Yoga to nurture new life. Worldwide, leading specialist yoga teacher training in 5 areas:
Pregnancy
05/03/2026
Want to be able to use a wide repertoire of Birthlight Postnatal Yoga practices to nurture new mums with wide ranging needs? Join our course spread over 6 mornings to offer effective yet gentle and progressive yoga that you can adapt to different needs in classes with or without babies present.
05/03/2026
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03/03/2026
03/03/2026
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27/02/2026
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23/02/2026
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22/02/2026
Most conversations about the pelvic floor begin — and end — in the same place: pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the instruction to do your Kegels. But your pelvic floor is with you for life. It quietly shifts and adapts through every hormonal change, every physical transition, every decade you l...
22/02/2026
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19/02/2026
We warmly invite you to join us for this event marking both the completion of the Birthlight Trust as a UK Charity and the continuation of Birthlight Teaching to support pregnancy, birth, postnatal wellbeing and beyond for the families we reach in the UK and all over the world. This is also the twentieth anniversary of our first international Cambridge Conference: Visions of Infant Joy, July 2006, with speakers that some of you may remember (Frederick Leboyer, Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, Joseph Chilton Pearce and many others).
In twenty years, the experience of giving birth and parenting babies and young children has transformed. Still, while public services are reduced and the care in “healthcare” is compromised, our shared vision of ‘creating community’ to promote a better childbearing year prevails. Birthlight practices have evolved and continue evolving; some have gone mainstream; others quietly do their magic each birth at a time. .
The day’s aims are:
to refresh teaching, going back to foundations of practice that may be forgotten or invisible
To receive insights from Birthlight trainers and senior teachers with years of teaching experience
To reconnect with friends from past courses and conferences (it may be decades not years…)
To get stimulating ideas, information, research to support your life path
A detailed programme with information on the various workshops and talks will follow.
Inclusive fee for the day: (free parking, WIFI access, refreshments and hot lunch): £36.00 for members or £50 non-members. The fee is subsidised but if you cannot afford it please email enquiries@birthlight.com and we will find a way for you to access the conference.
You are welcome to attend all the sessions whatever teaching background you are from.
Accommodation is also available at a discounted rate through the university.
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18/02/2026
We warmly invite you to join us for this event marking both the completion of the Birthlight Trust as a UK Charity and the continuation of Birthlight Teaching to support pregnancy, birth, postnatal wellbeing and beyond for the families we reach in the UK and all over the world. This is also the twentieth anniversary of our first international Cambridge Conference: Visions of Infant Joy, July 2006, with speakers that some of you may remember (Frederick Leboyer, Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, Joseph Chilton Pearce and many others).
In twenty years, the experience of giving birth and parenting babies and young children has transformed. Still, while public services are reduced and the care in “healthcare” is compromised, our shared vision of ‘creating community’ to promote a better childbearing year prevails. Birthlight practices have evolved and continue evolving; some have gone mainstream; others quietly do their magic each birth at a time. .
The day's aims are:
to refresh teaching, going back to foundations of practice that may be forgotten or invisible
To receive insights from Birthlight trainers and senior teachers with years of teaching experience
To reconnect with friends from past courses and conferences (it may be decades not years…)
To get stimulating ideas, information, research to support your life path
A detailed programme with information on the various workshops and talks will follow.
Inclusive fee for the day: (free parking, WIFI access, refreshments and hot lunch): £36.00 for members or £50 non-members. The fee is subsidised but if you cannot afford it please email enquiries@birthlight.com and we will find a way for you to access the conference.
You are welcome to attend all the sessions whatever teaching background you are from.
Accommodation is also available at a discounted rate through the university.
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The Birthlight Trust is an educational charity, with over 30 years’ experience of promoting an integrated approach to pregnancy, birth, babyhood and parenting with Yoga.
Pregnancy, birth and the first 1000 days are an exciting and fragile time. Women need support to connect or reconnect with their own body and prepare for the arrival of a new life. Birthlight offers unique yoga-based teacher training to mother the mothers and nurture new life, on land and water. Our simple yet effective moves and our way to teach in circles help to build strong and healthy foundations for life.
Our courses include:
Fertility Yoga, Pregnancy Yoga, Birthlight Yoga for Maternity, Birth Preparation, PBAC, Postnatal Yoga, Yoga to support Breastfeeding, Aquanatal Yoga, Aqua Yoga Therapy, Nurturing Baby Massage, Baby Yoga, Toddler Yoga, Aquatic Nurture for Newborns, Baby Swimming, Toddler Swimming, Well Woman Yoga, Yoga for Pelvic Health, Yoga for Breast Cancer Recovery and Well Woman Aqua Yoga.
In a nutshell, our aim is to practically support the wellbeing of women through the journey of pregnancy and birth and to help both parents and infants relax in mutual enjoyment of their life together. We do this by transferring specially designed, original sets of body-based skills and exercises. These are drawn from classic yoga and also from traditional modes of care and parenting across cultures. We work both on land and in water with parents to be and new parents with their babies.
At the heart of Birthlight is Francoise Freedman PhD, whose vision for Birthlight has stemmed from her field research with rainforest indigenous people in South America, her teaching as a medical anthropologist and her exploration of innovative body-based practices to support motherhood as a trained yoga teacher/therapist and swimmer.