What is the Menopause?

Menopause is simply a medical term that derives from ancient Greek and means the ‘pause’ in your menses (menstruation), or the end of the reproductive stage of your life. There is also THE Menopause which is an umbrella term for the three stages that women go through; perimenopause, menopause and post menopause.

This is a time to focus on your health and wellbeing. Taking time to acknowledge the shifts and changes you are going through and rather than just pushing through, you practice self-care.

‘Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing’

– Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

What is Menopause Yoga?

​Yoga for menopause offers guidance far beyond just physical yoga. It can also offer psychological and emotional support for symptoms that arise during menopause. Research shows that one of the triggers for increased menopause symptoms is stress, this can be both internal and external stress factors. Yoga is proven to reduce stress levels by soothing us into the parasympathetic nervous system.

Yoga is a combination of yoga breathing, yoga practices and yoga meditation, and all these combine to calm our nervous system. We live in a modern-westernised world that is constantly stimulating us, and this is the main reason yoga is an important tool through menopause. Yoga helps us to navigate the menopause symptoms, it slows down our system, and helps us befriend and listen to our body as we go through transition and change. Yoga helps us learn how to deeply rest, to understand how to move in ways that boost our physical, mental and emotional health, and also how to listen to our intuition more.

Menopause Yoga™  has been created after years of research by fully qualified and experienced yoga teacher Petra Coveney who is also a member of the British Menopause Society. 

“Menopause Yoga (MY) is unique in helping women to manage their menopause symptoms and their mindset. MY approach brings western medical science and eastern wellbeing together for the first time. MY Mantra is to Educate women, to feel Empowered, so that they can Embrace the menopause as an opportunity for self reflection, better health and wellbeing.”

– Petra Coveney, Creater of Menopause Yoga

Menopause Yoga Benefits

• • • We teach evidence based yoga practices proven to reduce stress and anxiety.
    • You’ll learn yoga poses, breathing techniques and mindful meditation practices that have been specially adapted to help people manage the main symptoms of menopause.
    • Ease away aches and pains.
    • Help to improve bone mineral density which is really important throughout the menopause and beyond..
    • We tailor each class to meet your individual needs 
    • Feel supported by others that are on a similar journey to you, to help build that much needed community and support network 
    • Taught by an Accredited Menopause Yoga™ Teacher.

We offer a variety of weekly classes and monthly Workshops to support women’s health and the menopause.