The primary focus of this Pregnancy Yoga class is to support and enhance your pre-natal experience. The aim is to encourage a sense of relaxation and confidence all the way through your pregnancy up to, and including, labour. 

As your familiarity and confidence with the practice grows, you’ll find yourself more relaxed and at ease with the daily changes occurring as your baby develops. You will also find that as you progress you will feel more prepared for labour and will have learnt useful practices you can take with you.

The classes are a mix of gentle movement and yoga that is all safe and suitable for pregnancy, breathing practices and relaxation. Students are always encouraged to work at their own level and with awareness of their changing body and growing baby.

Pregnancy Yoga classes are also a great place to meet other local mums-to-be and many lasting friendships can be formed in these classes.

The benefits of Pregnancy Yoga include:

- strengthening and toning the muscles of the pelvic floor

- preparing the body for labour

- learning deep relaxation techniques

- helping with effective breathing techniques for labour

- deepening the bond between mother and baby

- helping to alleviate ailments commonly experienced during pregnancy

Pregnancy Yoga classes are suitable for anyone over 14 weeks pregnant up until birth. No previous experience of yoga is necessary.

About practitioner, Sarah: 

Sarah is an enthusiastic and dedicated yoga practitioner and an experienced and qualified yoga teacher, committed to making yoga enjoyable and accessible for everyone.

She has been practising yoga since 2001 and teaching since 2006, after qualifying with an initial 500-hour teaching certificate, and continuing with a further 300 hours of training since then.

She teaches pregnancy and postnatal yoga, ashtanga yoga, hatha yoga, vinyasa yoga and yin yoga, as well as mindfulness meditation.

She has been teaching pregnancy yoga for over 11 years and feels honoured to have worked with and supported hundreds of women during this special time of their lives. 

Sarah truly believes that everyone can benefit from yoga, whatever their background or current physical condition, and her approach to teaching is one of warmth, encouragement and care and is always tailored to an individual’s needs.

Having lived and worked in London for many years Sarah is very aware of the stresses and strains of big city living and knows how a regular yoga practice can help to combat these and enable people to find more space, peace and balance in their body and mind.