Menopause Yoga Blog

Doctors normally only prescribe Hormone Replacement Therapy to women going through menopause, and many are loathe to do even that. When I went through perimenopause I was told there was nothing I could do, and that was that! Seven years later and the world is a very different place. At this year's British Menopause Society national conference, I was delighted to meet a pioneering GP and menopause specialist Dr Louise Newson aka @menopause-doctor. She not only promotes the use

I encourage women to see menopause as a time to nurture and nourish themselves - a time for self-care. This is why I give women at my workshops a goodie bag of gifts to get them started. MY Goodie Bags include: - an Ananda Superfoods Ayurveda snack bar, - Pukka tea bags for calming nerves, promoting sleep or aiding digestion; - Promensil cooling pray to manage hot flushes, night sweats and redness; - a small silk fan for hot flushes; - YES! and Sylk natural vaginal lubricants

My experience of menopause: I went through menopause early aged 45 (the average age is 52). I remember feeling lost and confused about what was happening when I started missing periods, had hot flushes in the daytime, sweats at night, insomnia (waking at 3am!), headaches (from drinking a sip of coffee or alcohol), mood swings (quick to temper and be tearful), anxiety, digestion problems. You name it - I had it. But I didn’t know what ‘it’ was. And the symptoms didn’t all happ