new: embodied menopause
"What if menopause isn't something to push through or fix, but an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with yourself?"
The menopause conversation often takes one of two directions: push through and endure symptoms, or fight to stay forever young. But The Embodied Menopause offers an alternative approach.
Through gentle somatic practices and personal stories, movement teachers Charlotte Watts and Leo Taylor guide you to move with, rather than against, this powerful life transition.
They explore how to meet your changing body and fluctuating emotions with compassion and curiosity, so you can rediscover balance, energy and a renewed sense of self.
Drawing on the principles of somatics – an intuitive approach to movement that connects mind, body and emotion – this book helps you to release stress, soothe the nervous system and reconnect with your natural rhythms.
Whether you’re experiencing symptoms of menopause or just sensing a need for change, you’ll find simple, accessible practices for easing anxiety, improving sleep, restoring vitality and cultivating inner calm.
Inside you’ll learn about how to:
Understand the seasons of life and what it means to mature
Listen to your true needs and work with your available energy
Navigate mood changes and sleep shifts that often accompany hormonal transitions
Use accessible somatic practices to ease anxiety, reduce stress and cultivate calm
Rediscover your core strength, confidence, creativity and sense of self
The Embodied Menopause is the wise friend who reminds you that you are not broken or diminished, but becoming more fully yourself.
“Sharing a cyclical, non-linear and deeply embodied approach to this major life transition, Embodied Menopause is a breath of fresh air in the stifling chambers of mainstream approaches to menopause. Charlotte and Leo's book is a welcome call for self-compassion and body-literate wisdom as we navigate the magnificent opportunity for evolution that is Menopause.”
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, author and yoga therapist
”Part science, part sanctuary. While the world tells you to push through or stay forever young, this warm, inclusive book offers a radical third path, one grounded in a profound understanding of the body, that meets you exactly where you are and walks you into transformation.”
Kate Codrington, author and menopause mentor
yoga teacher in a box
This practical set of yoga positions, movements, breathing exercises and meditations lets you create a routine that’s perfect for you.
The cards are divided up into five useful sections, helping you navigate quickly to the ones you need: Inversions and balancing; Back arches and twists; Standing poses; Supine and seated, and Breath and meditations. The different postures and exercises (asana) include variations and modifications to suit all abilities, body types and ages. Each card includes a graphic icon to highlight the main qualities of the pose or exercise being shown: calm, energy, focus, mobility and strength – so you can zone in fast on the ones that suit your needs on any given day. Also included is a section of breathing and mindfulness exercises (pranayama) giving advice and bite-size information on the science of breath for stress release, sleep and wellbeing.
The 32-page booklet introduces yoga for complete beginners, explaining the key yogic texts and philosophies in an accessible way and showing how they can be understood and applied to your everyday life. You'll also find suggested sequences for long and short sessions, energetic or relaxing routines and to help ease complaints like insomnia, stress, anxiety, fatigue and PMS.
“Groundbreaking... empowers users to embrace yoga confidently and independently. Yoga Teacher in a Box is a game-changer, bringing the transformative benefits of yoga to everyone, regardless of their circumstances.”
Yoga Magazine
Yoga & Somatics for Immune & Respiratory Health
This book explains how movement, embodied awareness, and self-compassion can be incorporated into yoga practice to support respiratory and immune health.
This book delves into how stress, trauma, breath, movement, and posture can impact the quality of these systems and how yoga teachers can integrate a range of practices focusing on movement, meditation, and breath to help improve them. Our respiratory and immune systems are intrinsically linked to how we relate to the world around us. Engaging with our vitality through the movement we were designed to express equips us with an invaluable ability to support the optimal functioning of our internal systems.
“Yoga and Somatics for Immune and Respiratory Health is a deep read, rich with valuable information that will inform and transform the understanding of every yoga therapist. Watts and Taylor have created a beautiful weave between yoga's philosophical underpinnings and the gentle movement practice of somatics while offering a short course on physiology and the fasical matrix. Rarely have I encountered such a generous offering of scientific information contextualised specifically for those in the field of yoga therapy. This book will definitely be a required read for my yoga therapy training program going forward!”
Robin Rothenberg,
C-IAYT Yoga Therapist & Author of Restoring Prana