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...
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...
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...
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...
Own Your Power In my last article, I talked about moving from a place of love not fear as a way to return to a place of wholeness. Many people come to yoga believing they are broken, lacking wholeness and not connected. Many people come to yoga seeking a solution to a...
VBoundaries The ultimate in self - love Boundaries are set by you and come from within. They are a way of embodying the whispers of your heart, your deep yearnings for personal change, and transformation. Barriers come from outside, they are what other people try to...