The Village London, Parent, Carer & Family Wellbeing

01/07/2025

30/01/2025

Excited to announce the date of our next day retreat for mothers - it’s been almost a year since our last one! Here are the details;

🌷Emerging into Spring:an Equinox retreat for mothers
Saturday 29th March, 2-7pm, Forest Hill 🌷

As the earth blooms back into life, so do we. 

Join us to celebrate the emergence of spring, and the re-emergence of ourselves. 
After a long dark winter of underground dreaming, we have reached the Spring Equinox.

The Spring Equinox (or Ostara) is the mid-point between winter and spring. The Spring Equinox is a very potent time of new beginnings, positive changes and growth.

Join us to celebrate the return of the light with the Village community of mothers and mothers-to-be. 

By honouring these natural cycles and aligning our energy to the earth, we can harness this natural power in our own lives. 

This will be an invigorating and uplifting day with nourishing practices to support you to connect to the transformative energy of spring

The day will include:

🌷Intention and crafting
🌷Spring equinox celebration
🌷Plant spirit meditation
🌷Gentle movement 
🌷Sound healing 
🌷Breathwork 
🌷Journalling 
🌷A light supper
🌷Spring tea with local foraged plants
🌷Wholesome snacks

Price
Standard £90
Pay It Forward £95
Discount £70 **limited availability**

Full details and booking , see link in bio

Lots of love, Yasmin & Saara 💜

24/01/2025

We are back on social media! and here to celebrate our wonderful Catford Community Choir, who sing together every Wednesday at The Corbett community library from 11am to 12pm (term time).

Everyone is welcome, whatever your age or ability and we have toys and mats for the babies and children too.

Join us for a free taster session!

Info on our website here;
https://thevillagelondon.co.uk/service/catford-community-choir/

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03/07/2024

Look at our beautiful collective piece of art work 🤩
Plus Sarah and Misa our wonderful volunteers!

These huge pieces of paper have been at Misa’s art table over the past couple of months, bringing parents and small children together for doodles, scribbles, painting and colour galore.

Join us over the next 3 Wednesdays from 12.15-2.15pm (3rd/10th/17th July) to help us complete it before the summer holidays. There are play mats & toys for the little ones too.

Come and play 🎨

10/03/2024

Getting some important life lessons right now 😻
Channeling my inner cat this Mother’s Day morning 💤

Happy Mama day to all the wonderful mothers and mothers figures in this community 💕🌹💜

Love Ruby the cat and her mama Yasmin X

06/03/2024

Our up coming day retreat is happening this Saturday and we are so looking forward to welcoming mamas and working with the theme ‘Self-Love’ 🌹

Join us in the garden room at Friends meeting house, where we’ll be sharing the space together, treating you all to beautiful practices, activities and yummy food leaving you well and truly loved up 🥰

We still have places available- come fill your own cup mama and join us for:

💜 Rose and Cacao ceremony
💜 Heart, Womb and Yoni activation
💜 Sacral Chakra dance and movement
💜 Anointing Ceremony
💜 Yoga, stretching and breath-work
💜 Journalling
💜 Wholesome snacks and herbal teas
💜 A light delicious supper

Saturday 9th March
2pm to 7pm
Friends Meeting House, Forest Hill

Ticket prices per person

🌹 standard £90
🌹 pay it forward £95
🌹 discount £70

Full event info and booking on our website.
Any questions please let us know.

Much love

Yasmin & Saara
📷 picture taken at our last day retreat

28/02/2024

This post is looooooooooong overdue (how are your babies 13 months old already?!) but this is a massive BiG UP to Shevonne, for overcoming so many obstacles (maybe we can ask her to share that story another time) and finding the right support and digging deep to give these babies the start she truly desired for them 💜💕

We’ve been lucky to spend time with Shevonne and her brood at various parts of her parenting journey - and some of the most precious of these were her weekly trips coming to see Lisa and honing her breastfeeding skills at our feeding support group.

Shevonne left us a lovely testimonies yesterday ;

“Lisa was a great help in confirming what I knew wasn’t feeling right!! She sat and listened contently, she calmed my nerves when it came to tandem feeding in public and graciously reminded me I’m only human! Her advice was invaluable and without the village doing what it does my breastfeeding journey could have been very different.

I thoroughly enjoyed having the great support provided by the village. From working through my miscarriage in the beautifully safe space of maternal journal to stretching every week in yoga and ending the day with family drumming Wednesdays quickly became my best day of the week!”

💕🥰💜

Feeding support , every Wednesday, term time
12.15pm to 2.15pm
With Lisa , IBCLC lactation consultant

21/02/2024

We love trying out new things at The Village, please keep bringing your suggestions and your offerings 🥰

We are lucky to now have Misa volunteering with us most Wednesdays!
Her offering is the;

🎨 Creative playground 🛝
Wednesdays
12.15pm - 2.15pm
Open to all in the community
Free to attend / donations always very welcome
Corbett Community Library

We’ve been running it for a few weeks now and it’s awesome to see people from ages 2-70 getting stuck in!

Misa is a local painter/printmaker who has a passion for spreading the joy of being creative. Creativity is our superpower we are all born with.
The busy life often prevents us from using the superpower because it is not “efficient” or “productive” or “meaningful”, because “I am not good at it”, or because there is no time! Come and be playful, be brave, be imaginative for as long as you want.
Creativity is about the doing, not the outcome. Misa will be offering simple activities for all ages set around a theme that changes fortnightly. The session is not taught in a traditional sense but you can choose how you want to explore the theme. Misa is happy to help your idea come true :) All materials are provided.

Come and play with us 💜

01/02/2024

Hello hello hello, my name is Yasmin, I’m the founder & director of The Village London. I thought it was about time to re-introduce myself as it’s been quite literally forever since I did!
Plus, it’s Imbolc (ancient Celtic festival) and my mood is matching the emerging springiness of today🌱☀️ 👌🏽

I set up The Village with an awesome group of local mamas and we became official as a Community Interest Company in December 2020, in response to our own lived experiences of becoming mothers in Lewisham.

Each of our journeys through pregnancy, birth and postpartum looked wildly different to one another, however what unified our experiences were the resounding feelings that deep care for mothers was just not there - unless you have plenty of cash to pay for support or family and friends close by with lots of free time.

I believe that if we support mothers properly, if they are looked after, held, heard, nurtured and nourished, the whole family and the wider community benefits. It’s that magical ripple effect of love and care and I talk about this a lot!

We have experimented, created, tested, failed and succeeded at so many things over the past 3.5 years and rewind to last summer, I nearly jacked it all in to get a ‘proper job’ again! But, the community spoke out LOUDLY and we are still here and quite honestly, loving every minute of it!

2024 is all about working on that master plan to make this whole vision sustainable for myself, my family and The Village - so we can make the world a better place together!

Sending so much love to all of you for being part of our journey so far!

📷 picture taken this morning in one of my favourite nature spots in Lewisham called Dacres Wood, where my super lucky six year old boy gets to spend 3 days per week with the beautiful unschooling community

31/01/2024

Welcoming Rosie, Ida & Luna the whippet to the volunteer squad at The Village!

This wonderful trio will be leading the walks at Mountsfield Park, every Thursday at 10.30am, meeting place is the cafe in the park.

These walks are free of charge and open to all parents & carers.

A lovely way to get outside, enjoy nature and meet some other local families.

You can let us know if you are joining by booking online via our website.

Thank you Rosie & brood for getting these back up and running again 💜

Rosie says;

Hello! I’m Rosie. I’m a Mum of 2 girls, the most recent addition - Ida - born in November last year so I’m on maternity leave currently. I live on the Corbett estate in an almost-finished (read: never finished…) reno project with my husband Andy, our 2 year old daughter Wren, Ida and our whippet Luna - who will be joining our walks and showing off her mad-speedy running skills.

I’m excited to be a walk leader for Thursday’s walk and talks as it’s always lovely meeting new parents in the area. Both me and my husband are from South Wales and all our family are miles away, so it’s support networks like The Village that have helped us survive parenthood so far! I’m a firm believer that even on the worst days, especially in early motherhood, getting up and out for some fresh air is the best tonic there is and you never feel worse after a walk in nature.

Really looking forward to meeting you all soon!


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