Pregnancy yoga course. Waitlist
7 March 2025 •
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Grow Yoga, 3 The Artisans Yard, Dyson Place
Alexandra Newton
Alex specialises in yoga for pregnancy & post pregnancy and she teaches on Fridays and Sundays.
She is keen to create a space to build community, help reduce loneliness for new mums & support the wide spectrum of pregnancy experience including loss and abortion.
Description
A pregnancy specific course, running for five weeks, led by our pregnancy and yoga for motherhood teacher Alex Newton.
This is a rich and in-depth course full of helpful information about pregnancy and how we can use mindfulness, relaxation, yoga, breathwork and myofascial release to support the body not only through pregnancy but in the birth of your baby and beyond. The course is suitable for beginners to yoga.
Key themes will include:
Deep Rest - leaning into rest through yoga nidra, creating 'nests' to support the body and allow the parasympathetic nervous system to come to the fore.
Intuition - learning to listen to the body's intuition through body awareness, sensing and noticing. Through mindfulness practices we will be meeting you and your body where it is each day.
Emotions - We'll be working at an embodied level with anxiety, low mood, restlessness, exhaustion, worry, joy and bliss. We'll be cultivating connection to ourselves and others.
Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine - We'll be working with the five elements through acupressure and yoga and looking at how the wisdom of TCM can nourish us in pregnancy and beyond.
Breath - we'll be working with breath practices to release tension in the body and to help ease baby's passage - as well as help us connect with our emotions.
Voice - we'll be unleashing the voice and looking at how sound, and the sounds we naturally make in birth, can help release fear and tension.
Birth Biomechanics - we'll be moving to optimise baby's position in the third trimester and ease the baby's journey through the pelvis. We'll be freeing the pelvis, working with imbalance, maintaining strength and mobility and feeling how it is connected to the whole body such as the feet, jaw, breath and posture.
Body Support - releasing tension in the upper back, shoulders and lower back and looking at the emotional anatomy behind some of our tensions - how we can ask for support and how we receive help.
Touch - self massage, supportive holds and looking at how touch can directly talk to our nervous system and support us, and our babies, in pregnancy and beyond. We'll also be looking at what postpartum support we may need.
Closing circle and ceremony - the final session will involve a closing circle of connection, embodied practice, breath, poetry, nidra and rest.
This is a rich and in-depth course full of helpful information about pregnancy and how we can use mindfulness, relaxation, yoga, breathwork and myofascial release to support the body not only through pregnancy but in the birth of your baby and beyond. The course is suitable for beginners to yoga.
Key themes will include:
Deep Rest - leaning into rest through yoga nidra, creating 'nests' to support the body and allow the parasympathetic nervous system to come to the fore.
Intuition - learning to listen to the body's intuition through body awareness, sensing and noticing. Through mindfulness practices we will be meeting you and your body where it is each day.
Emotions - We'll be working at an embodied level with anxiety, low mood, restlessness, exhaustion, worry, joy and bliss. We'll be cultivating connection to ourselves and others.
Yoga and Traditional Chinese Medicine - We'll be working with the five elements through acupressure and yoga and looking at how the wisdom of TCM can nourish us in pregnancy and beyond.
Breath - we'll be working with breath practices to release tension in the body and to help ease baby's passage - as well as help us connect with our emotions.
Voice - we'll be unleashing the voice and looking at how sound, and the sounds we naturally make in birth, can help release fear and tension.
Birth Biomechanics - we'll be moving to optimise baby's position in the third trimester and ease the baby's journey through the pelvis. We'll be freeing the pelvis, working with imbalance, maintaining strength and mobility and feeling how it is connected to the whole body such as the feet, jaw, breath and posture.
Body Support - releasing tension in the upper back, shoulders and lower back and looking at the emotional anatomy behind some of our tensions - how we can ask for support and how we receive help.
Touch - self massage, supportive holds and looking at how touch can directly talk to our nervous system and support us, and our babies, in pregnancy and beyond. We'll also be looking at what postpartum support we may need.
Closing circle and ceremony - the final session will involve a closing circle of connection, embodied practice, breath, poetry, nidra and rest.