Menopause
Transforming the Menopause
A Journey into Wisdom, Power & Second Spring
A series of six monthly workshops: Sundays | 10:00–13:30
The Studio
Blackheath Complementary Health Centre
184–186 Westcombe Hill
London SE3 7DH
First introductory session: 22 February 2026
Fee for first session: £55
Once you have attended the introductory session, you can decide whether or not you wish to commit to the full Programme.
Fee for all 6 sessions: £300 (a saving of £30) – includes notes, equipment & refeshments
Payment plans are available by individual agreement and arrangement.
Advance booking is essential. Please confirm your attendance by 12 February 2026: text/WhatsApp – 07816 443329 or email info@peacefulpractice.co.uk
Information about the workshops and details of each session can be viewed below on this page.
Please see the FAQs at the end of this page which will help to answer some of the questions you may have.
For further information please contact Bernadette: info@peacefulpractice.co.uk
About the series
Many women describe the menopausal transition as one of the most powerful and transformative times of their lives. It can be a paradoxical time— energy may rise and fall, sleep can be elusive, emotions may feel heightened — yet alongside the challenges often comes extraordinary clarity, insight, and truth.
As hormones shift, just as they do in adolescence or pregnancy, our entire inner and outer world can begin to change. This time, however, we are moving not into youth, but into wisdom, authority, and embodied power. We become the guides, the advisors, the experienced ones — within our families, workplaces, and communities.
And yet, unlike other rites of passage, menopause is rarely honoured or supported. Many women are expected to “carry on as normal,” often hiding profound physical, emotional, and spiritual changes.
What should be a powerful initiation can instead feel confusing or isolating.
This workshop series offers something different
An opportunity to travel lightly through menopause.
A chance to listen deeply, to be supported, and to consciously engage with this rite of passage — not as a loss, but as a transformative rebirth: a Second Spring.
Through yoga, reflection, shared experience, practical guidance, and compassionate inquiry, we explore how menopause can become a time to release what no longer serves, resolve old emotional patterns, and allow our true selves to emerge with clarity and confidence.
The symptoms of menopause do pass — and when self-acceptance, forgiveness, and understanding are embraced, this phase of life can become profoundly liberating.
Scroll down details of the theme for each session:
🌱 Introductory Session 1: Sunday 22 February 2026
Awakening Awareness: Understanding Your Menopausal Journey
This opening session introduces the menopausal transition as a rite of passage and an opportunity for growth, identifying symptoms and understanding your unique constitution through Ayurveda. We set the foundations for self-inquiry through journalling and sharing, if you choose to, supportive yoga practices to ground and centre.
Dates for the further sessions will be finalised after this Introductory session.
🌿 Session 2: March 2026
Supporting the Physical Body: Nourishment, Balance & Boundaries
Exploring common physical changes such as weight gain, hair loss, and pelvic floor health, alongside nutrition and lifestyle supports. We also look at guilt, responsibilities, and navigating the working environment with greater awareness and self-compassion. All supported by a range of appropriate yoga practices that offer effective practices without force or strain. This session focuses on the physical changes many women experience and how to support the body with kindness.
🔥 Session 3: April 2026
Calming the Nervous System: Sleep, Mood & Emotional Wellbeing Rest, regulation, and resilience
Focusing on symptoms such as anxiety, poor sleep, mood swings, hot flashes, and night sweats. Learn supportive nutritional approaches and yoga practices designed to soothe and cool the nervous system and restore inner equilibrium. Here we turn our attention inward, exploring emotional and nervous system health.
🌸 Session 4: May 2026
Deep Nurturing: Rest, Restore and Receive Self-nurturing and replenishment
An exploration of complementary and supportive therapies. We also address fatigue, aches and pains, and persistent tiredness. This month emphasizes the importance of “me time,” learning how to create space for rest, nourishment, and deep self-care. Restorative yoga practices to bring stillness and peace, both within and without.
🌊 Session 5: June 2026
Transformation: Relationships, Acceptance & Power. Expression, acceptance, and connection
Examining how menopause impacts relationships—with partners, parents, children—and understanding andropause. We explore transformative rage, emotional honesty, and the power of acceptance as a gateway to freedom and healing, supported by stabilising and strengthening yoga practices. This session particularly explores how menopause reshapes relationships both with others and ourselves.
🌺 Session 6: July 2026
Integration & rebirth: Forgiveness, gratitude, and completion.
Our final meeting of the series gives us the space to review, refine and integrate learning, honour our journey, and step forward into this new phase with confidence, clarity, and embodied wisdom.
FAQs
- I am not sure if I am entering Menopause. Is this series suitable for me?
Yes, it is! You will equip yourself with so much knowledge that you will be able to start weaving it into your life now, so that you are able to experience an empowered menopausal journey.
- I am post-menopausal. Is this series suitable for me?
Yes, it is! if you are post-menopausal, now needs to be the time when you really nourish and nurture yourself in all levels and create healthy boundaries as you embrace who you truly are.
- I am not yet menopausal. Is this series suitable for me?
Yes, it is! You will learn so many ways that you can optimise your holistic health now, before even entering menopause, so that several possible symptoms can be minimised or even avoided.
- I see that the course includes yoga. I have never been to a yoga class before. Does this matter?
Not at all. The practices which are included as part of the series are suitable for everyone and take into consideration health concerns. Yoga is not just about postures. There is deep gold to be mined from the other practices, particular relaxation, easy breathing techniques and much, much more. This is not Instagram Yoga! Plus, this is NOT only a yoga course!
- I am quite shy in a group situation. Do I have to share much information about myself?
There is no pressure on anyone to share what they are not comfortable with. This is a friendly, supportive, confidential, safe and non-judgemental space.
- Do you offer payment plans?
Yes. Payment plans are available by individual arrangement and agreement, on the understanding that you commit to all 6 sessions.
- Can I try the first session and see if it suits me?
The first session is the Introductory Session. Once you have attended that, you can decide whether or not you wish to commit to the full Programme.
Making the commitment to attend all sessions will bring you the greatest long-term benefits on every level.
For further information or to book your place please contact Bernadette: info@peacefulpractice.co.uk