LushTums

07/05/2026

😄 I’m excited!!! Soooo excited!!!!

This October I’m co-hosting a retreat in the French Pyrenees with my dear friend Al — and it is going to be really special. 🫶

Soul of the Pyrenees
2nd–6th October 2026

Just 12 people.
An ancient farmhouse.
Incredible views.
Morning vinyasa, somatic movement, yoga nidra, guided mountain walks, beautiful food.
It’ll sure be the most restorative four nights you’ll give yourself all year!!

It’s time to prioritise you. To nourish yourself.

Magical moments happen when we go on retreat! I hope you’ll join us.

👉 Link in bio for all the details.

In collab with .mountain.run 🫶🙌🙏

25/04/2026

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25/04/2026

Looking forward to being back in the studio tomorrow for the next Yoga for Birth workshop… my knee is still on the mend so my lovely daughter is going to be helping me teach by doing all the demonstrations!!

What’s it all about!?

LushTums Yoga For Birth workshops ~ 3hrs of practical prep!

Learn how to breathe, move & relax for birth!

Plus birth partner tips, massage, rebozo massage and importantly, what to do if labour stalls or baby “gets stuck”….

Essential prep for anyone wanting a smoother more confident birth with less interventions…

P.S. these sell out every month, so early booking advised.

Scroll down to light blue sections for dates & booking info:

https://www.lushtums.co.uk/brighton-hove

Look forward to seeing you there!

Love
Clare ###

Happy Easter!!

This is what my Sun morning is looking like… Where there’s a will, there’s a way… 🙌💥

Despite a suspected broken MCL in my knee, husband and daughter have helped me set up for today’s Yoga For Birth workshop. With lovely helpful daughter doing all the demos for me while I talk and teach…

Dosed up on paracetamol and ibruprofen… this is a lesson in acceptance and determination… and patience.

Looking forward to welcoming everyone who has booked in and will join me today xx you make it worth it!!! 💕🫶

Love
Clare x

25/04/2026

Just what mums do…. 😂

24/04/2026

☹️ Still no Midwife lead unit in Brighton!! 😖

The image is the response I received today from our local Maternity Voices Partnership (who do such a good job btw) but it seems like we’re still hitting a brick wall when it comes to opening a Midwife Led Unit in Brighton!!! It’s bewildering!!! Let me explain why… 👇

Brighton just spent £750 million on a brand new hospital.

And we still don’t have a midwife-led unit.

Not one room. Not a corridor. Nothing.

I’ve been working in birth in this city for nearly twenty years. And a midwife-led unit has been talked about for at least forty.

We have known, for decades, that midwife-led care and home birth create the best environments for smoother births, less intervention, and less trauma.

The evidence is overwhelming and has been for years.

An MLU is the home-from-home option — the bridge between a home birth and a hospital birth. For women who want that calm, low-intervention, you’re-in-charge experience but aren’t ready to birth at home, an MLU is exactly that. A familiar, safe, woman-centred space. And Brighton doesn’t have one.

£750 million spent. And the women of this city were not in that plan.

This isn’t just disappointing. It’s a failure of care.

The research is clear. The need is clear. The demand is clear.

So what do we do about it?

If you live in Brighton, if you’ve birthed here, if you care about birth outcomes — I want to hear from you. Drop a comment. Share this post. Let’s make some noise. 📣

Because forty years is long enough.

22/04/2026

There’s a phrase I heard at a birth conference in Scotland in 2016 that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about since.

“The birth room is the last bastion of misogyny.”

I know that sounds stark. But stay with me.

One in three women describe their birth as traumatic.

Over 12% report not giving consent to procedures during their care.

England’s caesarean rate is now 42%. The WHO recommends 10–15%.

This isn’t bad luck. It’s structural. And most women walk into that room not knowing any of it.

Here’s what I want you to know before you get there 👇

✦ Your rights don’t disappear when you’re in labour

✦ For low-risk pregnancies, a midwifery-led unit or homebirth may mean fewer interventions — with no difference in outcomes for your baby

✦ A doula in that room reduces the likelihood of obstetric violence by 75%

✦ Knowing your rights before you need them is one of the most grounding things you can do

The Cochrane Review — 15,000 women, 17 countries — found that having continuous, trained support in labour shortened labours, reduced caesareans and improved birth experience.

You deserve to walk into that room informed, supported and knowing your own power.

That’s what we’re here for at LushTums — week by week, breath by breath.

Full blog post over on the website 🌿

22/04/2026

21/04/2026

Has your birth or a pregnancy or postnatal experience stayed with you in a way you didn’t expect? 😔

Maybe you feel stressed or on edge.
Angry — even when you’re not sure why.
Guilty.
Low.
Like you’re watching for danger that isn’t there.
Struggling to sleep, or waking from dreams you’d rather forget.

That’s not weakness. That’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do after a frightening experience — and it deserves some caring, expert support.

I offer a gentle 3-session process to help you move through fear or trauma — whether your birth is coming up and you’re dreading it, or it happened months (or years) ago and it’s still with you.

It’s not therapy. It’s an effective guided, calming process that helps your mind re-process what happened — so you can feel lighter, clearer and more like yourself again.

Sessions are available in Brighton, or online wherever you are 💙

📩 DM me to find out more or check out our website under Our Services > Birth Trauma Resolution.

Am here to help.

Clare x

15/04/2026

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14/04/2026

Birth is a psychedelic experience.

Not metaphorically. Biochemically.

Endorphins 200x stronger than morphine. The biggest oxytocin surge of a human life. Emerging research pointing to endogenous DMT at the moment of birth.

Your body was designed for this.

And the thinking brain needs to go offline for birth to flow.

Every slow breath in class. Every hip circle. Every moment of stillness in savasana.

You’re rehearsing for it in our classes every week!!!

New blog post about how Birth Is A Psychedelic Experience is now live 🌀🌙

https://www.teachpregnancyyoga.com/blog/birth-is-a-psychedelic-experience-and-heres-the-science-to-prove-it

Would love to hear if this resonates for you?