you real insight into your body, and allowing you to make informed choices in line with your fertility goals. Fertility awareness has many uses:

🌻 It’s an all natural, no side effect birth control method

🌻 It’s a support for when you are trying to conceive

🌻 It’s a way to get to know your body better, and show it some love

🌻 It’s a tool to better understand your cycle health and symptoms

The method that I teach is The Well’s method - which is a sympto-thermal method. This means that it uses on basal body temperature (the lowest temperature our bodies reach while we’re sleeping), cervical fluid, and optionally the position of your cervix as it’s main fertile signs.

👉 take a peek at the efficacy of a sympto-thermal method here

But to so many people who use it, fertility awareness is much more than a method. It is a lifestyle that emphasizes intuition, wellness, embracing our cyclical nature, and honoring your body. It’s a source of connection both with yourself and others (like at my Cycle Charting Meetups).

So how do I learn Fertility Awareness?

For so many reasons, fertility awareness is best learned with an instructor. Not only have all of the studies on contraception efficacy been done with instructor taught methods, but this is the best way to ease the learning curve, integrate the practice into your life smoothly, feel the most confident in your practice, and make sure your chart interpretations are as accurate as possible.

If you’re looking to learn fertility awareness, I offer multiple ways to learn!

🌻 Four week group classes

🌻 Individual and learn with friends class packages

🌻 Individual sessions (for people who already have a charting practice)

🌻 Cycle charting meetups (to see if fertility awareness is a good fit for you, as ongoing support, and to deepen your understanding)