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Mayo Clinic: Menopause

Backcover description: Take charge of your health. Mayo Clinic, one of the top medical centers in the country, and Gaiam, the health and wellness experts, team up to bring you this groundbreaking integrated health action plan specifically designed to help you bec

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Level:		Beginner

Stretch type:		Yoga

Instructor:		Colleen Saidman

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Certified instructor description: You get detailed medical information about Menopause along with a 10-minute guided meditation and 20-minute yoga workout. Like a real visit to the Mayo Clinic, you’ll begin with a 25-minute “consultation.” Dr. Lynne Shuster Director of the Women’s Health Clinic and Dr. Richa Sood, discuss the physical aspects of menopause and the most up-to-date integrative-medicine options. You’ll learn about the experience of Menopause as change and not as an illness. You’ll learn about the stages of Menopause. You’ll also get information about possible symptoms such as hot flashes and sleep changes and options for coping with these changes. Dr. Donald Hensrud gives you shopping recommendations and Dietician Carla Schultz teaches you about healthy eating, such as increasing plant-based foods in your diet. That’s followed by Colleen Saidman leading a 10-minute guided meditation and a 25-minute Yoga workout specifically designed for the relief of menopause symptoms. You’ll also get a 52-page book on stress reduction. ©2007. (90 min.).

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Mayo Clinic: Menopause

Beginner friendly moves, probably meant for natural menopause, not surgical

I have entered early menopause due to a hysterectomy with ovary removal and am currently experiencing some hot flashes and night sweats. I am 3 years in remission after a mastectomy and chemo for ER/PR positive breast cancer and my oncologist advises that hormone therapy and supplements are contraindicated for me. In searching for alternatives, I've read articles indicating that yoga can be helpful and decided it can't hurt to give it a try. The outdoor backdrop presented here is lovely and the instructor is pleasant. She demonstrates some of the poses herself, but she often walks around the two background exercisers and shows them how to adjust the pose to make it easier or harder. My experience is limited and I found the moves fairly accessible, so if you are a regular practitioner, it might be too easy for you. I like that the instructor is actually talking in "real time" as they do the workout (voice over tends to creep me out). She makes a few comments that are a little "woo woo" by my standards, but it isn't so over the top that I can't overlook it. It does bother me a little bit when she says things like "this pose stimulates the ovaries"; I get distracted and start wondering if that means that it isn't doing anything for me because I don't have ovaries (or whatever part she is talking about), but I guess most women wouldn't have this problem. I have done extensive reading about menopause and didn't learn anything new from the discussion segment of the DVD, but for the average person, I would say it presents up-to-date & accurate information in an easy to understand format (although I can't imagine one would watch that part more than once or twice). Overall I am happy with my purchase and think I will actually make use the workout portion of the DVD as, regardless of whether or not it reduces or eliminates my hot flashes, it is still a nice stretch. - posted by Anonymous on 8/30/2008

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