Certificate in Teaching Yoga for the Stages of Menopause

This course will give you a deep knowledge and understanding of the many ways a woman can be affected by pre-, peri- and post-menopause. It will help you learn how much the way you teach her, and the practices you put at her disposal, can make a huge difference to the ease or struggle with which she navigates this intense time. It will teach you how to help women to live through the menopause transition fully embodied.

Beginning in our 40s, it’s likely that your students will start to feel frightening changes in their bodies long before they expect to. With this lack of awareness, and this disarming sensation, come a lot of fear. Your knowledge after this course could reach a woman before she descends into the potential anxiety, low mood and fear that can characterise this time.

The highest rate of suicide in women in Ireland and the UK is between the ages of 45-54. This may in part be due to menopausal symptoms, exacerbated by the researched fact that women feel marginalised, misunderstood, and not taken seriously by the people they look to for help. A radical lack of training about Menopause exists in the medical community. As her Yoga teacher, rightly or wrongly, your student looks to you for support and help.

“The content in the manual was excellent,  I feel much better equipped now on how to help a woman going through menopausal stages in her life. Clear, informative and factual, the clarity of the information you gave us was excellent.” Mary Conway, Yoga Teacher

This is a 40 hour training, 28 hours of which are online, interactive and  contact.

COURSE CONTENT

• The biochemistry of the stages of menopause
• The roles of our sex hormones
• Symptoms
• Health concerns
• The changing needs of a woman’s body, particularly regarding exercise
• The role of stress
• The use of language
• Trauma-sensitive teaching
• Anatomy
• What Yoga can do for the common, passing, and long-term effects of menopause (incl. the science of stretch, resistance bands, Restorative Yoga, the application of touch, meditation and more).
• Vagal nerve
• CBT and it’s proven effects
• The role of pleasure
• Nutrition (Guest speaker Petra Fulham, BSc, Nutritional Therapist)

In order to be receive the certificate you must be a Yoga teacher, or teacher trainee.*

However the course is open for the participation of anyone who works in women’s health, exercise or wellness.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Three parts:

• Attendance & participation
• Teaching assessment
• Written piece (2,000 words)

Homework will be in the form of classes in your inbox to be taken before and after the course, comprehension of manual and course content, research and composition of your written piece, and if necessary to complete your hours, sign up for Easing Menopause package, or join my Easing Menopause workshops.

Niamh Daly has been teaching since 2004, and teaching and researching Yoga for Menopause since 2015. She has taught hundreds of women in classes, workshops and 1:1 specifically with regard to their menopausal transition, and trained 100 teachers (and counting) who have taken this course.

*Women in or approaching their menopausal years and with at least 2 years Yoga practice who would like to attend to support their own journey are also welcome, but the teaching certificate will only be granted to teachers, or to trainees (after they have graduated from their main TT).

This course takes place over 3 weekends (3 Saturdays and one Sunday), 10am-6pm Irish time, plus homework. Check your time zone here

This course is certified by Yoga Alliance Professionals

Please contact me with any queries