Olive Chats Menopause! Let's Talk Sleep

Olive Chats Menopause is back at Zen Studio on Saturday 21 November, with a 90-minute masterclass focused on sleep. It's led by Ailsa Petchey, a qualified Pilates instructor and menopause coach who's spent more than 30 years working in movement, fitness and women's wellbeing. The session runs from 11am to 12.30pm, so it's a late-morning thing rather than an evening one.

The format mixes easy-to-understand information with gentle movement, breathing exercises and relaxation techniques, and it closes with a guided full-body relaxation. You'll also get a PDF takeaway guide to take home, so you don't have to rely on your notes from the morning. It's part of the Olive Chats Menopause series, a set of friendly, practical and supportive workshops from Olive Collective CIC, which they describe as being designed to help women understand their changing bodies and feel more confident navigating midlife.

Petchey's background sits across Pilates and menopause coaching, and she brings that combination to the session: the talking part is paired with the movement and breathwork, rather than one following the other. The whole thing is 90 minutes, and the guided relaxation at the end means you'll leave it feeling a bit more settled than when you walked in.

It's at Zen Studio, 14 Crossinglands Business Park, Aspley Guise, Milton Keynes, MK17 8HZ. Tickets are £15 per person, and there are only 12 spaces available, so it's a small group rather than a big class. That runs from 11am to 12.30pm on Saturday 21 November.