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Moving through menopause - in-person workshop (Glasgow) - Sat 18 Oct 2pm

£11.00

Join us on World Menopause Day Saturday 18th October 2-3:45pm for our ‘moving through menopause’ event. Linked to this year’s World Menopause Day theme of Lifestyle Medicine, we’ll take you on a supportive and interactive journey through movement practices to support you during (peri-post) menopause. 

Bringing together our complementary expertise, the session will focus on building confidence, reducing fears, and busting myths about: types of exercise, pain, injury, recovery, and self-care.   

After a short-introduction to ourselves and our areas for the event which will give you the opportunity to engage in short practical and interactive sessions covering three areas.

  1. Join Kirsty to discuss and try building confidence and resilience (physical and personal) through movement. I’ll cover information and an opportunity to try some different movement whilst exploring: Why is weight training important and how can I do it safely? What should I do for my heart and bone health? The myths about what training is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ during peri-post menopause

  2. Stats suggest up to 75% of women experience non injury pain as a menopausal symptom.  Pain is a protector, but not always caused by damage. Join Shona on a real life client case from frustration to freedom, where we answer all the following questions: Pain and injury are different - why?  How do I know if I am safe to move and exercise with my pain? How do I get back to normal fitness despite my pain? I have heard all sorts of confusing information about what to do/ not to do. What are the myths and what are the facts here, and how can I use this information to support my body? 

  3. Join Lesley to Experience Real Self-Care - Take a short but powerful journey through your body. Notice where you hold stress and tension, and learn simple ways to release it. This practical, guided session will leave you feeling refreshed — and you’ll take home plenty of easy, effective self-care tools to use every day.

The event will take place at St George’s Studios - 93-97 St George’s Road, G3 6JA. Please note places are non-refundable once purchased.

Join us on World Menopause Day Saturday 18th October 2-3:45pm for our ‘moving through menopause’ event. Linked to this year’s World Menopause Day theme of Lifestyle Medicine, we’ll take you on a supportive and interactive journey through movement practices to support you during (peri-post) menopause. 

Bringing together our complementary expertise, the session will focus on building confidence, reducing fears, and busting myths about: types of exercise, pain, injury, recovery, and self-care.   

After a short-introduction to ourselves and our areas for the event which will give you the opportunity to engage in short practical and interactive sessions covering three areas.

  1. Join Kirsty to discuss and try building confidence and resilience (physical and personal) through movement. I’ll cover information and an opportunity to try some different movement whilst exploring: Why is weight training important and how can I do it safely? What should I do for my heart and bone health? The myths about what training is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ during peri-post menopause

  2. Stats suggest up to 75% of women experience non injury pain as a menopausal symptom.  Pain is a protector, but not always caused by damage. Join Shona on a real life client case from frustration to freedom, where we answer all the following questions: Pain and injury are different - why?  How do I know if I am safe to move and exercise with my pain? How do I get back to normal fitness despite my pain? I have heard all sorts of confusing information about what to do/ not to do. What are the myths and what are the facts here, and how can I use this information to support my body? 

  3. Join Lesley to Experience Real Self-Care - Take a short but powerful journey through your body. Notice where you hold stress and tension, and learn simple ways to release it. This practical, guided session will leave you feeling refreshed — and you’ll take home plenty of easy, effective self-care tools to use every day.

The event will take place at St George’s Studios - 93-97 St George’s Road, G3 6JA. Please note places are non-refundable once purchased.

Speaker Bios

Kirsty is a multi-disciplinary coach, fusing executive coaching with personal training, nutrition, and menopause support. Having started running in her 20s, Kirsty properly started lifting weights at 39, three years later Kirsty is proud to say she loves lifting weights and would happily talk all day long about weight training. With perimenopause in full swing, Kirsty left her ‘day-job’ in higher education this January, to reshape and remake her career with a mission to raise more awareness, and understanding of menopause, and change workplaces for the better with menopause support. She’s definitely still got plenty to do on the latter, in the meantime she’s established personal training and running coaching for small groups in Glasgow, where menopause and menstruation are often topics of conversation - no stigma. 

Shona Houston is a Chartered Physio with a special interest in complex chronic pain (pain that is more than 3 months old,  confusing you and isn’t shifting despite your best efforts!) and has 24 years clinical experience working within the NHS and a specialist physio and back pain advanced practitioner and now in West End Physio clinic. Outwith the clinic, she can be heard on BBC radio Scotland’s Morning programme on their  monthly back pain surgery.   She has taught and mentored physio staff within the NHS on communication and pain, lectures in Glasgow Caledonian University on the assessment and treatment of chronic back pain, and presented to the British Pain society in 2021.  She is massively passionate about supporting people in pain to make sense of why they hurt, and get back to living well.

Lesley Campbell - possibly the most unlikely massage therapist in Glasgow - brought up on a diet of Billy Connolly, mince n tatties (no onions or carrots btw) and a stint in the theatre as a stage manager (I wasn’t very good at that ). Not the usual background for a “calm maker”, I have an absolute knack, I’d go as far as a talent at making others calm via my touch. My therapy room is my alter ego. Peaceful, quiet, calming, warm - space to breathe deeply and unwind the tension. I have to work at my own calm, so I really know what I’m talking about!  Lesley’s work is purely the physical aspect of pain and tension, which can be a very powerful tool with mental health and calming the nervous system. I work with you to help learn new habits to release your mental and physical stress  and teach YOU how to unwind your stress and tension daily.