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Guiding the Birthing Body
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If you’re only advice is “listen to your body” this is for you!
Instead of just telling our pregnant student to “listen to their body,” can we, as yoga teachers, offer more specific and nurturing guidance that feels fluid to both us and the student?
Guiding the Birthing Body is written for yoga teachers, fitness trainer, and anyone who desire more tools and knowledge when pregnant and postpartum students walk into their general yoga classes.
This book offers you important information on your students’ needs physically, emotionally and energetically trimester by trimester. You’ll find anatomy and changes to the body and function with each trimester, essential guidelines and modifications, easy transitions, and affirmations to support your students with presence and integrity. Explore the Eight Limbs of Yoga as they apply to the childbearing journey, how to hold mothers and birthing people with compassion and awareness, and a guide to connect with birth professionals in your area.
Inside the Guiding the Birthing Body
The Birthing Experience
Meals, snacks, and beverages that support lactation and rebuilding your body. All nourishment is informed and rooted in Ayurvedic guidance.
Anatomy thru the Trimesters
Excessive Vata energy is common in the postpartum period, and I use specific herbal blends to assist in balancing and grounding your energy.
Essential guidelines
Each organizer tends to a different system of your home. You can use these to build out your vision of care and share with your inner support circle. You’ll find grocery list, chore lists, takeout orders, and signs/language to set boundaries with visitors.
Building safe space to practice
You don’t have to wait six weeks to bring movement back into your body. My post birth movement progression is rooted in Pilates fundamentals, yoga asana, breath work, and informed by physical therapy exercises for pelvic floor recovery.
Download and be prepared the next time a pregnant student walks into class!
ABOUT
I’m Lauren Shields - a yogic and Ayurvedic full spectrum doula and mother of three.
I created Intentionally Embodied Birth because I’ve lived the experience of feeling disconnected to my body and my knowing during the pregnancy and postpartum transition. I’ve been the pregnant and postpartum yoga student looking for guidance, and I’ve trained dozens of yoga teachers to show up with presence and expertise too!
My care is based in yoga and Ayurvedic traditions and infused with my own personal touch. I know that yoga teachers can show up with more wholeness to everyone who steps foot in their classes.