I love playing around with essential oil. Much like some people love cooking and adding and mixing spices. Some of the essential oils I am using currently are, in fact, spices and herbs. I

Yes, the breath is natural and spontaneous. But we can also consciously direct and change our breath. So allowing your body to breathe deeply and completely you also change your physical tightness and your mental/emotional tension.

Really the postpartum period should be highlighted a lot more. We should pay much more attention to this very special time. It’s a sacred junction.

Here are my top 5 yoga poses for the pelvic floor in pregnancy

Only about 4% of babies are born on their “due date” so the likelihood that you will birth your baby on that date is tiny. Although I remember a midwife I worked with telling the story of a couple turning up at the hospital on their due date expecting the baby would be born.

Another year has gone and we are about to embark not only on a new year, 2020, but also a new decade. If ever there was a time for reflections and resolutions or intentions this is the time.

It’s not just the physical body that changes in pregnancy and on the journey to motherhood. The energetic body also takes on a new dimension.

“Yoga reduces anxiety, depression and pregnancy related uncomfortable experiences”. Besides, yoga can be safely used for pregnant women who are depressed, at high-risk. And “may be a viable approach to addressing antenatal depression”.

Is it OK to continue your practice whilst pregnant?

Although I’m not on a gluten free diet I know that too much bread makes me bloated and uncomfortable. So I was very happy finding this superfood gluten free bread recipe.

There are so many ways to engage with the pelvic floor and we have done it way before Mr Kegel came along.

There are different kinds of muscles and muscle fibres in our body – including the pelvic floor. They all work together to support our body, movement and physiology

The Root Chakra, or Muladhara Chakra, is our base and foundation. Its energetic location is at the perineum in male anatomy and the cervix in female anatomy. Basically our roots.

we need to become aware of our pelvic floor anatomy and it’s different areas. Don’t worry you, you don’t need to have tons of anatomy lessons. This is about experiential and practical anatomy.

Death and dying is a strange thing. It is hidden. We rarely talk about death.