Yoga with BrittanyB

10/05/2023

A lot of what I see about postpartum fitness I find deeply disturbing... so incase another postpartum mama needs to hear this...

🔥Don't let the constant barrage of on social media ...
Guilt you into feeling you need to do or be anything other than what you are intuitively doing to keep your baby happy and healthy, while holding on to your sanity and looking after YOU on very little sleep ...

Even if that means...
💫You don't manage or want to get on your mat today, or tomorrow or for the next week or month or whatever... TOTALLY LEGITIMATE!
💫You no longer feel fulfilled by striving for perfection in the primary series or chasing the illusive handstand press or whatever it is that drove you before... AWESOME!

!!! Your body is a miracle that literally gave life...you deserve to...
🙌 heal in your own time
🙌 not want to or need to return to 'pre-pregnancy' you... why should we when what we are now is so much more interesting and potent!!!
🙌 bare those scars and new shapes and curves with pride
🙌 redefine who you are and what you want on your own terms post-baby...
🙌 silence the critics, your inner-critic and protect your inner peace by all means possible!

!!! Legitimate choices instead of practicing yoga or doing other exercise:
🌼 Contact napping with baby in your arms
🌼 Finding that responding to all baby's comfort & physical needs doesn't allow for much uninterrupted practice
🌼 Exclusively breastfeeding making it hard to go to a yoga or exercise class or simply not wanting to be a part from baby
🌼 Sleeping, resting, eating, working, cleaning or doing whatever else calls you
🌼 Doing NOTHING as a choice
🌼Full in the blank -----
🌼 Practising only when, what and how long YOU feel is right for you and baby!!
*keep reading in post pics*

❤️🙏💫

07/04/2023

Another world is not only possible,
she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing-
Arundhati Roy 🧡

If we tred more lightly,
Live more slowly,
See nature with the eyes of a child,
Neither a commodity, nor merely a beautiful landscape,
But an integral part of who we are,
Learning who we are through her,
Learning to nurture, to love, to grow, to blossom, to sustain, to thrive in community, to be still in silence, to be joy, to endure... to let go.
With more people awakened to the impossibility of seperation from her,
A new world is indeed possible.
May it be so 🙏🌸🌸🌸


📸 🙏

20/03/2023

🌿Spring is definitely in the air in Barcelona ... my very favourite season and the first time exploring it through Sofia's eyes... it is all the more transcendent🌼

In all its beauty it slowly unravels in an explosion of colour and life,

Sprung forth from the dark silence of winter... 

Where nature seems dormant, introverted, resting... 

In late winter, there's a lingering appearence of suffering, 

A test of life's resilience to persist, a sense of barely hanging on...  

And then... as if from nowhere... 

Spring comes forth, reminding us that we can make it through anything... 

That from rest, pause, inward-looking, facing ourselves in the darkness...

In all 'the feels' of our humanity, flows the greatest inspiration, creation, life in abundance ...

Spring reminds us that sometimes we are so focused on the struggles of life, we don't take time to notice that what we are planting is slowly making its way through the hard soil, about to bloom... everything just needs its time... 

Spring rewards us for our patience and nature for her perseverance... 

Mother nature and yoga reminds us not to get caught up in chasing the feel good sensations all the time... 

Sometimes it's facing the tough parts and sitting with the uncomfortable, where the real growth happens... 

Where evolution and healing occurs and a full embrace of life in all her colours happens... a peaceful joy of being unravels 🌼

20/01/2023

ॐ New Guide Available on my Patreon Platform- Check it out lovely Patrons !!!

(DM me if you are not currently a patron but are interested in finding out more)

ॐ Winter Yoga Practices: Bring Yourself into Restful Harmony in the Vata Season ॐ

This guide for nurturing yourself through the winter 'Vata' season (air and space elements) draws on the wisdom of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine to bring seasonal tools into your yoga practice and daily living, so you can live in harmony with the seasonal changes and particular rhythms that winter brings.

This guide is composed of:

1) Yoga philosophy drawing on 5 Elements Theory from both Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine

2) A Practical Video Guide of 13 Winter/ Vata Balancing Yoga Practices to Bring you into Restful Harmony (including the links to each video)

Official Post from ॐ Yoga with Brittany

11/11/2022

The final practice in my
ॐ🤰 Prenatal Yoga Course: Blissful Pregnancy & Empowered Birth, is an Air and Ether/Space practice.

🌱🌊🔥🌬🪐 In the course we use the elements to explore different aspects of ourselves, and our pregnancy, birth and parenting journey... to find balance, and to feel empowered and at peace 😌

🌬🪐Air and Ether/ Space Elements together comprise the Vata Dosha type in Ayurveda. The fall and winter are Vata seasons. 

🌬 Air is connected to our heart chakra, or ‘Anahata’ in Sanskrit, meaning ‘unstruck’ or ‘undefeated’. Living from an aligned heart-centre brings in an unshakeable sense of serenity and resilience. Along with this, Air and Anahata express the beautiful characteristics of universal and unconditional love and compassion; beautiful values and energies to invite into our pregnancy and parenting journey.

🪐 Space or Ether Element houses all of the other four elements. It is the essence of emptiness and stillness and yet it is expansive and omnipresent. In our practice we find moments to cultivate these qualities in our movements and most importantly in our stillness and equanimity of mind- the essence of yoga.

🪐 Space Element is connected to our Throat Chakra- our ability for self-expression and to speak and live our truth. These are critical lessons on our pregnancy journey, allowing us to speak up for and create the birth we want for our babies and also the space we want to cultivate to bring them up in, as we renegotiate and re-envision our lives and relationships anew.

🪐🌬 And so much more nuance we can't cover in an Instagram post 🤣

🤰 DM me if you are interested in finding out more or know a pregnant person who may benefit from this course 🙏

01/11/2022

Thank you to everybody for the birthday love ❤  So grateful to have so many incredible people in my life and to be surrounded by so much love ❤

This picture sums up how 35 feels: super content, love-filled, gratitude, joyous 😊 (my wondrous partner behind the lens capturing this moment ❤ ).

This year around the sun has been a beautiful, powerful teacher in the peace of contentment ... Santosha 🙏💫 Thanks universe, thanks motherhood and thanks to my beautiful family and tribe of loved ones scattered near and far ❤

31/10/2022

Here's another practice from my Prenatal Yoga Course series...

🔥 Fire Element: Inner Strength

🔥I filmed this at 38 weeks pregnant and I still remember how glorious those side bends felt for my achy back!

🔥 Fire is a truly beautiful element to work with in Pregnancy. It is connected to Manipura Chakra and together their healing journey is all about finding our inner strength, self-confidence, power and harnessing our ability for transformation.

🔥 Fire Element is linked to our digestive system- something that can be a bit of a challenging aspect of pregnancy to manage but which asana and pranayama can assist with. On a subtler level, fire element is also about ‘digesting life’, being adaptable and courageous in the face of changes and understanding our inner calling and dharma- all beautiful themes to prepare for motherhood and birth.

DM me for more info on accessing the full course 🙏

09/10/2022

Raw, real and unfiltered postnatal moments on my mat...

Gentle, cautious movement exploring the new edges and bounds of my healing postnatal body,

Absolute gratitude and awe at what this body has brought forth... although not strong as before... healing and evolving,

Complete surrender of what was before allows me to absorb the new without judgement or clinging to the past me and find in it ... a beautiful, precious joy,

A practice full of sweet moments ...
Sun salutes interspersed with baba cuddles, coos and breastfed savasanas,

Surrounded by drying reusable nappies and a somewhat disheveled house,

But content as can be 🙏💖

04/10/2022

I've been absent from social media... completely immersing myself in the precious days of newborn life and being totally present - what a gift! But I will do a catch up of what has been released on my Patreon platform from my prenatal yoga course....

ॐ🤰 Prenatal Yoga Course: Blissful Pregnancy & Empowered Birth

🙏 DM me for more info on accessing the full  course 🙏

💧 Water element is all about passions, creativity, flow of life, joy and pleasure- so all those wonderful oxytocin-rich expressions that will power us when the time comes to birthing our babies.

💙 We journey through Water Element through connecting into our emotional body and a somatic experience. We use asana and breath to form a deeper connection to how our emotions and life experience is held and felt in the body and how to sit with, release or move through this.

💙 We tap into the intelligence of the body and our instinctive self which will help us to take care of our body and baby in pregnancy and to surrender to the power and intelligence of our body to guide us through labour. 

💙 The healing journey of this Svadhistana Chakra and Water Element is in a healthy connection to our emotions, being able to let go, surrender and go with the flow of life and having the courage to freely express joy, pleasure, our creative potential and sensuality.

💙 What better time than pregnancy to do this work for personal and collective growth and to be the best you for your baby 🙏❤

11/09/2022

ॐ🤰 Prenatal Yoga Course: Blissful Pregnancy & Empowered Birth

Finding myself freshly at the other side of my own pregnancy journey, I am releasing an offering very close to my heart:

ॐ You will receive a 45 page booklet with 10 downloadable videos (filmed during my own pregnancy) and packed full of additional resources to support you & baby along your pregnancy journey

ॐ What is the Prenatal Yoga Course comprised of? 

1.     10 Yoga Videos (419 minutes of practice time).
They include the following:

ॐ 4 videos of shorter yoga practices (25-38 mins)
ॐ 4 videos of full prenatal yoga classes (60-80 mins): Themed around Ayurveda’s 5 Elements.
ॐ 1 video focused on pelvic floor exercises for pregnancy
ॐ 1 video of a guided meditation

2.     Yoga Through the Trimesters
3.     Guidance on Modifying your Yoga Practice for Pregnancy
4.     Yoga Asana to Ease Common Complaints
5.     Pranayama Tools for Pregnancy
6. Additional Courses and a Reading and Listening List 4 videos of shorter yoga practices (25-38 mins)

Contact me for more info 🙏 yogawithbrittanyb@gmail.com

09/09/2022

Finding myself freshly at the other side of my own pregnancy journey, I am releasing an offering very close to my heart:


I designed this Prenatal Yoga Course: 'Blissful Pregnancy and Empowered Birth' and filmed all the videos during my pregnancy.

See the link below to find out more about the course content and how to sign up or share with pregnant folk you think may benefit 🙏🧘‍♀️❤️ With love ###

ॐ Prenatal Yoga Course: Blissful Pregnancy & Empowered Birth Hello Lovelies, I hope that this newsletter finds you well and rested! August has been... well... the most beautiful and precious month of my life, as we welcomed our beautiful, blissful Sofia into this world on 16th August. Motherhood f...

08/09/2022

ॐ🤰 Prenatal Yoga Course: Blissful Pregnancy & Empowered Birth

(DM me for more info on the full online course, which includes the videos and a 45 page booklet full of juicy resources 🤗)

🤰 Here are some more prenatal classes that are now released on my Patreon Yoga Video Platform.

🤰 I'm super excited about this new offering having just freshly walked the extraordinarily beautiful and potent pregnancy journey myself- 3 weeks into the fourth trimester with my blissful babe 🙏

▶ ॐ Prenatal Earth Element: The Divine Feminine ॐ (70 mins): This full prenatal class is themed around the Earth Element. We draw on the concept of mother earth and the divine feminine to tap into our innate strength and to walk this pregnancy journey and birth with confidence. Earth element's journey is about feeling rooted, centred, calm, held, supported and safe.

▶ ॐ Prenatal Yoga: Relaxing & Releasing Seated Flow ॐ (25 mins): A relaxing and releasing seated Prenatal Flow to give some love to your legs, hips, back and side body during pregnancy. 

▶ ॐ Prenatal Yoga: Guided Meditation for an Empowered Birth ॐ (17 mins): This guided meditation takes you on a relaxing journey to build a trusting relationship with our bodies and our babies in pregnancy in preparation for birth.

▶ ॐ Prenatal Yoga: Pelvic Floor Exercises ॐ (10mins): I share two simple pelvic floor exercises to practice during pregnancy to both strengthen and cultivate the body awareness to completely relax the pelvic floor muscles (crucial for birth).