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Yoga for Menopause and Beyond

Reviewed by Donna Farhi

“Finally, a book that I can wholeheartedly recommend to women wanting to explore the ways that yoga can support, nourish, and smooth the oftentimes rocky transition into menopause and beyond… Daly’s immense experience in working compassionately with her students shows through on every page of this invaluable guide”  Donna Farhi, author of Yoga, Mind, Body Spirit and Bringing Yoga to Life

In recent years there has been a surge in awareness surrounding the challenges experienced by menopausal women, along with impassioned calls for more specialized support from health and wellness professionals. In Yoga for Menopause and Beyond, author Niamh Daly shares how yoga teachers can help answer these calls.

Written in an open and heartfelt conversational style, this book is a reimagining of yoga viewed through the lens of menopause. It will help you understand which elements of yoga are already ideal, what may be unhelpful, and what you might add to support symptom relief, health, and self-esteem.

Daly addresses topics such as

  • biochemical, physical, social, and emotional impacts of menopause;
  • specific physiological effects that necessitate a changed approach to asana;
  • changes to the nervous system that influence what practices we choose;
  • changing health risks and how the benefits of yoga can help reduce these risks;
  • using movement for comfort and pleasure through somatics and instinctual movement;
  • reconsidering your language to be inclusive of the broad array of possible experiences, including trauma sensitivity;
  • incorporating what you learn into a class or workshop;
  • empowering women through knowledge and recommendations;
  • research and the importance of transparency in offering yoga tools for menopause; and
  • practical advice, for within a class and outside, including sections on nutrition and medical options.

Yoga for Menopause and Beyond is the ideal guide for anyone wishing to create a relevant and supportive yoga practice for women as they journey through menopause and into the postmenopause years.

Click here to listen to an interview about the book

You can purchase it here (Europe)

Here (America)

Here (worldwide)

Donna Farhi continues:

“Although well meaning, so much of the yoga literature that has been published is steeped in misleading mythology; that certain postures can cure or ameliorate specific conditions, or that practicing deep forward bends, back bends, or unsupported inversions like Head Stand will address the myriad symptoms that arise at this time of life… As Niamh Daly so bravely lays out; there’s a paucity of evidence-based research to support these claims, and in some instances these practices can be injurious to women… In Yoga for Menopause and Beyond you’ll instead find clear and easy to understand explanations of the biochemistry of menopause and a sensible, accessible, and pleasurable approach to practice that will be inviting for women no matter what their level of experience. This is a book for real people in real bodies facing real challenges.” 

Tiffany Cruikshank, L.Ac. MAOM, Founder of Yoga Medicine® said:

Therapeutic insights to support the peri/menopausal phase have been missing from yoga curriculum for way too long and I’m so grateful that Niamh has created this valuable resource for yoga teachers! She has so eloquently blended traditional practices that have stood the test of time, with a background in science & research, which, in my opinion, is critical, alongside filling the clear gaps in information on perimenopause & menopause. I am so glad she has shifted our perspective with this supportive and empowering resource for all, when most information on this topic is fraught with negative views & language on this precious wisdom bearing period of our lives. Of course, this information is only helpful to us as yoga teachers & practitioners if it gets us to some useful therapeutic applications. These are well defined in this book with plenty of detailed information on the applications of this information to our lives and our yoga practice.”
Amanda Thebe, author of Menopocalypse and fitness in menopause specialist reviewed:
“Yoga is recommended by all menopause societies as an evidence-based lifestyle intervention that can hugely help women through menopause. Here, Niamh has amped it up for menopause, and she is truly one of the best practitioners you can learn from. She continues to stay evidence-based, accurate and diligent in her learnings and has a way of transferring her knowledge with kindness, humility and grace to her students. This book is going to be a game-changer for yoga practitioners throughout the world.”