Holding Space is what Doulas do. Sometimes it happens seamlessly and beautifully; that connection, trust and presence. Other times it's edgy and difficult as our own fears are triggered. It doesn't matter how many births you have attended -what is brought to the space every time is unique. Doulas Riga Forbes and Nadia Raafat [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Welcome to the Empowered Birthing Mother Summit In the first summit of this kind we have gathered together a panel of international teachers and therapists, writers and speakers to help empower you on your journey through pregnancy, birth and new motherhood. This brand new event features exciting workshops, presentations and discussions over [...]
Offering practices and movements that are biodynamic and effective during labour is the ultimate aim for teachers of Pregnancy Yoga. It's the end point of the pregnancy yoga journey, where the mother now draws on everything she has learned to support her through the childbirth adventure. Yoga for Labour offers a blueprint for embodied and [...]
Childbirth is an incredible physiological process. When undisturbed by intervention, it arises steadily and gradually moves through the entire body/mind system leading to a complete transformation as the body opens to release the baby, the breasts produce food to feed the baby and the woman is hormonally transformed into mother— the archetype.This is the [...]
"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 [...]
For The Pregnant Community and Birth Professionals Interested in the Preparation and Support of the Emergence Phase of Childbirth What do you do if you suspect you have a hypertonic pelvic floor? Given that so many women today exercise intensely, this is a common scenario even within the yoga community - how might it affect [...]
Yoga Nidra for Pregnancy, Birth and Early Motherhood CPD Workshop for Yogas Nidra Teachers working with Maternity Sunday 25 Feb, 10am - 4pm Online The unique experience of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period with its requirements of deep trust, enduring patience, bodily intimacy and psychic surrender necessitate deep preparation. Cultivation of an intimate inner [...]
