Menopause can be disconcerting experience. When you have finally reached your confidence, menopause kicks in and makes a havoc in your life. This is a monthly workshop where you can learn how yoga and meditation can help you achieve the balance and escape the uncertainty and challenging time in your life and deal with and relieve the symptoms of menopause such as anger, depression, exhaustion, hot flushes and night sweats, erratic period, forgetfulness etc.

Often when women reach the time of perimenopause they feel obliged to act as if nothing has happened. Get your symptoms recognised and understood, meet other likely women and be met by understanding, compassion and support; not by derision and disgust.

You will learn how yoga can help you in the healing process: promoting acceptance of change in your body, through asana (posture work) specifically designed to help the pelvis and the feelings in the pelvic muscles, Pranayama (lengthening of the breath/breath control), meditation and practices of Yoga Nidra.

A series of workshops for perimenopause and menopause, deeply nourishing and therapeutic, focusing on healthy hormonal balance and women’s self-care.

Ayurveda and Menopause

In this workshop, we explore how the symptoms of the menopause and perimenopause can be improved and alleviated through mindful diet and Ayurveda.

This workshop is part of Yoga for Menopause series of workshops, specifically designed to develop and support women’s health using therapeutic approach to yoga focusing on female health.

Every woman’s menopause experience is different. However, for most common and recognisable symptoms, balancing the hormones and nutrition can play a huge factor in the healing process.  Ayurveda is the traditional medicine in India, a powerful natural healing system for mind, body and spirit with ancient roots. As our bodies get older, our constitutions change, we need to adapt our lifestyle and hence our Ayurvedic remedies. Honouring your body’s Dosha can help balance your hormones and ease the symptoms. This means you need to pacify your Dosha with foods that have the opposing quality.

Lack of oestrogen can have an effect on changes in skin, hair and nails, increase in migraines/headaches, urinary and bladder problems, joint pains and stiffness and regulation of body temperature (hence hot flushes). According to Ayurveda, balancing Vata and Kapha Dosha may ease some of these symptoms. Changes in progesterone and testosterone levels can have effect on mood swings, insomnia and tiredness, libido and relationship(s). According to Ayurveda, balancing your Pitta and Kapha Dosha may help ease these symptoms. With all that in mind it is incredibly important to know what to eat and how to prepare it.

Samra will lead a slower-paced yoga flow covering postural work (asana), bandhas, and pranayama having in mind Ayurvedic practice and Dosha imbalances during menopause. Although created as part of the peri-menopause and menopause series, this workshop may be beneficial to women during all phases of their lives.

As with other workshops in this series, Samra’s aim is to educate women and let them enjoy their life whilst continuing the practice at home; thus healing themselves and accepting the new phase in life not as a challenge but as a relief and wisdom.

The workshop is run by Samra Hasanovic Juson, UKRYT-500 registered teacher specialising in Women’s Yoga and Yoga for special and additional needs .  All Samra’s classes are therapeutically designed to allow the students to achieve their full potential including their inner peace, joy and comfort.

MIND IN MENOPAUSE – SEPTEMBER 2022

The next chapter of Yoga for Perimenopause and Menopause is specifically designed to develop and support women’s mental health using therapeutic approach to yoga and stress relief techniques.

For most women, menopause can be confusing experience. The yoga practice in this workshop is slow and therapeutic and suited to beginners as well as experienced yoga practitioners, and is suitable in all stages of women’s lives, in particular to women during menopause battling with time management, sleep deprivation, anxiety, anger, depression and many other symptoms. It is extremely nourishing, empowering and re-vitalising working on self-acceptance and contentment.

The class finishes with nourishing and re-vitalising Yoga Nidra which focuses on self-acceptance and contentment.

Samra’s aim is to educate women and let them enjoy their life whilst continuing the practice at home; thus healing themselves and accepting the new phase in life not as a challenge but as a relief and wisdom.

Early booking advised for both workshops

Please contact us for more details