Marion became Birthlight’s first Baby Yoga tutor over 20 years ago, following a career as a Japanese stockbroker. Passionate about the subtle power of yoga, Marion qualified with the British Wheel, then trained with Dr Robin Munro’s Yoga Biomedical Trust, soon rising to senior therapist working alongside Robin. Returning to the North West of England, Marion introduced Birthlight’s Pregnancy and Baby Yoga to the first wave of UK Sure Start’s in 2001, became a doula for vulnerable women with the Goodwin Trust and won the Merseyside Community Achievement Award. The land-based practices taught by Marion reflect her water teaching in AquaNurture, AquaNatal and Baby Swim because, she says, ‘land and water are the Yin and Yan of Birthlight practices’. Marion feels privileged to tutor Birthlight’s profound nurturing practices in the Far East, Russia and Europe where the families never fail to inspire, and the babies to delight.