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?

Your days all feel the same. Groundhog Day. Wake up, tend to everyone else, go to work, scroll your phone, make dinner, fall into bed exhausted, repeat.

The same old routines. The same conversations. The same autopilot existence. Even when you go on holidays. 

For years, your life has revolved around others - your children, your partner, your career, your aging parents.

You’ve been the anchor, the nurturer, the one who holds everything together. But now, things are shifting.

Your children need you less (but somehow, also more, some friendships may feel different, and maybe your relationship with your partner is changing too.

You sense that you’re standing at a threshold, but you’re not quite sure what’s on the other side.

And then, there are the old patterns - the ways you used to cope that are creeping back in.

* Body image struggles that you thought you’d moved past suddenly feel louder as you notice your body changing and you wonder if you should be doing more - exercising harder, eating less, “fixing” yourself.

* You’re drinking more than you used to. A glass of wine to unwind becomes two or three. It takes the edge off but you end up feeling worse.

* You find yourself scrolling mindlessly. Searching for something but not really knowing what. Comparing your life to the lives of others.

* Your friendships are shifting. Some feel distant, others no longer fit. You crave deeper, more meaningful connections, but you’re not sure where to find them.

* Your anxiety levels are rising. Your nervous systems feels like it is constantly on high alert. You’ve considered (or are already on) medication, but it leaves you feeling numb, like you've lost your edge. You’re grateful for the relief, but something in you is still searching for a way to feel fully alive.

* You feel an urgency to find your voice. A fire is burning inside of you - a longing to live in alignment with your truth. Maybe for yourself you’ve put yourself second, avoided conflict, or stayed quiet to keep the peace. But now, you crave something different. A sense of sovereignty. A deeper integrity with yourself.

You’re realising that mid-life is an initiation. A chance to reclaim yourself, to step into the woman you were always meant to be.

Because this isn’t just a physical experience - it’s a physiological shift that is rippling into every layer of your being. 

Physical. Mental. Emotional. Energetic. Spiritual.

We are not simply treating the physical symptoms of this season, but tending to the underlying recalibration that is taking place. 

Because healing - true healing - is an unraveling, a restructuring and a reclaiming!

This is a powerful initiation into the next phase of our life and it’s not something we have to “get over” but something we have to “get through”. 

And,

We don’t have to do it alone!

What if your yoga and mindfulness practices could be a portal into your next season of life?

Not the type of yoga that tells you to push harder or be more or change your body. But instead, a practice that nourishes every part of you. That invites you to soften and listen and reconnect with your body.

Our Temple Retreat studio is a beautiful space immersed in nature where you can step away from the noise and busyness of daily life and come back to yourself.

A place where we honor this transition of midlife with reverence, but also with a sense of lightness and humour.

Because, midlife can be a wild ride.

One minute you’re  feeling ok and the next minute you can’t find your glasses (which end up being on your head LOL). Your wildly fluctuating hormones seem to be running the show, you’re trying to keep your cool through the challenges of life and your husband is annoying you in every way possible.

Sometimes it’s just good to be able to share it all with other women who get it.

In our classes and workshops and retreats we honor the threshold of midlife as a sacred passage, not something to rush through or resist.  We honor all parts of ourselves and our lives - physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual.

We offer yoga that is grounding, replenishing, and deeply healing - practices that support your nervous system, balance your hormones , and give you space to process all that’s shifting in your world.

We are a community of like-minded women - women who understand, through their own lived experiences, what it means to navigate perimenopause, empty nesting, caring for aging parents, or rebuilding after divorce.  We find ourselves through connecting back to our bodies, hearts, deep conversation and belly laughs.

This is a space to claim something for yourself. 

To step into this next chapter not depleted, but empowered. 

 Not disconnected, but deeply attuned to your body, your needs, and your inner wisdom.

Is this you?

If this speaks to you, this is your invitation to join us on the mat - in our classes, workshops and lovely community and some very exciting news, keep your eyes peeled  for our very first 

The Sovereign Woman - 2 Day Immersion - A retreat for women in their mid life season!

Dates will be announced very soon. 

Here is a poem I wrote called  

Awakening Into Midlife

Midlife is a powerful portal

Not a slow decline

But a shift

A reckoning

An invitation 

To unravel and rebalance

It is no longer just about 

What we eat or how we move 

But how we settle in

And regulate the storms within

How we learn to take pause 

And really listen

Discernment becomes our compass

Choosing carefully

Who surrounds us

Inviting in only those

Who nurture our growth

And reflect our light

Without dimming it

We reach into ourselves

Excavating the most glimmering parts

Long buried

But always there

Waiting for the courage to let them shine

This is work of letting go

Of roles,

Patterns

And the weight we thought we had to carry

It is a reimagining of who we are

And who we are becoming

Midlife asks us to soften

And to rise

To see that awakening is not found outside

But in the depths 

We dare to explore 

By Tanya Cameron