If, for Childbirth by Nadia Raafat
I wrote this for childbirth as a response to Rudyard Kipling’s poem of the same name If - a didactic poem for young men. I wrote it whilst I was pregnant with my daughter. I [...]
Francoise Freedman – Interview
Francoise Freedman director of Birthlight International and medical anthropologist based at Cambridge University, author of many books, doula, teacher, mother of four and now a grandmother has inspired and trained literally thousands of teachers worldwide - including me. Her wisdom, her [...]
Lolly Stirk Interview
In West London, where I lived through my first unplanned pregnancy, Lolly’s reputation preceded her. It was the early nougties, and pregnancy yoga was new and exciting. I had just discovered Janet Balaskas and the Active [...]
Janet Balaskas Interview
Janet Balaskas is credited with starting the Active Birth Movement; a women's movement that led to fundamental change in British Obstetrics and childbirth preparation. The South African mother of four, who originally trained as an NCT teacher, founded Active Birth in response to the oppressive active management of obstetrics [...]
Mind Your Pregnancy
How yoga and mindfulness for pregnancy and birth can help mums-to-be handle the unexpected twists and turns of their journey. There is a space between the stimulus and the response and in that space lies [...]
Birthing Pregnancy Yoga (OM Magazine, September 2021)
The drive and vision of three female yoga pioneers, Janet Balaskas, Lolly Stirk and Francoise Freedman, initiated a movement that transformed childbirth and laid the foundations for pregnancy yoga in the UK today. Here, they [...]
Maternity Chakras: The Spiritual Anatomy of Pregnancy
Maternity Chakras The Spiritual Anatomy of Pregnancy Discovering the Wisdom of the Chakras During the Maternity Year Our bodies have an energetic system; a structure of subtle energy pathways, which act as intersections [...]
Yoga & Mindfulness for Pregnancy & Birth Teacher Training Course
MAKE 2021 THE YEAR YOU BECOME A PREGNANCY YOGA TEACHER YOGA & MINDFULNESS TEACHER FOR PREGNANCY & BIRTH TRAINING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BATTERSEA YOGA STUDIO APPLY NOW REQUEST SYLLABUS YOGA AND [...]
Yoga Classes via Zoom
During the Coronavirus lockdown period, I am live streaming my Pregnancy Yoga, Dynamic Hatha Yoga and Yin Yoga classes via Zoom. […]
