Yoga is one of the best forms of exercise during pregnancy. It is a gentle and safe way to stay fit, strong and energised without compromising you or your child’s wellbeing. Yoga helps you to connect to your breathing, which will help you build awareness of your body and embrace the changes it is going through. You will deepen your understanding of the power of your body and learn to place your trust init. Yoga will help strengthen your birthing muscles and generally promote a healthy conscious birth.
The aim of the class is to create a community: To provide a safe environment for women to feel open, supported and empowered. To facilitate a space where they can connect and talk about what is on their minds, the practicalities of birth, how they feel, their fears, worries and hopes. Classes begin with breathing, moving through onto a sequence of flowing postures modified for pregnancy and ending most importantly with visualisation and relaxation.
Last updated Oct. 24, 2016, 2:22 p.m. UTC
Yolande was introduced to yoga in her early twenties and has been happily practicing and finding home on the mat 26 years later. She is grateful to have practiced with some truly brilliant teachers over the years all with detail for alignment and emotional wellbeing, which inspires her teaching today. Yolande teaches a safe but challenging class aiming to cultivate a feeling of balance, freedom and grace. Her intention is to create a space for her students to simply be with what is and to meet each individual with where they are at, whether a beginner or a seasoned yogi.
Yolande having practiced homeopathy since 2008 formally left clinical practice and has gone into teaching Yoga full time since qualifying in 2013 in pregnancy with Nadia Narain, Vinyasa flow with Katy Appleton of appleyoga, postnatal yoga with Lolly Stirk of Yogabirth and teacher intensives with Elena Brower and Ana Ashby.
Yolande is also a birth doula registered with Doula UK and an Active Birth Teacher.