Workshops
Treat yourself. Dive in a little deeper with these longer, slower sessions.
Yoga Balm for Peri-menopause
19th October 2024, 09.30 - 11.00
The Bridge, Southwark Bridge Road, London (in person)
In this workshop we look at the physiology of what’s going on during peri-menopause, and the triggers that can aggravate the most common and intense symptoms, such as fatigue, anxiety, mood swings and hot flushes. Menopause Yoga offers a toolkit of techniques, guidance, reflection and support to help you move through your menopause journey with ease and confidence. It provides an enjoyable and safe space where women can come together and share their experiences, laugh and embrace the changes while also learning from one another. Practising yoga in the company of other women can feel supportive and reminds us that we are NOT alone.
No previous yoga experience is required.
The workshop will include:
• An introduction to the stages of menopause and how hormone changes affect our body and mind.
• A safe and supportive women’s circle.
• A yoga practice especially designed to alleviate the most common perimenopause symptoms, including breathing techniques, gentle vinyasa flow, restorative yoga and mindful meditation practices.
• Journaling and self-reflection.
• Handouts.
Peri/Menopause Yoga Workshop for Preparing for Second Spring
13th October 2024, 14.00 - 17.00
Yogahome, London (in person)
In this workshop we look at the physiological understanding of what’s going on during peri-menopause and menopause, and the triggers that can aggravate the most common and intense symptoms, such as low mood, lethargy, sluggish digestion and lack of zest for life. We will practice yoga for soothing these unsettling symptoms and also get snuggled in with some deeply soothing guided Yoga Nidra meditation to explore the transformational possibilities.
We will explore a toolkit of techniques, guidance, reflection and support to help you move through your menopause journey with ease and confidence. It will provide an enjoyable and safe space where women can come together and share their experiences, laugh and embrace the changes while also learning from one another. Practising yoga in the company of other women can feel supportive and reminds us that we are NOT alone.
No previous yoga experience is required.
The workshop will include:
• An introduction to the stages of menopause and how hormone changes affect our body and mind.
• A safe and supportive women’s circle.
• A yoga practice especially designed to alleviate the most common menopause symptoms, including breathing techniques, gentle vinyasa flow, restorative yoga and mindful meditation practices.
• Journaling and self-reflection.
• Handouts.
Yoga for Pelvic Health
18th October, 10.00 - 12.30. Jointly run with Nina Mckellar
The Exchange, Twickenham (in person)
Come along to this friendly and informal yoga workshop and learn simple practices to get to know and appreciate your amazing pelvis.
Are you interested in what it is to have a ‘strong and dynamic pelvic floor’? Through embodied movement we will learn about the anatomy of the pelvic floor and its dynamic relationship to breath, posture and movement. We will learn how to balance strength work with release work to help develop more flexibility, balance, and coordination in our pelvic function.
Pelvic health can often be overlooked until we are presented with an issue; pelvic pain, incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti, menstrual and sexual difficulties etc. This workshop will support you whether you are going through a current pelvic health issue, or are simply curious to find out how to best support a happy, healthy pelvis.
The workshop will be in 2 parts run by Tiffy and Nina, followed by tea and cake and questions afterwards.
Season of Growth:
Yoga for Peri-Menopause
19th October 13.30-15.30
Yogarise Peckham, London (in person)
Perimenopause is a time of increased sensitivity and vulnerability. We are undergoing huge physical and psychological changes as we move out of our reproductive years, and life stress can compound common symptoms such as anxiety, overwhelm and fatigue. In this workshop we will explore a toolkit of techniques, guidance, reflection and support to help us adjust to the challenges – and the possibilities – with greater ease and confidence as we move through our own unique menopause journey.
This yoga for perimenopause workshop provides an enjoyable and safe space where women can come together and share their experiences, laugh and embrace the changes while learning from one another. Practising yoga in the company of other women can feel supportive and reminds us that we are NOT alone.
The workshop will include:
• An introduction to the stages of menopause and how hormone changes affect our body and mind.
• A safe and supportive women’s circle.
• A yoga practice especially designed to alleviate the most common menopause symptoms including anxiety, overwhelm and fatigue, breathing techniques, gentle vinyasa flow, restorative yoga and mindful meditation practices.
• Journaling and self-reflection.
• Handouts.
Geared towards those in perimenopause and menopause, but open to all with an interest. No previous yoga experience is required.
Befriend your pelvis workshop series
This workshop series is centred around bringing about more understanding and connection to this often under appreciated part of the body. With the legs below and the core above, the pelvis is the physical and energetic fulcrum of the body. The pelvic area can be too gripped or too weak, or both. Mindfully strengthening and stabilising the pelvic floor helps to create the correct foundation for each movement in the body.
In these workshops we will locate the layers of the pelvic floor within our pelvis. We will explore the dynamics of our pelvic floor in relation to the mechanics of our breathing and in relation to our posture and movement. We will learn ways to help develop more flexibility, strength, and coordination of our pelvic function.
Pelvic health can often be overlooked until we are presented with an issue; pelvic pain, bladder weakness, prolapse, digestive, menstrual and sexual difficulties etc. These workshops will support you whether you are going through a current pelvic health issue, or are simply curious to find out how to best support a happy, healthy pelvis.
Contact me for more information and for upcoming workshops.
Menopause Yoga workshop series
For most women, the approach and transition through menopause can be an unsettling time, with each woman experiencing her own concoction of symptoms, ranging from hot flushes and irritability, anxiety, brain fog and overwhelm, to lethargy and low mood. Yoga can be our best friend at this time of change; offering simple techniques for easing and reducing our symptoms.
Through yoga we can relieve stress and reset the nervous system towards rest. We can build up our musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health and energetic vitality.
In these workshops you will learn simple breathing exercises and yoga poses, mindfulness and other meditation techniques, which you can use every day in your own life to carve your most easeful and positive way through your menopause.
Workshops are themed according to the symptoms you are going through and to the menopause ‘season’ you are in.
There will be an interactive women’s circle discussion, 90 minutes yoga class, and general advice on topics ranging from nutrition, natural remedies and holistic wellbeing, to maintaining pelvic health and vitality as we age, and medical factual information on HRT.
Contact me for more information and for upcoming workshops
“It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in you settles, softens, makes space for imperfection.”
— Danna Faulds, from ‘Walk Slowly’
Workshops offer the a chance to dive in a little deeper with longer, slower, more informative and experiential sessions. Please get in touch to find out more.