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What the mind refuses to address, the body will express: listening to your body in peri-menopause
Over the years as a yoga teacher, I’ve lost count of the number of times I have said the phrase ‘Just listen to your body’ as I guided students into different postures. I’d talk through body scans in the savasana (relaxation) part of the class, asking them to notice sensations in their bodies. As a yoga student, I would force my body into postures, somewhat ignoring the discomfort it took to twist myself into a pretzel, blatantly ignoring my own words to students. I always re
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Peri-menopause: A raw, soulful, transformational journey
In our lives, we are often aware that something is ending, dying or falling away and yet we have not arrived at the new destination. It could be after the end of a relationship has ended and we enter into a period of grieving. We don’t know when we’re going to feel ok again. This is the same for the death of someone we love, an illness, changing careers or jobs, moving house or country. Life is a constant flow of death and rebirth, but it’s the bit in the middle, the unknown,
leelaananda
Aug 255 min read
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