Menopause Lab with Bo 

All-Day Virtual Gathering with 7-Day Access to Download the Recordings

This course combines social, affective, and cognitive neuroscience with psychology and embodied practices to support the evolution of people with ADHD and related forms of neurodivergence, particularly in today’s fast-paced, challenging world.

Please note: Although we’d love to have you with us live, we understand all the things (child care, work, time zones, etc.) that might make that difficult. We also offer you the option to register and receive the materials afterward. When sending us your registration materials, please specify whether you’ll be attending live or not, so we can plan accordingly. Thank you.

Menopause Lab with Bo

Each year, a staggering 47 million people enter menopause, a number that is expected to reach 1.2 billion by the year 2030.

Thanks to an unparalleled breach of scientific ethics in the Women’s Health Initiative study of 2002, both women and their doctors believe that menopausal hormone therapy is dangerous, and can lead to breast cancer and cardiovascular disease. This has led doctors and patients alike to avoid life-preserving disease prevention and treatment.

Since then, researchers have systematically exposed errors in the initial study’s results. But the media frenzy and fear around the study completely restructured the care of the female body in midlife and beyond. And the last twenty years of novel research haven’t yet trickled through to most medical professionals, even menopause specialists—let alone into mainstream understanding.

In this daylong practicum, or workshop, we’ll free ourselves from the bindings of the WHI study. We’ll translate emerging research in mind-brain-body medicine into practical tools for optimal health and well-being.

We’ll explore:

• The nebulous boundaries between perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, and key indicators for each
• What Vasomotor Symptoms (VMS) are, how to treat them, and their meaning in the context of menopausal hormone therapy
• Cognition, including brain fog, memory blanks, attention deficits, and desire: Why they happen and what to do about them
• Desire in its most global sense, including motivation, sense of agency, and libido–and potential interventions for each
• The Gastrointestinal System and the gut, oral, vaginal, and skin microbiomes, and how to support them
• The Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause, with a focus on preventing osteoporosis and bone health
• Sleep, including why sleep disorders increase in the menopause transition, and practical ways to address them
• The Genitourinary Syndrome of menopause, and how to suppport vaginal, urethral, and sexual health
• Emotional health, including how it shapes and is shaped by other mind-brain-body systems, and how you can support it
• The benefits (and risks) of Menopausal Hormone Therapy, or MHT, as well as additional therapeutic tools

• What systems of the mind, brain, and body to monitor, and how
• Evidence-based therapeutic tools to support your cognitive, physical, and emotional health
• What to look for to determine what interventions are working, and which may need to be tweaked or discontinued
• How to locate a menopause specialist
• How to advocate for yourself and counter a specialist’s resistance to menopausal hormone therapy

We’ll go through a variety of case scenarios that apply to perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. For those who wish to, we’ll have the opportunity to “workshop” (think case consultation) your current health status, navigate the menopause system of medicine, and offer suggestions (i.e. not medical advice) on how to bolster your health.

Please note: I (Bo) am not a medical doctor, but rather, a psychologist. Suggestions made during this workshop should be considered possibilities; please run them by your medical team.

You’ll receive:

• a copy of the workshop PowerPoint
• a CE certificate for yoga teachers through Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists
• a link to download all the materials for a period of seven days (so you can keep and review them forever)
• A specially-designed Symptom Tracker to monitor the above areas of well-being

Materials will be sent out by end of day on Monday, October 28th.

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We’re offering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) scholarships for this course. For more details, please refer to the BIPOC Scholarships section below.

Before registering, please thoroughly review the information below. Once you register, your fee cannot be refunded or transferred to another event.

By taking this course, participants will learn how to:

1. Participants will be able to discuss the scientific history around menopausal hormone therapy, as well as current medical opinion and practice 
2. Participants will be able to discuss vasomotor symptoms in menopause, their implications, how trauma and oppression affect them, and established methods of treating them
3. Participants will be able to discuss the neurobiology of estrogen in the brain, and why menopause includes cognitive symptoms such as brain fog, memory loss, and attentional challenges. 
4. The symptoms of osteoporosis and how to address them throughout midlife and beyond
5. The reciprocal relationship between menopause and sleep, other areas of health that are affected, and strategies for improving sleep
6. Participants will be able to convey understanding of the gastrointestinal system, including the enteric nervous system, in menopause, as well as evidence-based tools to support it
7. How to support the urogenital system in menopause
8. The social context of menopause, and strategies for securing treatment
9. The benefits and risks of menopausal hormone therapy, or MHT
10. Participate in and demonstrate awareness of how to create interventions to mitigate the neuro-inflammatory response, e.g.:
    • Breath-focused contemplative practices
    • Interoception (sensory awareness) building practices
    • 3 restorative or dynamic rest postures

Saturday, October 26, 2024

9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, U.S. time (with 30 minutes for lunch)*

Joining from outside the US? Check your local time:

• PDT: EDT -3 hours
• MST: EDT -2 hours
• CST: EDT -1 hour
• CBST: EDT + 5 hours
• CEST: EDT +6 hours
• SGT: EDT +12 hours
• AEST: EDT +14 hours

We will offer BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) scholarships for this course. The deadline for requesting a scholarship is 10/19.

To request a BIPOC or BAME scholarship, please email Julie, at support@boforbesyoga.com. If you’ve never received a scholarship from us before, please include specific information about your social location, as well as a link to your website or social media profile so we know that you’r you.

• Yoga Alliance (6 credits)
• Yoga Therapists through IAYT (6 credits)

Please see above for pricing. 

When you register for this workshop, you agree to the terms and conditions of workshop materials access and the cancellation policy described below.

Workshop participants will have access to view and download the workshop materials through for a period of seven (7) days. After that time, workshop content will be unavailable. By purchasing this workshop, you agree to download all materials within a seven-day period.

Once you register, there will be no cancellations or transfers of your workshop fee.

To register for the workshop, please send Julie a note to support@boforbesyoga.com. Specify the information we request above. 

Then click the link below to pay. When we receive your email, we’ll add you to our registration list. You can expect an email regarding props, etc. early in the week prior to the workshop. Thank you.

Email Julie, support@boforbesyoga.com.