The interest in natural treatments without hormone replacement has increased. Hormone Yoga Therapy offers a kind of treatment using breath with yoga exercises specific to reactivate the hormone production by our own body. Besides this, our work is holistic, treating the individual as a whole, bringing vitality, good health and a positive attitude to face daily life.
Yoga Hormonal Breath-work
A Natural Treatment for Menopause
Benefits women trying to get pregnant, polycistic ovaries and those who are entering menopause.
After the publication of a scientific study on the effects of hormone replacement, which found that this therapy increases the risk of breast cancer and uterus cancer, many women refuse to take hormones. This scientific study advises against hormone replacement.
Many women have a wrong idea of what menopause is.
For most women being in menopause means growing old and losing femininity – this is only the negative side.
But there is a positive side also, when entering menopause she is in a quieter period of her life, with children already living by themselves.
During this phase she has more time for herself.
Some women go back to their studies or to the university they left when they got pregnant, others decide to study music or painting. It is time to make new plans and enjoy this phase.
If you are interested in spiritual subjects now there will be more time for profound studies and to learn how to meditate – this will help you turn milder the emotional symptoms of menopause, such as insomnia, anguish, depression, etc.
But to take advantage of this positive side you need to feel healthy and good, without symptoms like hot flushes and irritation.
But what is really Menopause? How is it defined by science?
Let’s start explaining the meaning of several terms related to this phase: menopause is one phase of the reproductive life of the woman. By scientific definition, menopause is the permanent end of the menstruations resulting from the loss of the follicle activity of the ovaries. This causes a reduced hormone production by your glands.
It marks the end of reproductive life, preceded in many cases, by irregularities of the cycles and menstruations failures. It is characterized only after 12 months without menstruations. The low estrogen (which is the main feminine hormone) has usually disagreeable consequences: the known symptoms of menopause.
Low estrogen may also cause illnesses such as osteoporosis and high levels of cholesterol.
The word MENARCA is not very used – it is the moment of the first menstruation. In the beginning the cycles may be irregular, but later they stabilize.
PERI-MENOPAUSE or CLIMACTERIC is the phase including about 3 years before menopause until 8 or more years afterwards. In this phase before menopause, menstrual cycles may become irregular on account of hormone fluctuations, possibly causing increased bleeding or menstruation failures.
But after 35 years the ovaries activity starts decreasing and gradually decreases the hormone production of the two main female hormones: estrogen and progesterone. When there is a big decrease of hormone level, the number of ovaries follicles decrease also, the cycles may become anovulatory, bringing infertility.
POST-MENOPAUSE is the phase which begins with the last menstruation.
Another thing that may happen is a PREMATURE MENOPAUSE.
The menstruations cease at 30 or even earlier (some years before normal) causing infertility, hirsuteness, symptoms of menopause and psychological problems. Premature menopause may have different causes as ovary cysts, tumors etc. It is up to the gynecologist to diagnose the cause through exams.
But in many cases it is caused only by excess exercise, very low weight or emotional trauma.
To be well informed about what happens in this phase is very important to get rid of beliefs and prejudices and to go through this phase with a minimum of discomfort and even a feeling of renewal.
