Tell us a little about your work these last few years? Over the last few years I have been working alongside private midwives in their family clinic. I helped to look after many pregnant women and postpartum using Chinese Medicine. It was such a joy to work closely with some amazing midwives and their extensive [...]
Written by Nina Isabella This continues to be one of my favourite postures. Deeply restorative, nourishing and refreshing; for me time spent in a fully supported forward bend is the chai of my yoga practice! I encourage all women to immerse often into the delights of supported forward bends. Regularly spend time in the stillness [...]
The Western diet has changed a lot in the last 20 to 50 years, not only with the choices we make about what to eat, but how the food is grown and manufactured. Increasingly our soils are being depleted of essential minerals and our food is heavily processed which robs it even more. The animals [...]
By Nina Isabella In her wonderful book Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper talks about the profound benefits of regularly practicing deep guided relaxation during pregnancy. Harper states that during labour, women experience an altered state of consciousness. Knowing this gives us the superb opportunity to work with the body's innate desire to rest during labour. [...]
The beauty of Kundalini Yoga is its dedication to inspiring women to be physically smart, mentally stable and spiritually fantastic! Yogi Bhajan believed that through the empowerment and upliftment of women, the consciousness of the world would shift. “A Woman's Book of Yoga’ is a great read and a practical resource book that is written [...]
Last week I received the following message on my Facebook : “This week we remember all the babies born sleeping or whom we have carried but never met, or those we have held but couldn’t take home or the ones that came home but didn’t stay. Make this your profile status if you or someone [...]
In our society of the body beautiful, our fixation on the external beauty of thin, young and flawless we have sadly lost touch with the divine feminine beauty. This is becoming most evident to me as a 7-month pregnant female in our visual dominant society. In years gone by artisans created sculptures of an abundant [...]
Written by Elinor Bester The powerful and gentle therapy that is the Bowen Technique is a natural and holistic treatment that can be useful in all stages of bringing a new child into the world. Bowen is a soft tissue relaxation technique that is performed by doing a series of gentle rolling moves in specific [...]