Mary Beth Ray

With breath, with practice, with inquiry, and with others who truly get it, we'll move through it and map exactly where this transition is touching your life using the ancient pañcamaya model. May 16th! Join me.

Here's the link to sign up: https://www.mygreenyogi.com/all-events-k9t8told/riding-the-wave-yoga-for-the-stages-of-menopause

This is an invitation to yoga practitioners and teachers in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond.
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Menopause is a transition that unfolds over time.
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For many of us, it begins quietly in our late 30s or early 40s—long before we would use the word “menopause” to describe ourselves. (It’s telling, though, that if you get pregnant after age 35, they used to call it a “geriatric” pregnancy, now at least they’ve softened the stigma to “advanced maternal age” (AMA).)
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Clinically, menopause is defined as the 366th day after your last menstrual period. But the years—before and after—surrounding that day? That’s where the real story lives.
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And here’s the part we really don’t talk about enough:
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This change affects 100% of people with ovaries, regardless of whether we’ve had children.
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Yet most of us were never taught what to expect.
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And here's something to consider: Most 200-hour teacher training programs spend significant time on prenatal modifications—and very little, if anything, on what happens at the other end of the reproductive lifespan.
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Yet every single one of us will age.
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Many practitioners quietly step away from yoga during perimenopause because the practice that once supported them no longer fits their nervous system, sleep patterns, joints, or bones.
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They assume they’ve failed—or that yoga no longer works.
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But yoga is not just a set of poses. It is a system of principles applied to the human condition.
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And aging is the human condition.
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Yoga for Better Balance and Sleep starts Monday May 19th! Six-Week Series. Sign up today! Link in Comments.

Just discovered that this tutorial I recorded for Square One Yoga back during the pandemic was posted to YouTube in 2023. Doing a headstand isn't for everyone (in the tutorial I list reasons why some people should not do this pose), but if this is something you are practicing, I thought you might like to hear my take on this "pose of patience" - let me know your thoughts and experience:

Headstand Tutorial with Mary Beth Ray Headstand is the “king of all poses” and it’s the pose of patience. In this tutorial we will learn how to build a strong foundation, integrity in the shoulde...