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Niamh Daly | Yoga Trainings: Brain, Bones & Menopause

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Author & Yoga Teacher Trainer
Menopause • Bone Health • NeuroSoma Yoga
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Hi! I’m Niamh Daly. I’ve been teaching Hatha Yoga since 2004 — and today my work has three parts: training yoga teachers to specialise in menopause, bone health and brain health, teaching in-studio and online classes, and supporting students one-to-one through their own path in movement. What I offer: 🌿 Yoga for Menopause YTT 🦴 Yoga-Plus for Bone Health CPD 🧠 NeuroSoma Yoga 🧘 In-studio & online classes I created my Certificate in Teaching Yoga for Menopause and Beyond in 2020 — at the time, one of only two courses of its kind in the world. I’m a registered Senior Teacher and Teacher Trainer with Yoga Alliance Professionals. 📚 My book, Yoga for Menopause and Beyond, came out in 2024 — and my second book, Brain Body Yoga, co-written with Diana May, is on the way. Everything I teach balances traditional yoga with up-to-date research in anatomy, biomechanics, neurology and functional movement, always with compassion for the body you actually live in. 👋 New here? Give me a follow! I’m always sharing information to help you support your students, or yourself, better. Yoga teacher? Explore my trainings — the link is at the top of my profile. Yoga student? Find my class times, prices and location there too. #YogaForMenopause #YogaTeacherTraining #BoneHealthYoga #YinstinctYoga #MenopauseYoga taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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Want to specialise your yoga teaching? Here’s what I offer 👇 🌿 Menopause YTT — 40 hours, evidence-based training to teach in a way that’s inclusive, trauma-informed, and truly menopause-supportive. 🦴 Yoga-Plus for Bone Health — 15 hours. Build classes that genuinely reduce fracture risk and build strength safely. 🧠 NeuroSoma Yoga, co-taught with Diana May — 25 hours. Learn to leverage the brain, nervous system and body to support each other. Three specialisations. One goal: helping yoga teachers teach with more knowledge, confidence, and purpose. 🧘 And if you’re not a teacher — I’ve got you too. In-studio and online classes, one-to-one sessions in Yoga, Pilates, resistance bands, Somatics and Nutrition tips, and retreats to learn and practice with me in person. Everything you need is at the top of my profile ⬆️ #YogaTeacherTraining #YogaForMenopause #BoneHealthYoga #NeuroSomaYoga #YinstinctYoga by @yinstinctyoga
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Why teachers choose to train with me — in their own words 🤍 Reading through years of feedback from teachers who’ve trained with me still moves me every time. Three specialisations. Hundreds of teachers around the world. One shared thread: feeling more knowledgeable, more confident, and more equipped to serve their students as they change through life. Curious which training is right for you? Everything you need is at the top of my profile. #YogaTeacherTraining #YogaForMenopause #BoneHealthYoga #NeuroSomaYoga #YinstinctYoga Yoga for Menopause YTT Yoga-Plus for Bone Health NeuroSoma Yoga taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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🌿 Here’s a somatic exercise worth adding to any class with students in the stages of menopause. It takes less than five minutes — and it can shift the entire quality of what follows. The arm float 1. Lie semi-supine, arms by your sides. Pay close attention to the weight of the arms — the heaviness of them, the temperature, the texture of the surface beneath. 2. On an inhale, slowly raise the arms toward vertical. Notice where gravity makes it easy, and where it becomes effortful. 3. On an exhale, lower the arms overhead toward the floor. Move slowly enough to feel the air temperature as you pass through it. 4. Inhale them back to vertical. Exhale, bring them back down by your sides. 5. Repeat a few times with this quality of attention. 6. Then: with the arms by your sides, give them permission to move — or not. Ask them if they would like to move. Wait. See what they choose. Notice when they want to stop. See if they prefer something else. This last instruction is the one that surprises students most. We are so accustomed to being told what to do with our bodies — and to complying, whether or not it feels good — that the simple act of asking the body what it wants can feel genuinely unfamiliar. In the stages of menopause, self-agency and self-esteem are often under pressure. A practice that consistently invites students to notice their own experience — rather than perform someone else’s idea of the correct position — builds something that no amount of alignment cueing can: a woman’s trust in her own body. As Niamh writes in her book: might it add to a woman’s self-agency, self-esteem, and self-respect to notice that she has this kind of choice available to her? 🎓 Interested in becoming a menopause-informed yoga teacher? My 40-hour Certificate in Teaching Yoga for Menopause and Beyond is currently available at the Early Bird price of €405 until October 31st (then €495). Not sure if it’s right for you? 💬 Comment CLASS below and I’ll send you a free class created specifically for yoga teachers, so you can experience my teaching approach first. #YogaTeacher #YogaForMenopause #SomaticYoga #MenopauseEducation #TeachingY taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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🦴 I’m not saying all you need is rest! Strength training, balance, resistance bands, progressive overload. All of that matters enormously. 😴 But here is something that does not get nearly enough attention: bone building (after stressing the bones through effort) happens primarily during rest and sleep. Put very simply, the pituitary gland releases growth hormone during sleep, which stimulates bone regeneration and muscle repair. Without adequate sleep, all the strength work in the world has a significantly reduced effect. You cannot out-train a lack of rest. 🔬 And there is a second layer to this. Cortisol, the stress hormone, is catabolic, meaning it actively breaks down bone and muscle tissue. Chronic stress keeps cortisol elevated, which means the body spends more time in breakdown mode than in repair mode. The balance between stress and rest is not just a wellbeing issue. It is a direct bone health issue. ✨ This is one of the things I find most profound about yoga for bone health. The same practice that builds muscular strength and trains balance also supports nervous system regulation, reduces cortisol, and creates the conditions for better sleep. Every restorative pose, every guided relaxation, every moment of genuine rest in a yoga class is contributing to the bone health of your students. 💡 Rest is not the opposite of training. It is the completion of it. Without rest, the training cannot take effect. With it, everything works better. 👩‍🏫 For yoga teachers: Comment BONES below and I’ll send you a free 30-minute yoga class designed for yoga teachers, plus all the information about the next Yoga-Plus for Bone Health CPD, starting November 1st. 🧘‍♀️ For students: Comment SAFE below and I’ll send you all the information to join my Yoga-Plus for Bone Health classes, available online. ⚠️ Please leave each keyword in a separate comment so we can send you the right information! #YogaTeacher #BoneHealth #SleepAndBones #Osteoporosis #YogaCPD taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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15 hours to support your confidence and effectiveness in teaching people over 50, especially those with osteoporosis. You deserve to feel safe in your teaching! Your students deserve safety and proactive support for their future! Join me from November 1st. Comment YES and I will send you details. Warmly, Niamh by @yinstinctyoga
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🌿 Testimonial Tuesday! Here’s what yoga teachers are saying after completing the Yoga for Menopause & Beyond Teacher Training with Niamh Daly... “There are two kinds of reactions I receive when I tell people that I spent several weekends this winter with a group of fellow yoga facilitators learning from Niamh Daly about sharing yoga with people through the stages of menopause. The first reaction: ‘Amazing! This knowledge is something we desperately need.’ The second reaction: ‘But you’re going through menopause yourself and you practice and facilitate yoga, why would you need to do a training? You’re already living it.’ It’s true: I am living it, and before this training I did know much more about yoga and menopause than I did a few years ago. But I mostly understood yoga and menopause through the lens of my own experience. And while it is valuable to be grounded in my own experience, it was even more valuable to have my perspective widened by this training. I am grateful to Niamh for creating the opportunity for such deep learning.” — Stacey Jackson-Flammia, Yoga Teacher 🌿 The Yoga for Menopause & Beyond Teacher Training is currently available at an early bird price! Comment CLASS below and I’ll send you a free recorded class so you can experience how I teach — plus all the details about the course. 👇 #YogaForMenopause #YogaTeacherTraining #MenopauseYoga #YogaCPD #WomensWellness taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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I’d love to welcome you to join me in my great love: days immersed in yoga, nature, connection and pleasure. 3 nights seems to me just perfect! Come away with me… to you. @yinstinctyoga in Ireland’s stunning west October 23rd-26th #yogaholiday #yogaretreat #october #bankholidayweekend #ireland by @yinstinctyoga
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🧘‍♀️ If you teach students over 50, this one is for you. You don’t need a new sequence, a new qualification, or a complete overhaul of your classes. You just need to know what to look for. Here are 5 things to check in your very next class: ✅ 1. Are your forward folds spine safe? Cue length first. “Lengthen before you fold”, “move from the hips” and “where can you go without pulling with your hands” are some of the most protective cues you can give. ✅ 2. Are your twists flexion free? Flexion combined with rotation is one of the highest risk combinations for students with bone vulnerabilities. Length first, rotation second, every time. ✅ 3. Are you cueing strength, not just stretch? Add isometric engagement, resistance bands, or asymmetrical loading to your existing poses. Your students’ bones need it. ✅ 4. Is your balance training dynamic? Tree pose is wonderful, but fall prevention requires more. Train the ankles, challenge different directions, change surfaces, work the vestibular system. ✅ 5. Are your hands reducing their ability to feel and find their own way? Your voice is your safest and most powerful teaching tool. Use it. 🔖 Save this checklist and run through it before your next class. Five checks, five minutes, and your teaching becomes significantly safer and more effective for every student over 50 in the room. 💬 Comment BONES below and I’ll send you a free 30-minute yoga class designed for yoga teachers, plus all the information about the next Yoga-Plus for Bone Health CPD, starting November 1st. 🙏🏼 If you’re a yoga student, comment SAFE below and I’ll send you all the info to join my online Yoga-Plus for Bone Health classes. ⚠️ Please leave each keyword in a separate comment so we can send you the right information! #YogaTeacher #BoneHealth #Osteopenia #YogaSafety #TeachYogaBetter taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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🧘‍♀️ If you think of your bolster as a relaxation prop, you are only using half of what it can do. In a bone health yoga class, the bolster becomes one of the most versatile and accessible tools you have, for support, for safety, and for adding real strength demand. Here are a few ways to use it differently: 💪 Hold it overhead during leg lifts. Keeping the bolster raised while you lower and lift the legs creates simultaneous demand on the shoulders and the core. Two muscle groups working at once. 💪 Bring it to meet your leg. Lying on your back, bring the bolster and one leg toward each other and then extend both away. This targets both the upper and lower abdominals in one movement. 💪 Single leg balance with bicep curls. Standing on one leg, use the bolster as a weight for bicep curls. The balance challenge means the whole body has to stabilise while the arms work. Strength and stability in one exercise. 💪 Warrior 2, passing it hand to hand. In Warrior 2, pass the bolster from one hand to the other across the body. The shoulders, upper back, and core all work to control the movement, while the legs hold the pose. Added challenge: the shifting weight also trains balance. 💪 Warrior 2, bolster overhead. Hold the bolster overhead in Warrior 2. For an extra challenge, tilt it slightly forward rather than straight up. You will feel the difference immediately in the shoulders and upper back. 💪 Kneeling lean-back with bolster at chest. From a kneeling position, hold the bolster at chest height and lean back with a straight body line. This works the core and quads significantly. Extend the arms to increase the shoulder demand, or raise the bolster overhead for the maximum challenge. 💡 A buckwheat bolster has real weight to it. That weight is a tool. Use it. 🔖 Save this for your next class and try one of these today. 💬 Comment BONES below and I’ll send you a free 30-minute yoga class designed for yoga teachers, plus all the information about the next Yoga-Plus for Bone Health CPD, starting November 1st. 🙏🏼 If you’re a yoga student, comment SAFE below and I’ll send you all the info to join my online Yoga-Plus for Bone Health classes. #yoga taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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Oops!! 2 minutes before my very practical session with Yoga-Plus for Bone Health (YPBH) trainees, this happened! I always talk about the importance of avoiding injuries as not just about the discomfort and inconvenience. When we are post-menopause, healing and repair take longer, and impacts in health can be greater. That time of recovery can be longer, and have greater impact than when we were 25! In fact one of the reasons a hip fracture is associated with higher mortality in the year afterwards is loss of cardiac health. Injury can also affect mood which may alter our relationship with exercise and socialisation. And even without the scary statistics on hip fracture, it will affect our fitness and strength. So working carefully on the mat or in the gym becomes a must. Luckily, as a creative movement professional, I am immediately inventing what I CAN do, while letting my ankle repair in its own time. In Yoga for Menopause and Beyond, and YPBH, adjustments to our asana teaching to reduce risk to cartilage, ligaments and tendons is central. Teaching this kind of “good form” will support more mindful and accurate exercise and resistance training. In looking after our health in midlife and beyond, we need to look at the big picture, not just the reps and hours per week. Unfortunately, if you have an ankle that was badly damaged back in 1998, it may have a tendency to do this kind of thing when you’re rushing across uneven garden paving after having cut back some ferns that had previously guided your steps more accurately onto the paving stone and not halfway into the dip on the side of it that had been hiding under the ferns 🫣 I also find trainers (which I was wearing) make me more unstable than, for example, my barefoot shoes. Nothing can prepare me for that except my own caution. That will teach me to try to tidy my garden! Like to know how to guide your students with (or without) low bone density, or in the second half of life with more care and effectiveness? Join November YPBH or January YFMB I promise I’ll be fit to teach you properly! #womenover50 #yogaformenopause #osteoporosis #yogateacher #online by @yinstinctyoga
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🦴 In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we looked at why the most widely cited yoga-for-osteoporosis protocol doesn’t hold up to scrutiny — both in terms of the research behind it and the protocol itself. 3️⃣In Part 3, we get to the part that actually matters for your teaching: what does work. 💡 Bone responds to progressive load, muscular demand and variety. It needs to be surprised — the same stimulus repeated class after class stops producing a response. This means that a thoughtfully designed yoga class, taught with awareness of what bone needs, can be genuinely supportive. It also means that passive stretching, fully supported poses with no muscular engagement, and unchanging sequences are missing the point for students with bone health concerns. ⚠️ There are also things to be careful with. Deep forward folds under load increase fracture risk in the vertebrae. Twisting with manual force can put vulnerable spinal bones at risk. And asking students to push into end range without muscular support removes the very engagement that makes movement useful for bone. Knowing these distinctions is what separates informed teaching from well-meaning but potentially harmful teaching. 🎓 In my 15-Hour Yoga-Plus for Bone Health CPD, we cover all of this in depth — the science of bone turnover, what the research actually supports, how to adapt your class safely, and how to speak to your students with confidence when they come to you with a diagnosis. The next start date is November 1st. 💬 Comment BONES below and I’ll send you a free 30-minute bone health yoga class, so you can experience firsthand the way I teach yoga teachers to work with bone health. 🙏🏼 If you’re a yoga student, comment SAFE below and I’ll send you all the information to join my Yoga-Plus for Bone Health classes ⚠️ Please leave each keyword in a separate comment so we can send you the right information! #YogaForBoneHealth #BoneHealth #Osteoporosis #YogaTeacherTraining #WomensWellness taken in Greystones - County Wicklow by @yinstinctyoga
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