Woodside Network recently supported a Women’s Day on the 27th of October at Woodside Fountain Centre.
The day attracted over 60 women who attended workshops and picked up information from a range of stalls and attractions. Those attending enjoyed workshops on nutrition, the benefits of tapping & meditation, Yoga, Zumba, Dr Goldie‘s Menopause Workshop and chair-based exercise.
Claire Whyte of Fersands Fountain SCIO said “It was a busy day; we had some great feedback! Our organising group wanted to promote opportunities for better menopausal health, better mental health and offer information to women on a range of topics. We want women to be more involved and attend more community activities hopefully this day will act as a catalyst to encourage new groups.”
The day was the latest in a series of Woodside Decide events supported by the Woodside Network to engage with more people and get residents more involved in decision making and activities in Woodside.
Claire continued, “So far, there seems to be great interest in learning more about the effects of menopause and how to cope better, so we would like to see if we can start a group for a few weeks to look closer at this.
“Although we have a Zumba class during the day there was some demand for evening classes in Zumba and Yoga so these are other possibilities we can look at.”
Kit Trail of Printfield said, “It was a very relaxed and positive session. It was good to see new faces and women supporting each other. The stalls and workshops were very popular and there was a lot of experience sharing.
“I was asked about possibly holding a follow up session at a weekend which would allow women to attend who could not on a weekday.”
The public feedback was very positive! Here is what some of the women had to say. “I enjoyed, the meeting up of women, having a laugh, enjoying discussion. We have needed to talk about menopause for a long time, a lot of women have suffered in silence along time especially if it wasn’t explained from their mothers, quite scary.”
“I enjoyed learning about cacao, making time for myself for 5 minutes per day to appreciate myself. Loved chair-based exercise!”
“I loved learning about meditation, pressure points, yoga, and would love to do more!”
“I enjoyed meeting people, friends, meditation and Yoga & Zumba.”
“Such a positive atmosphere & very informative!”
“Enjoyed the meditation, I would like to do it regularly. There was lots of useful information same as chaga”
“I enjoyed finding out about different health issues.”