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 oestrogen in the muscles is outlined...
Is Your Yoga Practice Helping or Hindering you Through Your Menopause Transition?
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 matter, teach one? How could you...
Menopause From an Ayurvedic Perspective
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 tenderness and compassion is...
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 into the power and wisdom...
