The Emotional Heat of Menopause - Why We Turn Into Hot Messes🥵 And How Yoga Can Help 🥒

While menopause is a universal experience, our culture rarely honours it as the psycho-spiritual life transition that it is.

Through the lens of yoga, menopause is a period of purification and transformation.

In yoga philosophy, this heat is known as tapas - inner fire of transformation - to burn away what is no longer needed. The emotional intensity that we can experience is the “fire of awakening” doing its work.

Menopause is a call inward……

Tanya Cameron15 October 2025tanyacameron, seedyogapullenvale, templeretreat, menopauseComment

Is This You?

You wake up feeling tired, even after a full night’s sleep. Your body feels different - achy, stiff, unpredictable. The back pain, knee pain, shoulder pain. Maybe it’s perimenopause or menopause, maybe it’s the years of caring for others all catching up with you.

You look in the mirror and wonder who you are now?

Tanya Cameron18 March 2025tanyacameron, seedyogapullenvale, templeretreat, perimenopause, menopause, groundhogday, thesovereignwoman, restorativeyoga, nervoussystemcareComment

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