Being with Fire: Traditional Thai Healing After Childbirth (with Nari Delivery)

In Thailand, before mothers can fully step into their role, they must first enter into a period of healing, renewal, and care after childbirth, known as “Yoo Fai” / “อยู่ไฟ” which translates to “be...

Period Power Impact Report: Mae Sot 2025

Over the past month, our Period Power Project reached 1,100 girls across 17 migrant learning centers along the Thai-Myanmar border, including children with special needs. Through interactive worksh...

Vira Reflects: What’s One Period Symptom You Wish Could Disappear?

This is the third installment of our monthly photo series, where women reflect on prompts related to our bodies, periods, health, sex, and more.  We asked women if they had a magical wand and could...

Can I Get Pregnant While On My Period?

Key takeaways:  It’s possible to get pregnant on your period, but only if you have a short cycle. The fertile window is only six days long, and for most people, this won’t coincide with days ...

Love Your Cervix

What does it mean to “love your cervix”? We at Vira want to help educate you about different parts of the female reproductive system so you can love them as much as we do. There’s a lot of mystery ...

Workshop: Period Power CSR in Samut Prakan

Vira x Cindy Bishop hosted a full-spectrum menstrual health workshop for girls—sharing knowledge that helps them truly understand their bodies, build their own inner resilience, and know how to pre...

Navigating Intimacy with STIs

By Poonyaweera (Pim) Temcharoen, UNAIDS - Bangkok, Thailand  Navigating intimacy while managing an STI (sexually transmitted infection) can feel like a scary or even isolating topic for most women,...

7 Things To Consider When it Comes To Lube

At Vira, we want to make space for the conversations that matter, especially the ones that impact your most intimate wellbeing, which involves your body and personal sex life. One of the most under...

Vira Reflects: Who Supported You During Your First Period?

This is the second installment of our monthly photo series, where women reflect on prompts related to our bodies, periods, health, sex, and more.  We asked 5 Thai women who they turned to for help ...

A Guide to Masturbating for the First Time

We put together a list of 6 things you can do to enjoy getting to know your body through masturbation.

Can I Have Sex on My Period?

It’s not something we see often in sex scenes of our favourite TV shows or movies. It’s not even something that we see or talk about when we’re learning about sex education in school. Sex and menst...

What Was Your First Period Like? 10 Thai Women Reflect.

Your first period can bring about many different feelings: excitement, shame, fear, celebration, anger, stress, teary, pain, messiness, newness… and the list goes on.  We often treat one’s period a...