Session Name: Reset Your Hormones: Menstrual Cycle

Session Description:

Stress is a number one cause that wreaks havoc to our menstrual cycle. With education, we can also make the necessary changes to heal various stressors that directly impact our hormonal imbalances. In this workshop, you will understand the way a normal PMS-free menstrual cycle looks like and the way stress is a culprit of the women's hormonal cycle.imbalances. You will learn the exact science of how varies stressors are causing you harm and simple steps to begin changing hormonal irregularities through food, lifestyle and psychology. Includes brief yoga and meditation practice as well as lecture.

Association for Women in Psychology Conference

Paper Presentation by Nicole Ohebshalom

The paper invited women from an Eastern-Western culture to narrate their experiences about sexual identity. The paper offers a glimpse of the potential nature of women acknowledging their voices, desires, and pleasures. It also demonstrates possible outcomes when women's voices go into hiding, such as shame, silence and family.

Although cross-cultural influences on human behavior have been the subject of many scholarly works, few studies have focused on the life experiences of women from hyphenated cultural identities and how these experiences inform a woman's view of herself as a sexual being. In particular, the influence of cross-cultural experiences on women with combined Western and Eastern culture references, such as Israeli-Iranian women, is poorly understood. This paper analyzed four interviews with second-generation Israeli-Iranian women who described how their sexual self-concepts evolved as a result of living between both cultures, in the 'space of the hyphen.' I used the Listening Guide methodology to inform the interviews and the data analysis, which revealed the influence of family power, patriarchal social practices and the women's desire to distinguish themselves from cultural norms. This paper is presented as a case study. It introduces multilayered views and processes associated with each woman's outlook of her evolving sexual self-concept. I found that each woman's sexual self-concept took into account her behaviors, cognitions and emotions that were developed during each life stage and also that it informed her sexual subjectivity. I briefly discuss the implications that the findings have for how the combination of Western and Eastern cultures influenced the women's lives. I also discuss how the findings may assist academics, clinicians, policy makers and healthcare professionals in developing innovative interventions in which gender roles and sexual self-concept are addressed.

The current study invited women to narrate their experiences about sexual identity in their own words. The analysis supports the need for a multidimensional understanding of hyphenated cultural identities and a focus on fostering Eastern and Western social scripts and values of women's sexuality. The study also offers a preliminary glimpse of the potential nature of women acknowledging their voices, desires and pleasures, and it also demonstrates possible outcomes when women's voices go into hiding, such as an uprising of shame, family honor codes and silence.

The Listening Guide process exposed the women's cultural assumptions and the strategies they adopted to handle sexual and gender issues. The most prominent concept uncovered during the interview process was silence as a characteristic of the family honor code system. The deeply embedded cultural perception of silence reoccurs multiple times in the women's interactions with their family members, particularly with their mothers. Recognizing the role silence played was essential for understanding how the women wanted more agency and how they resisted and revised the traditional socialization strategies learned from their families.

The paper will begin with discussing sexual self-concept literature including body objectification due to psychosocial development, the impact of gender norm schema stemming from mother and daughter communication, and consequences of ownership for embodied desire. The paper will stress upon similarities and differences between gender roles in Eastern and Western norms. I will spend some time discussing family dynamics and gender roles from Eastern cultures, specifically Iran, based on academic research.

Hormonal imbalances, like PMS, is common but not normal.

The suffering caused by your menstrual cycle is not necessary. Your symptoms point to an underlying hormonal imbalance, and it is your body’s way of trying to tell you something is wrong. 

Want to naturally balance your hormones?

This workshop series will give you tools to get to the root cause of hormonal imbalance while being in a nurturing community of women. In this 4 week series, we will work on balancing sugar levels and create good gut bacteria. We will practice kundalini yoga and meditation sets to relax our nervous system, strengthen our endocrine glands and understand ourselves, as women, in a deeper and new way. Women need a community to heal. Join our hormonal health community because we imprint on each other in subtle ways and allow our innate creativity to come out. 

These classes can:

-          Help reduce stress and anxiety

-          Create a positive self-image and positive thinking

-          Renew your sense of sexuality and feminine wholeness

-          Increase blood and energy flow to the reproductive organs

-          Restore your sense of control while being in the ebb and flow of your body by showing you simple ways to take charge of your reproductive health.

This Empowered Hormonal Balance Series will include

-          Blood sugar balance and gut health

-          Education to track and balance your menstrual cycle

-          Types of food and workout intensity that matches each phase of your hormonal                 cycle

-          Yoga and Meditation poses and sets for the endocrine gland.

-          Intimate knowledge of your emotional intelligence for each stage of your cycle and self-inquiry. techniques to find wisdom instead of anxiety and anger during the fluctuations.

-          Private Facebook page to be in constant supportive community.

-          A Menstrual Health manual, including menstrual health education, recipes and more.

DATES:  June 24, July 1, 8, 15 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm  

PRICING:  $250 before May 1st and $300 after May 1st

Hormonal imbalances, like PMS, is common but not normal. 

The suffering caused by your menstrual cycle is not necessary. Your symptoms point to an underlying hormonal imbalance, and it is your body’s way of trying to tell you something is wrong.  

Want to naturally balance your hormones?              

This workshop series will give you tools to get to the root cause of hormonal imbalance while being in a nurturing community of women. In this 4 week series, we will work on balancing sugar levels and create good gut bacteria. Education in tracking your menstrual cycle, including the types of food and workout intensity that matches each phase of your hormonal cycle. We will practice kundalini yoga and meditation sets to relax our nervous system, strengthen our endocrine glands and understand ourselves, as women, in a deeper and new way. Women need a community to heal. Join our hormonal health community because we imprint on each other in subtle ways and allow our innate creativity to come out. We will have a private Facebook page to be in discussion throughout the week. 

Dates:  Every Tuesdays from June 12 to July 3, 2018                           Price: $175/ before June 3, $200 afterward                                         Location: Sunset district in SF, location will be provided after the interview + sign-up                        

**There is an interview before joining this workshop series. Please email for questions + to sign-up**                  

Contact: nicole@nicoleohebshalom.com                                                                            

In a recent Harvard study, women participating in a yoga and relaxation program increased their chances of pregnancy by almost 3 times. 
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Each class will include yoga and meditation practices that you can continue at home + much more practical and enriching content. 
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Radiant beauty is from the inside out. 

This Art and Kundalini Yoga + Meditation workshop goes deep into the Kundalini Yoga Women’s teachings on radiance, grace and practical skills in how to be a powerful women.
We will begin with Kundalini Yoga + Meditation to open up and experience our feminine strength. Then, we will allow our creative expression flow within a supportive community of other women. These practices will tap you into the most creative beam of a radiant and graceful version of you.