“I became a mother and lost myself”.

Female Flamingos slowly lose their bright pink colouring whilst caring for their new young. They become white until they are no longer depended on then the colour comes back. This makes total sense to me, I have metaphorically felt this raising my two girls (although I now have grey hairs!). So much focus and love goes into mothering, we can lose much of ourselves.

The term Matresence coined by Dana Raphael, an Anthropologist, in the mid 70s refers to when a mother is born. In the west, especially, there is little care and understanding regarding this happening. Women are often expected to return to life as they were before even though they feel (and are) totally different in brain and body functioning. Lucy Jones’s book Matresence covers this in detail, I recommend it highly for any mother.

My work with mothers came organically from my own becoming and a fierce desire for no mother to ever feel alone in what is an incredibly wonderous yet emotionally depleting time.

Before becoming a mother we are not made aware that different emotions as well as mental and physical pathologies may show up- Anxiety, depression, anger and fear. A feeling of being overwhelmed with new emotions can be a huge part of matrescence.

Through support of friendship and understanding we can help you to build a yoga practice and way of life to care for yourself whilst caring for your family.

“It takes a village” so i believe in building that village for ourselves it whatever way we can.