Yoga should be the first choice of exercise for any pregnant woman. Widely recommended and promoted by midwives and doctors, it is considered the safest all round exercise for women during pregnancy and an ideal birth preparation programme.
Current Term: finishes Wednesday 14 July 08
All the Spring/summer class dates have been published. Please refer to Latest Course Details and/or Class Timetable.
Our ongoing 12 week pregnancy courses cover everything the pregnant mother needs to keep her fit and well during her pregnancy, remedy many of the common pregnancy complications like back pain and oedema and prepare and empower her physically, emotionally and spiritually for birth. Every one hour class ends with fifteen minutes of healing deep relaxation allowing the body to release tensions, the mind to become still and the mother to create a deeper connection with her growing baby.
Spinal alignment
Yogic breathing and birth breathing
Pelvic awareness
Loosening the hips and pelvis
Strengthening the birthing muscles
All over body strengthening
Active birth positions
Optimal fetal positioning
Deep relaxation and Visualization techniques for pregnancy and labour
Fear management techniques
Nutritional Advice
Space and time to connect with your unborn child
Classes suit all stages of pregnancy from 14 - 42 weeks. However from 34 weeks you are welcome to transfer out of the pregnancy yoga class and into the Birth Preparation class for a more detailed look at Labour and Birth. Click here for more information on the Birth Preparation classes.
We are also running a number of optional supplementary classes that include a morning coffee session with independent midwife Annie Francis, and a special three hour in-depth birth prep workshop for you and your partner which prepares you both for the labour and birth process. For further details on these classes Click here to visit our Pregnancy LATEST NEWS Page
Trained initially in the Sivananda yoga tradition, ex-journalist Nadia did her antenatal yoga diploma and foundation training with Birthlight under the tutorship of Dr Francoise Freedman. She has recently completed her doula training with Dr Michel Odent and Liliana Lamis and is now pracicing as a birth doula. More recently she has begun her hypnotherpay training at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis. A mother of two herself she has experienced both the nightmare birth scenario (breech presentation and emergency caesarean) and the optimum birth (completely natural home birth post caesarean) and passionately believes that with adequate preparation a gentle birth is possible for everyone. When not teaching and practising yoga, Nadia can be found on the common with her two sons Rohan and Conor Ford-Robertson. She occasionally writes about yoga, pregnancy and birth for the local and national press.
Click here to read some of her articles
The intuitive mind is a sacred
gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society
that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
