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18/01/2026

🌸 Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga in Bangor – Starts February 🌸

If you’re pregnant or recently had a baby, these small, friendly yoga classes are designed to support your body, build confidence, and help you connect with other local mums in the same season of life.

🤍 Prenatal Yoga & Birth Preparation

A supportive weekly class to:
• practise pregnancy-safe, strengthening yoga
• learn breathing and relaxation techniques for labour
• ease common pregnancy aches and pains
• prepare for birth alongside other mums-to-be

🗓 Thursdays from 26 February | 5:30pm
Suitable from 12+ weeks pregnant

🤍 Postnatal Yoga (Mum & Baby)

A welcoming space to support recovery after birth and enjoy moving with your baby.

Classes include:
• postnatal-appropriate yoga with and without baby
• core and pelvic floor recovery
• baby engagement and simple massage techniques
• time to connect with other new mums

🗓 Fridays from 27 February | 10:30am
From 6–8+ weeks postpartum (babies up to crawling)
..also coming up:
On 28 Feb, a half-day embodied birth preparation intensive for anyone who’d like to explore practical tools for labour and birth in more depth.

Feel free to message me if you have any queries 🙂

22/12/2025

🌸 Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga in Bangor – Starting January 🌸

If you’re pregnant or navigating those early months with a new baby, I’m running small, friendly yoga classes designed to support you exactly where you’re at.

🤍 Prenatal Yoga & Birth Prep
A welcoming space to practise pregnancy-safe yoga, learn how to use your breath for labour, gently move to relieve common pregnancy aches and pains, and prepare for birth alongside other mums-to-be.
🗓 Starts Thurs 8 Jan | 5:30pm | From 12+ weeks

🤍 Postnatal Yoga (Mum & Baby)
Postnatal-appropriate yoga to help you reconnect with your body after birth, safely rebuild strength, and support your core and pelvic floor in a friendly, supportive space with other mums and babies.
🗓 Fri 9 Jan | 10:30am | From 6–8+ weeks postpartum (babies up to crawling)

Just a few spaces left in each class. Any questions please ask 💛

06/12/2025

Pregnancy and the early months after birth are meant to be transformative, but they can also feel isolating.

Many women step into this season without the support they need. A partner may be busy, family far away, friends caught up in their own lives.

Society tells new mums and mums-to-be to ‘bounce back,’ expecting women to ‘do it all,’ or ‘stay strong,’ while offering little real support, leaving many of us isolated, exhausted, and unsure if we’re doing it right.

This lack of support isn’t just emotionally tough it affects our bodies, our nervous systems, and even birth and postpartum outcomes.

Research shows that women with strong social support during pregnancy:

Are more likely to experience shorter labours

Have lower rates of postpartum depression

Report higher confidence in feeding and caring for their baby

Community helps regulate our nervous system, reduces stress hormones, and gives space to share the raw, vulnerable realities of motherhood. It can be:

Prenatal yoga or birth prep groups

Postnatal mother-and-baby classes

Local or online support circles

A trusted friend, doula, or mentor

Being held in community doesn’t just make the journey easier it literally supports healing, recovery, and adaptation.

It’s medicine because it:
✨ Eases stress and anxiety
✨ Builds confidence in your body and your baby care skills
✨ Creates belonging and reduces loneliness
✨ Provides practical guidance and emotional containment

We are not meant to do pregnancy or postpartum alone. You don’t have to figure it out in isolation. Finding, creating, or leaning into community is as essential as nutrition, sleep, and exercise.

💬 I’d love to hear from you: How has community helped you in pregnancy or postpartum? Or what kind of support do you wish you had? Share below, your experience might be the encouragement another mother needs today

04/12/2025

We prepare the nursery more than we prepare the mother for birth and postpartum and something needs to change.

Energy is poured into paint colours, tiny clothes, hospital bags, gadgets, monitor systems.

But so little time spent preparing you, your body, your nervous system, your mindset, your support.

And it isn’t your fault.

Our culture teaches women to get everything ready except the one thing that matters most: the mother herself.

Here’s what I want you to know:

1️⃣ Our culture gives almost no real support.
We’re conditioned to be independent and “keep going”, even late in pregnancy, while other cultures prioritise rest, slowness, and community.

2️⃣ Information overload ≠ preparation.
Most women are drowning in tips, podcasts, hospital lists, and Instagram posts…
But very few get embodied preparation: breathwork, movement, nervous-system tools, biomechanics, and emotional support.

3️⃣ Birth has become medicalised.
Not because women are “failing”…
But because the system is overstretched and risk-focused.
This leaves many women feeling unheard, or rushed.

4️⃣ When the mother is prepared, everything changes, including outcomes.

Research shows:
• Continuous support reduces caesareans by 25%
• Embodied tools like breath + prenatal yoga based movement shorten labour by 1–2 hours
• Prepared, supported mothers are 50% less likely to report traumatic birth symptoms

Preparation isn’t a luxury.
It’s foundational.

5️⃣ Preparing YOU is preparing your baby.
Your regulation, confidence, and connection create the safest birthing environment possible.

If this resonated, send me a 💛 I love hearing from you!

PS: If you want to learn how to prepare your body + nervous system practically (the way I wish I had), my 2 hour self-paced Blissful Birth Method course is £27 this month only (check out my bio)

02/12/2025

🔊 Audio on

Anxious days in pregnancy are more common than women often admit.

Your mind can spiral, your body can tighten, and sometimes you just don’t feel safe in the spaces you have to be in.

This simple practice, the Protective Egg, is something I teach in my Prenatal Yoga & Birth Prep sessions, and it’s one that women return to again and again.

Listen to this short audio and enjoy a quiet moment to connect with your baby and yourself.

It blends Ujjayi breathing with a visualisation that creates a felt sense of safety around you and your baby.

It’s not about “thinking positive.” It’s about giving your nervous system a place to land.

If you try this, let me know how it feels for you. And if you’d like more embodied tools like this for pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum, you’re always welcome to stay close here💛

👉 Save this for the days you need it
👉 Share with another pregnant mum who could use it today

29/11/2025

I’ve been reflecting on my first pregnancy lately… and all the things I wished I'd prepared for

When I was 7.5 months pregnant with my first child, I thought I had everything under control.

Looking back now, I realise how much I didn’t know, not because I didn’t have knowledge, but because I wasn't aware of how important it was to prepare both my body and my support system for birth and the weeks that followed.

Just 9 days before I had my first baby, I'd moved into my new home. I was so busy trying to move and settle into my new home that I didn’t give myself the space I needed to rest, learn, prepare for the birth I truly wanted (a home birth) and for postpartum.

Even though I had already trained as a prenatal yoga teacher, I hadn’t taken the time to embed what I’d learned into my own body.
And when labour came… I felt it.
My birth ended up being long, medicalised, and far from the calm home birth I’d hoped for.

Then postpartum hit and I realised I hadn’t built the community I needed either.

Once the initial visitors faded, I found myself at home with a colicky baby, in an unhealthy relationship and feeling more alone than I ever expected to.

These experiences changed me.
They shaped me.
And they’re a huge part of why I now support women through pregnancy, birth preparation, and postpartum recovery.

Every week I meet women who remind me of that past version of myself. Women who are doing their best with what they know and what they've learned and who blossom when they finally have the right tools, the right space, and the right community around them.

If any part of my story resonates, please know this:
You deserve support.
You deserve time to prepare.
You deserve to feel steady, informed, and held in pregnancy, through birth, and long after.

I’m here for you whether you’re preparing for birth, navigating new motherhood or busy with mum life.

💛 Helen

(And if you ever have questions about pregnancy, birth, or recovery, my inbox is always open, truly.)

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Bangor
LL57

Telephone

+447467197682

Website

https://www.pinkirisyoga.com/, https://www.pinkirisyoga.com/blissfulbirth

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