Menopause
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For women claiming deeper wisdom, empowerment and pleasure during their perimenopause & menopause

 

There are times when the menopause transition can be challenging, both physically and emotionally. Just when we thought we knew ourselves, it's like the rug is pulled out from under us!

We can choose to live this transition as an empowering and exciting initiation to becoming a wiser, more nourished, content and embodied woman; a new chapter and the best time of our lives.

These one-day events on meaningful themes offer you a well-deserved and sacred pause to breathe, reflect on your journey, and connect with your body and inner wisdom.

 

Designed for women feeling the 'change', these day retreats include:

  • short talks to inform you and inspire self-enquiry,
  • customised yoga, breathwork, meditation, and energy practices to release stress, relieve symptoms, and support a strong body, and clear mind,
  • restorative yoga for deep rest and to welcome change, and
  • facilitated sharing spaces to reflect, connect and have a laugh with other women.

As a certified teacher in Yoga for the stages of Menopause, Advanced Restorative Yoga, and Yoga Nidra, as well as a Heart IQ Circle Facilitator, and Massage therapist, I'll be bringing a wealth of practices to explore. Plus! some very lovely guest experts.

You'll gain self-awareness, practical tips and tools for healthy habits, self-listening and self-care, as well as a community of courageous, kind-hearted and inspiring women!

My intention is for you to leave feeling empowered, uplifted, and more at peace in this beautiful and transformative stage of life.

 

Magic happens when we gather, we circle, and we attune to Life.

 

Next Events

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Belly Love

Nutrition, Core & More!
Sunday, 6 October 2024

Rolle, Switzerland

with guest speaker
Magdalena Sofia

Heart's Embrace

Holding yourself through change
Sunday, 3 November 2024

Rolle, Switzerland

including a sound bath with 
Kallia Apazoglou

The YONIverse

Pelvic Floor, Sexuality & Shakti
Sunday, 26 January, 2025

Rolle, Switzerland

guest expert will be
announced soon

 Why Attend?

  • Feel Informed: Gain valuable insights into perimenopause and menopause and how to support your body through this natural stage in life.
  • Feel Reassured: Learn to embrace the changes in your body with positivity and kindness.
  • Feel Nourished : Release the inner critic and burden of ‘shoulds’ and ‘musts’ to cultivate an attitude of welcoming, pleasure and play.
  • Feel ReSourced:  Create space to connect to You, to listen to your needs and inner wisdom. When you are rested you have access to your well of resources.
  • Feel Empowered: Equip yourself with simple and enjoyable practices, tools and knowledge to enhance your well-being.
  • Feel Connected: Join a community of women, sharing and supporting each other through this journey.

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Who is this for?

Women in their late 30s, 40s and 50s, going through the menopause transition or anticipating this. Women in perimenopause or post-menopause, whether naturally occurring or due to illness or medical intervention. 

IN-PERSON EVENT

6 October 2024: Belly Love

Nutrition, Core and More! A Healthy Belly Feels Good

Facilitated by Georgina Peard, with guest speaker Magdalena Sofia

Join us for a life-enhancing and nourishing one-day retreat designed specifically for women navigating the perimenopause and menopause. "Belly Love" is your opportunity to gain simple and practical tips on nutrition, micronutrition, gut health, yoga, body practices and lifestyle choices. How you feel in your belly impacts you every day! Cultivate an attitude of deep self-kindness around your changing body, especially your beautiful belly, and feel empowered, more resilient, joyful, and reassured in your health and well-being.

Sunday 6 October 2024
10h00-16h00
Elaneha, 1180 Rolle, Switzerland

Register Now for Belly Love (6 October)

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What to Expect?

  • Empowering Knowledge on The Changes in Your Body: Be aware of what's happening and why it's important to make conscious lifestyle choices.
  • Yoga for Perimenopause and Menopause: Experience adapted practices with a focus on belly wellness - core strength and stability, optimal metabolism and digestion, stress and anxiety reduction, improved sleep, emotional resilience, clear mind, self-confidence, managing menopause symptoms, and more.
  • Insights on Optimal Nutrition: Learn about the importance of optimal nutrition and micronutrition and how they will support you through this transition and beyond. 
  • Information on Gut Health: Learn about the metabolism of your hormones and how to take care of your gut and your liver; and discover tasty foods that will deeply nourish you and naturally support your
    body's needs.
  • Practical Tips: Implement conscious lifestyle choices, intuitive eating, and easy home practices that enhance your well-being.
  • Body-Positive Approach: An inclusive space where we focus on positive language, and cultivate curiosity, enquiry and deep listening to our bodies.
  • Self-Kindness Practices: Experience self-care practices and rest that foster a loving and positive relationship with your changing body.
  • Community Connection: Connect with other women on the same journey, sharing experiences and building a supportive community. 
Connect to your core, and the wisdom of your womanhood.
Join for a day of feminine connection, body positivity, and rest.

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Guest speaker

Magdalena Sofia

Magdalena is a Swiss Certified Nutritionist, Certified Holistic Health Coach (Institute of Integrative Nutrition), also certified in Chi Nei Tsang Abdominal Massage and Belly Revolution Massage®. By educating & providing practical nutritional guidance and other tools, she helps women to optimize their physical, emotional and mental wellness and reconnect to their physical bodies; especially to build a relationship with the belly. She focuses on a whole-body approach, macro and micro-nutrition, digestive health and hormonal balance. Magdalena’s holistic approach has proven to inspire her clients to make life-long health and lifestyle changes. She also offers the Belly Massage® in Lausanne. https://magdalenasofia.com/ 

“Health and vitality are already inside of you. You are here to lead a thriving life, to feel vibrant and empowered in your body.” 

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Logistics:

Please bring your own lunch or food to share in a pot-luck. Tea and refreshments will be provided. 

What to wear / bring:
Wear comfortable clothing for yoga and movement. Yoga mats and equipment, as well as changing rooms are available. Bring pen and paper, a closed water / tea bottle, anything you need for comfort.

Payment:

  • CHF 110 (Early! until 23 September)
  • CHF 150 (regular)

SPECIAL OFFER: Register with a Friend! Invite a friend to join you for the day, and receive a CHF 10 discount each. Share the experience and support each other on this empowering journey.

 

Register and Pay Now ➡
IN-PERSON EVENT

3 November 2024: "Heart's Embrace"

Holding yourself with love through change. 

Facilitated by Georgina Peard, plus a sound bath from Kallia Apazoglou

Are you juggling work and family commitments and struggling to find the space for self-care as you experience perimenopause or menopause? Are you going through some life changes, loss, or a sense of change in yourself? It’s easy to feel exhausted or overwhelmed at this time, and surprised by being less able or less willing to meet all the demands. This time of transition, though challenging, is also an opportunity to connect with yourself in a deeper, more loving way.

Join us for a nurturing day designed just for you.

At "Heart’s Embrace," we will gather as a group of women experiencing similar life changes to step back, create space, and hold ourselves with love and compassion. This is an invitation to pause, breathe, and receive, as we move through this transition together.

Sunday 3 November 2024
10 am - 4 pm
Elaneha, 1180 Rolle, Switzerland

Register Now for Heart's Embrace (3 November)

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What to Expect?

  • Guided Practices: Experience the benefits of breathwork, intentional movement, and restorative yoga tailored to support your heart, mind and body through change. 

  • Facilitated Sharing Space: A gentle, supportive environment to share and connect with others going through similar experiences. 

  • Special Sound Bath: Allow the soothing vibrations of sound to relax your body, calm your mind and lift your spirit, led by the gifted Kallia. 

  • Empowerment for Everyday Life: Leave with simple, effective practices to incorporate into your daily routine, easing the experience of symptoms like anxiety, low energy, low mood, hot flushes, brain fog, and disturbed sleep. 

  • Community Connection: Build connections with other women and tap into a local network of support.

This day retreat is your chance to slow down and refill your cup, so you can return to your loved ones and your responsibilities with renewed energy and grace.

Why join us?

In the midst of life’s busyness, it’s easy to forget about your own needs. The physical and emotional ups and downs of perimenopause can make it even harder to find time for yourself. But giving yourself permission to pause, connect, and practice self-care isn’t just a gift to you—it’s a gift to everyone you love. When you nurture yourself, you are better able to be present, patient, and compassionate with others.

This day retreat will give you the tools to:

  • Hold yourself with love and kindness as you go through change in your body and in your life.
  • Navigate the emotional roller coaster with more ease and gather the wisdom of this rite of passage.
  • Create healthy habits and make lifestyle choices that support you with symptoms of change.
  • Reconnect with your body and embrace the changes with self-love.
  • Learn how to integrate practices into your everyday routine, even with a busy schedule. 

🌷 Come as you are, and leave feeling nurtured, uplifted, and supported.🌷

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Gong and sound bath

Kallia Apazoglou

Kallia is a Kundalini Yoga teacher and lifelong practitioner who uses this practice as a tool for self-mastery and self-love. She discovered the art of the Gong through the tradition of kundalini yoga and uses the vast vibrational spectrum of the Gong to trigger and accompany profound processes such as liberation of energetic nodes, integration of changes and inner transformation. Her sound baths are composed primarily of Gong sound waves and the use
of the inner gong, the voice. Her intention is to create a space of love where natural processes unfold freely.

Fascinated by human nature, Kallia first explored human behaviour and consciousness through a neuroscientific point of view. After 15 years in advanced Neuroscience studies and academic research, she opened herself through the practice of yoga to the science and knowledge of the intangible that perfectly complements the western view of scientific knowledge.
https://www.breatheandbeyond.com/ 

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Logistics:

Please bring your own lunch or food to share in a pot-luck. Tea and refreshments will be provided. 

What to wear / bring:
Wear comfortable clothing for yoga and movement. Yoga mats and equipment, as well as changing rooms are available. Bring pen and paper, a closed water / tea bottle, anything you need for comfort.

Payment:

  • CHF 110 (Early! until 18 October 2024)
  • CHF 150 (regular)*

* SPECIAL OFFER: Register with a Friend! Invite a friend to join you for the day, and receive a CHF 10 discount each (on regular price). Share the experience and support each other on this empowering journey.

 

Register and Pay Now ➡
IN-PERSON EVENT

26 January 2025: The YONIverse

Pelvic Floor Health, Sexuality & Shakti

Facilitated by Georgina Peard, with invited guest speaker, Sally Müller, a physiotherapist and pelvic floor specialist

Join us for a life-enhancing and nourishing one-day retreat designed specifically for women navigating the perimenopause and menopause. 

Sunday 26 January 2025
10 am - 4 pm
Elaneha, 1180 Rolle, Switzerland

Register Now for the YONIverse (26 January))

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  • FULL DETAILS HERE SOON. 

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Logistics:

Please bring your own lunch or food to share in a pot-luck. Tea and refreshments will be provided. 

What to wear / bring:
Wear comfortable clothing for yoga and movement. Yoga mats and equipment, as well as changing rooms are available. Bring pen and paper, a closed water / tea bottle, anything you need for comfort.

Payment:

  • CHF 120 (Early! until 26 December 2024)
  • CHF 160 (regular)*

*SPECIAL OFFER: Register with a Friend! Invite a friend to join you for the day, and receive a CHF 10 discount each (on regular price). Share the experience and support each other on this empowering journey.

 

Register and Pay Now ➡

 

Facilitator ... 



Georgina Laiya Peard

Georgina is a certified Yoga Teacher, Massage Therapist, Heart iQ Circle Coach, and Shamanic-Tantric practitioner, with 15 years experience in guiding and creating intimate and transformational experiences for individuals and groups. Her gift is to create fields of safety, relaxation, heart resonance and connection for people to drop into their bodies, tap into their inner well of wisdom and know their truth. She is devoted to her own path and helping others to feel whole and free, connecting to our shared humanity and the interconnectedness of life.

Georgina is certified in Yoga for the Stages of Menopause, and Advanced Restorative Yoga. She has been exploring approaches to the menopause for many years, and began the Menopause Wisdom Circles in 2020.

I'm not here to teach you like an expert. I’m training and informing myself, yes, and have things to share. Yet here, I hold the quality of space holder, enabler, catalyst, for you to be your own guide, and find your inner teacher, healer and lover. My role is to create the conditions for a welcome, safe, and intimate space to explore vulnerably and powerfully together. I am also a sister on this journey, deep in my perimenopause transition.”

https://georginapeard.com 

A Wise woman needs no teaching -  Just space to connect to her own inner knowing.