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Mothering is a verb it’s something that we do

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

In this episode we talked about:

  • Lynn trained with Janet Balaskas in pregnancy and postnatal yoga and the Active Birth philosophy.

  • Realising the need for supporting mums with younger babies, that led her to create the ‘New Baby and Me’ class

  • Challenges for new mothers including the lack of support, tending to the baby whilst taking care of themselves, nutrition, relationship with the post-natal body

  • The Active Birth Centre in London, created by Janet Balaskas, and dedicated to women during and after pregnancy with classes, therapies and courses

  • Starting yoga at the age of 21 and feeling a sense of coming home, and the gift of continuing the practice whilst pregnant

  • The influence of Vanda Scaravelli on the approach of pregnancy yoga, working with the intelligence of the body

  • Adapting yoga to a woman’s body, especially in pregnancy for a softer approach

  • Honouring of the support that’s needed and the experience of early motherhood

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

  • Nurturing to be able to nurture their baby

  • Comparison and being a ‘good enough mum’

  • Being in a safe space of non-judgement

  • Bonding can take time

  • The overuse and therefore devaluation of ‘bonding’ and ‘skin to skin’

  • Doing v being

  • Creating safe space e.g. by connecting with your own body, being open, and listening deeply

  • 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

  • The gut as the seat of our emotions

  • Softening into the breathless