Create your own toolkit

Going through peri/menopause can sometimes feel like the rug has been pulled from under our feet and as a result we can feel lost and disempowered. The aim of our retreat is to demystify the symptoms of peri/menopause and understand what might be causing them. By understanding your symptoms and being informed you can make confident choices and create a toolkit to help you thrive during this time of your life.

Knowledge is power!

Our teachings will not replace the hormones that decline during menopause but they can reduce stress, improve sleep and digestion, reduce bloating, build balance, bone and muscle strength and lift a low mood if you are feeling lethargic. Information and education give you freedom to choose.      

We look forward to welcoming you.

During this retreat you will learn:

• to understand your symptoms, why they’re happening, and the steps you can take to alleviate them.

• how to improve your sleep, energy, mood, memory and anxiety

• the essentials of mid-life movement, the importance of strength exercises, and how to improve your mobility and flexibility

• how food can be part of your menopause medicine, menopause nutrition and digestive health

Plus we will have a delicious, healthy lunch and treats which include hormone-balancing ingredients

The conversation around menopause can cause many reactions but ultimately when you get a group of women together it becomes an enriching and supportive conversation. There will be ample opportunities for gentle self-enquiry, discussions, and space for questions and connections.

You will feel rested, supported and inspired after this retreat.

Your Menopause Toolkit - Practical Take-aways:

You will receive videos and handouts of the practical sessions held during the retreat  for unlimited home support. These include:

• Sarah’s Midlife Power Workout Video

• Sarah’s Pelvic Floor Strength Video

• A weekly exercise plan

• Menopausal nutrition recommendation sheet

• Laragh’s Yoga for Sleep Video

• Laragh’s Yoga for Menopause Video

• A Menopause Breath-Work Video                    

• Anita’s top tips for the most common symptoms

Retreat Teachers:

We are three women passionate about preparing and empowering women for this important phase of their lives

Laragh Cunningham is a Yoga and Sleep Professional. With over twenty years teaching experience, and having trained and taught all over the world, she brings an unrivaled level of expertise, knowledge and compassion to her work. Laragh specialist areas of interest are women’s health and well-being at all stages of life. She is certified in womb and menopause yoga as well as specializing in the area of sleep recovery and has a particular interest in supporting hormonal sleep deprivation .

Laragh will be giving practical lifestyle tools to support better physical and mental health during peri menopause and beyond . The teachings will be mostly experiential with some reflective group discussions . Laragh will highlight and discuss how we might be able to support ourselves better physically, energetically and emotionally . She will introduce us to practical self care tools such as breathing, visualization, movement and guided relaxation practices.

Sarah Thornton is a Personal Trainer with over 17 years of experience. She specializes in health and fitness for women at all stages of life with particular interest in the peri to post menopausal years. Changing hormones can have a huge impact on our health, energy, motivation to exercise and healthy weight management. Sarah will recommend appropriate lifestyle strategies to make the best of our mid life years and beyond.

Sarah will explain the correct exercises and movement formula for menopause and help us answer the questions related to the importance of strength exercises, cardio, flexibility, mobility and pelvic floor health. She will also explore Food as Menopausal Medicine. What ingredients are essential for menopause nutrition and how to improve our gut health.

Anita Murphy is a Wellness and Breath Work Coach and a Professional Photographer. In her mid 40s she experienced severe mental health issues, only to discover two years later that her symptoms were linked to the onset of peri-menopause. Her continuing challenges, coupled with the lack of information and awareness in the public domain, and among some GPs, has led her to want to create more awareness and support in our communities and workplaces to empower and support menopausal women.

Anita will the discuss the physiological impact of menopausal symptoms including brain fog and social anxiety, while sharing simple lifestyle choices that can help us ease them. She will discuss the importance of being open and honest about our symptoms in order to create a societal shift and a new vision of menopause as a time of immense personal growth and fulfillment.

If you have any other questions, we would be very happy to help.

Please email : info@soulmoves.ie

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