Classes

I am offering Creative Movement for Birth sessions for pregnant people at any stage of their pregnancy, depending on what is comfortable for them.

All sessions last an hour and 45 minutes and involve gentle movement with an underpinning in the anatomy and physiology of pregnancy, labour and birth. There will be time for guided relaxation, tea and a snack, and some writing, drawing, doodling (with a creative prompt) as well as a sharing circle. 

What do I mean by creative movement?

Creative movement means movement that feels good for you and presents an opportunity to find your own rhythms.

There will be guided movement and stretches that you may be familiar with from yoga and other movements practices. We will often be moving with an awareness of the pelvis, the feet, and the spine, while also thinking of the whole body in space.

Some sessions will bring more attention to breathing and vocalisation - both wonderful ways to deepen and drop into an inner awareness and to let go of day-to-day concerns. While other sessions may invite more freedom to choose movements within a context and framework, with the hope to loosen inhibitions and to practice movements that may eventually come to feel more intuitive at the time of labour and birth.

Guided movement and prompts draw from yoga, embodied anatomy, contact improvisation, Topf technique, yoga, Butoh and Deep Listening.

Essentials:

Please bring a yoga matt, a water bottle, a journal and a pen.