This course may be a good choice for you if:
- You are a woman or know a woman that wants to explore or further understand and support her physiological, hormonal, emotional experiences
- You are a health care practitioner, treat women, and you want to explore or further understand women’s physiological, hormonal, emotional experiences
- You are a woman, know a woman or treat a woman that wishes to understand crucial hormones involved in women’s hormone balance
- You know a fair bit about stress and sex hormones already but you would like to further understand how they interact
- You want to understand hormonal changes over the course of a woman’s life
- You want to understand how to address painful gynecological issues (menstrual pain, tender breasts, etc) with simple changes
- You are a woman that wants to learn how to support hormonal balance
- You have any or no background in women’s health. This course speaks simultaneously to everyone from people with no background in health care, to MDs, to professionals in Chinese or Ayurvedic medicine
“It was AMAZING. Such a lot of compact knowledge, wisdom and practical insights so beautifully offered with tons of genuine fun. A healthy jolt in how I see my life so far as a woman and my understanding of female world at large. Absolutely wonderful and inspiring on all levels, including my sadhana”. -Barbara
“I can’t tell you how much I loved this course. I knew I would because BYHBYL is my bible, but it was so wonderful to listen to Dr. Welch’s teaching ‘in person’. I have been feeling burned out in my work and this course reignited my love for women’s wellness and I am very excited to start Ayurveda I + II and Hormones II. Please more courses! :)” – Leslie W. Seattle, WA
I found this course highly insightful in preparing me with a set of principles that I can now apply in my practice regarding women’s hormonal health. [This] course gives me more confidence in providing health care to women. – Eric DeForge, Taos, New Mexico [previous graduate of reputable year-long Ayurveda course]
“The information presented in this course is life-changing. An incredible supplement to Dr. Welch’s book Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life.” – Deborah Andersen (graduate of reputable year-long Ayurveda course), San Antonio, TX
It made me aware of the power I have in my wellbeing, that my choices but also my state of mind affects my whole Being. As well as the importance of Breath. – Bettina Milotta Austria/Europe
I have enjoyed listening to each session of Part 1 of the Women’s Health and Hormones course! Really, this course is highly recommended for anyone interested in life. So meaningful and grounding! Taught with so much love and affection by Dr. Welch. – Preeti Singh from India
…The overall message is so hopeful, even if we have some ‘bucket syndrome’ going on! The stories, experiences and anecdotes were beautiful … I have three sisters and want them all to know all of this. – Anonymous
Wonderful! I am very inspired – both to make further personal changes and apply to my clients. Very useful, inspiring, motivating – and makes a lots of sense. Elegant system. Thank you! – Julia Pomazkina, Sydney, Australia
Incredibly engaging, informative, interesting and relevant for me entering my third stage of womanhood, and also seeing many ‘stressed out’ women as Yoga students coming to my classes. – Lisa Morrison, New Zealand
I LOVED the course! It was so fun and uplifting. I am so grateful for Dr Welch and her joyful teaching style. It is the way I want to learn nowadays. With more joy! The information came together in a very easy to understand way. Simple, intuitive and profound. I now more fully embrace rest with far less guilt. I don’t pretend to be busy when my partner walks in the room anymore. -Erica Cooke
Claudia delivered this fascinating topic in such a way that it felt like the “having tea with a friend” she refers to. I looked forward to my time alone with this course and learned so much information which will help the women I work with as clients and for myself and loved ones, all the while having a great time, enjoying a few laughs, and appreciating Claudia’s applicable anecdotal demonstrations of the theories in action in her own practice. Taking the online version felt like being in the room with Claudia and all the live attendees, who had such thoughtful questions. I have recommended this course and the accompanying book to a few people already. -Meri Consor
This course was very helpful for me in understanding women’s hormones and health, and things I can do or help others do to improve any issues. There is just the right amount of backstory and then solutions offered to work with and not be overwhelmed, yet also feel I have a good grip on understand these concepts and how things work. Claudia is funny and knowledgeable, and it was a joy to watch these videos. I appreciate the depth of her knowledge, and that a lot of her wisdom from practice and from what she has learned can address questions and issues in a way that many others cannot. There is a deep understanding of the subtleties involved, and to be able to include that into the mix is so incredibly important, and I think is most helpful in the end. Alexis Muka – Buffalo, NY, USA
…I have watched already two times 🙂 I found it well presented, providing key and detailed information, yet actionable, and truly enjoyable as CW is a very good teacher. Thank you. – Mª Nieves Sancho Ciruelos, Madrid, Spain
I devoured this course. Loved it all so insightful and Claudia’s humility and humour helped make all of the information completely digestible. – Jodey Simmonds
My first introduction to Dr.Claudia Welch’s work was through her Balance your Hormones, Balance your Life book, which was a gift to myself as I was turning 50. Turns out it is an amazing companion book to her brilliant course Women’s Health & Hormones. I’m very grateful to the wisdom [shared] in this course, with humor, love, science, compassion and a deep understanding of what women truly need to balance their hormones. I binge watched all the lessons from the comfort of my home. I didn’t feel like I was a remote learner, I was in that room, learning with her! She gives us simple solutions to what could be big problems with women’s health. I would encourage all women, especially young women to really pay attention to what Dr. Welch says in this course. And then also teach your daughters. Shantala Sriramaiah, Belgium
Having the framework of yin and yang to understand the sex and stress hormones is such a gift. It makes it easier to understand and explain and brings so much more clarity to the topic for me. -Natasha Whalley, Lisbon
The simplicity yet effective way of delivering concepts, Dr. Claudia’s way of making it engaging, her humor add more value. watching it once has locked in the concepts so well . -Harshla Singh
The course about Women Health, part I, was the best course I took in a long time. Claudia is a great teacher, I love her humor, her knowledge, her approach and ability to touch the very important complex things and make it easy to understand. I definitely can be more in tune with my body now and understand balance between yin and yang in hormonal perspective. Thank you so much for being such a great teacher! I can’t wait to learn more from you!- Michaela
This truly holistic and integrative perspective on women’s health and hormones was incredibly illuminating and transformative; each lens (Ayurvedic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, modern Western allopathic) shed greater insight and perspective on the other, yielding a more complete and nuanced understanding of women’s health overall. As a result, participants are offered a more sustainable and balanced approach to facing life’s challenges, to living in harmony with the macrocosm, and offer one’s self grace and compassion, while nurturing the capacity and resources to live in alignment with one’s most authentic self. I found the accessible, immediately implementable tools and practices to be incredibly potent and life-changing, and I am incorporating them daily to support myself and my clients through the lifespan from now on. -Renée Canada Wuerth, Connecticut
What this course does not cover
While our Women’s Health Parts I & II online courses set the stage for understanding, contextualizing and supporting healthy fertility, contraception, conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum care, and we touch on some (very interesting) associated issues, we do not cover these topics in any depth in either Part I or II. The material we cover in these courses we feel, is best understood before addressing these issues, which simply could not be, “fit in” to these courses and would perhaps better constitute their own course. Gratefully, there are some good resources available, including Dr. Welch’s book, Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science, especially certain chapters. We’ve listed other resources under the Resources for Conception, Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Education & Support category on our Useful Websites & Resources page.
It also doesn’t cover the menstrual cycle in terms of vāta, pitta and kapha.