Female health and wellbeing involve processes that occur over time and impact all areas of women’s lives. Women experience numerous changes and transitions during midlife, menopause and elderhood that affect their health, wellbeing and lifestyle.

The “second half of life” is a profound time of change. It generally starts when women are in their 40s (marked by the start of peri-menopause) and continues through post-menopause until the end of life. This is approximately half a woman’s lifetime, so a longer-term preventative outlook is needed.

Quick-fix, superficial health approaches are inadequate, limited and overlook the breadth and complexity of women’s experiences.

Yoga and Lifestyle Medicine focus on the whole-person and long-term wellbeing maintenance. They are concerned with root causes and life-habits. How women live and the wellbeing choices and activities they engage in impacts their health, wellbeing and quality of life. So women benefit from preventative and holistic support to manage challenges and prevent future issues arising as their bodymind changes over time.

We offer yoga, yoga therapy, meditation, counselling and psychotherapy to support women’s current and long-term midlife wellbeing and healthy ageing journeys.

Each woman’s midlife and healthy ageing journey is unique. This journey involves all aspects of her health and wellbeing, including managing peri-menopausal experiences, musculoskeletal issues, sleep, fatigue and exhaustion, rest and relaxation, stress management, mental health, loss and grief, energy management, and illness and injury.

Drawing on multiple, recognised Lifestyle Medicine therapeutic approaches enables us to address a range of women’s health and wellbeing issues, compliment your medical care and create pathways with you to maintain on-going health and wellbeing as part of your lifestyle.

You can be confident in the quality of our services. Our practices, therapies and approaches are informed by the philosophy, practice and knowledge of the lifestyle and wellbeing system of Yoga, and theory, practice, science and research underpinning contemporary Yoga, contemplative wellbeing systems and science, psychological science, counselling and psychotherapy.

We practise prevention. Yoga and Lifestyle Medicine are systems that enable clients to maintain their health and wellbeing. This helps us promote your healthy ageing.

When we work with you we attend to your current health concerns. We also work with you to create lifestyle practices to assist recovery, prevent relapse and maintain positive health and wellbeing.

We encourage clients to book maintenance Courses and Sessions. These may look like regular group sessions, half-day retreats every few months or a few private sessions each year. Yoga and Lifestyle Medicine are for the times when you are flourishing so you can continue to enjoy good health and wellbeing as you move through life.

You can be assured that your health and wellbeing needs are our focus.

We understand that our relationship with you is central to you creating your unique and long-term health and wellbeing lifestyle outcomes and enjoyment of life.

Core to our client-focused, collaborative approach is the Common Factors perspective.

Western research shows that therapies in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy share a foundation of common factors, such as empathy, non-judgment and respect.

At the heart of this approach is a strong, supportive and collaborative therapeutic relationship, shared client-therapist goals and a belief that positive change is possible. These are key, extensively researched reasons for Western therapies effectively benefiting people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Yoga therapy shares a similar view of how therapy is conducted, especially regarding the importance of the therapeutic relationship and its crucial role in therapeutic progress and developing and maintaining wellbeing.