Listening to the Body: Understanding Periods Beyond Pain
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Credits:
Host: Poorna Krishna
Speaker: Bhavna Nagendra
Editor: Ansh Pal
DOP: Poojitha Prasad
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Description:
What if understanding our bodies — through the way we live, think, feel, and speak about periods — changes the way we experience them?
In this conversation, she shares her personal journey with menstrual health — how understanding her body, making conscious lifestyle changes, involving the people around her in the conversation, and changing her relationship with menstruation transformed her experience into a more comfortable and even beautiful part of her life.
This is not just a conversation about periods, but about body awareness, stigma, lifestyle, emotions, relationships, and the importance of creating safer and more open conversations around menstrual health — for both women and men.
Perhaps understanding the body better is where healthier menstrual experiences begin.
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction/Precap
00:41 What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word 'periods'?
00:51 What was your first time like?
01:46 How do you usually feel - physically, emotionally or some other way - when you have your period?
02:41 Has the way you think or feel about periods changed over time?
03:47 What are the changes that you made for this shift to happen?
06:11 What made you shift to these changes?
06:47 Are there any local or cultural practices you've tried for your periods - or felt unsure about/or had doubts about them?
08:43 Any feeling, memory, belief or incident - about periods that's stayed with you?
10:00 Another Incident
12:47 If there was one thing you wish society talked about openly when it comes to periods, what would it be?
14:08 End
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Ruyii by Poorna Krishna
Being pain-free after 18 years taught me our bodies speak—if we listen.
Every body is unique. Ruyii gathers this wisdom.
Purpose: A vision for better menstrual health in India.
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Find us here: https://ruyii.in
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Poorna Krishna's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/poorna-krishna