Heartspace yoga

13/07/2019

On the train to London to do Diastasis Recti training - split abdominals - which often happens in pregnancy and reading the Positive Birth Book by Milli Hill - my new must read for mums and dads to be! Know what it feels like to make a mountain! Xx

12/02/2019

Love this - mothers are magic 💕

Mothers are magic: I'm done with distractions while we create everything you see before you.

11/09/2018

Pregnancy yoga alleviates labour pain and improves birth outcomes according to this new study - win, win then 😊 xx

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30160530

Breaking news! A new study has tested the hypothesis that prenatal yogic exercises are effective in alleviating labour pain and improving birth outcomes, by comparing pregnant women undertaking yoga with a control group.

An impressive 200 pregnant women were randomly assigned to study (n = 100) and control groups (n = 100). The study group received the intervention in the form of integrated yoga consisting of a series of 30-min practice sessions at the 30th, 32nd, 34th, 36th, 37th, 38th, and 39th weeks of gestational age. The matched control group did not perform yoga. And what did the study find?....

The requirement of induction of labour and analgesics was significantly less in the yoga group. The tolerance of pain was also better in the yoga group and the maternal comfort questionnaire score showed higher comfort in the yoga group. The number of low birth weight babies was also significantly less in the yoga group. And what's more - there were no adverse effects attributed to yoga.

This new study has highlighted that yoga is a noninvasive, easy to learn mind-body medicine and complementary health practice, effective in alleviation of labour pain and possibly improving birth outcome.

To read more about the study, please click on the link.

Namaste.

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13/04/2018

15/02/2018

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10/02/2018

Few pics of my lovely postnatal mum and baby class 💕 Last class for a little while as I embark on my own journey to welcome my baby into the world and adjust to being a mum of 3 little people😊 Pregnancy and postnatal classes will be back later in 2018 and a new yoga & relaxation class for mums ###

11/01/2018

Love this - so true 💕

04/01/2018

A few pics of some of the lovely mums in my postnatal class, they're working on gently closing their bodies after pregnancy, strengthening and toning their deep core muscles, and taking some time to relax with their beautiful new babies. Such a joy to teach 💕

07/12/2017

Interesting article on what happens when babies and adults lock eyes - beautiful synching ###

Brain waves line up when adults and babies lock eyes.

03/12/2017

V interesting on hospital births being ‘safer’ x

Since the 1960s, UK births have increasingly taken place in the stressful environment of hospitals, but as this week’s guidelines highlight, there was never any proof that this was the safer option

07/11/2017

Interesting and helpful article on how staying mindful can help when you’re feeling angry, frustrated:

‘Instead of judging our anger as right or wrong, good or bad, should or shouldn’t, mindfulness helps us to simply accept the reality that this is what we are feeling. We don’t have to like it, we just have to accept that it is what it is.’

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It’s about sending kindness to yourself.