Sacred retreat, Pia Orleane

This book show us how to begin restoring our biological cycles to heal ourselves, our culture, and our planet. Just like the tides and the moon phases, both women and men have biological cycles of growth and renewal necessary for healthy bodies and minds. All of life is interwoven into a living system of cycles, from Earth''s seasons to the enzymatic pathways that provide energy to a cell.

By understanding how everything in life moves in cycles, the author posits you can become more aware of and comfortable with your own cyclic nature, something that has been forgotten by the modern world''s linear views of time. "Restoring our biological cycles to heal ourselves, our culture, and our planet Shows how, just like the tides and the moon phases, both women and men have biological cycles of growth and renewal necessary for healthy bodies and minds. Explains how the seclusion of women during menstruation and of men during vision quests offers a cleansing process for body and mind to awaken innate creativity and sensitivity, re-attune us with the deeper rhythms of the body and nature, and restore harmony between the divine feminine and divine masculine.

Reveals how the need for sacred retreat was forgotten when the divine feminine was suppressed by patriarchal culture. All of life is interwoven into a living system of cycles, from Earth''s seasons to the enzymatic pathways that provide energy to a cell. Waxing and waning from times of growth to times of rest, renewal, and healing, cycles map the most auspicious time for everything in life.