When I registered for ‘Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training’, I was pretty sure I would enjoy it and am wondrously able to say, I in fact, LOVE it!
We have a wonderful instructor, Teresa, who is a doula as well as a yoga instructor and has a wealth of experience in birthing and yoga.
I LOVE the other women in the class, it makes me believe even more fully in the future! There seem to be three of us ‘elders’, who have had kids and careers and are on to our second and/or third career. Most of the women (and one guy) are in the 20’s and early thirties and either have 1 child or are considering it. What makes my heart sing, is that there are so many women, guys, parents to be, couples who want to conceive, gestate, birth and parent is such a gentle, spiritual way. This is about changing the world, one very bonded and attached baby at a time!
I am also profoundly impacted by the intensity of the chanting and mudras, speaking as a woman who is no longer ‘cycling’. It feels like some very ancient memory is being awakened in me, getting in touch with the Divine Feminine, my shakti sage spirit!
Some other highlights of class so far is the raw, primal, tribal energy that we are being encouraged to get in touch with and the ‘knowing’ that women’s bodies know what to do in birth. I love the music for this; it’s a lot of drum based music, more shamanic and funky than I expected! At the end of it, my chakras feel cleared and spinning!
The day finishes with’active meditation’, challenging a part of our body to ‘go beyond’ and some gentle and lovley, heart centered ‘words of wisdom’.
So, it’s off to Day 4 …
In peace & mindfulness my ‘beautiful friends’,
namaste,
Zoey
Zoey Ryan BSc., PCC
life ~ leadership ~ executive coaching for women
Life coaching to set your heart on fire and soothe your soul!
namaste,
