Childbirth: From Clinical Emergency to Spiritual Emergence If you want to serve women and birth, join our FREE training event this September and discover yoga's place in the reclamation. Friday 19 September, 9am-12.30pm, Online FREE Register Here For generations, birth has been framed as a medical event — something to be managed, monitored, and “delivered” [...]
Birthing with Dignity is not a luxury or an optional extra — it is a basic human right. Every woman and birthing person, regardless of skin colour, ethnicity, gender identity, age, religion, or economic background, has the legal and moral right to be treated with dignity throughout the entire journey of childbirth. This right is [...]
The Pelvic Floor: A Foundation for Female Health & Wellbeing If you are reading this, you are almost certainly female; ranging in age from 30-65; you may well be a mother but not necessarily, (I attract plenty of mothers mothers pre and post natal) and you will almost certainly be interested in embodied health [...]
"Between the stimulus and the response is a space and in that space lies your power and your freedom." Victor Frankel LEARN HOW TO OFFER YOGA &MINDFULNESS TO THE PREGNANCY COMMUNITY Sunday 19 September: 9am-11am This Workshop is a taster workshop for my Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher Training programme which I am running in October [...]
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 talk to Nadia Raafat about their early yoga experiences, inspirations, pregnancies and births. Janet Balaskas Active Birth (activebirthcentre.com) How [...]
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 between the different dimensions of our experience; spiritual, mental, emotional, physical and instinctual. This system, known as the chakra system, [...]