Yoga isn’t just for handstands and highlight reels. In this episode, Darren Main sits down with legendary teacher Janet Stone for a candid, grounded conversation about perimenopause and how yoga can support this powerful life transition.
Janet shares her lived experience of the “zone of chaos” when old routines stop working, and offers a yogic toolkit for steadiness: breath practices to calm an over-fired system, strength and bone-supporting asana, meditation for navigating mood and identity shifts, and the medicine of community. They unpack the biology in plain language (declining progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone; brain fog; sleep changes; insulin resistance) and talk about practical compassion in the studio and at home. This episode also invites men and partners into the conversation so they can show up with awareness, respect, and actual support.
You’ll hear how Janet’s teaching has evolved to meet real bodies at every age, why “advanced” sometimes looks like Child’s Pose, and how reframing midlife as an initiation into elderhood can be deeply liberating.
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