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Menopause support

Menopause and perimenopause support

From brain fog to meno-rage: you're not imagining it, and you're not losing your mind.

Best for

  • ✓Perimenopause and menopause
  • ✓Hot flushes and night sweats
  • ✓Mood swings and irritability
  • ✓Joint pain and stiffness
  • ✓Broken sleep
  • ✓Brain fog

What to expect

Gentle movement, breathing options and proper rest, in a small class where real conversation happens.

1–2 classes per week

You're not imagining it

From "brain fog" to "meno-rage": you're not imagining it, and you're not losing your mind.

The hot flushes that wake you at 3am, soaked and furious. The joints that creak when you stand. The words that vanish mid-sentence. The body you've lived in for decades suddenly feels foreign.

The wellness industry wants to sell you supplements and tell you to "glow through the change". I'd rather be honest about what a yoga class can and can't do.

How the class works

Hormonal changes can affect sleep, mood, joints and stress tolerance in different ways. Yoga will not correct the hormonal cause, but gentle movement and rest may help you manage some symptoms.

In class that means slow, supported movement for stiff joints, breathing options, and proper rest at the end. Nothing is forced, and everything can be adapted.

Many of my students are somewhere in perimenopause or menopause, and the chat before and after class is often as useful as the class itself.

Classes that help

Breathe.Meditate.Relax

Breathing options, including a cooling breath

  • ·Cooling breathwork offered as an option, not a treatment
  • ·Guided rest lying down
  • ·Practices you can take home

Gong Bath & Sound Healing

An hour of proper rest

  • ·Completely passive, no effort required
  • ·Lie down with blankets and bolsters
  • ·Some students say they sleep better afterwards; some don't

Yin Yoga

For the joints that creak when you stand up

  • ·Slow, supported poses held for a few minutes
  • ·Gentle work for stiff hips and shoulders
  • ·Nothing forced

Hatha Yoga

Keep moving

  • ·Steady, modified movement
  • ·Strength and balance work at your pace
  • ·Adapted for sensitive joints

What the research says

  • 1.There are trials of yoga programmes for menopausal symptoms, but they tested specific research programmes rather than my classes, so I won't dress their numbers up as promises.
  • 2.The honest version: gentle movement, breathing and rest may help you manage some symptoms. The hormones are between you and your GP.

Yoga complements medical care including HRT if you choose it. Discuss any new symptoms or significant changes with your GP.

If you need more than yoga

Yoga helps a lot of people, but it isn't everything. If you need more, here's where I'd point you.

Your GP

Discuss HRT options, rule out other causes of symptoms

Talk to Luke

Psychodynamic therapy in Wallington

Common questions

Related guides

Yoga for anxietySleep and insomniaNervous system regulation

You don't have to do this alone

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Come as you are. Bring your rage, your exhaustion, your hot flushes. We've got bolsters, blankets and understanding.

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