Conception; Natal Care; Birth

Benefits of Starting Prenatal Yoga Early

Prenatal Yoga: benefits of starting early It's common for women to start attending Prenatal Yoga from around 30 weeks pregnant. It's never too late to start moving, but I definitely encourage women to start earlier if possible - here's why... HABIT FORMING On average, it takes 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic. (Lally et al, [...]

Nourishing Foods for New Mums

Here at Kundalini House, we’ve asked our Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Naturopaths what they ate to replenish their energy and nourish their resources during pregnancy and after birthing. Here’s their recommendations: Eat warming, cooked foods rather than cold salads and raw foods Ask your family to arrange a ‘meal train’ so your loved ones can [...]

A Guided Breath Practice to Create Calm and Aid Sleep

A Guided Breath Practice to Create Calm and Aid Sleep With Melisa Chabierski   This practice is good for all, but especially fabulous for postnatal women who can not rest, relax, or sleep when their baby is asleep.   Rhythmic Extension Breath Breath practice that begins with equal in and out flows of the breath, [...]

What is Fertility Awareness? – by Tulsi Manjari

It's a question I get all the time, after telling people I teach Fertility Awareness to singles and couples. "Ah..," they say. A short pause. "What's that?" Well.. read on to solve the mystery.         Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABMs) are natural, healthy and empowering systems that teach people to understand and [...]

The Life Changing Magic of Learning Your Cervical Mucus! – by Tulsi Manjari

Our bodies are imbued with exquisite intelligence. They have a thousand wise ways to communicate vital information about our health & functioning, and the amount, colour, and consistency of our cervical mucus is a particularly fascinating and empowering one. Monitoring changes in cervical mucus is a key component of many Fertility Awareness Based Methods (FABMs). [...]

Meet Sarina Keam – Acupuncturist & Chinese Medicine

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 [...]

Is your conscious mind getting in the way of your health, happiness and potential?

  In many cases, past experiences set our future behaviours and sets up limitations which effectively constrain our full potential. Hypnotherapy, is commonly used to facilitate adjustment to set new behaviour, and helps free the shackles of behaviour patterns that previously were difficult to counter or overcome. "It is genuinely exciting to know that Hypnotherapy [...]

Kundalini Yoga for the Recovery of Birth Trauma

“A birth is defined as traumatic if the woman was or believed she or her baby was in danger of injury or death and she felt helpless and out of control, this can occur at any point in labour and birth.”(Beck2004a) As a mother myself, I know plenty of women who have given birth. It’s [...]

Essential nutrients for immunity

As the beautiful Autumn days arrive, so do the scarves and woolly jumpers!  The change in temperature is a reminder to prepare our bodies for the upcoming winter. So what are the essential nutrients for the prevention of the winter “lurgies”? our common colds or flu's? This will vary from person to person, but let [...]

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