Clover Yoga

Motherhood, you contradictory little beech! 😁

I actually love how wildly paradoxical motherhood is.

She’s not suppose to be easy, if she was, how would we ever comprehend our capacity for love & strength & resilience?

Nothing deeply transformational is easy. And motherhood is THE ultimate transformation.

The paradoxes of motherhood aren’t signs of failure or inadequacy, but rather reflections of our complex & beautiful multifacetedness ✨

What i’m learning (and surrendering to during the summer holidays 😂) is that it’s not about resolving or ‘fixing’ these contradictions, but living with them. & trying to find BaLaNcE (I know I know, what an unhelpful thing to suggest).

Honouring both myself & my kids and leaning into the richness of this nuanced experience 🌿

Sunday musings for anyone that needs to hear it.

Big love,
Lauren
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🌸 When you get pregnant, everyone will have something to say about it 🌸

A gentle reminder…

Make sure what you’re saying is kind, sensitive & encouraging 🫶🏻

Don’t be a sh*tty friend 😁

✨ WHY pregnancy yoga? ✨

Sometimes birth preparation looks like reading, listening and learning, reflection or ancestral work.

🌻 Physically though, yoga allows you to practice stamina, mobility and connection to body and breath.

🌻 Working through the challenges of changing centre of gravity, restricted diaphragm and stretch / bend ability.

🌻 Lightly maintaining the pelvic diaphragm to aid in spinal stability, pelvic organ support and allowing deep functional breathing to happen.

🌻 Gaining as much strength and agility as possible to keep pregnancy as comfortable and enjoyable as it can be. And to prepare your tissue for the marathon of birth.

🌻 Keeping your mind-body communication lines open in preparation for all the noise they will be making during labour and birth.

🌻 Letting intuition guide your practice, listening to the womb space, energy levels and your new and changing capabilities- in hopes that this connection will support the innate and primal understanding of the birthing process as you enter into it.

🌻 Preparing the mind to manage barriers, embrace sensation, stay present and in tune with your womb.

🌻 Having practices that will support you through mental, physical, spiritual and emotional challenges means everything.

✨ Yoga is a beautiful tool & practice to help guide you through this huge death and rebirth of self as you transition into motherhood ✨

My next pregnancy block starts Monday 15th in Skipton. It’s always such an honour to guide & witness each woman on her own unique journey ✨✨✨

Just 3 more spaces available for this Sunday ✨✨
Come & join the magic at the dreamiest spot with the loveliest women 🥰

Book here:

https://stan.store/cloveryogabirth/p/come-as-you-are-its-time-to-be-held-

🌸 Yorkshire Women’s Circle 🌸

Langcliffe Hall, Settle. JULY 28th 6pm/-8pm

An informal get-together with local women to feel seen, heard, supported & inspired.

Expect yoga, breathwork, collective creation, oracle cards, cacao or herbal tea, earth altar, guided journaling, dancing, and our sacred share circle.

If you've ever wanted to create authentic and meaningful connections, a women's circle is for you.

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Pregnancy Yoga Classes 🤰🏻

Just 3 dates left for Summer classes.

Join a group of lovely pregnant mamas on a Monday 7.30-8.45pm.

We move to help alleviate some of those pregnancy niggles, practice breath work for birth and have a lovely & well deserved rest at the end of each practice.

Block classes will return in September but please book asap as these places are limited and get booked quickly!

You can find all the details below. Feel free to drop me a message with any questions 🫶🏻

www.stan.store/cloveryogabirth

www.stan.stor

Just 2 days until our Summer Solstice Women’s Circle at Langcliffe Hall ✨

We’ll have treats, creative endeavours, journaling & our lovely share circle!

Dancing around the fire & burning your bras entirely optional 😜

If you’ve never been to a womens circle but are interested in what they’re all about, feel free to shoot me a message!

Bookings available below:
https://stan.store/cloveryogabirth/p/-embracing-the-fire-within-👇🏻

Our lovely Women’s Circle will be held on Sunday 23rd June at the beautiful Langcliffe Hall ❤️

There’s still time to save your seat & join us for chats, yoga, creativity & yummy treats!

Book your space here ✨✨✨
www.stan.store/cloveryogabirth

Fell free to message if you have any questions 🫶🏻

Pregnancy Yoga, Skipton

Mondays 7.30-8.45pm

Book a class pass or drop in here:
www.stan.store/cloveryogabirth

Get in touch for more details 😊

Summer Solstice Women’s Circle ~ Langcliffe Hall ✨

Summer Solstice is a time of joy, light, and blossoming, making it the perfect opportunity to connect with your inner power and embrace the beauty of the natural world. Celebrating the longest day of the year, we'll come together to share, create, reflect and look forward.

Whether you're seeking spiritual growth, community, or simply a chance to bask in the magic of the season, our Women's Circle invites you to join us on this journey.

Date & Location: June 23rd 6pm-8pm

Langcliffe Hall, Settle.

Let's come together in reverence and celebration as we honour the cycles of nature and the divine feminine within us all. Reserve your spot! 🌸🌿

Bookings here: https://stan.store/cloveryogabirth/p/-embracing-the-fire-within-

• Pregnancy Yoga, Skipton •

All of you wonderfully blossoming mama friends expecting squishes this year, come & join our birth mama collective.

We move, groove, get our breathwork on, savasana until we snore, slurp yummy herbal tea sand have a good old chat about everything and anything together!

It really is the absolute best! (No really, check out the evidence backed research my friends!)

Open to all trimesters & beginner friendly. Classes held at Balanced Life Physio In Skipton

Tell your friends & spread the word!

Upcoming classes!

It’s feels bizzaro to be thinking about NEXT YEAR but alas here we are!

I’m now taking bookings for both the Sunday & Monday, January-February blocks.

All of you wonderfully blossoming mama friends expecting squishes next year, come & join our birth mama collective!

We move, groove, get our breathwork on, savasana until we snore, slurp yummy herbal tea and have a good old yarn together!

It really is the absolute best! (No really, check out the evidence backed research my friends!)

For those of you who have already contacted me about classes, I’ll be in touch after Christmas with the finer details 😊

Tell your friends, spread the word, and let’s grow this community even BIGGER for 2024!

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F R E E
R A N G E
K I D S

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Raising wildlings isn’t about being reckless, rather, cultivating capable, independent thinkers. We’re not sending them off into the wild, but simply giving them room to grow, explore, and learn through unfiltered experiences.

It’s about teaching them to navigate the world with savvy and confidence and giving them a sense of independence and autonomy.

Their childhood, is also your motherhood, and I know I’d rather be free ranging too 😎

And what a fookin backdrop we’ve got to drag them up in!

Raising ‘em wild and free baby! 🤠

•~ Pop up pregnancy yoga ~•

I’ll be offering my Monday 7.30pm prenatal class as a pay-as-you go pop up class from now until December 4th.

We’ve had some beautiful babies emerge the last few weeks, and lots more almost ready to join us ❤️ With this is mind, and our newest block already started, I thought it would be nice to open the possibilities to any pregnant ladies wanting to try prenatal yoga without the 6 week commitment!

Classes will run 7.30-8.30pm and will be £10 per class.

If you haven’t practiced with me before I’ll need a short intake form completed before class!

If this is something you’d be interested or, or have a sweet preggo lady in mind who could benefit (aka, all pregnant women 😜) get in touch directly for more details, or feel free to pass my information along.

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The end of another Prenatal Yoga block ☺️

Beautiful babies born & new mothers birthed. It is such a privilege to walk (& move, & jiggle, & savasana) alongside these glorious beings.

Never not in awe of the female anatomy, seeing her blossom in real time. 🌸

The next two blocks are fully booked (🤯) and I just wanted to say a gigantor thank you for all of the recs and word of mouth reviews from the women in our community who’ve helped this happen. As you know, I’m not the best at promoting but it means to world to me to have you share the benefits of this class with others so I can continue to reach as many women as possible through their most transformative time.

Please do get in touch if you’d like to be added to the waitlist as babies are always sprouting earthside, and spots may pop up!

If you’re one of the gorgeous mamas who has practiced yoga through pregnancy, leave your thoughts on the comments. What was your favourite part about classes? What benefits did you gain? Let’s continue to spread the word!

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No one sees what you see, even if they see it too

Look back and you’ll find
that what you go through
becomes what you see through

& there isn’t a thing you go through
that doesn’t also ~ go through you ~

We’re made from
what we’re made for

The difference in your experience
and how you catch the light matters

Because you are what is yours to bear
And yours to bare

Where you are is why you’re here

Seeing with eyes closed and knowing yourself here

Full moon musings… 🌕

You spend a year quietly, too quiet. Quiet in the way your body moves to catch up with your mind.

Where moments of your day are stacks of routines, twin towers of strangeness and familiarity. Climbing towards something out of sight.

Time spent with everything out of sight, but none of it out of mind.

And then all at once, everything you know and don’t know, everything you see and don’t see, swells into crescendo.

If I remain open for long enough, hold my hands out long enough, goodness comes, it always does.

I remember reading Zora Neale Hurston’s novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ and in it she says:

‘There are years that ask questions, and years that answer’

This year I answer, I devour.

Everyday my curiosity lands me in some new warm place, and every new warm place leads me to another one. I keep running into everything I’ve ever wanted.

And so I want to keep running this year, into more and more new angles of gratitude.

Thank you
For showing up
with your authenticity
And grace
Your presence and power
Your scars and stories
Thank you for doing the work
For deeply honoring
The divine feminine
For bringing your empowerment
And gifts; to this new life
You grow within you
For gathering in ceremony
As women have done for thousands of years
To honor the power of our womb & creation
the greatest gifts this life can offer
Thank you
For your truth and trust
Thank you for this incredibly wholesome day and inviting me into this sacred landscape as you transition from maiden to mother.

Birth is not only about making babies, but making mothers. Strong, capable, competent mothers who trust themselves.

~ Pregnancy Retreat ~

Join me and other likeminded mamas for a day of connection, inspiration and relaxation, helping you prepare physically, mentally and spiritually for your upcoming rite of passage through birth into motherhood ✨

Surrounded by the beautiful backdrop of the Yorkshire Dales at Langcliffe Hall’s Yoga Shala, we’ll spend our day being nourished from the inside out with deeply restorative yoga, empowering breathwork practices to utilise in birth and a nurturing Ayurvedic lunch complimented with pregnancy herbal teas (shout out .hq 😚).

We’ll sit in circle together and establish the sacred bond of motherhood through a traditional red thread ceremony, journaling and affirmations.

++ so much more pregnancy related fullness & goodness.

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, this retreat is open to all mothers to be, in any trimester.

There are only a limited number of spaces as I like to keep these gatherings intimate and connected.

Reach out to me for any more details and to book your place.

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We as humans have developed a tendency to move in linear ways; gyms, running, fitness classes, even yoga and some types of dance are within a structure that limits the genius of the body to follow its intuitive rhythms and spaces where so much unlocking occurs.

Instinctual movement encourages you to go to these places, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, encouraging a release of anxiety, stress, blockages within the body that require a surrendering and acceptance into those spaces. Whilst hoping to inspire and ignite elements of joy within your being; expand and ground your outlook to be rooted into your feet and heart.

I encourage you to delve inward, pay attention to the signals & cues spoken by your vessel wisdom.

The body knows.

35 ✨

Another rotation around that big ole sun!

After a year of significant loss, I’ve been reminded this weekend of how important it is to live life. Really, truly, go all in with everything you’ve got.

We are SO lucky to be here experiencing things through our own unique lens. This is it y’all!

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📍Yorkshire Dales - Lake District - Glasgow 🌍

Listen to the feeling.

The melody of your inhale & exhale.

An orchestra made of your precious breath.

For the girls who will become women.

May you breathe fire,
always know your exponential self worth
& that your strength and softness are endless.

Women at the centre.

Coming off the back of a Women’s circle & a nourishing prenatal class tonight, I just wanted to express my infinite gratitude towards the women in my life.

I know I know, I harp on about it, but I cannot get enough of ye! ♀

I implore you to seek out these pockets of connection & collaboration, as one of my happiest, soul fulfilling places is within these female kinfolk containers.

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How the days went
while you were blooming within me
I remember each upon each–
the sweilling changed planes of my body
and how you first fluttered, then jumped
and I thought it was my heart.
How the days wound down
and the turning of winter
I recall, with you growing heavy
against the wind. I thought
now her hands
are formed, and her hair
has started to curl
now her teeth are done
now she sneezes.
Then the seed opened
I bore you one morning just before spring
My head rang like a fiery piston
my legs were towers between which
A new world was passing.

Since then
I can only distinguish
one thread within running hours
You, flowing through selves
toward You.

~ Audre Lorde ~

Happy 2nd birth anniversary to my youngest daughter and me. She’s taught me so many lessons already ✨

New Year, New block, New time! 🥳

Offering women the opportunity to connect with their baby, establish an overall sense of well-being, and learn breathing techniques and postures to help support the body & mind during pregnancy, through birth and postpartum. There will be time for connection with other mums to be, as well as deep rest and relaxation.

Open to mamas in any stage of pregnancy.

If you’re preggo, know someone who is, be sure to forward along my details so they can get booked onto this block and enjoy all the yummy benefits (evidence based research ya’ll 🙌🏻) prenatal yoga has to offer.

Feel free to share 😘😘😘

Can’t wait to be back at it!

Well loves, it’s the end of the year.

The one we’ve all laboured through in some way, with no small amount of hardship, struggle and sadness.

But gosh, weren’t there so many good things too?!?

This year I’ve been reminded of many wonderful things.

✨The power of women
✨The strength in connection
✨The sheer delight that comes from laughing with, sharing with, and holding space with the community you create.

This has been a sh*tty year for me in lots of ways, but it also happens to be one of the most enriching years of my life. Because through it, I discovered a whole nexus of women who have been so open to loving and learning and connecting deeply with themselves and one another.

Spoiler: that’s all of you! Those who came to the pregnancy classes and were excited to learning something new. And those that bravely shared their vulnerability at a women’s circle. Or those that gave themselves permission to truly let go at a retreat. I want to thank you all, from the bottom of my heart, for making this year not just bearable, but joyful and transcendent and illuminating. This year I’ve been given the great honour of being invited into your emotional landscapes and I treasure the trust you’ve placed in me.

If the last 12 months has taught me anything, it’s that we deserve so much more than what we are told to be grateful for.

2023 mantra…

The life you want is valid. The love you crave is the love you deserve. Claim for yourselves what you want for others.

With stars in my eyes ✨

I throughly enjoyed last weeks restorative prenatal class ✨

As much as I love moving and grooving and seeing all these goddess mamas in Mālāsana ready to birth their babies in full autonomous sovereignty…

It’s also SO necessary to bring it way, way waaaaaay down. Back to breath. Back to stillness. Back to baby. Back to you.

Whilst our external culture may not value rest, please know that it is encouraged and welcomed wholeheartedly when you step into this class.

Wanna stay in Savasana the whole time? Do it! Your body is consciously working to create human life, give yourself permission to relax & restore.

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