Kate Codrington

Kate Codrington Author of Second Spring the self-care guide to menopause, menopause mentor, speaker, facilitator, yo

To minimise the time I spend on screens, the only social media I'm using is Instagram, it would be delightful to see you over at

Alternatively, you can get started by slowing down and soothing your nervous system with some free, instantly available resources through this link http://eepurl.com/dsXf9v There’s a range of options to choose from:

- Yoga Nidra to rest and restore

- Charts to map your energy and feelings
- Guided meditations and massage to re-connect with your body
- And much more! Here's the low-down

Gazillions of pounds are generated out of making us feel bad about ourselves. I believe that you are just fine as you are; even when you feel horrible you can heal and find your own way to live contentedly and creatively. You already know how to do it yourself, it's just that sometimes, our lives are too noisy for us to listen. If you need it, I can hold space for you to let go and find threads of joy and ease within yourself, so you can start to accept and heal. I am a menstrual and menopause mentor, workshop facilitator, writer and have been a therapist for more than a quarter of a century. I’ve featured in Time Out, The Evening Standard, the London Metro and written for well-known well-being publications, like Well Doing, Juno Magazine, Counsellors Cafe, Mind Body Green Rebelle Society and Massage Magazine. I’m in Second Spring, which means post-menopause, and have deep gratitude for the education that the menopause process has gifted me. My mission is to change the way we regard menopause and show how we can relax into our own, inner authority through their cyclical nature and menopause process. I refuse to take myself too seriously and try to never take anything on that is not pleasurable and delicious and my first book Second Spring will be published by HarperCollins 17th February 2021.

💞Free class 💞Our world does not value the pause, the need to withdraw and do nothing. Probably it’s been indicated that ...
17/06/2026

💞Free class 💞

Our world does not value the pause, the need to withdraw and do nothing. Probably it’s been indicated that when you take time for yourself it’s unproductive, selfish or worrisome. Maybe you believe this yourself.

To be ‘normal’ is to be ‘on it’, busy, active 24/7.

In the perimenopause landscape however, moving away from the world, separation, is essential for survival.

We invite you to disengage just for an hour, and explore the quiet of the cave.

In this free workshop, we’re offering context for your menopause process, movement and Nidra as a taste of how you might feel more comfortable in your cave. A possibility of embodied spaciousness, emptiness and peace, even for just a moment, that you might remember and return to, when times are hard.

The recording available if you can’t make the time.

Separation with Leo Taylor and Kate Codrington
1-2pm UK Thursday 2nd July

Comment cave and we’ll send you the link

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This face tells you all you need to know.3 and a half months ago, on 28th February, I was stomping home in a temper havi...
11/06/2026

This face tells you all you need to know.

3 and a half months ago, on 28th February, I was stomping home in a temper having abandoned my car in gridlocked traffic and slid on a manhole cover. On my arse on the pavement. Call it the revenge of the patriarchy (*man* hole, see) if you like, just don’t say I ‘had a fall’. Initially I was just happy my coccyx weren’t injured but when I tried to get up, I found I couldn’t weight bare. At all.

3% on my phone, partner resting after a minor op, traffic hell, I managed to call my brilliant man-child who came and rescued his old mum. Having previously suffered 6 years non-diagnosed foot pain, I was determined that this was not serious. Not this time. It has only been a few months that I had finally been ‘running’ or rather, ‘swiftly ambling’ as I called it. Even Couch to 5 K was too much and instead I had found a gentler, more joyous, ambley run-ishness that suited my body. At 60 I had found myself joyously stronger and more alive than ever before. Now that had gone.

I iced and rested and rotated and arnica’d and stretched and all the things…. Over a month there were only teeny-tiny improvements, but I had asked for more time to write. And I only bloody got it.

My people were lovely. Driving me around, looking after me. Being kind. Being cross too when I did too much.

After four weeks the physio gently suggested I got an x-ray, and it showed I had been walking on a broken fibia. Sometimes positivity can sometimes be a little destructive; you just have to go to the damn hospital. There was a boot and improvements followed along with a ton of rehab.

Writing about people who stop moving when injured, I was determined to keep moving. Luckily I am gifted by extraordinarily skilled and experienced practitioners who could adapt to my non-weight baring antics. I did my Iyengar with @ lying down and found it just as bloody hard. I went to @ strength classes and lifted ginormous weights sitting on a chair. I am a little bit stubborn. But this movement and normality kept the glums at bay, just about.

I have found the Collective and am following their excellent program, which is bringing the zing back to my toes, bunion and arches. I am so grateful for that. Hoping that this will prevent or minimise future injuries.

But today my loves, I finally went swiftly ambling again: 6.45am in the gorgeous milky midsummer light on the allotments, barely seeing through my happy tears. No timer. No Couch to 5K, just moving in ways that felt good and I can’t describe how happy I am. My soundtrack restored: Lambrini Girls, Talking Heads, The Clash… heaven

I am so grateful for all the amazing support I have. I am so grateful for my body healing. I am so grateful to be alive this morning.

P.S. Don’t be like me, just go get s**t checked out. X

We hope that you can come and join us in September, and the instalment plan and discounts make that possible. If not the...
03/06/2026

We hope that you can come and join us in September, and the instalment plan and discounts make that possible.

If not there are still many ways you can access our work at low-to-no cost:
🌼Leo’s classes are VERY accessibly priced.
🌸You can capture Leo’s expertise in your home with Yoga Teacher in a Box.
🪷Kate has a free resource library of nidra and other calming stuff.
🌱Second Spring can be bought from an Indy or borrowed from your local library.
🌹There are a wealth of practices and information on Kate’s website: free to access.

✨All you need do is give yourself permission to pause ✨

In a culture where the prevailing narrative is that perimenopause is a car crash of terrifying symptoms ⚡️that marks the...
28/05/2026

In a culture where the prevailing narrative is that perimenopause is a car crash of terrifying symptoms ⚡️that marks the beginning of ageing 🙊, invisibility 🙈 and decay 🙉 no wonder you have some anxiety and fear around this change!

✨When menopause is framed instead as a spiritual portal through which you can attune to your life calling and find a place of trust in your inner wisdom, different potentials become possible. ✨

💖 We’re offering a retreat day to explore the liminality of the pause, the space of undoing and unknowing, of profound personal evolution. This is big girl pants stuff, delivered with grounding, humour and gentleness by people who know the territory well.

🎺🌺✨💎To toot our own horns: this is a rare and precious thing!💎✨🌺🎺

🥬🥑🫜There’s a phenomenally yummy lunch for you. Also you’ll be guided through meditative, physical and reflective practices to unwind conditioned personal and cultural beliefs around menopause and ageing. Finding YOUR way.

💗Sunday 20th September 2026
💗Barcombe, E Sussex
💗Early bird available till end July.

We’re so looking forward to holding space for you! 🔗 in usual places and do DM with questions

Hello you beauties,Well here we are again, I have returned refreshed and with a redefined purpose and clearer boundaries...
22/05/2026

Hello you beauties,

Well here we are again, I have returned refreshed and with a redefined purpose and clearer boundaries. It was a little over a 2-month break from socials and it was wonderfully liberating to actually live in my life, instead of living in a self-objectified, anxty urgency to be visible all the freaking time time.

Nice to take walks and look at things instead of regarding everything as content! A profile full of advertisements for events is just soulless, and I do enjoy sharing something of my life. I thought I’d share my redefined boundaries with you, partly to inspire you to question your own, but also so that you know what to expect, and can call me out when I f@ck up!

⚡️Renewed boundaries⚡️
🙊Ruthless bulls**t check on posts (if I wouldn’t say it to a friend then ⛔️ no ‘like and share!’
🙈Notice posting urgency and stop
🐵Notice irritation and stop
🦄Delete apps for 2 days around full moon and Sundays off

I am centring community, that’s YOU, you beauty. And hanging out together to normalise this astonishingly creative, growthful, bittersweet process of ageing, rebel against the toxic deficiency/broken norms, and stay with the unknown, liminal, ambivalent and wonky bits that make us beautiful humans. A great place for sensitive types, neurodivergent folk and outsiders who feel they don’t properly belong anywhere. 👋

This process of redefined boundaries, engagement, burnout and time out is…. yup…. cyclical. The regular seasonal round, so I have no doubt that though I’ll start with good intentions, it’ll spiral into urgency again after a while. Another round wiser. More refinement. Or more resourced at least!

Can you relate to this cyclical relationship with socials? And where are you in your cycle; how close to b@ggering off? Hahah.

If you are actually reading this for down, thank you. I genuinely value your time and attention on this crazy platform. If you fancy staying in contact, I offer more intimate, quirky ramblings by email and I’d love to welcome you there. If this appeals, just follow the ‘join my email list’ link in my Linktree. There’s an ace resource library that comes with.

Equinox blessings fb gang! Spring is definitely here. After that long winter (we say this EVERY year!) it feels like a m...
22/03/2026

Equinox blessings fb gang! Spring is definitely here. After that long winter (we say this EVERY year!) it feels like a miracle (we say that every year too).

There was a sickle moon hanging on a string last night and the early fog is lifted by 10am to give a glimpse of blue. Actual blue skies yesterday. It is tulip season. The absolute best season. There’s the excitement of blossom and a whole lot of becoming… um, coming.

Considering the fascist maniacs making war and the generalised enf@ckification it is more important than ever that we turn to the natural world for connection and balance.

The long awaited emergence goes very quick. Blink and the hazel goes from bud to full leaf while I was distracted by scrolling and doing god knows what.

The antidote is to just get out there, slow tf down and look. Feel. See how each leaf is subtly different, in colour, direction, texture on your house plant. Each blossom perfect in its own way. And when the thoughts roll in, come back to the more-than-human-presence of becoming. Give it googly eyes and a voice, what does it say to you?

My garden seems to be mirroring the world atm: honey fungus that took the apple and pear and rambler last year, has finished off the gorgeous yellow bamboo and the skimmia is looking sickly now. I notice how hard it is to hold both the grief and the new life together.

I was joking with a friend about how the advice you get from cyclical types for every season is to slow down. And in this abundant, emerging time, it is the same. Slow = better

I rarely post about war or politics outside women’s issues, and I know that pi**es some of you off. Instead I’m starting up a ‘slow tulips against enf@clification’ campaign.

In ankle news, the healing is slow but steady and I’ll be good for On Receiving which is a week today. If you fancy putting the breaks on with me and there are places, and a very delicious time will be received.

Squeezes x

Celebrating with our Joyce last night (UCL is blessedly a short hobble from Euston) to celebrate the birthing of her won...
21/03/2026

Celebrating with our Joyce
last night (UCL is blessedly a short hobble from Euston) to celebrate the birthing of her wonderful new book The Joyful Years.

It is a hymn to the joy available postmenopause. Yup. That point when society tells you you’re too old. That bit is the good bit. I promise.

But it takes a bit of muscle to bring on the joy, given the circs, and Joyce has gathered together all the different ingredients in her book to make that possible.

It’s a load of word magic bound together by interviews from 50 women (including me!) with diverse heritage and experience all finding joy as they age.

On the panel with me were the delicious .silas and

The music was so good I managed a bit of a shuffle. Interesting how mood creates more mobility!

My top tip for joyful ageing? More pleasure, from org@sms to the smell of an orange to the feeling of my toes in cosy sock with the everyday miracle of a full breath in and out. Joy is (almost) always available in some toy shape or form and it will do more for your mental and physical health than any pill can.

Go pleasure yourself people.

And buy Joyce’s book!

(With thanks to our for the pics!)

There is so much for you to receive next week…Leo Taylor of Centred Space has connected with some amazing brands to cura...
20/03/2026

There is so much for you to receive next week…

Leo Taylor of Centred Space has connected with some amazing brands to curate the most gorgeous goody bags for you at our retreat next week.

There’s a healing chai latte from Forage Botanicals🌿
Award-winning Freedom supplement from Adaptogenic Apothecary 🪴
Keeping it slippy with Sylk Naturals 🐌
The best chocolate from Hu🍫
Gorgeous aromas from Boucle 💝
With incoming goodies from The Curious Herbalist 🌿
We are so grateful to all these brands for their generosity 🙏

Not to mention the wonderful lunch from Elis at The Vegan Experience 😋

And plenty of space to explore how you can receive more of what you want in your life. And less of what you don’t.

We’d love to welcome you to the Sussex countryside on Sunday 29th March.

This is practiceI’m sitting with the irony of planning a retreat day on receiving, while I am, in practice, getting a Ph...
17/03/2026

This is practice

I’m sitting with the irony of planning a retreat day on receiving, while I am, in practice, getting a Phd on receiving in the real world. What irony.

Two weeks ago I slid on a manhole cover and twisted my ankle. Initially I was just happy I hadn’t damaged my coccyx, but my ankle was injured. Healing is slow and as I need to rest a lot, I have lots of time to observe my patterns around receiving. What joy.

Another irony: the week before I had moaned to Leora about my diary being so full there was no time for book writing. The word count is now on a steady trajectory. Be careful what you wish for!

To get around,
1. I have to notice and identify a need,
2. I notice how I have to reach out, to activate a bit, to ask for the thing or the service,
3. then the receiving part requires I relax, and soften enough to take it in,
4. and rest as I integrate the thingumy.

Knock me down: it’s a cyclical process of activation and surrender.

As a kid, I was taught to be independent and not need help, or ask for it, so it’s been a long process to get this far to notice, ask clearly, take it in and digest.

All sorts of fears and blocks show up. Here are some I have noticed in me over the last week:
🙈I don’t notice what I need or override it
😝I can’t ask or do it with a side-helping of resentment or lack of clarity
😏I can’t receive, for fear of dependency or being controlled for example
😠I can’t digest because I’m too mentally or physically tense

Any of these sound familiar? Different patterns operate when I am asking someone else for help, or helping myself.

The ingredients for change seems to be to:
🐢Slow down
💞Come into the body
🌿Notice patterns
✨ Forgive myself

Where do you get stuck? How do you get unstuck? Or perhaps receiving is easy for you?! I’d love to know!

This is the kind of stuff and I will be exploring on Sunday 29th March at On Receiving, our day retreat in East Sussex. There will be embodied practice, community, an awesome lunch, and a cracking goody bag. We’d love to welcome you there. And yes, it’s all practice!

This next season of Yoga Nidra, which starts next Thursday 12th, is devoted to gently repairing those rites of passage t...
05/03/2026

This next season of Yoga Nidra, which starts next Thursday 12th, is devoted to gently repairing those rites of passage through deep rest, guided imagery, nature symbolism, and embodied awareness.

Each month you’ll receive a carefully crafted, trauma-aware Nidra designed to soften the loops set in motion at:

• Menarche
• First sexual experiences
• Conception & fertility
• Birthing

No forcing.
No digging.
No dramatic catharsis required.
Just subtle, persistent, nervous-system-level re-patterning.

The recordings are yours to keep , so you can listen on repeat and let the medicine work slowly and kindly.

A gentle note: because of the subject matter, long-buried feelings may surface. I create these practices with deep care and sensitivity, but if you’ve experienced rupture or trauma, you may find emotions arise. If they do, I invite you to go tenderly, seek support if needed, and trust that this surfacing can be part of moving toward wholeness. You should know too that April’s intimacy Nidra will include erogenous zones and will be 🔥🔥🔥

This is not about re-living.
It’s about restoring.

As far as I’m aware, no one else is offering a series like this. It’s unique.

If you’re ready to feel less trapped, less stuck, more at home in your body, please do consider joining .

Use code LOVENIDRA for 50% off.

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