Embracing the Change: What to expect when you’re exploding!
A yoga teacher’s guide to Menopause
Sunday 27th September
Menopause is a significant physiological and psychological transition, yet it’s often under-represented, misunderstood, or over-medicalised.
This workshop offers space to learn, question, and explore how yoga can support the changing nervous system, hormones, energy levels, and lived experience during perimenopause and after menopause.
A fully interactive day designed for yoga teachers and anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of this important life transition.
Blending evidence based insight with embodied practice, the day will provide knowlege and practical tools to support yourself and your students through the change of seasons. Through discussion and reflection we’ll expore the physical and emotional ’symptoms’ that may occur during perimenopause and beyond, and how yoga can become a powerful ally to support us into and beyond our ’second spring’.
This one-day workshop is for yoga teachers and anyone interested in understanding menopause through a practical, embodied lens.
The day will balance theory and practice, drawing on a range of practices including movement, restorative yoga, relaxation, Yoga Nidra and plenty of discussion. This is not about fixing or forcing the body, but about working intelligently with change.
You don’t need to be menopausal to attend, just curious, open, and interested in a more nuanced conversation around this phase of life.
Expect a supportive, no-nonsense environment, evidence-informed teaching, and plenty of room for questions, reflection, and real-life experience.
A day to learn, update your understanding, and leave with tools you can actually use — on and off the mat.
We Will Explore:
The key physiological and neurological changes that occur during perimenopause and beyond
Recognising common symptoms and the wide variablility of menopausal experience
Applying menopause aware yoga practices to support us through these changes
Nervous system regulation
Movement, breathwork, rest and meditation
When to support, modify or refer: staying within appropriate professional scope
Cost & Key Information
Full price £150
Sunday 27th September
About your Trainer: Dina Cohen
A vibrant and varied teacher, Dina Cohen has over 1,200 hours of specialist teacher trainings herself, and she is passionate about bringing her decades of teaching to other yoga teachers.
She is a Yoga Alliance Senior Teacher, Trainer and Continuing Education Provider. Dina provides mentorship for trainee and new teachers and has worked at many of London’s top yoga studios including Triyoga and the Life Centre. Committed to giving back to the community Dina offers free classes for refugees and asylum seekers at the Happy Baby Community and for the mental health charity Mind.
A snapshot of Dina’s Teaching journey
1999-03: Dynamic Yoga TT Godfrey Devereux
2003-07: Yin Yoga and Mindfulness Sarah Powers and Paul Grilley
2004: Prana Vinyasa Yoga Shiva Rae
2005-06: Yoga Campus Level 2/British Wheel Diploma
2008-12: Restorative Yoga Judith Lasater
2010-11: Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling Regents College
2012: Yoga for Cancer Survivors Laura Kupperman
2014: Pre/Post Natal Yoga Brahmani Yoga
2015-16: Mindfulness Training Institute Certification
2016: Total Yoga Nidra Uma Dinsmore Tuli
2017: Yoga Therapy for Insomnia Lisa Sanfilippo
2018: iRest Yoga Nidra Richard Miller
2019: Yoga for Anxiety and Depression Lisa Kaley Isley
2020: Yoga Nidra Melanie Cooper & Jennie Wadsten
2021: Menopause Yoga Petra Coveney
2022-23: Psychotherapy & Counselling Certificate Minster Centre