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Your Truth is Calling - by Nadhira Razack

Jacqueline Iles on How Stress Impacts our Natural Hormone Balance as Women

Season 2, Ep. 23

How can stress impact our natural hormone balance as women? Jacqueline Iles, an Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga teacher with over 20 years experience discusses her personal experience with stress and the importance of maintaining hormonal balance, particularly with progesterone. Jacq emphasised the interconnectedness of the body's systems and the impact of digestive issues on overall health. She also touched on the topic of coffee consumption and offered alternatives, as well as the significance of self-awareness and self-compassion.


Since experiencing an early Menopause at age 42, Jacq's focus has become Women’s Natural Hormone Balance and Vitality. 

Her heart’s calling is to help women to live true to themselves and create space in their lives to nourish their nervous system, balance their hormones naturally and connect to their feminine vitality so they have more energy, health, ease and joy in their lives.


Jacqueline provides individual consulting and mentoring, runs Feminine Vitality Yoga and Ayurveda Retreats, and offers a 6 month online Embodied Wisdom Immersion designed to support women in falling in love with, and integrating into their lives the habits that create balanced living and naturally balanced hormones.


-Visit Jacq's website & blog - https://livingayurveda.com.au/

-The Heart of Menopause live workshop in Adelaide- https://livingayurveda.com.au/the-heart-of-menopause-workshop/

-Jacq's upcoming retreat - https://livingayurveda.com.au/feminine-vitality-ayurveda-yoga-retreat-willunga/

-Follow Jacq on Instagram @embodied_living_ayurveda


Nadhira Razack is a life and business coach specialising in helping women uncover hidden gifts amongst the storylines in their past. Women usually find her when they are in transition where they know they're done with a past identity, except they can't see how to move forward into what's next for them. She brings a deep listening and when they let her into their world, she comes up with strategies specifically for them. This energy to then feed into projects that build their life force and connection to God. This energy reverberates and carries out into the world so you can enjoy harmonious relationships with those around you.


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