104 - Mindfulness and Menopause with yoga teacher Claudia Brown
The Dr Louise Newson Podcast
Dr Louise Newson
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Back for a second time on the podcast, Dr Louise Newson is joined by yoga teacher, Claudia Brown who runs workshops at Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre. Claudia is an Om Yoga magazine columnist and runs classes, workshops and retreats in Cheshire and the West Midlands. She is currently launching, ‘The Ultimate Wellness Experience – Mindfulness and Menopause.’ She also works with professional footballers, teaching yoga at a number of football clubs! Together, Dr Newson and Claudia discuss mindfulness, what it is and what it isn’t, why compassion and embodied cognition are so important during your menopause journey, and they discover that Louise is actually an advanced mindfulness practitioner!
Claudia’s 3 Top Tips for your mindfulness practice are as follows,
- STOP. Build time into your day / schedule to stop, breathe, move, and treat it like you would treat an important meeting.
- Make an event of it! When you have decided what works for you (for eg, a mindful shower or a mindful walk) really make an event of it and take in all 5 senses, sound, sight, taste, touch and smell)
- BE KIND TO YOURSELF! Tame that Inner Critic and remember, you can have awareness but without compassion it isn’t mindfulness.
Claudia Brown Email: claudia@yogabyclaudia.com Instagram: yogabyclaudia Facebook: www.facebook.com/yogabyclaudiauk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause |
| 0:15.8 | specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon. |
| 0:31.1 | So in this week's podcast, I'm really excited to introduce to you again, Claudia Brown, |
| 0:36.2 | who some of you hopefully will have listened to a podcast |
| 0:38.9 | that we recorded a while ago now about yoga. And Claudia is a yoga teacher who has worked with |
| 0:46.0 | us in the clinic for quite some time now, but she also has other skills. And today we're actually |
| 0:52.3 | going to talk about mindfulness, which is a word that has been |
| 0:56.1 | around for a while, but most of us still get confused actually what it means and how to practice |
| 1:00.4 | it. So welcome again, Julia. Hi, Louise. Thank you for having me again. It's great to be here. |
| 1:05.9 | No, it's great. We first met in Manchester, didn't we? It must have been a couple of years ago now, |
| 1:10.0 | I think. I think it must be at least three. It was a yoga show in Manchester, didn't we? It must have been a couple of years ago now, I think. |
| 1:16.4 | I think it must be at least three. It was a yoga show in Manchester. It was. And I pinned you into a corner and made you talk to me. It was great. I felt a bit nervous being surrounded by |
| 1:22.2 | yoga gurus and I'm just there as a doctor who likes practicing yoga. But it was everyone |
| 1:26.8 | made me feel very welcome, especially you. |
| 1:28.8 | And it was great. |
| 1:29.9 | And I think then it was good because we had all sorts of connections. |
| 1:32.3 | And I think a lot of people think you either do conventional medicine or you do yoga and you're |
| 1:37.6 | very alternative. |
| 1:38.6 | And it's almost like yoga teachers can't take conventional medicine and medics can't do yoga or practice yoga or recommend it. |
| 1:46.5 | And of course that's ridiculous. It's all about choosing something that's right and looking very holistically. |
| 1:51.9 | And certainly as a physician, I want to be holistic. And as a yoga teacher, you want to be holistic as well. |
| 1:56.6 | So it's joining together is really good and it's very powerful, isn't it? |
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