Nina Haley

I'm a slightly vulgar (who am I kidding, I'm completely vulgar) U.S. Marine Corps veteran turned women's wellness coach who weaves fitness and women's reproductive health into badass, healing, cycle-conscious mindful movement sequences, body literacy courses and yoga teacher trainings for women around the globe.

I teach from my own personal lived experiences. I began as a personal trainer in 2001 before birthing my own children in 2004. I suffered from sneeze, laugh, cough, jump and pee syndrome after the birth of my twins, but I was determined to find a solution instead of just dealing with it because "it's normal after you have a baby". (No, it's not normal!) In all the fitness trainings I had taken up to that point, no one talked about what happens to the pelvic floor and core during pregnancy, nor about the many hormonal fluctuations a woman moves through each cycle, nor what her body needs during peri-menopause. After searching endlessly I found trainings and courses that focused on women's cyclical bodies and their ever-changing anatomy. I started to look at health and fitness for women in a completely new way. I began charting my own menstrual cycle and mindfully moving in ways that supported where I was in my reproductive life cycle and I continue to do so each and every day.

Over the past 20 years, I have continued to build on my knowledge of sexual & reproductive health, fitness, yoga, meditation and nutrition so support myself and other women. Cycle-conscious movement, meditation, menstrual cycle charting and body literacy have been a part of my healing journey and I credit these sacred practices for supporting me through ditching hormonal birth control, birthing twins, experiencing a phenomenal homebirth, 4 international moves, miscarriage, abortion, divorce, and learning to love and forgive myself, as well as others.

People often tell me I have a nurturing, empathetic and mothering personality... but I also take no BS and will fight for what is right if the situation calls for it. Shocked? Don't be... read the Bhagavad Gita.

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"Periods are normal. What's not normal are the mainstream ideas surrounding periods. Normalize periods." - Nina Haley -

In addition to talking about vulvas, periods, vaginas and cycle-conscious mindful movement, I'm a homeschooling mom of 3 always unschooled kids. I majored in Animal & Poultry Science with a minor in African-American studies at an HBCU but dropped out to start my own personal training business in 2002. Since then I've been traveling around the world with my 3 children and living abroad from 2012 to 2021.

I'm the creator of Cycle Awareness Yoga®, providing prenatal, postnatal and well-woman yoga teacher trainings for women all over the globe. In 2019 I founded the Cycle Awareness Collective™, your source for cycle-conscious living, where I offer live and online mindful movement and meditation classes, nutrition coaching, menstrual cycle charting and body literacy courses.

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I teach cycle-conscious movement, meditation, menstrual cycle charting and body literacy as embodiment practices for self-healing, empowerment, manifestation and liberation.

I offer fitness and yoga in a way that honors the fact that you have a uterus and ovaries, which both play an intricate part in your cyclical nature as a human being. In traditional kundalini and tantric traditions, menstruation and fertility were considered sacred and powerful. Over the years in my own yoga practice I've learned that only in the moment of now can yoga occur, that means that if during your practice you are bleeding or ovulating, THAT, is a part of your yoga practice.

As a body literacy educator I teach women and girls about their bodies and cycles so that they can avoid the traumas of previous generations. Fertility awareness and reproductive health education is the right of every woman and girl on this planet. With this knowledge we can collectively reduce the stigmas associated with female bodies, menstruation and sexuality.

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My Hashtags

#bodyliteracyforblackgirls
#bodyliteracyforblackwomen
#cycleawarenessyoga

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