Mother is a verb

Written By Lynn Murphy

Mother Mound | Meg Webster | Minimal Exhibition | Paris 2025

‘Mothering is a verb it’s something that we do’

This was a line taken from a podcast I recorded with the wonderful Avni Trivedi back in the summer of 2019 that seems a lifetime ago as the world has changed in so many ways since then, you can listen at link below.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/supporting-new-mothers-and-newborn-babies-with-lynn-murphy/id1473722377?i=1000450190425

Some of what we touched on in this discussion.

  • Starting yoga at the age of 21 and feeling a sense of coming home

  • The influence of Vanda Scaravelli, working with the intelligence of the body

  • Adapting yoga to a woman’s body, especially in pregnancy & motherhoodWhy I created the ‘New Baby and Me Nurture’ course 20 years ago

  • The challenges new mothers face.

  • Mothering is a verb, there are many ways to mother

  • Importance of nurturing the mother

  • Comparison and being a ‘good enough mum’

  • Finding safe spaces of non-judgement

  • Doing v being in motherhood

  • Developing instinct through embodiment and listening to the heart and gut

  • Mini- moments of yoga to integrate movement into life

  • Lying in constructive rest on the floor for a power nap

Lynn Murphy
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