My Yoga Birth focuses on two main elements: understanding physiological birth and the mother’s natural birthing instincts.

Physiological birth is a term used to describe the natural birthing process—how nature designed it to be over thousands of years of evolution. It’s extremely complex and incredibly clever. If we desire an easier, quicker, intervention-free birth, it is essential to understand how the birth process works and how we can support it as unique individuals.

​If you haven’t given birth before, it might be hard to grasp that you already know how to birth your baby. Just as you know how to breathe and digest your food without thinking about it, your body already knows how to give birth.

We all have natural birthing instincts innate in us, but as birth has become more medicalised, we’ve lost touch with them, trusting healthcare providers and machines more than our own bodies.

Our instincts are a set of behaviors that support and allow the birth process to unfold as it is designed to do. The more we go with our instincts and rely on our intuition, the easier the birth will be.

So, where does yoga fit into all this?

This alone removed any fear that I had, so I always put my amazing home birth down to hypnobirthing, but in truth I never practiced any of the hypnosis techniques. 

Looking back now, as soon as labor started, I naturally adopted my yoga techniques without even realising it. Linking my breath with movement, I soothed myself through early labor, keeping my body relaxed and my mind calm. I moved all around the furniture, finding all sorts of positions, whichever felt the most comfortable. I kept upright and active for 17 hours, it felt very natural to me.

Years later, with all my knowledge on how birth works, I know without a doubt that yoga prepared me both mentally and physically to have my two positive birth experiences. When we are deeply connected to our birthing instincts, that are innate within every single one of us, birth works much more efficiently! 

There are so many similiarites between a yoga practice and our natural birthing behaviour. And those birthing behaviours are natures way to ensure that birth runs smoothly.

Learning about birth intellectually is amazing, however, when we have a chance to experience and practice those instinctual behaviours on our mat during pregnancy, whilst also gaining the knowledge of how birth works, we strengthen our connection to our instincts which in turns gives us the best chance at an easier, smoother, empowered birth.

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