In this episode, we are speaking with Yemisi "Juliana" Luna, Creatrix of The Aluna Method and a multidisciplinary artist, leader, mentor and narratorial creator whose mission is to empower women through movement, ancestral awareness, and intuitive knowledge.
In this soulful chat, Luna shares how she came to create The Aluna Method - a tool to help you map your monthly cycles, understand its power and feel totally in charge of your sexual energy - through a powerful initiation and remembrance connecting with her Ancestral land of Nigeria.
We touch on the Yoruba philosophy woven in the Aluna Method and Luna’s manifesto: paying back in service of her ancestors, rebuilding their narrative, and building a bridge to healing for the collective.
You’ll hear Luna’s view on why it’s imperative to connect with our Ancestors now, the critical work of undoing the harm in our ancestry on a daily basis, and how the moon is integral in our healing, growth and integration.
We talk about the power of our periods to regenerate, remember, clear and heal and why Luna sees our period as the “ultimate decolonization teacher.”
Luna shares her perspective on endometriosis, the emotional body connection, the correlation Luna sees with high functioning, high achieving women who hold onto emotion.
There is so much in this conversation to support bleeding people in our relationship to our bodies and moon time as a pathway to sovereignty and self-empowerment. Enjoy!
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How Luna, since childhood, felt she was searching for Home - something she fully understood when she came back Home to her Self and her body
How Spirit and Luna had their own language through dance
What is the Aluna Method, how it was birthed through Luna, and the Yoruba philosophy woven in the Aluna Method
How the Yoruba lifeway sees spirituality woven through everything, including science
Luna’s powerful initiation and remembrance connecting with her Ancestral land of Nigeria
The many layers of grief Luna experienced, and a realization of honoring her ancestors
Luna’s manifesto, paying back in service of her ancestors, rebuilding their narrative, and building a bridge to healing
Why the cyclic time of moon shatters linear time
Luna’s view on why it’s imperative to connect with our Ancestors now
The importance of owning the wounds of our ancestors as part of our lineage
What it takes and means to become an Ancestor
How our Ancestors can teach us how to be better humxns
The critical work of undoing the harm in our ancestry on a daily basis, and how the moon is integral in our healing, growth and integration
The power of our periods - to regenerate, remember, clear and heal
Why Luna sees the period as the “ultimate decolonization teacher”
Luna describes the amount of ancestral and familial data we carry in the follicle connected to our first period
The work of reconciling what we have been taught and programmed about our cycles, periods, pain and the truth about the power it all holds
Luna’s perspective on endometriosis, the emotional body connection, the correlation Luna sees with high functioning, hard working, high achieving women who hold onto emotion
The radical sovereignty in honoring our cycles and claiming the space that you need in today’s world
Luna’s favorite practices for harnessing the power of our period
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Connect With Luna
Website | Instagram (The Aluna Method) | Instagram (Juliana Luna)
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