Angela Foster Performance Podcasts - Episode 135

EP 135 – Yoga For Menopause With Petra Coveney

Petra Coveney – Founder of Menopause Yoga, fully qualified yoga teacher with 20 years of yoga experience, and member of the British Menopause Society for health practitioners talks with Angela about the transition through perimenopause and menopause and how women can emerge into a second spring

Petra explains how in this natural stage of every woman’s life Menopause yoga can empower women helping them to create a toolbox of techniques that can help with feeling cooler, calmer, rested and restored

Perimenopause and menopause are an opportunity to reframe and reprioritise as you move into your second spring and this inspiring episode is a great chance to hear about how to be empowered, take control, and move forward to your time

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Yoga For Menopause With Petra Coveney

Key Takeaways

Rest in your menopause so you can re-emerge into your second spring
With Yin yoga, the slow somatic movements help to mobilise and release the joints
It’s a time for women to look at replacing oestrogen and getting their nutrition right
Specific breathwork techniques can help with irritability and reducing heat in the body
The perimenopause transition causes a fluctuation in hormones destabilising the equilibrium of the body
Menopause yoga is about empowering women with techniques that they can use themselves
Control is learning how to manage the symptoms so they go away more quickly, with practice you will be better attuned to the onset of a hot flush and have the techniques to manage the symptoms
Paced breathing will make you feel more in control and draw you down into the parasympathetic nervous system
Do not resist the hot flush befriend it and use the techniques to feel more in control
It’s empowering to create a toolbox of techniques that can help you feel cooler, calmer, rested and restored
If you had post-natal depression you are more likely to experience more extreme experiences in the hormone transition of perimenopause
If a woman has experienced extreme trauma previously this can resurface psychologically in perimenopause to menopause
It’s an opportunity to reframe and reprioritise as you move into your second spring
It’s time for the dream to change, it’s your time to do what you love

Best Moments

‘If you take the pause in your menopause you can emerge into your second spring’

‘It can be really hard as women to give ourselves permission to take that pause’

‘It’s a magnifying glass showing you what you need to do to improve your health and happiness’

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About the Host

Angela Foster

Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.

After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:

To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.

Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.

About the Guest

Petra Coveney – Founder of Menopause Yoga

You are in safe hands. I am a fully qualified yoga teacher with 20 years of yoga experience, and I’m a member of the British Menopause Society for health practitioners. I have 500 hours of teacher training, including a 200-hour teaching diploma from the British Wheel of Yoga, a 200-hour diploma from Yoga Alliance and 50-hour certificates from Triyoga – London’s leading yoga studio.

I created Menopause Yoga (MY) to share the specially adapted yoga poses, breathing techniques and mindful meditation practices that helped me to positively manage my menopause. After many years of researching, reading, and training with the world’s best teachers, I now lead workshops and one-to-one sessions to share the tried and tested methods that work.

MY aims are to educate and empower women so that they can embrace the changes in their minds, bodies, and emotions.

Underpinning MY is a positive philosophy: Menopause is an opportunity to take a pause in your busy life…to Nurture & Nourish yourself…to take time for Self-Study and learn more about your changing body, mind, and emotions…to look forward to the next stage in your life.

I hope you enjoy MY and enjoy your journey.