On Motherhood and Menopause on the Road with Janet Stone

​​I met Janet Stone at the Bali Spirit Festival in Ubud last week, where we sat down together between workshops to have this conversation.

Janet is an internationally recognised yoga teacher who has spent decades travelling the world with her two daughters, teaching and practising and building a life that looks nothing like the conventional path.

What I didn't expect was how openly Janet would speak about her experience of perimenopause, and specifically what happened when the practices that had sustained her for years simply stopped working.

As someone in the yoga and wellness world, she had all the tools - meditation, prāṇāyāma, sādhana, supplements, tinctures, all of it. And none of it was enough.

What followed was years of not understanding what was happening in her own body, until an OB-GYN who'd been practising in her classes quietly said, "Why don't you come see me in my office?"

And everything changed from there.

This is a conversation about what happens when the spiritual toolkit isn't enough, and the courage it takes to say so.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it's like to raise children on the road as a globally travelling yoga teacher
• The profound free fall of the empty nest
• The intersection of menopause and spiritual practice, and why ‘just meditate more’ isn't always the answer
• Janet's honest experience with HRT and why she believes we need to move beyond the pro and anti camps
• Yoga nidrā as digestion, not just of food, but of undigested emotional experience, trauma and grief
• Her new book, Stories of Our Lives, and using mythology to see beyond our own inner narrative

Connect with Janet Stone at https://www.janetstoneyoga.com

Find out more about the Bali Spirit Festival at https://www.balispiritfestival.com/ 

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