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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

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Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

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Petra Coveney, Menopause Yoga Joyce Harper Podcast
Petra Coveney, Menopause Yoga Joyce Harper Podcast
Petra Coveney, Menopause Yoga Joyce Harper Podcast
Season 4 / Episode 4 – 11 February

Petra Coveney: Yoga for women’s health

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

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Petra is a qualified Yoga Therapist, Senior Teacher and Trainer for the British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance Professionals and Yoga Australia and has been a member of the British Menopause Society for health practitioners since 2017. She lives in the UK but trains teachers and supports women worldwide in her weekly public classes and monthly courses.

Petra is the founder and creator of Menopause YogaTM, the world’s first specific style of yoga practice and teacher training course to support women and people on their journey from perimenopause to postmenopause.

She is the author of two books:

Petra Coveney, Menopause Yoga: A Holistic Guide to Supporting Women on Their Menopause Journey. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021. 

Petra Coveney, Menopause Yoga™ and Wellbeing: A Daily Practice Guide for Perimenopause to Second Spring – a practical practice guide for daily wellbeing through perimenopause to post-menopause. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025.

This is the first episode in the mini-series on way to look after our mental health.

Joyce and Petra explore what yoga really is, its origins as a practice designed to prepare the body for meditation, and how breathwork and yoga can calm the nervous system and help us manage modern-day stress. Petra explains how yoga becomes a practical, adaptable tool for women throughout their lives, supporting mental wellbeing, easing physical symptoms, and helping us stay strong, balanced, and connected to ourselves, from adolescence and pregnancy to perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause.

They also discuss the importance of community, including women’s circles that reduce isolation, rebuild confidence, and offer a sense of grounding. The episode ends with reflections on ageing, purpose, and Petra’s advice to her younger self: trust yourself, and put yourself first more often.

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