by Margot Porter | Feb 1, 2025 | Menopause, Menopause and Muscles, Wise Woman Ways, Yoga, Yoga for Menopause Well-being
WHY MUSCLE MATTERS IN PERI TO POST-MENOPAUSE Oestrogen can help maintain and improve muscle mass, strength, and recovery from injury. Oestrogen’s effects on muscle are especially important for postmenopausal women, who are at risk of rapid frailty. The role of...
by Margot Porter | Dec 12, 2022 | Menopause, Wise Woman Ways, Yoga, Yoga for Menopause Well-being
Is your yoga practice helping or hindering you through your menopause transition? Not all yoga is suitable for different symptoms or stages. If you don’t sleep through the night and feel overwhelmed, would you practice a dynamic Vinyasa yoga class? Or, for that...
by Margot Porter | Nov 14, 2022 | Menopause, Natural Cycles, Wise Woman Ways, Yoga, Yoga for Menopause Well-being
The Journey Yoga and Ayurveda work hand-in-hand, they are sisters. Ayurveda tells us that peri-menopause is not a movement from Pitta into the Vata phase. It is very much a Pitta experience in and of its own right. Listening to our bodies and tending to our needs with...
by Margot Porter | Jul 6, 2022 | Menopause, Natural Cycles, Wise Woman Ways, Yoga, Yoga for Menopause Well-being
Crossing the River With each stage in a woman’s life, she changes – puberty, pregnancy, and menopause are all significant, yet very different milestones in a woman’s cycle of life. Menopause is the sacred act of crossing the river from the reproductive stage of life...
by Margot Porter | Dec 6, 2020 | Plant Based Recipes
Basic Nourish Bowl A nourish bowl is a wonderful way to deeply feed your body and soul. With a nourish bowl, there is no end to variations, you can change them up, theme them, think Japanese, Mexican, root vegetable, summer, and I eat them for breakfast, lunch, and...