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If you’re interested in learning how hypnobirthi

If you’re interested in learning how hypnobirthing can help you have a better birth, but have a partner who’s not so keen, or you don’t gave a partner, or you can’t find childcare for a whole 10 hour course, or you just can’t afford to pay for a full course - then my hypnobirthing workshops are just for you!
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The 4 hour course is for mums-to-be. I’ll teach you the essential hypnobirthing and yoga techniques that will help you have a calmer, faster, more comfortable labour and birth.
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You’ll learn why birth is ‘painful’ for some people, and how to avoid this. How hypnobirthing techniques can help you reach a state of calm confidence - that will leave you not just looking forward to giving birth, but excited to do so. You’ll learn positions to move labour along efficiently and facilitate baby’s descent. We’ll cover birth plan’s and the birth partner’s role. And you’ll leave with a folder of scripts and an MP3 of relaxation tracks, to continue your practice at home.
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And you get all this for £50, it will probably be the most useful £50 you’ll spend during your pregnancy! If you’d like to do the workshop but aren’t in a financial position to do so do get in touch, I would hate anyone to miss out on the opportunity for a better birth because of the current financial situation lots of people are in.

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Here are 3 exercises from Day 1 of my Postnatal Yo

Here are 3 exercises from Day 1 of my Postnatal Yoga course. These are foundational exercises that will help you connect with your breathing and strengthen your pelvic floor (check out the videos for positioning):

1/ Lie on your back, knees bent. Take a long breath in, as you exhale, draw your pelvic floor muscles up. Lift your right leg an inch off the floor and slide the heel away. Keep lifting the pelvic floor for the whole of the exhale. Inhale and release the pelvic floor, bring the foot back. Repeat left leg. Repeat 4 times each side.

2/ Place a cushion between the knees. As you exhale lift the pelvic floor and squeeze the cushion between the knees. As you inhale, release the squeeze and the pelvic floor. Repeat 4 to 8 times.

3/ Exhale, lift the pelvic floor as you slowly let your knees move out to the side. Inhale, release the pelvic floor as you bring the knees back above the ankles. Repeat 4 to 8 times.
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Close your eyes as you do the exercises and connect with your pelvic floor. On the exhale visualise it lifting through your centre. After each set visualise your pelvic floor releasing back into it’s natural place. Make sure it softens and relaxes - you don’t want to be walking around all day with a tense pelvic floor!
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Pelvic floor strength and functionality depends on more than just exercise. You need to make sure you’re breathing correctly and working on your posture. Come along to my postnatal yoga classes and I’ll help you with all three.
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Do check with your doctor or a women’s health physio before starting to exercise postnatally. Do ask if you need any recommendations.

This glowing recommendation for home birth is from

This glowing recommendation for home birth is from Nikki, a lady from my pregnancy yoga class.
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It’s not surprising to hear people rave about home birth, most people I’ve taught who’ve had a home birth have loved it. What is surprising about Nikki’s birth is that she wasn’t planning on giving birth at home - but realising baby was on the way as she was about to set off for hospital, Nikki’s husband called an ambulance and Nikki had a completely awe inspiring birth at home with the help of the paramedics.
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Head over to the blog on my website (link in bio), you’ll find Nikki’s birth story, plus lots more inspirational birth stories from the mums from my classes.
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Pregnancy Yoga and Hypnobirthing for a better birth

🌟Checking for diastasis recti (abdominal separa

🌟Checking for diastasis recti (abdominal separation) 🌟
We started a new 6 week Postnatal Yoga course today, one of the things I always talk about in the first session is abdominal separation. This occurs when the rectus abdominis muscle (your 6 pack), separates along the midline.
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Some separation, above and below the belly button, is completely normal during pregnancy, so don’t worry if you’re aware of a gap there. The linea alba, the fibrous material between the abdominals is designed to stretch - to enable the abdominals to separate - to accommodate your baby’s growth.
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However, this can be added to, during or after pregnancy, by too much force being put through the abdominal wall, this can happen through pushing during birth, exercising incorrectly, straining on the loo, or bad posture (amongst others).
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It’s a good idea to know how deep, and wide, your abdominal gap is before starting an exercise program after giving birth. The great thing is, it’s something you can check yourself at home - here’s how:
1️⃣ Lie on you back, knees bent, feet hip distance apart.
2️⃣ As you exhale, lift your shoulders off the floor.
3️⃣ Turn your hand to face you, so you’re looking at the palm. Starting at your belly button, move your fingers up along your midline towards your bra strap, and back down towards your knicker line.
4️⃣ Close your eyes and try to connect with your abdominals, you want to feel your abdominal muscles either side of your fingers. Notice how many fingers you can fit into the gap, also be aware of how deep the gap is.
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A one or two finger gap is completely normal. With a larger gap of two to three fingers you need to work carefully to bring the abdominals back together. If you have a gap of over three fingers, visit your doctor or a women’s health physio for a thorough examination and recommendations for repair.
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For more info and to start exercising safely after birth, come and join my online postnatal yoga classes. During the 6 week course, we work on strengthening the pelvic floor and bringing the abdominals back together safely, whilst building strength, flexibility, and confidence.
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Postnatal Yoga every Thurs 10 - 11am

If you’ve recently had a baby (or not so recentl

If you’ve recently had a baby (or not so recently), and feel you’d like to start exercising in a safe way, then my online postnatal yoga classses may be just the thing you need.
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You can join the class 6 weeks after a vaginal birth or 12 weeks after a c-section. You can do the class with your baby at your side, stopping to feed or cuddle whenever you need to. Or if you have a partner working from home, who can look after your little one for an hour, then you can completely focus on you - just what new mums need! An hour to stretch out, build strength, and repair the abdominals and pelvic floor.
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Plus we get together at the beginning and end of each session, so you can ask questions and have a chat with the other mums from class, which will help you feel less isolated, something we all need right now!
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The great thing about doing the course online is you don’t need to leave the house, just roll out your mat or find a soft surface, grab a couple of pillows and you’re ready to begin. An online 6 week course costs £48, if you’d like to give it a try do get in touch. I promise you you’ll feel so much better for doing it.
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Here’s just 9 of the beautiful mamas and babies

Here’s just 9 of the beautiful mamas and babies I’ve had the honour to teach this year. Thank you so much for sharing your stories, your pictures - your worries, your hopes - with me this year.
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Thank you for allowing me into your life at this precious time, and allowing me to share the wonders of birth and yoga with you.
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It’s been quite a year, we’ve had births in cars, beautiful home births, unplanned C- sections, and hundreds of hospital births - and one thing I’ve been told over and over again, is that the mother felt empowered, in control and even ‘blissful’. 🌟
I believe all women deserve a ‘blissful’ birth, and with some preparation I will do all I can to help you achieve it.
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I look forward to another year of helping women have the best birth possible for them. And to helping them enjoy their pregnancy, free from anxiety and self-doubt. Now more than ever pregnant women need this! 🌟
Happy new year all! Wishing you love and light for 2021.

Pregnancy Yoga classes resume on Saturday 2nd Janu

Pregnancy Yoga classes resume on Saturday 2nd January 2021!
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Unfortunately we can’t be in-person at the moment, but that means you can practice from the comfort off your own home. And I have to say with the current cold spell, rolling out the mat at home won’t be a bad thing, and hopefully we’ll be back in class before the spring.
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If you’ve always wanted to try prenatal yoga but haven’t made it to class, now is the perfect opportunity to see what it’s all about.
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Plus, with the online classes you get to do two classes for the price of one - for £11 you can do both the Saturday 10am class and the Tuesday 7pm class - or if you can only make one class, then it’s only £8.
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Take a look at the website to read the benefits of pregnancy yoga and to see what other mums have to say about our classes. Then get in touch to sign up for a trial class.

🌟Induction birth story🌟 When Emily decided t

🌟Induction birth story🌟
When Emily decided to start the induction process (for medical reasons), she had the usual concerns that labour would drag on and on, as sometimes happens with induction (especially if a mother’s body and baby aren’t ready for labour.)
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What Emily didn’t expect was that she’d go to hospital to start the process, wait around all day and be sent home, and then do the whole thing again the next day - only to be sent home again!
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This is something to be aware of if going in for induction, if the maternity unit is very busy you can be sent home and told to come back the next day. However, it happening twice is really unusual and very unlucky for Emily.
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This in itself would be enough to throw some labours off course, Emily however, handled it beautifully, got herself back in the zone on day three and gave birth to Lottie within two hours of starting the induction process!
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To read Emily’s inspiring birth story, head to the blog (link in bio).
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Emily had been feeling nervous in the build up to Lottie’s birth and so her and her husband Adam did an online hypnobirthing refresher course with me - and I’m happy to say Emily says that got her back on track and looking forward to giving birth.
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Do get in touch if you’re feeling fearful about giving birth and we can talk about which of my hypnobirthing options will work best for you.

Birth doesn’t stop because it’s Christmas. So

Birth doesn’t stop because it’s Christmas. So I’m still here for you, if you need me.
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Thanks to Emily for this lovely message, I’m so glad the classes helped. I’ll be teaching all through lockdown, we’ll be online but other than that everything will be the same. Same class times for pregnancy yoga, same great classes (if I do say so myself 😁) - lots of positive birth stories, movement to ease your body through pregnancy and labour and lots of hypnobirthing tools to prepare you mentally.
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So don’t give up on your birth prep just because we’re in lockdown, your birth is going to happen, lockdown or not, so be as prepared as you can be - I promise it will make it easier!
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Get in touch to give pregnancy yoga a try, or to have a chat about hypnobirthing.

Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Have a lo

Merry Christmas from my family to yours. Have a lovely restful day all xx

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