Yoga should be the first choice of exercise for any pregnant woman. Widely recommended and promoted by midwives and doctors, it is considered the safest all round exercise for women during pregnancy and an ideal birth preparation programme.
Current Terms finish W/ending Wednesday 22 July 09
New Term begins Monday 7 September 09
All the spring/summer 09 class dates have been published. Please refer to Latest Course Details and/or Class Timetable.
Our ongoing 12 week pregnancy courses cover everything the pregnant mother needs to keep her fit and well during her pregnancy, remedy many of the common pregnancy complications like back pain and oedema and prepare and empower her physically, emotionally and spiritually for birth. Every one hour class ends with fifteen minutes of healing deep relaxation allowing the body to release tensions, the mind to become still and the mother to create a deeper connection with her growing baby.
Spinal alignment
Yogic breathing and birth breathing
Pelvic awareness
Loosening the hips and pelvis
Strengthening the birthing muscles
All over body strengthening
Active birth positions
Optimal fetal positioning
Deep relaxation and Visualization techniques for pregnancy and labour
Fear management techniques
Nutritional Advice
Space and time to connect with your unborn child
Classes suit all stages of pregnancy from 14 - 42 weeks. However from 34 weeks you are welcome to transfer out of the pregnancy yoga class and into the Birth Preparation class for a more detailed look at Labour and Birth. Click here for more information on the Birth Preparation classes.
We are also running a number of optional supplementary classes that include a session with independent midwife Annie Francis, and a special three hour in-depth birth prep workshop for you and your partner which prepares you both for the labour and birth process. For further details on these classes Click here to visit our Pregnancy LATEST NEWS Page
Trained initially in the Sivananda yoga tradition, ex-journalist Nadia has gone on to explore other schools and styles of yoga including Ashtanga Yoga and, at the other extreme, Scaravelli yoga. More recently she has studied yoga with Donna Farhi.
Becoming a mother, twice over with two different birth experiences (one breech presentation and emergency caesarean and one vaginal birth post caesarean at home) transformed Nadia's understanding and experience of yoga. Since then she has specialsed in teaching yoga as a pregnancy and birth preparation practice. Nadia completed her antenatal yoga diploma and foundation training with Birthlight under the tutorship of Dr Francoise Freedman. She is also a fully trained and accredited Birthlight Baby Yoga teacher.
Nadia has also completed her doula-training with Dr Michel Odent and Liliana Lamis and now practices as a birth doula. More recently she has gained certification in hypnotherapy at the London College of Clinical Hypnosis and is already incorporating this into her work both as a Birth Preparation teacher and a doula. Nadia passionately believes that with adequate preparation a gentle birth is possible for everyone and that yoga, more than anything, helps prepare the way. When not teaching and practising yoga, Nadia can be found on the common with her three boys Angus (partner), Rohan and Conor Ford-Robertson.
Click here to read some of her articles
The intuitive mind is a sacred
gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society
that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
