What is a Cycle Coach?

October 6, 2025

A cycle coach is not a wellness trend or a luxury. It's a guide who helps you understand your menstrual cycle as a vital sign, not a nuisance. Cycle coaching combines science and holistic health to teach body literacy, support fertility awareness, decode symptoms, and reclaim power in a system that often ignores menstruating bodies. This piece explains why cycle coaches matter, what they actually do, and how cycle coaching works in practice.

• Why do we need cycle coaches? The knowledge gaps and cultural myths keeping us disconnected.

• What does a cycle coach do? From fertility awareness to shame-breaking.

• How does cycle coaching work? Blending science, body literacy, and ancestral wisdom.

• Cycle coaching as holistic health: Why integration, not suppression, is the future of health.

• Do you need a cycle coach? Questions to ask yourself, and how Baba Yaga fits in.

You’ve probably heard of personal trainers, business coaches, even sleep coaches. But a cycle coach? That might sound unusual at first — and yet, for anyone with a menstrual cycle, it may be the most transformative kind of support you'll ever find.

Because most of us never got a real education about our cycles. We were taught how not to get pregnant (by one of two ways: abstinence or hormonal birth control), handed a tampon or pill packet, and told to just get on with it. No one explained that our cycle is not a curse but a vital sign of health. No one said ovulation is just as important as menstruation (or even more so). No one gave us tools to track, understand, and work with our bodies instead of against them.

That's where cycle coaches come in.

We live in a culture that medicalizes, pathologizes, or simply ignores menstruation. If your periods are painful, you're told to “just take the pill.” If your moods swing before bleeding, it's dismissed as PMS or “being crazy.” If you want to avoid or achieve pregnancy, you're expected to hand your agency over to pharmaceuticals or apps that don't even understand how fertility really works.

Meanwhile, Western medicine still runs on a male-default research model. Most doctors never learned more than a few hours of menstrual health basics. Which means you are left trying to piece together fragments: googling symptoms at 2 a.m., scrolling TikTok hacks, or secretly wondering if you're broken.

Cycle coaches exist because this gap is unacceptable. They're here to say: your cycle is not a flaw to be managed. It's a biological rhythm, a source of wisdom, and a tool for radical self-knowledge.

Think of a cycle coach as part teacher, part guide, part myth-buster. Depending on their training, a cycle coach might help you:

• Track your cycle: Learning what your bleeding, cervical mucus, basal temperature, energy shifts, and mood changes actually mean.

• Decode your symptoms: Cramps, PMS, irregularity, or heavy flow aren't random — they're messengers from your body.

• Reclaim your fertility literacy: Understanding ovulation, fertile windows, and how to use this knowledge for or against conception (without fear).

• Align your life with your cycle: From nutrition and movement to creativity and rest, a cycle coach helps you live in sync with your own rhythm.

• Break the shame: Creating new stories around menstruation that are rooted in power, not stigma.

In short, a cycle coach supports you in translating your body's language — and in living from a place of sovereignty rather than suppression.

Every coach has their own approach, but at Baba Yaga, cycle coaching is both science-based and soul-based.

That means:

You'll learn about hormones, ovulation, and fertility in a way your doctor never explained.

You'll also explore rituals, archetypes, and ancestral wisdom — because your cycle is not just biology, it's mythic.

Cycle coaching is not about imposing a perfect 28-day model on you. It's about listening. Tracking. Witnessing. Experimenting. And slowly, learning to trust your own body again by being with what is, instead of constantly being told how to biohack and shave off and whittle down yourself to better fit into society's antiquated molds of &ldqou;womanhood.”

This is where our rant comes in. Because let's be real: the health system as it stands is not designed for you. It's designed for profit, speed, and suppression.

Holistic health — the kind that cycle coaching belongs to — is not about “fixing” you with another pill, another productivity hack, or another shiny app that only sells your data. It's about integration. It's about honoring that you are not just a uterus, not just a symptom checklist, not just a statistic. You are a whole being — physical, emotional, cyclical, relational, political.

Cycle coaching reclaims health as something accessible, body-led, and love-infused.

Ask yourself:

• Do you actually understand how your body works — or did school, doctors, and culture fail you?

• Do you feel like your period rules your life, instead of you working with it?

• Do you want alternatives to hormonal birth control, or a deeper understanding of your fertility?

• Do you crave a way of living that isn't linear, extractive, or disconnected from nature?

If you said yes to even one of these, then yes — a cycle coach might be for you.

We built the Baba Yaga Cycle Coach app because we couldn't find anything like this anywhere else:

• A place to track your period, moods, and fertile signs

• Tools to actually learn how ovulation works and detect it with real body signals

• Coaching and guidance that changes with you — no cookie-cutter cycles, no data harvesting, no shame

Because being in tune with your cycle isn't “woo.” It's basic biology, ancestral wisdom, and radical empowerment rolled into one.

A cycle coach is someone who helps you remember what patriarchy made you forget: Your body is wise. Your rhythm is holy. And your cycle is your power.