Creativity and wellbeing are our birthright. Our conditioning may have lead us to mistrust our bodies and to look outside for answers. The medicalization of birth still influences how we experience pregnancy and labor today. Yet this blessed womb activation is such a significant initiation in a woman’s life. Pregnancy is a process that invites […]
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THE BENEFITS OF PRENATAL YOGA Prenatal yoga is more than adjusting postures for the pregnant body, it’s a practice that supports the journey of becoming a mother. Pregnancy is a time of transformation on both physical and spiritual levels. Intuition, perception and sensory clarity are heightened. The skills that are developed in prenatal yoga classes
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By Monica Carr, ASY Alumni At the start of this year, riding on the coattails of freshly declared resolutions, I signed up for Awakened Spirit Yoga’s online doula and prenatal yoga teacher training. My top-ranked goal for the year—to conceive—motivated me. I thought it’d be a brilliant way to communicate loudly with the Universe my
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By Alexa Rittichier, Prenatal Yoga Facilitator & Doula THE PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF PREGNANCY The New York Post reported on a study of pregnant people in 2019. Researchers studying the limits of human endurance have determined that the physical intensity of pregnancy is basically like running a 40-week marathon. “Pregnancy is the most energetically expensive activity the
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By Alexa Rittichier, Prenatal Yoga Facilitator & Doula A SHORT DAILY ROUTINE FOR PREGNANCY & THE POSTPARTUM PERIOD Low back pain affects a large portion of the pregnant and postnatal population. Often pregnancy can lead to imbalances in the body that cause this. I have put together a routine of my favorite five, simple moves
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You’ve probably seen the Holistic Childbirth Educator program on our website and wondered exactly what it is! It’s a special program where we help those with an interest in yoga AND birth become a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. For many of our students it has been a great way to add another service to their
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AYURVEDIC VIEW ON POST PARTUM CARE “After giving birth a new mother is fragile, energetically open, and vulnerable, just as her new born. Love, patience, and gentleness are essential for everyone’s health and harmony.” Margo Shapiro Bachman How do we accomplish a truly nourishing postpartum period? Most health care providers are focused solely on pregnancy
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By Dr Sairupa Krishnamurti, N.D and Ayurveda Practitioner The child-bearing year is a sacred season of a woman/ birthing person’s life. How do we awaken into this time with a little more tender awareness, consciousness, and love? Is it possible to consider this time of pregnancy, birth and early parenting a sādhanā (spiritual practice)? In
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By Alexa Rittichier, Prenatal Yoga Facilitator & Doula A SHORT STORY ABOUT SELF COMPASSION DURING PREGNANCY, PARENTHOOD, & BEYOND “My advice to you is to buy the paper plates,” Jenny said as I sobbed on the phone. I was in the middle of a painful divorce and all I could say over and over through
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View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Awakened Spirit Yoga alumni and students with their babes! In Yoga, when we are invited to try a new pose, we strive to hold it mindfully, until we relax into the unfamiliarity, the uncertainty, the potential of the pose. While we are in
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