The Menopause Charity Workshop

SUPPORT MENOPAUSE MONTH – OCTOBER 2021

Movement For Menopause Charity Workshop

Sunday October 24th 2pm-5pm

Tickets BOOKABLE on the Movement For Modern Life website here:

https://movementformodernlife.com/blog/online-menopause-yoga-workshop/

As part of International Menopause Month (2021) Movement For Modern Life is getting behind the menopause movement by hosting a live online 3-hour charity workshop with a specialist menopause doctor Dr Claire Phipps and Petra Coveney – the founder of Menopause Yoga.

Bringing together western medicine and eastern wellbeing, this special workshop will look at some of the common menopause symptoms and ways to help you manage these holistically.

MFML will donate 50% of the funds raised to the Menopause Charity

Your Sunday afternoon will start at 2pm with a warm welcome from The Menopause Charity trustee Dr Radhika Vohra who will explain its aims and how the funds raised will help other women through education, research and awareness raising campaigns.

Your guest speaker, menopause specialist Dr Claire Phipps, will explain the hormonal causes of menopause symptoms, the long-term health risks associated with low oestrogen, give an overview of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and host a Q&A session. (please note: Dr Phipps can only answer general questions at this public event).

Your guest teacher, Menopause Yoga founder Petra Coveney, will explain the intersection between our modern stressful lifestyles, our hormones, and the benefits of a regular yoga asana, breathing and mindful meditation practice. She will guide you through some of her cooling, calming and reenergising techniques that you can practice at home.

Your workshop will conclude with a Closing Women’s Circle and a pledge to pass on to another woman at least one fact, or helpful tip, from the workshop.

Petra Coveney who helped curate the workshop, says: “There are still a lot of myths about the menopause that can cause fear and misunderstanding. I hope that women attending this workshop will learn and share some of the facts and helpful tips that could help a friend, family member or work colleague manage her symptoms with more confidence. The menopause can be viewed as an opportunity to change any aspects of your life that are no longer supporting your health and wellbeing. If all of us shared just one fact with one friend, it would cascade this knowledge to so many more women. In this way, we can all be part of the menopause movement for change.

#MenopausePassItOn #MenopauseYoga #MovementForMenopause

Petra and Dr Claire Phipps are donating their time free to support The menopause Charity.

To Book Tickets please click on this link to the Movement For Modern Life website HERE

The tickets to this workshop are on a sliding scale in order to make it financially accessible to as many women as possible. If you would like to make an extra donations please visit The Menopause Charity website and click on the DONATE button:

https://www.themenopausecharity.org/donate/

Disclaimer (Please note: The yoga class in this workshop is designed for beginners to level and to be accessible. However, due to the online nature of this event, the teachers cannot supervise anyone with injuries or conditions that may restrict movement. Always seek medical advice from your doctor before embarking on a new course of exercise).

Petra Coveney is a senior yoga teacher and trainer and the founder of Menopause Yoga™ . In 2019, she launched the world’s first menopause specific teacher training course, which is accredited by the British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance Professionals. She has trained more than 300 yoga teachers in over 15 countries worldwide, teaches one-to-one, and runs monthly online workshops. Petra is also a former print, radio and television journalist and author of a new book ‘Menopause Yoga – A Holistic Guide to Supporting Women On Their Menopause Journey’, which is published on October 21st by Singing Dragon/Jessica Kingsley Publishing. You can preorder on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Menopause-Yoga-Holistic-Supporting-Journey/dp/1787758893

Her passion for writing led her to set up the ‘ReWriting the Menopause’ project with fellow writer Patsy Isles, to encourage women to write their own stories. Their next workshop is on Sunday October 17th.

You can read more about Petra’s work women on The Menopause Charity website here: https://www.themenopausecharity.org/2021/06/16/yoga-and-menopause/

https://www.themenopausecharity.org/2021/06/12/how-can-yoga-manage-your-menopause/

Or visit her website www.menopause-yoga.com

Dr Claire Phipps

(MRCGP MBBS B.Sc. Honours) is a GP with special interest in menopause.

Dr. Phipps works as a GP in North London and has completed the British Menopause course, along with the International Menopause course and the Confidence in Menopause course run by Fourteenfish.

She is passionate about post reproductive healthcare and the menopause and wants to try and improve the information around this area so that women can be fully informed and in control of their care. She regularly sees women with perimenopausal symptoms and is deeply moved by the difficulties that some of these women have getting the correct information and treatment delivered in a timely manner.

Claire has a special interest in long term health conditions and supports the idea that the menopause should be seen as such.  She believes that by helping women manage their symptoms in the present, women can also be helped to live long, healthy and fulfilling lives in the future.

Dr Radhika Vohra

(MBChB, BMedSci, DCH, MRCGP(2006), DFRSH & FRT) is a Trustee/Medical Advisor at The Menopause Charity.

NHS & Private General Practitioner in Surrey

Interest in Women Health & Menopause Care

Appraiser for NHS England South East

GP Training Programme Director for CRESH