"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 [...]
This Free 90-minute online workshop with Yoga Teacher, Childbirth Educator and Birth Doula Nadia Raafat will take you on a journey through the chakras and reveal their profound significance for the Pregnancy and Birth experience.
This free pregnancy workshop will show you how to use your body with awareness to maintain optimum positioning, during labour, resolve any malpositioning and proceed onwards towards a normal birth.
10 Pregnancy Yoga Essentials For an Easier Labour Saturday 16 May, 11AM (GMT) JOIN THIS FREE ONLINE PREGNANCY YOGA WORKSHOP This 90-minute online pregnancy workshop will introduce you to key breath and movement practices for Pregnancy which will prepare your body now for an easier labour. From yoni mudra and the ocean breath to the [...]
Labour With Love - Partners Online Birth Rehearsal - Saturday, July 11: 2 PM-6 PM COMING TOGETHER TO PRACTICE AND CONNECT The labour and birth of your child, whether your first precious baby, or your fourth, is always a heart-opening and sacred time. Whether birthing at home, in a home-from-home unit or on a labour [...]
Becoming Mother's Nadia Raafat is delighted to offer (in conjunction with Birthlight) for the second time this year her one day training: Bringing Mindfulness to Pregnancy Yoga - a CPD for Pregnancy Yoga teachers and trainee teachers at the Synchroncity Yoga Studios in south London Pregnancy Yoga is inherently a mindful practice cultivating self-awareness and self-knowledge, [...]
By Nadia Raafat Take these ten steps during your pregnancy to prepare your body and mind for an empowered and positive birth experience and one you will remember with joy. 1.Prepare your Body with Yoga Yoga is the optimum physical practice for pregnancy. Working on every level of the being from the physical to the [...]
BECOMING MOTHER: Bringing Mindfulness to Pregnancy Yoga with Nadia Raafat A half day session for Yoga teachers working with pregnancy to explore using Mindfulness in pregnancy yoga and birth education. The afternoon will include two short mindful flow classes; one floor based and the other upright and dynamic. The yoga sessions will be followed by a [...]
When I was carrying my first pregnancy, unplanned, aged 31 years and only 18 months into a relationship - my birth preparation was more about where the baby and I would live, and how I would support us, (should my partner - suffering from acute anxiety - decide he was not ready for fatherhood) than which [...]