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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