Helping Women Move Through Transitions
Between the ages of 30 and 50, women are almost constantly in a transitional state:
- Matrescence
- Motherhood
- Career change
- Midlife
- Perimenopause
And sometimes on top of that, divorce, a geographical move, or elderly care.
Transitions are the messy middle. The space between the before, comfortable and predictable, and the after, the scary unknown.
It’s easy to get lost there. I certainly did, several times. I wish I had had someone to walk this path alongside me. To offer support, guidance and tools.
BONJOUR!
My name is Pauline Bellocq, I am a writer and a certified Yoga & Meditation instructor based in Lisbon.
After a first professional career in retail tech between New York and Los Angeles, I moved to Portugal with my family in 2023 and changed everything in pursuit of a slower, more soulful and more aligned lifestyle.
I now teach weekly yoga classes and host wellness events and transformational retreats specifically designed for women moving through transitions, using Yoga as a somatic practice, Writing as a therapeutic tool and Community as a pillar.
From tech to wellness, from the US to Portugal, from disconnected to embodied... Voilà !
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
Between 2014 and 2016, I completed over 500 hours of Yoga teacher training at Yogaworks NYC, a school of yoga at the intersection of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga. I am so grateful to have received mentoring from awe-inspiring teachers such as Elizabeth J Flint, Chrissy Carter, Laurel Beversdorf, Carrie Owerko or the late Maty Ezraty.
Over the years, I have continued to update my training in Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga, the Art of Sequencing, Yoga Anatomy, Hormonal Health and Iyengar Yoga.
Forever a student first, I continue to practice and train regularly alongside experienced teachers such as Jason Crandell and Billy Konrad.
I love telling stories and I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. In 2023, I launched a Substack page to document my own life transitions and the tools that have helped me move through it. You can read and subscribe here.