twenty five years of holding space for countless women as they prepared for birth & motherhood.
I developed my approach under the umbrella of the Active Birth Centre which I ran as co-director for many years alongside Janet Balaskas. Here I was able to support parents-to-be as they prepared for birth and parenthood in that beautiful space which sadly, due to Covid, we closed in June 2020.
My yoga is Scaravelli inspired, focusing on the idea that less (effort) brings more (ease), and that our bodies are always learning and evolving. The space we enter in yoga is a place to become more in touch with ourselves and breathe. A woman’s body often craves a more gentle and playfully nurturing approach, something more fluid and rounded never more so than during pregnancy and motherhood, this time is a rich terrain for discovering new ways to relate to our bodies, ourselves..
I believe this same approach can also be applied to parenting our babies. Babies are a great source of learning, when we watch babies with curiosity, we can discover much that helps us better respond to their needs. Every baby I have ever met has been so wonderfully unique that no one way will suit them all.
I will support you on your yoga and parenting journey through an approach that is based on ‘keep it simple’ and ‘less is more’. Helping you as a mother through the wonderful highs, and sometimes the more challenging days, to remember you are good enough - just as you are.
MY STORY
Listen to more of my story here.
Alongside art, yoga was my other love from the age of twenty one. I went on to discover active birth yoga classes when I was pregnant with my son. After the birth of my second child, I began to move away from art, towards yoga, and trained as an Active Birth Yoga Teacher in 1995-97. Other trainings followed, alongside the exploration of movement in many forms within my yoga practice. I attend workshops & trainings with a number of wonderful teachers to keep me nourished.
TRAININGS
Alongside teaching, my passion is to train other practitioners to become experts in their field, which led me to develop the Mother Nurture Training, which focus on the all important (but often overlooked) ‘fourth trimester’. Having spent over two decades working with new mums and their babies, I wanted to draw on this experience and knowledge and help fill a gap in our society’s support of new mothers and better honour the transformational journey that matrescence is.
