pregnancy, birth & baby
pregnancy yoga
Stretched
Enjoy stretching out and feeling healthier in your body to enjoy your pregnancy.
Calm
Enjoy time out for your and your baby to feel calmer and more content.
& Prepared
Prepare your body and mind for the birth of your baby.
Pregnancy yoga is the ideal way to bring the body into harmony with the changes and demands of pregnancy. This class offers time for you to enjoy the transformation, and time to be with your unborn baby. Find health, peace of mind & connection with yoga.
Yogabirth, yoga for pregnancy, classes offer healthy exercise and preparation for labour and birth. Yoga maintains and improves health, it allows us to trust our intuition, and ability to listen to the body. Women time and again get great peace of mind, comfort and joy from my classes. As the class is online we have monthly in person meet ups so you get to meet other class members and get to enjoy travel free yoga!
Probably the most beautiful page of my website is the yoga babies, where new mums introdue their babies, share how their birth went and how yoga helped them.
each class includes
- Balanced range of appropriate yoga poses for pregnancy
- Positions that are useful in labour
- Breathwork, to help with labour and birth
- Relaxation
- Tips and techniques for pregnancy & labour
these classes can help
- Improve your wellbeing and posture
- Position the baby well for labour
- Alleviate associated discomforts such as:
- heartburn, achy back, restricted breathing,
- sleep disturbance, anxiety
joining a class
In class there is always a range of physical abilities, backgrounds and stages of pregnancy. However they all have one thing in common: wanting to do their best for their pregnancy and unborn baby. You can start anytime from 12 weeks and keep coming right until birth.
expert teaching
Susannah has completed over 2 years of specialised training with YogaBirth in yoga for pregnancy and birth, and antenatal education. Susannah can offer you a deep understanding of pregnancy & birth. She has written and illustrated ‘Yoga and Breathing for Pregnancy and Birth which is availbable on Amazon.
birth preparation
topics we can cover
- Understand how your baby is born
- How helping birth hormones can make your labour easier
- Get your baby into the best position for an uncomplicated birth
- Find out how to know when is too early to go to hospital, and when it’s too late
- How to speed labour up/slow it down: helping your labour find a good rhythm
- Choose if, and how, to write a birth plan to get the support you need
- Practise special pain relieving massage for labour
- Find which positions suit you, your partner… and work with gravity
- Learn how to breath for a better birth
- Explore the benefits of waterbirth
- What to expect and tips for when your baby has arrived
when to book your course
It is ideal to do a birth preparation class between 1 and 2 months before your estimated due date. The workshops are designed to compliment your antenatal hospital or other antenatal classes.
exploring the ways to make your birth experience easier
Many women approach birth with anxiety and fear. These Birth Workshops give you effective tools to cope with the intensity of labour, and to transform your birth experience into an empowering, even enjoyable experience.
for you both
These workshops for you and your birth partner help your work together. Birth partners are best able to help when they have an understanding of giving birth. This practical workshop helps both of you know what to expect, what you can do to help, and what to avoid… for your birth, your relationship, and your baby.
what new mum’s say
what new dad’s say
baby & postnatal yoga
Connected
Enrich your baby’s life and strengthen the bodn between you.
Calm
Enjoy some calm and help your baby become contented so you can both flourish.
& Stronger
Strengthen your abdominal and pelvic floor to enjoy life more fully.
Baby yoga offers gentle physical stimulation for your baby. It includes flowing postures, holding, movement and touch. It induces a joyful, relaxed and lively interaction between you and your baby.
Each class or workshops contains:
- Baby Massage
- Baby yoga
- Postnatal Yoga
- Pelvic floor exercises
- Relaxation
postnatal yoga for you
In class we will stretch and release tension. You will also do specific yoga for your abdominals and pelvic floor, to bring your body safely back together after pregnancy. Often women caring for small babies carry upper back and shoulder tension so we will also focus on these areas. Yoga end with a short relaxation and then time to chat.
yoga for your baby:physical, developmental & holistic welbeing
All of your baby’s bodily systems, including digestive and nervous system will be stimulated to help them develop. The yoga and massage will help your baby sleep more deeply and become more settled.
Baby yoga deepens and enhances communication between you. From your baby’s point of view the positive trusting environment of the class set them up well for dealing with furtue challenges and interacting with others.
the power of touch
The experience of movement combined with touch is probably the richest stimulation you can offer your baby. In yoga, this stimulation occurs through the mutual involvement of parent and baby, at a pace at which the baby can absorb and integrate it. Yoga induces deep relaxation in adults, it’s the same for babies.
Yoga offers babies a resource that will enable them to deal positively with stress and know how to relax. Our handling of babies is a loving one, in which the conversion of a challenging movement into a safe game, to play and enjoy, is repeated again and again.
