✨🎙️ In Conversation with Lisa Fabry + Yoga for Healthy Bones 🎙️✨
🙆🏾♀️🙅🏻💁🏻♀️Why Every Woman Should Care About Her Bone Health 🙆🏾♀️🙅🏻💁🏻♀️
More than 200 million people around the world are suffering from osteoporosis, and in Australia over 66% people (mainly women) have osteoporosis or osteopenia.
People with osteoporosis are more likely to consider themselves in poor health, experience high levels of psychological distress and report moderate to severe pain regularly.
This is quite shocking considering osteoporosis is preventable and treatable.
Osteoporosis is a silent disease, with no symptoms until a fracture, and it can affect women much earlier than you might think.
Bone is at its strongest around the age of 30. As we age, the density of our bones gradually decreases. At menopause, this process takes a nose-dive, and women can lose up to 20% of their bone density in the 5 to 7 years after menopause.
There are many natural methods to help build up bone health, whether you are pre-menopausal, going through menopause or living in the post-menopausal years.
Did you know that mindful movement practices like Yoga and Qigong can be as good, and in some ways better, than conventional strength training for your bone health?
Yoga and Qigong:
🕉️ directly improves bone health, by the principle of hormesis (what? you’ll find out in the free webinar Lisa Fabry is offering here)
🧘🏻♀️ improves muscle strength, which in turn stimulates strong bones
🕉️ is weight-bearing exercise and, unlike other types of exercise, takes weight on all different parts of the body
🧘🏽♀️ increases the space between the vertebra, reducing abrasion and improving joint mobility
🕉️ moves the spine and joints in all directions, improving mobility, flexibility and fluidity.
If you’re looking for a natural way to support your bone health, I highly recommend exploring Yoga for Healthy Bones. I’ve completed the course myself and can genuinely vouch for its value.
Created by my colleague, Lisa Fabry, after her own osteoporosis diagnosis at age 52, this comprehensive program brings together yoga and other natural healing modalities to help women nurture their bone health with knowledge and confidence.
Lisa is also offering the Mind Body Collective community a 44% discount on the course for a limited time. Simply pop on over to Lisa’s website, and use the coupon code—YHB44—for your VIP discount.
🎙️✨🎬 The Evolving Traditions Podcast Guest Spotlight: Lisa Fabry-Many Hats, Mats, and Manuscripts 🎙️✨🎬
Matt and I went into this conversation expecting to talk about Yoga Therapy. What I didn’t expect was how naturally it would become a conversation about the same wisdom showing up in different clothes.
Lisa Fabry has spent more than 40 years immersed in yoga, later broadening her work to include qigong, nutrition, and editing. What we learnt along the way is that wearing multiple hats doesn’t always mean being a master of none. Sometimes, it reveals a deeper coherence of life.
In episode 6, Lisa offered a beautiful wisdom. The different paths she has followed—Yoga Therapy, Qigong, nutrition, and editing—are not separate paths at all. They are different expressions of the same devotion.
And yet so many of us are taught to make ourselves smaller. To narrow ourselves down. Choose one lane. Name one role. Claim one identity. Stay inside one tradition.
Box ourselves in. Become easier to explain. To follow one discipline and never question the edges of it.
But each of us carries the capacity to become a master weaver. To let one discipline enrich the other. To allow one method to sharpen the others. To bring body, mind, language, presence, and lived experience into the one coherent whole.
When your life is shaped from the wisdom of the heart, wearing multiple hats can often be how your deeper work finds form. That’s why conversations like this matter.
Because sometimes the deepest wisdom is the permission you give yourself to become more of yourself. Permission to trust the shape of your own path. Permission to stop reducing yourself. Permission to become more fully who you already are.
Follow the links here to listen to the full conversation 🎙️ ✨🎬
