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Be nurtured, nourished and empowered through tailor-made postures, breathing techniques and relaxation from pregnancy to birth and beyond.

17/09/2025

Something new is coming….I’ve been very quiet for a while but its going to be a new era for Soul Mama Yoga 💗

03/07/2023

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13/05/2023

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25/04/2023

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11/04/2023

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"No one told me how terrifying it would be to love as only a mother does. No one told me about how much it would ache.
No one told me about the joy that was deeper and wider that anything I’d known- how somehow it hurt to feel that happy.

No one told me about the heavy weight of that love that would sit on my heart and make it impossible to breathe at times. How I would hold my infant to my chest and want to inhale him-  not just that newborn smell, but some primal, unbearable desire to tuck him back safely below my heart — a desperate wish to keep him safe there forever.

No one told how I would hover over my baby at night, my eyes burning with exhaustion but unable to stop watching as his tiny chest rose and fell with each breath. How the adoration I felt for him would rise up from my chest and pour out of my eyes, buckets of tears I couldn’t explain.

No one told me how the love would swallow me whole. How somehow my life would suddenly feel infinitely more fragile and fleeting. How my own mortality would loom over me like a shadow I’d never seen before and make me want to stop time.

No one told me how giving birth would make me fear death in a way I’d never experienced- how I’d feel that my life was so tightly tied around this love that losing him would be worse than dying a thousand times. How the strings that tethered me to this child would become my life line and how watching him grow and go out into the world would be the most terrifying beautiful thing.

No one told me how becoming a mama would open a door in my heart to a love I didn’t know existed. And how the magnitude of that feeling would leave me scrambling to find my footing in a world that felt suddenly foreign and immensely  real.

No one told me because there aren’t really words, are there?"

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30/12/2022

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Baby Massage and Baby Yoga supports your baby’s physical, emotional and social development with connection at its core.

If you want to know more or join classes in 2023 get in touch to join the Wait List and learn how you can help your baby’s development through nurture and play 💗

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22/11/2022

Amazing research into the benefits of practicing Pregnancy Yoga 💖.

Even better Soul Mama Yoga classes not only help bring you more comfort during your pregnancy but they also help prepare you for labour and birth with specific breathing techniques, safe, tailored postures and movements, mantras, sounds and relaxation 💫

Prepare both your mind and body in readiness for the big ‘birth’day and get yourself on the Wait List for January 2023, it filling up already and the sooner you start the better prepared you’ll be!

Register at 👉🏼www.soulmamayoga.com.au

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Earlier this year, a systematic review and meta-analysis examined the characteristics and effectiveness of pregnancy yoga interventions.

“Twenty-nine studies with 2217 pregnant women were included for meta-analysis.

Pregnancy yoga interventions reduced anxiety, depression and perceived stress.

Yoga interventions also reduced duration of labour and, increased odds of normal vaginal birth and tolerance for pain.

The quality of evidence (GRADE criteria) was low to very low for all outcomes.

Twelve or more yoga sessions delivered weekly/bi-weekly had a statistically significant impact on mode of birth, while 12 or more yoga sessions of long duration (> 60 min) had a statistically significant impact on perceived stress.”

The researchers concluded that, “The evidence highlights positive effects of pregnancy yoga on anxiety, depression, perceived stress, mode of birth and duration of labour.”

The reference for this study is: Corrigan L et al (2022). The characteristics and effectiveness of pregnancy yoga interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22(250).

You can read the full paper at https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-022-04474-9

(We’ll link that in Sara’s stories today).

We share research for those who like to stay up-to-date with birth-related research and thinking. If you're a midwife, birth worker or pregnancy yoga teacher who would like to delve deeper into studies, get updated on what's new and become better at understanding research, join Dr Sara Wickham’s mailing list at www.sarawickham.com

08/11/2022

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Touch is the most developed sense at birth so there really is no better way to communicate love, compassion and empathy with your baby than hold, cuddle and even more perfectly massage your baby!

If you’d like to know more about the amazing benefits of baby massage for the physical, mental and emotional development of your baby please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Very limited availability now for private 1-1 sessions in your own home before Christmas. Reward yourself, your partner and your baby and learn some of the best techniques to help settle, soothe and nurture your baby and your bond 💞

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Did you know that human babies are the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing social mammal on the planet?

Compared to other mammals, the human brain is tiny at birth; a mere 25% of its ultimate adult size.

Animals born into hostile environments tend to have larger infant brains to help them survive. Zebras, for example, need to be able to run with the herd just hours after birth – their relatively mature brains help them run and respond when a lion appears.

But, mother nature always has a survival strategy. So, what is the survival strategy for human babies? Easy. Mum and Dad. Without their parents, they couldn’t survive and so much of their behaviour is designed to keep us close most, if not all the time.

So, we need to give babies enormous amounts of love, touch and attention to allow them to thrive, not just survive, both day and night. And we should feel good about it - it’s what we’re instinctively driven to do. Despite what our society may say it’s biologically impossible to spoil a baby with love.

The first 3 years of life represent the most rapid period of brain development in our children’s lifetime. In the first 1000 days of life, a staggering 1M neural connections are made each second. These connections determine what kind of brain your baby grows. A brain that is balanced, stable, and resilient to stress. Or a brain that is unbalanced, over reactive and struggles to cope with stress.

While genetics provides a blueprint for brain development, it’s a child’s environment and their experiences that carry out the construction, forming the essential wiring of the brain. Repeated use of particular pathways strengthens individual connections.

Neural connections in the brain are vital in developing emotional regulation abilities. This is why it’s critical that we provide our children with experiences that contribute to healthy brain development.

So hug your baby, pick them up, hold them, nurture them, be with them.
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14/10/2022

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day ❤️

Little did I know at the time that miscarriage would lead future me down a new path of discovery. From Defence Law to Pregnancy Yoga, our loss ultimately turned out to be the very beginnings of Soul Mama Yoga 💗

Sending love and healing to all who need it ❤️

10/10/2022

Themed fun coming right up…👻🎃🧙‍♀️🎉
Let’s make some ‘Pumpkin Party’ memories to treasure 📸🥰

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I am a mother of three now living on the Gold Coast after emigrating to Australia from the UK back in May 2016 and life has been quite a ride! Having previously held a career in criminal law defence I chose to leave this behind to marry, start a family and spend those precious early years with my children. With a new Australian adventure on the horizon, I saw this as an opportunity to carve out a whole new meaningful path. Realising how much I missed making a difference in other people’s lives, I searched my soul for new meaning, purpose and passion as my children grew.

Having attended pregnancy classes myself during each three of my own pregnancies, I strongly believe these classes empowered me to be confident during each labour and birth. At the start of 2016, before leaving the UK I embarked on a specialised teacher training course for Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga with Yoga Gro. After arriving in Australia I went on to complete a full 350hr yoga teacher training course with My Health Yoga. Eager to bring forth my new purpose and passion y created Soul Mama Yoga specialising in yoga for pregnancy, birth and beyond.

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“Within a few months of being newly married we discovered I was pregnant, much to our surprise and delight it happened quickly. We were incredibly excited but sadly it was not to be and unfortunately I miscarried a short time after. The following year I was lucky enough to fall pregnant again. With instant joy came instant worry and anxiety… just because I’m pregnant does not necessarily mean I’m going to have a baby! However, albeit with trepidation, I progressed through those first 12 weeks without any drama with the exception of terrible nausea and extreme tiredness. My midwife suggested trying some pregnancy yoga classes, having never done yoga before I thought to myself well, I’ll give it a go… little did I know it would unfold into what it has now! The yoga helped to ease my anxieties and gave me a sense of empowerment throughout the remainder of my pregnancy. I no longer felt scared, I felt ready and prepared.

When my labour started I was excited but relaxed. I progressed comfortably by using breathing techniques learned during the classes I had attended as well as practiced movements to help keep things moving forward. Remaining calm, relaxed and focused was my aim and it was working. I was able to have a full conversation with the hospital and they only decided to have me come in because I had caught shingles and was full of cold. Well, it was a good job they did because the 45 minute journey to the hospital became a little hair raising and I wasn’t sure we were going to make it in time. Luckily we did but my bag and all my belongings never left the car. I was taken straight into a delivery suite by a midwife to be examined, I was already 9cm dilated. The midwife even asked me if this was my second baby as she noted how together I was… this was definitely down to the yoga and techniques I had learned!

Up until this point I had no pain relief save for a couple of paracetamol so I tried gas and air but unfortunately my first born decided to come down sideways and get stuck so this was taken off me. His heartrate had dropped off the chart and I needed to get him out immediately. This was not quite what I had imagined nor planned, well, you know what they say about best laid plans and all that haha! Despite the franticness of the situation I was able to maintain control and composure by simply taking a moment and breathing and I safely gave birth naturally to a beautiful 9lb 10oz (4.4kg) baby boy, yes… ouch!! Although many professionals view my first birth as traumatic, I do not see it that way at all and strongly believe that I experienced a positive, empowering labour and birth.”