Are you anxious about giving birth?

Well why wouldn’t you be, with our fear drenched culture around birthing! It’s like a self fulfilling prophecy. Fear begets tension - tension begets pain - pain begets fear and on it goes. 

This is at least one of the factors that can impact on one’s birthing experience. 

Another is that women often have an inherent distrust of their bodies and their ability to give birth. Again, a cultural issue that has arisen from thousands of your of the patriarchy (of course) but also in a more modern context, the over-use of medical intervention. Of course medical support has made birthing very safe in this part of the world, but it’s generally accepted that it has now over-shot the mark. In an attempt to reduce all risk (which is of course impossible) it instills more fear and self doubt into women. 

In the name of safety, many many women are unnecessarily interrupted, poked, cut, pumped with synthetic hormones (which we still don’t fully understand the long term impact of), made to feel scared, undermined, voiceless or coerced. All or any of these can be enough to rob them of the opportunity to experience what can be for many women the most empowering and uplifting experience of their whole life. And the more warrior goddess mums we have in the world, the better this goddamn place is going to be! Right?

With 21 years experience, my pregnancy yoga classes offer not only a supportive group where we can get these sort of issues on the table, but as an antenatal educator and hypnobirth teacher and teacher trainer, I also offer birthing tips, embodied knowledge through yoga, breath, mindfulness & hypnobirth techniques to help you remain calm and confident. These will absolutely help you prepare for birthing and also help you stay centred as you navigate the choices presented to you along the way by your caregivers. 

Mondays 7.30pm and Saturdays 9.30am in Tunbridge Wells or join Saturdays live online.