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03/07/2024

There are so many reasons to prepare for birth. The birth of your child is a day you remember for the rest of your life.  And it should be for the right reasons.

Join this program to:
* Feel Positive and Empowered for childbirth
* Build a toolkit for integrating pain & challenge in birth
* Prepare your body physically for childbirth to create a higher chance of spontaneous labour and progressing labour
* Prepare your Nervous System for birth and understand why this is key

“I cannot thank you enough for the work that you do! I drew on so many skills that I learnt over the last few months from our Pregnancy Yoga classes and your Birth Preparation course. I learned so many tools for labour and beyond into motherhood. I was able to use all of my birth skills to help breath my baby out into the warm waters. My dream water birth.” Peta - Sunshine Coast

As a Perinatal Yoga Therapist,  birth educator and a woman that has given birth both in and out of the hospital setting; I can share with you what the essential things are to know before you birth to help you best support the opportunity for a physiological birth for your baby.

We will be going through the 3 main pillars that make up the triangle for birth preparation : the Body, the Mind and the Nervous System : learning a range of practical tools to start implementing right now, during pregnancy and also during active labour. This is a program designed to equip you with practical skills - not just theory.

Reach out if you have any questions and more info is on my website

26/06/2024

If you’re sick of feeling sick this pregnancy; or tired of feeling tired; or ready to say goodbye to the pain in your literal backside then read on …

One thing above all else I’m super passionate about is relieving women of pregnancy symptoms that stop them from thriving in their pregnancy.

My background as a Yoga Therapist has allowed me to lean into specific yoga breathing and movements that can actually provide relief from these symptoms when practiced on a regular basis : and you don’t need any yoga experience or to be sporty or bendy - it’s all gentle therapeutic , beginner friendly stuff!

Download your free pack today and give yourself a 5 day challenge - I have no doubt you will feel better in yourself and about your pregnancy 🫶

Pregnancy should happen for you and not to you - let’s get you feeling good again 🫶

Link to free pack is in my bio ☝️

24/05/2024

Feeling exhausted and uncomfortable isn’t just part and parcel of pregnancy - there is a totally different way you can feel and it is available to you when you utilise the VITALITY TRIANGLE; a proven integrated method I use as a Perinatal Yoga Therapist to shift clients from feeling like their pregnancy is happening for them, rather than to them:

1. Integration of the PHYSICAL BODY 🌻
Everything in the pregnant body is interlinked. What’s happening in your posture is affecting your pelvic floor and what’s happening in your pelvic floor is affecting your spine….and on it goes. Once you know how to alleviate and prevent certain imbalances you will find more space and ease across your entire body. 

2. Toning of the NERVOUS SYSTEM 🌻
When you learn how to ‘hack’ the body-mind relationship to regulate your Nervous System you will more easily return or move into a relaxed state that better supports pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum hormone regulation and your regulation of stress. When you regulate your hormones via the Nervous System, you decrease the symptoms we often experience when they are out of balance; including nausea, anxiety, insomnia, mood swings and fatigue. 

3. Redirection and replenishment of your ENERGY 🌻
One of the biggest issues we face as we grow and house life is our own depletion and the feeling of a constant level of fatigue. By working with both restorative and energy-based practices we can start to rebuild and release energy to take us out of this space and back into vitality.

If you want to find out more about the Vitality Pregnancy Yoga program and how it could transform your pregnancy then head to the page linked in my bio and also receive a FREE Pregnancy Symptom Relief: Therapeutic Yoga Pack; with 4 short 15-30 minute classes targeting the relief of nausea, fatigue, insomnia and back pain, that you can use at any point you get symptom flare up or as a daily prevention throughout your pregnancy 🌻

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23/05/2024

So excited for the new format for the birth preparation programs I offer here in person on the beautiful SC and also soon online ✨
Integrated Birth is a 1 day mamas only program held at the beautiful

Working across the essential triangle of body, mind and nervous system preparation : the Integrated Birth program is designed to support any woman seeking a vaginal birth that wants to feel empowered ; prepared and confident for birth and the many paths it can take

What you’ll learn

🌻 How physiological birth happens and what you can therefore do to support it
🌻 A range of effective tools to use to integrate pain and challenge in childbirth (including breathing techniques, sound work, movement, visualisation and mind-techniques)
🌻 How to prepare your body for childbirth - set exercises to help support spontaneous labour and optimal positioning of your baby (avoid breech and posterior)
🌻 How to move your body in childbirth - set positions and movements to use during childbirth to keep labour progressing and support baby into the optimal position
🌻 How to prepare your Nervous System for birth - tools and exercises to start toning and training your Nervous System which can have the biggest impact on the progression of labour
🌻 How to prepare your mind for birth - exercises to explore your beliefs around birth, your personal reactions to challenge and discomfort and how to work with these to allow you to hold capacity for the challenges and changes that can happen in childbirth

Read more and book in at the website link in my bio ⬆️🌻

NB this is a monthly course so if you can’t make this date be sure to check out the website for the other dates available

Want to also activate your birth support person with knowledge and tools for birth? Then check out the online only mini course specifically for birth support people via my website

22/05/2024

Birth Preparation comes in many forms but from my personal experience from two natural births and from many clients feedback I believe there is a Birth Triangle of preparation that you want to be making sure you are covering all 3 sides within. Each side interlinks and supports the next.

The 3 sides are

1) Preparing the BODY -
Tone, strengthen and open the muscles and ligaments that support spontaneous labour in beginning and labour more easily progressing

2) Preparing the MIND -
Equip yourself with the essential knowledge on how physiological birth works. Understand what beliefs you have about birth and how you can change these to better support the birth outcome you desire and how to step out of the mind during childbirth

3) Preparing the NERVOUS SYSTEM -
Use proven and potent tools to tone and prepare your Nervous System for birth. This is a key component to allowing your birth hormones to keep building and releasing, supporting both pain management and the progression of natural labour

If you want to find out more about this triangle and its importance for supporting physiological birth then head to the birth preparation page linked in my bio and also receive a FREE mini-course in Breathing For Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond: teaching you key breathing practices to start preparing your body, mind and Nervous System for birth (yes the breath is a magic tool that can directly influence all 3!)

My Integrated Birth preparation program runs monthly here on the Sunshine Coast and will soon be available for purchasing as an online program 🌻

17/04/2024

Start understanding how what you believe about birth (consciously or unconsciously) can affect your birth outcomes . And your first tip in what to do about it …. more to come - make sure your subscribe to my channel 🌻

What we believe about birth (in part) impacts the childbirth experience we have. What can you do to start uncovering your current beliefs around birth and al...

17/04/2024

Hey pregnant mamas of the Sunshine Coast - excited to announce our Pregnancy Wellness Retreat (8th June) that myself and founder of will be running 🧡

Your connection with mamas and supportive tools and information for pregnancy and childbirth are the key ingredients of the day ✨

Here’s the booking and info link : (early bird is running until 19th May): head to the Morning Light website events page to book in and for more info

We also have our bi-monthly childbirth BirthWise Childbirth Preparation Course coming up on 18th-19th May (early birth finishes on 25th April) and you can read more about this course here on my website
Love and light 🌻