Finding Comfort and Confidence Across the Entire Menstrual Cycle While in the Backcountry - Online Classroom

6:00-7:00pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

Most of us appreciate the dynamic nature of the mountains. But do you ever consider the flow of your hormones and how that reflects in your mind and body during outdoor trips?

Your period is just one phase of an entire menstrual cycle, and it’s not even the main event! Let’s examine the entirety of a menstrual cycle and how the hormonal shifts affect your mindset and physical response during outdoor trips.

This session is most applicable for people who experience periods, but anybody is welcome to join and may find value in sharing the information with others.

We’ll discuss:

• The hormonal changes across a menstrual cycle and how those changes may affect the way you feel and perform outdoors and in sport
• A framework explaining how the menstrual cycle parallels nature
• Why ovulation is the most important part of your cycle, and how it affects how your body feels and responds to exercise
• Challenges and powers many menstruators feel in each phase of the cycle, and how to apply them to your outdoor trips
• How to plan when you know you’ll have a period during a trip
• Minimizing premenstrual symptoms before a trip or athletic event
• An open discussion on transition times, like perimenopause

Seminar Notes

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within story/lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used throughout. 

PRESENTER

Angie Marie is a community builder, author, speaker, and athlete working with outdoor brands and podcasts to amplify women's adventure storytelling.

Fueled by her nonprofit background in increasing outdoor access to underserved communities, and with experience as an adaptive recreation guide, outdoor curriculum writer, wilderness first aid instructor, and search and rescue team member, Angie blends her multi-hyphenate background to encourage a happier, healthier, more adventurous world.

Angie lives in White Salmon, WA in the Columbia River Gorge, where she enjoys ultrarunning, mountaineering, and, recently, learning to whitewater kayak. Find her work at itsangiemarie.com.