Women Gone Vibrant| Ayurveda for midlife & menopause

At the Vancouver peace summit, the Dalai Lama proclaimed: "The world will be saved by the Western woman". And right he may is considering that as Western women we have the resources needed to make a profound impact. We also have the freedom to develop and tap into our sacred feminine power. As Western women, one by one, awaken into self-realized, authentic, spirit-embodied human beings, there will be no limits as to what we will contribute in a feminine, intuitive way to all sectors of society.

Tapping into our sacred yonis is vital to unlock the power you need to make the impact the Dalai Lama is talking about. Yoni is a sanskrit word referring to the womb, uterus, vagina and vulva. The word also means abode and source. It is the feminine power center and sacred portal into our soul.

What you get from tuning in:

• What is the yoni and why is it important to tap into that part of our bodies
• How to know whether you are in touch with your yoni
• How to know if your yoni is blocked
• 5 practices to tap into your yoni power

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Menopause marks the death of your old Self and rebirth of your new Self. It is a pivotal portal for transformation in every woman's life. While the first part of life is all about accumulation - think finances, house, husband, children, stuff, career - the second half of life is all about simplification.

Letting go of stuff, relationships, outdated belief systems, emotional and bodily toxins becomes crucial in this phase of life. Detoxing on all those levels clears the path to your future self and allows for an easeful transition not only mentally-emotionally speaking but also on a body related level.

A new self wants to be reborn at menopause. It can happen with ease in a clean environment (again think body, emotions, mind, relationships, your home). Sirena shares her own story how she simplified her life by shedding 95% of her possessions including her valued book collection, how that has impacted her body's health and how she achieved lightness of being through menopause. Sirena is one of those wise elders you want to listen to especially as she has extensive experience leading other women through this transition.

What You get from tuning in:

• What is a Midlife Midwife and what she can do for you
• The impact of detoxing and cleansing on your level of Body Joy
• The 4 steps you need to recover your juiciness
• 2 strategies to get you started on your journey through menopause

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Plowing through a job, family obligations, motherhood and life with a sense of pushing, doing and achieving is outdated, unhelpful and unhealthy. The ability to surrender plays a central role in creating the kind of feminine leadership we need in order to affect positive change in our families, communities and the planet as a whole.

What you get from tuning in:

• The understanding how important surrender is as we move into our 50s and beyond
• The permission to rest and rejuvenate
• Practices and mindsets that lead to surrender
• Surrender has power and we have the opportunity to tap into it at any moment
• What happens if you don't let go
• Surrender does not mean inaction. What is does mean is directed action
• The understanding that meditation and pausing leads to more creativity, productivity and efficiency.
• The red flags that tell us "Baby, it's time to surrender"

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Loss is an integral part of being human. It is part of the natural pulsation of life. I chat with Marcia Craighead about the grieving process and how to skillfully navigate the emotional turmoil arising from it.

What you get from tuning in:

• The 5 stages of grief and how to use them
• How grief can be food for growth and learning
• What major grief (e.g. death of a family member) has in common with subtle grief (e.g. loss of youthful looks)
• The difference between pain and suffering
• An example of how to die consciously
• How to avoid "what if…" scenarios that drive you into sadness, despair and depression
• What stage in your life is ideal to prepare for the grieving process
• How to find the ideal practice to help you move through grief

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Intuition is your energy compass guiding you toward happiness, joy, ease and abundance. I chat with Jen Gilchrist about how to awaken and trust intuition so you can live your life from the inside out and fulfill your soul's mission.

What you get from tuning in:

• Why listening to your intuition is important
• How to discover, trust and live your life from a place of deep inner knowing
• The TLC body meditation
• How to discern intuition from the chatter of the mind
• How to use archetypes and angels
• How to use your intuition to live your soul's purpose

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Age 50 is a big mile marker, for men and women alike. Half of life has passed and a deep questioning phase naturally arises. "Have I done everything I want to accomplish in this lifetime? Am I doing what I really want to do?" It is not uncommon for people to quit corporate jobs in favor of more meaningful work in a non profit organization despite less pay. Some quit their householder life altogether and pursue a spiritual life in an ashram or other spiritual setting.

Finding one's life purpose, or dharma, ain't easy especially if you don't have a roadmap. Many people get stuck, frustrated or disoriented along the way, longingly wanting to arrive at their one god given mission. Annie enlightens us that dharma is not static but instead dynamically changes and evolves as we shift, grow and change.

• What is the essence of dharma or purpose?
• Are you doing what makes you come alive?
• The impact of ignoring your soul's calling on your body's health
• The importance of being creative with how you organize your life
• The 4 pillars of dharma and how to use them to find and work with your purpose
• A reflection practice to help you find your dharma

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Digestion is at the heart of health according to Ayurveda. Digest what you eat well and assimilate it properly, and your body cells will be healthy and ready to do good work; your immune system will be strong and your hormones balanced.

If you are not digesting your food well, the body will be fed poorly and also has to work harder to eliminate toxins. Low quality cells will be produced and the hormone system is not getting the quality nutrition it needs to function well.

Winslow and I also chat about the effect of gas (=flatulence) on bone health. The basic equation here goes like this: (hope you liked mathematics. I did)

• gas = more acidity in body
• More acidity = leached minerals like calcium from bones
• Leached minerals = weaker bones
• Weaker bones = osteoporosis

• Understand the link between digestion, fight and flight response and the adrenals
• What is happening in the gut from a Western medical perspective and how it affects hormone production
• The role of probiotics and HCL in the gut
• Vitamin C supplements
• How digestion affects osteoporosis
• The effects of carbonated drinks on digestion

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Lisa had the perfect setup for a dreadful menopause.

For 20 years, she had been working as a high-powered healthcare consultant with a national management organization i.e. she worked in corporate America. This meant that she was traveling a bunch and entertaining clients late. That kind of work by itself can lead to burnout, depletion and massive menopausal symptoms. To make matters worse, Lisa has a more delicate body type (Vata Pitta if you know anything about Ayurveda), which by nature is prone to more severe menopausal symptoms. And if that wasn't enough, in her 40s, she decided to go to massage therapy school, yoga teacher training and move to a new town where she knew no one.

Yet, despite all these stressors, Lisa experienced hardly any symptoms through the transition. In fact, when her menses disappeared and her naturopath proclaimed menopause had arrived she was surprised. "That was it? No sweat dripping nights, weight gain or moodiness? " Lisa attributes her successful transition to her yoga and self-care practices. She truly practiced bad ass body wisdom that saved her from a downhill spiral. In this episode, she shares with us how she made that happen.

• The knowing that menopause can be easeful
• What kind of yoga to do to stay balanced as you get older
• The importance of the 'right' mindset throughout menopause
• How to find support through yoga and a yoga teacher

And how to practice Yoga during Menopause!!

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The culture in which Beth Claxton MD found herself in during medical training was one like this: 'If it hurts take it out. Are the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus done making babies? Yes? Then the body no longer needs them, so it will be fine without them". The focus was on fixing through surgical removal. While she never fully adopted that view point she found herself embedded in that culture.

Through her own exposure to the Eastern medical model as well as a series of health challenges of her own, Dr. Beth has found alternate ways to deal with pain in the pelvic area and more often than not finds non-surgical ways to remove pain and with it the cause of discomfort.

What you get from tuning in?

• Alternate ways to deal with pelvic pain and looming hysterectomies
• The importance of being a curious detective when investigating symptoms
• That going the radical surgery route is not always necessary

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Liz Young shares her personal story of how she turned a most dreadful menopause around and found peace in her body again.

A few years ago, Liz shifted drastically from peri-menopause to menopause. She was struggling with extreme bleeding to the point of calling the hospital, terrible brain-fog, out of control hot flashes, fatigue and dreadful episodes of depression.

The doctor prescribed an IUD and a combination of hormones – testosterone, progesterone and estrogen – which left her 30 pounds heavier six weeks later. She was livid. Out came the IUD and she stopped the pills. The weight and her issues remained, however.

A serious upgrade in various small, specific habits is what gave her the long term result. Liz shares how she learnt to listen to her own internal review board, how holding internal counsel has helped her shift the relationship to her body and allowed her to turn menopause around.

Liz and I also chat about how her vaning youthful look impacted her psyche and how she managed to look younger despite getting older.

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