Herbal support for menopause

January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

Herbal support for menopause

Our special guest for this week’s Yoga for Menopause is
Rachel Boon, Naturopath, Herbalist and women’s health specialist. Rachel helps peri and post-menopausal women navigate their ever-changing hormonal landscape and lived symptomatic experiences, either alongside or without HRT.

In this special session, Rachel will cover five menopausal nutritional friends and foes, so you will all leave with a few takeaway gems that will go on to enhance your menopausal experience, wherever you are on your journey.

If you’re not a regular to our group, Wednesdays 7.30-9pm at #hanovercmunitycentre, you’re very welcome to join us – DM to book your space. We meet every week to share experiences of our perimenopausal and menopausal journey through focused, often theme-based discussion, in a non-judgmental and inclusive environment. We then explore practises from physical yoga asana and Somatics practices, self-massage (I am a therapeutic Thai massage practitioner), meditation and breathwork, all of which can dramatically reduce stress, which exacerbates any symptoms you might experience.

I’m so looking forward to our special session, it’s going to be an enlightening discussion – Rachel and I are equally passionate about reframing menopause as a transformative journey where women are given proper information and support in order to make responsible choices and lifestyle shifts.

Classes are £12 drop-in for the first class, then £70 for 6 consecutive classes. DM to book in. And please share with others who you feel would benefit from the support, some space to explore and rest within a lovely, inclusive community.

Booking now for weekly sessions, £12 drop-in, £70 for 6 consecutive sessions
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October 31, 2022October 27, 2022

Ayurveda for menopause

Ayurveda is a vast and ancient science that provides a solid foundation to live well in all phases of life. In alignment with the seasons, elements and your unique makeup, we can find balance wherever we are.
Menopause is one of many changes that make up the female reproductive system across a lifetime. By looking at the history of your cycle, we can start to see what menopause may look like and adjust accordingly. This time is all about soothing symptoms and nourishing the body to help this transition flow more smoothly through nutrition, lifestyle, herbs and therapies.

On November 16, Indie Foolheea (she/her), will be joining our regular Yoga for Menopause session to talk about how Ayurveda can help you on your transformational journey through this life change.

Indie is a Yoga and meditation guide, Ayurvedic Lifestyle consultant and Therapist. Her work is informed by sharing from the roots of Yoga and Ayurveda to our lives now. She also creates spaces for people of the global majority to be seen, heard and to rest. She believes that self care and collective care are inherently linked and shares with this in mind.

Indie shares a variety of practices beyond asana including Pranayama, mantra, meditation, marmas and mudras. Whilst also starting her own Ayurvedic practice supporting people through nutrition, herbs, lifestyle and bodywork.

If you would like to join this or our regular sessions, every Wednesday, 7.30-9pm upstairs at the Hanover Community Centre, email.

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

Yoga for Menopause workshop

Are you transitioning through perimenopause or menopause or are you emerging into your second spring of post-menopause? Are you curious to know more about this transformational time from a positive perspective (beyond the pathologising of symptoms and media panic)? Perhaps you’re even pre-menopausal and would like to learn about what the future might hold without the fear or mystery historically surrounding ‘the change’.

Would you like to meet a community of supportive, non-judgemental others to share experiences and wisdom within a safe, guided space, and then practise responsive yoga, meditation, breathwork, massage and holistic tools to positively help emotionally and physically with this transitional journey?

The workshop is accessible to and inclusive of all bodies regardless of age or gender identity.

Yoga for Menopause, July 10, 2022, 1-4pm, at Energy for Life (£40).

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May 9, 2022May 9, 2022

Wild Art Journalling

Special guest for this week’s Yoga for Menopause (Wednesday 11, 7.30-9pm at Hanover Community Centre) is Moyra Scott, who will be leading a wild art journalling session, in which she will be helping us to unleash our creativity and let go of some stuck energy and the fog that can cloud our judgement.

Moyra Scott is a wild artist, a creative workshop facilitator and a productivity expert – an uncommon combination of creative and productive.

Most people have things they want to do, but don’t have time for. And yet the paradox is, if you make time for these things, you will find your relationship to time changes, and the result is that you are more effective, reducing the need for busyness and increasing your productivity.

Creativity is a way to bring ourselves back home, to our true nature. Creative self expression is a human need. Without it our life becomes more tiring, less vibrant and gets filled up with striving, shoulds, and have tos. With creativity we can step into who we really are, live life in full colour and transform our whole world.

Moyra runs Wild Painting, a weekend retreat where you get to paint wildly on large canvases and discover the creative freedom of process painting. She also runs Wild Art Journaling and Wild Collage workshops which operate on the same principle but on a smaller, more accessible scale.

Like me, Moyra is a Vajrasati trained Yoga teacher and yoga informs her life and creative practice.

Moyra works as a coach for Then Somehow, a local consultancy specialising in culture change. She is a productivity specialist and she runs creative workshops as away day activities or to facilitate idea generation.

Clients include, Breathe HR, Trusted House Sitters, Reuters Events, Channel 4, UCL, Bristol City Council and the UN among many more. She works as a lead coach with Then Somehow and with her own clients in the creative industries. Her ideas and work have been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, Metro, Grazia and The Telegraph.

To book this session or come along to our regular Wednesday group, exploring yoga, meditation and other holistic tools that support this huge life transition with grace,

And for more info on Moyra, see www.moyrascott.com

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