Ayurvedic & Somatic Tool Kit for the Perimenopause Portal
Five essential practices for women who are ready to slow down, be in conversation with their bodies and create the daily rituals that bring more balance and ease to this potent and challenging phase of life.
This short course is for women approaching, in or just through the perimenopause portal who know that there is more to this transition than a list of symptoms and want to connect back in with the innate knowing of their bodies as they move through this season of life.
So that you can go from:
Feeling burnt out, exhausted and overwhelmed to feeling nourished, rested and resilient.
Feeling dry and depleted to feeling like your well is filled and skin is radiant.
Feeling like you have lost touch with your body and are overriding your capacity to learning how to listen, support and love your body through this transition.
Feeling like you are a collection of symptoms to seeing this as a portal and having tools that with consistent practice may even help to balance some of the symptoms.
Are you ready to connect more deeply with your body to honor the support your body needs in this transition?
Can you commit to one practice or ritual that makes being in a body feel good again?
What does Ayurvedic & Somatic mean?
I know that it feels like everything is changing and it sometimes seems unbearable.
From your body’s unreliable thermostat to the erratic emotional weather patterns it can feel like your body is experiencing climate change!
And in a sense it is.
Your hormonal, neurological and metabolic systems are rewiring.
You are moving through the portal from someone who has the ability to reproduce to someone with the capabilty to deeply tap into and hold wisdom.
And the portal between these two phases of life is no joke - especially in a society that is just beginning to learn about and understand the significance of this transition.
This tool kit is not going to fix all your problems or pretend your symptoms don’t exist- but it can give you some time honored tools to nourish your body and nervous system, to ease symptoms, to open up a conversation with your body and create some daily rituals that help you feel like yourself again.
This tool kit is also not a magic bullet or quick fix - it is slow medicine - it is sustainable and reaps the most benefits with consistency. Luckily these practices feel so good - they are easy to do over and over.
Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine that originated in India thousands of years ago. Ayurveda is a sanskrit word that translates to “the study of life”.
It is a system of medicine based in the elements and cycles and seasons of nature or life.
In Ayurvedic philosophy menopause is not a diagnosis but a natural stage of life that needs different support.
You do not need to know about Ayurveda to do these practices - but an Ayurveda 101 video is included to give you a little background.
The word somatic means “of the body”. In the context of this course, we are using these practices to be in conversation with the body.
These practices help us to connect with our bodies more deeply, to give input and receive feedback - to be in relation with the body instead of always overriding it.
Many of the practices included have some research backing up their effects which I will into in the course videos!
What you’ll learn:
Start Here
Introduction to the Tool Kit
Ayurveda 101
Cultural Acknowledgment
Practice 1- Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing)
Practice 2 - Self Abhyanga with Marma Points (warm oil massage)
Practice 3 - Expressive Writing/ Journaling
Practice 4 - Yoga Nidra
Practice 5 - Somatic Stretch & Shake
Maybe you are familiar with some of these practices or have done them before? That is wonderful.
If not, this course is set up with an informational video about each practice, connecting it to perimenopause as well as research.
It also has a workshop video where we do the practice together to get it into your body or so that you can return to the practice again and again.