So much has changed in our lives and around us, so fast, since the beginning of the UK lockdown. I hope that you are finding new sources of creativity each day with your families, rhythms for daily activities and an upbeat spirit. Uncertainty is unfamiliar to most of us, but […]
Birthlight training has a very personal origin. It all started with a small group in Cambridge. In the 1980s, as a young mother, at the prompting of a few friends, I interwove the strands of the rich life I have been blessed with in a small experimental class. I was […]
Motor skills that help human adults enjoy sport and fitness begin in infancy. In the first two years of life, many of the primitive and postural reflexes that cause babies to move involuntarily are integrated and replaced by voluntary movements. In water, new babies’ salamander-like movements that create an illusion […]
Once upon a time, not so long ago, yoga for pregnancy was considered to be dangerous. Birth preparation programs that included exercise were sensational media material. Fathers were still pacing in the corridors of maternity hospitals smoking proverbial cigars. If they were admitted on delivery units, they stood nervously behind […]
Tummy Time helps me develop strong lower back muscles and good head control after birth, but I need you to be involved. Please join me on the floor so we can have fun doing yoga together. I like your cobra pose but watch, I can do it without arms! Recent […]
From the beginning, all Birthlight activities have been in circles, both on land and in water. Circles integrate teacher and students as equals. Teachers are leaders, who stand among their students rather than standing opposite them. This creates empathy and participation all around. In circles, we are connected but we […]