From schoolrooms to professional training, students around the world tell the same story: what they needed most was never taught.

How Outdated Lessons Shape Today’s Practice

Every time a new student joins one of my courses, I ask them what they were taught about menstrual health. The answers come from all over the world — different countries, different cultures, different professional backgrounds. And yet, the replies are strikingly similar.

Almost nothing.

At school, they were shown the same simplified diagram I was. A cycle that begins with a bleed, peaks with ovulation, and ends with another bleed. Fertility was the focus, reproduction the story. Perimenopause was never mentioned.

Even as trained professionals — yoga teachers, nutritionists, nurses, aestheticians, therapists — they tell me the same thing. Their qualifications prepared them to work with people, but not with menstrual health. There was no framework for connecting changes in mood, skin, digestion, energy, or sleep back to ovarian rhythms.

And this is the baffling part. Decades have passed. Generations have moved through school systems and professional training. But the curriculum is frozen in time. Biology textbooks from the 1980s are still shaping the way people think about menstrual health today.

Why this matters

This global gap doesn’t just leave individuals uninformed. It leaves professionals without the knowledge they need to support clients with confidence. Which means that even in the spaces where help is sought, silence continues.

The opportunity

This is where holistic professionals come in. You don’t need to be a doctor or a scientist to make a difference. You need to be safe, sensible, and supportive — grounded in the biology that was missing from your own training.

Because when professionals step into this gap, they don’t just correct outdated lessons. They give people the education they should have had decades ago. They make menstrual health part of every conversation, in every practice, in every corner of the world.