Restoring the ancient lineage of women gathering to witness and support each other through life’s monumental shifts. We are meant to recognize our wholeness together.
Welcome to your Roadmap. 🩷✨
Join me!
A Yoga Therapy Women's Circle
Unlocking You: A Peri/Menopause Roadmap
At The Vault Training Studio - 308 1st Avenue, Suite 105, Coralville, IA 52241
Sunday, October 18th, 8am–11am (3 hour Intensive)
Thursday Evenings October 22nd--November 19th, 6:30pm–8pm
16 Women Maximum ~ $288 per person
When you are in the thick of the peri/menopause transition, it can feel like everything is hitting you all at once. Stress makes your changing hormonal symptoms worse, your symptoms generate a whole new layer of daily stress, and your body feels like it is operating without a manual. It can be an incredibly lonely, isolating place to be—largely because society rarely talks about it, and the medical field has simply not caught up. Too many women spend years running clinical tests for everything else, assuming their body is fundamentally failing them.
I went through early menopause myself, navigating years of exhausting medical tests for cancer, auto-immune issues, and MS, only to find it was menopause all along. I want you to hear this clearly: **We do not have to "suffer through" this transition.** You are not failing at life because you are aging. Everyone ages. Age is not ugly, and your changing body is not a problem that needs to be "fixed." Being alive is a gift, and menopause is a profound rite of passage into your true wisdom and truth.
You do not have to walk this path alone. This closed, 6-week series is designed to restore the ancient lineage of communal witnessing. Biology hardwires women for deep connection—when we gather, our bodies release a natural flood of oxytocin, which downregulates cortisol, settles the nervous system, and supports us in recognizing our inherent wholeness. By combining the rigorous clinical science of holistic yoga therapy with the sacred safety of a women's circle, we will help you clearly name exactly what your system is experiencing and share the practical tools you need to manage the day-to-day chaos.
To protect the deep intimacy and safety of our sharing space, once our first session begins, the doors lock and no casual drop-ins are allowed. Bring your story, claim your tools, and let’s navigate this shift together.
What To Expect:
Session 1: The Roadmap - Setting the Framework
🗓️ Sunday, October 18th | 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM (3 Hours)
We begin our journey by crossing the threshold into sacred silence, lighting our individual candles, and establishing our collective framework. In this extended launch workshop, we map your current internal landscape through a holistic 5-Kosha life audit and clinical menopause checklists, uncovering how estrogen receptors impact every system in your body. Through the Joint Freeing Series, body mapping, and breathwork, you will establish your baseline and walk away with a clear structural map of your specific transition.
Session 2: Menopause & Stress — Connecting with the Parasympathetic System
🗓️ Thursday, October 22nd | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 Mins)
When transitioning into menopause, your primary estrogen production moves from your ovaries to your adrenal glands. If you are already living with high stress, your maxed-out adrenals struggle to keep up, creating hormonal havoc. This week, we examine the science of the nervous system and practice transitioning from fight-or-flight into deep rest. Through deep, calming breathing techniques, slow-flow movement sequences designed to soothe the nervous system, and targeted hip-opening shapes, you will learn to quiet the stress loop and free up internal bandwidth.
Session 3: Menopause & Fire — Managing Hot Flashes, Heat, and Rage
🗓️ Thursday, October 29th | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 Mins)
This session tackles the vasomotor reflex, intense hot flashes, and sudden "meno-rage" explosions. Drawing from Ayurvedic science, we explore the transition from the fiery Pitta time of life into Vata, learning how to work with opposites by choosing cooling practices, foods, and tools. You will experience ancient cooling breath practices, rhythmic focus meditations, and spacious, grounding postures designed to create internal space, release physical heat, and restore emotional calmness when the temperature flares.
Session 4: Menopause & Brain Fog — Practicing Attention
🗓️ Thursday, November 5th | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 Mins)
Emerging research shows that menopausal brain fog is frequently a matter of fractured attention rather than true memory loss. Our minds can simply no longer handle old, frantic habits of multitasking. This week, we explore Dharana (the yoga limb of concentration). Through slow, deliberate physical postures that require gentle concentration, guided breathing focal points, and purposeful mindfulness exercises, you will practice anchoring a wandering mind and training your absolute attention.
Session 5: Menopause & Pain — Awareness and Acceptance
🗓️ Thursday, November 12th | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 Mins)
Hormonal shifts can cause old physical holding patterns to amplify, resulting in new joint aches, systemic inflammation, and muscle pain. Utilizing the Pain Care Aware framework, we shift our relationship with physical discomfort from frustration to mindful awareness. You will learn specific movement guidelines, practice soft, elongated breathing techniques, and use targeted yoga therapy adjustments to find physical ease, process joint changes, and safely inhabit your changing body.
Session 6: Your Roadmap: Integrating the Wisdom
🗓️ Thursday, November 19th | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (90 Mins)
Our final integration circle is a sacred space for completion and grounding. We gather to anchor the tools, lifestyle frameworks, and everyday reflections you have compiled over our 6-week journey. Through gentle, grounding movement, calming breath practices, and our final sharing circle, we will review your long-term maintenance roadmap and exchange our final words of collective appreciation. You will step back out into the world fully equipped with a personalized roadmap, deeply supported by your community, and entirely ready to live as your whole, wise, and centered self.
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